Economy
Economy is the study of income flow – but more properly eco-nomy might be called echo- naming – as we support ourselves nominally – at least expenditures of money and value exchanges driven by hu(e)-man’s condition.
Patterns of income flow observed when we buy and sell repeatedly -generating profits and taxes on a semi-reliable basis given seasonal variations.
In astrology, ‘Venus’ as a principle refers to value, money exchange, and relationships. You could think of Venus as “flow” too. When money flows, there is buying and selling.
A person rewards another for his labor- and all other facets required for its completion – using tools, packaging, and refuse management.
Labor depends on infrastructure to deliver the goods – after it’s been manufactured by the laborer under his peculiar arrangement.
Each ‘peculiar arrangement’ is its own ‘world’ of commerce and sub-infrastructure again; with another vocabulary and set of skills.
With improvements in infrastructures for these sub- infrastructure groups, money keeps flowing within and between collectives. Portions prosper as a result. With monies carefully targeted towards efficiency, others might not.
Until it is interrupted – whether by war or nature – when then, instead of creating – as before, they’re rebuilding and making do.
While their rebuilding efforts could improve relative to an older outdated system, until now, they haven’t – mainly because the re-builders are angry and dispirited. They lack vision.
Society reflects this with it’s grays and blacks as we hold onto our war, illness, and disaster histories and stay saturated in trauma.
The flip side – learning not just lessons in preparedness and rescue, but how to heal each other. As each stress bares a societies’ wounds, it gets better at mending them.
People become focused like old mothers- and other symbols of moon and not sun.
Even if war’s widgets currently fuel much of our economy, it doesn’t have to. The pandemic proved that – even as it dipped, with minimal support it more than rebounded.
War and its allied fields of AI, Science, and math, benefit few individual collectives of hu(e)-mans- which are schools main focus.
Widgets come about from filling needs and wants just as “necessity is the mother of invention”, so are ideas from dreams and wishes. Successful widgets create long-term markets. Airflow over a wing was observed to create lift – barely a century ago. Look how far we’ve come since.
When economists talk about the gross national product they are referring to earned wealth – of a whole without reference to who is making what.
Divided by the population to give an indexed amount gives some crazy per capita figure that the bottom 90% don’t ever see either financially or in services.
To use it is misleading. In the US, over 50 % of GDP is accumulated by 10% of the population! In other words over half of America’s wealth is managed by a small handful of individuals. I’m sorry if I’m inarticulate trying to describe our land of oligarchs.
The US has the highest number of billionaires in the world. In China, we’re referred to as “gold mountain”. When they come here – they make billions cumulatively – which they send back to enrich their families and lineages.
Our cities are filled with homeless people pushing carts of filth.
What’s wrong with this picture?! Does it bother you?
(Besides they’re being a source of intimidation – the homeless and crazed one – and hence rendering from likes of me -avoidance behavior – those areas of the city loose out on my perusal. What a shame.
The homeless and incarcerated are our canaries of despair and inequality.
Look over who’s living outside the longest – men who are unemployable and ~unsafe. Young and old; they can’t be uncivilized. I took quite a few histories during my albeit brief time as inner city ER doc.
Besides some services catering to them – making it worse, As mascots in their collective – for every homeless, there’s a family missing them – even though impossible to live with. from those remaining, there’s hopelessness manifesting as migraines, fatigue, and becoming a ‘gray man’.
Here’s a sobering fact-
The BOTTOM 50% of working individuals account for 2.5% of US GDP! So most people are living on crumbs and peanuts.
And it’s not for the oligarchs to care – really. it’s for our elected body of law that works when applied.
That is pathetic- and all media talks about are sad dr’ama-tic stories. Dr’ Ama (drama) to the rescue – to keep everyone in alignment. We get more stories about challenges to people places and things – rather than their later success stories. This is detrimental to the morale of a people’s. Maybe it’s even intentional. So far I think so.
(Perhaps the news should get the initial info about each story, and rather than covering it then, cover it in 2-5 years. Without doing further detective work, they could revisit the scene first a couple of years later, and again after 5 or more. Then they’d gain insight into resolution and healing which they could share. That would be helpful.
Lol, I know that’s quite different than what we focus on now. They could be covering ‘souk school and collective’ related stuff meanwhile; they’d have plenty of other stuff to cover. Like ‘convention’news. Up and coming junior k’ings and que’ens. Subscribership would be enhanced.)
For those “middle class” people working 2 or 3 jobs to get by, that is, the 50-90% of income earners account for about 30% of the total. Economists use the GDP as an indicator for “economic health”. But as you can see, this number doesn’t do justice to the reality most Americans, let alone anyone ‘visiting’, experiences.
U.S. income inequality is on par with many Middle Eastern countries with sultans and emirs.
Focusing on money to signify health of a population, seems shortsighted. More and more Americans are receiving less and less for their efforts – meanwhile a handful of individuals are amassing fantastic amounts of wealth they cannot ever spend personally – or within several lifetimes of their offspring.
When you look at these individual “winners” heads of echelons they are 1) driven (have Mars in a strong position, especially when exalted in Capricorn or in Aries or Scorpio or in the 8th house),
2) precise independent thinkers, 3) ruthless– historically benefiting efficiency over the health and safety of their employees and customers, 4) pursue their ideas relentlessly – with the help of family and friend’s resources (often born into significant wealth), and 5) have strong people skills and vocabularies- they know how to charm and manipulate instinctively.
University for many, wasn’t a major contributor – some mostly skipped it. (So, while university might be a factor for later success, especially as is constantly reported in the news, in this cohort, it isn’t or wasn’t at least not for B. Gates, S. Jobs, and M. Zuckerberg.)
Each had an individual genius their society of world helped them to develop. Because it was of benefit to so many others, the ‘make bank’. Well, they make Cyprus’s banks.
I’m glossing I know but I want to get to my point which is that these mini-kings have also had a mini-kingly attitude which their mother’s support and use of vocabulary.
People like being part of their milieu because they radiate confidence.
Today’s therapists have other names too – that are not nearly so kind. How they bear themselves publicly affects our willingness to use their goods and services. We as a populace always have room for another me-too as we might hope to dilute their power.
Measuring amounts of goods produced (GDP) when proceeds are hoarded as they are now, has no bearing on the health of a populace per se.
With our GDP’s heavy emphasis on war markets, drugs and disability, ‘sin’ activities, we’re measuring the ‘offspring’ of markets focused on death or resisting it with our preferences for busy-ness. (how we stay busy until we sicken).
With marketing focused on the preferences and desires of those who accumulate the most, we are constantly bombarded and programmed with perceptions of an unattainable life and negative information (which directly help their investments and bottom lines).
Our immune systems are weakened by words alone – let alone our actions in response. Our brain is ~ mushy, You think it’s from Covid – but really our ability to digest cognitive and physical dissonance is failing.
Because our eyes are on dollars as the marker for success, those who “contribute little” are ignored.
What if this disinterest is misplaced? What if the ‘bottom half’ of society got involved and uplifted by their schools- instead of crushed as they are now? Here’s my letter to our Superintendent – who didn’t respond. https://drjenwyman-clemons.com/2024/12/04/a-letter-to-the-superintendent-of-schools/
What if they started to make something of themselves. What if they ignited their inner kings and queens? https://drjenwyman-clemons.com/2025/10/04/introducing-our-inner-king-and-queen/
Media could follow a whole lot of success stories, should they choose. Just like they have the wedding section now. There would be more causes for positive coverage and celebration-enhancing secondary markets around parties and fashion. economy would gain from added fluff and increased individual recognition. And would include those focusing today on sustenance. Success would echo through society.
When a being is focused on their lack and losses, constantly trying to catch up, s/he’s reduced him and herself and immediate needs of one’s collective. There’s more pressure on it to fail and break – taking out the weakest members first.
What if instead of trying to fit people into narrow slots for jobs, we let them bloom? Can you imagine how many more success stories we’ll have?
I see countless unpolished diamonds waiting to be showcased. Sure, call me Neptunian.
In case you want to read more about Souk K’ingdom – here’s an essay with more coming. https://drjenwyman-clemons.com/2025/08/05/the-souk-kingdom/
