What makes astrology supremely
relevant is that it discloses an unsuspected dimension of the world we think we
know so well. It is as though we have become accustomed to see only the
horizontal yarn of the weaving, the weft, and are largely unaware of the warp.
We are accustomed to break down our world, in order to understand it, into
certain categories, recognizing what belongs to this category, what belongs to
that. That is ‘scientific’. However, astrology is about learning to think in
new categories. It embodies a system of new categories that are as different
from the ones to which we are habituated, as the warp is from the weft. In this
system objects and events that at first sight appear to have nothing whatever
to do with each other are shown to be intimately connected. Conversely, things
we naturally tend to associate may be distributed otherwise in the astrological
scheme. Understanding the world around us depends on our power to perceive
patterns of meaning, to make the right connections, recognize what belongs with
what. It is not easy. Unaided, it is as if we are looking at the weaving from
the wrong side, and it seems a mess, but with the help of astrology we can see
the design as it is meant to be. As the shuttle of the cosmic loom ceaselessly
weaves its intricate design, astrologers have the responsibility, or rather the
awesome privilege, to work towards restoring to humanity the sense of high
meaning it has all but lost.”
Dennis Elwell, The Cosmic Loom
What do you do if you’re in a
spelling bee, you spell a word correctly, and the judges claim you spelled it
wrong anyway? “B-r-a-i-l-l-e” — that’s how 12-year-old Sierra Shoemaker of
Indianola, Calif., spelled the word referring to the written language designed
for those unable to see, formed by patterns of raised dots and read with your
fingertips. The sixth-grader was competing in the Selma Unified School
District’s spelling bee held at Garfield Elementary School last Friday, March
8.
Shown above
is the current New Moon chart at Indianola. Notice a Mercury-Neptune conjunction on the MC in Pisces.
Here is an
extract from reference [1] which explains why we make errors of judgement
during a Mercury-Neptune conjunction.
With the Mercury-Neptune contacts,
it is the mind level that is primarily sensitised and activated, so that the
imaginative quality is emphasised and the main focus of life appreciation is
through mental receptivity. The conjunction indicates a channel between the
conscious mind and the unconscious mind, and both the energy and information
flowing through this conduit need to be carefully integrated if a variety of
imbalances and distortions is not to be created.
The faculty of imagination will be
highly stimulated and developed, and this will certainly require appropriate
channels to be focused on so that other problems of perception are not created.
The issue of mental realities is one which can make you unsettled, especially
as you can tend to make mistakes in judgement based on misinterpreting
facts and suggestive information.
Also worth
noting is the Kronos-Hades-Pluto [2] opposition on the horizon axis
Kronos-Pluto: Evaluation of knowledge, competency or
expertise
Kronos-Hades: Leaders or authorities
make mistakes
From reference [3] list of things ruled by Neptune it is interesting to note that it also rules ‘blindness’
. Is it a mere coincidence that the word whose spelling the judges had wrong
was ‘Braille’? Louis Braille, after whom
the word has been coined, was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and
writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired.
[2]The
Orders of Light; Martha-Lang Wescott; p.97,106
[3] Things
ruled by Neptune http://www.librarising.com/astrology/misc/neptunepower.html
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