Post by Sowelu on Feb 11, 2005 5:38:50 GMT -5
Around the World in 71 Days and 14 Hours
by Eric Francis
Dear Intrepid Readers:
While in other news the world is quietly going mad, Ellen MacArthur, a 28-year-old amateur sailor born in Derbyshire, England, completed an around-the-world journey in just over 71 days and 14 hours. She sailed solo from the English Channel down around Antarctica and back, arriving without fanfare Monday night at 10:29 pm Greenwich Mean Time. French authorities said she could not light flares or be greeted by other boats because the area is a busy shipping lane. The party happened the next morning, as she was met closer to shore by a little fleet of fans and supporters and escorted home to Falmouth Harbor.
Last week I mentioned that there was an awesome lineup developing in Aquarius. When Ellen reached the finish line, that alignment was at its peak: we were in the last 24 hours of the lunar cycle, just before the Aquarius New Moon, impressive enough by itself. There were also two close conjunctions in Aquarius, Moon conjunct Venus (the closest and next immediate event) and Mercury conjunct Neptune.
"For the current days," I wrote, "the emphasis is on Venus, which just arrived in Aquarius. This is a different kind of feminine energy than we're used to. Her emphasis is on the intellect rather than on the emotions; she is a master of science, but able to maintain a state of equality with her peers; her idea of love is a lot more free and liberated than what we're generally accustomed to in our society, and she can be an important teacher." In another article somewhere, I mentioned Venus in Aquarius as the female avatar, a description I read in the 'Mountain Astrologer' magazine a few years ago.
All together, I could not think of better words to describe Ellen MacArthur except Hot Damn.
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With charts for truly extraordinary events, we often learn more from the chart than we can say about it; at other times, striking symbolism emerges that is so apropos of the moment we are handed something like proof of astrology's ability to see the quality of a moment as easily as a camera records the image of a tree in daylight.
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Now, what does this chart tell us that we could not find out on BBC? I must take an intuitive leap. I think that this is a far greater achievement than is being recognized, and that the repercussions will go further, even though we may never see them. In the bizarre world of news (where we typically hear about these things), the priorities of life are twisted beyond recognition. So the full impact of achievements is not recognized, because it has few opportunities to be recognized.
I propose that we're going to be hearing more from Ellen MacArthur, and not just about sailing. I see her as some kind of honorary international diplomat, a true woman of the world, whose ideas may become quite valuable to the rest of us. Certainly, we can consider what she has to say now. [...]
Lots more, including chart and analysis at : stars.metawire.com/ericfrancis/eric.html
by Eric Francis
Dear Intrepid Readers:
While in other news the world is quietly going mad, Ellen MacArthur, a 28-year-old amateur sailor born in Derbyshire, England, completed an around-the-world journey in just over 71 days and 14 hours. She sailed solo from the English Channel down around Antarctica and back, arriving without fanfare Monday night at 10:29 pm Greenwich Mean Time. French authorities said she could not light flares or be greeted by other boats because the area is a busy shipping lane. The party happened the next morning, as she was met closer to shore by a little fleet of fans and supporters and escorted home to Falmouth Harbor.
Last week I mentioned that there was an awesome lineup developing in Aquarius. When Ellen reached the finish line, that alignment was at its peak: we were in the last 24 hours of the lunar cycle, just before the Aquarius New Moon, impressive enough by itself. There were also two close conjunctions in Aquarius, Moon conjunct Venus (the closest and next immediate event) and Mercury conjunct Neptune.
"For the current days," I wrote, "the emphasis is on Venus, which just arrived in Aquarius. This is a different kind of feminine energy than we're used to. Her emphasis is on the intellect rather than on the emotions; she is a master of science, but able to maintain a state of equality with her peers; her idea of love is a lot more free and liberated than what we're generally accustomed to in our society, and she can be an important teacher." In another article somewhere, I mentioned Venus in Aquarius as the female avatar, a description I read in the 'Mountain Astrologer' magazine a few years ago.
All together, I could not think of better words to describe Ellen MacArthur except Hot Damn.
[...]
With charts for truly extraordinary events, we often learn more from the chart than we can say about it; at other times, striking symbolism emerges that is so apropos of the moment we are handed something like proof of astrology's ability to see the quality of a moment as easily as a camera records the image of a tree in daylight.
[...]
Now, what does this chart tell us that we could not find out on BBC? I must take an intuitive leap. I think that this is a far greater achievement than is being recognized, and that the repercussions will go further, even though we may never see them. In the bizarre world of news (where we typically hear about these things), the priorities of life are twisted beyond recognition. So the full impact of achievements is not recognized, because it has few opportunities to be recognized.
I propose that we're going to be hearing more from Ellen MacArthur, and not just about sailing. I see her as some kind of honorary international diplomat, a true woman of the world, whose ideas may become quite valuable to the rest of us. Certainly, we can consider what she has to say now. [...]
Lots more, including chart and analysis at : stars.metawire.com/ericfrancis/eric.html
