Battling the Hydra
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded
annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's
six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North
America, and South and Central America . The
prize includes a no-strings-attached award of US$150,000 per recipient. Since
the Goldman Environmental Prize was established in 1990, a total of $15.9
million has been awarded to 157 honorees from more than 79 countries, as of
2013.
The 2014 Environmental Prize winners marking the
25th anniversary, were awarded on April 28, 2014 during ceremonies held at the
San Francisco Opera House.
Shown here
is the chart for the New Moon Solar Eclipse on April 28, 2014 at San Francisco , California .
Notice that the eclipse places the Grand Cross very prominently on the meridian
axis with Mars conjunct the MC.
The eclipse
[9ta] is conjunct the stars Hamal, alpha Aries – butting horn of the Ram and Schedar, beta Cassiopeiae – the proud
Queen, a symbol of good living that transgresses reasonable limits and tends
towards corruption. Also here is Azha, eta
Eridanus, the river of time so that we have here a great interest in the past, feeling for the
native land and cultural heritage. With overlap of tropical Taurus, concerns of
the earth draw these people so combining with Hamal, the Ram’s horn butting the
corrupt Queen we have environmental activists standing up against selfish
interests.
The stars
on the MC are those of the Virgin and the Hydra about which Diana Rosenberg
writes:
Few other skyscapes are so polarized between light
and dark, clear air and suffocating darkness, with a tremendous conflict
between the Virgin’s honest, upright will-to-do good and the Hydra’s dark lair
of greed, sensuality and arrogant self-interest; there are both oppressions and
struggles against them and transits to these stars often bring about major
changes in laws, mores, governments and ways of thinking…
In this
extract we can see the archetypal battle depicted in the image above as a
battle between the heroes (here the activists
who are honored) and the Hydra (representing corrupt interests).
The same
theme is contained in the Uranus-Pluto square of the Grand Cross:
courageous/warrior-like actions of individuals on behalf of the people's
liberties (Uranus in Aries) vs. the power of institutional structures facing
threats to their authority (Pluto in Capricorn).
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