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On Astrology – History, Facts, and Transcendence!

March 18, 2021 by Gabe Leave a Comment

Quick Facts

-Astrology was conceived during the reign of Sargon of Akkad, which was almost 4,000 years ago!

-Astrology has changed in the past 4,000 years, and its understanding of it has changed as well.

-We can transcend astrology and move into other states of being!

Intro

In this post, we’re going to talk about how and when it was created, the journey it went through to become what it is today, what it is, and how we can transcend it! This is going to be a bit unconventional (honestly, what do I write that isn’t unconventional?), so I recommend holding onto your seats for this one! 

With that said, enjoy the read!

How Astrology Was Created

Astrology was undoubtedly created to help us find meaning in our lives, to find our place in the universe. It’s big and empty out there, it can feel lonely even if we love people and they love us back… And so we craned our heads to the stars in search of an answer, in search of something that could fill the void of loneliness and meaninglessness. 

We have (scattered) evidence of astrology being developed as far back as almost 4,000 years ago during the reign of Sargon of Akkad (2334-2279 BC)! Among East Eurasian peoples, it’s considered to have begun in the 3rd millennium BC with roots in calendrical systems (which was used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine communications). Back in the day, it was a commonly accepted practice that was used in other studies such as alchemy, meteorology, and medicine. By the end of the 17th century, scientific concepts were formed that “undermined the theoretical basis of astrology,” and as such, it lost its academic standing and was considered to be a pseudoscience, a reputation it has trouble living down to this day.

Nowadays, many of us take it very lightly. “What’s your sign?” has become a common conversation starter and those of us who know our full charts, as well as the truth of astrology, are few and far in-between. However, as I’ve just insinuated, there is far more to astrology than what meets the eye, and it can be extremely helpful if we view it from the perspective I’m about to share with you!

What Is Astrology (In The West)?

Through the ages and the times, through the ups and the downs, we still honor the constellations and the movement of the planets in the form of astrology. 

If the sun is in the constellation of Aquarius, we call any person born at this time an “Aquarius.” This part is fairly simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.

But, have you ever wondered where all of your planets were on the day of your birth. Nay, the very minute of your birth? Yes, knowing exactly when and where you were born down to the minute means you have access to your full chart, a helpful chart that you can learn and act out! It’ll even show you the positions of certain asteroids and other entities’ placements on that special day.

And, did you know that the planets in your chart interacted with each other in a certain way right before you were born? Trines, sextiles, conjunctions, and squares are called “aspects,” and if two planets are “aspected” together, they were interacting in a certain way, and depending on how they interacted, they produced a certain personality trait within you. Sometimes they complement each other (if they’re trined or sextiled), and sometimes they oppose each other (like if they’re conjunctioned or squared). 

To give you a proper example, let’s look at my chart. I was born on Wednesday, February 10th, 1999 in Redlands, CA at 3:15 PM. 

You’ll notice that the sun was in Aquarius and that the moon was in Sagittarius at that moment, on that day! Now, if we take a look at the picture below:

…we notice that my sun has a “sextile” aspect (or relationship) with my moon. If we scroll down and read the definition, here’s what that means:

“Short description: He has lots of vitality. He likes public life, he is popular and his company is appreciated. He is balanced, at ease with himself, and usually gets on very well with his parents or guardians.”

Let’s take another example, this time a negative one. Notice how my sun has a “square” aspect with Lilith, which is the “most opposed” two planets/asteroids/entities can be with one another.

If we scroll down to the definition we can see that:

“There is a self-destructive side to you that should be managed by confronting your fears. You might worry about a friend betraying you, although others might find this person full of charm!”

Plus, there’s more I won’t get into today…

My point is this; astrology can get very, very complicated, and it can also become very, very helpful if you dig deep enough! You may gain insight into your personality and your problems… You’ll receive answers on how to solve these problems, sometimes once and for all!

(By the way, I’m using CafeAstrology’s natal chart service. They’re completely free, and I recommend them if you want to try this out for yourself!)

But hold on a minute – what if astrology is just a complete hoax? I’m sure we’ve all wondered that in the back of our minds. That is, “what if this was just made up by someone to get some quick cash while they were alive?” I certainly have, and my skepticism has been reinforced on many occasions, especially when I watch people live their day-to-day lives.

What’s interesting, though, is I’ve also watched people act out their entire charts without telling them a single thing about it! I’m not spiritual or superstitious by nature. However, when I see it happening in front of my very eyes, I ask questions like, “is astrology real? Does it objectively exist, even though no one can see it?”

That’s when I have to remind myself what astrology is in the present day, and perhaps, what it’s always been.

Astrology is a combination of the physical movement of the planets and the metaphysical archetypes we create in our minds. These metaphysical archetypes, when created and acted out, determine how we act whether we know about it or not!

Crazy, right? But it makes sense! If your chart says Mercury is in Scorpio, and if you know what Mercury in Scorpio looks and acts like, you’re more than likely to say, “yes, I accept this is how I’ve been since birth. I accept these strengths and these weaknesses. This is part of who I am.” What you’re doing is you’re allowing these archetypes, these traits, these qualities, and these problems to be a part of your life by telling yourself that Mercury is in Scorpio, Mars is in Aries, Pluto is in Sagittarius, etc etc.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing! These archetypes can intermingle with each other and create some interesting experiences when everything is said and done! However, I do want you to understand that astrology is mostly an identity game. A strong identity game, yes, and one that’s worth playing according to a lot of people! However, even though I watch others play out their charts, sometimes they do things that don’t jive with their charts, and so it leads me to the “soft” conclusion that astrology can be adopted and accepted, and it can ultimately be transcended as well!

So, Can We Transcend Astrology?

Absolutely. We can transcend any metaphysical creation and structure that exists today! If you want to transcend astrology, I want to let you know that it’s okay to want and need it. It’s okay to be a part of it, and it’s okay to solve the problems you believe it will solve for you, to feel the way you want to whenever you want to!

Okay, now that I’ve said that, let’s keep going!

Since even the most complicated astrology (in the west, at least) is a deep and meaningful identify game it suits you to know that conscious, consistent, metaphysical choice to “disidentify” from the entire thing will bring you to a new metaphysical state, a new realization about you and your inner world. It will most likely provide you with more meaning than you had before, and the problems you identified with will begin to (or entirely) dissipate and vanish.

Why does this happen? Because, at the end of the day, we create our metaphysical reality with the beliefs we hold, the images we see, and the feelings we feel. If we choose to believe in astrology, then we will (most likely) believe in both the good and the bad stuff that comes along with it. If we choose not to believe in it (and if we disidentify from as many beliefs as we possibly can in general), something will (probably) happen, something I suspect you’ll greatly enjoy! But, I’ll leave that up to you to figure out 🙂

Final Thoughts

I feel like it’s hard to write about these kinds of subjects without my personal beliefs interjecting and becoming a part of the conversation. That’s why I’ve done my very best to make sure that everything I’ve said in this post is based on my knowledge of psychic facts as opposed to me simply asserting my own beliefs! 

Conclusion

Thank you so much for reading my article! I hope you enjoyed it, and I’ll see you in the next one!

Sources

This post was written with some help by:

Wikipedia

Filed Under: Astrology, Communication, Connection, Conscious Information, History, Spirituality

My Childhood, and Why It Was So Detrimental

January 13, 2021 by Gabe Leave a Comment

Quick Facts

-Having narcissistic, angry, smothering, manipulative parents can be extremely damaging! 

-Parenting while being/feeling like this is not a good idea.

-We can recover from our nasty childhoods, and we can become the best parents we’ve ever known!

Intro

Not everyone had the perfect childhood, but it’s rare to find someone who had a childhood quite like mine. I truly don’t mean that in an egotistical way, but in a melancholic way – I want people I can relate to, not say “I had a worse childhood than you did” too!

The time has come to write this post, and usually, I hope my memory will serve me well… This time I know it will.

The Overall Situation 

Here is a general perspective on my life growing up:

From ages 0-18 I lived in my parent’s house. Both parents stayed together for the entire time, and I lived with 3 siblings. My parents proclaimed themselves to be protestant Christian, and we were homeschooled the entire time we lived there.

They “proclaimed” themselves to be Christian, but in reality, my father displayed traits of a cold, unloving narcissist and my mother displayed traits of a manipulative, smothering, overprotective, traumatized, anxious woman for the entire 18 years I lived in their home.

This meant mandatory compliance instead of mutual respect. This meant no free thinking was allowed. This meant I had to believe what they believed, and if I didn’t I was seen as someone to be converted instead of loved. This meant I stayed at home most of the time since they didn’t have a lot of money/didn’t want to be bothered. This meant having to constantly deal with two parents in emotional turmoil with almost no breaks whatsoever. The list goes on and on…

But, perhaps worst of all, it meant my siblings hated me since I (somehow) kept an individual identity throughout all of this. They liked my parent’s values (some of which included silence and compliance) and hated me when I displayed the values I held which were the opposite (like expressing my emotions and doing my own thing without worrying if I was complying or not).

Home life was extremely damaging, but not in a physical way, in a way much more subtle than that – when I left the home I had little to no identity of my own, I was scared of everything and everyone since I had almost no exposure to the outside world on my own, I had no marketable skills, and very few friends that still lived in the area. I was emotionally distraught, depressed, insecure, sad, fearful, and angry with little reason to feel good about myself at all – or, that’s how I saw it with my limited perspective.

One totalitarian narcissist and one traumatized manipulator – I don’t remember feeling loved at all. They would say, “love is in the motions, it’s not exactly a warm feeling all of the time,” but then why didn’t they work to change themselves? Why did they continue buying us crappy food? Why didn’t they let us live our own lives for a bit by going to public school? Even if they stuck to their own definition (which I don’t fully agree with) they still didn’t try to act it out.

Specific Examples 

-I don’t remember this, but my grandma tells me that she would be holding me as a child, my father would come home, and that he would take me away from her while saying, “this is my son. You don’t get to hold him.”

-When I was 6 I remember being in Sunday school, and the teacher was telling us something about God. I raised my hand and asked something to the extent of, “what is God? How do we know he’s real?” The teacher didn’t give me an adequate response so I went home and asked my parents. They replied with (paraphrasing), “aren’t you too young to be asking those kinds of questions?”

-From 6 to 18 I remember being overly scolded and shamed because I was trying to live a free life. I was also scolded because I expressed a lot of anger that was being generated because of their suppressive ways.

-Sometime before my teen years I remember my mother having a moment of clarity. She was punishing me for something ridiculous, and she started punishing herself as well. Both of us were crying pretty bad. The change didn’t last, she went back to her old ways pretty quickly.

-At 13-14 we were being sat by a babysitter. We loved her because she was a good person, and she was okay with letting us be normal children. My parents came home, however, and my father noticed that we were acting ‘rambunctious,’ so he yelled, “sit down! We leave for a few hours and you guys start acting like gorillas!” The anger in his voice was so intense that we were even afraid of going to the bathroom lest he punish us for getting up.

-At 14-16 my father and I were arguing about something. I don’t remember what it was, but I remember I was in the right. We were arguing from across the room, and I said something especially incriminating. He stormed over, put his face 2 inches from mine, and produced the most menacing growl he could possibly manage. He didn’t touch me, though – at least he was smart enough to refrain from going to jail.

-15 was when I began my journey towards “becoming cool” as well as meeting (and remembering) normal, healthy men. We went to a family reunion and I met one of my 2nd cousins and my other 2nd cousin’s husband. They were some of the first men who I compared to my father, and that was when I started to see what was really going on.

-At 15-18 I watched porn for the first time. My parents believe that porn is wrong/sinful, but instead of handling the situation healthily they grounded me for 6 months and told me to never do it again. All I had to lose were my video games, but those were my life due to the suppressive nature of my parents… I got caught again after that, so they put a filter on the internet, when I found my way around that, they grounded me permanently (until I moved out of the house). 

-At 16-17 they tried to enlist me in the army, without my consent. Thankfully it didn’t happen!

-At 17 I tried cannabis for the first time. Instead of my parents applauding me for going against the law and ingesting a healthy plant, they said “no drugs,” and it was part of the reason for my permanent grounding.

I remember vague parts of other things that happened, but these are the main ones. 

Why My Childhood Was So Detrimental 

You may be wondering, “gee, there must have been some good times, right? There’s no way any God-loving mother and father could be so bad, right?”

We did go places occasionally, and we shared some laughs here and there, but the good times were few and far in-between – most of my time with them was terrible, and most of the “good times” were tainted to the point of no repair, at least with the positive power I had then. I certainly can’t remember any specific examples besides a few field trips where I got to break away from my parents.

Anyway, I want to derive some value out of my parent’s mistakes, so I’ll list the reasons why their parenting was so terrible:

-Free thinking wasn’t encouraged or allowed.

-The “mandatory compliance” mindset left no room for input from the children. What they said went, and this has never been an effective way to parent.

-Suppressing children’s desires is detrimental because doing that doesn’t make their desires go away, and smothering them is detrimental because they don’t get to leave and build their own life.

-The unwillingness to change their ways, even if they could see their ways weren’t working, was a gigantic issue.

-The intensity of their fear, anger, and sadness affected us kids very greatly. Anyone who has major emotional issues shouldn’t be having kids unless they’re consciously improving/realizing themselves!

And, when it really boils down to it, the lack of love, trust, and mutual respect were the worst of it all. “You need to respect me and I don’t need to respect you.” “You need to reciprocate because I feed you and clothe you.” “I can’t trust you if you don’t comply.” “You need to be just as afraid and angry as I am.” All of these base beliefs were largely unspoken, but intensely felt in my childhood, and they’re extremely damaging to a young child’s psyche. Please, I beg you, love your children, trust them, and respect them!

What I Did About It!

This is my favorite part of the post since I get to feel all giddy and excited about sharing my solution to this dilemma!

When I was 16 I threw myself into the world and got my first job. I worked at the same place (a semi-cutthroat kitchen) from 16-19, learning how to work and properly interact with other people. I gained some valuable experience and wisdom while I worked there, some of which I’ll never forget.

When I was 18 I ingested psilocybin mushrooms for the first time… They helped me heal immensely, and they helped me form a new, healthy perspective on life as a whole. More than a dozen psilocybin/LSD/DMT trips followed in the span of 1 ½ years or so, all of which were extremely helpful.

When our company went bankrupt I moved to Texas and began working at a country club while sleeping in my car. I learned what it was like to start over, with no friends or family, and make it without any help whatsoever. This was when I began listening to Terrence McKenna and doing some psychological healing.

When I learned the job was a sinking ship I moved to East Texas looking for a job. I submitted 99 applications in a month and didn’t hear back from any of them – except one in Austin, TX to be a Favor delivery driver. 

I moved to Austin and began working there. I learned the entire city like the back of my hand, I learned how to be a self-starter (since I was working as an independent contractor), I learned how to be business-like and professional. It was my first time living in any city so I learned how to transition well, I learned how to make it without friends or family, but most importantly, this was when I really started the sorting out of my mental faculties. It’s where I saw Jordan Peterson for the first time, it’s where I discovered Jung’s and Niechieze’s work, it’s where I had many of my revelations and spiritual experiences, and it’s where I started to think critically about my mental state and really change it for the better. I was still sleeping in my car.

Now I’m almost 22, and I can successfully say I’m a strong, healthy person. I’m hardworking, charismatic, I can write, speak, and think, I can stand up for myself, I’m confident, I can love, and I have a passion for life! 

So, if you’re like me and had to suffer through that or worse, I only encourage you to throw yourself into the fire like I did if you’re certain you can handle it. Otherwise, I encourage you to change your mindset first and do everything you can to develop your sense of self. That’s what a narcissist doesn’t want you to have, after all!

I don’t want you to think I’m victimizing myself because I’ve moved past the bullcrap. I’ve taken care of the damage they dealt and I’m a very strong person now! I write this post so that we can relate to each other and help each other while we’re in similar situations.

Final Thoughts

I have a sneaking suspicion that no one will believe what I say, even though it is the truth. But then another part of me says not to worry about it, since it’s the truth.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m screwed for life because something will pop up from my subconscious and seem immovable, but I always disidentify from it and heal that too! All wounds can be healed, even though astrology says otherwise!

I wish I had a normal life. I wish I didn’t know the things I know, I wish I didn’t have to go through what I went through, I wish I wasn’t like this! Why? Because even my dreams are so intensely positive that I feel terrible not being able to bring them into the world and share them with others!

And, tell me, is my life going to be smooth from here on out? What’s next?

Conclusion

Thank you so, so much for reading! It’s very therapeutic to write all of this out, and hopefully, you derive value from it on one level or another. I’ll see you in the next post!

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