In a finding that provides new insight into the
roots of Western civilization, a team of anthropologists from Cambridge
University announced Monday the discovery of an ancient Greek super PAC that
helped shape the world’s first democracy. “At the same time Cleisthenes first
instituted a representative form of government in Athens, it appears that a
group of wealthy citizens and merchants created an organization to influence
these new voters by bombarding them with around-the-clock political messages,”
lead researcher Daniel Rogers said of the early political action committee,
named Athenians for a Better City-State, which is said to have received
millions of drachmas’ worth of funding in gold, lambs, dates, loaves of bread,
and slaves from Athens’ largest and most influential trade groups.May 11; http://www.theonion.com/article/anthropologists-discover-ancient-greek-super-pac-h-50390
This news
is best understood if we draw a chart for the Last Quarter Moon of May 12 at
Cambridge. Notice that a T-square of Sun-Moon-Jupiter straddles the horizon
axis. The Moon [20aq] is in tropical Aquarius – the sign associated with
equality, freedom and democracy. The stars in this area are Castra, epsilon
Capricorn, 19 Aquari and Nashira, gamma Capricorn. Capricorn is the Sea Goat
The land-sea
symbol of the Goatfish becomes a metaphor for a great divide in humanity’s
social hierarchy, a head-on collision between any old order and new order,
between rock-hard social and political conservatism that clings to past
verities and the fresh sea-winds of freedom and transformation. Many here are
pioneers who affect the temper of their times. The star Nashira , the Bearer of
Good News is here. It is bringer of good news, especially regarding legal and
constitutional matters. There are issues
of messages, communications and education of the masses, slavery vs freedom and
of greed vs the rights of society’s underdogs. [1][2]
The next
piece of the jigsaw is Jupiter [14le] on the Ascendant [16le]. Jupiter is trine
Uranus which can be read as referring to fortunate changes. Jupiter is also
conjunct the star Dubhe. Alpha (α) Ursa Major, Dubhe, is a yellow star on the
back of the Greater Bear.
The stars of the
Great Bear represent primary forces in the world that are articulated by the
governing world powers. The theme of the great Bear is torn. Part of the Bear
is of the fallen world powers, those of a totalitarian, controlling oppressive
rule. Dubhe and Merak are of the integrous part of the Great Bear, of that
which is oriented toward a greater vision, for that which is truly nourishing
for humanity. Dubhe embodies the "willingness to fight for a greater
vision" beyond the accepted political-religious dogmas of the human world
that keep humanity in darkness and delusion, and against the controlling global
forces perpetuating that dogmatic rule [3].
The references
cited above when read together clearly suggest the birth of democracy in an
environment that may have been totalitarian in the past.
It is
important to remember that all phases of the lunar cycle are connected to a
theme that is contained in the New Moon. The current lunar cycle began with the
New Moon [28ar] of April 18 in the constellation Pisces . More specifically,
the New Moon was conjunct Alrisha [29ar35]. Alpha (α) Pisces, Alrisha marks the
Knot of the Cord, formed by the joining together of the ends of the ribbons
that binds the two Fishes by the tail.
The
constellation Pisces is composed of the western fish, which swims westward
horizontally along the ecliptic plane back toward Aquarius. The western fish is
a symbol of our priori inherited ideologies that we are born into. Here that would refer to monarchies and
totalitarian governments that preceded
the birth of democracy. The eastern fish, on the other hand, leaps upward,
vertically from the ecliptic plane, seeking a greater freedom on the shores of
sidereal Aries. The eastern fish articulates our desire to ascend from our past
assumptions and belief systems and our capacity to awaken from submersion in
ignorance.
[1]
Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.621-22)
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