Post by Sowelu on Jan 9, 2009 8:00:34 GMT -5
I have felt a harkening back to the time of my birth during this latest phase of astrological influences, and then I read this and it clicked. Anyone born in 1962? That's my year.~Sowelu
Dear Friend and Reader:
MERCURY IS about to be retrograde in Aquarius, and as it slows to a station on Sunday, a collection of planets and a solar eclipse are lining up in this sign. Searching our star files, we can find nothing like this for more than four decades — when we come out on Feb. 4, 1962, at the dawn of the Sixties.
The retrograde goes from Sunday, Jan. 11 through Sunday, Feb. 1, which is Midwinter holiday or Imbolc. Along the way is Bush leaving office (on a retrograde, as he so famously came in) the presidential inauguration, 11 inaugural balls, a solar eclipse, more twisted economic news and plenty of excitement, chaos and [hopefully] creative confusion.
During the retrograde, Juno, Jupiter, the Moon, Sun, North Node, Nessus, Chirion and Neptune will all be in Aquarius, with Mars and Mercury close behind in late Capricorn.
This kind of alignment does not happen every day. It’s directly reminiscent of a famous Aquarius pile-up that coincided with a total eclipse of the Sun on Feb. 4, 1962. This is one of those charts that every astrology student looks at bug-eyed the first time they see it, and which Philip Sedgwick said today that at the time, astrologers were certain the world would split in half. (emphasis mine~ Sowelu)
Both charts involve major alignments of two of the slowest moving planets: Uranus and Pluto. In the 1962 chart, Uranus is about to form a conjunction with Pluto, kicking off what we think of as the Sixties. In the 2009 chart, Uranus is about to form a square with Pluto, kicking off what we now think of as 2012.
The Uranus-Pluto cycle of alignments is about revolution, liberation and creativity.
Writes Richard Tarnas in Cosmos & Psyche, wherein he compares the era of the French Revolution era with the Sixties (where two such alignments occurred): “The massive upsurge of the revolutionary impulse during these two eras was not only or even principally a political phenomenon, for it expressed itself in every aspect of cultural life: in the music heard, the books read, the ideas discussed, the ideals embraced, the images produced, the evolution of language and fashion, the radical changes in social and sexual mores.”
“It was visible in the incessant challenge to established beliefs and widespread embrace of new perspectives, the movements for radical and theological and church reform and antireligoiuis revolt, the drive towards innovation and experiment that affected all the arts, the sudden empowerment of the young, the pivotal role of university communities in the rapid cultural shift. And it was evident above all in the prodigious energy and activism of both eras, the general impulse toward extremes and radicalization in so many areas, the suddenly intensive will to construct a new world.”
We may not be getting all this with during the next three weeks, but we are being drawn into the vortex of a first class cosmic and worldly adventure.
Yours & truly,
Eric Francis
Additional research by Genevieve Salerno
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Mercury retrograde coolest thing since Sixties
Eric Francis
Dear Friend and Reader:
MERCURY IS about to be retrograde in Aquarius, and as it slows to a station on Sunday, a collection of planets and a solar eclipse are lining up in this sign. Searching our star files, we can find nothing like this for more than four decades — when we come out on Feb. 4, 1962, at the dawn of the Sixties.
The retrograde goes from Sunday, Jan. 11 through Sunday, Feb. 1, which is Midwinter holiday or Imbolc. Along the way is Bush leaving office (on a retrograde, as he so famously came in) the presidential inauguration, 11 inaugural balls, a solar eclipse, more twisted economic news and plenty of excitement, chaos and [hopefully] creative confusion.
During the retrograde, Juno, Jupiter, the Moon, Sun, North Node, Nessus, Chirion and Neptune will all be in Aquarius, with Mars and Mercury close behind in late Capricorn.
This kind of alignment does not happen every day. It’s directly reminiscent of a famous Aquarius pile-up that coincided with a total eclipse of the Sun on Feb. 4, 1962. This is one of those charts that every astrology student looks at bug-eyed the first time they see it, and which Philip Sedgwick said today that at the time, astrologers were certain the world would split in half. (emphasis mine~ Sowelu)
Both charts involve major alignments of two of the slowest moving planets: Uranus and Pluto. In the 1962 chart, Uranus is about to form a conjunction with Pluto, kicking off what we think of as the Sixties. In the 2009 chart, Uranus is about to form a square with Pluto, kicking off what we now think of as 2012.
The Uranus-Pluto cycle of alignments is about revolution, liberation and creativity.
Writes Richard Tarnas in Cosmos & Psyche, wherein he compares the era of the French Revolution era with the Sixties (where two such alignments occurred): “The massive upsurge of the revolutionary impulse during these two eras was not only or even principally a political phenomenon, for it expressed itself in every aspect of cultural life: in the music heard, the books read, the ideas discussed, the ideals embraced, the images produced, the evolution of language and fashion, the radical changes in social and sexual mores.”
“It was visible in the incessant challenge to established beliefs and widespread embrace of new perspectives, the movements for radical and theological and church reform and antireligoiuis revolt, the drive towards innovation and experiment that affected all the arts, the sudden empowerment of the young, the pivotal role of university communities in the rapid cultural shift. And it was evident above all in the prodigious energy and activism of both eras, the general impulse toward extremes and radicalization in so many areas, the suddenly intensive will to construct a new world.”
We may not be getting all this with during the next three weeks, but we are being drawn into the vortex of a first class cosmic and worldly adventure.
Yours & truly,
Eric Francis
Additional research by Genevieve Salerno
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