Charles
Harvey was probably one of the most fervent and enthusiastic of mundane
astrologers, and his book, Mundane Astrology, co-authored with Michael Baigent
and Nick Campion, remains the standard text for students. Harvey
we are going to need to develop ways
of considering the future interweaving of whole hierarchies of cycles and
charts rather than treating them in isolation as we do at present. How this is
done effectively is one of the great challenges of the next few years.
Another
astrologer who has made it his job to 'develop ways of considering the future
interweaving of whole hierarchies of cycles' is Dennis Elwell, whose classic
and remarkable book Cosmic Loom (1986, now in a second revised edition recently
reprinted by the UT), contains a disturbing set of observations about how the
cosmos behaves, reflected via astrological patterns.
These
patterns are neither cosy in their effects, nor are they individual-friendly.
Elwell has termed their effects multicongruence
and his definition is: the tendency for certain things and conditions to
co-occur because they belong together at a higher, unmanifest level. [1]
Elwell
points out that we are conditioned not to attach too much significance to
coincidences that occur. However, anybody who follows the news carefully will
not fail to notice that sometimes there is a run of “similar” events. For
example yesterday there were two new items apparently unconnected, one about a
possible ruling by the US Supreme Court in favour of same sex marriages [2] that could lead to freedom for social ostracism for the gay community and
another about the US handing over the Bagram prison to the Afghan authorities [3] which of course
also implied that several inmates that Afghans think are unjustly held would be
freed.
To
understand these two “similar” news events, I have shown here the charts for
the Full Moon of March 27 at Kabul and Washington
Mars-Saturn-Jupiter
Yod
Since
Saturn is about rules and restrictions,
its aspects to Mars or Jupiter invariably curtails freedom. With Mars linked to personal freedom and Jupiter to
success it is not surprising that this combination has been associated with
freedom from imprisonment. These three planets are connected in a yod with Mars
and Jupiter forming a quincunx to Saturn. A keyphrase for a quincunx aspect is ‘requiring
adjustments’ so that we can see how freedom is a possible outcome in each of the two cases.
Finally,Saturn
at 21scorpio is part of an ancient Chinese asterism T’ien-Lao, the Celestial
Prison and T’ien-Wei, the Celestial Jail. Saturn in the yod is
conjunct Alphecca (alpha Corona Borealis) which was the jailer. When all the
stars of the asterism were clearly seen the prisons of the empire would be
full. If the star Alphecca was faint
many prisoners would be released. [4]
[4] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg [v.1, p.727]
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