What makes astrology
supremely relevant is that it discloses an unsuspected dimension of the world
we think we know so well. It is as though we have become accustomed to see only
the horizontal yarn of the weaving, the weft, and are largely unaware of the
warp. We are accustomed to break down our world, in order to understand it,
into certain categories, recognizing what belongs to this category, what belongs
to that. That is ‘scientific’. However, astrology is about learning to think in
new categories. It embodies a system of new categories that are as different
from the ones to which we are habituated, as the warp is from the weft. In this
system objects and events that at first sight appear to have nothing whatever
to do with each other are shown to be intimately connected. Conversely, things
we naturally tend to associate may be distributed otherwise in the astrological
scheme. Understanding the world around us depends on our power to perceive
patterns of meaning, to make the right connections, recognize what belongs with
what. It is not easy. Unaided, it is as if we are looking at the weaving from
the wrong side, and it seems a mess, but with the help of astrology we can see
the design as it is meant to be. As the shuttle of the cosmic loom ceaselessly
weaves its intricate design, astrologers have the responsibility, or rather the
awesome privilege, to work towards restoring to humanity the sense of high meaning
it has all but lost.”
Dennis Elwell, The
Cosmic Loom
The Trickster
Investigations
into rats wearing pants, the personalities of rocks and the truthfulness of
1,000 liars won Ig Nobel prizes on Thursday night (Sept.22) at Harvard, where Nobel-winning scientists
gathered to honor the strangest research of the year. As in
past years, the tone of the awards show vacillated from gleeful absurdism to
satire to genuine wonder at the lengths to which scientists will let their
curiosity lead them. The
peace prize went to a gang of philosophers from Canada and the US who published
a paper titled On the Reception and
Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/22/ig-nobel-prizes-trousers-for-rats-and
A chart for the Sept. 1 New Moon solar eclipse at Boston progressed to Sept.
22 brings the eclipse to an alignment with the Ascendant, thereby triggering
it. About the stars that form the backdrop to the eclipse, Diana Rosenberg
writes:
Here the audacious
Lion and Argo’s restless wanderlust lend an inner wildness to tropical Virgo’s
quieter nature (normally analytical and research oriented). Most here are idealistic
, with a will to discover life’s deeper meaning
through religion or philosophy. With the courage of the Lion, they attempt to
go beyond accepted ideas and behavior , sometimes shocking people, then
using their notoriety to advantage. Tough, pragmatic and versatile, they may
bring about sudden breakthroughs, realizations and discoveries contributing to
the fields of ecology, religion, philosophy, literature, education,
communications and science. They are imaginative – even the most scientific and
fact-oriented among them allow a tinge of the wild and weird to edge into
their psyches.
The event took place
just as Mercury stationed to go direct on Sept.22. forming hard aspect to
Saturn-Neptune and the angles at Boston. Mercury is the
Trickster. In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster
is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or
anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret
knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and
conventional behaviour.
Mercury-Neptune is linked to lies and deceit (bullshit?)
while Saturn is a planet that separates fact from fiction so that is it at all
surprising that the peace prize was awarded to a paper titled On the Reception and Detection of
Pseudo-Profound Bullshit?
Elwell has defined the term multicongruence as the tendency for certain things and
conditions to co-occur because they belong together at a higher, unmanifest
level. In recent posts (see list below) we have several examples of news connected to
the Saturn-Neptune square. Many are straightforward
cases of the detection of fraud. But the
Saturn-Neptune combination can work in two ways. With Saturn acting on Neptune
we have cases where lies and deceit are uncovered but when Neptune acts on Saturn
it infiltrates, weakens, dismantles, or
dissolves a rational structure or even crippling laws or social paradigms that we had internalized (Alabama
pipeline leak; Florida sinkhole; Canada legalizing heroin ).
In which category would we put the present news item on the “strangest
research”? To my mind this falls in both
categories. Since the prize went to the paper on the detection of “bullshit”
that is clearly Saturn operating on Neptune. But what of the bigger picture
here….the fact that the establishment (Nobel Committee) recognizes weird and
strange (Neptune) research to be valid is in itself a victory for Neptune in the closed world of
Saturn.
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