Hippy Roots

 When I first started reading about Magnus Hirschfeld I thought of him as an early activist for queer rights.  But Uranus in Cancer (circled at bottom of chart) flagged his position in history as a forerunner of the flower children born around 1952, when Uranus was next passing through the nurturing sign of Cancer.  That's right, the cycle of Uranus is about 84 years.

Uranus's 84 year orbit is slow, but Neptune's is even slower; it takes 165 years to revisit a position.  Neptune was in explosive Aries when he was born and so had made it only half way around the ecliptic by the time Uranus returned to Cancer and our idealistic followers of war resistors were born.  The more diplomatic placement of Neptune in Libra was just one difference between his generation and the 1950's babies.  Notice the faster planets Jupiter and Mars are also in Aries.  His chart is pretty much ruled by that Mars in Aries.

One person's hero is by definition someone else's enemy.  This dedicated and nurturing hero of suicidal queers was an enemy of closeted high officials of the imperial state.  He thought he miscalculated the forces he was facing, but his impulsive courage laid a path for the following Uranus in Cancer cycle.  

Magnus Hirschfeld wikipedia article. The section about the Harden- Eulenberg affair is a good example of how daring he was in his willingness to go up against the prevailing ideas of society.  But I also like the parts that discuss how persevering (Mercury superior conjunct Sun both lined up with Pluto in Taurus) he was in seeking out evidence of the universal nature of sexual variations. 

This is a chart for the morning 2 million people were assembling to form a human chain extending 430 miles across the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 

11 weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall

 

Note Jupiter at top of the chart.  The planet of the soul ruling over the cross of existence, aka HOPE, was crossing the meridian as people were coordinating their movements with portable radios to form the chain across three countries, or would be, wanna be countries.  That's how the Soviet Central Committee characterized the demonstration:  "People should know the abyss to which they are being pushed by their nationalistic leaders.  Should they achieve their goals, the possible consequences could be catastrophic to these nations.  A question could arise as to their very existence."  Declaration of the Central Committee, August 26, 1989.

Eleven weeks later, when Saturn was at the very end of its cycle with Neptune, the Berlin Wall fell.  See Uranus, Saturn and Neputne at the bottom of the chart in Capricorn?  Saturn the old ruler of time is between Uranus and Neptune.  Saturn used to be the slowest one on the block in our neighborhood of the Milky Way, then, with a bit of techno wizardry our vision improved, and we learned to follow Uranus and Neptune as well.  So in 1989 Saturn was like a tag team messenger running from one historic marker to the next.

The photos of people lined up peacefully, holding hands along various stretches of highway make me feel a bit emotional.  These demonstrations when Uranus and Neptune were in austere Capricorn (which is nurturing Cancer in the Southern Hemisphere) are a far cry from those of the last 2 decades while Uranus has progressed from Pisces through Aries and now Taurus.  Jupiter, enough hope to stand for a dream, forming that upright Cancer Capricorn axis, fulfilling a fresh vision of how people can organize themselves in states, was at its high point in Riga that morning.

Bloody History

Jefferson was ok with Lafayette's arrest and Louis 16th's beheading; he said innocent blood was a small price to pay for the liberty he believed would follow the excesses of the revolution.  I try to keep that in mind as I watch the events of this decade unfolding.

Then too, it is only as I compose this post that I'm reminded Uranus is in esoteric Scorpio, say in Chile, while it's moving through stubborn Taurus for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. 

It's a really big globe we turn on, and a long trek from one tropic to the next.  As we spin on Earth's axis we think we we're exposed to the whole of heaven once every revolution, but the very axis that makes that spinning possible makes it impossible to see the heaven above those in the opposing, 'southern' hemisphere.  While Argo Navis is a brilliant and real constellation ever present in the lives of Southern Hemi's, for us, chidren of the revolving Big Bear, it is just a wild and crazy story of Greek heroes handed down through the centuries.

When I follow astrology to it's logical limit, which is the limit of my mind's ability to synthesize layers upon layers of information, information about the real heaven that holds all of us in it's dark, vacuous paw, I am reminded of Krshna and Arjuna, literally Black and Silver, in their long dialogue standing on the edge of the bloody battle.

The Baltic Way article from Wikipedia.  A link to that other time and place.

 

Current Events

Now Saturn is under the influence of Pluto in Capricorn, or the other tropic, Cancer.  Either way you see it, from Valdivia, Chile or New York City, Pluto is where that historic trio (Uranus, Saturn and Neptune) was during the breakup of the Soviet Union.  That's just one way of seeing it.  One way of seeing the river of time that feeds the tree of life which the Norse called Yggdrasil.