Do sex strikes work?

Venus and Mars - Sandro Botticelli

A Spike Lee movie set to open Dec. 4, “Chi-Raq,” is a modern riff on the ancient Greek comedy “Lysistrata;” both offer satirical takes on women who go on sex strikes to get men to end violence.But do sex strikes work in real life? A Chicago woman is betting yes: April Lawson  started a petition on Change.org to put an end to violence on the South Side. “It’s time for a sex strike, girls,” she writes.”In a patriarchal society, a problem will not be addressed until it directly affects men. Abstinence has been used as a means of nonviolent protesting throughout history.” Nov.20 http://news.discovery.com/human/life/do-sex-strikes-work-151120.htm

Regular readers of this blogsite may have been convinced by now that no event on earth is ever possible without it being “allowed” or if you like “facilitated” by the stars. If you are among those not convinced, this post should serve as another example to prove the point.

The mistake that most of us, following modern mundane astrology, make is to try and explain an event from a chart made for the moment  it occurs. This is a big mistake. Ancient and medieval astrologers always looked to ingresses, eclipses, lunations and other such celestial phenomena to explain events on earth.  This method was also recommended by astrologers H.S. Green and C.E.O. Carter among others.

For explaining the cosmic  reason behind the above news, we begin with the chart for Sun’s entry into Libra cast for Chicago. Notice that Venus-Mars on the Ascendant is part of a fairly complex configuration. Mars and Venus are archetypes for man and woman in love. Sex and love making come under the rulership of the 5^th house [1].  Pluto, the planet linked to the desire to enforce  our will on others or control them, is placed in the 5^th house in hard aspect to a slightly wide Venus-Mars conjunction on the Ascendant. It is important to remember that the Ascendant has a wide orb of influence so that planets that appear to be separated (by even as much as 10 degrees are actually conjunct).  Venus-Mars-Pluto is, therefore, a perfect combination for a battle of control in a war of sexes.  In addition, the Venus- Mars  combination is part of a T-square  with Saturn and TNP Admetus. Among other things both Admetus and Saturn are about  abstinence, withdrawal, coldness or frigidity in relationships so that we can see how perfectly this symbolizes  the control battle  being played out.

Readers who are familiar with the use of  Sabian symbols will recall several instances when a Sabian symbol appears during a chart analysis that seems to elegantly describe a situation at hand.  This is one such instance where we find that the Sabian symbol of the descendant degree [20aq29] so perfectly describes the issue involved in the news.

21º Aquarius (321) : A woman is disappointed as a man leaves her boudoir. [2]

While reading symbols it is important never to look at them literally. Here what we need  to understand is that the symbol represents a situation in a bedroom (boudoir) where one partner is walking away from sex,leaving  the other disillusioned or disappointed.

But how can we be sure that the Libra Ingress chart is in fact connected to the news event of Nov. 20 at Chicago. There are at least two triggers to this chart. First if we progress the chart to Nov. 20 we see that the Ascendant reaches a conjunction to Mercury-Zeus triggering the entire configuration containing Mars-Pluto-Uranus-Admetus-Saturn etc.  The second trigger comes from transit Venus [12li58] reaching an exact square to radix Pluto[12cp58], a combination that resonates with the desire to control (Pluto) someone in love (Venus).  An event chart for the exact square has the Venus-Uranus-Pluto T-square straddling the horizon.

[1] http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h5.html

[2] The Astrology of Personality; Dane Rudhyar  (p.349)