German
police are investigating a couple who reportedly kept their son at home in the
Bavarian town of Bayreuth for 30 years. The man, who is now 43, has rarely been
seen since he stopped attending school at the age of 13. Police say he looked
neglected but not underfed, and stress they may not press charges. The mother
told local media "he didn't want to go out", and she had only wanted
to protect him. The police were alerted to the mysterious case by a tip-off
last month, and took the man from his home to hospital. Oct.5 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37560875
When eclipses are interpreted symbolically, we are not only able
to discover their deeper meaning but also connect events which at first sight
may appear unconnected.
The Origins and
History of Consciousness is a 1949 book by psychologist and philosopher Erich
Neumann. In this book he outlines how human consciousness develops out of
unconsciousness through a series of stages, a process represented by the ego's
emergence from the "uroboros", a primordial condition of
self-contained unconsciousness symbolized by the circle of a snake devouring
its own tail. As the ego consciousness differentiates itself from uroboric
unconsciousness, it begins to experience this primordial unconsciousness both
as the life-giving origin of its existence and as a threat to its newly won
autonomy. This ambivalent experience is often given shape in the form of the
Great Mother, who bestows all life and also holds life and death, existence and
non-existence, in her all-powerful hands. For true autonomy to occur, the
domination of the Great Mother must be shaken off by individual ego
consciousness. This process occurs by two subsequent stages: first, the
separation of the world parents in which the opposites of masculinity and
femininity emerge from the matrix of uroboric unity, and second the hero myth,
in which the ego aligns itself with the principle of heroic masculinity in
order to free itself from the dominance of the matriarchy.
The Great Mother archetype
is eventually transcended by the mythic Hero. His victory personifies the
emergence of a well-established ego consciousness from the prior sway of
unconscious or semi-conscious forces. [1]
But to get back to the eclipse, here is the chart for the
eclipse drawn for the Bavarian town of Bayreuth. The eclipse forms a T-square
with Saturn and Neptune. In astrology, the stages of birth of the individual ego (Saturn) from its
identification with the Great Mother (Neptune) is a process symbolized by
Saturn-Neptune aspects. For Neptune, love requires a primal fusion while Saturn pushes for the
development of healthy boundaries. But more significantly for Bayreuth, notice
that the eclipse T-square is anchored to Uranus at the descendant in the sign
Aries linked to independence and freedom. In the previous post [2] we saw how the same
eclipse was telling us symbolically how when a child’s development is not
hampered it develops its capacity to
stand up to parents by the age of 5 to 8 years. Illustrating the other end of
the spectrum, here we see an unfortunate example of a man of 43 years who has
been unable to cut the psychological ‘umbilical cord’ from his parents. But such is power of this eclipse, that with
Uranus in Aries, the man has been freed from his unnatural “chains”.
Incidentally, Uranus is conjunct stars in the right hand of the chained
Princess Andromeda!
To confirm that the eclipse was activated on October 5, the
date of the news, all we need to do is progress the eclipse chart to this date
and find the eclipse triggered by the progressed meridian axis.
PS: Here is little quiz for readers. The September 1 eclipse
is active at Washington,DC on November 8, election day in US Presidential
election as well as on January 20, the date of the Presidential inauguration.
What can we hope for? Just a hint Hillary appears to stand for the establishment while Trump is certainly anti-establishment.
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