
They Just Redrew the World Map — And the US Was the Only Country to Say No | Astrology Ride of the Day
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A real-time story broke while we were recording this. The UN just voted to replace the 500-year-old Mercator map — the one that makes Africa look roughly the same size as Greenland when it's actually 14 times bigger — with a more accurate projection. The vote was 164 to 1. The one dissenting vote was the United States, calling it "radical" and tying it to a "larger ideological project." We get into why that map distortion mattered in the first place, how it shaped centuries of perception about which parts of the world are "important," and what it says that redrawing borders and maps keeps showing up as a flashpoint for power. That turns into a bigger conversation about surveillance — the Patriot Act, facial recognition, flock cameras — and how safety gets sold as the reason to accept being watched. We close on something harder: why so many people can't sit still in their own choices, and why the wheel — karmic, unavoidable — eventually comes back around whether you look back at it or not. Know thyself. Balance your energy.
Takeaways
- The UN voted 164 to 1 to replace the Mercator map projection, which shows Africa as roughly Greenland's size despite being 14 times larger, with the more accurate Equal Earth map. The US cast the sole dissenting vote.
- The US representative called the map change "radical," tying it to a broader ideological project rather than objecting to the cartography itself.
- Maps aren't neutral — how a landmass is sized and positioned shapes perceived political and economic importance, something cartographers and geographers have flagged for decades.
- Safety has historically been the packaging used to sell surveillance — from the Patriot Act to modern facial recognition and public camera networks — and most people accept it without examining the tradeoff.
- Sitting with your own choices, without deflecting blame elsewhere, is uncomfortable specifically because it removes anyone else to point to — and the karmic wheel keeps turning whether or not you're willing to look back.
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and then divide it and everything over over the years and the centuries and all that. Because the old school maps are not the same as today. And thinking about thinking about maps. Now I'm saying it. They've been fighting in the Supreme Court over. They've been trying to redistribute maps, political maps. Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Yeah, well, you hit the nail in the head, political maps and it's politically motivated as well, I hate to say it, but it is with rezoning and restructuring and redistricting. It's all about power, Jupiter. Yep, power and strength, the wheel of fortune is strength. Mm hmm. And growth, yeah, because this growth and expansion are too much that you say a lot with Jupiter and it really is spot on with it. And that's what all of that's up now. And why am I not surprised that the US did not sign up on the remapping of Africa there?
The only one who didn't, of course, with the United Nations. Not shocked. Not shocked at all. Yeah. So yeah, man. So I'm wondering if anybody, any of the listeners here that you listen to all this, if you stay to went through all this, I wonder if you can go through the time here, period, that we mentioned and can you see the five hope on six of ones and seven ones in each of those time frames? And because they're there. And that will fall into the house where Leo is in your personal charm. So for you, that would be the fifth house for me every 12 years. I'm having this, you know, third house issue. Jupiter's coming through my third house dealing with the five, six, seven every one of those 12 years.
And if you just happen to have planets in a Leo and all of that, that amplifies that, whatever they were, whatever those planets were ruled that you had there and that Leo, right? And by extension of that, whatever Jupiter is it, rules in your chart, the two houses that Jupiter rules. So, you know, like Jupiter's passing through Leo, for me, which would be the third house, but Jupiter rules my seventh house of business contracts and relationships and tenth house of reputation and stuff like that. So that, that would be how you were layered it. But you, you guys don't have to figure that out. I actually gave you a little roadmap in the rise and size section. All you have to do is scroll down until you rise and sign and I laid out what Jupiter and Leo is, could be for you the pattern, right?
Mr. Tarar, how can people get in touch with you and find you and all of that? Um, yeah, mainly Instagram is to think or email actually like tarar 360 astrology at gmail.com. So you could email me directly. A lot of people don't have Instagram, but I'm tarar 360 astrology on Instagram as well. But thank you for having me sit in on this and I always find it interesting and probably a lot of the viewers do. All you sitting out there and maybe listen to this when you look at the real life application of the astrology and even tarar. How they're all integrated when you look at it with events and that's what's neat sort of cool, ironic, whatever word you want to use. Some people aren't married to adjectives. Some people aren't married at all, by the way. And if you go through these periods there and look at this energy with the planets and what occurred, it's always interesting to see that and how it plays out in real life and how this affects on the worldwide scale.
We didn't just sit here and talk about the United States. We spoke about all kinds of countries in all over the world and a lot of conflict with things in Italy, but we spoke about other countries as well. So it's interesting the dynamic and the power of planets and signs and how it worldwidely impacts billions of people, you know, even though there's only a smaller group of people that are making those decisions. But I always find it fascinating how you can see a play out in real life and how we went through all this and if you guys go back and listen to this again and look at these cards with a five six seven of ones and explain you what they mean and can you see the time frames how this happened and now kicking on the 12 year again to the 2026 2027. Yeah, those years that we spoke like 2014 to 2015 think about your life. What was going on in your life in that area of your Leo area.
Can you? Yeah, then that's what Taro's point to you probably will be able to see this energy being played out in your real life doing those years pointing to those subjects where the Leo fall for you. Yeah, if yourself, if you're self aware, we speak about that. Yeah, I'm going to get to. And if and if you're not afraid to look back, some people right now want to look back because. Oh, well, they say the past is the past for a reason. Well, well, is that. Hey, just because just because they don't look back, Taro, does it mean that the karma, the wheel of fortune from the past, welcome to kiss, invite them in as today. Yeah, very at a great point. And in a very beginning when you mentioned out about karma being a filly with that wheel fortune, I remember I said about a
car mack cycle, car mack cycle, look at the wheel, right? A car mack cycle, the wheel spinning so exactly the karma that you have back here. That doesn't mean that's not going to play in the and the ass on the flip side here as that wheel, the momentum as it spins it can continue on of it, that energy and everything catching up with you, forcing you, where we spoke about accountable, we spoke about accountability, a couple of times, forcing to be accountable for something that happened that that car mack wheel, it really is so important. And people just think the past is the past. Well, there's consequences for choices that you made in the past. And the universe might might cash in on what you owe. Do you find that people have a problem with sitting in their choice? Yes, because they they probably feel a lot of them feel alone. And because if you're sitting in your choice, you can't lame anybody else out.
And well, how many people like to deflect and digress and redirect? I've seen many people try to do it with you and you turn that and steer that right back down. No, no, no, man, we ain't going down that lane. We ain't going down the path. They try to redirect you. They think they're smarter than you and they're trying to get the focus off of them, the accountability, all of them. They they have a major issue with sitting in their own silence or their own choice for that. And I and my lot of my things with, you know, stand in your own truth, you know, really knowing and understanding who you are because at the end of the day, you have to hold yourself accountable for the decisions for the most part that you made. And we can't we can't go back to childhood because then you can blame things on a parent, but yeah, I do feel a lot of people have an issue with sitting in their own silence with their own choice that they made because there's nobody to blame pretty much you're putting a mirror in front of that person.
Oh, there are going to look at themselves. There are anybody else to look at and blame them or will they told me this or they blame me to believe this that. No, at the end of the day, that's when you're going to stop with free choice and free will and all that, you know, but I agree with you. Yeah, people have issues with that. Yeah, people have problems sitting in silence. They can't the people can't sit still even. That's one thing, but then sit in silence. They have to constantly don't and they can't get the phone out of the feed. You know what I mean? We tell them social media. Like it about 2014, but the Caliphate, it's a great thing that you brought up with that was and and look at how ISIS, which is what you brought up on the Caliphate, how the capitalized on that. And that's when all the videos and then the shock, it's shocking all right. That's what they talked about, but it was the shock and all of this of somebody being beheaded, you know, and then people were messed up watching that. Look at how ISIS capitalized on that and promote it all the day. They started. Look at that. So many videos came out and you know and and actually you know, all of this stuff, it changed the way we actually can travel around the world.
Yes, and it actually made all of that. And it made also people government start to review and pull back and restrict thinking about side or two again, restrict what people saw. And they were trying to stop those videos from being out there, not publicizing it because they were getting all the publicity on what they were doing to people. In a way, as you said that, a fucking what's up danger made us okay with being surveillance. Now your reference in the Patriot Act. You all don't want to look into the NSA national security agency here in the US and everything's being surveyed. Look at flock cameras now.
Let's know the thing as well. But yeah, because and it was all put off in the guise of safety. We're protecting you and keeping you safe and everything. That was the whole guy. That was to say for the quote the security blanket that everybody hugged around themselves and you know, people like to cuddle the religion, right. And everything, but they wrap that security blanket around them. Oh, the government they're keeping me safe and everything with all these restrictions and their surveillance, security and everything and the monitoring phone calls and emails and everything and cameras and people and facial recognition. And that's a one when I don't even know what cell phones when did you start getting facial recognition all the cell phone with the bio metro. When did that occur? I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, you're right. The guys of security. That's how they packaged it and sold it to the public. And we bought a hood line and sink. Not everybody did, but the majority.
They sold us this expansion of strength and we bought it and put us out of the prison. Unfortunately, very true. The natural. The true. The true. Which whichever one you would be like. Yeah, exactly. Pick your poison. So I want to thank you, everyone. Thank you, Tarot for joining me on this episode. I want to thank everyone for listening and all of that. If you want to find out, go deeper and find out about your Jupiter, what this means for you personally in your chart. You can book a reading with me at iamestralgereadings.com. There's also a link in the show notes. There's a link to Tarot 360 as well in the show notes. And everybody knows how in this. Good luck to y'all with Jupiter and Leo this year. And you know iamest know that self and balance your energy.
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