April 24, 2000
Elian Reunited with his Father
Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father last Saturday following a
pre-dawn raid by federal marshals who snatched him from his Miami relatives.
Meanwhile, angry protestors flooded Miami's Little Havana streets, waving
Cuban flags and crucifixes, and displaying a picture of Elian being
confronted by an armed INS agent with the words "federal child abuse."
Why has the Elian Gonzalez case become the greatest single news story of the
year? While the pending seven-planet alignment in Taurus has alerted
astrologers to expect historic developments, the simultaneous activation of
the Moon in the U.S. horoscope is the key for understanding the full import
of these events.
The Moon in political astrology refers to family, as well as a nation's
people with all their lunar needs for financial and domestic security. In the
U.S. chart the Moon is in Aquarius, highlighting the people's requirement for
basic freedoms. Most relevant to the Elian case is that the Moon rules the
9th house of foreign affairs, reflecting the fact that the U.S. is a nation
of immigrants.
Jupiter and Saturn square the U.S. Moon in June, and simultaneously the U.S.
progressed Sun is conjunct the Moon. This confluence of astrological red
flags shows the emotional turmoil surrounding the various elements of family,
patriotism, and foreign origin associated with the America's Aquarius Moon.
Collectively, we are Elian; we are aliens, cut off from our past, and
uncertain about our future. We are a free society divided by our ethnic,
national, and religious roots, and in the last few decades, increasingly
divided by divorce. Individually, each of us at some level can identify with
this 6-year old boy.
Op-Ed: Astrology as Cosmic Language
What if today's mainstream scientists are wrong, and astrology actually
works? What does that say about the nature of reality? Perhaps astrology's
method of categorizing experience implies that the structure of our universe
is much different than we assume. Famed astrologer Charles Carter described
how the planets do not create events, but represent categories of similar
elements that operate on different planes of consciousness.
In the cosmic language of astrology, the physical planet is only one member
of a set of related elements that have an inner affinity; the planet then
acts as the symbolic representative for the entire set. Accordingly, no
mysterious or unseen rays emanate from the planets to cause events. Rather
the activated planet is a signal for the simultaneous activation of
associated symbols and events.
In the same vein, Dennis Elwell writes in his recently released book "Cosmic
Loom," that the planets are not instigators. Just as mathematics is a
language that explains quantitative relationships, astrology explains
qualitative relationships. Mathematics doesn't cause anything, nor does
astrology; both are languages to understand the nature of reality.
The growing acceptance of astrology indicates a fundamental change in
perception and awareness about the nature of reality. Thinking astrologers
find themselves in the company of quantum physicists and those who postulate
a holographic universe, both of which tout fringe scientific hypotheses
verging on breakthrough recognition. These theoreticians hold that the
structure of our universe is indivisible from the consciousness that sees
meaning, or as Carl Jung might say, from our collective psyche.
Cybill Disobedience
Destined to be a number one bestseller, Cybill Disobedience is Cybill
Shepherd's candid story of her tumultuous Hollywood career. Shepherd reveals
the steamy details of her torrid love affairs, including an amazing fling
with Elvis at Graceland. The book captures her fierce determination to
succeed, and her irrepressible urge to speak her mind.
Cybill Shepherd was born an independent Aquarius (on February 18, 1950; 7:52
pm; Memphis, TN). Three other planets in Aquarius and Uranus at the Midheaven
accent her drive for personal independence and the freedom to come and go as
she pleases. The marriage asteroid Juno is very near her Ascendant and nearly
exactly trine Venus, giving her an abundance of charm, grace, and people
skills.
Juno squares Uranus in Cancer (the home wrecker), creating tremendous tension
between her need for a committed relationship and having her own career. Then
Mercury, the natural ruler of writing, is conjunct the romantic Venus in the
fifth house of love affairs, a configuration which describes the sensational
focus of her book.
Transiting Neptune has been passing back and forth over Shepherd's Mercury as
Cybill Disobedience was conceived and completed. Now, as the book appears to
the American public, her progressed Midheaven is exactly conjunct her Pluto,
indicating broad appeal and unprecedented celebrity status.
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