Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n
One of astrology’s gifts is the ability to examine lives, plain and remarkable, and to see how their planets’ effect them. When\u0412\u00a0history provides not one but two examples of remarkable lives, with\u0412\u00a0both people\u0412\u00a0born on the same day within hours of each other, you have a great opportunity to examine how planets work. Such is the case of two famous men born Feb. 12, 1809: \u0412\u00a0Charles Darwin, the father of modern biology born in Shrewsbury, England, \u0412\u00a0and Abraham Lincoln,\u0412\u00a0one of the four greatest Presidents of the United States, born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, US.<\/p>\n
Charles Darwin took two decades to\u0412\u00a0examine and analyze the findings on flora and fauna\u0412\u00a0from his travels\u0412\u00a0on the HMS Beagle, a five-year journey which took him around the world from England to\u0412\u00a0the Azores, Brazil, Galapagos, Falklands, Cape Town, Mauritius, Tahiti, New Zealand\u0412\u00a0and Sydney. He used these findings\u0412\u00a0to\u0412\u00a0solidify his theory of natural selection\u0412\u00a0in his book On the Origin of the Species<\/a>, <\/em>organizing how we view life on this earth to this day, and setting the foundation for modern day biology as we know it.<\/p>\n Abraham Lincoln\u0412\u00a0was inaugurated\u0412\u00a0President of the United States one month after seven of\u0412\u00a0America’s 11 southern states seceeded from the union, forming the Confederate States of America. The ascendancy of Lincoln, who was pro-abolitionist, all but sealed the South’s determination to protect its economic interests of which slavery was a lynchpin. By\u0412\u00a0April, one month after he was inaugurated, the battle of Fort Sumter took place and four more states joined the secessionists. The American Civil War had begun.<\/p>\n Aquarians\u0412\u00a0take thought patterns, ideas and theories and crystallize them,\u0412\u00a0grounding them in fact.\u0412\u00a0Darwin and Lincoln\u0412\u00a0did a variation on that theme, by taking the existing crystallized structure and changing them by their work. Throughout\u0412\u00a0their lives, they took on their respective\u0412\u00a0worlds of science and politics,\u0412\u00a0challenging the\u0412\u00a0substance of beliefs held largely in their day. For Darwin, it was\u0412\u00a0secular acceptance of Biblical creation myths that underscored natural science.\u0412\u00a0 For Lincoln, it was the conventional\u0412\u00a0wisdom that underscored\u0412\u00a0the nation’s economic structure\u0412\u00a0where slavery was a necessary evil. In both instances, these men with Saturn-Neptune conjunct in Sagittarius and Mercury-Neptune trined in water signs\u0412\u00a0confronted the crytalline structures\u0412\u00a0that stood as obstacles before them in their respective fields and dissolved them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From the time of its publication to the present day, Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species<\/em> creates controversy because it provides scientific evidence that there is no single unifying factor, the force of creation or God Almighty that spewed forth the creatures of this planet in a biblical week.\u0412\u00a0It comes as\u0412\u00a0no surprise that Darwin’s largest critics\u0412\u00a0were from religious circles.<\/p>\n As President while the\u0412\u00a0nation was at war with itself,\u0412\u00a0\u0412\u00a0Lincoln held his Administration’s\u0412\u00a0pro-abolitionist position\u0412\u00a0as casualties mounted on both sides. He promoted the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which\u0412\u00a0abolished slavery, and in the end won the war against the Confederacy,\u0412\u00a0 holding together the Union, and becoming in effect America’s first Presidential human rights advocate.<\/p>\n Two hundred years later the conflict continues and there are still challenges to the work of\u0412\u00a0both men. Mr. Darwin’s theory on the\u0412\u00a0origin of the species\u0412\u00a0faces resistance\u0412\u00a0from 21st century religious fundamentalists\u0412\u00a0who believe in Intelligent Design<\/a> and fight for removal of evolution from textbooks and curriculum. Through the efforts of Mr. Lincoln we saw another\u0412\u00a0effect of his work 200 years later on election day, Nov. 4, 2008\u0412\u00a0with today also\u0412\u00a0marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP<\/a>.\u0412\u00a0But the union of the United States still needs to be perfected for all, including new immigrants and people of all gender persuasions. We somehow are not through with either of them, Mr. Lincoln\u0412\u00a0nor Mr. Darwin.<\/p>\n We still seem to need their example of plugging onward, staring down challenges and\u0412\u00a0defeating them, relentlessly facing forward, to\u0412\u00a0light\u0412\u00a0our way.<\/p>\n And by the way, happy birthday.<\/p>\n Yours\u0412\u00a0& truly,<\/p>\n Fe Bongolan<\/strong> Dear Friend and Reader: One of astrology’s gifts is the ability to examine lives, plain and remarkable, and to see how their planets’ effect them. When\u0412\u00a0history provides not one but two examples of remarkable lives, with\u0412\u00a0both people\u0412\u00a0born on the same day within hours of each other, you have a great opportunity to examine how planets … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,1033,36,1788,1032,52,1034],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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