A conspiracy is a secret plan or scheme to carry out an illegal or harmful act, especially with a political motivation.
A conspiracy theory is a belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for an unexplained event. It’s about hidden agendas, secret plots and blaming alternative agents. The alternative explanation, which rejects the accepted narrative surrounding the event’s official version, appears to make sense of the world that is otherwise confusing.
You’re likely to think that a conspiracy describes a treacherous or illicit plan formulated by a group of persons; or a secret agreement between 2 or more people to perform an unlawful act; or a secret plan involving a harmful or illegal act that can be associated with a plot, scheme, machination, cabal, intrigue or coven.
In the late 18th century, the Illuminati was a real secret society of intellectual elites. Their goal was to transform society, not violently by causing a revolution, but by educating people. It was accused of orchestrating the French Revolution in 1789 and only lasted a few years before being forced to disband but conspiracy theorists say the Illuminati never really disappeared.
After the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 a number of conspiracy theories began to spread; and in 2017 QAnon – a far-right conspiracy theory and political movement – propagates the belief that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles controls the world and is plotting against former President Donald Trump.
QAnon is very dangerous. The ridiculous absurdity it propagates can take hold in a violent mind with disastrous consequences.
Welcome to Neptune’s world of irrational nonsense
In the 21st century there’s an explosion of conspiracy theories. Once limited to a fringe audience they’re now widely present on the Web in the form of blogs and YouTube videos and on social media.
In 2024 there’s a global boom in bonkers beliefs – an epidemic of irrational thinking. Millions of people think the world is full of intrigue and plots.
The coronavirus pandemic was planned by Bill Gates; the real Vladimir Putin is dead and the one you’re seeing is a double; humans once lived on Mars but a nuclear war rendered it uninhabitable; an elite class of space-traveling lizards rule the Earth; and the UN is planning on killing us all. A quick click or tap around the Aquarian Age web will put you in the picture. What’s going on is generally blamed on sociopolitical turbulence.
In 2024 people are living with rational uncertainty. They’re living in a world of unknowns and a weird conspiracy theory can satisfy their desire to explain something about the world in a way that suits their explanation bias.
But their wild imaginings can represent an altered state of consciousness where facts are blurred, distorted, warped and twisted.
What’s going on
The current surge in conspiracy theories is generally associated with contemporary fears and anxieties. Popular influencers spread crazy ideas and people use whatever thinking skills they have to navigate their claims; and thinking is riddled with hazards and uncertainty.
Anyone can think badly. Some people are just bad thinkers. Smart people think crazy thoughts. Even good thinkers don’t know when their thinking is going haywire; and no one can think correctly using false-incorrect data.
In 2024 the political right has a vested interest in keeping its supporters intellectually naïve and credulous. Its well-paid influencers are all in it for the money. Only fools continue to believe something when it’s proven to be wrong.
Sound, rational, reasonable thinking is a matter of character. Critical thinking and logic are learned skills: if you have a predisposition and the opportunity to learn them.
In 2024 modern psychology views your brain as a pattern-detection machine that connects the dots, making it possible to uncover meaningful relationships among the barrage of sensory inputs you continually face but minor and major problems can occur.
Apophenia – a term coined in 1958 by German neurologist Klaus Conrad – refers to a type of bias that can disproportionately influence a person’s perception of the world. It’s a tendency for people to see meaningful patterns in events or information that are completely unrelated, like a conspiracy theory. It’s seen as a defect in a person’s cognitive processing capacities (Mercury).
Hermetic astrology teaches…
… that plots, schemes, webs of intrigue, secrecy and secret societies associate conspiracies and conspiracy theories with Neptune – planet of illusion – and house 12 in a global chart.
That said illusion is a distorted reality which makes it difficult to really know what’s going on and everyone has a Neptune in their birth chart.
Hermetic astrology reckons that in the 21st century people are naturally inclined to try and make sense of a very complex and confusing world and many are not successfully adapting to the high frequency astrological energies that are impacting their souls and influencing their thoughts and feelings and what they think, say and do.
It teaches that the Moon in their birth charts depicts a mentality that has evolved and developed through experience. It’s defined by feelings and inklings and aspects to the Moon indicate mental traits. And millions of people with the Moon aspecting Neptune are predisposed to have mentalities that misinterpret sensory inputs and fabricate misleading perceptions.
Their conspiratorial mindsets can engage in conspiracies or believe in conspiracy theories. They’re predisposed to see intrigue in reality; and the tendency is more pronounced if it’s a discordant Moon-Neptune aspect.
The constant exposure to conspiracy theories in news media and popular entertainment keeps their Neptune thought-cells stimulated increasing their receptiveness to conspiratorial ideas.
And many people due to their evolutionary legacies have an undeveloped intellect (Mercury). They lack the desire to develop whatever critical thinking skills they have. For them any alternative theory to explain life and the universe will do. They blindly believe what they read and hear. Observation reveals that delusional thinking is widespread.
It’s a personal situation involving their character development which through experience will see them eventually develop the intellectual and other abilities associated with the work they’re destined to perform in God’s grand cosmic enterprise.
Neptune easily drifts into fantasy thinking
While Neptune is the chief player in the weird world of conspiracy theories where normal everyday people have their fantasies fueled by irrational ideas Uranus and Pluto are also involved.
Uranus is the planet of individualism, difference, eccentricity and absurdism and there’s plenty of that around in 2024; and Lower-Pluto’s thugs have a vested interest in exploiting and manipulating the conspiratorial agenda.
People who live in an information bubble, locked away from a variety of opinion, can have their thinking become distorted and irrational with an overconsumption of conspiratorial propaganda
An undisciplined imagination will easily drift into fantasy thinking the moment there’s a hint of intrigue, chicanery, subterfuge, guile and secret plots. It looks for signs and superstitions and it’s a habit that some human souls are very inclined to develop easily. And your chief concern is to monitor any tendency you have to engage in irrational nonsense thinking.
In 2024 modern psychology teaches that confirmation bias affects how you process information, recall information and make decisions. It’s a tendency to seek out information that supports something you already believe and it (apparently) affects your critical thing. It’s considered a flaw in your reasoning; affects your social interactions and the way you view the world; and affects everyone in some degree.
You’ll get closer to personal objective truths if you avoid falling victim to your flawed unconscious reasoning processes (see Mercury in your birth chart) by recognizing any tendency to believe that something is true despite contrary evidence.
And you should allow yourself to be wrong; test your (risky) assumptions to the best of your ability; understand the role of repetition in politics and religion; and antidote any tendency towards sloppy thinking and intellectual laziness with informed skepticism which asks the right questions.
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