Thursday, November 10, 2022

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.