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US Navy names first female four-star admiral






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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