“Are you satisfied with the world we’ve built?”
I am baffled. We produce awe-inspiring technology, an abundance of brilliant and creative individuals, a mind-boggling circulation of wealth, and yet our collective suffering increases rather than decreases. Homelessness is at a rate I have never witnessed before in my lifetime, and our ground-breaking medical advancements are inaccessible to the majority. This question challenges our systems and the values we build them on.
We all have a coping mechanism. For years, I thought mine, perusing ancient astrological texts and examining my own chart from every possible theoretic angle, a rather unhealthy escape. But then a pattern appeared. One that deviated wildly from the modern astrological perspectives. And yet, one that spoke to that nagging, ever-present question, “are you satisfied with the world we have built?” As the pattern crystallized, a hypothesis formed.
The Zodiac Codex: a Hypothesis for Your Consideration
Could the true purpose of astrology be to create a free and just Earth? A material world in which slavery, bondage, and human induced suffering does not exist?
What if the whole point of life isn’t happiness, solitary purpose, to serve, to worship, or to find joy in our suffering as we have been told by conventional religion and spiritual practices? What if the point of a life is simply to be free to create beauty? That would certainly produce the opposite of slavery, bondage, and human suffering. Could adopting this subtle cultural shift produce radical positive change in the material world?
These are just some of the questions that led to a hypothesis I now call the Zodiac Codex.
ZODIAC CODEX
Zodiacal symbology and astrology were gifts from the ancients. These gifts hold the wisdom for building free, just, resilient, and humane societies. A dual purpose blueprint for creating heaven on Earth, or as close as is humanely possible.
The Hypothesis in Practice: A Formula for Freedom
If there is truth in this hypothesis, then we have forgotten our power. We have forgotten that we are the creators of the world we build. Whether we produce collective suffering or collective comfort, lies in the societal culture, norms, and laws we agree to, as a collective. And changing the collective, begins with the individual.
Is there proof to the theory? You’ll never know until you test it. The possibility of achieving freedom and justice for all, is a good cause to try.
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