🧵 Crazy series of realizations: I was thinking of how Saturn conjunct Neptune speaks directly to the idea of Ideological State Apparatuses, a sociological argument made by Louis Althusser.
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... Then remembered how this was *the* fundamental moment of my worldview finally coming into form: being introduced to Althusser and this Ideological State Apparatuses argument. ...
... I have an exact Saturn-Neptune conjunction in my chart (why I'm a sociologist, I'm sure), so that whole realization totally tickled me, because Saturn/Neptune fundamentally is my worldview. ...
... Then I was like "oh snap, I know for sure Althusser must have a Saturn-Neptune conjunction." So I checked, and yes he has a sign-based conjunction from 1918 in Leo. ...
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Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_and_Ideological_State_Apparatuses
Free Full Text: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm