The Collective Unconscious Was Colonized
How a Thread about Chris Brown led to this channeled message...
Put on your seat belt, because this journey has a lot of twists and turns.
Earlier this week, I was communing with Mary Jane and scrolling on Threads, when I came across an old paparazzi photo of Chris Brown choking a women during what seemed to be a heated moment, with the caption, “This is who you’re spending money on.”
Chris was making the headlines after announcing his joint tour with Usher, who has also been under the public’s watchful eye.
I understood the sentiment. The “can you separate the art from the artist” debate has been an ongoing discussion—although I would note that the leniency prompted in that discussion tends to skew in favor of abusive men, but that’s another conversation for another day…
There was a comment on the post that talked about how the abusive behavior of Taurus men (Chris Brown is a Taurus) isn’t talked about enough.
Now, I want to make it incredibly clear that any astrological hot take that only focuses on one placement when making a grand generalization (especially one like that) is inherently flawed, because that’s just not real. It’s also incredibly harmful.
However, was my interest piqued? Absolutely. But it was more so around the question of whether Chris’ Taurus placements were close to the fixed star, Algol (which sits at 26 degrees Taurus).
When I pulled up his chart, what drew me in was the story that was being revealed, which is what tends to happen in my sessions. I don’t necessarily focus on one placement or the traditional definition of what it means in your chart. I see the symbols dance in a way that uncovers a story, like a scroll being unfurled.
(That’s also why I sometimes hesitate to call myself an astrologer, because it is a science, and my approach is a little unconventional. Such is my life.)
I was seeing root wounds correlating to perhaps why he has this seeming disdain for women that shows up through physical abuse, and so I initially went back to Threads to post something along the lines of…
I told myself I would no longer read celebrity charts publicly unless they were sitting down across from me to receive it, because otherwise it felt invasive.
But posts I’ve been seeing about Chris Brown and his history of abuse led me to his birth chart, and I just want to let you know, the story that feeds this behavior is there. This is why shadow work is so important…
Blah, blah, blah. Something like that.
And it would’ve been totally sincere and true, because you know I believe in this work deeply, but that’s not what happened.
Because as I started to type what I initially wanted to say, another message was coming through that became a priority—and it was how our collective unconscious has been colonized.
I know. Quite the jump, right? I wish I could explain it in a way that makes sense, but when the light goes off, and I start to pull the thread (no pun intended), I end up in very interesting places.
So we come to the first sharp left of our journey.
Here’s what I actually ended up writing…
I told myself I would no longer read celebrity charts publicly unless they were sitting down across from me to receive it, because otherwise it felt invasive.
As someone who went to school for journalism, you get trained to perceive that type of behavior as part of the gig. You’re investigating a public figure, so it’s free game. Research and report.
You lose the humanity of it.
This energy signature is similar to soldiers preparing for war. They get perception training. It’s not called that, but that’s what’s happening, and it’s done in so many different spaces.
Perception training is necessary to carry out the objective.
In this case, dehumanization is planted within the lens of reality in order to manipulate a person’s morality, values, code of ethics. Otherwise they won’t embody the energy necessary to fulfill the job.
It’s interesting because my father is a former commander. We’ve had a very bumpy road together, but he’s also been one of my greatest teachers.
We’re completely opposite and yet the same. And this is an example of that.
We both fight for the truth, but our truths may be different.
We are both fiercely loyal, but sometimes to our detriment.
We questioned everything, except the systems we’d been indoctrinated into…
…which on its own, negates everything else we claim to value—but it makes sense.
When you place loyalty as a core value, questioning anything seems like betrayal. And if you are no longer “loyal,” you are a threat.
Again, another red flag on the play that gets dismissed.
If your loyalty is contingent on your blind obedience and compliance, you may wanna double check what you’re actually loyal to. Because now there’s a power imbalance.
You are no longer being of service to a cause (truth). You are serving an agenda (illusion).
I would always wonder what kind of perception training my father had to endure in order to do what was being asked of him. I think about that with a lot of people. And I realized that we are all constantly in perception training.
It’s called propaganda. And everything is propaganda.
So much of your identity was unconsciously shaped for you without your conscious awareness. From the moment you were born, there was already a story attached to you based on the system in place.
That’s crazy.
The truth is you are a limitless being whose energy signature can be expressed in an infinite number of ways. You are not confined to the story that you’ve always been handed, but when everything you’re told, taught, and shown is restricted to the same story…
It’s hard to truly believe otherwise. That’s the paradox.
You have to believe it to see it.
The perception training keeps the same narrative on loop so that nothing changes. Who gets to benefit from nothing changing? Those in power.
This is what I mean when I say we’ve been unconscious slaves to a system we don’t even notice running anymore. It’s become so integrated into our daily life, we don’t question it. We don’t check in to see if it actually aligns. We don’t check ourselves to see where we’ve contributed to the harm it upholds.
You have been fed a sense of “normalcy” that is anything but normal. You’ve become so loyal to the system that you’d rather rationalize it than question it.
My friend, you are not free.
Your consciousness was colonized. Your way of thinking, your values, your beliefs, your identity, your perception of the world that keeps it running on the same operating system.
Do you know why it’s always imperative to get to the root of the matter? Because that’s where you change the environment.
Y’all want the landscape to change without going underground to see where the rot needs to be pulled, and what seeds need to be planted.
This is the descension journey. Welcome.
You don’t build above ground until you have a firm foundation to build on, and our foundation as a collective entity is not solid. It has no stable roots.
So we need to tend to that first, and we’re already doing it.
Do not underestimate the ripple effect of your personal healing. You think choosing healthier habits, working through your limiting beliefs, and breaking free from generational trauma is just about you?
Babe, you’re one piece of a much bigger puzzle. You are the variable that changes everything.
You are the drop of the ocean that makes waves crash. You are the raindrop in a storm. You are the spark that creates light.
Shadow work is going to be of the utmost importance moving forward, because if you can’t integrate your shadow, you will continue to project it.
And those projections will keep feeding the karmic loops that run the system.
Just as a plant needs light and water to grow, you need light (awareness) and water (emotional alchemy) to grow, too.
If you’re curious about shadow work, I have plenty of resources through my link. If you wanna dive deeper, schedule a session with me and we’ll look at your birth chart together.
Not so I can tell you who you are (that’s up to you), but so we can see where you keep feeding who you’re not.
I’ll snatch that mask off you so quick, but only if you’re ready to be seen.
As you can see, definitely not what I had originally planned, but that happens sometimes. You think you’re going to write about Chris Brown, and suddenly, you’re deconstructing the colonization of the unconscious.
And just like I mentioned, this is also a piece to a much bigger puzzle, because if our collective unconscious has been colonized, then what does that look like? What does decolonizing it require? And how do we begin that process?
Stay tuned.
Xo