The Fire At Night

Telling Stories With, Through, and Beyond Astrology

I went to see Dune last week and every film preview before the (not great) movie featured apocalyptic visions of a crumbling world whose only hope at salvation lay in war and violence—fanatic, quantified destruction as a purifying force. Actually, Dune 2 was mostly about this, too.

As a mother, these visions filled me with helplessness. As a cancer surv…