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Full Moon highlights plight of Jewish 'chained women'




In Jewish society, there are estimated to be thousands of women in broken marriages where their husband refuses to give them the necessary religious document enabling a divorce. In some cases, the wife can remain trapped in the situation for years, unable to remarry or move on. In Hebrew such a woman is known as an aguna, or a "chained" woman. BBC Jerusalem, March 13.




New Moon and Full Moon  mundane charts drawn for a particular place can be very illuminating. Planets and stars highlighted by being placed on the angles provide insight to events taking place there. Shown here is the upcoming Full Moon chart at Jersusalem. A simple technique using asteroids for understanding any chart was pioneered by Martha Wescott. She recommends tabulating all entities (asteroids, planets, TNPs etc) on the angles of the chart within +/- 10 degrees. After that think of these entities as talking to each and put down sentences derived from their keywords and phrases.  For the Full Moon the table below lists entities on the angles.


3
Juno
7 ar 9'10"

Uranus
11 ar 31'44"

430
Hybris
19 li 22'28"

03
Hera
9 cp 11'42"
3361
Orpheus
10 cp 39' 6"
134340
Pluto-Charon
13 cp 21'38"



JUNO/HERA : Asteroids of partnerships and marriage . Potential Juno/Hera issues can manifest as power struggles, control issues, jealousy and possessiveness, stalemates and standoffs, and other types of inequality issues.

HYBRIS: Expectation, glass-ceilings, limits-what one future-paces as their fate, their slot in life-and what can be expected of others; what others, parents, you see as your fate; conditioned limitations.

ORPHEUS: Sense of mourning and loss; grief (for what you don't have-what has gone out of your life what might have been or what was)


Juno/Orpheus
Sorrow or loss because a relationship  breaks up.

Hybris/Juno
Folks  may feel that partners have "hemmed them in"--have "imposed conditions" or  created a situation that restricts them...and is unfair.

Juno/Uranus
People in a relationship need to remember that--regardless of their  similarities, they still have important differences...and each has to be  free to "compose and direct their own concert!"  

Pluto/Uranus
With Uranus in Aries (freedom of the individual) square Pluto in Capricorn (powerful institutions) we have individuals struggling against these powerful institutions including  against the rules of marriage (Juno).


While the micro picture provided by the asteroids  is startling  what is more interesting is the mythologly linked to the stars conjunct Uranus [11ar32].  These are Mu Cephei, [9ar53] in King’s head; 51 Piscium [10ar21] in cord of West Fish; Dheneb of Cetus [12ar06]; 14 Andromedae [12ar08] in the chained woman’s right wrist. The King represents laws applied fairly arbitrarily at an early stage of human evolution since at this stage Cetus the sea monster representing the dangers of the human collective unconscious is close by. The cord tying the Fishes links to the past which in a sense chains Andromeda.


Ebertin’s keyphrase for Pluto-Uranus  “the collapse of an old order and the beginning of a new one” sums up the need to revise those marriage laws and free the chained woman.

Comments

  1. Interestingly, I first learned about these marriage laws in a January episode of This American Life which I found chilling and disheartening. The collapse of such 'old orders' cannot arrive soon enough in my opinion. Perhaps you or your readers may find it illuminating to listen to this story.
    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/516/stuck-in-the-middle?act=2

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