Venus and Mars - Sandro Botticelli
Baia
was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire - the place where the rich and powerful
came to carry out their illicit affairs. Rome's ultra-wealthy took weekend
trips here to party. Powerful statesmen built luxurious villas on its beach,
with heated spas and mosaic-tiled pools where they could indulge their wildest
desires. One resident even commissioned a nymphaeum - a private grotto
surrounded by marble statues, dedicated solely to 'earthly pleasure'. More
than 2,000 years ago, Baia was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire - a resort
town approximately 30km from Naples on Italy's caldera-peppered west coast that
catered to the whims of poets, generals and everyone in between. The great
orator Cicero composed speeches from his retreat by the bay, while the poet
Virgil and the naturalist Pliny maintained residences within easy reach of the
rejuvenating public baths. It was also the place where the rich and powerful
came to carry out their illicit affairs. Jan 5 http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180104-ancient-romes-sinful-city-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea
Events in the news do not occur randomly. An article on Baia
– an ancient ‘sin-city’ – is published in London on Jan.5, the day transit Sun conjoins
Pluto’s station direct position [16cp] of Sept. 28, 2017. Pluto rules our
primal desires usually buried under layers of socially civilized or cultured
behavior. Psychology teaches us that the way to correct an issue that has been
buried in the unconscious is to project it, thus externalizing it. It is often
the only way individuals and societies can consciously grapple with a huge
internal issue, and it appears to emerge coincidentally with an event or
external experience.
A chart for Pluto station direct on Sept. 28, 2017 drawn for
London is shown here. The Sabian symbol
for Pluto [16cp51] is:
Phase 286: A
repressed woman finds a psychological release in nudism.
Keynote: The escape
from bondage to social inhibitions and a reliance upon the wisdom of the body.
Under the pressure of
religions that have created a sharp and unwholesome divide between soul and
body, society has produced strict codes of values regarding the play of natural
instincts and has glorified them under the name of “decency” and “modesty”. The
symbol represents a welcome protest against the depressing and neurosis-generating
puritanism of the past. – Dane Rudhyar
However, the Pluto station degree is a world-wide event. Why
is it so significant for London? Well notice that the chart carries a
Venus-Mars conjunction in the mundane 5th trine Pluto. The 5th house rules “sexual
issues and promiscuity” as well as “places of enjoyment and recreation”[1].
Moreover, the Venus-Mars conjunction (a combination related
to sexual affairs) is placed in the Indian lunar mansion Purva Phalguni linked to “sensual self-indulgence and amorous
pleasures”[2].
Finally, if we now progress the chart to Jan.5, the date of
the news, the progressed horizon aligns with the Venus-Mars conjunction
triggering the news.
[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1,
p.618-19)
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