Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n
I want to check in with my astrological discovery of the day regarding the chart of the Palestinian independence declaration<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n On one level, despite my pro-Israeli bias (I admit to still being in love with Golda Meir<\/strong><\/a>), what is happening now is truly a massacre of abused, starved people driven to hate their oppressors. But there is so much in the Palestinian chart about self-inflicted injuries, amorality and tribal madness that I am inclined to think this story really does go back thousands of years, though in our postmodern frame of mind, we don’t really acknowledge this consciously. At least most people have compassion for those who are getting bombed; and protests continue across Europe and well beyond<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The word “Palestine” was created by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago, apparently as part of a program of suppressing Zionism. King Herod was not a big fan of the Jews. I dug back to the first revision of the Wikipedia page on Palestine, the first draft, and discovered this. I feel like the last person to be finding out.<\/p>\n “The region of Palestine is the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands. Many different definitions of the region have been used in the past three millennia.” So there is no stable definition of the territory or the people. The term is only an indirect reference to non-News. Here is a history of the name<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n It continues, “At one point early in the 20th century, Great Britain tried to settle the disputes over the disposition of the region by assigning all the land east of the Jordan River to a new kingdom, which became today’s state of Jordan. The remainder of the region then became known as ‘Palestine’, and people largely stopped referring to any lands east of the Jordan River as being part of the region of Palestine.”<\/p>\n So Palestine used to include Jordan, and Jordan is a new country, created in the last century. And the Palestinian people we know of today might have become Jordanian under slightly different circumstances. Palestine once also included parts of Syria and Lebanon. I was not around when this happened and I wonder what happened, that is, what it was like if you were on the ground. So they are basically Arabs who were not adopted by one of those three countries. (My Hebrew mysticism teacher, the late Arthur Joseph Kushner<\/strong><\/a>, used to say this all the time, and now I know what he was on about. Here is one of his poems<\/strong><\/a>, on another subject.)<\/p>\n I am off my point a bit here, though. I became curious about the asteroid Hebe in the chart for the independence of the Palestinians, done under Yassir Arafat in 1988. Hebe is about the codependent triangle of abuser, abused and rescuer.<\/p>\n One thing that we need to remember about the Israeli people is that they are no ordinary lot, and they were in particular not so ordinary in the late 1940s, having just barely survived annihilation by the Nazis<\/strong><\/a>. So when they took or were given (depending on who you ask, and how you ask) territory in Palestine in 1948, they were emerging from the role of the totally abused, murdered and displaced. And then this beleaguered people was set, or settled in, amidst their other enemies, the Arabs.<\/p>\n Then ensued a story, amidst nonstop political manipulation in the modern era, that we have not heard the end of, even as we watch the late breaking news from all the usual unreliable sources.<\/p>\n As for Hebe. It’s on the 12th house cusp of the Palestinian independence chart, exactly square Pluto and Mercury. Like, exact to a fraction of a degree. This is all about codependency (abuser\/abused\/rescuer), and square Pluto it has that distinctly deeply introverted quality. It’s about a sick, spiraling relationship to existence, often acted out with others, and today, Israel, the survivors of the Holocaust, is pounding the shit out of a bunch of defenseless, hungry people, fulfilling that aspect. And these somehow tribes keep surviving to keep telling the story in a different generation, from a different side of the triangle.<\/p>\n — Eric Francis<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Friend and Reader: I want to check in with my astrological discovery of the day regarding the chart of the Palestinian independence declaration. 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