“Man has always lived with a
myth, and we think we are able to be born today and to live in no myth, without
history. That is a disease.” – Carl Jung
Journalist
Whitney Webb recently tweeted a 2010 video clip I’d never seen before featuring
US National Security Advisor John Bolton defending the use of deception in
advancing military agendas, which highlights something we should all be paying
attention to as Trump administration foreign policy becomes increasingly
Boltonized. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-16/time-john-bolton-said-its-good-lie-about-war
Bolton has been called a "war hawk" and is an
advocate for regime change in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen and
North Korea and repeatedly called for the termination of the Iran nuclear deal.
He was an early supporter of the Iraq War and continues to back this position.
He has continuously supported military action and regime change in Syria,
Libya, and Iran.
Of late John Bolton
is expanding his influence in increasingly visible ways, pursuing his own
long-standing foreign policy priorities at the risk of tensions with top
administration officials — and even Donald Trump himself.
Bolton was born on November 20, 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland.
For readers who are unfamiliar with
astrology, in a natal chart the Sun and the stars that form the backdrop to the
Sun are of utmost importance in
delineating a horoscope. Bolton’s natal Sun is at [28 Scorpio]. About this
area, Diana Rosenberg [1] writes:
Here are the stars of strongman Hercules, man-beast
Centaurus, the Serpent and tropical Scorpio’s martian-plutonian energies. This
produces daring trail-blazers with a willingness to take great risks. Obsessive and absolutist with a grim,
unconditional determination to bring about their desired ends. Shrewd
manipulators, verbally gifted, they are fascinated by propaganda and “spin”.
The Centaur represents
the conflict between man’s lower nature and higher nature, the struggle between
primitive untamed passions and humane compassion, patience and love. Because of
their uncompromising natures, there is a danger of fanaticism, bitterness and
deep anger at anyone or anything they perceive to be evil. Militant, vehement,
unwavering, they can be jealous, vicious, spiteful, destructive, selfish and
self-righteous, bigoted and rabidly intolerant making enemies by the truckload.
This is an excellent description of Bolton from Diana
Rosenberg who had no way of knowing the man. But more significantly, the
passage tells us how each of us is constrained by the stars that conjoin the
placement of the natal Sun. This is not to say that we are condemned by the
stars. Quite often as is the case here, there are some constellations that
offer a higher path. Here Hercules offers strength and courage while the ever-regenerating
Serpent of deep knowledge grants transformation, healing and renewal, should
this higher path be taken.
Symbolically, the centaur; half man, half horse represents
the danger of domination by baser influences, instincts, the unconscious
uncontrolled by the spirit. The man-beast combination illustrates the conflict
between man’s lower animal nature merged with his higher nature of human virtue
and judgement, the struggle between the savage and the benign. In the picture
above notice that the centaur is shown carrying a spear that impales a wolf
(Lupus). Also shown is the altar where the wolf is (should be?) sacrificed. The wolf – a despoiler of flocks, rapacious,
cruel, crafty and bloodthirsty – has long been a symbol of evil. The Centaur
impaling the wolf and subsequently
sacrificing it on the altar alludes to the aspect of the Centaur as a punisher
of the crimes of the animal half.
Quite often what is visible in a person’s life born under
Centaurus is one part of the story. We may see him identified with the
animal-half but then there may be a price to pay.
The psychological rule
says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as
fate….That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become
conscious of his inner contradictions the world must perforce act out the
conflict and be torn into opposite halves.”
C. G. Jung, 1959, CW 9, par 126.
The Full Moon [28sc] of May 18 falls exactly on Bolton’s
natal Sun [28sc]. It is likely that we may see Centaurus, the punisher pull up
Bolton so that he is made aware of his inner contradictions.
[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2,
p.253-54)
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