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Taking a Ride on Mars Conjunct Chiron Dear Fellow Traveler: What do the worst disasters of the Vietnam War, the downfall of a hawk president and the resignation of his distinguished, long-time secretary of defense all have in common? The answer is Mars conjunct Chiron. The Mars-Chiron conjunction happens once every two years. On April 1, on the day of the Aries new moon, we will experience the first such conjunction since Chiron entered Capricorn 16 months ago. It is happening at a time when the United States is plunging toward the most serious on-the-ground battle in numerous generations, what will be preserved in history as the Battle for Baghdad. When considering astrology from a historical standpoint, or even a personal one, remember that while cycles repeat themselves, they always do it in different ways and in different contexts. As the years progress, conjunctions happen in different signs and thus express themselves different ways. Outer planets are moving, and defining themes of long cycles in history. The galaxy is swirling and nothing is really the same. The one true hope that astrology offers is that an evolutionary process is in motion, for each of us and for all of us. Certain people are going to try to repeat cycles in old ways, and others in new ways. The choice remains open. In the collective world, the Chiron in Capricorn era (which began in December 2001) has been marked by scandals in church, government and major corporations. We have seen numerous post 9-Eleven crackdowns on civil liberties, the Patriot Act and the proposed Patriot Act II. We've witnessed the conquering of Afghanistan, and the bombing and invasion of Iraq. We've also seen the emergence of vibrant global anti-war and pro-peace movements. While this may look like an even split between the good and the bad, remember that the United States is always bombing someone. Now there is vocal resistance, including from many foreign nations. And there are always ugly events going on down in the corporate bowels, and sick laws being passed by smiling tyrants. Now we're starting to find out about some of them. Chiron moving through any sign brings what's already there to light. Capricorn, in the collective sense, is the sign of corporations, government and religious institutions. Raising awareness is how most of its effect as an agent of healing is manifested. Chiron's presence makes the impersonal very personal, emphasizing our individual relationship with these institutions, which function as the rough equivalent of our parents in our adult lives. While it may not be clear quite yet, we're in the process of redefining our relationships to the parental institutions that dominate our lives. John Lennon said that we shouldn't blame the institution, we should free our minds instead. But if our minds are bound, they are bound in a relationship, and getting clear about that relationship is what Chiron in Capricorn is about. Within our private lives, we may also be seeing this theme appear as issues with our parents and partners that have reached an impasse, showdown or point of urgently demanding resolution. These needs may have existed for quite a while but which suddenly 'appear out of nowhere' or flare up due to the addition of Mars. As it works out, the coming Mars-Chiron conjunction falls the same day as the Aries new moon. Auspicious? Well, some people like their music loud. Some results of this conjunction, which happens once every two years, will show up immediately, and more of them will appear around the time of the next full moon, in Libra on April 16. The coming full moon is vibrating with the feeling of being a significant turning point in both personal and world history. Part of this turning point involves Governor Bush's natal chart, which is getting its rafters rattled on that full moon. And part of it involves what is perhaps the single most important chart presaging the Sept. 11 attacks, which is under transits eerily suggesting that we have not gotten to the bottom of that incident. But most disturbing is that this astrology coincides with the probable date range of the Battle for Baghdad, words that already ring with infamy. Taking it Personally The cover story of Time magazine from Dec. 30, 2002 tells us something about the first year of Chiron in Capricorn: the Persons of the Year were Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom, Coleen Rowley of the FBI, and Sherron Watkins of Enron. All three women are what's known as whistle-blowers: people who decide that the truth is more important than their personal reputation or livelihood. They see something wrong, it affects them as a person, and they take action. Cooper and Watkins blew the whistle on financial scandals within their companies. Rowley is at the center of what's known for sure about the fact that the U.S. government was warned of 9-Eleven scenarios long before Sept. 11, 2001. What the government really knew in advance of Sept. 11 is critical because the events of that day opened the door of everything else that followed, including the war on Iraq. Consider these women, working their straight jobs and being part of the system and supporting their families working long-term career tracks -- all Capricorn enough themes. Now add Chiron, raising awareness within the system. "I feel at this point that I have to put my concerns in writing concerning the important topic of the FBI's response to evidence of terrorist activity in the United States prior to September 11th," Rowley wrote in her now famous memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller. "These issues are fundamentally ones of INTEGRITY and go to the heart of the FBI's law enforcement mission and mandate." She said it was of "absolute importance that an unbiased, completely accurate picture emerge of the FBI's current investigative and management strengths and failures." Rowley, personally embodying the maverick attitude so well demonstrated by all things Chiron, could have been writing a textbook entry on the planet. Integrity (which means integration), objectivity, accuracy, responsibility -- all documented in writing, via her memo -- are at the essence of Chiron's meaning and purpose. Acting as Chiron in Capricorn, she embodied the person who raises awareness within an institution. And then she felt the wrath of Capricorn come back at her. She was called a traitor, compared to a spy, and made an outcast. But the point was made: the FBI knew or should have known. It is now documented in history that the U.S. was warned. Add Mars to this equation and you get power, speed and a cutting edge. Mars adds drive, desire, and some kind of incident or event. Mars is a personal planet and makes the transit of Chiron very personal. Of Bullies and Underdogs Dale O'Brien is a Eugene, Oregon-based astrologer who has studied Chiron in the charts of 2,500 individuals, and has lectured and taught about the new planet since the early 1980s. He offered Planet Waves readers his take on the Mars-Chiron combination. "A significant issue would be being a bully, or being bullied. Psychologists have done these studies in which the abused tends to become the abuser. So whenever I see Mars-Chiron in any aspect, I look for that as a potential issue." He likened it to the story of the Karate Kid in which someone who was threatened by bullies takes up a means of acquiring power and discipline and learns how to take care of himself. He takes the martial power of Mars and adds the precision and artistry of Chiron. "With Mars-Chiron, one does not win by overwhelming force. It is not like Mars-Pluto or Mars-Saturn. It's associated with what would be called guerilla warfare. During the American revolution, the British and the other European soldiers would go out marching in a square. They would stand in a square and shoot at each other in a square, like Saturn. And what happened in the American revolution is that the Americans would stand on the edge of the woods and from behind trees and stand at the British standing in their red coats. And they would say, 'That's not fair'. "They weren't behaving like human beings in war, they were using their animal instincts." Chiron, as a Centaur, is half-human and half-animal; he is fully connected to his animal side. As such, Chiron and all the Centaurs represent something that is, in a sense, super-human: we're animals. We may speak and play musical instruments and do surgery on one another, but we're animals, too. Is it any wonder that Centaur planets are not especially welcome in the cerebral, Greek-dominated world of astrology? Under the influence of Mars-Chiron, says O'Brien, "The advantage is often for the underdog. He explained that the U.S. recently dropped numerous pamphlets in Iraq about how to surrender. And then what happened is that the Iraqis read the pamphlets and in an incident last week, came out looking like they were surrendering, and caught the American military off guard. 'Oh, we figured you were either fighting or surrendering'. And now the Americans are saying, 'This is totally unfair, you guys are not fighting fair'. The American position is that they're just supposed to stand there in their underwhelming numbers and their underarmed capacity and get the snot beaten out of them. So that issue is up, big time." O'Brien said there's a sense that America was bullied by 9-Eleven, taking the mentality, "You hurt us, so we're going to hurt you back. You and I know and the rest of the world outside the United States knows that it wasn't Iraq that did 9-Eleven. But nonetheless, on a raw psyche level, the masculine psyche of the country has been wounded." He said the aspect could be likened to "Underestimating one's enemy militarily." He encouraged me to dig up the history of the peak years of the Vietnam war as told by Mars-Chiron conjunctions. The three dates that came up were Feb. 13, 1968, Jan. 29, 1972, and July 24, 1973. There's a LOT of history in those dates. As a point of background, at that point the Vietnam war had become the longest running war in the history of this country, and over 30,000 Americans had died. Lynden B. Johnson, a Democrat, was president, and it was pretty much his war. He had inherited it from Eisenhower and Kennedy, but Kennedy was in the process of withdrawing troops at the time of his death. Under Johnson, the war escalated greatly. But the Americans were bogged down in what was clearly becoming a no-win situation where everyone was losing. Mars-Chiron Conjunction and the Tet Offensive The weeks surrounding the Mars-Chiron conjunction of Feb. 13, 1968 (in Aries) saw something called the Tet Offensive. This was a campaign by the North Vietnamese waged during the time of Tet, the New Year, which is normally a time of truce. Some references below come from a timeline at: http://www.landscaper.net/timelin.htm "Communist plans called for violent, widespread, simultaneous military actions in rural and urban areas throughout the South -- a general offensive. But as always, military action was subordinate to a larger political goal. By focusing attacks on South Vietnamese units and facilities, Hanoi [the Communist capital] sought to undermine the morale and will of Saigon's forces [the southern capital, and purported US ally]. Through a collapse of military resistance, the North Vietnamese hoped to subvert public confidence in the government's ability to provide security, triggering a crescendo of popular protest to halt the fighting and force a political accommodation. In short, they aimed at a general uprising by the South Vietnamese." The offensive didn't work so well. While those days of January and February 1968 saw some of the most intense combat of the whole 25-year Vietnam experience, the rebellions were put down in a few days. But there was a twist: it was a shocking PR victory for the North Vietnamese. The north lost in military terms, but won in PR terms. "Americans at home saw a different picture. Dramatic images of the Viet Cong storming the American Embassy in the heart of Saigon and the North Vietnamese Army clinging tenaciously to [the city of] Hue obscured the assertion that the enemy had been defeated. With almost a half-million U.S. troops already in Vietnam, doubts on the conduct of the war prompted a reassessment of American policy and strategy." To say the least. The Defense Department called for deployment of nearly 60,000 more troops, reservists and former servicemen, which Johnson put into perpetual "government study" mode. On February 8, 1968, three college students involved in a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley were killed in confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy said that the U.S. could not win the Vietnam War. February 18, 1968. 10,000 in West Berlin demonstrate against the war. On February 29, 1968, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, one of the great hawks of his day -- comparable to Donald Rumsfeld -- resigned after concluding that the U.S. could not win the Vietnam War. This was followed by the My Lai incident of March 16, 1968, which involved the infamous Charlie Company raping and massacring women and children in a Vietnamese village while superior officers hovered overhead in helicopters. This incident was later exposed by investigative journalist Seymour Hersch, and became one of the great symbols of the atrocity of the war. More about this incident is at: http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/mylai.htm On March 31, 1968. President Johnson announced a virtual halt to all bombing of North Vietnam in a unilateral gesture of peace; discusses Vietnam in a speech for nearly 40 minutes, then announces "I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president." But there was a backlash. The year 1968 also brought the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, both dedicated to ending the Vietnam War. And then there was the Democratic National Convention of August 1968, where the Chicago 7 protest organizers were charged with inciting riots. Protestors rioted in the face of 12,000 police, 7,500 Army troops and 6,000 National Guardsmen. They were later cleared of most of the charges after a stunning, hilarious fiasco of a federal trial. Bombing of Cambodia: Tin Soldiers and Nixons Coming On January 29, 1970, there was a Mars-Chiron conjunction in Aries. This was two full years after the disaster of Tet, and the downfall of McNamara and Johnson over the war. Vietnam had been inherited by President Nixon, who decided to drag it out as long as possible, and expand it into other parts of southeast Asia. Nixon at this time was secretly bombing Cambodia. While the effects of the conjunction did not play themselves out on the world stage until about 14 weeks later, it heralded yet another of the most important turning points in the history of the war and the social history of the era. In Late April, Nixon got on television and announced that he had been secretly bombing Cambodia, Vietnam's neighbor. (This was the beginning of a campaign of genocide against the Cambodian people that lasted through the 1970s, initiated by the U.S. and continued by the Khmer Rouge, one of the most vicious regimes in world history in terms of the sheer number of people exterminated. This is copiously documented in the video Manufacturing Consent.) Instantly, the anti-war movement reacted in a national uprising. The protests were so fierce that fully one-third of the campuses in the U.S. were closed before finals, or the administration seriously considered doing so. It was in this week that National Guardsmen shot four by-passers at Kent State University in Ohio, and students were shot at and/or killed at other campuses as well, including Jackson State and the State University of New York at Buffalo. In Buffalo, the campus was shut down by the president and students were sent home without academic penalty. Mars-Chiron Conjunction of January 1972 After the Mars-Chiron conjunction of early 1972, the North Vietnamese Easter offensive began. According to Landscapper.net's timeline, "Total U.S. military strength in South Vietnam was about 95,000, of which only 6,000 were combat troops, and the task of countering the offensive on the ground fell almost exclusively to the South Vietnamese. Attacking on three fronts, the North Vietnamese Army poured across the demilitarized zone and out of Laos to capture Quang Tri, South Vietnam's northernmost province. In the Central Highlands, enemy units moved into Kontum Province." Hubert Humphrey went on the offensive against Nixon, "saying that it was taking longer for President Nixon to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam than it did to defeat Hitler," according to Landscaper.net's timeline. "Humphrey called for an immediate end to the war, declaring: 'Had I been elected, we would now be out of that war'." ++ Current Astrological Highlights The moon is new in the sign Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, on April 1 at 11:18 a.m. Pacific Time. This happens about five hours before the exact conjunction of Mars and Chiron in Capricorn. Events of the current weeks and months are associated with a total eclipse of the sun that happened on June 21, 2001 at 4:57 p.m. PDT. ? SUBSCRIPTION RENEWALS The first group of people who signed on for six-month subscriptions (around September 2002) and some three-month subscribers are up for renewal. If this is you and you would like to keep receiving this newsletter, please call Chelsea today at (206) 463-7827, OR email her at support@planetwaves.net. You may also renew online at: http://www.ericfrancis.com/orders.html -- just please send us an email telling us that you did. One-year renewals must be done by phone. ? Webcasting Comes to Planet Waves, or Vice Versa Every Wednesday at 8:45 a.m. PST or 11:45 a.m. EST, I do a live webcast at http://www.voiceofvashon.org/ hosted by Susan McCabe. Please spread the word. ? Planet Waves by Eric Francis http://www.PlanetWaves.net/ Mid-Aries Birthdays This is one of those years when the workings of Chiron will be prominent in your life. Your birthday falls on or near the Aries new moon, and it also falls on or near a conjunction between Mars, the ruler of Aries, and Chiron. Chiron's distinct properties include standing out in an absolutely unique way, becoming the exception to the rule, and becoming aware in a truly new way about who you are and what you are doing. It's fair to say that you will be redefining yourself in important ways that have a lot to do with your creative side: the 'same old same old' is just not going to cut it any more. But there is more. We all walk through life with a sense of injury, the feeling that we have been hurt by what's happened to us. In the philosophy of most astrologers who work with Chiron, there are two ways to handle that sense of injury. One is to let it grind you down. The other is to let it turn to a unique gift, a personal strength, or the power to heal yourself and others. It's too often true that people don't want to think about healing. How often do we hear the words, 'I'm fine'? How often do we feel safe about what's really bothering us? How often is it safe to be something besides 'fine'? If you are going to make this rare gift of a Mars-Chiron conjunction work for you, you're going to need places in your life where you can be yourself, and where you can be honest about how you feel. More than likely you will need to create them. There will be great rewards. There is enormous movement in your career angle right now. You have one of the rare opportunities of a lifetime to express both your creativity and your leadership skills in anything that you do. The combination will be exceptionally satisfying, if you tap into it and put it to work. In this process, you are breaking free of two tendencies that were put into you by your parents. One was an overdeveloped sense of ambition -- something you may try to exercise, or rebel against. Ambition limits certain options because, after all, 'artists don't make money' (insert 'playwrights', 'photographers', etc). There is a third option, which is putting that sense of ambition to work for your community, and striving to accomplish agreed-upon goals using a collective effort of which you're something of a visionary. Your parents have some very old-fashioned ideas, but at least this gave you the power of innovation. Last is sex. Worth mentioning, whenever Mars (or Venus) and Chiron are together. You're set up to learn something pretty special about your sexuality. This is another one of those subjects that doesn't usually come up at dinner. If it does come up, usually people have to be drunk. I suggest sober. I suggest discussions of your sexuality with people of your gender, and the other. And that mentors or healers will help you learn something about yourself that would otherwise be easy to overlook, misinterpret, or ignore. This is all the long-winded way of saying live your life. Reach in and find the desires of the person who wants to express himself or herself in all the ways that you were never given permission. This is a great moment for you. Eric Francis does personal solar return (birthday) consultations. For more information go to http://www.ericfrancis.com/consultations.html or call Chelsea Bottinnelli at (206) 463-STAR. Aries (March 20-April 19) This is the test of whether you can act from inside your power, or will you once again stand outside of it, with it right there next to you. The chances are pretty good that you're going to move from your deepest core, however. I say that because to the same extent that you are now being compelled to take a particular action in the outer world, you are being called to a whole new region inside yourself that is so compelling as to be completely beyond your capacity to resist. You are very fortunate to have this balance right now, because it's really the essence of living well. By that, I mean living in such a way that who you are inside finds an expression in your actions, and that what you do supports and gives structure to who you are inside. I can tell you this: the current moment of your development is likely to be a far more significant one than you've given it credit for. Taurus (April 19-May 20) If you've been wondering what this is all leading up to, you are now finally finding out. You might be feeling really fine, or wondering how on Earth you're supposed to be feeling good when you're under so much pressure. In any case, this latest turn of events is truly a gift, helping you go past every tendency you've ever fought to deny yourself the right to change. Remember, as I've suggested in previous weeks, this is primarily a religious issue. I'll say it again because that particular number is up. It's a safe bet that you have not accounted for the role religion has played in your life. To be more specific, you are involved in a spiritual project of getting yourself free from the religious obsessions of your dominant parent. Their whole religious trip, whether you know it or not, represents a hidden psychological legacy, and it's from this very situation that you are now becoming free. Gemini (May 20-June 21) One of the great epics of modern astrology is a tool called the Sabian symbols. It's basically a tarot deck-like creation where each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac are given images. The first two in the series are of special importance to you right now. The first is "A woman just risen from the sea. A seal embraces her." The second is, "A comedian reveals human nature." To me this is the story of how fast we can evolve when we want to, and looked at another way, how self-conscious the human experience needs to be if we're going to call ourselves sane and civilized. Having so recently been birthed to a new level of existence, it would serve you to keep your sense of humor, and use it as a kind of mirror. The moment the scourge of solemnity sucks you down the gray vortex, get yourself laughing. Life is way too serious to take all that seriously. Cancer (June 21-July 22) You can hope for the best in one particular relationship, but beyond that, you can afford to have quite a lot of faith right now in who your true friends are. They will surprise you. At this moment in your life, it would make a lot of sense to apply your excellent values in what most people call friendship to the other world of what most people call relationship. If you can do that, you'll have a lot more leverage toward living intact as the wholly loving person you are, without so much of the chaos and conflict that's normal in 'relationships' that you can't even breathe. One word of 'relationship' advice is that it would make a lot of sense to look for people who take out their requisite pain and turmoil on the world as art rather than as hostility. It really is that simple. Life really is that simple. Leo (July 22-Aug 23) My take is that you're still hesitating on what seems like it should be a simple matter, though self-reproach is not making the issue any easier to resolve. Look to your health for the first clue as to what is really on your mind. Aches and pains, particularly the bony kind, translate to questions about taking full authority in your life, a process which may feel like seizing or usurping power from someone you fear won't feel too happy about it. Work, in particular, might be especially irritating now, and it may seem like a gift of the wisdom your years not to want to ruffle feathers. But check out that fear. Is it really something else? Guilt is a sure sign that you have not only set your feet on the road to freedom, but that you've taken your first step. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) Alice Miller bravely suggests that raising children in the Western world is an inherently abusive process. Hence, we all got blasted. Much of what you're going through now, in your relationships and otherwise, has to do with the ways you were treated as a child. Part of the quality of being an abuse survivor is that the whole process messes with one's boundaries. That may be the main point. There are neither clear lines between love and anger, nor one person and the other. But since the principal theme is itself confusion, it's difficult to see any of this until some of that confusion clears. Childhood abuse tends by its nature to be self-concealing. But from back behind the scenes, it can wreak its havoc with one's motives, feelings, desires and put a lot of chaos into the space where any real exchange of feelings might otherwise occur. Which is a 'good thing' because the exchange of feelings is extremely dangerous. But it's not such a good thing if what you want is intimacy. Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) If there was ever a week when Libra = saucy, this is the one. But if you want to get a taste of that sauce, then you'll need to apply an innovative solution to a problem at work rather than working your tail off. It would appear than an inspiration of some kind is all upon you. It's not your average jolt of kundalini, of that I can assure you. There is something more... well, the word is 'evolved'... about what you're feeling now. Something more refined. More essential. While at the same time, more raw and gritty, more fundamental, more dangerous. More base. Or is it bass. The mix of 'from underneath' and 'from the heart' will confuse some and inspire others, but you can be sure that it will move you from one place to the next like few feelings could, just as long as you only put one foot on the ground at a time. That's all you really need, anyway. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) Developing circumstances are offering you a shortcut beyond all the complexity you've recently experienced. It's as though you've been trying to resolve something without actually being sure what it was, or how to do it, or whether it could be done. The thing is, it's impossible to be both rational and irrational at the same time. The previous circumstance had a quality of pushing you to a kind of irrationality, while demanding clean thought and clear decisions. The former is the easier path to begin but the more difficult to travel. The latter is the more difficult path to even find, but by far the simpler to walk. And it's not always available or appropriate. Often you have to just struggle, or so it seems; now, you can put an idea to work. What would that be? People don't change. They only grow. Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 22) You are close enough to what you need to hold your breath, but you would do better to keep breathing. Meanwhile, consider this. You are already what most people aspire to be spiritually. They are what you aspire to be spiritually -- i.e., not that spiritual. The issue is that you are getting conflicting inner signals whereby you are confusing self-awareness and self-expression with egotism. Generally people who question whether they are egotistical are not. Anyway, in the end, all it comes down to is your values. Events of the next five days will not only remind you what's really important to you. They will offer evidence that the courage you're feeling is worth the risks it may compel you to take. There are no guarantees, but sometimes the stars come pretty close. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) You may be noticing an insurrection within you. But then, the past two years have been filled with such upheavals and enforced changes that you might not be noticing -- not yet, anyway. The difference between these two growth stages is whether certain changes seem to be coming from outside you (in the form of people and circumstances) or inside you (as feelings, motives and needs). There are long-silenced voices within you that are seeking expression. They were mainly held down by the expectations of a frightened, dark world which led you to conclude that it was simply not safe to reveal who you were. That, in turn, seems to have compelled a belief that you could not be who you were. This is a contradiction that no human should have to face. But one result is that you've become a true survivor. Now, it's time to take a step beyond, into options you didn't know you had. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Talk to yourself gently and you'll find out what you really need. Basically, a reasoning process is what will help you the most, particularly if you feel you are negotiating with an inner limitation or restriction. But there is a deeper emotional engine pushing you. At this juncture in history, you have no choice but to work out your fear of the unknown, which translates to your fear of knowledge. It is said that Aquarians are obsessed with thinking, and to the extent this is true, you've seen the price you can pay by only applying your mind to critical situations. There is a very big difference, however, between thought and knowledge, and just what that is, in the most personal terms, will soon reveal itself. Knowledge feels more like not knowing than it does like certainty. And, for the most part, when you have a knowledge-oriented breakthrough, you find yourself in less fear, not more. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Trust your own psychic senses and depend upon the communication skills of others. Sensitivity is your mark of good faith; clarity and care with words is the mark of good faith of others. Good faith is what it's all about, but remember that its symbols must eventually be backed up with actions. If you say less and listen more, your way in the world will be made a lot smoother, and this is quite within reach right now. Meanwhile, you can trust a surprise financial or professional development that may emerge in the next few days, and take it as a sign of things to come. You are currently running high on innovation; innovation is rare, and that means it's worth money. But more to the point, it's worth doing well. How do newspaper horoscopes work? Planet Waves Weekly and PlanetWaves.net are edited by Eric Francis, with help from Chelsea Bottinelli and the Vision List. This newsletter is $49.95 per year and published 52 times per year plus the monthly horoscope. We encourage our readers to contribute their artwork and writing to the Planet Waves project and to cultivate themselves as creative forces in the unusual and socially formative times in which we live. |
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