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| 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.