Eclipse brings new era in art market

Constellation Pictor – the Painter’s Easel

A contemporary art sale at Christie's in New York has made $495m (£325m), the highest total in auction history. The sale included works by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The sale established 16 new world auction records, with nine works selling for more than $10m (£6.6m) and 23 for more than $5m (£3.2m). Christie's said the records reflected "a new era in the art market".

The May 9 eclipse [19ta31] is conjunct the Cupido/Zeus midpoint [18ta33]. Readers unfamiliar with TNPs may refer to Arlene Kramer’s definitions [1] . Cupido is about art and Zeus is compulsion  amongst other things so that this eclipse is likely to make people feel a compulsion about art. Cupido is opposite Jupiter and the stars of Pictor, the Painter’s easel. [2]

Neptune is square Venus and  forms a biseptile to Jupiter. With Neptune-Venus we become sensitive and  extremely responsive to music, poetry or art.  The septile series is associated with inexplicable, irrational or compulsive  behaviour. [3]

On May 15, the date of the auction,  the progressed eclipse map brings Neptune-Venus to the IC and descendant respectively while the meridian axis is square to the Jupiter-Cupido opposition. With the description of the combinations triggered is it any surprise that art auction records were broken.

[1] http://www.arlenekramer.net/uranian_eightplanets.asp

[2] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Pictor.htm

[3] http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2005/09/astrological_as.html