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February 5, 2008 at 22:29:50

Aquarius Solar Eclipse, February 6, 2008

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Aquarius Solar Eclipse, February 6, 2008

A Solar Eclipse is a high power New Moon. What makes it an eclipse is the fact that the Sun and Moon come together in the sky near the Nodes of the Moon - the points in space where the Moon crosses the path of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. So Earth, Moon and Sun all line up – all these energies are on the same page, so to speak. During a solar eclipse, the Sun’s energy flows are disrupted, so old patterns dissolve and new ones form. Something new is born during a solar eclipse.

The Moon’s nodes have just moved from their year-long journey through Pisces/Virgo into Aquarius/Leo. This is the first eclipse to take place in these signs, with the last one occurring on February 9, 2009 as a Lunar eclipse. Long associated with dragons and serpents, the moon’s nodes symbolize the collective urge for transformation. The Aquarius/Leo nodes point to a new collective destiny, which calls us to leave behind our Leo self-interest, pride, passion and tendencies that insist on our own way, that want to grab the limelight, the power and the authority, and that create drama instead of life-giving love. The Aquarian North Node, the next lesson in our unfolding destiny, energizes objectivity, friendship, a willingness to share unconventional ideas, to champion humanitarian causes, to be aware of our uniqueness and to cherish our equality and freedom.

Does this astrological language sound familiar? Isn’t it time we stopped thinking that we (individually and collectively) have the right to dictate what others do and start acting like we are all one and equal, which means listening to all sides of the story? Like the Hollywood movies we watch, we keep repeating the same old story. As well as being boring, it is insulting to the rest of the world. Each of us has a story to tell, which is important for the health of our global story. That’s the Aquarian story.

The Sabian symbol for the North Node at 28º Aquarius:

A tree felled and sawed to ensure a supply of wood for the winter. This symbol speaks to the human capacity to prepare for the future and to use both physical strength and mental ingenuity to meet the hardships inherent in the natural world. It refers to the efficient use of natural resources for insuring humanity’s well being by using Intelligent Foresight. (Don’t you love how astrology really works!)

This North Node symbol will be a marker for the next few years. We all need to develop intelligent foresight, the gift of another figure who embodies Aquarian ideals – the Greek Titan Prometheus. (More on him below.)

This Solar Eclipse symbolizes the highly visible ‘Sacred Marriage’ between Sun and Moon, God and Goddess, Masculine and Feminine energies at play in the cosmos. Regular New Moons occur when the Sun and Moon are in the same degree in the sky, but not aligned with the Earth. Their ‘marriage’ is invisible and therefore unconscious to us, unless we have developed a sensitivity to subtle energies.

A Solar Eclipse, though, invites us to participate in the ‘Sacred Marriage’ occurring in our Heavens. We can participate in the new beginning that all New Moons represent. The Sacred Marriage replenishes the Land, as well as each of us. A Solar Eclipse asks us to become conscious of the shifting energies that are creating our future and co-create with them.

So what energies have been invited to witness this sacred marriage of the Sun and Moon (visible in the lower Southern hemisphere), and the new birth that takes place in the house of Aquarius? The invited guests are: The Centaur Chiron with his wisdom and his wound, Mercury/Hermes in his role of Guide of Souls, Neptune the Lord of the Collective Unconscious and the Imaginal world, and Vesta/Hestia the Lady of the Eternal Flame of Life.

The other guests - Venus, Jupiter, and Pluto in Capricorn; Mars in Gemini (finally moving forward); Saturn in Virgo and Uranus in Pisces - including ourselves, watch from beyond Aquarius’ house, adding their good wishes to the event. So let’s see what this Marriage portends.

Aquarius, the Water-Bearer, is the sign of our ‘collective’ consciousness. It is a fixed, idealistic Air sign (sorry, not a water sign) and it represents how we collectively think about what it means to be human and our connection to each other. Carl Jung said that the Water-Bearer pours out the archetypal contents of the Collective Unconscious, energizing us to live these instinctual patterns of behavior more consciously. The Water-Bearer image has also been associated with the Tarot Trump #14 – Temperance, symbolizing the Soul Guide who helps us find the balance of Wholeness.

While astrologers give the rulership of Aquarius to Saturn and Uranus, because individual freedom (Uranus) entails responsibility (Saturn), the Titan Prometheus embodies many of the Aquarian qualities. Prometheus, ‘the great cosmic social worker’, rebelled against the King of the Gods when he stole the creative Fire from the gods to give to humanity. This archetype embodies the spirit within us that isn’t content with just living instinctually (being GREEDY FOR MORE) but wants to grow and live more consciously (stopping when there's ENOUGH). Prometheus, whose name means ‘the one who foresees’ (having foresight), knew that Zeus would win the battle with his fellow Titans, and chose to side with Zeus – the new order. He assisted in the birth of the goddess Athena from Zeus’ head, and was said to have created humanity from clay and water in the likeness of the gods, and later taught them all the cultural arts. He is the archetypal energy of the Cultural impulse, the desire to become more civilized, more god-like and conscious. “All human skill and science was Prometheus’ gift.”(Aeschylos) This impulse of good will toward humanity is certainly a part of the Aquarian story.

In the myth, Prometheus runs into opposition from Zeus, the King of the Gods, who doesn’t want humanity to develop the consciousness reserved for the gods (very much like the God of Genesis in the Garden of Eden). This is the part of the story we appear to be in now, don’t you think? It is time for each individual to have freedom – “of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” – and the powers-that-be still want to control everyone and everything. We need to engage the Prometheus energy within us to defy the system and re-create it on a higher level. And like Prometheus, who was punished by Zeus until Chiron offered to take his place, many people, like Cindy Sheehan, have had to suffer for the greater good.

We have lived in an adversarial mind-set for millennia. But the Age of Aquarius, which is just around the corner, will be an age where we all know we are ONE BEING - the Human Being. Aquarius is the Global Village, the Round Table, The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Aquarius urges us to look beyond our differences (thank goodness we are different, otherwise how boring the world would be!) to our similarities. Our DNA is 99% the same – and translated from chemical equations into Hebrew tells us, We are made in the image of God. Aquarius says, be inclusive, be inventive, be tolerant of individual freedom, fight for social justice, be responsible for and love your neighbor as yourself. Aquarius is the sign that demands that we look beyond our own personal dreams and start to dream for the world.

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Cathy Pagano, M.A., C.E.C, is a Jungian Psychotherapist and Mythic Astrologer as well as an Individuation Coach and Archetypal Story Coach. Cathy works with the tools of the imagination - dreams, alchemy, myths, astrology, storytelling, ritual - to awaken the Soul's wisdom. She knows that if we are going to change the world, each of us needs to live out our destiny and contribute our gifts to the collective culture. She helps people do that. She also believes that our writers and artists must take up our responsibility to create art that inspires, teaches and heals our humanity. Cathy writes about political, psychological/spiritual, and cultural issues. To find out more about Cathy's work, check out her websites: www.wisdom-of-astrology.com, www.9muses.biz, www.starofthebards.com www.imaginecoachingservices.com. Please contact Cathy if you are interested in her services and have any questions. If anyone is interested in creating community political action using artistic means - storytelling, ritual, etc - and you need help with your vision, please let me know. I'd love to help.

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digital programmer turned thought specialist, sorta: rocket surgeon.
meremarkdigital programmer turned thought specialist, sorta: rocket surgeon.

Nice, Cathy, very nice. I enjoyed it. Thank you.

 

If I may add ...

I like to include some solid practical terms when I find them. The New Moon in Aquarius (like this one) each year about February, marks New Year's Day in the Chinese calendar. Thus, the planet pattern that day is studied at a meta-scale to foresee the entire year. 2008 (Chinese 4706) is Year of Earth Rat, the prior Earth Rat year was 1948.

The lunar New Year starts on a New Moon, always, but not often the sort of New Moon which is a solar eclipse. (Sometime during each year, two New Moons six months apart are solar eclipses, some partial, some total.) A solar eclipse is not rare, (twice a year), but on New Year's Day it is foretelling. The last time was (Chinese) New Year's Day, 1999, and the time before that was 1990, and so on, about every ninth year.

As Cathy points out, there are other planets in the vicinity of the Moon covering the Sun, and such adjutants are read as 'reinforcing' the energy in the event. So this 2008 New Year's Day eclipse is 'stronger' than 1999's was, which in turn was stronger than 1990's was.

The 'strongest' I found, in a quick skim of the last century or so, was Feb. 5, 1962. What I read at that time, in hindsight, is it being when, and the energy by which, the murder of President Kennedy was set. (And, no, 'Oswald' did NOT 'act' alone, indeed, it took several months of handlers' manipulation to get him into position to be framed. If you're still with me, let's push the envelope of 1962 knowledge a bit farther yet, sharing some evidence showing one of those 'Oswald' handlers conspiring in JFK's murder and 'lone gunman' frame-up, might possibly have been Herbert, the father of today's so-called president -- judge for yourself Who? it is in this LINKED photo, standing oversight of the murder aftermath outside the Texas School Book Depository. Herbert was born in 1924, Wood Rat year not started with a solar eclipse but as close as a miss can be: that year's first Full Moon two weeks later, Feb.20, 1924, was a lunar eclipse; yet his wife, who knows all Herbert's acts in detail, (mother of today's so-called president), was born a year later, Wood Ox, which did begin in a solar eclipse and by that correspondence, 2008 might harrow her or destine discombature, and others (Herbert) in proximal sympathy.) Other harmonics of 1962's vibrations might, too, accord with 2008, (especially; but see, also, 1925, 1990, 1999, etc.) As a 'practical' method of foreseeing.

In whatever eventuates, the Aquarian influence, as Cathy well informs, is marked in Truth and Science and factuality. Which denounces deceivers and illusion makers and is adverse for delusion keepers -- Herbert's horoscope (June 12, '24) is critically marked so, especially in deceit (Neptune) regarding war (Mars), and double especially concerned with 28 degrees Aquarius.

Finally, and again as a practical matter, some date the vernal equinox precession into Aquarius, and thus the start of the 2000-year Aquarian Age in the year 2160 (approx.) -- for example, in this LINK.

It is wonderful reading Cathy's astrology article, here, in OpEdNews.

 

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 473 comments) on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 3:28:52 AM
 


digital programmer turned thought specialist, sorta: rocket surgeon.
meremarkdigital programmer turned thought specialist, sorta: rocket surgeon.

no ... thank YOU, Cathy.

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I don't have a website. I like to frequent ISAR and Astro.com and World-of-Wisdom.com

There are other good ones, I'm sure, which I just haven't got to ... yet.

I do have a 'practice,' nearly 40 years now. Word-of-mouth and personally referred clientele.

For three+ years I have been studying Herbert's chart -- 6/12/1924. For this reason: Trying to determine when the sequel (second coming) of Nine-Eleven Op is going to happen, I needed to look for the pattern to repeat in the chart of the mastermind in the first place.

So far, there have been three 'hot' periods I have seen in advance, and each time it 'asmuch as' happened, seeming to 'flub up' at the last moment -- but it is sooo Mercurial, and two-faced duplicitous, the CIA-like realm of double-agents, triple-agents, double double-agents, double-crossers, and false false-flag ops; completely head-spinning. Herbert's name is the one on the CIA HQ bldg, he is King of the CIA -- which 'employs' the motto adopted from the CAT (Air America) flyers into China in 1948-53, (and I think Herbert was one of those pilots), the motto: Any thing. Any time. Any where. Of course, 'they' mean any 'where' on. the. planet. Earth.

Trying to 'study' a total spook operation is a fool's errand, and the only thing I trust and believe is what I see in the astrology chart, Herbert's indelible Destiny Wheel which he cannot hide and cannot hide himself from, try as he might. It is such irony that the White House with the astrologer in it was Herbert's; (it sure was NOT Raygun's -- about 1976 was Bedtime for bonzo-Ronnie and he never woke up, nor knew where he was after then). In my considered opinion, and reading, Herbert's chart is the most evil chart I have seen in the 20th Century, truly psychopathic. One I found that looks similar is Vlad the Impaler, a few centuries ago (requires imaginative rectification in a sixty-day window). One I found that is kinda 'the diametric opposite' of Herbert's configuration, is Mark Twain -- Fire grand trine 'opposite' Air grand trine.

The three dates (candidates for N.E.O. the Sequel) so far, were Aug. 25, 2005; Oct. 25, 2006; and Aug. 30, 2007. In the first, it looks like Katrina monkeywrenched the plans, and the plans included some aerosol dispersal in that (Mexico borderline) area of the country. The second date is the Litvinenko 'plutonium smuggling' affair, and it looks like Litvinenko saw he was being set up to be framed, and he reneged on his part. The third date is the nuke-tipped cruise missiles-over-the-Midwest affair ... WTF was that all about ... it looks like an intentional faking a foul-up; a red herring.

And there is one to go. Starting about mid-April and continuing through May, notice (transitting, 6/21/2008) Mars in Leo opposing Neptune in Aquarius, exact (degree) reciprocal of Herbert's (natal) Neptune in Leo opposing Mars in Aquarius. (Notice that natal Mars in Aquarius is coming stationary to retrograde = warmongering. The Neptune is the deceit of it.) In my judgment, the saber-rattling about invading Iran is a feint, ain't gonna happen -- the 'giveaway' is that it is too, too touted, saber rattled too loud, in order to be a distraction; the 'actual' plan is completely unannounced, total surprise ... and again, I think it is about 'aerosols,' and hopefully that one word, to the wise, might be sufficient. As for some thing that might bollux the works -- after all, we are talking humankind hangs in the balance, here, so there are some mighty mighty spirits involved -- I have been trying to see if Herbert's helpmate spouse fails him, unexpectedly. His own health ain't that healthy, as far as that goes; he's 84 this year and medicants are administering such a witch's brew of pharmaceutical wonderpills to keep him functioning 'normally' that it is anybody's guess what condition his mental moxy is in. Which was never that copasetic to begin with -- Sun Gemini trine Saturn/Moon Libra trine problematic Mars Aquarius, Mercury in cuspy netherworld, and Venus retrograde! ... oh, yeah, Jupiter opposite Sun, so he's 'tall,' and both T-square with Uranus in Pisces, "the vision thing" in "a thousand points of light," (translation: hallucinatory).

I wish other astrologers would offer second opinions in any of these regards, and with appreciation of 20th-century history details at the scale and scope of that 'anything, anytime, anywhere' business, and particularly I'd like to hear what the Vedic school might see and the Indian greats. Forget about Junior Jughead, the prez, there -- he is totally non compos mentis, a complete proxy pithball; he reads teleprompters, barely and hardly and not really at all. He held the My Pet Goat book upside down, perhaps you noticed in the video. [A 'sideshow' recreation, for connoisseurs of the Art, is Dumbo (7/6/1946) progressed to Sept. 16, 1972, (or else '73, I forget), at the Moon Venus Mars conjunction (all progressed) in Virgo, when purportedly he (and daddy-o?) accompanied his girlfriend to a Houston hospital for an abortion ... that would be pre-Roe v. Wade, you may notice. Sept. '73 he entered Harvard 1-yr. MBA program (the 'B-school'), degreed then in May, and all summer '74 was 'disappeared' on ice -- cold turkey -- at a CIA shack stationed along the Alaskan pipeline being constructed, (that 'oil thing' again). Like Raygun, another 'bilateral damage' case, coming back to the lower-48 upright, with the porch light on and nobody home.]

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A personal anecdote. Sitting at my computer game one Thursday night, a few years back, all at once I was seized with the compulsion to author an astrology column for newspaper syndication. I immediately composed the first eleven days' entries for what could be an astrology primer-introduction series a paper would run first, in 'subscriber preparation' ahead of starting to run my daily 'live' feed, whatever was on-going, at the time. The next morning, Friday, I completed three more, for a 14-day set, (2-weeks) of an introductory series. Then my 'muse' stopped, and I couldn't 'force' any more material. I moved it to a mental back burner, and toyed with rehearsing the column I'd write using that day's transits as a practice example. As I conceived it, it would be a departure from any newspaper astrology column you've ever seen. The next morning, Saturday, I read in the newspaper obits that Sydney Omarr had died, Thursday night at the hour the 'compulsion' seized me, and ( ... wait for it ... ) his birthday was the same as mine, twenty-some years apart. (Monday, I called one newspaper which syndicated Sydney, and offered to be his replacement. The agreeable editor said send her some samples of my work, but I never did ... for various 'reasons.')

That anecdote is not the most eerie astrology thing that I have experienced. But it's representative and there has been a slew of them.

 

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 473 comments) on Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 5:56:07 AM
 


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