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VENUS APPEARS AS A BOY

VENUS

AS THE MALE CENTRIC AGE OF PISCES DRAWS TO A CLOSE, HAS THE COMMAND/CONQUER/ CONTROL PARADIGM REACHED A SATURATION POINT? THIS ENERGY WOULD NEVER WILLINGLY SURRENDER WITHOUT A FIGHT, BUT HOW CAN IT STOP SOMETHING THAT IS CHANGING FROM WITHIN? WHAT IS THIS THE EMERGING ENERGY?

THE AGE OF AQUARIUS HERALDS THE COMING OF THE WATER BEARER, AND WITH IT THE FORTHCOMING OF KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, AND NEW FORMS OF BEING, EXPRESSION, AND MOST OF ALL CO-CREATION.

NOWHERE IS THIS SHIFT MORE EVIDENT THAT RUPAULS DRAG RACE. A SHOW RE-DEFINING DRAG IN A NEW ERA, & WITH IT GENDER NORMS AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES. THE EXPRESSION OF DRAG AS A NATURAL AND INTUITIVE REJECTION OF MACHO PROJECTIONS & STEREOTYPES.

DRESS RESEMBLING A GIRL. DRAG HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ART FORM, BACK TO THE TIMES OF SHAKESPEARE, TO SEE IT TAKING CENTER STAGE IN POPULAR CULTURE AGAIN IS A TESTAMENT TO RU-PAULS LEGACY, AND COUNTLESS OTHERS WHO STOOD UP AGAINST GENDER, RACE, AND SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE 50‘S, 60‘S, 70‘S, 80‘S, 90‘S, THE NEW MILLENNIUM AND CONTINUE TO DO SO TO THIS DAY. A VISION THAT HAS BEEN DE-STIGMATIZING DRAG FOR 5 YEARS NOW, AND HAS MOVED FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH EACH SEASON.

THE SHOW BREAKING GENDER BOUNDARIES ON TV IS RUPAULS DRAG RACE. IT SEEMS FITTING FOR RUPAUL TO SUMMON FORTH HER LEGENDARY GODDESSES, PRESENTING THE STRONGEST SEASON EVER, THE BOUNDARIES OF GENDER ILLUSION AT THEIR HIGHEST FORMS TESTIFY TO THE SHOWS LEGACYAND IMPACT INTERNATIONALLYTHROWINSHADE HAS BEEN SERVING UP ON POINT ANALYSIS OF ALL THINGS DRAG RACE SEASON 5 FROM THE GET GO, THIS COUPLE FROM BRIGHTON IS REACHING MEGA-STAR STATUS THANKS TO THEIR OPENHEARTED AND OPTIMISTIC MESSAGE IN A WORLD OF TOXIC YOUTUBE COMPLIMENTS, SENDING OUT THEIR UNIQUE STYLE OF HUMOR, HEART, AND ANALYSIS, ISIS MIRAGE AND COCO FEROCHA DESERVE THEIR SPOTLIGHT! WE LIVE FOR THEIR VIDEOS!ONLY TWO EPISODES IN AND ONE OF THE CONTESTANTS REVELS HE IS NOT ONLY A DRAG QUEEN, BUT A TRANSGENDER WOMAN, MONICA BEVERY HILLZ PERSONIFIES THIS NEW ENERGY & CONFIDENCE, BEARING THE STRUGGLES OF BEING TRANSGENDER, DECIDING TO LIVE HER TRUTH AND BE A ROLE MODEL IN THE LGBT COMMUNITYTHE IMPACT OF HER REVELATION WAS FELT IMMEDIATELY ACROSS THE INTERNET, WITH AND OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT WHICH JUST SHOWS YOU HOW MUCH EMPATHY AND COMPASSION IS IN THE ETHERIN A WORLD WHERE RONAIAH TUIASOSOPO PROFESSES HIS LOVE FOR FOOTBALL STAR MANTI TE’O THEN GOES BACK IN THE CLOSET, THE WARRIOR COMPLEX STILL HAS MUCH TO PROCESS, AS WE BEGIN TO EMBRACE THE EMERGING ENERGY OF THE HEALER, VENUS AS A BOY

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🏺 THE AGE OF AQUARIUS 🏺

7 Feb

WE SURVIVED NAM, THE COLD WAR, THE WAR ON DRUGS, THE WAR ON TERROR , Y2K , AND 2012. FOR SOME PEOPLE THESE WERE REALITIES EXPERIENCED IN THE FLESH, TO MANY OTHERS THEY ARE ABSTRACTS, AMALGAMATIONS OF IMAGES , NARRATIVES , PRESS CLIPPINGS AND OF DOCUMENTARIES. THE CONSTRUCTS OF OUR OWN IMAGINATION, THAT STILL NEVERTHELESS EXISTS AS A NEXUS OF INTERSECTING PARALLEL REALITIES , ACCESSIBLE READY FOR PRESENTATION & CONSUMPTION, WHERE EVERYTHING BECOMES CANNIBALIZED AS CULTURAL FODDERPRE-MILLENIAL TENSION / UNDERSTANDING WHAT CAME BEFORE ALLOWS THE INSIGHT INTO WHY OUR PARADIGM CURRENTLY EXISTS

PLUTO – IN – CANCER (1912-1939): THIS GENERATION IS PROTECTIVE, NURTURING , AND VERY NEEDY. IN MUCH OF THE WEST WORLD THEY INHERITED GREAT WEALTH AND PROPERTY, FORMING THE BASIS FOR THEIR VALUE SYSTEMS THAT THEY ANXIOUSLY GUARDED. THEY KEPT ENLARGING THE GROWING AND LUCRATIVE MILITARY – INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHICH GUARANTEED THEM PROTECTION EVEN TO DEATH; SUPPORTED THE CORPORATIONS THAT ARE GRANTED UNALIENABLE RIGHTS; AND BUILT A MEDICAL SYSTEM DEDICATED TO KEEPING ALL PEOPLE ALIVE AT ALL COSTS. THEIR SLOGAN IN THE UNITED STATES WAS ” BETTER DEAD THAN RED “(COMMUNIST). AS THEY INTEGRATED THE CREATIONS OF PLUTO -IN- TAURUS , THESE ” PLUTOCRATS ” WHO PINNACLED THE INDUSTRIAL AGE THAT WAS GREATLY EXPANDED BY THE PLUTO-IN-GEMINI GENERATION AS THEIR COHORTS BIRTHRIGHT.

PLUTO-IN-LEO (1937-1959) LEO IS CREATIVE, CHILDISH, PASSIONATE, ADDICTED TO POWER, AND VERY HONEST. THIS GENERATION WAS SO UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE GOAL OF BEING PROTECTED TO DEATH BY SOCIETY AND THEIR PARENTS; THEY’D RATHER BE ” RED THAN DEAD. ” SO JUST OUT OF ADOLESCENCE IN THE EARLY 1960S, THEY WANTED TO LIVE INSTEAD OF JUST TO DIE, TO CREATE INSTEAD OF DESTROY. THEN ALONG CAME URANUS-CONJUNCT-PLUTO IN VIRGO RIGHT AFTER THE GENERATIONS HAD TURNED AGAINST EACH OTHER! SO THE PLUTO-IN-CANCERS UNLEASHED ITS PROTECTIVE TOOLS || THE CIA AND THE PENTAGON|| THAT CARRIED OUT SELECTIVE ASSASSINATIONS OF THE PLUTO-IN- LEO LEADERS. THE NEW LEADERS OF THE LEO GENERATION WEREN’T ALLOWED TO MANIFEST, SUCH A SERIOUS BLOCKAGE OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION BY THE PROTECTIVE TENDENCIES OF PLUTO -IN-CANCER ARE STILL BEING EXPERIENCED TODAY- PLUTO-IN-LEOBABY BOOMERS 1940-1960 GEN X 1961- 1981 MILLENNIALS 1982-2000 ECHO BOOMERS 2001-2014 GENERATION A 2015-2030 GEN II 2031-?

GENERATIONAL IDENTITIES BECAME REALITY AFTER WWII, AS YOUNG ADULTS HAD EXPENDABLE INCOMES FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THUS SUBCULTURES BEGAN FORMING. FLASH FORWARD TO TODAY, WHERE THE TWEEN MARKET HAS BECOME A POWERFUL DEMOGRAPHIC WITH CONSIDERABLE INFLUENCE & POWER. EACH GENERATION DEFINES ITS OWN ETHOS. TH BOOMERS LIVING TO WORK, GEN X WORKING TO LIVE, MILLENNIALS LIVE AND THEN WORK, WHAT ETHOS WILL THESE ECHO BOOMERS EMBODY? WHAT LEGACY WILL THEY LEAVE GENERATION A?

HERE WE ARE ALL EXPERIENCING THIS ONGOING PROCESS THAT HAS MORPHED ITSELF THOUGH DIFFERENT FORMS, AT TIMES MIRRORING ITSELF, AT OTHER TIMES APPEARING UNRECOGNIZABLE. COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCES IMPACTING & INSPIRING OUR SHARED EVOLUTION. x X

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THE TRANSVISIONS OF 2013

15 Jan

TRANSFORMATIONAL VISION >> EVOLUTION & CHANGE TAKE ON MANY FORMS. A SIMULTANEOUS PHYSICAL AND CONCEPTUAL AFFAIRFROM ONE STAGE TO THE NEXT WE EVOLVE AND DEVOLVE, OR SUBCONSCIOUSLY MAKE LATERAL MOVES WITHIN THIS GREAT CYCLEWE TOO HAVE BEEN EVOLVING, LESS BIOLOGICALLY & MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY TAKING OUR GAME TO THE NEXT STAGEITS WILD TO IMAGINE WE HAVE BEEN KNOCKING AROUND THE LOFT SINCE JULY 2009 SERVING OUR UNIQUE BLEND FAUX/REALNESS TURN OFF FAKE NEWS TWO YEARS AFTER OUR INCEPTION IT WAS A HUGE MILESTONE TO GET 777 HITS IN ONE DAY, SO WE CELEBRATED LAUNCHING ON 🐣WITH CRYSTA DILIGENTLY OVERSEEING THE 924COLLECTIVE TWITTER FEED WE WERE FREE TO PURSUE NEW VISUAL ADVENTURES

WE OPENED OUR REDUX PROFILE TO HELP VISUALLY DOCUMENT AND ARCHIVE OUR INTERNATIONAL TRIPS TO LONDON, & LOS ANGELES ALLOWING US TO SYNCHRONIZE BLOG, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, SOUNDCLOUD, INTO ONE SEAMLESS IMAGE BASED ARCHIVE. UNTIL...

ONE DAY REDUX DECIDED TO MOVE USERPAGES TO A 2ND TAB, MAKING THEIR GENERIC CHANNELS THE INTERFACE HIGHLIGHT O.o

IF MAKING CONTENT HARDER TO FIND WAS REDUX INTENTION, THEY HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD/ WHILST STUMBLEUPON, A PEER-TO-PEER INTERNET ARCHIVE, PLAYED THE SNATCH GAME, AND PERFECTED THE DESIGN FORMAT REDUX ABANDONED!

OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS WE HAVE BEEN COMPILING THE 924ARCHIVES AND TRANSFERRING THEM TO THE STUMBLEUPON NETWORK, TODAY REPLACING THE REDUX 2012 ICON FOR THE NEW RECENT ADVENTURES TAB, WHICH SHORTCUTS STRAIGHT THERE.

THIS SYNCHRONIZATION AFFORDS A MORE SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE ACCESSING OUR ARCHIVE IN A FAST AND VISUAL FORMAT THAT REFLECTS THE CONTENT & EXPERIENCE YOU’VE COME TO EXPECT. WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WONDERFUL SUPPORT x X x 924