Conference hydra::dejavu

1250.0. "Signs of the Times" by SHIRE::PHILIP (Phil Ward Mgmt. Sci. Geneva-Etang) Fri Apr 27 1990 12:13

	The following fascinating article (reprinted without
   permission) was written by an astrologer in Switzerland. My guess
   is that the revolutionary leader and the guru referred to around
   line 90 are Mikhail Gorbachev and Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (cp.
   401.*); we shall soon see... 

	Phil

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	...The astrologers brandish their compasses to draw the
   astrological chart of the 90's, and they, also, predict great
   changes. If everything is going so quickly, if scandals break out
   everywhere, if the wheel of evolution is turning so fast, even in
   the East, and if the wind blows in great revolutionary gusts over
   the planet, it is because the planets pass through a turbulent sky
   as well. For the astrologer, the heavenly bodies which move through
   the cosmos have an influence on the microcosm which the human is.
   As it was said in days of old, "the infinitely large and the
   infinitely small have the same structure and obey the same laws".
   And astrology is the study of this hierarchy, these laws which
   affect the world and the individual, of these cycles which turn
   within and succeed one another. 

	The background of the cosmic picture is the cycle of 26,000
   years, cut into slices of 2160 years, twelve "ages" each attached
   to a sign of the zodiac. Humanity turns with this giant wheel, and
   right now is about to quit the mystical age of the Fish, which
   started with Christianity, and to enter, between the years 2000 and
   2050, the luminous age of the Water Bearer. This will be the end of
   all mystical doctrines, dogmatic ideologies and religions, and
   superstitions. Truth will be shown, proven, and manifested in the
   life of men. But to adapt ourselves to the fabulous and brotherly
   vibrations of the Age of Aquarius, we have to die to the old ideas,
   dogmas, and outdated concepts.

	It is a period of transition, fascinating, but implying deep
   upheaval on both the individual and the collective level. The
   mutation began during the 1980's, will culminate during the 90's,
   and will be consolidated by the end of the century. For many years
   have the astrologers predicted the beginning of a new age. 

	What exactly is happening in the skies to prefigure such
   changes? The great event is the conjunction of three slow, "heavy"
   planets. For the first time since time immemorial, Uranus the
   revolutionary, Neptune the idealist, and Saturn the ambitious are
   coming together in the sign of Capricorn. These three planets move
   so slowly that they very rarely come together. Whereas the Moon
   circles the zodiac every 29 days or so, and the Sun every year,
   Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune take respectively 29, 84, and 164
   years. The moment of their meeting, so rare, is given added
   importance by taking place under the sign of Capricorn, one of the
   four cardinal signs of the Zodiac, a serious, ambitious,
   materialistic, and powerful sign, like Saturn by which it is
   governed. 

	Neptune: mystical aspiration, ideals, the need for the
   Absolute and for Perfection in and through love, the irrepressible
   feeling of unity between living beings, the search for the
   communion with God; and again, mad utopias, escape into illusion,
   and the dissipation of the self into the floods.

	Uranus: human spontaneity and originality, unpredictable,
   action without warning, overturning old habits, disturbing those in
   power and their ideas, fomenting revolution.

	Saturn causes evolution, growth, and maturity. He symbolises
   the father who limits, commands, watches over, and finally brings
   each one face to face with himself to make him aware, to anchor
   himself in his own reality, though often at the price of painful
   renunciation.

	Without Neptune, Uranus would only bring about violence and
   coups d'�tat. Without Uranus, Neptune would be lost in dreams and
   visions. And without Saturn, these two rather megalomaniac planets
   would accomplish nothing. Saturn gives them the force to make
   concrete their socio-revolutionary ideas (events in Eastern Europe,
   the war against the drug mafia in Latin America), and brings the
   seal of permanence to their actions; fires them with ambition and
   the taste for power, and incites them to harden their positions
   even to the point of fanaticism. When Saturn caught up with Uranus
   at the end of 1988, this influence was at its peak, bringing the
   resurgence of the extreme right, Nazism, and religious and
   political fanaticism in its wake. In 1989 Saturn caught up with
   Neptune and brought form to the latter's idealist dreams, forcing
   humanity to give itself the means to achieve its social dreams. The
   revolution is under way, as we shall see shortly. 

	The greatest moment will take place between 1991 and 1994,
   with the conjunction of Uranus and Neptune, which only takes place
   once every 172 years (the last time was in 1820, in Sagittarius).
   This aspect, which will last three good years, can be compared to
   the decisive meeting, in the sign of Capricorn, of a revolutionary
   leader and a guru, both determined to change the world. Saturn, as
   always, plays the arbiter, until at the end of the year he leaves
   the sign of the goat to settle for a while in the calmer skies of
   Aquarius, leaving his powers to his friend and ally Capricorn. It
   is the time for humanity to turn and change, to lay the foundations
   for a new type of society.

	Will the new world be beautiful, or ugly? No doubt, both; for
   if we are to rebuild we first have very much to demolish. This has
   been the job for some time already of the fourth "heavy" planet,
   Pluto, whose astrological aspects do nothing to soften the glorious
   but highly-charged heavens.

	Like the other three heavy planets, Pluto is living an
   exceptional moment of its history. Repository of all the
   experiences of humanity and symbol of the unconscious forces and
   primitive instincts, Pluto has never been so close to the Earth nor
   has ever moved so quickly through the skies (still taking 240 years
   to make a revolution about the Sun, however, staying on average
   twenty years in each sign). It is no coincidence if he hurries, not
   fearing to stress the whole of humanity. He has much to do. The
   heavens have burdened him with performing a great spring-cleaning,
   which he has been performing since 1984 in the mysterious and
   occult sign of Scorpio, receptacle of human memories. We should
   emphasise that this cleansing is inward, of the psyche. Probing the
   abysses of the collective unconscious with his laser, Pluto awakens
   the old demons to exorcise them better, and in this purification
   brings to the surface the mud of the primeval depths. This most
   powerful of planets is possessed of an atomic force, capable of
   transmutation as well as of disintegration. Well employed, this
   energy serves man, purifying him; otherwise, it returns against
   him. Did not the AIDS epidemic appeared under the influence of
   Pluto in Scorpio, sign of life, death, and rebirth? Crises,
   suffering, depression, and violence; these are the price of
   regeneration. 

	Pluto will leave Scorpio in 1996 to enter the fire sign of
   Sagittarius, symbol of the superior spirit, metaphysical
   abstraction, fundamental research, and new ideas. The three other
   planets will also move on, leaving the severity of Capricorn one
   after the other for the friendlier sign of Aquarius; Saturn in
   1991, and Uranus in 1996. But we shall have to wait until the
   beginning of 1999 for Neptune in his turn to join them. Then only
   will humanity realise what it has gained from the period of
   turbulence, as it enters the Age of Aquarius.

	Predictions...

	1990: start of the conjunction of Uranus and Neptune in
   Capricorn. The revolution in the service of humanity, and a period
   of political utopia. Until June, an opposition with Jupiter
   blackens the picture; revolutions, sedition, counter-revolutions.
   The black moon, conjunct with Pluto in Scorpio, sign of
   metamorphosis, doesn't help; earthquakes, inundations, tempests,
   epidemics, aerial catastrophes, and heightened pollution; but also
   the ecological movement growing and leading to a full awareness of
   the dangers facing the world.

	1991-1994: The Neptune-Uranus conjunction at its height. This
   exceptional aspect profoundly modifies Eastern and Western societies
   on the political, economical, social, and religious levels. It
   gives a boost to the new Europe.

	In 1991, Saturn leaves Capricorn for Aquarius, organising and
   structuring the great human movements brought about by Uranus and
   Neptune, changing the rules of the democratic game, setting limits
   to countries' behaviour which must not be overstepped, and obliging
   the member states of the EEC to rise above their outdated
   nationalisms to enter into the construction of a new and different
   world. 

      In 1994-1995, Saturn moves into Pisces, creating a bulwark
   against the floods which will ensue. As Lenin said, one cannot make
   a good omelette without breaking a few eggs... Saturn helps to
   digest the revolution intelligently.
		
      Around the end of 1995 or the beginning of 1996, Uranus in his
   turn leaves Capricorn. Having sown the seeds of turmoil which have
   shaken Europe and the world, he enters his own sign, Aquarius, sign
   of communication, liberty and brotherhood. At home, Uranus
   accelerates the revolution taking place. It is the end of the
   dictatorships of the left, the right, and the centre.

	In 1995, Pluto leaves Scorpio to enter Sagittarius. The danger
   is over.

	1998-1999: Neptune in his turn enters the sign of Aquarius,
   with the emergence of a new consciousness and a new spiritual order.

   !	Translation of article in _Femina_, March 1990, by Christian
   !	K�rsner, an astrologer of Lausanne, Switzerland.

    Any comments from the 'house astrologers'?

    Marcia? Todd? Carole?
    
John D.

    would like to revitalized this note, are there any comments??
    
    thks.
    
    mary