Bridge across a deep gorge
Housewives,
grandmothers and students in Delhi at centre of resistance to new citizenship
laws. With a toothless grin and a clenched fist raised to the heavens,
90-year-old Asma Khatun chanted exuberantly. “Azadi,” she cried, using the
Hindi word for freedom and joining a loud chorus that rang out across Shaheen
Bagh, a neighbourhood in South Delhi that over the past few weeks has become a
nationwide symbol of resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/21/modi-is-afraid-women-take-lead-in-indias-citizenship-protests
Charts of nations have seldom been studied as deeply as
individual nativities. But astrologers are beginning to realize that national
charts can yield profound insight into
what is happening to a nation. Presented here is the chart of the Republic of
India. In a previous post [1], I discussed the effect of the solar eclipse on the MC of this chart. In
summary, the eclipse was illuminating the great disparity between those who
insist upon perpetuating an antiquated paradigm of conflict and domination, and
the "cultural creatives" who herald a progressive personal and
societal metamorphosis.
In this post we look at a very significant transit of Uranus
over the radix Moon [5ta44]. The horoscope of the Republic has a powerful Sun
[7aq] – Moon [5ta] square. The Sun is in the 11th house which rules
the “parliament and long term national
programs.” [2] The Sun itself stands for the rulers or those in authority. The
Moon in general stands for the masses but more specifically it rules
women. A square aspect in astrology is
considered inharmonious and stressful. The masses (and women) are resisting the
laws enunciated by the national leaders in parliament.
Uranus the Great Awakener is lending support to the
break-down of established patterns or structures that have out-lived their
usefulness to replace them with creative new structures. Uranus brings with it
a new way of looking at things, and its approach is best met with an expanded
consciousness. Originality, inventions, computers, cutting-edge technologies
and future events are all ruled by this planet. Uranus sees no need for the
status quo, preferring instead to break with tradition and create a new mold.
While the building blocks (science, electricity) are safe here, this planet
would rather focus its gaze on a new world order. To that end, rebellion,
revolution, dictators, an autonomous state and free will all fall under the
aegis of this planet.
Looking at the Sabian symbol for the Moon can reveal the
higher purpose of the Uranus activation. Dane Rudhyar’s commentary on the
symbol is illuminating in the current context.
PHASE 36 (TAURUS 6°): CANTILEVER BRIDGE
ACROSS A DEEP GORGE.
KEYNOTE: The
conquest of separativeness through group-cooperation.
All great
evolutionary challenges imply the overcoming of basic difficulties. A step
ahead must be taken, yet an abyss confronts evolving man. A link must be built
through the power of the collective mind of the group or of the community at
large, on the basis of the legacy of the past, to make a bridge over the
canyon. The man-made bridge built with collective skill gives substance to and
demonstrates man's capacity to CONQUER OBSTACLES and to achieve evolutionary
continuity as well as expansion in space.
To better understand the meaning of the symbol let us
look at another piece of the jigsaw provided by the chart of the lunar eclipse
of January 11 at Delhi. Notice that the eclipse axis aligns with the meridian
implying that the eclipse has a significant message for the place. The eclipse
Moon [20cn] is amid the stars of the Gemini Twins opposite Saturn-Pluto.
Sidereal Gemini often depicted as brothers hugging each
other has been associated with the brotherhood – sisterhood of mankind. With a
club (in Pollux’s left hand) and bow and arrow (in Castor’s right hand), the Twins also stand for racial hatred and
persecution. The constellation has been found to be active both in instances of
religious or racial prejudice as well as in peaceful efforts to bring people
together in recognition of their common humanity.
In Capricorn, Saturn-Pluto is power that is a solid, visible, tangible reality. Like a wall.
Like a cage. Like batons used against protesters. Pluto enforces Saturn’s
authority. Capricorn represents social hierarchies and structures, with their
increasing divides between those who have wealth, privilege and agency, and
those who do not. But then again, if the misuse of power becomes radicalized,
so do resistance, solidarity, and forms of organization between individuals. At
the opposite end, the Gemini Twins hugging each other represent people coming
together . People who are no longer
going along with toxicity, subjugation and injustice. The masses are becoming the Plutonian wrecking ball to Saturn’s
obsolete laws.The resistance is dismantling outworn and ethically bankrupt
structures to rebuild them anew.
This then is the connection to the Sabian symbol of the
bridge being built across a gorge. Here the gorge represents the divide between
the people of different communities but the eclipse with the Gemini Twins
hugging each other is symbolically referring once again to the hope that a bridge
will be built between communities that were so far separated.
[2] Astrology of India’s social unrest https://bit.ly/2RwbXyi
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