Pegasus inspired muses of music and dance
For 40 years, the annual Natya Kala Conference hosted at the Krishna Gana Sabha in Chennai has been the most exalted platform for classical dancers to present their tradition through words and choreography. A few days ago (December 26 to December 30), however, the five-day conference – India’s first and biggest dance conclave – shed its rarified air to walk into the heat and dust of the real world. Working with the title TranscenDance, it engaged with subjects like social justice, gender violence, disability, migration, ageing, motherhood and even the Gaza crisis through choreographies, workshops and lecture demonstrations. Jan.6
The phases of the Moon are among the most reliable indicators of events on earth. To understand how their energies are focused at any place of interest astrologers routinely draw charts of monthly lunations. Presented here is the chart for the Full Moon of Dec. 27 drawn for Chennai. One can immediately see that the New Moon is placed on the horizon and therefore significant for the place. As always aspects to the angles are the most important. Here we notice that a Mars-Mercury conjunction on the Ascendant squares Neptune.
In itself, a Mars-Mercury combination is enthusiastic, direct and courageous in expressing itself and can win admiration. Mars can combine with Neptune to fight for some worthy cause. Traditional public standards do not bind passions.
For the stars that form a backdrop to Mercury-Mars, Diana Rosenberg writes:
The heads of the Dragon and Serpent-Bearer are filled with powerful, ageless wisdom that can be used for healing, and indeed, mending, restoring and revivifying are their greatest potentials..Combined with the influence of tropical Sagittarius, there is ...discovery and experimentation, but these are often at war, without and within, with rigid dogmas. They “think big” with remarkable powers of visualisation and ideas that are often ahead of their times.
And for the stars that conjoin Neptune, she writes:
...other fields of achievement are the arts (especially music, dance and choreography - this is the Vedic mansion of “happy feet” and the area of Pegasus’ prancing legs!
So if we combine the energies of these stars we can begin to understand why:
“the NKC was able to into its fold, dancers and dance enthusiasts, scholars, commentators, and scholars to converge and deliberate upon dance and the many aspects that pertain to it.
Bharatanatyam dancer Rama Vaidyanathan, the convenor of the conference for the third year running, says it is time to look at dance beyond the conventional proscenium and shed the self-absorption that marks the classical arts”.
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