Thoughts on Retail and the Return of Saturn

[kimberlysteele]

Dead mall in Heikintori, Finland. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

There was a notable absence of Black Friday stampedes in Chicagoland this year. For the past twenty years, Walmart has been infamous for its Black Friday shopping debacle. In times gone by, herds of greedy humans camped outside the building in long, snaking lines, suffering the cold in order to snatch a perceived deal on the latest gaming console, big screen TV, or toy.

Not so much this year. One of my young adult students reported that Walmart did not stay open all night on Thanksgiving as it used to do and that Black Friday was underwhelming. My husband said that Sam’s Club (warehouse store and competitor of Costco) was remarkably quiet two days after Thanksgiving on a Saturday that should have looked like a mob scene. Of course lots of people are going to say “It’s because everyone is shopping online” but I don’t think so. Online shopping didn’t stop people from thronging in stores every Black Friday from 2000 until the Plandemic. I think something else is going on. The vibe is different, at least for the time being.

Perhaps after three years of being artificially prevented from seeing loved ones, it is finally beginning to dawn on some people that human togetherness is much more important than we have previously been led to believe. I certainly hope so. I am the sort of psychic who cannot possibly win the lottery or a horse race but is often tormented by my sense of whatever astral shifts are going on all around me. As Carole King once sang, I Feel the Earth Move. I sense a shift going on. I believe it is related to Saturn.

Saturn is the most misunderstood of planetary influences. As an astrological novice, my knowledge of him is severely limited and I freely admit it. For many, Saturn = Evil, which is a grotesque and hubristic misinterpretation commonly found among certain factions of Christians who dwell in constant pathological fear of their god having viable competition.

At no time does this competition become more apparent than the Winter Solstice, when ancient egregores do battle underneath the surface of the apparent and the obvious. The Christian church’s cold, dead hands are being pried off the Yuletide season one finger at a time as we speak. Christmas is reverting to its Saturnalian roots. For the Winter Solstice celebration never belonged to the Christians in the first place; they only borrowed it for a time.

Ancient Incans saw the Milky Way galaxy (much more easily visible in the sky back then) as a spiritual river that connected the worlds of the dead and the living. The bridge between worlds was most easily crossed at the Winter Solstice. They weren’t the only ones to associate the crossing of worlds with the time around December 21st. Natives of America from the frozen Arctic to the much warmer climes of the Amazon basin believed the Winter Solstice was a sacred, once-yearly chance of communing with those who had already crossed over. It was also party time. Capac Raymi was its official name in ancient Ecuador.

The last time the Incas celebrated the December rite of Capac Raymi in its full, uninhibited splendor was in December of 1533, this time in conjunction with a victory celebration of “liberation” from the hated occupying army of Quito and its now-deceased renegade Emperor, Atahuallpa. The Spanish, just then “allies”, witnessed the saturnalian spectacle, and were particularly impressed by the unending rivers of urine that poured through the city’s gutters from the tens of thousands of inebriated celebrants. -William Sullivan, The Secret of the Incas

The Faces of Saturn

Though Santa is one benevolent depiction of Saturn, there is another aspect of Saturn that appears every Christmas in the form of Ebenezer Scrooge, courtesy of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is a malevolent Saturn in the beginning of the story, a Senex gone down the wrong path of penny-pinching and bitterness. After some divine intervention, Scrooge gets a taste of his own future medicine and reforms his wicked ways, returning to a balanced Saturnian state of compulsive generosity and blessing. Dr. Seuss’s Grinch is merely Scrooge re-imagined as a lanky green beast with an extended philtrum.

Santa was never a Christian deity, and thereinlies much butthurt. It irked me to see a bunch of Facebook materialist Christians trashing Halloween as a Satanic pagan holiday enough to get me to write an essay about it earlier this year. If Halloween is being cancelled for its pagan origins, Christians need to cancel Christmas right along with it for the same reasons. If Halloween is bad with its candy and costumes and sticking of heads in water for apples, Christmas is ten times worse with its Yule logs, Christmas trees, and thinly-disguised representation of Saturn riding the skies with his flying reindeer and sacks of presents. He comes through the fireplace because he is a fire god. Though Santa has been watered down to suit modern tastes, he was once a fearsome deity named Krampus who would just as soon abduct awful, bratty children and spirit them away to an unknown and distant realm where they would become crushed fodder for future universes. Re-imagining Krampus as a stupid Elf on a Shelf and attempting to neuter him does not remove his influence. I would argue it only serves to piss him off, and you DO NOT WANT to piss off Saturn.

Speaking of ways to piss off Saturn, the materialism of our ostensibly Christian nation is what created the Christmas retail monster in the first place. When I was an upper middle class child being brought up in the 70s, I acted the royal brat a great many holiday seasons and still got loads of Asian-made presents anyway. The children and grandchildren of upper middle class Generation X America are so spoiled, many only want cash or gift cards for Christmas because they already have every toy and game. Saturn is going to solve the conundrum of upper middle class entitlement in the near future, and I would argue the process is already under way. The death of retail is upon us.

Retail is the way people who have lost any viable religion go to church. It is the Church of Progress. For this reason, the formerly richest man on Earth, Jeff Bezos, is a retail giant. When people lose touch with the Divine, they shop for stuff they do not need.

Recently I was in a chain store that sells fun imported food, kitchen stuff, and some small pieces of furniture. I had the misfortune of being checked out by an extremely unhappy young woman. The first thing she tried to do was push me into buying more stuff. Since I was buying noodles, she insisted several times that I should buy a jar of sauerkraut to go along with the noodles I was buying. She asked if I had a membership to the store and I said “No, but I would like to sign up”. She nearly panicked several times when I could not successfully scan the QR signup code to my old iPhone 6. I finally figured out how to join the store’s club via text, which barely soothed her frayed nerves. I have run into some store associates who were a barely-concealed mess before; sadly this was not the first time. There is a tea store in downtown Naperville I will likely never set foot in again because the retail associate (also a 30-something white woman) was so unpleasant and pushy. I am not rude to retail associates even if they are rude to me. This is because I used to work retail.

The interesting thing about the aforementioned imports store and the clothing stores I used to work in as a young woman is that nobody who needs to work in stores like them to make a living can actually afford to do any significant shopping there. In the imports store with the rude sauerkraut-pushing associate, there was another woman, this time a shopper, who was the sort of well-heeled Karen you expect to be Christmas shopping. She was on her mobile phone, moodily demanding whoever was on the other end be informed about their “options” for Christmas ornaments.

These snapshots are how I hope to illustrate why the collective astral plane is a seething pit of festering filth. As I parlayed with the sauerkraut-pusher, I was reminded of how horrible it was to work retail. My managers at The Limited back in the day basically told us we associates were worthless unless we got people to buy thousands of dollars worth of crappy, Chinese-made clothes. A typical day at The Limited was six to eight hours of stultifying boredom, wandering through brightly lit clothing racks, straightening them, and hoping for that golden customer who would try on and later buy an obscene amount of clothing. Though nobody worked on commission, in order to be favored by management, you had to entice women to buy by acting the maid-in-waiting while the same loop of weird pop music droned overhead, repeating itself every few hours as an annoying, yet ironic score to accompany squandered time. Retail has its own toxic egregore that was munching heartily on sauerkraut-pusher’s soul. Thankfully that egregore is going the way of the dodo. Good riddance! That’s the thing about Saturn… he may represent death and dying, but all things must die in order for the new to be born.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The thing with Saturn is that he measures everything exactly. There is no mercy, no compassion, no understanding of human frailty; all of those are concepts he simply will not listen to. Of course, this is good for those who rise to the occasion, since those who do what is needed can count on his blessings; Saturn is also a phenomenally good teacher, since he never allows his students to do anything other than their best; and if you earn his respect, you can count on one of the best sources of strength in the universe, since he never wavers in anything.

Saturn then, is far, far more complex than our society allows for, and given how far we've strayed from his virtues, of course we're going to have a tough relationship with the planet. I have a strong sense that what's happened since the 1970s is that Saturn has decided to have the last laugh, so to speak, and since he's well known for his extreme patience, I doubt that he's done with his curse just yet either...

[kimberlysteele]

I can only guess what Saturn thinks of Christmas in its current incarnation…Yeesh!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi again Kimberly (another post, sorry - this topic apparently just got me thinking, and it's really set my synchronicity-meter off!)

I don't know if you read Rintrah's blog (https://www.rintrah.nl/), but he just posted today about the book of Revelation and its relevance to certain pharmaceuticals.

I decided to refresh my memory of the book, and a fun visual format is the Brick Testament (https://thebricktestament.com/), although its creator is most certainly NOT a Christian, based on the speech bubbles from the Lego men... (it was also made in about 2011, which was when a friend showed it to me)

I was then getting increasingly freaked out by references to 'the beast' with horns and crowns (read: chimera corona, ie crown, virus with spike proteins) and its rulership for 42 months, or 3.5 years, and the whole mark of the beast thing, where you had to prove you had made/received your own copy of 'the beast' to buy or sell anything, and then I came across this image:
https://thebricktestament.com/revelation/son_of_mans_bloody_gorefest/rv14_14.html

Which god does that remind you of...?
It then goes on to say about "harvesting the grapes of wrath". I seem to remember that Saturn is also a harvest god?

Another thing which I came across that concerned me was the reference to painful sores. Just yesterday I was reading another vax 'conspiracy theory' about 1p36 gene deletion, which has been listed as a Fyzhur "side effect". 1p36 gene deletion is normally a hereditary disease which people don't just 'get', but one effect of it can be sores breaking out over the body, which look an awful lot like monkeypox... The prognosis isn't great either - destruction of the frontal cortex, ie loss of higher brain function. There was something on the covid open post months back about a mystic who saw not just mass death but a literal zombie apocalypse in the coming years (which the CDC also 'jokingly' warned about a few years back). Have you seen the movie "28 days later"? Frontal cortex loss would lead to that kind of zombie, not the shambling type.

Humans reduced to a mindless base instinct, covered in festering open sores, who are presumably permanently harbouring a mutated chronic version of the coronavirus due to immune tolerance, which is then transmissible through say, a bite or contact with the sores. Definitely sounds like the plot of a bad horror movie. Exciting times...

Mr. Crow

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks for introducing me to the Brick Testament! I wonder if it has helped a single Christian to understand how psychotic their religion looks from the outside?

As much as 1p36 gene deletion syndrome is horrible, I think any predictions of apocalypse are distractions. I wrote an essay a while back called The Apocalypse Meme that goes into detail about why I believe such thinking is unproductive and unhealthy. Modern times are awful -- so much that ancient Incans were willing to try to skip incarnation for this entire era and handed over their civilization to the conquistadors without a fight in order to achieve that end. Nevertheless, likening our times to Revelations is fairly easy. The hard part is how you live your life in light of the challenges we face.

[(Anonymous)]

People often comment on how old-looking their friends, acquaintances and relatives have started looking since they took the dreaded V word - isn't Saturn the god of old age as well as cold, strict judgement...?

And I seem to remember the date of the first vax's approval in the UK (and possibly the US?) to be awfully close to the winter solstice in December 2020, which was also the Grand Mutation from Jupiter to Saturn.

Mr. Crow

[kimberlysteele]

It's truly sad. They do look older... I can think of one thirty-something who took it, had some adverse events, and now looks like she is in her 60s. My speculation is that it is probably because of those quax proteins blocking the normal flow of oxygen in their bodies.

[(Anonymous)]

It's interesting to note what Saturn has been doing with regard to major aspects during the Plandemic/ Attaccine Era of late. When the Plandemic Psy-Op exploded onto the world stage (and I'm ashamed to admit that I was very taken in by it during this period), Saturn spent a year from February 2020 to February 2021 in a conjunction with Jupiter and Pluto. The Rise of the Attacine Era of 2021 and 2022 corresponds pretty much exactly with Saturn squaring Uranus during those two years.

I really think that the Omicron variant was a gift from the Spirit in that it destroyed "The Narrative" by making so many people no longer immunologically naive to the SARS2 virus without making them severely ill. And lo, this virus season, we see new Covid cases and Covid deaths ("with or from") at a low number and not really rising at all, despite Covidians on Twitter earnestly shrieking that "Covid isn't over". Without that gift, who knows how much more damage the Covidians might have done to society over the course of the previous year?

[kimberlysteele]

The new Catastrophic Contagion agenda by Gates and company seems expressly designed as an attempt to hide MRNA-quaxxine side effects (up to and including death). Billy-boy does not understand how close he is to being flayed alive in public by an angry mob of mothers and fathers who have lost their children to the quaxxines. He is truly clueless. There are many people now who have NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE because of Gates, Fauci, Harari, etc. Of course I could be wrong, perhaps they'll continue to live in the lap of luxury for the rest of their natural lives. Of course since I am who I am, I imagine other things for them. I muse about them being guillotined, axed, or shot, and though I will do nothing to expedite that outcome, I will also do nothing to prevent it. I think it would be just desserts that one or more of them might end up kept alive in someone's basement somewhere, their suffering broadcast on the dark web with anonymous users making macabre bets. Whatever though, punishment belongs to the gods and I leave it to them to handle it.

A straw that broke the Covidian camel's back was the sorry fact that quaxxers are far more likely to catch Covid and/or die from it. That one took a hefty chunk out of the Narrative. The documentary Died Suddenly was another massive blow to the hull. Of course we anti-quaxxers knew all of the info contained in Died Suddenly for at least a year before it broke the internet.

[mr_nobody1967]

(I was the original commenter, I just forgot to sign in.) If JMG's meditation-visions of there being enough death and disablement resulting from the quaxxines to cause the first major leg of collapse of industrial society are accurate, what we have seen so far is indeed a mere appetizer for what is to come.

[kimberlysteele]

He was wise never to say anything that could be interpreted as concrete. My Ogham divinations pointed at some very severe outcomes for the quaxxed, like Black Plague levels of depopulation, except much more slow-moving. I have noticed that their timing tends to be slower than what I ask unless it's a "What's up next week?" reading. If I ask about four years from now, they start talking about eight. Sadly, it truly does seem as if the WHO, Gates, Harari, Schwab et m. want depopulation. They have not been secretive about it.

[(Anonymous)]

If, as seems plausible to me, Saturn has cursed us, then given his nature it would not surprise me in the least if we get exactly what we asked for: a lot of the elites have made no secret that they want depopulation, but a lot of other people have made it no secret they want to watch their political enemies die horribly; a lot of others have made it clear they want a pandemic, so they have a reason to cower in fear and refuse to do things they don't want to do but can't admit to (and most of them were vaccinated); and a lot of the unvaccinated want nothing more than to be left alone, and if enough of the vaccinated die, well, a lot of the survivors might find out the hard way that in most cases, human companionship is preferable to utter isolation....

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't followed the covid open forum on JMG's blog for a while, but I remember it was said multiple times near the beginning of it that all of this seemed like a test.

- can you resist the peer pressure and stand up for your principles?

- can you avoid forcing your principles on others?

- can you resist the urge to hate others?

- are you prepared to give up luxuries such as restaurants, movies or well-paying jobs for your principles?

I could probably go on. But Saturn seems like the kind of god who would set such a test. And I don't think the test is finished by any stretch. We will probably be taking it for the rest of our lives.

Mr. Crow

[kimberlysteele]

We are on the same page. Just this morning, I had the unpleasant epiphany that everyone in the salary class (or anyone who sincerely aspires to be salary class) who took the quax knew subconsciously that it was either take it or accept a severe drop in social status and income for the rest of their lives. Principles, schminciples. Those got thrown under the bus a long time ago -- how else does one climb the salary class ladder and/or barely hang on to their rung? There's no hanging on without moral compromise in the salary class, especially not in the current era of musical chair lightning rounds. As far as hating others, all that hatred they've built up had to go somewhere since they have collectively run screaming from any discursive thoughts or even dialogue with other people about it. I don't think they're even "allowed" to discuss their issues with hatred with their therapists and psychiatrists without getting 5150'd.

[(Anonymous)]

A disturbing thought I had the other day on that topic, based on 2 things:

- Apparently 1 in 6 of 'us' are experiencing a several mental health issue at any one time, and half of all people will experience poor mental health at some point in our lives.

- Canada, since 2016, has legalised euthanasia, but in the past year or so, has been actively encouraging it, including to minors without parental consent, and has expanded it massively from terminal illnesses down to relatively minor but chronic health conditions and now mental health issues. Doctors are now giving patients ultimatums along the lines of "It's euthanasia, with a payout for your family, or you have to pay for your own treatment."

You see where I'm getting at with this one? You show any signs of not being perky and chipper and going along with "the current thing", and you *must* be suffering from a mental health issue and need detaining for the good of yourself and those around you, and then you either have to pay for your own electroshock therapy, or it's off to the mass grave you go...

There was a truly horrific video I came across the other day from a Canadian clothing brand basically celebrating the death of a young woman (I think she was about 40) who had a painful, but non-fatal genetic health condition called EDS. The clothing brand paid to host a big party for her and her friends and family just before she killed herself, then used the footage to both promote their stupid clothes and their suicide campaign. If I seem a little triggered by it, it's actually because a very good friend has the same health condition, which is no fun for her, but I'm pretty sure she's not suicidal.

I don't know if you follow Igor Chudov's substack, but he did a whole post on it:
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/creepy-blue-whale-suicide-symbol

(I may post another time on my own thoughts on the weird blue whale thing, but the short story is that I think it's a hypnotic trigger symbol - do you remember that Deagle depopulation thing I mentioned the other month? They stated that the cause of most of the population decreases was "suicide due to economic conditions", which is suitably vague and ominous)

So we have a shadowy trans-national organisation that seeks to break up families, convince people to sterilise themselves in various means, promotes non-procreative, casual sex (homosexual, birth control, non-vaginal sex, hookup culture) and encourages abortion and euthanasia. (Not that I actually have a problem with any of the above per se on an individual choice basis, but it's the active promotion through well-funded multi-channel propaganda campaigns which rings some real alarm bells.) And then they force an experimental gene therapy on everyone which *definitely* causes no side effects like infertility, miscarriage or, you know, death. I mean, if it looks like a death cult, and it acts like a death cult, then I don't think it's a duck.

By the way, do you remember how much abuse was heaped upon the gay conversion clinics in the media, before they all got shut down? (They are now formally illegal in my country) My guess would be that people started getting wise to the idea that if you can convince someone that they *aren't* actually gay, then maybe, just maybe, it might be possible that the media could convince you that you *are* gay.
(Interestingly, de-transitioning doesn't seem to get anywhere near so much attention, presumably because by then "the damage is done" and you're functionally infertile, so it no longer matters, and they can also charge you a bill twice)

There's an old WW2 expression that if you're getting that much flak (in the anti-aircraft fire sense), then you must be flying over an important target...

Mr. Crow

[jdecandia]

Wow! Your line about convincing people either way is quite astute, verbalized thoughts that I hadn't otherwise well cohered, and conforms with what I have observed

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kimberly,

Your abandoned shopping mall pic reminded me - didn't you say you used to/still get dreams of abandoned shopping malls and office blocks?

I just thought I'd mention that I get dreams of abandoned theme parks/amusement parks a lot, and had one last night. In it, I had to travel through a reasonably crowded restaurant and a giant library/bookstore which were absolutely packed, then across a huge, Star Wars themed amusement park which still worked, but was utterly deserted. I also realised how sick and twisted a lot of the 'entertainment' was as well, like bowling stormtrooper heads at tied-up stormtroopers. Even in the dream I was thinking "Yeah, seems about right for Disney".

I woke up, and it felt quite Saturnian - midwinter feasting and self-taught knowledge is in, but mindless, depraved artificial amusement is falling out of favour fast?

Mr. Crow

[kimberlysteele]

I do have those dreams still, though I think it is but a natural result of having lived in a hideously disfigured suburban mall and office oriented landscape for a long, long time.

Interesting dream, and seems on-brand for Disney as well, I agree. The theme of Disney's acquired foot-soldiers in the form of storm troopers (isn't that what the Nazis called their soldiers?) being forced to make a game of bowling with the heads of other storm troopers is fascinating and a top-notch theme for meditation -- the motif of Disney cannibalizing itself to provide entertainment seems relevant here.

I have been trying to re-set my body clock so I go to bed earlier and rise earlier in the morning. It ain't easy, especially during a time when the sunlight hours are so brief and wan. If I am to have any success at all, I am going to have to lessen my screen time and my exposure to artificial lighting before bedtime. I'm also dealing with some insomnia because it is very difficult to get to sleep early in the evening (for me). This exercise of trying to get to bed earlier seems distinctly Saturnian.

I don't know which planets are influencing this because I am a novice at astrology, but there definitely seems to be an exodus from the "urban" and gangsta rap scene now that Kanye has put his personal safety and fortune on the chopping block with his recent comments. It was coming for a long time though. BLM was transparently fraudulent, burning down buildings while preaching the hatred of the nuclear family, and of course they had twerk-a-thons in a weird show of love/hate for Trump back when he was a thing. Overall, most people want to have families and a stable home life. Now that it has become somewhat apparent that the liberal media seeks to break apart the family, especially via violent rap music and drug culture, the scene is deflating. There's only so much W.A.P. people's ears can take -- we are finally seeing the agenda of some very creepy atheist white dudes behind the scenes. I don't necessarily agree with the statements made in this video, but it is fascinating to see it arrive in this particular moment:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/IQZLuX5ldPVy/

I highly doubt folk music will be as beloved as it was in the 1960s and 70s in my lifetime, but I have hopes for it after I am gone. That's why I write tunes for the Orphic Hymns.