The ocean (Neptune) pounding the
land (Saturn)
They
apparently don't understand that the more they slander it, the more popular it
becomes. It is massively oversubscribed and the organizers have been forced to
double the capacity.
The
most powerful figure in the anti-globalist trend in Europe today, Matteo
Salvini, a hero to the populist-national right and scourge of globalists, is
welcoming them to his populist stronghold, Verona, ground zero for the
anti-globalist uprising, and giving the keynote address at the conference on
March 29.
Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician serving as Deputy
Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of the Interior. He has been considered as
a hard Eurosceptic politician, holding starkly critical view of the European
Union, especially of the euro. Salvini opposes illegal immigration into Italy
and the EU as well as the EU's management of asylum seekers.
Salvini’s horoscope
as given by Astro-Databank [1] is reproduced here. From his horoscope it is not too difficult to
see the reason for his policies. Mark the prominent T-square with Sun-Venus at the
apex square the Saturn-Neptune
opposition. Saturn is the planet of boundaries which Neptune loves to
dissolve and breakdown. A beautiful
metaphorical image of the eternal struggle between Saturn (land) and Neptune
(ocean) is the sea pounding the rocks on
a coastline and dissolving it over time with the coastline fighting to maintain its unique identity.
Neptune upholds selflessness as a virtue, potentially to the
perilous point where we become enfeebled martyrs. If we see someone drowning,
do we just jump into the depths and try our best to save them, neglecting to
consider our swim skill-level or the condition of the water? Are two drowning
casualties any nobler than one?
From Saturn's perspective, our time is limited and our
resources finite… and we must be deliberate, constructive, and disciplined in
how we spend it. We thoughtfully pick-and-choose where we aim to make our difference, for
the sake of both efficiency and functionality. The best-of-intentions is
meaningless if it doesn't yield some concrete improvement.
An opposition between Saturn and Neptune is therefore, in a
sense, also a conflict between nationalism and
globalization, between maintaining boundaries and opening them to immigration. The current Neptune transit over Salvini’s radix
Sun is the primary trigger that has made his struggle between Saturn and
Neptune so acute.
In her post, Saturn/Neptune:
A History Lesson, Lynn Hayes [2] gives an example from a previous
Saturn-Neptune opposition.
One of the more interesting events of the previous Saturn/Neptune
opposition of 1899-1900 (with Saturn in Sagittarius and Neptune in Gemini) was
the Boxer Rebellion against foreign influence in China which took place during
the final years of the Qing Dynasty. The Boxer Rebellion sprang out of
nationalist fervor against foreigners and Chinese Christians.
Going back to Salvini’s chart let us note that the T-square
turns into a Grand Cross if we add the TNPs Zeus and Kronos. Martha
Wescott provides the following
interpretation:
Kronos-Zeus: to be angry at leaders, laws and government
(EU?) ; to present opinions with an undercurrent of strong feelings; leaders on
the edge of restraint; to see attempts
to push leaders or officials into precipitant action.
Finally we look at Salvini’s diurnal horoscope[3] for March 29, the date of the start of the
conference. The diurnal MC is [12vi19] exactly conjunct his TNP Zeus [12vi49]!
The Sabian symbol [4] for his radix Zeus and the diurnal MC is so revealing!!
PHASE 163 (VIRGO
13°): A POWERFUL STATESMAN OVER-COMES A STATE OF POLITICAL HYSTERIA.
KEYNOTE: The focusing
of the collective need for order and structural interdependence into a
personage who incarnates the answer to this need.
We are at the stage
where a powerful realization of the very purpose of the cycle of existence
faces the chaotic remains of a dis-structured past. The character of the leader
is always delineated by the need, subconscious though it may be, of the
unformed agglomeration of entities he is called upon by destiny to lead. We have before us a personage endowed with
CHARISMA, this elusive and mysterious power that comes from a man's or woman's
openness to the power of planetary evolution.
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