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It\u2019s not just closeted teens that suffer. \u00a0Fifteen-year old Justin Aaberg, who had been out since he was 13, hanged himself after a short lifetime of hidden suffering and the recent end of a relationship. And the most recent victim, Raymond Chase, \u00a019-year old college student who hung himself last Wednesday in his dorm room, was openly gay. \u00a0The reason for his self-destruction is not yet known.<\/p>\n

And September was just another month. \u00a0This summer three young gay men in Utah killed themselves, a fact which drew fire to the Mormon Church<\/a> which was accused of bigotry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s appalling that in today\u2019s world, when we claim to be so much smarter and more accepting than our forbears, that this kind of bullying is allowed to happen. \u00a0It\u2019s certainly nothing new \u2013 at a music workshop last week we learned a tune called Hector the Hero. \u00a0This tune was penned in tribute to Major General Hector MacDonald, a well-respected Scottish general who killed himself in 1903 after he was outed by rumors of his homosexuality.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to draw astrological conclusions without the birthdates of the individual boys, but it\u2019s noteworthy that this suicidal climax follows the summer of the Cardinal Climax, with its interplanetary conflict and stress. \u00a0The suicide of Tyler Clementi is particularly appalling because of the manner in which his intimate life was broadcast in the most public format possible. \u00a0We can relate this to the passage of Chiron, with its wounding and hoped-for subsequent healing, passing through the sign of Aquarius ruling technology and the internet.<\/p>\n

We have also had the double whammy of Uranus (technology) in Pisces (loss of boundaries) in mutual reception with Neptune (breaking down boundaries) in Aquarius (technology). \u00a0Under this influence social interaction has largely become internet-based, with this being particularly and vividly true among the young. Uranus and Aquarius are famously dispassionate and lacking of empathy, and the coldness in which these teenaged roomates streamed the most private of moments in the most public of places is beyond belief. \u00a0 \u00a0 The Uranus and Aquarius influence is thought to instill acceptance and a desire for social equality, but perhaps this needs to be taught rather than taken for granted.<\/p>\n

These are things to keep in mind as we move into the Age of Aquarius, in which technology is worshipped and human weaknesses are denigrated and dismissed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"