Today’s podcast describes the current Aries stellium and the approaching Taurus New Moon. Later in the discussion I look at the chart of Chernobyl, but first as background I explain the basis chart of atomic energy — the Nuclear Axis chart, which is the horoscope for the first self-sustaining atomic reaction. Today’s recording is about 48 minutes. The first third is about current astrology and about two-thirds is devoted to the nuclear issue. Here is the recording in the old player. If the new player sounds jumpy, please close browser windows.
This is the chart for the first known self-sustaining nuclear reaction, what I think of personally as the dawn of the nuclear age. The ‘axis’ of the chart is the opposition of planets across Gemini and Sagittarius. This pretty much sets the trap for nuclear incidents; most of the big ones you’ve heard of have planets in Gemini and Sagg, or in the corresponding degrees of Virgo and Pisces.
There are a few interesting factors in this chart that I don’t mention; one of them is that packed 8th house, which is halfway between a lot of death and ‘spiritual transformation’ that is mingled with international politics and banking (all factors of the 8th house) and a deal with the devil. Another factor in this chart is the degree 3+ Taurus rising — where Chiron would be discovered in 1977.
I do mention how powerful all of the first three discovered Centaurs are in this chart. Take a look — Nessus is rising; Pholus is on the midheaven; and Chiron is on the North Node. The whole nuclear issue is packed with the edgy, dangerous, contradictory realm of the Centaurs.
This is the Chernobyl chart. Look at all those planets in Gemini and Sagittarius. They match up almost exactly with the Nuclear Axis alignment in Gemini and Sagittarius. It’s pretty amazing, actually, especially considering that this was the worst (known) commercial nuclear accident in history.
Uranus is the star of this chart — it is exactly rising. Exactly, as in look at that alignment — it’s the H that’s on the horizontal line on the left side of the chart. The line is the ascendant and the H is Uranus — they have the same address, 22+. That is pretty amazing, given that the Chernobyl reactor contained uranium and the event was Uranian in nature — sudden, unexpected, irrevocable.
And, Sagittarius rising hints at the international scope of the event, and hooks into the powerful Sagg in the Nuke Axis chart. So this chart basically plugs in the whole Nuclear Axis chart in one go. It’s pretty impressive, really.
One bit — that mysterious degree of 28+ Gemini does show up in the Chernobyl chart — an asteroid called Psyche is there. This is psychic injury that we might feel like will never go away. Chernobyl hurt a lot of people physically, but it created an injury on another level as well.
Last, we have the chart for the explosion at Fukushima 3 the day after the quake. Fukushima 3 is the reactor full of what’s called ‘mox’ fuel — a blend of uranium and plutonium. Uranus and Pluto are in a square aspect, by the way, and this thing happened right after Uranus entered Aries. That was the way that Uranus stole this chart — something it has in common with the Chernobyl chart (though they stole it different ways).
The Nuclear Axis comes into this chart twice — the Gemini Moon is right there, right on the axis; and Mars in Pisces is square the axis. While the Moon has the feeling of haplessly wandering into the Nuclear Axis alignment, Mars in Pisces looks more like a thing that causes an explosive concussion — though in Pisces, it has that underwater feeling.
This is just an introduction — I give the details in the podcast.
hello All,
I’m deciding to activate the brave nature of Aries today and maybe do a little chart commentary. we’ll see how that goes. yesterday I fear I acted a bit rash and fussy (like a baby, not like a Virgo) with some of my friends- I let the fire get ahold of me and didn’t choose my words carefully, I just typed like wildfire and hit Send. I hope that they will forgive me, or at least accept my apology if I hurt their feelings, as they were trying to help me. I abhor hurting people’s feelings. the thing is, I didn’t even realize what I had done until after meditation this morning, when I got a clue and went back and saw I had actually typed the exact opposite of what I had meant. big difference between a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’. doh.
I’m not feeling so good about that, but I thought I could use the Saturn opp Venus to show up and be loving and ‘have the right attitude’, as Isabel would say.
so, I have a quick item of housekeeping on the podcast, and that would be that when Eric was talking about the Chernobyl chart, in particular, Chiron at 11+ Gem right in the axis he said that it was opposite Mercury at 10+ Aries, and almost opp. the Sun. He was speaking very passionately, and I love when he does, except I think he meant Square those two planets. .
now, I have exciting news, and that is that I now have a copy of the Astrological Mandala in my hot little hands and can do away with my battered and tattered xerox copies from 2002. so I have some commentary on the Sabians I can work with.
so in honor of my new reference I thought I would mention some cool things I saw in Fukushima chart: One is, I am intrigued by this trans-pluto. my eyes always want to check out the ‘outliers’ and see what they are up to. prob. because when all the rest of the planets and activity gets really bunched up, it’s too much for me right now, I can just see where all the weight is going but don’t want to deal with it yet.
so, trans-pluto, (focus, wearing blinders) in Leo, which is dramatic, on the Asc., at 29 04 Rx..
30 Leo reads: An Unsealed Letter.
it goes on to say, ‘just because a letter is unsealed, doesn’t imply a trust that other people will not read the contents’ now this really struck me as pertaining to the leaking reactor itself, and also a little maybe about the mindset of the Power Co. thinking that “oh, if we just leave it unsealed (as opposed to cementing it over quickly like at Chernobyl), then it gives a false sense that things are OK. however, also within in that blurb is an omen saying, uhhh. people at some point WILL be able to Read the Contents. understatement. now we are eating the contents by way of our contaminated food supply.
also in the commentary is “nothing can be hidden, except superficially and for a brief time” as well as “Nothing can remain permanently ‘sealed.'” WHOA. that has pretty much played out, as we know, & the second part alludes to what we know about Chernobyl, which is THAT place is still leaking stuff, and is definitely not permanently sealed.
all this in the ASC. interesting.
now, for more fun, I thought I would check out Vesta, because she to me is kind of at the core, she’s the hearth, the heart of the home, yes? so maybe she could tell us something about the ‘heart(h) of the matter’ ha! and also about the ‘integrity of the core’-or the people dealing with the core- as in the radioactive material..
so Vesta is 20 43 Cap. in the 5th.
21 Cap reads: A Relay Race.
pretty much the entire commentary I feel is relevant
” Here we are no longer dealing with competition between individuals, but with competition between groups of individuals who take turns successively in order to maximize the group effort and the possibility of outstanding results. ” stop. immediately, I felt two things going on here, one, that we were talking about when mad scientists, megalomaniacs, were going crazy developing this nuclear technology. see it? but ALSO, two, I felt that it also represented the tireless workers inside the exploded Fukushima reactor, working in shifts etc. to try and get the thing under control.
I’ll end with this ” the whole is a vast kind of relay race in which groups of people and generations carry the torch of what we call ‘progress.'” hmm. read: relay race of crazy ‘science’ and the lies that generations have been told that this is Progress.. or something like that.
all this in the 5th. pointing to the mindset of the creative birthing place-when the tech. was being ‘created’? coupled with a crazy relay race for ‘progress’?? or relay race to try and get the thing under control??? in Cap.-the material- radioactive material?
beginner mind impressions. thanks for the space to share!
I am now going to kick back and watch a film
be back later to see what you all are up to.
with Love.
I look forward to the podcasts every Wednesday, too. Some weeks I listen to them more than once, especially when the astrological “weather forecast” is really dense. I need to listen more than once to start to get it.
I think it’s a natural medium for you Eric. You have great verbal skills in terms of telling a story and weaving together a lot of disparate stuff and making it mean something. You must know this.
In terms of subject matter, what I like best is when you give the weather report and then talk about specific events going on in the world and how they reflect the astrology.
Sometimes the tone is too heavy on the negative, though. I understand, sometimes it’s hard to find a rationale for hope in a world that is as fu*ked up as this one is.
I can’t think of a specific example, it’s just that on a few occasions, I felt that the podcast got a little bit too caught up in ranting about one or another form of idiocy.
I only mention it because fighting hopelessness is important. I think it’s actually a big part of our job as “aware” creatures trying to help clear the way to the new high road for humankind. If you’re hopeless, you stop fighting, you give up, you run away and hide.
That’s the LAST THING we need for people to do. We’re already wallowing in escapism and narcissism, we don’t need to push people into more of that.
When people have reason to hope, they are willing to fight back.
To digress a little, I’m reading this fantastic book by Paul Hawken called “The Ecology of Commerce.” Hawken is one of the guys behind the gardening tool company Smith & Hawken. He is also probably the leading thinker in the green business movement.
And by green business movement, I mean the serious effort to change the way companies exploit natural resources — not “greenwashing” hype.
Hawken says point-blank that it’s business that is destroying the natural world, and if we don’t figure out how to stop companies from doing this, they will simply run wild with their pollution and their extraction of irreplaceable resources. They will run us all off a cliff.
I’m bringing this up because the book shows that it is not our generation that is the villain in the environmental saga. We inherited really lousy ideas when it comes to how businesses are supposed to operate — they’ve been around for centuries.
It only SEEMS like we are the worst eco culprits because we’re coming down to the end of the line, running out of oil and water and topsoil and you-name-it, where so much has been so damaged that the natural world is in a very fragile state.
But in fact our generation is pushing back more than any of our predecessors ever did. We have enviro groups now like Greenpeace and we have legal precedents to work with and we have a growing awareness that we cannot continue to use up the natural world at the rate we are going, or will we simply kill ourselves off.
So there is lots of reason to hope. People are only just beginning to see the light.
Keep up the podcasts, keep experimenting and being creative with Planet Waves — I’m glad to be a supporter.
I had a busy day yesterday (went to an all candidates meeting in my riding with our election winding here down on Monday; hey peeps please do some serious meditating for your northerly neighbour at the w/e and into Monday that we get this one right, ‘k? There’s a lot hanging on it) so I may have skipped your podcast Eric this week but am quite grateful you nudged us back to really checking it more thoroughly.
I got a *lot* out of this lesson reading alongside you the various aspects and similarities of the three charts. It helped deepen my appreciation on a variety of levels. It was for sure interesting that the north node in all the charts were in a fire sign, a different one in each – in Aries for the Chernobyl chart, in Leo for the NAC, and in Sagg for the Fukushima chart. Just one of the many coincidences that make learning astrology fascinating.
Eric, your boundless generousity and prodigious output day in and day out does make me feel crappily inadequate many times over, but I manage to get over myself soon enough!!! By shining such a consistently illuminating beacon to educate and helping us navigate our journeys and guide ourselves to our home within is priceless. The job is always done in peak fashion.
I thank you, most excellent light(bridge)house keeper!
I just listened to the podcast. I held out for a day after reading your response comment, I wanted to make sure I absorbed my feelings regarding the medium, so that I could throw out some useful feedback.
The formats between written and audio have differing elicitations. In the written format, there is this tangibility that exists within a ‘more’ structured capacity (easier to comment to). As for the audio format, I find myself ‘baking’ more on what I would classify as a personal conversation (I’m still in head-realm as I write this). The written articles seem to have more of an edited quality to them, and therefore a more edited response is within reason. The audio files have more of a free-flowing, off the cuff, conversational quality to them, which gets me conversing within my own head regarding the material that was covered. It’s not that I don’t have comments to make, it’s just that I’m sorting them through in my own head first (audio and visual have different mental processes: this is good for growth and adaptation).
I would say these podcasts are an excellent way to communicate: some folk are wired specifically this way. (It’s much better than the call-in program from a while back, I enjoyed them but, it got a bit precarious with the random interactions).
I do look forward to these audios every wednesday.. It creates more of an internal dialogue for me than it does an external reaction (hence, perhaps the lack of commentary?)
The audio comes at you non-stop-all-at-once, which gives it more of a ‘live’ feeling. Let me bake a bit, listen one more time, and then I’ll see if I can add to the discussion.
Thanks man, I think you’re spot on. Keep on keepin’ on.
Jere
Thanks, Michele and Stellium. You said it all, but of course, well, I just want to further support what was so eloquently and clearly said by you, who I beleive are speaking for all of us PWers.
Eric, I hope you get it. They spoke for the hundreds (maybe a thousand or so) of us that cannot live without you and your podcasts, like we cannot live without the sun…but we so rarely have the time to respond to you just like with the sun we rarely, if not on vacation, get to just sit there under the rays for a few minutes (bad analogy but I am moving slow and fast at once today).
Get it? We are overwhelmed and totally dependent on hearing what you suggest for us to be on the watch for (comming challenges, etc.) and to be paying attention to (need for healing, what is REALLY happening in the world). That’s why I did the short thank you earlier. I had just come off an excruciatingly exhausting weekend but had to just let you KNOW. And was too frenetic and exhausted to say ANYTHING intelligent to match what I had just heard so it was just a quick response.
I save nearly everything you write and speak (among the other contributors of PW). What Sadge said about community here (at PW) that we do not have “there” is is true for me and I imagine very many of us. PW in its way is life giving and life saving and I believe that because of the mental health and spiritual health which we are supportng in one another here with you and your followers and contributors we are in a definte subtle invisible way actually part of the tipping point we are all believing in.(Bad run on sentence but full of truth and passion) The critical mass WILL be reached, Awakening is coming, right around the corner and we are it.
Horton WILL hear the Who, (I think that is the correct Dr. Suess story that keeps coming to me.) AND, who else has my sense of humor? Even if NOTHING good comes of all us pouring out to one another, we sure are having a good time. Bro, we adore you.
I KNEW you were going to say that-I was going to type something last ni-I mean at 5:30am today but I was really the weary traveler.
these podcasts ROCK-I mean no matter what you are talking about it is always extremely relevant and interesting, because your POV is well, similar to mine, which I know sounds weird, because Why would I want to listen to someone who has similar views to my own, and the answer to that is
1. most of the people I hang out with do NOT have similar views and 2. knowing someone else has these views makes me feel less insane.
so, really it’s a comaraderie thing, a sense of community I personally don’t have, and a bonding of sorts. oh. and 3. they are funny. funny to me is like curiosity to you. and the Star Wars glasses ARE cool! don’t you see? as cool as handstands!
I hope you know this. you must know this. I mean, when I put my headphones on to listen, it’s like, you’re talking to ME. really talking to me. like a real human being. it’s amazing. I love these podcasts.
for example, I downloaded a couple in December before I went to my Mom’s in CA. around Christmastime. wanting to know the astrology going on, which was v. imp., esp. for Sadge, cause we were supposed to have a GREAT New Years Eve and live happily ever after, anyway, I was pumped up. and needing to know the ‘climate’ of the heavens is key, esp. to use the information to my best possible advantage, to be my best possible self esp. in the midst of heavy stress. AND it was Merc. Retro back then, remember?
now< I hope this doesn't freak you out, but I actually turned on and listened to one of these podcasts I had downloaded when I was having a panic attack on my first night at my Mom's.
I was having a pretty big, out of nowhere panic attack, and, well, you got me through it. what can I say? you are providing a great service here!!
you always tell us what to be on the look for and how we might sabotage ourselves, or what might be coming up for healing-and that's awesome!! speaking for myself, I take notes practically EVERY podcast and utilize the information. I can take pictures of my journal pages–
just sayin'.
now, I will admit, it wasn't until recently that I really starting giving a damn about reading the charts myself. it was like God came down from the heavens and put her hand on my head and said 'it is Time'. before that, I was like, let the experts do it, I have 50 other things I am learning now I can follow along and just write the juicy information down provided by expert (you).
BUT now, I am compelled to learn to do this (I'm not going to argue with God on this one) so, actually, I was pretty stoked to hear we were having a chart reading class this podcast. and it helps to have 3 charts for me, because I need a lot going on. I need to be comparing and contrasting at least 3 things at one time. so for that I was grateful. and that the subject matter was riveting, meaning a Crucial, Important Topic. of mass proportions. it helps me want to figure it out, ya know? I mean, maybe we could come up with something that is pivotal, but deceptively easy to figure out, that we could use to GET RID OF THESE STUPID FUCKING BOMBS< POWER PLANTS, etc. ?
restore peace. shit like that.
well, at the minimum I can learn more about how your mind works when you look to figure out a chart. that helps me. hearing your process. because I will then take your process as a base ( I mean, you're basically a genius at this, and I don't call anyone a genius lightly). then I will see what is imp. I'm a big pattern recognition person. I can sense something 'off' more than a mile away. I'm hoping this will help me with charts, which are basically in front of my face. then I use my pattern recognition and train it onto your process and layer the two together and come up with my own way. .that is a plan anyway. and then interpret it using a hodge podge of things in my bag of tricks. I mean, it IS FUn!
esp. if you use the science part of astrology for the scientific parts and then go crazy on the more esoteric portions. think of the possibilities!! it's not dry and boring at all! esp. if you can use the other cool things on this blog we are learning about like the Thema Mundi, which I have a huge crush on. makes my own natal interpretation more 'fitting' in many respects.
I'm not sure how long comments can be, but I had to get this message to you somehow. I mean, it's important. you devote a lot of your time to FREE content, which I totally think is amazing, generous, and super appreciated. NOBODY or v. little in this world is available to all for free. and let me underscore, CONTENT. like in the old-school definition, which means something Valuable, Significant, and Profound.
I have to end there. what else can you say? except that I feel that I am speaking for at least 20-30, 50 other people who actually won't write a comment but that have the same feelings. (minus the panic attacks)
(((sigh)))
my quality of life would seriously decline if these podcasts weren't available. I mean just the guitar at the end of some of them….
and, as an added bonus, once I feel I can intelligently comment on charts, I will. meaning, I will banter back and forth with you, and that might be fun, because I have weird but good ideas. plus it might be interesting since it would be coming from a pupil. I mean, I know now you could have your choice of super smart astrologers to talk to (including the other very brilliant people on this blog who know what they are doing) but, I think we would have a different dynamic because I'm a farmer who has a special relationship with the heavens and the earth.
just a thought.
hope that was enough of a meal for you, Captain PW.
your paying-attention, curious
student
peace.
Um. Well this is how it is. This morning, in between running to put on a pair of pants, choosing boots, deciding on the colour of a top, drinking coffee, adding a bit of make-up, checking the time over and over again, I sat and listened and looked mightily hard at the charts and thought a lot and had to wait for lunch-time at home to listen to the last five minutes… And then the rest of the day happened. (I work.) Plus I was digesting other info from here and elsewhere.
Podcasts are so different than the writing. It takes me what? 15 minutes or so to read something. I can return to it after thinking. Or I can have an immediate response and write a brief comment. Going back easily to the bit that pinched me in the ass. (And for me, that’s a whole visual process. Hugely visual person.)
But don’t think they aren’t appreciated. They are just SO full…
I really have not adapted to the medium. For example, I cannot do everything I said above AND listen. I have to sit still and listen, and look at the material. AND get ready for work in snatches. Or sometimes, I will save it for the evening, when there is nothing to look at, and listen while in the bath. Absorb.
But unless I sit and take notes, which I did do once, responding is rough. I’m not trying to flatter you — but in a one hour span you sorta come out with so many stick-out sentences/ideas my mind spins and fuck if I can remember the one I really want to respond to.
So that’s how it is. For me.
Don’t stop.
Readers, I would appreciate more feedback on these podcasts. I put a lot into them, and the lack of response (despite the few positive comments) makes me wonder if I’m missing the mark. thanks.
So incredibly interesting and helpful, Eric. Thanks so very much for giving so much to us. Especially loved your reference to the “usefulness” of astrology in reference to alerting your dad so he can alert the nuclear industry. Love your humor, almost always (that onion thing with the star wars glasses, well, can’t bat a thopusand , right?) Best to you always. Astrology is fun, isn’t it?
the Onion’s comment on Donald Trump:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/trump-unable-to-produce-certificate-proving-hes-no,20250/