Some people just say shit

Growing up, one of my more treasured possessions was my Walkman, because it allowed me the freedom to listen to basically whatever I wanted to, often mixes of songs I'd managed to record off the radio. Speaking of the radio, my Walkman had one of those, too (for those of you unfamiliar, some Walkman models were just cassette players), and I'd listen to morning talk radio while I waited for the bus to take me to school. I listened to Mancow's Morning Madhouse, Chicago's answer to Howard Stern, and I was 0% politically aware (because I grew up in a house where we literally weren't allowed to talk politics) and therefore I didn't realize I was listening to some nutty conspiracy theories on my way to high school. I just thought I was listening to the cooler morning talk radio option, because it was edgy.

Cut to: present day, where I am being intermittently tormented by a man who is very much not Mancow, but who was born on the exact same day as him, and, apparently as such, has formed very boring conspiracies that I will not trouble you with here (that involve my organization). I joke that this guy is the youngest of 26 children and has such a daddy complex that he tries to fight "the man" as he perceives local authority figures to be, just to prove his intellectual superiority. This guy is like a radio that doesn't turn off, and additionally, he is on this quest to uncover data to prove his conspiracy theories are right, but the lack of data just proves to him that local authority figures have something to hide (and are therefore hiding it). The problem is that the data he's looking for doesn't exist. But its nonexistence proves to him it's a vast (and incredibly boring) conspiracy. Welcome to hell.

The People Just Say Shit hall of fame is littered with Gemini and Uranian energy used improperly, often (but not always) in combination. Gemini's about the spread of information, but the information does not need to be correct. Show me people running their mouths with no fact checking whatsoever and I will show you some combination of Mercury/Mars and heavy Uranian influence (Mars in Gemini or Mercury in Aries, Mars in Aquarius, Mercury and Mars conjunct each other and some other signifier of talking in their chart). Mercury/Mars just talks and the Uranian influence is arrogant (it KNOWS it's right and doesn't always need to trouble itself with data).

The two men discussed above have the same birth date: they are Gemini suns (squared by Saturn and Chiron in Pisces, which is vaguely relevant but a story for a different day) with Mars in Gemini squaring Pluto-Uranus in Virgo. They have Scorpio south nodes with Neptune conjunct, which does not help the predisposition to see vast conspiracies in their cases (I would not apply this globally to people with this aspect).

Now, just to be really clear: I also know people with Mercury-Mars interactions and heavy Uranian influences who have not taken to loudly espousing wacky theories. It just so happens that many of the people who are deeply and loudly opinionated about what's right for masses of people (an Aquarian concept) do seem to have these markers. Or who are just arrogantly running their mouths. Think of a handful of people who fit this description and then go look 'em up. Or ask me for some examples. I fact-checked myself by looking up a number of charts while writing this.

The thing about properly using data is you have to leave yourself enough room to be wrong or for revisions based on new data, or you find yourself in a losing battle of clinging to outmoded theories and practices, or in a wind tunnel of ignorance. And the people who are stuck screaming in wind tunnels of ignorance have always left me scratching my head (especially when people are being prescriptive about how other people should live their lives, or just being horribly racist, which is another thing that very frequently happens). Gemini and Mercury are about adapting and acceptance! But Uranian energy is fixed by its nature, which is where we run into trouble. Lots and lots of trouble.

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P.S. I didn’t add pictures because I find people who fit this description massively irritating 😉