The levels of gases in the
atmosphere that drive global warming increased to a record high in 2012. According
to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), atmospheric CO2 grew more
rapidly last year than its average rise over the past decade. Concentrations of
methane and nitrous oxide also broke previous records.
Thanks to carbon dioxide and these
other gases, the WMO says the warming effect on our climate has increased by
almost a third since 1990. The WMO's annual greenhouse gas bulletin measures
concentrations in the atmosphere, not emissions on the ground. The World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) has its headquarters in Geneva , Switzerland
Eclipses
are opportunities to make changes in our lives. The solar eclipse of 3 Nov. [11sc]
was
conjunct the star mu Librae [14sc]
one of the stars of the Scales of Justice which amongst other things emphasizes the need for equilibrium and
balance. At Geneva
The planet Neptune is connected with the environment as this
reference indicates:
I associate Neptune in Pisces
(2011-2025) with the impending climate-change and sea-level-rise, not only
because of the obvious influence of a watery planet in the water-sign of its
modern rulership… but also due to its archetypal symbolism of that which
interconnects us all, uncontained by meager sea-walls or ego-boundaries, and
seeps into our sensitivities, susceptible as we all are to sympathetically
suffering alongside fellow beings who suffer, in psychic solidarity with those
who share this blessed existence with us. [1]
Mars [11vi]
is conjunct the stars epsilon Antlia,[11vi] the hot air pump and Zosma of Leo. Nick
Fiorenza tells us that Zosma [11vi] along with Denebola on the tail of the lion
is of intestinal toxicity, of foul,
toxic wind emanating from the hind of the lion [2].
The
constellation Antlia commemorates the air pump which had been invented by
17th-century British chemist and physicist Robert Boyle.
Antlia lies north of the great Ship
Argo Navis. The word Antlia comes from Latin antlia, pump, from Greek antlos,
'ship's hold, bilge water'. Greek hyperantlos ousa symphorai, is a metaphor
taken from a ship which can no longer keep out water . The water that collects
in the bilge must be pumped out if it becomes too full and threatens to sink
the ship. The bilge is the rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a
transition between the bottom and the sides, 'lowest internal part of a ship',
also "the foulness which collects there", variant of bulge 'ship's
hull', also 'leather bag', from Late Latin bulga, 'leather sack' .[3]
As with
Fiorenza’s description of Zosma as toxic wind that must be evacuated from the
Lion’s intestine, the Latin origin of the word Antlia reminds us that it refers
to the pump that must throw out the toxic ship bilge which threatens to
otherwise sink the ship. The ship Argo Navis is our great Mother Earth on which
we all sail. What elegant symbolism for
the waste gases that threaten our
planet!
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