I wholeheartedly agree with your statement that people in general have no interest in struggling. I read this Nietzsche quote with this view in mind: “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

Looking up Nietzsche’s birth info on the web, I find that he’s a Libra sun in the 11th with opposition to Pluto in the 5th, Scorpio rising.

flyingdog – anything that has to do with “truth” is Jupiter / 9th house / Sagittarius..

I totally missed this.
I feel like those who focus too much on what other people are doing are lazy, because it IS hard to look at yourself. I can my own astrology (questioning why) after reading this. I have 8th House Saturn. I’m inclined to work on my self-awareness (it squares my Sun).
I can easily see how other people would find this an unfair view. I’m on the fence…I guess my Saturn likes tough love.
My sister has 8th House Sun and Moon and finds unconscious behaviour maddening (and boring, I think that’s her Gemini talking).

“people in general have no interest in struggling” Yeah, if they can avoid it.

Funny, my IQ drops 50 (at least) when I’m afraid of something. I’ve learned not to make any decisions under fear. saturn/neptune

We have “tendencies,” then we have experiences, karmic, early childhood, etc. If we get hurt (which we do), then we develop responses in order to protect/cope that become automatic patterns of response. The more rigid this set of patterns becomes, the less freedom we have to act on our own. (Or even think on our own).

Something else has taken over, and that includes the internal “projector.” We don’t even turn on our own TV or pick our own shows to watch at that point. Some of us become “walking patterns,” and to become conscious of that and to act outside of the pattern is to open oneself up to discomfort automatically in most cases.

In peer counseling they had something for this called doing a DAD, which means decide, act, and discharge (sounds gross, yeah?) So, you realize your pattern won’t let you go to the grocery store, you go to the grocery store anyway, then come back and bawl about it to somebody who is safe to talk to and doesn’t mind having their shirt snotted on. Rinse, and repeat. Viola, a little more consciousness and a freer life. These boards and consults can work this way because astrology can shortcut the trial and error of figuring things out, then there are good folks here who will read with attention. We still have to do the work, then. grrr… in my experience, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man gets targeted and scapegoated (this is how projection plays).