NEW DELHI -- The Karnataka Government on Friday
filed its reply in the Supreme Court to the Tamil Nadu Government's plea for an
urgent judicial direction to Bengaluru to release 50.052 tmcft (thousand
million cubic feet) of Cauvery water from its reservoirs to feed the
agricultural lands of the neighbouring state. The Karnataka Government said it
is in deficit of 80 tmcft water and hence cannot give water to Tamil Nadu. During
the hearing, Justice Dipak Mishra observed, "Live and Let Live principle
should be kept in mind. Both states should live in harmony." The hearing
in the case has been adjourned till Monday.
The sharing of waters of the Cauvery river has been the
source of serious conflict between the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil
Nadu. The genesis of this conflict rests in two agreements during the British Raj that Karnataka claims
were skewed heavily in favour of Tamil Nadu. Karnataka contends that it does
not receive its due share of water from the river. Tamil Nadu, on the other
hand, pleads that it has already developed large tracts of land and as a result
has come to depend very heavily on the existing pattern of usage. Any change in
this pattern, it says, will adversely affect the livelihood of millions of
farmers in the state. But since the
river Cauvery originates in Karnataka, the state has constructed dams that can
hold the water to provide for its agricultural needs especially during droughts.
The use of the Sun’s ingresses into sidereal “cardinal” constellations was
popularized by Garth Allen, the brilliant American astrologer and amateur
astronomer. He discovered that these charts, in a most astonishing and
convincing way, accounted for most of major events that had occurred during
their operation.
In this post we shall use the sidereal Cancer Ingress of the
Sun progressed to September 2 to explain the court’s ruling. Notice that the progressed chart
brings the Sun to MC and thereby triggers the complex configuration
containing Saturn-Neptune and Uranus.
The ongoing square between Saturn and Neptune is asking us to consider
the value of each planet's distinct symbolic voice in addressing moral
questions… and also accentuating the need to incorporate reasonable amounts of
both voices (as we're pressured to do whenever planets square each other),
understanding the outright victory of either, at the total expense of the
other, would represent a failure in essential integration.
Neptune always appeals to our 'spiritual' side. It asks us to
recognize the indivisible whole we comprise, as interdependent life-forces
aiming to thrive in this shared dimension. From Neptune's perspective, we ought to do
whatever we can, in every moment, to immediately ease others' suffering. Saturn, as the planet-symbol of reasonable
limits and intentional self-restraint, would warn us about the excesses of such
thinking. Indiscriminately pouring our caring energies down whichever
stream-of-need happens to pull us in, we'd begin to notice ourselves becoming
depleted. We might wonder whether this unconditional investment of care is worth
the potential costs to our own well-being.
Having understood the moral questions that the
Saturn-Neptune square raises, let us turn our attention to the stars that form the backdrop to Sun,
Uranus and Neptune since they add further details from which the news story can
be built.
Neptune [12pi] aligns with lambda Aquarii [12pi], in the
stream of water from the Water Pourer’s Urn. The Sun [25cn05] is conjunct alpha
(α Canis Minor), Procyon [26cn] a star
on the body of the Lesser Dog which was part of the ancient Chinese asterism Nan-Ho, the Southern River. Forming
a square aspect to the Sun is Uranus [24ar] which is conjunct the star Acamar
[23ar]. Theta (θ) Eridanus, Acamar, is a star in the River Eridanus which Nick
Fiorenza associates with a dam. If we remember the fact that Uranus’
action is often likened to a sledge hammer that breaks down Saturnian walls of resistance,
is it too difficult to see why the
Supreme Court’s is asking the parties
concerned to live and let live!
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