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$\"celebrity$ <\/a>When I started this blog in 2005, celebrity journalism was all the rage. \u00a0A good part of my posts were spent analyzing whether or not the latest celebrity relationships would last, or why the bimbo of the month had her latest meltdown. \u00a0Celebrity gossip as a media force has been around for a long time, but that force reached a point of hysteria when Pluto was in Sagittarius, which among other things rules entertainment and celebrity.<\/p>\n

Pluto takes a long time to go through a sign, anywhere from twelve to twenty years, and while Pluto is going through a sign we tend to see the matters that are ruled by that sign become intensified and glorified, but we also see the dark underside of these areas of life emerge. \u00a0Sagittarius is the sign of expansion and optimism, and when Pluto moved through Sag between 1995 and 2008 we witnessed the darker side of perpetual optimism which led to unsustainable economic expansion and a relentless refusal to acknowledge the limits (Capricorn) of this kind of growth. \u00a0This of course is what led to the economic downturn in which we now find ourselves.<\/p>\n

Under the glittering celebration of Pluto in Sagittarius, so many people, feeling the pressure of this expansiveness, longed to live like the celebrities whose every move was followed and studied. \u00a0This obsession with celebrity journalism was called a \u201cvirus\u201d by the mainstream press<\/a> who feared celebrity news would crowd out legitimate news.<\/p>\n

Of course the destruction and transformation (Pluto) of journalism and news (Sagittarius) was something to be expected when Pluto went through Sagittarius, but now that Pluto is in Capricorn celebrities just don\u2019t seem as interesting. \u00a0After all, how much can we really read about Lindsay Lohan before we experience celebrity fatigue? \u00a0And when so many people are having trouble putting food on the table, the luxury of reading about spoiled rich people does tend to lose its glamor.<\/p>\n

Consequently, over the past three years my interest in celebrity astrology has waned, and my focus now is much more on developing tools that we can use to help us to harness the power of Pluto in Capricorn to dig ourselves out of disaster and create new structures that serve us.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m curious to know what my readers think \u2013 what blog topics interest you these days? \u00a0What are your thoughts about celebrity interest?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"