The Kingmaker: Eclipse Season in the Age of Individualism
5 min readMay 5, 2023
Eclipses drive me a little bit crazy.
Not the energy, though there’s always a particular intensity to the lunation it accompanies.
What drives me up a wall is the astrological chatter. Every Insta-astrologer and self-styled guru with a social media presence offers advice for utilizing the eclipse, harnessing it to manifest wealth, love, opportunity, a new apartment… It’s a cacophony of largely-repeating voices offering nothing of value and contributing nothing more than misinformation which not only lacks…