Nineteen Years Underground
For nineteen years, Saturn in the eighth house became a language for descent: loss, power, erasure, endurance, and the machinery beneath apparently stable systems. What emerged was not a belief that suffering makes us better, but a harder form of sight—the ability to distinguish what was mine from what was structural.
Work Is Not a Meritocracy. It Is an Ecology.
The most naïve thing I ever believed about work was that it was based on meritocracy. But merit does not exist outside ecology, access, power, and recognition.