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High level Syria talks in Vienna on Friday




The heads of the foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia and Turkey will join the meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry on the situation in Syria, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry held a telephone conversation on the situation in Syria and will meet October 23 in Vienna, Austria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. http://in.sputniknews.com/world/20151021/1016116441/lavrov-kerry-talks-syria.html







The powerful eclipses of September are now shaping world events. A chart for the solar eclipse of Sept. 13 drawn for Vienna  places a Grand Cross on the angles. Mercury and the TNP Zeus along with the asteroid Requiem are on the Ascendant as part of a configuration containing the Uranus-Pluto square. In his essay Uranus-Pluto: War and Violence, Bill Herbst [1] connects this combination both with war as well as with efforts for peace.

Aries “governs” war and violence in general. When Aries is activated as the provocateur in the Uranus-Pluto square in the dynamic tension of juxtaposition to the institutions of society associated with Capricorn, the symbolic possibilities dramatically increase that we would see increased war and violence. That’s a given. The other side of the coin, however, is that war and violence may become the target of various movements to change the status quo of what is considered acceptable in civilization…Anti-war movements have always existed — they ebb and flow from  time to time — and non-violence as a way of life is always embraced by some, but both of these have remained in the minority and are generally disenfranchised, mocked, or otherwise given short shrift by the mainstream culture. This decade represents a possible exception to that marginalizing.

The TNP Zeus is connected to the military and by association to war while “Requiem stands for a place of acceptance, a cessation of struggle” [2]. So that we can begin to see why the Grand Cross is pointing towards the possibility of peace.

In addition, the Ascendant, Mercury and TNP Zeus are amidst the stars of the Virgin and Bootes. Bootes was an armed herdsman, sometimes depicted with a spear rather than a shepherd’s crook, and in China Lambda Bootis [7li] was part of Tchao-Yao, “The Brandishing of Arms” so that sometimes the potential for aggression and desire for domination here can overwhelm the Virgin’s love of peace.  Many here are drawn to the exciting prospect of military glory, authority and service; but the overlay of Libra causes the mature amongst them to hear the Virgin’s call and become peacemakers. 


So what has triggered the eclipse? Notice that Mercury transit on October 23 conjoins the Ascendant.


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