Ophiuchus – the snake handler
A Kentucky Middlesboro ,
Kentucky
The chart
for the Full Moon [26le13] at Middlesboro is shown above. Notice that it
squares the MC [1ge] and Saturn [23sc]. The
star Unukalhai [22sc] conjoins Saturn. This is the alpha star of the Serpent
held by Ophiuchus.
"One called Ophiuchus holds apart the serpent
which with its mighty spirals [gyris] and twisted body encircles his own, that
so he may untie its knots and back that winds in loops. But, bending its supple
neck, the serpent looks back and returns; and the other's hands slide over the
loosened coils. The struggle will last for ever, since they wage it on level
terms with equal powers." [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 1, p.31]
The Full
Moon [26le] is conjunct Alphard, alpha
Hydra [27le]
Particularly matters connected with 'poison' are
accentuated badly, e.g. blood poisoning, murder by poison, attempts of
poisoning, poisoned hatred in women, gas poisoning, danger to life by wrong use
of drugs and over indulgence of good living, smoke inhalation and danger of
suffocation, snake bite,
bites by poisonous insect bites, or bites from dogs with rabies. [Fixed Stars
and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.50, under the name Alphard.]
On the
Ascendant [4vi54] are stars of the Lion, the Bear and Hydra, the Water Snake so that Diana Rosenberg
writes:
Affirming tradition about the Lion being a “beastly”
sign along with the ferocious Bear and Hydra’s snaky head encounters with wild
beasts abound: here is the venomous snake expert J B Slowinski killed at 38 by
the bite of a krait.
P.S.
Notice
the common underlying principle governing this incident and the one in the
previous post on radioactive contamination of air in a nuclear power plant. In
both cases inability to handle the “serpent” leads to problems.
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