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Monday, Nov. 7, 2005
"I take part because it's the only way I can express myself. All the other doors are shut."
I have become another child Rare aspects like this are about turning points, and we've had a year of more-than-usual activity heaped on the Aries Point. As astrology would tell the story, it's all part of one long and interrelated series of related aspects, with the Aries Point being the most consistent factor among all of them. Remember the double Capricorn Full Moon, with the first setting off the June 21, 2001 summer solstice total solar eclipse. The involvement of the Aries Point now is that Venus and the Moon made a conjunction there this weekend, in the first degree of Capricorn. Plus, Sun opposite Mars is exactly 45 degrees (a semi-square) and 135 degrees (a sesquiquadrate) to the point -- aspects related to the square and known to be trigger points in the calendar or the general charts, and in individual charts. To say the very least, we are in a watershed moment -- and it has been quite a wild 12 months going back to the presidential election last November. Indeed, we could look at the re-selection of Bush as the first of a long series of disasters that have shaken the world in the past four seasons. Yet was Bush taking power again really a disaster? I mean it was in the stars, meaning it's not a dis - aster. But...it's difficult to see him assuming the position for four additional years as progress, except for one thing: generally, before change happens on any kind of large, there needs to be polarization. This way, people can decide what they really want, rather than floating along without choosing what is important to them -- the precise story of the Clinton years. Today, it's a lot more difficult to be lulled to sleep on the environment, the issue of US imperialist tendencies, and generally how mean the old farts in Washington are to people who are struggling in any way at all. With the current grand cross, we have one of the first aspect structures where Saturn opposite Neptune makes a major appearance, a rare aspect that is precise Aug. 31, 2006, Feb. 28, 2007 and June 25, 2007. A similar pattern then recurs through 2042 -- a cycle that repeats every three decades or so. This is a subject I'll be developing as the process unfolds, but oppositions are expressions of conjunctions, and the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which occurred through 1989, was part of a triple conjunction and even longer cycle: Uranus conjunct Neptune. So what we are seeing today is the product of a three-planet alignment (Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, energies of three massive planets with glaringly distinct energies) that happened around the year the Berlin Wall fell -- the same year as the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. While we're not quite at the exact opposition yet (as mentioned, it begins in August 2006), Neptune aspects have unusually wide orbs of influence. And yet at the same time, they can be unusually precise in the effects. But we're certainly getting a glimpse of the process now. Individually, how are you experiencing things? It's not necessarily a reflection of the world condition; it depends on how your chart is arranged and how you personally interpret or direct the energies in motion. And all is not turbulence in the world; I've just seen a report go by about the discovery of the oldest known church in the formerly Holy Land, with an inscription on the altar that it was dedicated to "the god Jesus Christ" and featuring a fish as its central symbol. Bush for President by Eric Francis - from summer 2004 http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2004/09/backbone/planetwaves/ Some intense pictures of Paris, sponsored by Stouffers™ Corner Bistro™ foodfill: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9911400/displaymode/1107/s/2/ Here is more on 1989: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall "An Eastern Ballad" by Ginsberg: http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6613&poem=35410 More on the Aries Point is searchable (or up top in the archives) in the Dancing Subterranean Cult of the Aries Point project, i.e., Astrology Secrets Revealed: http://planetwaves.net/cainer/ | ||||||
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