If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!
I really like this article about hopepuunk as both a subgenre and philosophy because it really nails the fact that being hopeful isn't the same as being naive, and that choosing to be hopeful isn't the same as wishing for a fairy tale ending.
They have built an empire of lies Where the dead beneath are buried twice To better feed the living above And you can keep the teeth of hung
Four Centuries and Four Landmarks: Events in 1567, 1607, 1763 and 1803
[Chapter extract from “What drove the development of Welsh-language LGBTQIA+ terminology 1972-2022” by Luke Blaidd ]
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Official Post from Prosiect Llyfr Enfys
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Plutonian energy is a transformative energy, but it is a dark and often destructive energy. Save for the Holocaust, at no other time was this more apparent than during slavery. The transatlantic slave trade was the forced transportation of African people to other countries for the sole purpose of slavery. These people were predominantly from West African countries, and during the Middle Passage, they were mostly transported to the Americas (the "New World") in slave ships, often under inhumane conditions. Interestingly, the slave trade started and ended with the Portuguese. The first recorded slave ship was chartered by the Portuguese to primarily South American countries in 1502, which covers the Pluto in Leo generation. The slave trade ended with the last recorded slave ship to Brazil in 1870 (but slavery wasn't ended officially until 1888, making Brazil the last country to end the transatlantic slave trade). This was during the Pluto in Gemini generation. However, too much emphasis is put on whites for their participation in the slave trade; Africans were directly involved in the slave trade as well, selling their captives and prisoners of war to Europeans. During this period, Plutonian power took over in full force, with the savage nature of the trade led to the destruction of individuals and cultures.
Rapes happened often, which is a typical Scorpionic/Plutonian exhibition of power through sex and violence.
According to an article in the New York Times about two of the most notorious slave traders in the business:
"Isaac Franklin and John Armfield, were daring “pirates” or “one-eyed men,” a euphemism for their penises. The women they bought and sold were “fancy maids,” a term signifying youth, beauty and potential for sexual exploitation — by buyers or the traders themselves. 'To my certain knowledge she has been used & that smartly by a one eyed man about my size and age, excuse my foolishness,' Isaac Franklin’s nephew James — an employee and his uncle’s protege — wrote in typical business correspondence, referring to Caroline Brown, an enslaved woman who suffered repeated rape and abuse at James’s hands for five months. She was 18 at the time and just over five feet tall. Franklin and Armfield, who headquartered their slave trading business in a townhouse that still stands in Alexandria, Va., sold more enslaved people, separated more families and made more money from the trade than almost anyone else in America. Between the 1820s and 1830s, the two men reigned as the “undisputed tycoons” of the domestic slave trade...few profited more than the two slave traders."
Scorpionic/Plutonic power is a fixed and all-consuming power, and as such, when this energy feels threatened, they strike and they strike as ruthlessly and viciously as possible. Those that had a strong sense of dignity and pride and showed any sort of resistance (often fighting back or choosing death over such a demeaning existence), were often killed. This is also why Haiti is seen as a third-world country to this day, because this country had the courage to rise up and resist French rule, mostly through the heroic efforts of the brilliant French general Toussaint L'Ouverture (who, incidentally had Scorpio and Pluto dominance as well as a Scorpio midheaven; His MC is actually conjunct his Pluto in Scorpio in the 10th house, which meant that being a leader of a violent, ruthless, unprecedented, and complete revolution to liberate himself as well as his people was his life's work and lasting legacy. This is an excellent example of what Scorpio/Pluto energy is capable of when positively oriented, but I digress). Scorpio/Pluto energy is as weak as it is strong, and it has no use for what it cannot control, conquer, and bend to its will. If a power exchange couldn't be done through death, it could be done through sex, with a lot of white men either raping their slaves, or through European traders marrying their African allies' women, which was a practice called cassare. A lot of coastal African ethnic groups used these marriage alliances as a means to gain political and financial advantages, and it was very common in the early days of the slave trade. This method of obtaining political and economic bonds through sex is an infinitely Scorpio/Pluto/Lilith concept.
I mentioned that the slave trade started in the Pluto in Leo generation, which is highlighted by the clash between authoritarianism and individualism. This generation was egotistical, and had the will to win against all odds, hence the rise of colonization (as well as imperialism) and the evils that it produced. As members of this generation, these people (mainly men) wanted power over their own lives and were prepared to challenge established structures. They also gave way to their sexual appetites, which often got out of hand, becoming overwhelming, hence the excesses. Pluto takes about 248 years to make a full transit of the astrological signs. Its time to pass through the signs can vary from between 12 and 32 years, as it has an unusual orbit. For 400 years, slavery was the accepted law of the land. This would mean that Pluto went through a full transit of all the zodiacal signs twice during the slavery era. Pluto is considered a transpersonal planet; as such, its manifestations were reflected in these cycles.
Starting with the extreme action and ruthlessness of slavery in general (Aries), the extreme greed and gluttony of the white ruling class that got the best of everything while giving slaves literal scraps to eat (Taurus), the introduction of a new idea of seeing these slaves as less than human, as a justification of such a barbaric practice (Gemini), the destruction of families through slave masters selling off various family members to other plantations (Cancer), the intense and willful expression of power and pride that left the slaves (Leo), the emphasis on purity and perfection in the white race with the introduction of the "one drop rule" (Virgo), the introduction of a concept called equality is first taking hold in the minds of people through the abolitionist movement (Libra), the subjugation of a race of people through sex, violence, and death (Scorpio), the complete erasure of the mores, religions and values of these African transplants and the forced introduction of Christianity and obedience in its stead (Sagittarius), the irony of the reality of slavery as a backdrop to the whites rebelling against the old power structure represented by the British empire (Capricorn), the establishment of a new country and which was built by slaves (Aquarius) and and lastly, the delusion of the institution of slavery shattered the abolitionist forces take effect; disillusionment and confusion takes hold on both races: the whites turn bitter and racist in the wake of the destruction of their way of life and the blacks are left to figure out how to survive in this strange new wold of freedom. (Pisces).
It wasn't until the Civil War and subsequent Reconstruction that occurred during the Taurean Plutonian generation (1853-1884) as well as the general enlightenment of sorts that embodied the Gemini Plutonian generation (1884-1914) that sense prevailed and was truly acted upon. At this point, people generally were willing to examine and change old doctrines, ideas and ways of thinking. Folks questioned more and learned more. They brought about a revolution in ideas and concepts, such as the rise and execution of abolitionism and reconstruction. Traditional customs and taboos were examined and rejected for newer and more original ways of doing things. Along with all this change and upheaval comes a revolution in the way people communicate, with the phonograph and the telephone being major inventions to facilitate this. But unfortunately, a lot of damage had already been done.
