Dangerous Fun

It's fascinating to me, that George Carlin has passed through the veil, now as Pluto ventures back one more time into Sagittarius. He saw the absurdity of what he called the "freak show" that is life, and got us laughing and seeing it, too. He considered himself a writer that got to perform his own material. A Moon in Gemini gave him a gift for pointing out the ridiculous in how we live. He was a multi-planet Taurus, and often mocked humanity's folly of environmental destruction. The tweaking for a species he said was "circling the drain" was fast and furious. He broke apart dogma and social conditioning, taking us back to the earthbound basics, as creatures making a mess of things with our unnatural beliefs. Classic George Carlin: "Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it."

His natal chart also had Sun-Mercury-Uranus in Taurus, giving him what Bill Streett calls, "crazy wisdom." George Carlin was the rare American comedian willing to skewer religion. He was loyal only to his own perception, calling himself an "acrostic," since spirituality is an intricate puzzle. He mocked rigid belief systems, and as the trickster, formed his own religion called "Frisbeetarianism -- the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."

Humor has truth in it, and George Carlin has given us so much more than laughs. He didn't just advocate free-speech, he lived it, and has left a legacy through a legal challenge when he crossed the line. He was also arrested with Lenny Bruce for refusing to show his ID, saying he "didn't believe in government issued ID's." He called our elections, "an illusion of choice," a statement that may prove ahead of its time. He told us to have some "dangerous fun," and part of that is being true to our rebel founding fathers. We can honor his legacy by aggressively protecting our Constitutional right to speak freely.

George Carlin was a hero in the disguise of a genius curmudgeon, exposing the hilarity of our limited thinking. He said that "language is used as a tool to conceal truth," and used his talent to expose it. What he held up as most absurd was all that leads to violence and destruction. "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"