10,000 years ago Vega was the pole star. 5, 000 years ago it was Thuban and both these events created myths that are the origins of existentialism.  The pole star is the star nearest the Earth’s northern axial tilt.  From earth it looks like the universe revolves around this point, the pole star is literally at the centre of our universe.  That makes it mythologically important.  The centre of our universe symbolises what gives our lives meaning or purpose, our reason to be.  When a pole star falls our reason for existence is gone, our lives no longer revolve around anything, this is called an existential crisis.

Thuban was Ninti lady life/rib holds up the world, Eve mother of all, the serpent wrapped around the axial tilt.  Thuban fell from the tree of life, axial tilt or Eden.  Our lives had no meaning and we were left in fallen state of ‘Paradise Lost’.  There are stages to the fall first one is that of the when the sun has fallen from its highest point at the summer solstice the fall equinox, Nietzsche’s God is dead.  Note God is dead means we have lost the centre of our lives, our reason for being – it is not God does not exist.  God is dead is the first stage of the fall, the realisation that all meaning to life is lost.  This is the stage in which Buddha realises that death, sickness and old age exist, the biblical ‘vanity of vanities, all things are vanity.’ The wall I am going to build will decay and fall just as I will decay and fall.  If all things fall nothing is eternal, lasts and no man leaves his mark on the world.  Nothing I do or obtain has any meaning.  This is the death of virtue signalling in Camus’ ‘The Fall’, death of our narcissism and self righteousness.

The Midwinter solstice is the final stage of the fall.  At the final stage we have reached a knowledge of our choices, if you don’t know the pole star has moved you can live in ignorance, believe it is there still giving meaning to the centre of our universe.  But if we know it is gone we no longer have the choice of remaining in ignorant bliss.  The Epicurean, we’re already eating and drinking with friends anyway what was the purpose of invading Rome and then eating and drinking with friends.  None of what we do has meaning so why rock the boat, let’s eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we will die.  A life without Gandhi, Martin Luther King and all the other boat rockers.  Suicide, if life has no meaning or purpose end it.  Finally cowardice, those who are not brave enough to end it but also not brave enough to live in a world without meaning.

Nietzsche’s and Kierkegaard’s response was to invent or create that meaning and purpose yourself.  This is what Buddha, Job, Abraham, Moses, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and others throughout our history have done.  This is why the mid winter solstice symbolises the birth or rebirthing of belief. The fertility of human consciousness to create new ways of being and living with each other as a society and a community.  The birth of an ideal that drives us to become more than we can be, that is more precious than our life.  The birth of divine purpose in a random universe where life is fragile and seldom rational.

The spring equinox marks the rising of the resurrected Messiah, chosen one.  Unlike the birth which is a growing experience, growing an ideal or vision from birth, the resurrection marks metamorphosis.  Metamorphosis means we are changed into a new being by our ideals and beliefs, whether that change is good, bad or a mixture of both we are no longer inventing a meaning but have become our meaning.  Like the velveteen rabbit we have made ourselves real.  That metamorphosis makes us able to be loved for the real person we are because we have become what we love, we no longer hide our reality. This is the symbolic potential of the spring equinox.  To become what we love for what we love is our true reality.  This is not the same as becoming an ideal which is impossible, becoming what we love means sacrifice of choosing the path we love instead of the path of least resistance.  Sacrifice of choosing what we believe is right over what we believe is easiest.  Sacrifice of standing by the ideal when it serves us least.  The sacrifice of picking up a cross instead of dropping our ideals and values.

Finally we are at the summer solstice, where the sun reaches its peak in the Northern hemisphere.  Lets go back to pole stars.  At the time Buddhism, christianity and Islam were created there were twin pole stars.  Kochab The bright star and Pherkad the dim calf.  ‘When the morning stars sang together’, Venus in mythology is not just the planet but also the pole star, the point marking the dawn of creation, Eden or the mythological point of ‘The Big Bang’.  Venus rules Taurus as the ancient sign of the spring equinox, but it is exalted in Pisces the remnant of the Tiamat, the sea dragon constellation of Draco in which Thuban the serpent was the pole star.  Pisces was the tails one fish and the other swallow in Sumerian feather means Kun, fly is dal and self is ni.  The Kundalini is the coiled serpent at the base of our spine a mirror image of the coiled serpent around the axial tilt.  Eve mother of all within us, ready to rise and carry our souls back to her light.

Yet the planet of the summer solstice for Sumerians was Mars, symbol of war and destruction.  From the highest position there is only one place to go and that is down.  lets take the story of Job it is an ancient one appears in Sumerian and other mythology the righteous man cursed by God or the Gods, the basic existential crisis.  yet the biblical story is new, because it represents the existential crisis of the new twin stars.  One of the first stories where Satan appears, but the Jewish beliefs on Satan are not yet fully developed.  Satan appears as a figure that is closest to God, intimate – the twin star Pherkad.  First time there is a new twist on the existential crisis story, now it is not the loss of the star but the challenge of the star by a twin, ‘man cannot have two masters’. For Buddha the answer was to pick neither as master but to find a mid path between the two.  this is similar to Aristotle’s virtue also living under the twin pole star.  The mid path between coward and foolish is brave.  Judaism answer was to split the twin pole stars into opposites, good and evil, love and hate.  Yet it does something different as well it recognises they are twins, they co exist together and neither stands on their own.  We have the duality of human nature, the angel and the devil sitting on our shoulder.  In Christianity this duality is mortal temporal nature and the divine within man.  Jesus is both man and God.  But this tale is new it is not the superpowers of Hercules, it is the divine eternal consciousness within us all.  Jesus divinity is not from powers but from who he is as a conscious being, how he thinks of his neighbours, how he treats others.

Yet this is divine because Jesus unlike the rest of humanity never falls or sins yet Christianity itself is based on the fall.  Not the fall of Eve but the fall of every single human, fall from what they ought to do to what they are capable of doing.  Based on the principle that man is eternally fallen in his state, yet this gives us hope and light.   To be fallen is not evil but human, to recognise our own fallen nature is to have compassion for the fallen state of humanity.  yet although we are constantly fallen there is hope, Christianity wipes that fallen slate clean, each day to start over to try harder not to fall.  Christianity says the slate is clean ‘go be likewise perfect’.  It cleanses the despair of our fallen state, like a mother wiping a scraped knee and encouraging us to try walking again.  This is important because each time we try we can get further without falling.  Jesus asked us to walk with him knowing we will fall, just as the sun and the pole stars fall.  But he teaches us that  it is not the fall that is important, it is how long we can endure before falling.  He offers compassion for all the grazed knees we will endure and asks us to show compassion to the grazed knees of others.      Christianity says every day is an existential crisis, every day we are fallen it is the natural state of man.  Sabbath was created for that fallen man, that he might have hope, the fallen man was not created to follow sabbath dogma.  It says we should gather with other fallen beings and love them despite their fallen state, this is what a church is, it is not a building of stone but of fallen people.  That is the symbolism of the summer solstice, the light that takes the longest time before falling, the light at its strongest within us.  It offers us hope but it also warns us that we will also fall again.  In being fallen we are saved from the narcissism of self righteousness.

 

 

Uranus or Anu represented the impersonal God of Uruk in Sumerian mythology.  The God of the rotating sky, by which we can determine the seasons, God of the pole star Thuban (serpent of the sea dragon Tiamat or Draco as the constellation is now known) by which they found direction of North.  This point is the point of mythological genesis.  Understanding astrology means understanding this symbolic point.

It looks as if the world revolves around the celestial axis because the earth does, from earth we see the stars revolve around this point.  The axis cuts straight through the Earth from North to South or vice versa. The star and the point of celestial North mark a mythological genesis point where the universe begins or the big bang.  This point in Sumerian mythology is Nammu, the primordial Goddess that gave birth to the universe.  Ancient cultures didn’t belief the world revolved around the Earth they believed it revolved around the axial tilt because they could see it doing so with their own eyes.  The pole star does not move in the night sky everything else does, all the other circumpolar stars revolve around it.  To be head sky God you have to be at the centre of the universe, the one everything revolves around.

How Anu became the centre of the universe, you need to know about his predecessor to understand.  In Sumerian Mythology Thuban the serpent of Tiamat or constellation of Draco ruled the Northern point of the axial tilt.  The sky North of the celestial equator is the sea or the Tiamat showing her dominance.  The sky south of the celestial equator was the Absu/Apsu fresh water.  Remember the axial tilt hits a mythical south point and this is where Enki resides.  Enki was the Deity of Eridu/Eridug the first Sumerian city state.  The waters of Enki or the Absu rise up through the axial tilt and cut through the Earth just as the axis does, Enki fertilises the Earth with his water and Absu/Apsu fertilises the Tiamat.  Fresh water and semen are the same word in Sumerian writing, they both fertilise or as Jesus called it living waters. “If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink.”  “He that believeth in me according to the scriptures, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters.”

Enki in Mythology becomes sick and Ninhursag Lady of the Mountain representing Earth cures him by creating Ninti, Lady life, Lady rib and lady arrow from his rib.  Ninti is Thuban the pole star it is the northern point of Enki’s rib, later in mythology that rib will once more belong to the Tiamat when she is slain.  But at that time Enki’s rib is the axial tilt from celestial south through the Earth to celestial north at the pole star she is Ninti lady life a representation of Ninhursag Lady mountain created from Enki.  This is similar to the Djed in egyptian mythology.  When Set kills Osiris by trapping him in a coffin, his body is swept into the ocean by the Nile and is washed ashore at Byblos (where the title Bible originates) in Lebanon.  Where it washed ashore a sacred tree sprang up containing the body of Osiris.  The King/ruler of Byblos had the tree cut down and used as a pillar in his palace Isis requests the pillar and extracts the coffin the pillar is then anointed.  The pillar represents the spine of Osiris, in Egyptian mythology it is the spine that produces semen or gives life to us, it is the spine in which the Kundalini (serpent) rises in Indian mythology. It is the pillar of Djed(axial tilt) that holds up the world and produces stability. Just as it is our spine that holds us up and provides us with stability.  Byblos is a Greek translation of Gubal which means well or origin, Jabal also means Mountain in Arabic.  Both Lebanon and Dilmun are cited as the garden of Eden in Sumerian mythology. Dilmun (Bahrain) an island in the Tiamat from which fresh water rises up through wells it is symbolic of the mythology of the Celestial north.  Lebanon which represents mountains (Ninhursag, Lady Mountain or Lady earth), Byblos the well (Absu or the rising waters of Enki), Cedar representing the good tree, tree of life, tree of knowledge, the pillar that holds up the sky – it is the trees of the Cedar that were traditionally used in temples and boat building. The Cedar as a boat floats in the Tiamat.  Dilmun was an important trading place between sumerians/Mesopotamians and Indus Valley civilization, Lebanon is also important for access to wood for temples and ships it too is a trading place where the grass is always greener. Eden is the point of Celestial North but also a representation of its fertility the womb that gave birth to the universe and our home the Earth.

However there is no evidence that the early Sumerians knew the Earth was a sphere, Absu/Abzu/Apsu also refers to Aquifers that lie under the ground and the Absu rising in the Tiamat is a mythological representation of upwelling as well common in the gulf.  The mythological point of origin of Absu is the celestial south of the axial pole whatever shape they did or did not presume the Earth to be.

Anu god of the later city state Uruk usurps Enki as chief deity by becoming his father, and having him building his temple.  Anu represents the celestial equator which crosses the Axial tilt at the centre of the Earth.  Anu is the centre point of the cross which also makes him the centre point of the axial tilt.  This is reflected in later Babylonian astrology when Anu/Inanna rule the equatorial stars and the signs/ constellations of the equinox. Enki the southern Hemisphere stars, Aquarius the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates (absu/apsu)  as well as the constellation of the winter solstice (sun at the most southern point) and Capricorn sign of the start of the flooding of the Euphrates and Tigris representing Enki/Ea himself.  Enlil the Northern hemisphere starts especially Bootes as the plowman and Antares the star closest to Ursa Minor, Leo sign/constellation of the summer solstice and the sun’s most Northern point.  Enlil and Inanna’s role in this mythology is best understood by understanding Anu.

Anu is impersonal he moves the sky but his purpose is unknown and unknowable.  Anu is responsible for changes, all the good and all the bad changes, but we can’t figure out what we are being punished or rewarded for or if it is all impersonal and we don’t matter.  A God that does not intervene and see our side of the argument is immune to worship.  A god we cannot placate is a god in which worshipping becomes futile.

This corresponds with Pascal’s night of fire and the revelation that the God of Isaac and Abraham is not the God of the philosophers but an unknown and unknowable God.  Uranus is the God we cannot relate to.  The God that lets kids die of Cancer without reason and so we castrated him.  Uranus brings out the violence in us for Uranus also represents our own castration and frustration our own unknown and unknowable aspects of our personality – the inner demons we hide from ourselves lest we see into our own abyss, for the celestial axis and celestial equinox meet in the heart of Hades or the underworld and it is at this point he fertilises the Earth, Ki or Gaia.  Hades the place, in Sumerian is Kur or Kigal later Irkalla in Akkadian and is ruled by Ereshkigal – Queen/scented house of the Great Earth/Land or Ninkigal, Lady of the Great Earth/Land.

In Uruk his castration of power was in the worship of a queen of heaven who usurped his powers Inanna or Venus.  She is sometimes his wife and sometimes his daughter.  Originally his wife was Uras – Ur means hill, mound or mountain.  Kur is not only the underworld but also Sumerian for mountain and can be used instead of Kir for land, it is also the name of the first dragon that dwells in the centre of the Earth, under the mountain from which it sometimes rises in the form of smoke and fire.  The dragon under the Earth is a parallel for the dragon of the North celestial axis. It is likely that Uras is a representation of Ereshkigal, Ninhursag and the Tiamat/Nammu.  Enki mythology both Ninhursag and Nammu are used interchangeably both are his wife and both can be represented by the pole star.  In mythology Inanna becomes the twin sister of Ereshkigal and it is she who visits the underworld at the slaying of the Golden Bull of Heaven at the spring equinox instead of Anu.  Due to venus having a closer proximity to the sun, it is always near the equinox at the spring solstice.  Inanna is also queen of heaven and thus the pole star as well as Venus.

In sumerian mythology it is Inanna who breaks the back of the scorpion to end its grip on the earth and the autumnal equinox and because Inanna has broken the back of the Scorpion the nights will once more get longer.  In greek mythology Inanna becomes Aphrodite born from Uranus castration, but Inanna is also Urania daughter/wife of Uranus.  The impersonal God is replaced by the Goddess of love, hedonism, pleasure, power and greed.  The Goddess who is very personal and very relatable.  This Goddess rules a city state so large and powerful, Uruk becomes the symbol for the word city not only in Sumerian but Assyrian and other cultures that borrowed its cuneiform writing.  The name of that city Uruk may lead to the name of the country Iraq, which may be derived from Aramaic Erech pronunciation of Uruk.

Anu remains merely as a symbol, he represent the ancient settlement that existed during the Eridu period, hence the claim that Anu is the father of Enki, the Uruk period 4000 – 3200 BC is Inanna at at her most powerful.  It saw a shift from smaller agricultural settlements to larger urban cities like Uruk the first real city in the world, with a full time bureaucracy, military and stratified society.  When any settlement increases to a certain point self organisation and communication gets stretched to breaking point.  This means that a bureaucratic class becomes essential.

However even great empires fall and another takes their power, Inanna and Anu are usurped by another city state God Enlil of Mesopotamia, Nippur means city of Enlil and becomes the spiritual centre of Mesopotamia, and she becomes his granddaughter subservient to the God of the new ruling empire.  Enlil is in turn replaced by the Babylonian Marduk or Jupiter.  Enlil castrates Anu by mythologically stopping the God of the spring solstice penetrating the earth, by prevention of this penetration Anu has no access to the axial tilt.  He makes Innana his granddaughter and puts Ninlil on the dais as represented by the pole star.  This mirrors later Chinese Dragon mythology where the Dragon becomes not only a representation of the Emperor but also the storm God.

“I am asking about the relationship to the Deity of all the different beliefs of mankind.  I am asking about the general revelation of God to the whole universe with all those cloudy nebulae.  What am I doing?  To me personally, to my heart, has been indubitably revealed a knowledge unattainable by reasoning, and I obstinately wish to express that knowledge by reason and words.

Do I not know it is not the stars that are moving?  But I, watching the movement of the stars, cannot picture to myself the rotation of the earth and I am right in saying the stars move.” – Leo Tolstoy ‘Anna Karenina’

At the time of the Rise of Babylon as ‘The’ city state, the pole star which was Thuban in Draco changes to kappa Draconis in Draco however because this star is not bright, Kochab was used as the pole star.  In Babylonian mythology Marduk / Jupiter slays the great sea dragon the Tiamet who wants to pass the ‘Tablets of Destinies’ onto Kingu or Qingu – the unskilled labourer,peasant, red neck, pagan, plebeian or the sign of Aries (Babylonian constellation of the agrarian worker) which had replaced Taurus as the constellation on the eastern horizon as the sun rose at the spring equinox.  Marduk slays Tiamet and places her rib at the centre of the world to hold up the heavens.  He also delivers Qingu to the underworld just as Inanna or Gilgamesh had despatched the Golden Bull to the Underworld.  Aries is the time when the peasant is struggling to be heard and the head deity is the one that can keep them in control, Taurus represented hedonism provided by agriculture – Aries its continuation by abuse of power to enslave others.

This mythology is also reflected in Adam and Eve.  Eve in Hebrew means life and it come from the hebrew word for serpent as Thuban does.  Adam and Eve is a retelling of Enki / EA and Ninti – lady rib or lady life.  Enki / Ea was the god of the first Sumerian City state Eridu / Eridug.  In Sumerian mythology Ninti or lady life comes from Enki’s rib not the Tiamat.  Enki in Marduk mythology slays and usurps the powers of the Absu/Apsu or the constellation of Aquarius which represented the water of the Euphrates and the Tigris to create mankind. The Apsu represented freshwater or semen – water that can fertilise the Earth and make it green.  The Tiamat represented seas both on earth and the primordial sea on which the stars floated in the night sky.  The Absu or Apsu being the husband of the Tiamat can be represented by her Pole Star Thuban as a sign of procreation – Thuban or Ninti is the daughter of Enki she is created from his rib but she is also the Tiamat / Thuban incarnate in Eve.  The pole represents the eternal heaven its stars stay in the night sky whatever the season they are eternal.  The pole star represent eternal life, she is the mother of all.  The Tiamat is also the great serpent or the constellation Draco wrapped around the tree of knowledge, which is also the tree of life, the North celestial pole.  Eve has already given the peasant knowledge of good and evil, The Tablets of Destinies she has to be banished before they are given immortal life.

She does this through giving the tablets to Enki who with her is the symbolic father of humanity, for he is God of the first Sumerian city state, a city of ruins that poses no political threat to the powers of the day.  In claiming descent from Enki and Ninti they are claiming equality with Sumerians, Mesopotamians and Babylonians they are saying we are one of you.  This is a wise thing to do if you are a Babylonian captive.

In Marduk mythology he wrestles the tablets of destinies back from the peasant kingu or the constellation Aries, under Marduk’s or Jupiter’s reign the peasant is created a beast of burden to work for the God of the Babylonian city state for their leisure.  Aries will not rule the spring equinox for Marduk has fashioned himself the son of Ea or Enki and the New rib of the Tiamat which holds up the sky, kappa draconis is his rib placed there after he slays the Tiamat and it is dead, it has no power Kochab ‘The star’ does.

This mythology is also reflected in Hurrian myth of Teshub / Teshup slaying the dragon, the Hittite myth of Tarhunt slaying the serpentine dragon and in Zeus and the Typhon.  The spring festivals of Puruli (celebrated by the Hattian people of Anatolia), and Akitu (celebrated by Babylonians) recreate the myth of Marduk and lead up to the spring equinox.  This is also part of Gilgamesh or Pabilgamesh and his usurping of Inanna, Inanna cannot remove the serpent from the tree Gilgamesh does it for her – Gilgamesh has the power to control the heavens.

Pabilgamesh relates to Pabilsag the constellation of Sagittarius, city god of Isin.  Isin was a city close to Nippur and thus Pabilsag (great descendent, city may date as far back as Ubaid period as a settlement) is the son of Enlil due to the dominance of Nippur. However when the Elamites invade Mesopotamian power retreats to Isin and from Isin the Mesopotamians still rule Ur, Uruk and the spiritual centre of Nippur.  This is a time when Uruk is also becoming less important, in the epic of Gilgamesh an early king from Uruk’s height of power, with an ideal name Gilgamesh means chosen one of the ancestors and that relates nicely to great ancestor could be interpreted as being the chosen one of the great ancestor, is chosen to represent Pabilsag and Isin as always being part of Uruk mythologically and its rulership.  To do this gilgamesh needs to usurp Inanna.  He does this by slaying the Golden bull of heaven, Inanna or Venus still rules the sign of Taurus and the spring equinox to replace her is to usurp her.  It is Gilgamesh who mythologically changes Thuban as the Tiamet to Thuban as Inanna.  This is because ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’ earliest written copies pre-date both Marduk and the change in pole star, although Thuban is moving from the pole at this point.  But pabilsag is the son of Enlil the ploughman that put Ninlil Virgo the field of cereal on the dais of Thuban, making Thuban Ninlil’s star.  Pabilsag is the ancestor of the Marduk mythology and Pabilsag or Sagittarius is ruled by Marduk or Jupiter.

This is why the signs at the equinox and the constellations no longer match, symbolically Aries the peasant is still striving to overthrow Marduk we have ancient symbolism that is still unresolved.

When the constellation of Pisces sat on the eastern horizon at the time of sunrise on the spring equinox we had twin pole stars. Kochab ‘The star’ and Pherkad ‘The dim one of the two calves’ of Ursa Minor the little bear.  We have twin pole stars and this ties into the mythology of the Gemini constellation which now marks the summer solstice.

Pisces the constellation is the remnant mythology of the Tiamet, Thuban and her fall.  Gemini absorbs the immortality of the twin pole stars into the constellation that sets and rises in the form of resurrection and eternal life for all including the peasant.  Yet Kochab the brightest of the twin pole calves still represents Marduk – Babylonian for Bull calf of the sun God Utu, this gives him a permanence of both the sun and the pole star – Marduk is always in the sky night or day.

What is more when Gemini was the constellation of the spring equinox Theta Bootes was the pole star, Bootes represents Enlil as the ploughman.  The big dipper is the plough, Kochab and Pherkad the calves that pull it.  Today Polaris is the pole star it is also part of Ursa minor.  Enlil is still the ploughman that moves the heavens and the bull still brings the spring equinox.  Polaris will continue to be the pole star until around 3,000 AD/CE when gamma Cephei,’The Shepherd’ takes its place.  So Marduk / Jupiter is still under the influence of Enlil and Enlil is the symbol of Leo and the self, it is Hercules with his lion skin, only that lion skin controls Hercules and not the other way round.  Hercules cannot remove the lion skin and neither can we our beliefs and judgements are based on our own thinking and that means they are based on our own best interest even when we pretend otherwise.

So we have Uranus symbol of the unknown and unknowable sky God in Aries the sign of the peasant and the peasant ruler Prime ministers and Presidents.  Aries represents peasants assuming the throne of kings, emperors, high priests and popes, it is the overthrowing of the caste system.  But the peasant when he ascends the throne becomes the elite and thus the peasant is forever castrated from attaining power.  Uranus in Aries is symbolic of this frustration.

We have seen Uranus in Aries, Square Pluto in Capricorn, Jupiter in Cancer and opposite Mars in Libra.

Lets start there with the symbolism.  Capricorn represents Enki himself it is only the water or Absu/Apsu of Enki that is represented in Aquarius.  Enki was the Patron God of the city state of Eridu/Eridug the first Sumerian city state.  The city although involved in trade was self reliant having a population that fished, grew agricultural produce and raised livestock.  The population although large was small enough to feed itself.  Capricorn represents this self sufficiency, hard work and management of resources wisely.  It represents our ability to be self sustaining as a community and it represents the ability to trade, save and everything associated with traditional banking whether that is seeds, grains or other resources put aside until required.

Capricorn represents the plenty we can produce by our own hands if we have and use our resources wisely.  It represents fairness and respect for agreements between parties.  Pluto is Ereshkigal the dragon under the mountain the twin sister of Inanna.  In reality she is the twin of the Tiamet.  The axis goes through the centre of the Earth itself, The dragon above is also the dragon at the centre of the earth.  Ereshkigal represents the dead as immortal spirits of the underworld.  We plant the dead in the soil just as we plant seeds and Ereshkigal represents this duality, lady death is also lady life.  Pluto represents all that is dark and hidden within us and society at large, it represents our darkest desires and our deepest fears.

The rod of Asclepius with the snake entwined is the symbol for medicine or rather the symbol of resurrection and eternal life, Asclepius is killed for bringing the dead back to life and robbing Hades of his subjects.  However the earliest snake staff is that of Ningishzida, Lady of the good tree and it has two snakes entwined one representing Thuban itself the other representing the constellation of Draco.  Ningishzida is sometimes male and then she is the son of Ereshkigal, the Lady/Queen of the dragon under the mountain and the lady of the good tree are however the one thing, the axis cutting through the earth.  Hermes or Mercury ruler of the twin stars Gemini, and  Ninlil or Virgo also has the double snake staff and thus he can visit the underworld at any time.

We have the peasant castrated from usurping the throne and the darkest desires of the banking world and our deepest fears of them, not to mention the abandonment or death of those Capricorn values themselves or our inability to access and control our own resources anymore.

Jupiter in Cancer, we bring in our beliefs about our environment.  Cancer represents all environments but is especially connected to our first the womb.  Jupiter represents our beliefs about our environment, family, community, culture and nationality.  More importantly Jupiter represents how our beliefs drive our actions.

Lastly we have Mars in Libra.  Libra represents the claws of the Scorpion that held the world in balance at the time of the autumnal equinox, Libra represents the striving for balance and equality or fairness it is also symbolic of the scales of justice.  Mars represents our most basic instincts common to all life and that is survival and reproduction. Mars in Libra is all about the need for balance, justice and equality because our lives depend upon it and the lives of future generations.  Mars here is an instinctive reaction to injustice and inequality.

It is no surprise then that at this time we have the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and Scottish Independence referendum.  It is no surprise that these issues are still unresolved.  Pluto is still in Capricorn and still square Uranus except now we Jupiter in Libra opposite Uranus as well.

Jupiter represents beliefs and how those beliefs drive our behaviour.  Right now those beliefs about equality and justice are opposing the castrated peasant.  Lets deal with some of those beliefs.

White privilege: white students should not enjoy their education but feel guilty, hispanic and black students do not have to feel guilty for rising to privileged position in society it is equality for them to have privilege and inequality for others.  Poor white people will not get a college education and that is okay because they have white privilege they don’t need it and they don’t deserve it.  Poor black people are subjected to racism because they do not get an education and some white people do this shows that white privilege is real.  Although privilege without acknowledging it can only exist for elite if a majority of black, female, hispanic, disabled and other groups are kept in poverty. Thus black, female, hispanic, disabled and others never benefit but keep an elite in power.

White privilege does not move towards equality for all it does not address racism but use poor black people to drive the idea that those with privileges do not have them and are not part of an elite system.  Under this although Barack Obama was President of USA and one of the most elite men in the world he is still regarded as having less privileged and a harder life than a white homeless man or woman.  However because it pits the poorest in society against each other it does prevent them uniting and demanding more equality.

It also raises the issue that the black peasant like the Arab peasant or the white peasant cannot sit on the throne only the black elite, Arab elite and the White elite.  No black president can overcome racism and no female president can overcome sexism because it is only the elite than can sit on the throne.  Thus the Aries conundrum still exists.  Except now we have the term ‘privilege’ to justify people never having any right to sit on the throne as peasants.  Not only can the peasant not sit on the throne like Marduk in mythology the peasant is being told he has no right to it, and his job is to slave away for the throne sitters because he has ‘privilege’ and because he has ‘privilege’ his lack of access to resources is his fault and not the elite throne sitters because they made it without ‘privilege’.  This is ‘Catch 22’ brought to life when the elite have no privilege and no responsibility for their dependence on inequality, and the peasant is to blame and has all the ‘privileges’ denied the poor elite.

Thus we have a clash of justice, either a system of massive inequality which is deemed fair because people have ‘privilege’ that doesn’t exist but marks them from birth to be a slave and have no right to expect a share of the elitist gains.  Or we challenge this ideology, and we pick somebody that represents this ‘privilege’ and offends the ‘elite suppression using victimhood’ and we put them on the throne.  This my friend has happened.

This is the reason Donald trump was elected president. However the myth of the peasant throne still holds strong despite never being achieved and putting Donald Trump on the throne is admittance that the myth is a bust, it does however let the elite know the ‘privilege’ con is over.  That may take a while to sink in and the elite is rallying its celebrity and academic elite to fight it ‘for the sake of humanity peasants must be slaves’, cry is ringing loud and clear from all quarters just now.  Trump the reality star embodies Kim Kardashian white trash hell – the peasant is on the throne and the Anarchists are outraged that he has sullied it.  The Anarchists those supposedly against Hierarchy are enraged that a white trash peasant instead of Graeber or Chomski dared to put his arse on their throne.  You can rape and sit on that throne like Bill Clinton, you can bomb the entire planet like Obama, but speak like Kim Kardashian and the end of the world is upon us all.

That leaves one major issue – ‘the end is neigh’ers.  They are ready to kill to keep the peasant throne myth alive they have self righteous indignation on their side.  This is especially true of those of the ‘victimhood, free pass to elitism’ group, even if they were never getting that free pass to elitism but being kept in poverty to guarantee another’s freedom to elitism without responsibility.  For this has worked as well as the ‘American Dream’ that nobody was ever going to get but even better it has social responsibility and equality twist that ensures the opposite for the elite for ever more.

Although the fight right now is about free elitism and ensuring poverty through the ‘privilege’ mythology if the myth is busted a new Aries mythological step may be created. If  Aries can’t sit on the throne and be Aries in what way can the peasant rule, Uranus is the unknown, unknowns this is what we may discover soon.

Saturn will soon be in Capricorn symbolising that the hidden bodies of the banking system will be revealed, tough times and tough action taken are ahead but some of those resources may well head back to the peasant especially the land as the source of our food and all our resources.

Before this Venus is conjunct Uranus at the beginning of June and whether or not the peasant gets his share of the elite’s hedonism will be on the agenda symbolically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here the relationship brings into focus how we absorb information and understanding in different styles as individuals, using experience, reading and relating to others as different means of broadening our knowledge and learning.  It is likely that both partners have different learning styles within the relationship and have different knowledge in certain areas.

Uranus in Leo in 3rd house

here the relationship focuses on how we all as individuals have different styles of communicating and learning which are part of how we value our own self worth.  It is important to recognise this within the relationship and to appreciate that all methods of understanding the world around us are equally valid whether that is hands on or through academic learning.  We usually contain a mixture of different styles in different areas of life and it is in combining these styles that we are able to use a broader range of knowledge to complete our own and thus both are valuable and necessary.

Uranus in Virgo in the 3rd house

here the relationship focuses on how we all as individuals use different experiences to learn about the world from hands on two academic research we usually have a mix of experience unique to ourselves. Within the relationship how we analyse thing depending on what levels of experience we have and how we care for one another is different depending on experience and academic knowledge come into focus.  Those with experience and academic training in child care for example are likely to relate to children in different style to those with just experience.  These different mixes within the individuals means increased overall expertise as a couple in different areas and communication is necessary to appreciate this.

Uranus in Libra in 3rd house

here the relationship focuses on how our varying ways of experiencing the world affect our ability to relate to each other effectively, although we usually have a mix of academic and hands on experience it would be more difficult to relate to another if we each had one opposite type. Hands on experience and academic experience give unique insights that the other would be unable to appreciate fully.  Thus in our ability to relate we must appreciate that another’s experiences incorporate knowledge we do not have ourselves, and vice versa.

Uranus in Scorpio in 3rd house

here the relationship highlights different experiences of the individuals are likely to involve intense issues such as loss, sickness and sexual experiences.  With these different perspectives the relationship has to slowly adapt to allow each other to understand where these perspectives come from and the intensity with which they colour our personal experience of life.  When we understand more each others perspectives based on emotional experiences we can learn to view events better from their perspective within the relationship and become more understanding.

Uranus in Sagittarius in 3rd house

here the relationship highlights different experiences in the values and religious attitudes each partner comes to the relationship with.  These different experiences of religion and values especially experiences of how others have acted who professed certain values colours the individuals conception of ethics and worth of values.  In cases where people have strong beliefs in certain values there can be clashes within the relationship if the other fails to live up to these values or has a completely different set, these clashes must be understood and overcome within the relationship.

Uranus in Capricorn in 3rd house

here the relationship is one in which contrasting ideas of reality and being realistic are due to different learning experiences and different situations each partner has faced in life.  It is necessary for the individuals involved to realise that reality is not set but is something we each create from experience – the reality of a child in the third world is different to the reality of a child in the western world.  These differences in reality are often unconscious and it takes time to understand how different life experiences creates our unique perspectives of reality but in understanding different backgrounds we come to terms with our differences in reality.

Uranus in Aquarius in 3rd house

here the relationship is one in which contrasting views of society are likely due to different experiences through out life, there may be differences in political and social opinion based on different experiences and ideologies that the other has greater experience of.  Within the relationship the different perspectives can begin to change and colour the other’s perspective creating a more balance view of both politics and society in general and creating a relationship in which both relate better to wide range of views.

Uranus in Pisces in 3rd house

here the relationship is one in which the unconscious factors of life experience may come into focus, such as experience versus ideals and disillusionment.  The relationship may be one in which finding a balance somewhere between the ideals our unique experiences have formed and the necessity of living in a flawed world interact within the relationship to help both partners form more tolerance towards the less than ideal within life.  This gives great opportunity to learning acceptance within the relationship and greater ability to understand different ideals and dreams.

A blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month the first full moon in Capricorn was on July 2nd and the second ‘blue moon’ is on the 31st of July, the last blue was 2012 and the next will be Jan 2018.  Blue moons are not astrological events but calendar ones.  that is to say that if we followed a different calendar such as the Jewish / hebrew one it would be the first full moon of the month because the calendar is lunisolar.

The full moon occurs when the moon is exactly opposite the sun on the 31st of July when the sun is at 7 degrees Leo the moon shall move directly opposite to 7 degrees Aquarius. The Sun and Moon are called luminaries in astrology, this is because the Sun lights up the day and the moon lights up the night, thus at full moon we have an opposition of luminaries or day and night.  These are naturally opposing principles so we can say that at the time of the full moon we are drawn to issues around natural opposites.  This full moon is in Aquarius, which represents our ability to form societies, communities, to develop technology, to advance as a civilisation, to retain individuality and nonconformity. The moon represents our family, nurturing, community, nation, roots, genealogy & history. The Sun is in Leo the sign it rules, both represent self expression, self confidence, egotism, creativity and personality.

The Sun in Leo is larger than life, the film star or mythic hero – the thing about being larger than life is that by definition it means unreal, fake or false.  That is not to say that those born with Sun in Leo are fakes but the image we may have of them is likely to be a false one. The moon in Aquarius has an inner tension between personal and communal, for them it is hard to distinguish between family and society, that is not to say that those with moon in Aquarius don’t feel a stronger connection to family than community rather they feel strongly that it is wrong to differentiate between the two when making decisions, the treatment of a family member should be equally as important as the treatment of anybody else in society and vice versa.  Thus this opposition is one in which how ‘celebrities’ or ‘VIPs’ are treated compared to the rest of society may be focused upon and our own expectations of special treatment.

With Venus retrograde and moving towards conjunction with Jupiter once more whilst both square Saturn at the time of the full moon we have an added dimension. Saturn in Scorpio deals with the deterministic realities of life that are fraught with emotion, desires and passion, we are alive thus we must die no matter how we feel about our or others deaths, if we don’t eat we must starve if we don’t have shelter and warmth we will freeze.  Thus the financial situation we are born into determines a great many things about our lives and this aspect is square Jupiter & Venus in Leo our beliefs, ideals, hopes in regard to the innate talents within humanity and our instinctive emotional responses to such issues.

Since the full moon is in Aquarius ruled by Uranus and Venus is retrograde we need to also take account of the asteroid Urania, Uranus comes from the Greek for sky or heaven in Sumerian mythology it was Anu the moon was Nanna lord of heaven and his daughter Innana (Venus) queen or lady of heaven just as Anu becomes Uranus Innana becomes Urania, thus asteroid Urania in Gemini is sextile Uranus in Aries at point of full moon.  This highlights all communication on issues of freedom and personal identity especially around LGBTI issues Urania being where the term Uranian originated, giving both speakers and listeners a sense that they have the capacity to achieve their desires.

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Natal Chart Report for David Graeber

Born Sunday 12th Febuary 1961 New York time Unknown

Helical rising star Acumen

Acumen belongs to a cluster of stars that represent the sting of the scorpion.  In the Taurean age the Scorpion was slain by the sun at the autumnal equinox. In Mesopotamian astrology Libra represented its claws holding the balance between day and night, in mythology Inanna (Venus) slew the scorpion and caused the night to grow longer.  This is a major theme of Scorpio the desire to cling to control and maintain balance at any price, the sudden loss of control through overwhelming emotional forces, that bring about the natural destructive processes necessary for renewal and growth.  The sting of the Scorpion represents sharp, acute pain and the ability to inflict this metaphorically, to make other bow down low.  This does not mean that the person is either violent or vindictive…

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There is a fallacy or myth in modern society that we have to sexually satisfy our partner, in truth I can buy a vibrator and satisfy myself morning, noon and night if I want to.  My sexual satisfaction is not the responsibility of somebody else and they are not responsible for ensuring I meet some feminist quota for orgasms, and the same is true of myself I am not responsible for their sexual satisfaction either. In relationships we can only be responsible for our own sexual satisfaction and that means accepting and making ourselves responsible for our sex drives if they are unfulfilled whether we are male or female we can fulfil them ourselves.

This leaves us free to have sexual relationships without stress and pressure, where we do not need to fulfil the other but to express our sexuality with another.  We are free simply to express ourselves and enjoy ourselves without having to fulfil some fantasy role as the perfect lover.  This is what we can only offer each other the honesty of our sexual nature, being expressed with trust in another, that both natures will be accepted and enjoyed as sharing a deeply private and personal aspect of who we are.  This is the most important function of sex – the sharing off a side of our personality that very few will ever get to know and this rather than satisfying the other makes sex rewarding and vitally important because when we share this aspect of our nature it has an honesty and truth which connects us deeply.

Sexual honesty takes courage for it is a mark of how much trust and commitment we have placed in a relationship, but when we move beyond the impossible task of being the perfect lover to the achievable task of being the real lover there must be compassion, respect and love.  Whilst there are many books and articles on being the ‘perfect lover’ there are few on how to be the real lover.  Real lovers can express parts of their nature that even they are uncomfortable with, because there is no judgement between real lovers just what each is comfortable with and how they express that comfort zone.

The easiest way for us to create sexual honesty is through opening up our fantasies as a sharing experience, not in the sense of this is my fantasy and I want it fulfilled – fantasies cannot be fulfilled in reality their fullness depends on them remaining fantasy.  In opening up our fantasies we begin to feel comfortable sharing them and the beauty of sharing fantasies is allowing the other to participate – this allows the other to express a boldness they may find unable to express in physical reality.  However in fantasy everything is possible and it allows both unlimited sexual expression and the ability to take risks and be daring this can be extremely liberating.

Sharing of fantasy allows us to gain confidence at expressing our real sexuality, it opens up our comfort zone and expands it in a relaxed and completely safe way.  The sharing of fantasy in this way is always non threatening as long as both are aware that this fantasy sharing will remain at the mind level, then both are free to act as they will within the fantasy without fear of pressure or reprimand.  This allowing each other to act in fantasy without expectation of performance in real life means that both are free to say and do the most extreme acts without repercussions and this is liberating.

From this position of liberation, both may feel the need to express their inner sexuality physically with each other and this may be intensely passionate experience.  However it should remain a deeply honest one not one in which role play is adopted but one in which the physical expression of each other’s sexuality remains true to the ideal of the fantasy in being an open and honest expression.  Fantasy works when we do not act them out but think them out and create or expand the fantasy together.  It should be inclusive and never judgemental for fantasy allows us to do what we cannot do in real life and that is to express ourselves fully.

We can use Neptune in aspect to Mars to fully express through fantasy those desires we repress as being selfish, dirty or inappropriate.  In this way we give them a fulfilment that takes away their power through guilt and desire over us, this is one of the main purposes of Neptune in our lives to give us in fantasy those things that we will not allow ourselves in reality.

This brings us on to the accusation that people can rape us with their minds / eye – nobody could ever do this, yes we may have sexual fantasies about people we meet but the fact that they are fantasy, excludes rape and violence because these things exist only in the real world.  Studies have shown that rapists are likely to have viewed less pornography than ‘normal’ males and have often had an early experience of being punished for looking at such material – pornography is a visual aid to sexual fantasy, in denying satisfaction through fantasy these drives build up at an unconscious level because there is no means of expression. Fantasy is a pressure release system and one that works very well at relieving stress of being human and having to control our animal instincts.

Yet some of us still feel guilt at our fantasies but in accepting them for what they are a coping mechanism that allows us to be fulfilled without selfishness, violence and destruction that some of our animal drives would cause if acted upon in reality we can fully accept and come to terms with both our humanity and our animal nature.

 

 

The universe is a violent place, it takes the violent death of a star to create the elements that created our planet and it took the violent collision of those elements repeatedly to form the planet.  The big bang is the violent explosion that marks the creation of the universe – creation and life are violent in nature, there have been five great mass extinctions in Earth’s history. The Permian mass extinction has been nicknamed The Great Dying, since a staggering 96% of species died out. All life on Earth today is descended from the 4% of species that survived. It is in this explosive violence life bloomed and flourished for the 4%, it is the violence of the eagle, the shark and the lion and makes life flourish; when life is removed a space opens up to be filled.  This is how the universe works but it is not how humanity works.

For contrary to belief it is not our violent destructiveness that separates us from nature – for nature is violent destruction by necessity, but it is our opposite capacity our ability to build, create and imagine that separates us.  Nature would prefer to remove the most vulnerable from society, the sick, elderly and those with disabilities, by disease and predation – something humanity has always fought against, putting it in direct conflict with nature whose resources were always limited. It is the conflict between humanity and the universe that is the story of mankind.  It is humanity’s violent fight against the violence of nature that leads to war, nature’s resources were always limited and war, agriculture, science, medicine (especially vaccination and contraception) are the ways in which we have battled against this limitation.

This eternal battle between what is by necessity and what humans desire, created the fantasy of ideals, things that cannot exist in the violence of the universe but in the mind and hearts of men.

“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

“They’re not the same at all!”

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”

MY POINT EXACTLY.” – Terry Pratchett Hogfather

In the creation of the fantasy of ideals, comes the possibility of their reality – not as material things to be found within the violence of the universe but as the immaterial spirit that can reside within the heart of mankind that causes it to put the needs of others first, to sacrifice their lives and their own desires for the benefit of future generations.

The extent to which justice, mercy and duty are real is the extent to which humanity believes in them not as something to be shown to them but as something to be shown to others. For the universe does not contain justice, mercy and duty  to give to us, only the hearts of men can contain these things when they show it to others.  The universe contains the violence of magic that changes a small white flower into a strawberry, a dying star into a life-giving planet yet it cannot contain what the hearts of men can contain, in its violent magic of creation it created something beyond itself. The universe cannot contain justice, mercy and compassion but it did create and contain its possibility in the form of man.

This is Neptune in aspect to the Sun, the dynamic of who we are as part of the violent magic of creation and our possibilities of being the only thing able to hold justice, mercy and duty within it.  We contain both the violence of the magic of creation and the fantastic possibilities of justice, mercy and duty in a universe which cannot possibly contain them yet contains us. We are the riddle that is unsolvable for we by our very nature are the embodiment of nature’s paradox.

For we contain two opposing yet vital concepts, the violence of creation and the ability to show justice, mercy and duty where none exists and it is the ego which battles to contain both and to be both concepts made flesh.  It is the ego that must solve the riddle of how we can express the creative violence inherent in ourselves and the universe yet at the same exact moment show justice, mercy and duty and that is a difficult task that we all struggle with everyday and one in which it is difficult for us to ever to be able to do.  However it is in our failure to be ever able to do this completely, that we are capable of showing justice, mercy and duty – for justice, mercy and duty can only be shown to others in recognition of our own failures.  It is our failure to live up to our ideals that means we can actually fulfil them because of this humanity will always be a paradox within a paradox with all the complexity and potential that contains.

 

I think therefore I am – Descartes

I think, Is the only thing I am certain about whether the material world exists in some form of reality or not the only thing I know is my ideas of the world and people is created by my mind.  This is ruled by Mercury, my mind the creator of worlds. The only thing we can know for a certainty is we think, whether this world is purely a creation of my mind or there is some type of reality interpretated by my mind is unknown and probably unknowable. But the one central agreement of both views is the importance of my mind, either my mind has created everything or my mind has created ideas about a material world and has constructed an interpretation of these ideas and thoughts so vivid I for the main part view them as reality.

My mind may be the only thing in existence, I cannot know for I cannot go beyond the ideas and thoughts of my mind. I cannot go beyond them because it is not my eyes that see, my hands that feel or my tongue that tastes it is my mind that creates an idea of these thing and the sensation of feeling, tasting and seeing. My mind is the creator of everything and it has no beginning or end it exists as an infinite form of ideas and thoughts.

It is my mind that has created ideas of sacredness, of divine, of being and it is my mind that can be argued to exist out with the material world and it is because my mind is capable of existence outside of the material world that I -my mind can be said to be spiritual without material form.  My mind is a spiritual being which may have created the appearance of a material world or which may be interacting with a material world but my mind is not material in nature it is spiritual. My mind is the spiritual creator of the universe in which I have the idea I live in, my mind is the creator of the dream in which I am typing this at this moment of time, my mind is the creator of concepts such as time.

Thus Mercury is also ruler of the spiritual infinite nature of me, of the dream.  Mercury is the creator of all my worlds the material and the spiritual and each evolve with every new idea and thought I have on them.

Mercury in my natal chart thus takes on a strong significance as it represents the infinite possibilities of my ideas to create / recreate both the material and spiritual world. The sign and house it is in as well as aspects will show how I tend to create ideas how I deal with conflicting ideas and how these ideas evolve throughout the dream.

Neptune here is all about how we think of our partner and it is likely that there is a lot of projection of ideals onto the partner within the relationship.  The partner themselves may struggle to know themselves as Neptune is the planet of illusion and disillusionment there is a risk that the partner may be rejected when they fail to live up to the high ideals projected onto them and show their mere human side.  The partner may have issues in knowing who they are and may struggle with esteem either having extremely high self-esteem or extremely low. In either case having somebody else idealise them may make attract them but it is vital for a long-term relationship to get past this stage and to develop realistic expectations of the partner as they must also develop realistic expectations of themselves.

Neptune in Libra in 1st house

Here there are issues in the relationship which evolve from perceived image of the partner which makes getting to know the real them complicated as the idealised vision of them may be preferred to the reality.  But in order for the relationship to develop and progress it is vital that they lower their ideals and begin to accept the reality of the person for it is deeply unfair on them to pin unrealistic expectations on them that they can not but fail to live up to.  Once over the initial disappointment that comes when our bubbles are burst there may be great strengths and characteristics that were missed before underneath all the projections and the partner may prove to be just as admiral but in a realistic more human fashion than before.

Neptune in Scorpio in 1st house

Here there may be issues about projecting images onto the partner in order to resolve past issues, as such the partner may be used as a tool to prove that the individual is worthy of love or can be loved, issues with others may be projected onto them and they may have to prove continuously their trustworthiness.  It is important to remember that your partner is not responsible for proving your worth or the behaviours of others  and in order for the relationship to progress you must deal with these issues and stop projecting them into your present relationship for both of your sakes.  This may be a hard thing for you to attempt but the relationship you have the potential of creating by doing so may make it well worth your while.

Neptune in Sagittarius in 1st house

Here there may be issues around projecting beliefs onto the partner in which they take on a larger than life heroic persona.  There is a need to understand that these ideals belong to you and represent what you have the potential to be, that in developing your own potential you will feel less of a need to project these ideals onto your partner and will feel much more self-confident and fulfilled as a result.  With this aspect you may have had difficulty in expressing this side of your personality as it may have been deemed inappropriate for various reasons including gender.

Neptune in Capricorn in 1st house

Here there may be a desire to project characteristics associated with success onto your partner especially if you have struggled trying to find your own path in life you may wish to fulfil certain ambitions through your partner however they may have very different ideas and it is important to realise these are your own ambitions and ones which you are capable of fulfilling on your own.   By setting yourself some goals towards some of these ambitions you will feel the need to project them onto your partner decrease and as your confidence grows you will find it much easier to express your own ambitions and dreams.

Neptune in Aquarius in 1st house

Here there may be a desire to project onto your partner areas of your own personality that you struggle to identify with or recognise within yourself, this is especially true of perceived faults and flaws that tend to annoy you greatly. It is important to ask yourself why these characteristics annoy you so much and what is so bad about them, perhaps as a child you were made to feel guilty about certain aspects of your personality but in accepting all characteristics have both positive and negative points you move towards accepting yourself as a whole person with faults and flaws.

Neptune in Pisces in 1st

Here there is a likelihood that you are very much a dreamer with a rich fantasy life however projecting these fantasies onto your partner will make them struggle to understand both you and the relationship instead of projecting your fantasies onto them it would be much better if you could open up that rich world to them and let them participate in your fantasies and give their input it may just create a richer more fulfilling dimension to them than you could have ever imagined on your own.

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Pluto, Scorpio and the 8th house are areas of the chart where we are highly sensitive to issues of control and power in our lives, the sad fact is that many areas of our lives are out with our control, we may lose loved ones or our job and home and this may activate our insecurities and issues with having limited power and control over the important facets of life.  Feelings of powerlessness and lack of control can spiral into depression pretty quickly as we lose hope in being able to change anything in life. We may have experienced a traumatic event in which we were powerless and at the mercy of nature or others whatever the situation our sense of personal power, control and autonomy has been severely dented and we are left feeling vulnerable, ineffective and dis-empowered by events. This shakes our perception of reality to the core and makes us question our own abilities and worth.

It is important to remember that none of us are in control of life and that we all are constantly in the process of reacting to life sometimes these reactions are less effective than at other times.  This does not mean that we never react in highly proactive ways that change our circumstances or that we are incapable of doing so it just means sometimes events overtake us all.  It means we don’t have full control but it does not mean we are ineffective,lacking in ability or personal power.  In these situations finding areas of personal control and power such as creativity, expression and reaction are always at our disposal can help us overcome a sense of inability and ineffectiveness.

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The 1st house represents our essential core nature and basic personality but it is also a primal source of motivation and drives our desire for action.  In the first house we discover what impels us to drive on and overcome obstacles in life.  For some that motivation may be ambition or family for other it may be an intense belief in a cause but whatever motivates us into action it is contained within the 1st house and it is a primary factor in how we become able to overcome difficulties and face the challenges in life.  In the 1st house we find the raw dynamism latent in us all and by understanding where this dynamism draws inspiration we can motivate ourselves to complete any task when viewed as part of a larger accomplishment and goal.

The 2nd house represents our needs and insecurities and these often motivate us whether those needs are physical or emotional they may compel us to take action and effect our present circumstances by driving home our basic needs from life.  The 2nd house may also be the area where our insecurities stem from and these fears may paralyse us but in understanding these insecurities we can address them and prevent them from controlling our inner most belief of our own capacities.  In the 2nd house we confront our fears over taking risks and gambling with what we have for what we might obtain.  Here we may need to confront our emotional or belief systems that prevent us taking reasonable chances in life.  We may have to learn to accurately assess risks and make decisions on the real likelihood of the sky falling in if we take a gamble.

The 3rd house represents how we sift through all the information that constantly bombards us and find some sense and purpose in it all.  By honing our ability to find the relevant information and techniques to accomplish tasks we motivate our self belief in our ability to function and make decisions in an ever-increasing age of constant bombardment of facts and figures.  By understanding we have the capacity to discern what is relevant and check what is accurate we can be motivated to trust our judgements and act on them with greater efficiency and optimise all the information that is at our fingertips for our own personal projects and use.  Through modern technology we also have the capacity to communicate with many and get our voice and opinion out there this also motivates us to make a contribution to discussions and events that affect us personally.

The 5th house is where our creativity and talents are highlighted by using our natural gifts and thinking creatively we can find many ways of expression and development of talents.  By tapping into our creative abilities we can find new ways to resolve problems.  By expressing our creativity we are using the natural instinct to develop and utilise our talents to their full potential and this motivates us as our talents often stem from enthusiasm for a subject, art or craft. Utilising our enthusiasm and talents motivates us to try new ways of doing things and experiment to see what works best for us, this motivates us to find original ideas and solutions in life which we can develop as a personal passion.

With all these houses we can unite the energy to find the personal motivation and skills that enable us to overcome any obstacle in life.

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We are all born egocentric – thinking we are at the centre of the universe, and to be honest this may be curtailed later in life but never leaves us because for survival we have to place ourselves at the centre of our own universe as nobody else will. As parents and carers however most adults are capable of putting the needs of the vulnerable above their own and this is essential too.  However if you have been putting the needs of others first to often this transit will remind you exactly why we need to be at the centre of our own universe. The opposite is also true if you have been putting yourself first you may be called on it during this transit.

We all fantasize of success, there is nothing wrong in fantasizing over success it is only when we prioritize our success in life over everything else that we are in trouble of underestimating other much worthier things such as self-respect, compassion and honesty.  However most of us put aside our fantasies of success aside for the realities of life and our responsibilities to others we sacrifice the dream for the reality and again there is nothing wrong in this for it is important to live in the real world but if we have been completely ignoring our fantasies instead of honestly looking at possibilities we may become extremely restless during this transit that said if we have been observed in our fantasies and leaving the responsibilities and duties to others we may very well be called out on it by those who are also covering for our irresponsibility.

We are all self-righteous at times, very few people would argue if they thought they were in the wrong.  However it is only when we fail to recognise our own self-righteous behaviour and see it only in others that there is a real issue. Believing we are right about something does not make us morally superior to another person, angry or frustrated yes; but none of us are morally superior to anybody else and we tread dangerous ground when we start to believe in any type of inferiority or superiority in humans.

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There is a constant argument that astrology is science, but apart from the fact that astrology cannot fit the criteria of science another major draw back is whilst science has laws that enable us to create the modern technology we rely on today it does not and cannot comment on the meaning of this technology in our lives and how that may affect our relationships positively or negatively in the future for science is good for obtaining empirical evidence and laws but was not designed to add depth of meaning to our lives. Traditionally for meaning we have turned to two resources Philosophy and Religion.

Personally from my own perspective astrology fits better within the confines of philosophy rather than religion.  Philosophy is an ever evolving system that embraces many different ways at looking at the world around us, understanding different perspectives and ways of making ethical decisions.  Plato’s allegory of the cave describes astrology rather well we are interpreting the patterns of the puppet shadows on the wall and in doing so trying to make sense of the patterns and themes we see.  Like the analogy we cannot tell what the true facts are but only what is visible to us and that makes astrology fallible but it does not make it worthless if we accept it is one tool for understanding the world and patterns around us.  It is based on the understanding of symbols as an expression of ideas, themes and the overused archetypes – archetypes are like characters in books we can all relate to them because we all have those aspects to our nature.  Plato’s other famous allegory of the Utopian Atlantis, his ideal of what the perfect world looks like to him is also a great example of what can be achieved by embracing philosophy; accepting Atlantis as an allegory a way of describing to others what he thought the perfect world should be like removes the need to bend and twist facts to fit beliefs, there is no need to prove Atlantis is real when you accept its reality is philosophical rather than physical.  When you understand Atlantis as a set of philosophical values of what Plato believed mankind could be, we see that our potential as humans is and was always great and that potential still exists within us all.  Isn’t that what astrology is really about our individual and our joint potential as human being trying to understand the complex world we live in.

“I am certain that I can have no knowledge of what is outside me except by means of the ideas I have within me.” Descartes.  Idealism, the view that mind or Spirit is the only ultimate reality, is far from dead, and many American university philosophy departments have a representative Process philosopher or Personalist – both variant forms of Idealism.  Idealism fits in with astrology on many levels, for it accepts the notion of Jupiter as a group of ideas about what a planet is and what space is, however astrologers can also add to Jupiter another group of ideas about what the planet symbolises.

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