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Coronavirus and the US Sibly

 
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



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 United States often referred to as the Sibly. In this post we look at the progressions of the Sibly.


Astrological progressions are one of the main means used in Horoscopic astrology to forecast future trends and developments (the other means is transits, which are simply the ongoing movements of the planets across the sky). As its name implies, astrological progression involves a method of progressing the Horoscope forward from the moment of the birth or beginning of the subject into the future, and is most usually done for the birth or natal chart of a particular individual.

Astrological progression is a part of what is usually called predictive astrology, the claim of astrology to predict or forecast future trends and developments. Most astrologers nowadays regard the term 'prediction' as something of a misnomer, as modern astrology does not claim to directly predict future events as such. Instead it is claimed that an astrological pattern with regard to the future can correspond with any one of a variety of possibilities. What is in fact foretold is the trend of circumstances and the nature of the individual's reaction to the situation.  In other words, progressed and transiting movements of the planets indicate phases in the individual's life when the potential shown in the natal chart will be given opportunities for development, whether through favourable or unfavourable circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_progression


There are several standard ways of progressing a chart. Here we examine the Sibly solar arc progressions. The current solar arc progressed Sun is [15pi24] is conjunct the medical asteroid Aesculapia [16pi] linked to disease and ill health [1]. In addition, the Sun is making a hard aspect to the Sibly  TNP Hades [0sc47] which is square Pluto [27cp32]. The tables below from Blake Finley’s essay on Hades [2] gives some keywords for the TNP. Notice that bacteria (virus?), “disease and epidemics” are some of them. Combine Hades with Aesculapia and you have the link to Coronavirus. 


KEYWORDS FROM WORKS BY ALFRED WITTE & HERMANN LEFELDT (1959 and earlier)
[+]
subordinate; servants; the "lower" social classes
by-products
secrets
hesitancy
chemistry
coal-mines
[-]
refusal; renunciation
bothersome conditions; irritants 
gloom; sorrow
procrastination; delays 
prejudice*; superstition
lowness; baseness
the deteriorating power of the past
junk; waste material
filth
disease; epidemics
deprivation; neediness
misfortune; poverty





KEYWORDS FROM ROGER JACOBSON'S "LANGUAGE OF URANIAN ASTROLOGY" (1975)
[+]
disgust toward evil or sinister influences
awareness of need for purification
distant past; antiquity
underground manifestations
organic fertilizer
decomposition of effete matter
service
mental analysis
secrecy
[-]
disintegration.
ruins; slums; garbage; filth; stagnant water; putrefaction
stagnant water
sewers; drains; grubs; moles
lower intestines
bacteria
impoverishment; degradation
neglect; sorrow; defects; danger
scavengers; predatory behavior



But let us understand that the central Sibly Hades-Pluto square that has been triggered  by the progression means far more…and the epidemic is simply one of the manifestations. In case we forget Saturn and Pluto are also transiting over Sibly Pluto [3].  In her book The Orders of Light, Martha Wescott interprets Hades-Pluto as:

Hades-Pluto: changes (Pluto) that are not for the better but that bring about a decline (Hades); to recognize that ugliness (Hades) is rooted in resentment or a desire for revenge or power (Pluto); problems and decline (Hades) through debt, reliance on credit, and loss of integrity (Pluto).

  Hopefully readers can see that each of the keyphrases above is also active in the US scenario! This is what Jung meant by synchronicity!!


[2] http://www.uranian-institute.org/bfhades.htm
[3] The following passage from Steven Forrest’s The Book of Pluto applies:
Astrologer Grant Lewi, decades ago began to speak of Saturn as “the cosmic paycheck”. His implication was that under passing Saturn symbolism, we would all "get what we deserve". That phrase – “get what we deserve” is something of an inkblot test. Some of us may hear it ominously, others encouragingly. And both possibilities are on the radar screen when Pluto links to Saturn.…what if we have been overindulging in denial, projection and laziness? What kind of paycheck  can we expect then? Here we see the dark side of Pluto-Saturn possibilities. Our worst fears come true. The one thing we couldn’t handle looms in our face.




Further Reading: Astrology of the Chinese Coronavirus  https://bit.ly/2sIOLo0

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