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<h1>CHAPTER 9</h1>
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<h2>The Stars Made Me Do It</h2>
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<p>The fact that astrology is both such an ancient science/art and that it is based on principles of interconnect-edness and interrelatedness are clues that it is one of the remnants of prepatriarchal culture. As usual, however, crucial elements inherent in women's thinking have been replaced with nonsense.</p>
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<p>Chief among the lost concepts is that all things in the universe influence one another and that because there is a continual flow of energy among us all, nothing has either a one-way impact or is only acted upon.</p>
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<p>The loss of this understanding of mutuality has drastically altered everything and is responsible for the ever-increasing destruction of life on our planet. It is no wonder that it has also transmogrified astrology. As men now conceive it, heavenly bodies exert influence over the course of our lives but we do not in return effect theirs.</p>
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<p>Whoever heard of such a thing in any other realm of the universe? Are we all connected or are we not? Are we connected with some things and not with others? If some are very large and very far away, are our spirits too small and puny to reach them? Doesn't this fly in the face of our understanding that in the atomic universe there is neither linear space nor time? Doesn't it belie women's knowledge that every existing thing is part of many ecosystems, systems inside systems inside systems that spiral on and out forever?</p>
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<p>As untenable as it is, this notion of a one-way stream of energy is consistent with patriarchy's illogical and manipulative mind. In cahoots with the system's other concepts that persuade us to look outside ourselves for explanation and succor, this one also serves patriarchy's purpose of reinforcing our feelings of insignificance, victimization, and powerlessness: we are not the actors but the acted-upons. The stars have us by the scruffs of our necks and, though we have some minor choice in the matter, are leading us pretty much where they want us to go. We, however, have no similar say in their affairs.</p>
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<p>But either it is true that everything is connected inseparably with everything else regardless of space or time and that therefore everything is interinfluenced by and interdependent upon everything else, or it is not true. It doesn't make sense to believe that it applies in
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some cases but not in others.</p>
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<p>It is therefore reasonable to assume that our thoughts and feelings and deeds affect the courses of the stars as much, though in different ways, as theirs affect ours.</p>
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<p>For a long time I have had the feeling that what women are accomplishing on this planet is of paramount importance to life of every kind everywhere. I have felt the glad relief of the trees as I've walked by them, have heard the river whisper "Yes, but hurry!", and watching the planets and stars appear in the evening sky, have known that their chorus of encouragement and praise for Earth's women continually rings through the universe.</p>
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<p>I have no doubt that the course humans take has a direct and profound effect upon the direction of every atom of this and all other universes. I believe that everything that lives, including the planets and stars, is aware that their rounds are being positively and irrevocably shifted by what women are doing now on Earth, and that they are on fire with our same purpose.</p>
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<p>So from now on, perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask not what the stars can do for us but what we can do for the stars.</p>
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