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June 24, 2008
by
Adam
Greetings All,
A short question in response to the statement in the great June ‘08 VAN article on Venus: “… Venus is at its brightest when it is retrograde, as this is the period when it is furthest from the sun,…” Starlight confirms that Venus is brightest at its rx station (next one is 6 Mar 2009), but she is by no means furthest from the sun then. She is a full 17+ degrees closer to the Sun at her station than at her max. elongation of 48deg 20′ (next one is 2 Jan 2009). So, the question appears to be, Does Venus appear brightest to us at her station due to the wide swing arc of her retrograde loop which sends her further away from the Sun than simple celestial longitude can measure? If not this, then why might she appear to us to be brighter when she is much closer to the Sun by longitude?
Thanks very much!
Best to All, Adam
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June 10, 2008
by
Nicky
Chart for images - 21 June 2008 London
Hello fellow Viziers (shortened form of visual astrologers!)I was just noticing in my emphemeris while having my morning tea, as one does, that Mars will soon join the Nodes, right at the Solstice and when he does, he will oppose Neptune at the same time. Pluto will perfect an opposition to the Sun by retrograding for the last time into Saggitarius, and Mercury will go direct.Now, I am not sure about everyone else on this list, but I am not fond of Mars on the Nodes, especially since Mars will have in the mundane parans the following:
Mars - The Events of the Day Rising when Fomalhaut is Setting orb 00 mins 44 secs - The actions of a fanatic, or a dreamer, take centre-stage Culminating when Menkar is Setting orb 01 mins 06 secs - A violent act
If I increase the orb of parans then Mars will pick up Alphard as well as Murzim – neither are friendly stars.Furthermore, Saturn has the following in mundane parans:
Saturn - The Law and Civic Order On Nadir when Facies is Setting orb 00 mins 41 secs - An attack on civil rights or groups of people
Setting when Bellatrix is On Nadir orb 01 mins 12 secs - Laws debated which seek education and rights for all groups - Arising and lying hidden
Increasing the orb by 37 secs, Saturn picks up Zosma – a star of victimisation.Neptune is accompanied in the mundane parans by:
Neptune - The Hopes and Fears of the Nation Culminating when Deneb Algedi is Culminating orb 01 mins 05 secs -The justice of the legal system or the law is challenged
On Nadir when Deneb Algedi is On Nadir orb 01 mins 06 secs -The justice of the legal system or the law is challenged Setting when Altair is Setting orb 01 mins 56 secs -Ungrounded, ill planned or fanatical actions - Curtailed passage
The Sun has in parans that day Aldebaran, and Aldebaran is the Heliacal Rising Star.If we look at the sky image (click to enlarge) then we see Mars and Saturn with the constellation Leo, Mars looking more aggressive, while Saturn is seeming more defensive. Venus radiates Sun and the toe of one of the twins of Gemini, while Mercury is whispering in the ear of the bull, who chases the Sun into Gemini. (or Mercury could be taking the bull by one of the horns..?)The role of the media (Mercury) is going to be interesting when this somewhat violent/disturbing event takes place, that will inspire the nation to volunteer, and to serve minority groups (Moon with Markab in mundane parans) and the role of the Leader will be challenged. The authority/military/powers-that-be will react strongly, perhaps too strongly – attacking a protesting group of people, and there will be an unhappy ending. Law will change in terms of military action, minority groups will be restricted, because of the radical action of one person (Mars with Formalhaut). One has to wonder about possible terrorist action, either here or abroad. I am thinking that the Zimbabwe crisis (as part of the common wealth) might finally erupt into the UK/EU arena, Gordon Brown will have to defend his leadership in terms of the aggressive criticism of fanatical leaders here and abroad, and if there are any actual natural disasters combining the energies of Mars and Neptune for example gas fires, suicide bombings, martyrdom military action, or deliberate poisoning of water supplies to communities, and such like, then authority figures will act ruthlessly and with no restraint.Mars will be in the Egyptian terms of Mars, and will according to traditional writers therefore be ungovernable, and for the most part of the day, Mars is close to the Sun and out of sect, aggravating the situation even more.
Anyone have any ideas on how this solstice ingress might play out? I have not looked at eclipses yet, and no doubt Brady’s saros series interpretations will yield more, but my tea is now cold…
Best wishes Nicky
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Written on
June 7, 2008
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June
Re posting by Faye 12 May 08
I have never posted before because I am a very new learner in this method and do not have the program, but being also in Southern hemisphere with points in “The stare of Cetus” I decided to post.
So perhaps also mine is upside down looking at the “Tummy” I am an older person who only took up studying after I retired, so have a lot to learn 19 May 1933 11:45am Melbourne Aust…
Mercury at 16 degrees 19 in paran with Menkar in 9th house,( to speak for the collective, from 15 I was teaching older girlfriends sex education) and MC at 19 degrees 57.
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May 12, 2008
by
Faye
Hi Darrelyn - everyone
The last VAN has made me think again about visual astro which I do from time to time in my own quiet way even though I have been keeping a low profile here.
It is more of a question or food for thought really…
I have Moon/MC under the gaze of that miraculous sea monster. It was Poseidon who ordered her to come up from the deep so I was curious how Neptune might fit into the mythology here. Perhaps he can trigger her into life as well somehow, maybe at important transits or progressions where he is involved. Certainly a recent transit from Neptune to my Moon woke up the odd sea monster. Now that he is sitting on my Sun it appears I am researching Cetus!
However another question - as I was born at the other end of this planet, Cetus is eyeing my Moon-MC not from the depths, but floating along on her back looking down at them. Maybe in the southern hemisphere she likes having her tummy tickled! Does anyone know what southern hemisphere starlore thinks about Cetus? I can’t seem to find anything but did come across the wonderful Aotearoa stonehenge site - made me quite homesick! http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/stonehenge/.
Anyway any suggestions welcome so I can get a grip on what she might be trying to say to us.
Faye
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May 7, 2008
by
Cornelia
Born with the Sun and Mercury right “in the Stare of Cetus”, the Swiss occultist, artist, musician and astrologer “Akron” (Charles Frey) makes Cetus come alive on his website. His birth date, according to Wikipedia, is April 30, 1948 in Munsteringen (TG), Switzerland, other sources give May 01, 1948.
On his website, http://www.peregrinus.ch/, he has a lot of paintings and texts that let one get a deeper feeling for what Cetus is about. He has the talent to make the “collective unconcious” visible by his actions and presentations there.
On entering his website, one finds a picture in the middle, “Lilith’s Zaubergarten” (Lilith’s magic garden). If one clicks on this picture, it will show a larger and coloured version. Just let yourself get enchanted by all the details for a while, and then click on the snakelike feet of the woman.
You will see an even more detailed part of the picture then. Just click on the snake-feet again…
Translation of Akron’s text that goes with the monster: “My being is the immortality, and it is impossible to conceive me, because I am more than you will ever see, and I am more than you can comprehend, but nevertheless I am only a part of yourself. I am everything, I was and I will be everything, even though yesterday I was less than I am today, and tomorrow I might be more than I am now. I am the only one who can save you from the shadowy mirrorings of your soul, if you accept me within yourself, and if you recognize how relentlessly you are entangled with me. As long as you do not recognize, there wil be no escape, your shadow will catch up with you wherever you try to hide. But if you immerse with me into the ultimate source of beeing, you will be able to remember experiences which souls cannot see, because they repress them on their journey towards the light.“
If you take the time, you will find many places where to click on the picture, and it will lead you to various pictures and impressions about the theme of the garden. Also other parts of the website give more impressions about him, his way of living and thinking.
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April 21, 2008
by
Nicky
Hello Everyone, Darrelyn
I feel compelled to lift my head from my unbelievably busy timetable to support Darrelyn’s thinking about Mars in the eye of Cetus, and to share a visual of an electional chart with Mars in such a position.
Here is the chart of the day on which a client of mine went for an embryo transplant as part of the process of an IVF treatment to get pregnant. She had tried three times before with no luck, and apparently there was no medical reason for her not being able to conceive. She was desperate this time, as it was her last attempt due to financial constraints and she was really down to the wire. She produced only two eggs in spite of taking drugs to stimulate ovulation, and her embryos were dead dodge - she had one embryo of 4-cells and one of 1-cell, when usually they should have been at least 8-cell embryos. The doctors wanted her to call off the treatment, but she decided to stay on the programme, she gritted her teeth, stood her ground and willed this baby into being.
Against all odds, she did achieve pregnancy and a live birth of a healthy son, and it was due to sheer determination and not giving up the fight. Intense focus on fighting off demons of past failures and disappointments was the key to her success.
In terms of her astrology, Mars was the almuten of Pregnancy, the ruler of her profected year, and aspected her natal 5th house Venus by transit that day.
Are there any more Cetus stories out there?
best wishes
Nicky
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April 13, 2008
by
Darrelyn
Following on from my research work presented in the April Visual Astrology Newsletter and the question I asked as to how other people had experienced the ‘Stare of Cetus’ with planets travelling between Aries the Ram and Cetus (approximately 5-20 degrees of Taurus tropically), I have had this response from Marcia Butchart and her permission to reprint it here
Wooooo…there’s my Moon and MC. Harry Patch’s description of a single sensory signal bringing a whole experience rushing back is very familiar. Do you recall my early abandonment experience tale, and how profoundly I felt it had affected me? On a massage table, where I had been promised relief from some deep physical pain and a recent grief, I was jerked into full consciousness when the timer softly rang in the dimly lit room. The bodyworker simply stopped and turned away; time to prepare for her next client. For a second I was stunned: “That’s it? It’s over?? I’m not done!” But I said nothing aloud; I knew the rules, knew how useless it was to ask for what I actually needed. And I actually “saw” the bars of a crib rise around me as she left the room; the wave of sudden desolation and hopelessness that swept over me was monstrous. I wept continuously for three days. I may also have been subjected to the original abandonment exercise because my parents were afraid I had become an all-devouring monster? My father said as much when he told me the original story.
Other people’s experiences are more than welcome so we can start to see how this is working more clearly in people’s/clients’ charts.
Cheers!
Darrelyn
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April 1, 2008
by
Bernadette
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March 17, 2008
by
Cornelia
In October 2007 we had a discussion about “Zosma and the Winter Solstice“, where in the horoscope of the Sun’s Capricorn Ingress in December 2007 for Lhasa in Tibet/China, there were Pluto, Sun and Jupiter right on the MC, and Mars was on the IC. In this area, and as well as in Nepal, several of the following - Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto - were in Paran with Zosma, which is ”about the victim or a victimizing situation, in which people can be brought by the system or the establishment“. Also near Lhasa, Zosma was setting at the moment of the Winter Solstice.
Mars has been retrograde for a while, and now, on Friday March 14th, Mars has returned exactly to its former position of the Winter-Solstice, being accompanied by the Moon as well. On this day the protests in Tibet began to turn violent, and people got killed by Chinese police.
(Photos: http://cryptome.cn/tibet080315/tibet080315.htm)
Since the beginning of March 2008, Zosma again is in Paran with Pluto (now setting, while in December Zosma was on the Nadir), and has curtailed passage. Mars is in Paran with Zosma again today and tomorrow. And Zosma will be in Paran with Sun, Moon, Venus and Pluto of March 20, the day of the Spring Equinox or Aries Ingress.
On Friday, the Sun was in Paran with Facies, and Mars with Bellatrix, Scheat and Formalhaut, so people might feel the cruel stare of the government, and hope to make their dream come true by fighting. Darrelyn Gunzburg writes about “Facies, the pain of arrows“ in Visual Astrology Newsletter of February 2007: ”… Facies became known as being cruel and ruthless and its darkest shadow was the evil of war…”
Mars will be in Paran with Facies for about a week (while Facies first is setting, then on the Nadir) starting from March 24th, 2008 . There are more stars in Paran with Mars, so these have to be considered as well, but some of them add quite well to the theme of fighting, endurance and ruthlessness.
So one can only hope this will not be some cruel action taken by the Chienese (as some people now already fear), but that it can be a fight that leads to more freedom for all people who have been victimized by any establishment.
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February 18, 2008
by
Dharmaruci
In practice, Pluto tends to be the planet that is most used to define the times we live in. This is because until recently it was the outermost planet, and therefore had the strongest effect on a collective level. Pluto has of course been downgraded to a dwarf planet, but that hasn’t stopped astrologers treating him as a full planet. Which suggests we can do the same for Eris, another ‘dwarf planet’, larger than Pluto and with an orbital period of about 500 years, double that of Pluto.
So the Pluto period we are living in (which is just changing from Sagittarius to Capricorn) needs to be seen in the wider context of the Eris era that we are living in. Eris is the planet that has the most powerful effect on our times, and Pluto and Neptune and Uranus are subsets of this.
So far, so logical. But I’ve found it hard until now to get much of a handle on Eris in Aries, and I suspect others have as well. But if you bring in visual astrology, in which Eris is passing through the constellation Cetus, it becomes easier to unpack.
I’m covering ground I wrote about the other day in my last post on Eris (please read this first). But it occurred to me that this point about Eris being the most defining planet of our times needs emphasising, particularly as, through Cetus, it is possible to get more of a sense of her influence.
Eris averages about 40 years per sign. Her orbit is highly elliptical, so that she spends far longer in some signs than others. She is spending over 100 years in her present sign of Aries, so for our generation Eris is not really a personal planet. She moves much faster through some other signs, so Eris could be considered a personal planet for the people who live through those times. For us she is pretty much a planet belonging to mundane astrology (though as an element in the natal chart she can be interesting, particularly for people who represent a collective in some way. Just forget the transits.)
In the same way that Eris mischievously threw an apple into the wedding feast, an event that resulted in the Trojan War, so we can see Eris as a catalyst, as small events leading to large results. But it is not just any old large result. With Eris being in Cetus, the monster of the deep, the results of Eris’s actions are to transform the collective, for better or for worse.
So 9/11, which occurred at 8.46am on 11 Sept 2001 in New York (with Mars appropriately on the bow of the Archer of Sagittarius: they aimed well), has Eris at 20 Aries square to the MC at 17 Cancer and opposite to the ASC at 14 Libra. (Hmm…New York is the Big Apple (Eris), just as it was the Twin Towers (Saturn in Gemini) that got hit.)
9/11 was a small event relative to what followed, if you look e.g. at the carnage in Iraq. And it deeply transformed the times we live in, collective consciousness went through a huge shift. Pluto in Sagittarius describes part of the nature of that shift: the bursting onto the world stage of religious fundamentalism, whether it was the nationalist Islamism of the Middle East, or the God-driven American desire to impose democracy on the rest of the world.
(Incidentally I tend to doubt conspiracy theories, but here was a real one: the American government’s successful conspiracy to persuade Americans that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. It shows how unintelligent, and how easily manipulated, the Collective can become in times of crisis.)
The same was true of World War I. It completely changed the world, and was catalysed by the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, with Eris opposite the ASC and square to the MC, just as with 9/11.
I think that Eris is very empowered being in both Aries and Cetus. Aries is a good sign for initiating ‘trouble’, and Cetus is the perfect constellation for a collective planet wishing to have an effect on a collective level.
Regardless of the specific nature of Eris, her current placement in Cetus (1930-2036) suggests that we are living through an era in which the Collective is all-important: there can be great and positive transformations on a collective level, and the worst excesses of the mob-mind (as we saw with both Japan and Germany soon after Eris entered Cetus).
So this is the wider, 100 year period we are living through: a time when the collective is very powerful, and humanity is going through some sort of journey in this respect. Add in Eris in Aries, and we have a period in which that collective journey is being continually stimulated by catalytic events which open everything up, bring about the best and worst of humanity, and through that enable us to understand ourselves.
Globalisation, which has intensified since the Uranus-Neptune conjunction of the early 1990s, and of course Pluto in Sag, is a key word here. On all sorts of levels, humanity is becoming like one big nation in the context of which we see our own local reality. This is very new, it has never happened before, and it is the journey that Eris in Cetus is taking us through. It is an unprecedented collective transformation, brought about by Eris at her most catalytic in Aries, and in possibly her most natural constellation (as the most collective planet) of Cetus.
So this is what Eris in Cetus is telling us. We’re now all in it together, whether we like it or not. Eris has been showing us since the 1930s how awful we can be together, but also what we can achieve. Look, for example, at the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, which was also described by the Pluto (empowerment) Uranus (radical ideas, progress) conjunction of the time. So again we can see the Uranus-Pluto conjunction taking place within the wider context of Eris and the long transformational collective journey she is taking us on.
Eris has taken us a long way since 1930. We have become increasingly aware of our collective nature in its heights and depths, and there are still 28 years to go till she leaves Cetus. So you can see why so many people have been talking for years about a coming collective shift in consciousness, about 2012, and so on.
I’ve always been a bit sceptical, I tend to think that transformation happens primarily on an individual level, and that you can’t place much faith in people behaving intelligently in large numbers. But I think Eris is showing us, over a long period, that it doesn’t have to be like this; she is showing us a new vision (Aries) for our collective depths (Cetus), she is showing us how to work together. Which is timely, because without global co-operation in the coming decades, we will cease to flourish, our survival will be threatened. So it needs to be possible, it has to be possible, and Eris is showing us how.
Who knows, maybe Barack Obama is part of this new collective possibility? Because if it doesn’t happen in America, and soon, then it’s not going to. Being English, I back off with distaste from the religious zeal surrounding him. I don’t like it at all when he begins with “Good afternoon believers”. If he was English, I’d take it as irony. But Americans don’t do irony. And he is raising huge expectations in people. But his South Node conjoins the US Sibly Moon (the people) in Aquarius, and Neptune will soon pass over them. His North Node is only just over a degree off the Royal Star Regulus. So something very strong is happening, and it would be strange if he didn’t end up as President one way or another. He is too inexperienced for anyone to be able to know whether he can deliver, whether he can work with Congress, people are having to hope here, which isn’t really what you want when electing a President. But a collective shift is urgently needed, and none of the other candidates seem to be offering it.
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