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I haven\u2019t yet seen the film Avatar so I can\u2019t comment personally, but evidently some fans are reacting with depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film:<\/p>\n

James Cameron\u2019s completely immersive spectacle \u201cAvatar\u201d may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.<\/p>\n

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On the fan forum site \u201cAvatar Forums,\u201d a topic thread entitled \u201cWays to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible,\u201d has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ,\u201d Baghdassarian said. \u201cBut I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don\u2019t have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since I went to see \u2018Avatar\u2019 I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na\u2019vi made me want to be one of them. I can\u2019t stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it,\u201d Mike posted. \u201cI even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in \u2018Avatar.\u2019 \u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

read more here\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

So is it the film Avatar that is causing this depression and despair at the comparison between the idealized Avatar world and our own dysfunctional planet? \u00a0Or is it the intense planetary cycles that are occurring right now that are creating these moods and experiences, resulting in a longing for an experience of something more liberating and magical?<\/p>\n

As I wrote last October<\/a>, the conjunction of Chiron (wounding and healing) to Neptune (yearning for spiritual\u00a0connection) in the sign of Aquarius (idealism and a desire for social justice and revolution) has been inspiring deep experiences of old grief to erupt into our conscious mind where they can be resolved and released. \u00a0Chiron and Neptune are nearing their exact conjunction for the first time since last summer. \u00a0With Chiron in Aquarius, the experience of wounding that Chiron reveals has its origin in the disappointment of our ideals and our yearnings for the perfect world \u2013 the Age of Aquarius of myth and legend. \u00a0The addition of Neptune adds a layer of delusion and magic as well as a powerful awareness of where we are disconnected from our souls.<\/p>\n

We also have the second phase of the square of Saturn (depression and isolation) to Pluto (death and transformation) to contend with now, and the combination of these two planetary combinations can be quite intense, whether you see the film Avatar or not.<\/p>\n

One poster in an Avatar forum wrote this: \u00a0\u201cWhen I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed \u2026 gray. It was like my whole life, everything I\u2019ve done and worked for, lost its meaning,\u201d Hill wrote on the forum. \u201cIt just seems so \u2026 meaningless. I still don\u2019t really see any reason to keep \u2026 doing things at all. I live in a dying world.\u201d \u00a0This quote is so Saturn\/Pluto \u2013 the world has lost its meaning and we are challenged to keep going and to find new meaning in our lives.<\/p>\n

The purpose of these planetary cycles is not to make us miserable but to cause us to go deeper. \u00a0Life may have lost its meaning for us, but that\u2019s because we are being urged to seek beyond the superficial; beyond the mundane and ordinary. \u00a0We don\u2019t need to go to Pandora for this experience \u2013 the magic lies within.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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