By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
It’s been a week when the difference between reality and the distorted worldview of various political camps has created a murky potion of chaos and confusion. It brings to mind Macbeth’s witches, chanting over their dark recipe while incanting, “Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble.”
Yes, there’s burning and bubbling in the Empire, and a nasty little brew of circumstance to offer up to the gods as we anticipate a mutable Solar eclipse at zero degrees Gemini this Sunday. What’s that cooking in the pot, you wonder? Old fears, dashed hopes, a handful of determination, a pinch of defiance. I suspect there’s some eye of newt in there as well, and other things that have gone missing, like honest debate, journalistic ethics and perhaps even the 4+ billion bucks J.P. Morgan Chase’s Jaime Dimon lost in another fit of hubristic Wall Street dice throwing.
Either those who most egregiously push the envelop have shown their hand in the last few weeks, or we’re getting better at noticing; perhaps both. Who can argue that, as consumer advocate and senatorial hopeful Elizabeth Warren quickly pointed out, this Morgan-Chase incident proves why banks can no longer be trusted to police themselves? In a hastily convened board of directors meeting, 60% of J.P. MC gave Dimon a vote of continued confidence, something the shareholders later rejected but to no avail. Tim Geithner, representing the government, used financial-speak to send a clear message to Dimon that he should step down from the Board of the New York Fed, a declaration considered by economists to be a direct strike at Wall Street.
This appears to be a warning shot across Wall Street’s bow from the Obama administration. The winner of such a struggle, representing the Wall Street vs. Main Street dialogues and illustrative of what the president calls “a clear choice” in governance, is anybody’s guess. The banksters still live, breath and behave as if nothing went wrong in the first place. This is essentially the philosophical smack down between commonwealth and corporate power, starkly outlined between Obama’s followers and Romney’s, although the particulars are more nuanced. The Pubs don’t have to pick a side — they ARE the corporate party — but the Dems must once again pit their better instincts to serve the public interest against the ever-present cronyism that offers them lobbying money to fund a vicious re-election cycle.
This has been the liberal Achilles heel for generations and another reminder why the Supreme Court attacks against the McCain-Feingold (campaign financing) Act, prohibiting the use of “soft” money and advocacy ads, was prelude to weakened protections against buying influence with Citizens United. The big money has traditionally rested in conservative hands, now gone radical, which is no doubt why the American brand of Christianity has been hijacked by “prosperity” pastors and avaricious wealth judged as a sure sign of Almighty Gawd’s approval. In truth, that’s a kind of New Testament blasphemy, reminding us old-timers of bling-sporting, Caddy-driving Reverend Ike, the first of the prosperity hacks, who should have served as warning, but didn’t. The politicos are laughing all the way to the bank, the prosperity folks are wildly trying to tithe their way to that winning Lotto ticket, while the rest of us are forced to lick our financial wounds while pondering the gospel of Billie Holiday: them that’s got shall get, them that’s not shall lose and God bless the child that’s got their own.
In a world gone topsy-turvy, Jamie Dimon has been crowned the “gold standard” in CEOs, who aggressively went after proposed regulations in the Dodd-Frank legislation, which was an anemic replacement for the tough and largely successful banking regulations of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, repealed under the Clinton administration. For those with big money (and those who want it,) Dimon is king of the hill and seems unshakeable, even in the light of this new scandal. He is now set to testify before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on this loss — an echo of previous reckless behavior that required bail-out — the total cost of which remains in flux. The SEC is scrutinizing J.P. Morgan-Chase to see if securities laws were violated, and the FBI is investigating. Still, at this writing, Dimon seems less than willing to give up any power at all. He’s already apologized for his epic fail, confessing to overreach, while arrogantly indicating that the multi-billion dollar loss was just a pittance in the big world of financial speculation that he enjoys. And although he’s behaving as if he’s Teflon-coated, Dimon is quickly becoming the poster boy for a return to the “Too Big To Fail” dialogues.
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders — who refers to himself as a Democratic Socialist — wants to put an end to big money houses and CEOs with Midas-aspirations. He’s been a dynamo lately, proposing populist reforms and going after the “foxes guarding the hen house.” According to Bernie, ” … at a time when the six largest financial institutions have assets worth $9 trillion, which is the equivalent of two-thirds of the GDP of the United States, and when the top six banks provide half of the mortgages in America and over two-thirds of the credit cards, it is clearly time to break them up.” The ghost of FDR would agree, and, I suspect, so would you. That these big institutions have been allowed to grow to unrealistic proportions, entangled in a maze of irregular and confusing practices that seemingly solidify their need to exist, is no excuse to sustain them if they continue to hold the economy hostage and victimize the population.
Last week, we looked at the Hole in the Sidewalk hypothesis; you can review it here, mid-page. Essentially, our undiscovered patterns keep leading us back to the same set of challenges and dark circumstances until we become aware that this represents our life-choice, rather than some random victimizing event. It takes time to notice patterns and learn how to avoid them, and it takes a bit of spiritual maturity to suspend judgment in order to take a thorough internal inventory. The last decade has led many of us to do just that, allowed us to examine our relationships in light of subconscious programming, and given us practice in freeing repressed emotions and making better choices.
As always, understanding that the personal is political, and vice versa, remains critical to our growth as a species as well as our personal experience. When we are preoccupied with personal angst and relationship quandaries, we divert ourselves from the systemic issues that influence our life experience for good or ill: concerns like worker and civil rights, salaries and safety issues. We feel more empowered to deal with what is personal than what is political, even though both are tempered by social conditions that we may or may not have approved. What political holes have we dropped into, unaware? Having climbed out of some, are we in danger of falling back in? What dark wells of victimization have we accepted as simply part of life, as unworkable circumstances that we are powerless to effect? What situation do we still use as an excuse to wallow in our limitations?
You and I have awakened in the last years to discover a deep hole in the sidewalk of our national lives. Think of it as the 7 percent hole, with no easy way out. According to a 2010 study — the most recent — 93 percent of all new income created in 2009 went to the top one percent, while the bottom 99 percent got the leftovers. You and I, everyone we know and almost everyone we’ve ever heard of are sharing that meager portion of the national good. That’s a hell of a hole, friends. It’s going to take a real understanding of what #occupy is all about, a sincere look at what the future will hold for ourselves and the generations ahead under this kind of economic bullwhip, if we are to usher in a new era of peace and security. If the “love of money” is the root of all evil, we can only balance the inappropriate adoration of money if we are able to democratize its distribution. We can only succeed in consciousness-changing if we come together in awareness of this problem, if we care about our neighbor as our self, if we climb out of this hole on each other’s shoulders.
I went slogan hunting recently and found this quote: they only call it class war when we fight back. Those without money are pitted against dire problems of survival; those with money are not obsessed with class war in this society because they seldom feel its ramifications. We need them to feel it. If the Pubs continue to insist on austerity, there will be an enormous backlash that will shake the foundations of this county. You can’t cancel health care and food stamps and put people out on the streets without expecting chaos. I don’t think that’s a street we want to walk down, but it would certainly wake up what’s left of the sleepers.
I want to segue a moment and make some personal comment on the eclipse in Gemini. I am very early Sagittarius, so this eclipse opposes my Sun, and this business of opposites has been a lifelong theme for me. I have had three major relationships in my life, all Geminis. It got to the point where I literally ran when introduced to a Gem. For a long time I thought of the sign of the Twins as inhabiting the holes in my sidewalk, until I came to understand that the sidewalk was my expectation of relationship, and the Gems were my gurus. My opposites taught me everything I needed to know about myself. They all had some compelling quality I didn’t think I had, but once I discovered that missing piece in myself, I found that I’d completed the circle of self-empowerment. These kinds of teaching relationships are holy ground, and an eclipse can trigger the same sense of discovery, quick, like a lightning strike. It’s a bridging event, capable of bringing us closer to what we long for, what we need — who we are. It brings us change.
If we successfully negotiate awareness of our patterns and how they work, we leave the street behind us strewn with empty holes. From a political standpoint, sometimes I think the name of this street we’re on is capitalism. More often, I think our challenges are less about the system and more about the human condition that fosters such darkness. People who yap about the broken system and the dreadful government don’t realize they ARE the system, they ARE the government. It isn’t us and them; us and them is a game we play in order to get a clearer picture of ourselves. Surely we’ve gotten enough of that in the last decade.
The street we’ve all been down since the turn of the century is as pock-marked as a game of Whack-a-Mole. So many holes, so many people feeling victimized, so many unsure about how to climb out. We’ve got a way to go yet before we all realize these challenges are not accidents but choices we’ve made, with no one to blame but ourselves. And perhaps, before we’re done, we’ll also realize how holy it was to make this tempestuous journey, well remembered as we cross to take up residence on a brand new street.
Each bridging event can bring us renewed personal power, a new level of authenticity if we’re willing to work with it. I wish you all an easy passage and a Light-filled weekend, then, along with insight, encouragement and discoveries that will lift you along your path.
Carrie – taking a break from work (and fuming again), almost at the end of re-reading the Power of Now, I read these words that I want to share with you: “If you find your life situation unsatisfactory or even intolerable, it is only by surrendering first that you can break the unconscious resistance pattern that perpetuates that situation. Surrender is perfectly compatible with taking action, initiating change (…). But in the surrendered state a totally different energy flows into your doing”. Splendid words, that ring so true for me, and are oh so hard to carry out… (((( ))))
“We’ve got a way to go yet before we all realize these challenges are not accidents but choices we’ve made, with no one to blame but ourselves.”
This is the very litany that is condemning me in my head. Dave and I chose not to make materialism our gods but instead chose to invest in our children. By doing that, we have suffered financially almost every day of this long parenting journey (that is not over yet). I keep making the same choices and keep paying the same fear-laden price of worry and fear and struggling. I question my choice every day because I hear the guilt-inducing call of society which tells me that I have no right to stay home full time and raise my kids; that I should be out working while someone else takes care of their daily needs. I have no permanent home because one salary cannot buy a home anymore unless it is in a high-paying profession. In every aspect I buck the system and swim upstream and the struggle of that is often exhausting. The condemnation I feel for not following the capitalism track is palpable. We cannot participate in the everyday activities of mainstream capitalist America and that marginalization; though by choice, still hurts the kids at times.
“too many people who think that if they go against the big boys they will be spoiling their own chances for prosperity. What?!? egads.”
That’s because too many people are sitting where we are; one small step away from homelessness and no sure way to change that. Oh sure; I could go work outside the home (IF I could find a full time job and IF it pays enough for the childcare I would need and IF it offers affordable health care when my income makes us ineligible for medicaid) but the cost to my son (and the daughters I am launching into adulthood with all the love and balanced care I can) is not worth it.
We made the choice to focus on people instead of things and we are paying and paying and paying with worry, fear, constant financial instability, and angst. Our kids see a world with little choice offered to them even if they do manage to get a degree. They feel exploited, valueless except as consumers, inferior to all the higher-income people’s kids, and they fear their desires to help will not be realized through the lack of means to do so. They also fear standing up and being heard. They have said they believe intelligence is not valued and compasion is worthless in this society. So cynical for such young people.
Through all this negativity I still keep slogging on with my choice to put people before things. The universe keeps making sure we are roofed, fed, utilitied, and safe. I made the choice (before the school informed him that they would not renew it) to have my husband not take another contract at the school which used him so callously and which crushed his sweet, Cancer moon, deep Scorpio spirit and helpful Capricorn rising. I made that choice knowing that if he could not find another full-time teaching job, we would be living on his subbing income and my student loans again; making things even tighter than before. I hate trusting the universe to do this but my karma is to learn to trust (according to my astrology teacher) so I keep trudging along, oft times wrapped in fear and angst, but still telling myself I am being the change I want to see.
This is living in the trenches; facing every day and every moment that knowledge that I am swimming upstream, against the current of capitalism and materialism which soaks this society so deeply that even smart people are unaware of it. It permeates EVERYTHING so much that it is invisible to most, like carbon monoxide is invisible, but kills us just as surely.
Thanks Jude and be and aword and others for making me see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know I chose this tunnel but my mind reminds me that it shouldn’t have been this way; the choices I have made could have been encouraged, valued, affirmed. At least here, at PW, I am shown a light and a better direction. It is in that direction I continue.
:::singing::::
“We shall over come…”
Thank you, Huffy!
Actually, I just found an article that says that trhere ‘might’ be a connection. But… whatever.
Yesterday and today (starting *before* the earthquake) I’ve been reading a lot about shamanism, drums, earth healing and similar… I saw some wonderful pictures of the Indigenous Grandmothers… and went to sleep with a deep sense of nurturing, surrender and reconciliation with the Earth and womanhood.
A few hours later there was the earthquake. Interesting, eh?
Thank you so much dearest Jude, for your heartwarming and generous words. “you may find that knowing you’ll be inching toward the exit will provide some relief to the pressure and allow you to take your time finding something else”. Yes, I feel as if a weight has been lifted with my new realisation – and the anger and tension has melted. I can imagine it must have been so hard for you, bringing up a child alone and holding down a job. Now I’ll go and check out Sarah’s piece – as you suggested.
Thank you dear Paola! Though the ‘exit’ bit still needs working on! Don’t worry about the earthquake – am sure that the biggest one has been and gone – that these are the aftershocks that always come afterwards – when the earth is sorting itself out after its huge shake-up. The fact that it’s been raining, is a pretty sure sign of this. You make sure you have a good night’s sleep. Though it’s not easy, with this eclipse atmosphere.
Huffy, I hadn’t read your comment on the job *exit*. Great! I’m so happy for you.
Please, can somebody tell me that the eclipse has nothing to do with earthqukes??
I am lucky not to be where the earthquake was strong, but they say that there have been 75 shocks during the day. In the last hours I’ve felt better, but now, the night approaching, I’m sort of apprehensive. The eclipse is from now to 3am more or less.
Thank you!
Huffy dear, how wonderful to have had an a’ha of such magnitude! I’m so pleased for you. I’ve spent a bit of time in that same job/hole, being a single working mother, desperate for the paycheck and hanging in by the finger tips while wearing a bulls-eye on my forehead. If I had it to do again, I’d have “let go” sooner rather than later. Life ALWAYS responds to a void, something rushes in to fill it. And you may find that knowing you’ll be inching toward the exit will provide some relief to the pressure and allow you to take your time finding something else. There’s a bit of an echo on this topic as response on Sarah’s Tarot page, fyi. Anyhow — my heart celebrates your insights! Brava!!
And thanks to you and Paola for the earthquake updates — shake, rattle and roll, and let’s hope w/ a minimum of heartache. So MUCH going on and … we’re still not “there!”
You bet. I think (and hope) we’ll see something entirely different – regarding reconstruction.
But thank god – in a part of Italy where there is less rampant corruption, so the buildings can stand up to earthquakes and there hasn’t been the same devastating destruction and number of fatalities as in Aquila.
I’m pretty sure (hope!) that the worst of the earthquake is over, dear Paola – was a pretty big one, almost as strong as the one that devastated Aquila. xxx
Absolutely agree.
And the elections in some towns, today and tomorrow. Let’s see!
Take care too.
Hi Huffy! Thank you.
You know? I have the feeling that there is more to come too. I don’t want to give energy to that thought, so let’s hope that that’s it. At least, the big of it.
Ps it doesn’t make the terrible atrocity less horrible, as you say – but it mitigates the fear of another wave of terrorism attacks hitting Italy in these rocky times.
Thanks Paola – I read they’d found this ex-military guy, but didn’t realize it was the work of a lone nutter. As for the earthquake, I thought of you – you’re in Milan, aren’t you? I read that it had also been felt strongly there. Though I’m south of the earthquake – have really been feeling it. Explains why I’ve been feeling so sick and tired these days. Let’s hope that’s it – though I’ve a feeling there’s more to come. Speriamo bene! Take care of yourself.
As I was saying, a little shock right now. Breaaathe…..
Huffy,
as you can read in the news this morning they think now that the explosions at the School have been provoked by a crazy person. Not terrorism nor mafia, not that this makes is less horrible.
And for the earthquake, yes, I thought of the eclipse w-end too, when I suddenly woke up at 4.04. The next shock was at 5.04. Strange exactitude.
But I still feel sort of sick, as if something was not settled yet.
On a geo-political level, Italy has been really hit during this ‘eclipse weekend’. Just read that an earthquake took place last night in central Italy, killing four people. This comes hot on the heels of yesterday’s news, when a high school was hit by bombs in Puglia, Southern Italy, killing a 16 year-old girl and badly injuring other pupils. The whole country has been devastated by this story – and it is not known yet whether this attack was organised by the Mafia or national/international terrorists. As always, one can only look on in disbelief, horror and pain when children are targeted by such atrocities. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/italian-school-hit-bomb-attack?newsfeed=true
“that’s why it feels as if I can read this guys intent, without entering into the love him/hate him argument: he’s grace under pressure, and has a truly kind heart, so rare these days”. Just brilliant! xxx
Gosh Jude – couldn’t believe it when I read your amazing blog this morning! You say “Essentially, our undiscovered patterns keep leading us back to the same set of challenges and dark circumstances until we become aware that this represents our life-choice, rather than some random victimizing event. It takes time to notice patterns and learn how to avoid them, and it” And this theme threads right through your piece. Yesterday I finally connected the dot between my childhood and the abusive work situation I find myself in now, and have tried desperately to get out of, but haven’t been able to for a long time now. As I child I was both sexually and emotionally abused in my family. It was as if all the gifts and love I came into the world with were expropriated by others and used for their benefit. Needy and desperate for love – I was stuck in this miserable neurotic pattern. And of course this same pattern, the only one I knew, has played itself out in my working life – where all the gifts and experience I have are taken, exploited and used, without being properly compensated. I’ve tried to get out of the job, and not being able to, change my relationship with the woman I work for. But the deep realisation has had to come from me in order to be able to let go of this toxic relationship. The woman I work for doesn’t know any other way to relate to the people who work for her (including her poor son!), it’s time to leave – and this time I think I’ll be able to do it. I’ve always been held hostage by financial difficulties and the terrible work situation in the country I live in – but a change of heart can open unseen doors.
Sorry Jude! This has been totally personal, not at al political. But you have a wise and angelic heart – and thank you for your words. And to PW for this amazingly sacred space to bare our souls in.
Well gosh, you’ve sweetened the pot, be, and all that twenty-twelve energy dancing at cross-point feels like some kind of reckoning [which some consider an aggressive word but I always think of as “leveling things out.”] I remain very hopeful that the influx of energy at hand will offer us blessing [if we choose blessing.] And — please, everyone — DO so!
I used to laugh that I had earned a Masters in Gemini, but in the end it was more like a Masters in Jude. And yes, I owe them a lot; and continue to love each dearly. They, more than any others, pointed me back to myself. And the Obama Moon info is of interest to a 3 degree Sag — maybe that’s why it feels as if I can read this guys intent, without entering into the love him/hate him argument: he’s grace under pressure, and has a truly kind heart, so rare these days.
Thanks for comment and support, Raven-girl. ChuckieCheese? Remembrance of which is to be worn like a badge of endurance by honorable parents everywhere! As to those who have hitched their wagons to the Big Guys — the BG’s have convinced us — AND themselves — that ass-kissing as an art form is the only way to get ahead. But occasionally, stampeding “ahead,” some of us get a clear look at the goal we’re running to and trip over our feet, startled and mumbling, “WTF?” It’s that competition thing; in a competitive world there’s “not enough” and you’ve got to push yourself to the head of the line. A big lie but one we’ve bought, hook, line and sinker.
CIM sez the question of any moment is, “What do I want?” For too many, once we get on the hamster wheel, we forget to ask ourselves that question until we’re so heavily invested we think we have no choice but to continue. We do have — it just requires surrender; not something most of us are good at, although as much as we give our power away, you’d think we would be. Let’s affirm this new energy brings us clarity-clarity-CLARITY to blow away the confusion!
Thank you two dearhearts for the conversation today. I wish you sweet dreams and a stunning tomorrow.
Natal Phaethon at 10 AR 2 degrees shy of natal moon/Eris conjunction at 8 degrees and currently with Uranus spot on. At 8 Taurus he’s on natal Pallas/Hades et al party on my MC the House of the Rising Eclipse. Well.
Adding to the sagas about too near the sun (appropos for SUNday’s Solar eclipse) is Icarus who shares space with natal Sun at 2 PI which of course is hosting the Neptune transit and is all very square the eclipse (good for drowning? dousing with water/emotion?)
(Transiting Icarus is on natal Mercury, ruler of Gemini -of course!….can the relationships from my natal chart – to our political situations – to Sunday’s eclipse get bigger and better? (The answer, of course! is YES!)
I mispoke a bit on Fate names when naming Moira(i) at 2 PI rather than Klotho who is at 7 PI. (Moirai is a name for them all? Sometimes I just get confused.) But hey, since they are all there at my 8th house party anyway, maybe we can just play nice together at Whack the Mole. (lol Jude, I really used to LUV playing that at ChuckCheezes with my kids!)
There is SO MUCH going on in my personal/political sky-space that I suppose it’s best to turn the computer off now for 48 hours and not try to sort it out that way (ha; take THAT technology!)
I will say this – considering what you both Be and Jude have put here today, the political is personal. Fer sure.
Thanks for the reassurance that I’m not garbling, Be. Merc square Merc and all too! Just for Sunday….:)
Hey, do I have time for one more astral observation? Hope so, this one is so good. The solar eclipse tomorrow has Phaethon at 8 Taurus 40 conjunct Vesta at 9 Taurus 3 as they participate in the Grand Trine of Earth with Mars at 10+ Virgo and Pluto at 9+ Capricorn. So you all remember Appollo’s son Phaethon who demanded of his father the chance to drive the Sun chariot, and when he did he lost control and set the world on fire, and Jupiter had to shoot him down to save his own heavenly kingdom from the fires.
Well, Phaethon’s reckless behavior conjunct Vesta of, well, investments, reminds me of Jaime Dimon and his ilk; protected by the power of the Pluto types and the aggressivness of the Mars type and I just thought you should know two things about Phaethon in Taurus in this powerful eclipse chart. 1.) Phaethon and Vesta sextile Chiron in Pisces (with Neptune and garbley-gook) and they form a yod with the goddess Isis in Libra, remembered for her determination to pick up all the pieces. Isis has a target toward which she aims all that yod energy and it is . . . . wait for it. . . . Uranus in Aries. Surprise!
The 2nd thing in this chart you should know about Phaethon is that he is squared by Atlantis at 8 Aquarius 38, a very tight square. So perhaps we could see Phaethon brought down by a technology glitch (thanks for pointing me to that aword!). Then there is Persephone (stolen from her mother Ceres whom she herself is conjunct Black Moon Lilith!) opposite Atlantis, and then there’s Poseidon and friends in Scorpio opposite Phaethon . . . . . . it is a tangled web and it could get ugly.
My dad’s birthday would have been this Wednesday and that ole Gemini boy used to say, when his words got tangled “never take a Dutchman by what he says but by what he means.” I know garble when I hear it, and Linda honey, you ain’t no garbler.
be
Jude, your first paragraphs gave me such a good chortle. With personal Lachesis on MC at 0 Taurus; 10th house – the house of tomorrow’s eclipse for me … I feel particularly “witch-like” just now. hehheh. (Pallas on DML at 0 AR and on it goes around the wheel…what a time, what a time.)
I don’t know how you keep up with it all. Once again I am grateful for your ability to understand and disseminate politics for me. This eclipse already has me embracing the simple fact that I “get” “technology” without an engineering degree and my career has proven this over and over. Well, that’s nothing to do with politics, but a reminder to self to embrace those around me for their innate talents as well. So again, Thank You, I don’t know how you do it but I am oh so grateful.
What I do know is too many people who think that if they go against the big boys they will be spoiling their own chances for prosperity. What?!? egads.
Here’s to Be’s assessment that our leader and his moon will breath a ring of protective? enlightening? fire around this nation’s people’s ability to remain free – to work out for ourselves our deepest desires.
I will add that a rousing game of Wack a Mole is in order anytime.
garble, but heartfelt. thanks for the inspiration.
xo
Holey Moley Miss Judith, I’m sure glad you learned a lot from those Gemini’s and that you’ve shared some of it with us today. And that “double, double” business is so perfect a chant for tomorrow’s eclipse, I wish I’d thought of it! So there are a couple of astro notes to follow, but I just want to say first that I adore Bernie Sanders and your quote from him get’s my total agreement. Thank you.
Now. Here’s some news you might be pleased to hear. The U.S. progressed (Sibly) chart presently has the Uranian Point Apollon at 0+ Gemini. Yes, that means that the 0+ Gemini Solar Eclipse tomorrow has our U.S. Apollon’s name all over it. Before anyone asks, here are a few remarks from Ruth Brummond about his symbollic meaning: “Apollon was designated as the god of wisdom, whose many experiences taught him that passion is not the most important factor; that harmony, understanding, and evenness of temperament are critical in order to be able to carry out one’s goals successfully”
Before I cite more descriptive remarks about Apollon, let me remind those who may have forgotten, our Pres. Obama has his natal Moon at 3 degrees of Gemini. Right.
“Whatever dark forces needed to be expelled, Apollon set his energies in motion. Thus he led a successful battle with the dragon Python and banned it to obscurity. After that, Apollon was called the defender of the weak, the sickly, those in need of assistance, and those gone astray. With his calm composure, he brought an easing of tension and physical healing to those he encountered.” May I remind you that tomorrow’s solar eclipse at 0 Gemini conjuncts the U.S. progressed Apollon and the U.S. President’s natal Moon.
“In facing up to and dealing with excesses, he ultimately brought about balance.” That’s another quote from Ruth Brummond about the Apollon myth. Here’s another one” “Apollon symbolizes understanding and brilliance that leads not only to expansion of awareness, but also amplification of awarenes (according to Jean Gebser) and the accumulation of experiences in many areas.” U.S. progressed Apollon at 0 Gemini, eclipse at 0 Gemini, Obama Moon at 3 Gemini.
There’s more. In the chart for the Solar Eclipse tomorrow (7:47 PM EDT) the Uranian Point Apollon is at 27 Libra 49 retrograde. He makes several aspects but the only one I will mention is his square to Achilles at 27 Cancer 7, since you brought up the Dem’s Achilles heel of Lobbying Money. This particular Achilles in this particular eclipse chart opposes the U.S. natal Pluto at 27 Capricorn as well as the Moon in the upcoming birthday chart (solar return) for the U.S. This is a subject that will most definitely be addressed by the “People” (Moon) in the upcoming year.
I will now prepare for discovery and change as the Solar Eclipse will be conjunct my Pallas-Athene; small potatoes compared to your Sun. And as far as expecting chaos, well we must talk about that some more next month when Venus occults the Sun as she will also be conjunct Chaos. Great article today Jude and very inspiring. Thank you again.
be
http://www.uranian-institute.org/brtnpsum.htm