Dujour
Thursday October 6, 2005
****editor's note:
I wish I had more time TO edit! You are getting a wierd, raw Dujour today (like THAT has never happened before!) but if you want something far more lovely, tune in to Pam Burns-Clair's column...just posted this morning!
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I started reading this interesting book yesterday. The title is The Signs of the Times—The Neptune Factor. The author, an astrologer named Stan Barker, suggests that all historical trends can be seen and predicted with the transits of Neptune. He sites some fascinating examples. For example, when Neptune (which has an orbit of 164 years, taking 14 years to move through each sign) was transiting through Leo from 1587 to 1602, (Leo, you all remember, rules drama) we experienced a creative renaissance and major theatrical boost through the influence of a man named William Shakespeare!!
Other fascinating examples of Neptune’s influence include; while in Sagittarius, the sign of exploration, Columbus sailed to this new world. (Not a happy thing to the indigenous of this land) In Pisces, the sign of religion and/spirit Natune treated us the excitement of the Salem Witch Hunts! (I was told by my cousin Denise, who researched the family genealogy—that my 7X great grandmother, Lydia was one of the 18 women hung for witchcraft in Cambridge, Massachusetts!) Anyway, the last Neptune in Pisces transit was not one of humanities finest moments.
At this time, Neptune is in Aquarius. This has historically been a time of revolution. (Aquarius is the sign of revolution—power to the people!!!) Last time (1834 to 1848) there was an author in the UK who sparked a revolution with his stories of injustice. Charles Dickens talked of the discrepancy between the “Haves—and the have mores” ha ha… actually, we know that it’s not a case of the ‘have more’s’ as we have been led to believe, it’s about the ‘haves and the have NOTs’!—poverty is at the highest, (and growing with each passing corporate law) that it’s been since the great depression, and there is not much to suggest this is being addressed in any way.
Neptune is in Aquarius, and the sign of Aquarius is called the ‘Water Bearer’. which is totally weird, as we all know that Aquarius is an air sign. The author states that the symbol, two wavy lines, suggest that the collective responds in waves! Not water waves, but waves of ‘trends’. These ideas influence us as fashions of thought and beliefs, and things are picked up and mimicked, in ‘the collective’. For the most part, we are an easy species to control.
The author suggests that at the last transit of Neptune in Aquarius, there was revolution everywhere. In France, Spain, Russia, The Americas, you name it, the people were rising up and saying, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more”!!
You know though, much as I think we are all overdue for the next revolution, it seems we have very little to complain about here. It is with the public’s full participation that the poor have been demonized, that government has been marginalized, and we have put ourselves as subordinate to corporate domination. We responded to years of manipulation and propaganda because there was something in it for us. We no longer had to worry about ‘the lesser of each of us’. We could just ‘cut loose’ the stragglers and rush to our doom without impediment. (Wow, sorry—bit much for a Thursday, eh?)
It’s the news. I am trying to taper off, it’s just this “Supreme’s” thing has gotten to me—these guys could live a while, and I worry about how this will effect the weakest among us, not to mention the children.
The revolution this time, folks, needs to come from our hearts. Love is the only known antidote to greed and imbalance. Didn’t we discover that the answer was to “Make love not war?” I think Neptune moving again into Pisces again (sign of spirit and/or religious domination) could bring this to the ‘fore’. Either that or I’ll be sentenced to join my great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother on the scaffold.
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