British and German
Soldiers fraternising : A Christmas Truce
The Christmas truce
was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western
Front around Christmas 1914. In the week leading up to the holiday, German and
British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In
areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint
burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in
carol-singing. Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the
most enduring images of the truce.
The Artois region
in France
So what
cosmic energies led to this beautiful but strange event in 1914? Perhaps the chart of the New Moon of December 17, 1914
in the Artois
Centaurus is depicted
pouring a libation at the altar, Ara
The New
Moon conjoins the Scorpion’s tail, marked by Lesath. Under the tail and the
cusp of Sagittarius, is Ara, the Altar of the Centaur. An Altar is a place of
divine presence, thanksgiving, and can be a sanctuary and a place of
integration of otherwise divisive forces. 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. Venom from Lesath, the sting of the
Scorpion--the often harsh but required lessons incurred while
incarnate--dripping upon the altar serves as the required transmutational
elixir. This picture fits the scenario quite well. The venom from the Scorpion
symbolizes the enmity on the battlefield
while the coming of the soldiers together to celebrate a moment of truce is
very beautifully captured by the image of the Centaur sacrificing the beast
Lupus (enmity) on the altar [1].
Notice that
the New Moon is square the TNP Poseidon which aspects the stellium
Cupido-Neptune-Zeus. Keyphrases for the
elements and delineations for the relevant combinations are as below:
ZEUS: guns,
power tools, machines, motors, fireplaces, fuels; excitement; to incite; military; ability to harness
energies for accomplishment.
CUPIDO: Group
unity or dynamics
POSEIDON:
Uplifting people/ideas; psychic vibrations; persuasion; intellectual or spiritual influences;
ideological or moral stances; spread of ideas; advertising; interest in
business practices/ethics; inspiration; religion;
mediums; clarity; enlightenment; receptivity
to The Force; reactions to the media; windows, mirrors, refraction of
light.
NEPTUNE: Compassion,
sympathy & empathy; sensitivity; vulnerability; trust issues; make-believe; unrealistic hopes; attunement to
Other Worlds
Cupido-Poseidon-Zeus
Spiritual influences affect group dynamics in
wartime.
Neptune-Poseidon
To be susceptible and open to spiritual influences;
a state of heightened receptivity to the unconscious and possibility of
ego-transcendence.
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