{"id":41778,"date":"2011-07-18T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=41778"},"modified":"2011-07-18T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T21:02:09","slug":"moon-nessus-pholus-uk-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/media\/moon-nessus-pholus-uk-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon, Nessus, Pholus in UK Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is turning out to be a challenging day to write a horoscope. So far, anyway — but the distractions are one revelation after the next. What we’re witnessing in the world is not a scandal in the UK, or with one big media conglomerate; we are getting a rare window into how the world works, and what exactly we’re going to change. Before I get to my latest discovery about the centaurs in the charts of England, I want to make sure you’ve seen the story about the whistleblower journalist formerly of News of the World<\/em> found dead today. The Guardian<\/em> reports today<\/a>, “Death of Sean Hoare \u2013 who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking \u2013 not being treated as suspicious.” No, it’s not suspicious at all. In fact, it’s perfectly obvious.<\/p>\n

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Nessus in light blue, the Moon and Pholus in flourescent green in the progressed chart of the United Kingdom. The Moon will reach Pholus precisely in about four weeks (the progressed Moon moves one degree per month).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now for the discovery. I dusted off the UK chart, that is, the well-trodden horoscope for the creation of the modern United Kingdom on Jan. 1, 1801 and had a little shock. Whenever I cast a natal chart, I cast the progressed chart, which moves the natal chart one day per year. I have yet to write an article about progressions, though I use them every day. It’s a method of scaling time. In this case, the scale is 1\/365 for the movements of the planets. There are at least two ways to move the ascendant and I use the one degree per day method, which is called quotidian secondary. Here are both charts on one large page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Casting that chart for today, the progressed Moon is conjunct Pholus and Nessus, respectively the second and third centaurs. There you see it — plain as day. The Moon in this chart is moving one degree per month. It takes about 28 or so years to go around, so the Moon is in that position about once every three decades, and it’s there right now. For the past week or so I’ve been thinking, this story has a lot of Pholus (the release of a pressurized substance, described in Friday’s subscriber edition). <\/p>\n

But it sure feels like Nessus, too, with the abuse of privacy, the cycle of karma, the boomerang coming back, the involvement of sex and death, and that insidious feeling of betrayal that can be so distinctly Nessus-like. And there it is.<\/p>\n

For a thrill, take a look at how close both Nessus and Pholus are to the 7th house cusp (the dark horizontal line on the right side of the chart), which is the environment in which the country is living its life. There is a reason this kind of volatile, boundary-free scandal-sheet journalism was born in England. Note also the presence of Pallas exactly on the 7th house cusp — it’s politics above all else. All of this is set in Aries: feisty, even embattled, conquering, a bit wild, a bit naive. <\/p>\n

Happy to hear other observations on these charts in the comments area or Facebook. Now, back to trying to write the August stars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is turning out to be a challenging day to write a horoscope. So far, anyway — but the distractions are one revelation after the next. What we’re witnessing in the world is not a scandal in the UK, or with one big media conglomerate; we are getting a rare window into how the world … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[601],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}