Empowered by their thrice-married, twice-impeached, sexual-predatory, felon president, Ohio Republicans are generating egregious bills aimed to heighten morality, very much like countries we profess to dislike and sometimes invade.

Some of the morality is simply medical fantasy such as bills requiring the replanting of ectopic pregnancies and abortion reversal pills. My own gynecologist entered Ohio politics to assist these politicians in understanding the female body. Recently she had to explain to them – as she did to me once – the role of progesterone.

In other morality plays, Ohio’s obscenity laws were updated to clarify rules on cabaret. At face value, it makes sense, times have changed, juveniles are exposed to much more adult behavior today than in the past.

Yet when an Ohio man lures a 12-year old girl from North Carolina into his car and drives out of state, why are we passing laws about cabaret rather than social media?

If protecting juveniles is truly the goal, targeting cabaret rather than social media is like trying to cure cancer by banning the eating of uranium. Yeah, that will help but no one is doing it. Our ingestion of chemicals via food and medicine may be the problem, something much larger to solve.

Much developed-world unhappiness could be linked our idealized versions of the world compared to reality of daily life. For example, holidays are promoted as a time of family harmony and joy, yet American families have one of the highest rates in the world of children living in single-parent homes. It’s the disconnect between the media-created images and reality that causes undue sadness during the holidays.

Likewise, American morality is idealized and does not exist in pure form except at a theme park in Florida.

Which is worse – seeing an areola or a newscast showing tens of thousands of people dying by the hand or help of one’s government?

Boredom in Ohio

Much of our idealized views of the world comes through media, television. Foreigners often see the United States through media as well and expect a US to be a New York-Miami-Chicago-Los Angeles experience when moving here. They are surprised by the reality, especially if living in northern climates during the winter.

The indie flick Frozen River is a better representation of a single mom trying to make ends meet in a small town. Or the indie flick The Florida Project where we see what happens when you don’t have enough money to put first and last month’s rent on an apartment. These are realities not portrayed in Hollywood movies. While they present dire situations, they contain realities that are part of living in the United States – choices between rent and other necessities, for example.

Is there a movie about people working long hours, getting stuck in traffic, and then falling asleep on the couch early?

Uranus in Gemini: Fun Times

In just a couple weeks transiting Uranus will move from fixed, earth-sign Taurus where it took down the toilet paper supply (being concerned with body and tangible items) and will now move into mutable, air-sign Gemini which is more interested in socializing, exploring, and having fun.

Gemini’s negative reputation involves these very elements: shallow, superficial, and constantly changing. Yet these very traits could be said to apply simply to human behavior.

Uranus is stimulating with sudden events. The more earthy types don’t care for this type of unexpected behavior. Fire and air signs seek it out.

Humans are hard-wired for stimulation. In the great debates about monogamy, we forget that we are applying a fixed quality inherent in mountains and rocks to a human being designed to learn, grow, and change. Extramarital affairs aren’t always about sex. Routine is known to cause boredom and the old-fashioned “rut.” Sex is a powerful stimulant and game changer.

Uranus in Gemini will not be bored, much like our Gemini president. In his recent invasion, the results were not quick or easy. It’s clearly fun for this man to invade a country. Not so fun to have intervention last longer than a few moments, like monogamy.

Cabaret in pure meaning is “a form of theatrical entertainment performed in restaurants, nightclubs, or specialized venues featuring music, dance, song, and often comedy or drama. It typically features a more intimate, informal atmosphere than traditional theater, often including a live band and tableside service.”

Is cabaret always men dressing as women or women displaying their areolas in public? (It’s good to know that Ohio lawmakers do know some parts of a woman’s body.)

Cabaret is fun. Maybe that’s the real concern.

Ohio’s Boredom Laws: Spitting in the Wind

Updating obscenity laws to specifically target challenging entertainment is an attempt to hold in place an idealized past. I’d say “Ohio past” but Ohio was once the wild west. Our idealized morality comes from a mythologized founding.

Uranus in Gemini will not be bored.

The “pandemic” occurred with outer planets in earth and water, more homebound and introverted by nature. Since that time, these same planets have moved into fire and air. Getting folks to “shelter in place” with media and intoxicants will no longer be effective.

Now folks want to go out and play, like children kept inside during the winter. They go out, the run, they laugh, and they do, of course, forget to watch for oncoming cars.

Protect juveniles during Uranus in Gemini using its strengths: communication, learning, increased knowledge, exploration, and a fun and diverse playground.