{"id":48753,"date":"2011-11-15T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=48753"},"modified":"2011-11-15T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T15:59:04","slug":"police-clear-zuccotti-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/police-clear-zuccotti-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Police clear Zuccotti Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City police this morning evicted the Occupy Wall Street movement from Zuccotti Park in a surprise raid. The operation was timed for 1 am and by most accounts was running a little late; I have cast the chart for 1:05 am. [Note<\/strong> — a state judge has ruled that the Occupy movement as the right to take the park back after the cleaning is complete, and that the neither the city nor the company that owns the park has the right to evict them again. Another hearing, presumably an appeal, is scheduled for 11:30 am in New York City.]<\/p>\n

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Chart for police clearing Zuccotti Park in New York City, two months into the Occupy Wall Street movement. Note 12+ Gemini on the top of the chart, and 12+ Sagittarius on the bottom of the chart -- those are all over the history of New York City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Summing up this chart: it looks like the self-undoing of the New York City government, in particular Mayor Bloomberg. His Honor and his police commissioners have given many gifts to the Occupy movement, starting with the pepper spray incident that got the whole thing into the news, and then the arrests of 700 people who were trapped on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1. If you’re not from New York City, I can tell you that we play by different rules from the rest of the country. The people of the city are extremely tolerant to diversity, disruption and constant change; and culture itself has momentum that cannot easily be altered by external forces.<\/p>\n

When evaluating a chart, I check two things first: the position of the Moon, and the angles — and in this chart they are loaded. By ‘angles’ I mean the mundane angles: the ascendant (rising sign) and its opposite point; and the midheaven (topmost dark line) and its opposite point, abbreviated from Latin as the IC (bottom dark line). All are interesting here; there are planets clustered around them — and the Moon in Cancer is directly in the game, aspecting Mercury, Venus, Pholus and Ixion. That illustrates the adjustment to the ‘home’ space of the chart, but also the extent of public interest that will be generated by what has happened today.<\/p>\n

But there is something even more stunning about this chart, which involves a little-known historical fact. Look at the way that 12 Gemini is on the midheaven and 12 Sagittarius is on the IC. These mundane angles — remember that term — are the most sensitive lines in the chart. They are like the fingers that reach into consciousness and draw in energy, events, themes — and which also reach across time and space.<\/p>\n

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Gemini to Sagittarius at 12+ degrees is the Sept. 11 axis — the exact location of the Saturn-Pluto opposition from August 2001 that set off the Sept. 11 incident, clearly the worst day in New York City history. But it goes deeper: that Saturn-Pluto opposition was aspecting Pluto in the historical charts of New York City — in the chart for Manhattan, Pluto is right there in late Gemini, and in the chart for Metropolitan New York City in 1898 (the modern city as we know it today, including the outer boroughs) Pluto is right in mid-Gemini. So we get three historical iterations of Pluto, plus Saturn, showing up in this chart. (Notably, when Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New York City to the Brits in 1664, there was a Saturn-Pluto opposition from Sagittarius to Gemini; this aspect happens about once every 40 years and again was THE aspect that defines the Sept. 11 incident.)<\/p>\n

Summing this up — New York City is extremely sensitive to historical events that reach across Gemini-Sagittarius, and that is what shows up in this morning’s chart — as if the city’s nonexistent Office of the Astro-Historian had planned the raid carefully.<\/p>\n

Let’s go back to the Moon. One way we know this story is not over is that the Moon is in mid-Cancer, about to make many aspects. Occupy Wall Street has temporarily moved house to Foley Square. <\/p>\n

Arrested in this morning’s raid was Ydanis Rodriguez, a member of the New York City Council<\/a>. I know Ydanis personally from the City University of New York occupation and shutdown of 1991 — he is the real deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York City police this morning evicted the Occupy Wall Street movement from Zuccotti Park in a surprise raid. The operation was timed for 1 am and by most accounts was running a little late; I have cast the chart for 1:05 am. [Note — a state judge has ruled that the Occupy movement as … 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":[762],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753"}],"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=48753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}