Make money doing the work you believe in
Leo M.J. Aurini left an insightful comment on my last post and linked a recent video of his on astrological ages, see here:
And here: youtube.com/watch?v=17y…
It’s both sharp and unintentionally comic: a Tate‑adjacent aesthetic - hard liquor, cigars, dim lighting, assertive delivery - applied not to Bugattis or hustler mythology, but to astrology.
Style aside, the substance is real. Aurini treats astrology as fated at the level of natal astrology structure while still insisting on free will - not as negation of fate, but as one’s manner of inhabiting it. More interestingly, he suggests that each astrological age contains its opposite as its inner or “mystery” religion: Aquarius carrying Leo within it, and so on. This is not a point I had previously considered, and it opens productive questions about inversion, repression, and symbolic compensation at the civilizational level.
His discussion of the Taurus age would benefit from engagement with Gilgamesh, the earliest of the texts Jung uses to trace the evolution of the God‑image, but the instinct is correct. Like some others circling this terrain, including myself, Aurini recognizes that contemporary elites are indifferent to belief content. What matters to them is that belief be legible, commodifiable, and energetically extractable. Ideologies function less as truth‑claims than as enclosure, means of pigeonholing psychic energy so it can be routed through designated influencers and managed at scale.
I recommend checking him out, it was a fun experience and I plan to watch more of his videos.