The Festival of Dionysus
At least 151 people were killed and 150 others were injured after being crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital of Seoul, South Korean officials said. https://bit.ly/3WeZ1xi
The Solar Eclipse of October 25 at 2º00’ Scorpio is applying closely to a conjunction with Venus at 2º39’ Scorpio. The reanimation of Venus by the Sun on October 22 marked a point of renewal in our relationship with Venus, the planet we associate with enjoyment. Experiences of various forms of Venus (revelry here), for example, can bring release as part of the regeneration underway.
On Oct. 28, Jupiter re-entered Pisces in retrograde motion coming together with Neptune again within seven degrees in the same sign. Astrologers have connected Pisces and Neptune to the god Dionysus. In his destruction of form, we see the dissolving and death of Pisces necessary to prepare for the equinox birth of the cardinal sign Aries, the first of the zodiac.
In the mundane chart for Jupiter’s ingress into Pisces drawn for Seoul we see the prominent Saturn-Uranus-Nodes T-square aligned with the horizon. If Saturn-Uranus is about the need for freedom (Uranus) from work and routine (saturn), the Sabian symbol for the “reaction point” (opposite apex Saturn) confirms this:
PHASE 139 (LEO 19°): A HOUSEBOAT PARTY.
KEYNOTE: The enjoyment of temporary freedom from rigidly structured social behavior.
Anchored to Saturn-Uranus is the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction forming a square to Mars in Gemini just about to station in the 5th house of partying and revelry. With Jupiter’s tendency to overdoing, its connection to Neptune and Mars can cause the Dionysian revelry to go over the top.
In conclusion we may say that we are being drawn to critically examine and shed values and beliefs we have been conditioned by society to exalt, or release identities we have been conditioned to take on.
The crowd crush occurred at 22:20 local time [1] just 11 minutes after the Moon formed its square aspect to Jupiter on the MC.
Finally we note that the horoscope of South Korea [2] has the current Saturn transit opposing the radix Sun [22le11] - Pluto [14le48] conjunction. The Sabian for radix Pluto is:
PHASE 135 (LEO 15°): A PAGEANT, WITH ITS SPECTACULAR FLOATS, MOVES ALONG A STREET CROWDED WITH CHEERING PEOPLE.
KEYNOTE: The more or less sensational release of energies in a form dramatizing the unconscious aspirations of man's primitive and instinctual nature.
The street pageant, perhaps a tumultuous carnival, brings men and women to a peak of emotional excitement, and perhaps incandescence.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaewon_Halloween_crowd_crush
[2] http://www.dominantstar.com/a_southkorea.htm
Thank you I was waiting for an article on the crowd crush. The transit of the South Node in Scorpio (its sign of exaltation) has been haunting 2022. The South Node, activated by the eclipse and the T-square, speaks of dissolution (from matter to spirit). But why South Korea? If I'm not mistaken this solar eclipse (2° Scorpio) was in a conjunction to the geodetic ascendant of Seoul (1° Scorpio).
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