Ary
Scheffer, The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army
from Russia in 1812
As snow lashed across their faces, archaeologists
quickly excavated a mass grave in Vilnius, Lithuania. The jumbled bones, haphazardly oriented, were
punctuated with finds of shoes and clothing. Buttons revealed the identity of
the dead: over 40 different regiments were represented, all from Napoleon’s
Grande Armée. Archaeologists had found the final resting place of over three
thousand men who perished during Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in 1812. Now,
new chemical analyses of the bones are revealing where these soldiers hailed
from and just how difficult it was to find enough to eat. Napoleon’s exploits
are well-known from history. In an attempt to prevent invasion of Poland by
Russian Czar Alexander I, Napoleon decided to invade Russia first. He started
out with around 675,000 men who came from all over Europe; French, Germans,
Polish, Lithuanians, Spanish, and Italians, however, made up the majority. This
Grande Armée dwindled on its advance to Russia, then retreated when the czar refused
to surrender and there were no supplies for the army in Moscow. By the time the
army got to Smolensk, Russia, there were just 41,000 soldiers remaining. July 25 http://goo.gl/7UDLca
The mass grave
containing as many as 2,000 French soldiers who fought for Napoleon Bonaparte
during the War of 1812 was unearthed in a Vilnius suburb. The news report from
Forbes is dated July 25, just a day after the First Quarter Moon in the lunar
cycle that began with the New Moon of July 16.
A New Moon
chart for Vilnius, Lithuania has Neptune
[9pi] conjunct the MC and in hard aspect to the luminaries in the Ascendant. A New Moon that highlights a retrograde Neptune is referring to an event
from the past when there was defeat, disillusionment, physical exhaustion, debilitation
and the ebbing away of life energy. Neptune
is conjunct stars of the Chinese asterisms Hiu-Liang
and Fan-Mou, which presided over
graves, tombs, mausoleums and uninhabited places. On the horizon axis is Mars-Pluto in hard
aspect to Saturn and the TNP Admetus. For the combination, Mars-Saturn-Pluto,
Ebertin’s keyphrase is “the death of a great many people”…when combined with
the TNP Admetus that stands for “cold” we can see how well it describes the Grand
Armee’s retreat.
The New Moon
itself is conjunct the star Pollux, beta Geminorum which Diana Rosenberg
associates with “great historic battles, invasions and invasion attempts”.
A chart for
the July 24 First Quarter Moon adds further details. It aspects the asteroid
Ceres, related to food and nourishment or the lack of it in the 6th house associated with armies as well as food [1]. The
Moon phase at Vilnius, Lithuania has the Moon [0sc] very significantly placed
on the 4th cusp. The 4th house is linked to the grave and
conditions at the end of life. It is conjunct the stars Miaplacidus, beta
Carinae of Argo and pi Bootis of the Herdsman. About these stars Diana Rosenberg writes:
The gathering, organizing and shepherding
instincts of the Herdsman combine with Argo’s second brightest star to bring
about huge enterprises and mass movements: these stars were transited in 1519
when Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition left Spain to circumnavigate the world; in
1804 when the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the 1st overland
exploration of unchartered territory of the western US started out; in 1835 at
the start of the “Great Trek” of the Voortrekkers from Cape Colony in South
Africa; at the 1846 “Miracle of the Quail” on the Mormon pioneer trek to Utah
to escape murderous mobs, destitute refugees were visited by a great flock of
quail, allaying the threat of starvation; in 1934 at the start of the 7,500
mile “Long March” of 100,000 communist Chinese
troops through almost impassable terrain to escape extermination campaigns:
only about 10,000 survived [2].
An invasion
plan that has been disappointing….a long march….dwindling food and resources...all
the elements of Napolean’s retreat are here!
[2] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.147-150)
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