You are standing on the sea-shore and the
waves wash up an old hat, an old box, a shoe and a dead fish and there they lie
on the shore. You say “Chance”. The Chinese mind asks “What does it mean that
these things are together?” – Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life
Last
year, British photographer Steve Jones shot the well-preserved wreck of the
World War Two US bomber B-17G Flying Fortress off the island of Vis, Croatia.
The aircraft crashed in 1944 after getting hit by anti-aircraft fire, killing
co-pilot, Ernest Vienneau. May 30 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170404-divers-mesmerising-images-of-wrecks
Dennis 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. He points out that we are conditioned
not to attach too much significance to coincidences that occur. However,
anybody who follows the news carefully will not fail to notice that sometimes
there is a run of “similar” events. Astrologers are in a unique position to see
“similarities” between planetary
combination occurring in the heavens and
events on earth.
Research has shown that chart angles have the property of
bringing together planetary aspects that may be otherwise considered
separating. In May 2017, transit Mars squared Neptune on May 11 and then went on
to oppose Saturn on May 29. A chart for the exact Mars-Saturn opposition at
London has the T square straddling the meridian.
Saturn-Neptune aspects have been related to disasters at
sea while Mars-Saturn is a combination we often link to war. Put
together we can see how, in our particular context, the combination can refer to the war wrecks
that the BBC article talks about.
Neptune has also been associated with the world of images. The
last time Neptune visited Pisces, in the 1850s, was when photography first began
to appear regularly in newspapers; for the first time in history, everyday
people were exposed to actual photographic images, and across that decade this
trend became the standard.
We can now begin to see why the article on BBC with
beautiful underwater images of the wrecks was published at the
Mars-Saturn-Neptune T square.
But let us go back to Elwell’s multicongruence idea and see
if there were other manifestations of the T-square.
Presented here is the chart for the New Moon at Madras,
India. Once again the Mars-Saturn-Neptune T-square occupies the angles. Based
on archaic religious ideas, the BJP government
had banned the trade of cattle for slaughter. Subsequently, the Madras
High Court stayed the ban stating that it violated the fundamental rights of
the citizens.
In its less conscious manifestation, Saturn in
Sagittarius can describe how rigid belief structures
gobble up images and convert them to predetermined
meanings. In place of the explorer, we find the believer steeped in fundamentalist logics often passed on to him
by tradition . Faced with infinite possibilities the believer tries hard to
crop the Neptunian images and fit them into existing structures.
Opposite Saturn is Mars which can translate to aggressive
action on behalf of one’s beliefs. Mars
is conjunct Al Hecka in the south horn of the Bull (cattle !). About this star,
Nick Fiorenza writes:
Al Hecka, Zeta
Taurus, the south horn, is of stalemates, standoffs, and brick walls—fighting
old and antiquated crusades—particularly of a religious-political nature—and
blindly or automatically continuing the fight out of habitual pattern even
though the original purpose behind what we were fighting for is long gone. Al
Hecka can express as beating one’s head against the wall, a relentless and
futile pursuit. Al Hecka brings attention to when the accomplishment pursued is
of a time no longer applicable—the time to surrender the physical struggle and
move onward into a field of mutual cooperation.
This then becomes another expression of the T-square
which when looked at superficially does
not appear to be related to the first example but indeed comes from the same
star patterns.
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