The Navy has its first female four-star admiral.She
is Michelle Janine Howard, promoted on Tuesday to the service's highest rank. The
ceremony was held at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery ,
near the Pentagon. Howard is best known for leading Task Force 151, which saved
merchant marine Captain Richard Phillips when he was captured by Somali pirates
in April 2009. Daily Mail, Jul 1
The affairs
of a nation can be judged from the horoscope set up at the time of its official
inauguration, the birth chart of its leader, and various phenomena such as
eclipses, lunations, great conjunctions, stations, comets and ingresses. Among
these, ingresses have a traditional reputation as the most important mundane
event.[1]
Even among
the ingress charts, the Capricorn Ingress of the Sun is considered as
especially important and given the status of an annual chart. Major events seem
to occur when the progressed angles of the chart touch important
configurations. Shown here is the Capricorn Ingress chart at Arlington progressed to July 1, the date of
the news. Notice the slightly skewed Grand Cross on the angles.
The first
thing to look at is the Uranus-Pluto-Mars T-square.
Uranus is
the rebel among the planets who bring about changes in all areas of life that
need restructuring. Uranus' concern is
always to liberate us from outmoded rules and ways of thinking.
Pluto in
Greek Mythology is ruled by Hades- god of the underworld. So that Pluto rules all things which are dark,
buried and taboo, the things that no-one wants to think about or talk about. This
includes gender domination or suppression as our patriarchal society has done
by excluding women from many areas of our lives.
It should,
therefore, be easy to see that a Uranus-Pluto combination is about a deep metamorphosis
and transformation in the way we think. It brings up for our acceptance those
areas which we had rejected as taboo.
Mars on the
Ascendant [8li] is conjunct stars of Bootes often depicted as a armed herdsman with
a spear. In China
this was Tchao-Yao, “The Brandishing
of Arms” so that it easy to see why this
area is linked to military service. Diana Rosenberg adds “transits to these
stars bring about major changes in laws, mores, governments and ways of
thinking”.
Finally we
turn our attention to planets and stars on the MC and IC.
On the IC
is Pluto [11cp] in Capricorn. More
specifically it is conjunct the star Nunki [12cp] (Pelagus). Pelagus means “open sea” and Nunki
is often called the “Star of the the Proclamation of the Sea”. Since Capricorn
rules institutions like the government or the military (the navy?) and Pluto is about metamorphosis and
transformation is it at all surprising to see the navy changing.
On the MC is Jupiter [17cn] conjunct Canopus ,
alpha Argo [15cn] and nu Puppis [17cn] in the stern of the Celestial Ship Argo
Navis another reference to the navy!
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