A
woman from Canada has handed
back a piece of ruins from the ancient city of Pompeii more than 50 years after she first
took it. The woman picked up a small decoration, which was part of a theatre
entrance, during her honeymoon in Italy . She put it in her bag and
took it back with her to Montreal .
Pompeii is one of Italy 's most visited sites. A
sudden eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD buried and largely preserved the town
under ash. The woman - who has not been named - kept it with her for half a
century but clearly her actions nagged away at her. So this month she travelled
back to Italy
to hand back the fragment. Captain Carmine Elefante, who runs the police's
Cultural Heritage Protection Group in Naples ,
says that the woman - now in her 70s - was in tears when she gave it back. "This
has no precedents, the fact that someone was pushed by the weight of their
conscience to hand back what they had taken," he told me BBC; Oct 31; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29854691
Shown here
is the chart for the last Lunar Eclipse of Oct.8 at Naples . Notice that it is aligned with the
meridian axis and therefore very prominent for the place. The eclipse Sun
[15li] and Venus [10li] on the MC are
conjunct stars of the truth seeking Virgin and the evil Hydra. The best of
people here long for Libra’s sense of balance, hear the Virgin’s call for
purity and integrity and seek forgiveness for sins committed.
Conjunct
the Moon [15ar] and Uranus [14ar] are stars of the modern constellation of the Sculptor
which by association can be linked to the small sculpted piece of ruin in the
news. Also on the Ascendant is the TNP Cupido for which some key words are “ decor;
artistry”. The stars of the constellation Ara (discussed below) also conjoin
the Ascendant. Progressing the eclipse chart to Oct.31 aligns the eclipse and
its Grand Cross with the horizon axis while Poseidon, the TNP linked to ethics
and morality, is on the MC.
Finally we
look at the “minute hand” of the cosmic clock. The news comes at the First
Quarter Moon phase, the chart for which is shown here. The Sun [7sc] is in the
2nd house connected to national treasures while the Moon
[7aq] is in the 5th house that among other things rules theatres
and places of entertainment.
Pluto
[11cp] on the IC, is conjunct stars that Diana Rosenberg associates with “earthquakes, eruptions and disasters of great scope and power” and gives
the following examples:
Earth-sign Capricorn brings up fires from the
planet’s interior and Al-Na’a’im
“destroys community wealth;” the gigantic eruption of Thera, Greece has been
traced by scientists to “the summer of 1628 BCE;” if they meant -1628, then it
would have been preceded by the Capricorn Ingress of 1630 BCE (-1629) which had
the IC here; these stars were transited at the start of the famous eruption of Vesuvius that buried
Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 CE; in 526 CE when a devastating earthquake
hit Antioch, Syria causing the near abandonment of the city and several others.
The Sun
[7sc] is conjunct the Black Hole Centaurus A [7sc] in the constellation of the
Centaur. To understand the message of the stars in this area one must look at
the Centaur, the beast Lupus and Ara,
the altar together. Symbolically, the centaur; half man, half horse represents
the complete domination by baser influences, instincts, the unconscious
uncontrolled by the spirit. The man-beast combination illustrates the conflict
between man’s lower animal nature merged with his higher nature of human virtue
and judgement, the struggle between the savage and the benign. In the picture
above notice that the centaur is shown carrying a spear that impales a wolf.
The wolf – a despoiler of flocks, rapacious, cruel, crafty and bloodthirsty –
has long been a symbol of evil. In Christian art, animals impaled on lances
often allude to vices that must be overcome. [2]
Ara [3] is the Altar of the Centaur. On the low
altar, the Centaur places Lupus the Beast (our lower-order personality-based
patterns of self-importance, and associated emotional baggage) with conscious deliberation
to be consumed in the Centaur's transmutational pyre.
Ara demands we release of all guilt, grief,
judgment, fear, anger, and pain associated with all incarnate experience. Doing
so allows us to claim the wisdom gained from soul's entire incarnational
experience. If we do not, we continue to burn in the alchemical process. Only
from this mature and humble act can we step into our greater evolutionary fulfilment
[4]. (Note that Ara can also be seen on the right side of the upper image
showing the centaur.)
[1] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p. 450)
[2] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p. 146)
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