Deep Field Insight

03/18/2026

03/16/2026

How's Jupiter direct treating you?

03/16/2026

Saturn in Aries is our chance to level up

03/12/2026

03/12/2026

Mēm

03/11/2026

"Every ideology, Law, Symbolic order, etc., has three main strata. The first is the explicit rules, laws, prohibitions, standards and regulations of a given society. The second stratum is that of the implicit practices, loopholes and unwritten rules which serve as hidden supplements to the explicit level. The third one has to do with those activities society explicitly condemns or, at least, frowns upon, but secretly allows.

Žižek conceptualizes this stratum in terms of ideological disidentification and inherent transgression. This is the Law’s “obscene supplement”. Althusser described how subjects come to identify with certain ideologies, which is something people certainly do. However, Žižek points out that this sort of identification with the explicit and implicit rules of the Law (ideology) necessitates a hidden ideological disidentification. This means that every effective ideology has a certain space of inherent transgression built inside of it that gives subjects a sense of freedom and distance from their ideology.

This, of course, is a very subtle trick on the part of ideology and its mechanisms. It simulates a space outside of itself which only serves to keep us locked into the ideology we take ourselves to be at a distance from.

For example, American ideology creates all sorts of spaces that seem to be either non-ideological or anti-ideological. These spaces include or have included rock concerts, bars, strip clubs, protests, unruly sporting events, comment sections on the internet, etc. People can go to these establishments and “transgress”, but this is inherent transgression, that is, a form of enjoyment (jouissance) that seems to transgress the rules of Law/ideology, but actually only serves to make us more subservient to it, more invested in it.

None of these spaces stand as actual threats to the ideological order. Rather, they reinforce it. They convince us that we are not ideological puppets, but this is just a way to blind us to our strings."

-The Dangerous Maybe (on Medium)

03/11/2026

"Calendars are sacred, culture based on seasonal rituals is the wellspring of consciousness, astrology might pre-date language itself, our minds are literally the patterns of space geometry come down to dwell on Earth."

Read the whole article on Substack:

https://deepfieldinsight.substack.com/p/astrology-is-not-science

03/11/2026

Mercury retrograde in Pisces feels like

03/06/2026

It's a little weird for Corgan to allege a conspiracy here, when he was a major example of swapping out the rock band for bedroom-produced electronic sounds in 1997 (first Eye, and then Adore).

Same year Radiohead amped up the intricate production: OK Computer doesn't sound like The Bends, though they wouldn't go full knob-tweaker until Kid A in 2000.

As an astrologer, I can't help but notice that's the year Neptune moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Neptune is a planet that's associated with mass media and art movements. This move was a major shift: from larger-than-life rock bands with occult gatekeeper producers to computer software that allowed anyone to polish their own music on their own terms. Not long after, Napster started the new paradigm of private playlists and viral promotion, rather than radio play and album sales.

I did some research and followed Neptune through the signs for hundreds of years, back to baroque music, and I'll publish an article about it next week. Maybe it will help us know what to expect from the new cycle with Neptune just moved into Aries. Tiktok protest singers? Pirate punk shows? Participatory parlour music?

Billy Corgan made these remarks on The Magnificent Others, his long-form interview podcast, in a February 25, 2026 episode with writer and cultural commentator Conrad Flynn. It was the first time Corgan had invited a guest back for a second appearance in the show's history.

Flynn, the grandson of Wild Wild West actor Robert Conrad and Hollywood publicist Harry Flynn, runs a Substack called The Flynn Effect focused on secret histories in entertainment, politics, and culture. The two-part conversation covers CIA influence on 1960s counterculture, occult symbolism in the music industry, and the mechanics of how cultural dominance shifts between genres.

Corgan's claim about MTV is specific. He is not describing a gradual drift. He is describing a deliberate institutional decision he says he witnessed firsthand in 1997 and 1998, when rock was still commercially dominant and was replaced almost overnight by rap, accompanied by an immediate change in what the network's standards and practices department would permit on air.

When Corgan says "some people assert the CIA was involved," he doesn't name names. But the conversation sits inside a documented tradition. Flynn followed up the episode on his Substack by pointing to earlier examples of intelligence agency involvement in music: music critic Henry Pleasants in the 1950s, Miles Copeland III in the 1980s who managed The Police and ran IRS Records while maintaining direct family ties to the CIA, and documented government attempts to shape culture through bands like Blood Sweat and Tears in the 1970s. Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, a friend of Corgan's, said in 2013 that Britpop felt like a government push and that he wanted to see the MI5 files on it.

The full episode is available on YouTube and all major podcast platforms.