Jim Carrey – The Recent Mask
A few weeks ago, there was a flood of posts flying through social media about a possible cloning, impersonation or body double for Jim Carrey. Apparently, he appeared at an awards ceremony in France completely unrecognizable, with a distorted looking face, and even lighter colored eyes. "What happened to Jim Carrey" was the title of so many posts on social media. It wasn't your typical natural aging process that was being evident, it was a completely different and almost disturbing weirdness that was being seen. Conspiracies were everywhere saying that he had been replaced by a clone; that he was probably killed or taken by the higher order or the "Elite".
Archetypally speaking, Uranus corresponds to our great awakener, while its lower octave Mercury from a Gemini standpoint, is our original trickster. I believe this talk corresponds to the planetary nodes for Uranus & Venus on a collective and individual level, both with their South Nodes in Sagittarius and North Nodes in Gemini.
We are being called for a complete transformation and liberation of our beliefs and values as a collective. How do we do that? From an archetypal point of view with South Nodes in Sagittarius and North Nodes in Gemini, we are called from a shift of lifetimes of overconfidence in structures , overcompensation and blind belief to what's in front us to now asking us to move into a state of open-mindedness, connections with others through communication, curiosity, and questioning. The North Node in Gemini asks us to step back and observe. The only way we are going to shift collectively into an awakened, freer mind is to question everything. Why do we value what we value? Why do we believe what we currently believe? Why do we think we need what we currently are identifying as needed resources. What has been the consequence of this all? Where are we overcompensating as a collective?
Sacred clowns have a much deeper purpose than just entertaining or being funny. They actually serve to bring forth a spiritual mirror to society and ourselves. They had a tendency to exaggerate (Sagittarius) human behavior with the intention of showing others who they were, and showing their hypocrisy. The point of all was for an "awakening". There is a collective need to liberate from one-sided points of views, and a need to embrace and learn through diversity and observation.
Recently, societies collective beliefs about what beauty and aging are have been completely distorted by Hollywood and the media. Maintaining one's youthful look has always been a desire for many people. Wrinkles on your face, or white hair which honors and are symbols of wisdom and experience are being looked down upon and industries have completely taken advantage of it by promising to give everyone the fountain of youth for looks through botox, fillers, cosmetic surgeries etc... which sends the message to everyone that they should feel shame in aging rather than embracing the natural process we are meant to be.
If you scroll through social media today, people are bombarded with ads and posts and filters subconsciously programming us to want to look like something we are not. In many cases, people end up going through extremes, and the result is an unrecognizable face. Here are these amous women in their 60's who look younger than natural women in their 30's. The pressure is on. This type of programming impacts tremendously how people see themselves and how they value themselves (Venus), and thus what their expectations are in relationships.
There was a book written by Maxwell Maltz called Psychocybernetics back in the 60's that I read that speaks to this; he was a plastic surgeon who discovered through his work that changing a person's face did not always change their life. People were still unhappy and had low self esteem after the fact. The major realization here is that what's truly important is the internal self image that plays the role in how you value yourself, not the external look.
So we see today, that a large portion of society on a global level is suffering this. The values are beliefs have been influenced by the patriarchy, and thus causing a distortion in the value system. This is what causes the need to overcompensate (Sag) with things like fillers, botox, face lifts, etc... which actually stems from a feeling of unworthiness and not feeling good enough.
Uranus, the disrupter who is looking to break through limitations in societies value system.
The sabian symbols for the North Nodes of Venus & Uranus state:
16-17 Gemini: "Two dutch children talking to eachother, exchanging knowledge" and
14-15 Gemini: " The head of a robust youth changes into that of a mature thinker"
In both cases, we are seeing a shift into a new mindset that comes from observation and exchange of information. A shift from the physical into the mental. Uranus, freeing us from all that Saturn suppresses and limits, and Venus calling for us to examine our value system, how we see and treat ourselves, what our true resources are and therefore what is it actually important to us. It calls us to question "Have we been living a big fat lie?"
With everything being a mirror to us, as the sacred clowns have been tasked to do, the reflection of all that is occurring at any given time brings us back to the wise words: "As within, so without". Everything occurring outside on a global, collective level calls us to examine our own shadows on an individual level. The North Nodes of Uranus and Venus currently call us to examine, to research, to question, to take in other points of views, to listen, and to not always think we know it all, or think we are right. By doing so, we will be able to truly open our minds, liberate from things that are not our truth, and redefine new values and resources that are what we truly need to be spiritually self-reliant. When trickster strikes again, we shall shift from blind belief to questions, to learning, to observing, to communication and engaging in a playful forms of intelligence. Just like a child wanting to learn know how things work and why they work the way it does. I recently saw a video of child and an adult playing with the box that has holes in different shapes for you to put the shaped block through its respective hole (i.e. a star, a circle, a square, a triangle etc...). The adult put the circle inside the circle hole, and gave the child the square. Assuming the child would put the square through the square hole, the child instead proceeded to take the entire top of the box off and place the shape inside it. This is the type of playful intelligence we must engage in.
Most recently, there was yet another post of Jim Carrey with that oddly weird face everyone was talking about, which said: "Told you we are being played, its over", as he proceeded to remove the mask from his original naturally aged face. Ironically, he also made a movie back in the 90's called "The Mask", and I believe this is a genuine example of a trickster in action mirroring to us what we are today. Giving us a chance to open our eyes. What he is saying is "this isn't me and this is nothing like me" asking people to look at themselves and ask that very question, "Is this you, and is it your natural you?" The hypocrisy from society comes from the symbolism of many people doing the exact same thing – wearing a "mask" that covers our natural face/self. We must learn to love our internal beauty, to value ourselves from within and liberate from any need to overcompensate. Truly getting to know and learn about ourselves.
