He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
Are you ready? „The big P moves tomorrow?“ Lol, this is how my astro buddy commented on Pluto moving into a new sign of Aquarius last week. I immediately thought of my favorite Harry Potter series and „He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named“, „You-Know-Who“ or if we´re brave enough then „Voldemort, the Dark Lord“. When using indirect references, it is obvious who we have in mind, yet it sounds a lot less scary. We often assume that if we avoid calling things by their real name when we avoid the uncomfortable spaces and they stay undefined that they will be somehow diminished. We fear that if we give them our attention and make them concrete, they will become more real and have more power over us. From my experience, the opposite is true. Our taboo, Plutonian spaces won’t disappear from our lives when they are ignored. If we pretend like the darkness does not exist, if we try to dilute it, it slowly starts gaining more power over us. It turns into an insatiable beast that slo...