Why We Strike
On the Full Moon in Leo, the American Experiment, and the first of many general strikes on Friday
Tomorrow we strike. But we’re just getting started.
We strike for Liam Conejo Ramos, the precious five-year-old boy stolen from his family in Minneapolis by the ICE Gestapo, now languishing in a prison in Texas. We strike for ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, brutally executed by CBP agents in the street for helping a woman in distress. We strike because his last words, “Are you okay?” resound in our ears as if they’re being asked of all of us, right now, in this moment, and WE ARE NOT OKAY.
We strike because Minnesota has shown us the way, even though they never asked for this.
We strike for Renee Nicole Good, who was shot in the face by Jonathan Ross just over three weeks ago, because this mother and poet’s very existence threatened his feeble manhood.
We strike for Keith Porter. We strike for the long and growing list of humans ICE has killed since Trump became president a second time. We strike for all of the families that have been separated. We strike for all the people who are in detention, for those who are citizens, and for those who are undocumented. We strike for all who’ve been deported.
We strike for our precious democracy, teetering on the thinnest of brinks. We strike for our right to vote, threatened by the narcissistic wound of a broken sociopath, forcing his clown car of grifters to investigate the 2020 election that he lost — wasting the FBI’s time seizing ballots in Georgia. We strike because that pedophile STILL HASN’T RELEASED ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES and he continues to send his AG on reality TV-style goose chases after the governors, mayors and others who are simply protecting their states and cities from his ridiculous dickless goons.
We strike because of the cartoonish, unimaginable gaslighting. We strike because of the lies that would be laughable if they weren’t so scary. We strike because they read Orwell as a manual. We strike because they think Pinochet had the right idea.
We strike for too many reasons to count. But I want people to understand this — tomorrow is just the start. This General Strike was organized quickly, on the fly, with barely any lead time. It’s still likely to be HUGE, but perhaps not huge enough to force Congress to take real action, and for this evil regime to stand down. We’ve got to do it anyway, and do it again until they comply with the demands of the people.
The emergency in Minnesota prompted this, and as of this writing, it looks like many people will participate (and hopefully the media will cover it ), but I don’t want us to feel like we've failed if it doesn’t look as successful as it did last Friday in Minneapolis. We’re going to grow this.
The next NO KINGS protest is coming on March 28th. I’m hearing that a National General Strike is planned for May 1st, and that will see the ENTIRE COUNTRY in the streets, because we’re going to plan, organize, and do trial runs — starting immediately. And WOW, the energy for all of this is so very ripe and ready. We are living through Pluto in Aquarius, the sign of the future — and the last time the planet of evolution was here, we experienced the Age of Revolutions.
In the immediate, fueled by Neptune’s recent entry into Aries and the Full Moon in Leo coming on Sunday (the last uneclipsed lunation until March) we hit the coldest of streets with the hottest of fires burning under our feet. We know we will win. We know we will be free of the fascists and white Christian Nationalists and technofeudalists one day, hopefully soon. Because we demand a future built upon empathy, love, and caring for our neighbors. Pluto in Aquarius can be mutual aid, winning out over dystopia.
The Full Moon is opposite Pluto, Mars, Venus, and Mercury (in a wider orb). It is enormously emotional. It’s wild and dramatic, and it calls upon our courage. We are still weeks before Saturn enters Aries and meets with Neptune in February. That looks like a great civilisational reset, days away from a Solar Eclipse that is one degree away from the natal Moon of the United States of America. The Moon in a country’s chart is its people, and we the people are being called to live up to the authentic promise of democracy, starting now. The American Experiment (an incredibly Aquarius-coded word) is still going — and we are in the lab right now.
We will not ignore our eyes and ears, even as Saturn and Neptune attempt to erode our reality. This revolution is real, and our dedication to civil disobedience is what will deliver the future we want.
Be safe out there. Love your neighbor. Protect yourself from surveillance. And remember that we are all we’ve got —and this astrology supports us having each other’s backs.
Note: I took a break from writing your On the Erotic Ecliptic for February to get this out to you — but I will hopefully have that forecast out by Sunday.
Much love and solidarity,
Stefanie