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
Himanshu
Roy, a top Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a former chief of the
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, committed suicide on Friday, May 11. He was
54. Roy, who was serving as the Additional Director General of Police in
Maharashtra, shot himself with his service revolver at his residence in south
Mumbai between 1pm and 1:15pm. His wife Bhavna, who was in their home at the
time of the incident, rushed him to the nearby Bombay Hospital in Marine Lines
where Roy was declared dead on arrival at 1:47 pm. May 11 https://goo.gl/Sg1tPo
The worldview underlying astrology sees all of reality as
symbolic in nature. To the symbolist, the heavenly bodies are threads within a
great tapestry of affinities and correspondences. 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. However, anybody who follows the news
carefully will not fail to notice that sometimes there is a run of “similar”
events.
In our previous post we saw how the Kenya dam burst [1] could
be related to the Uranus-Pluto-Mars-Mercury square on the angles at the Last
Quarter Moon of May 8. Here we see the same configuration brought to the angles
by the upcoming New Moon of May 15. Among the several manifestations of
Uranus-Pluto, we have “breakdowns or accidents” which is what happened to
Himangshu Roy – a kind of collapse like the dam burst in Kenya.
If we add the asteroids involved more details are revealed.
Conjunct Mars and Pluto are the asteroids Askalaphus
(illness) and Orpheus (death). Martha
Wescott links Pluto-Orpheus to the disease cancer. Coincidentally, Himanshu Roy
(born June 23, 1963) [2] had a natal Mars-Pluto-Uranus conjunction for which we
have the following key phrases:
Superhuman power;
great self-confidence; extra-ordinary force and vigor; obsession with physical
fitness.
All these fit the “supercop” perfectly.
So what went wrong? One expression of Mars-Pluto is a
policeman (Mars) who struggles to conquer the underworld mafia (Pluto). This is
what Roy was living out. But Pluto being the god of the underworld rules the
animal instincts in man with which the “civilized” world has not yet come to
terms with. The “policeman” seeks to control or eliminate those elements from
society that appear to threaten its existence little realizing that Pluto is
inside him too and that it demands a
withdrawal of projections and attachments from the upper world so that he can
come to terms with the animal inside him.
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save
you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth
will destroy you.” ― Gospel of Thomas
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