Between the Lapiths and Centaurs
A desperate Baghdad
is pleading for help as militant groups follow their an assault on major cities
in northern Iraq Baghdad , the enfeebled democratic government of Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki has expressed a willingness to allow the U.S.
The
horoscope of the start of the US
war in Iraq
In his
Aug-Sept 2001 article in The Mountain Astrologer on Saturn-Pluto,
Robert Hand wrote [1]:
What we have here are major metamorphic changes
represented by Pluto coming into open conflict with the lawful and orderly
systems represented by Saturn.
Things pass away and then something new comes into
being. We have times when things seem to reach a level of stability and
permanence; then there is a period of decay, when they begin to break down and
go wrong. We may desperately try to hold on to the status quo, but we seem to
be up against a relentless force that will not be stopped. The harder we try to
hold on, the more ruthless the energy of change becomes, and change gets out of
control.
This
describes perfectly what is happening now. And the reason for that is the
activation by the Full Moon
[22sa06] placed on the meridian and the
Saturn-Pluto opposition in the horoscope of the war. In addition, the chart for
the Full Moon anchors the highly explosive T-square of Mars-Pluto-Uranus to the
meridian axis at Baghdad
The Full
Moon [22sa06] is conjunct the centaur Ixion [21sa02]. About Ixion, Nick
Fiorenza writes [2]:
Ixion, in Greek mythology, was a descendent of (the
fiery god) Ares and was king of the Lapiths (a race) in Thessaly
(late 14th Century B.C.). It is interesting to note that the Lapiths are
kindred with the Centaurs through Ixion's genealogy, yet the two were often at
battle with one another.
In this light, the Lapith-Centaur relationship is
suggested by some to embody themes of this inner struggle--between the tamed
and civilized versus the wild and natural. Thus, Ixion may bring to surface
issues and experiences reflecting this inner conflict--to do that which is
considered civilized (dictated by man's laws) or that which is more natural to
the wild and free (renegade). More specifically this may indicate a battle
within the genealogical stream of the ruling "civilized" mortal ways
(of the Lapiths) with the wild or natural ways (of the Centaurs).
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