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The marooned baboon: Africa's loneliest monkey


Corona Borealis: The Endless Enclosure


It has been three years since Robinson the baboon became stranded on an island in the Zambezi River. Despite rescue attempts by tourists and frequent calls from his family, Robinson doesn't seem to be going anywhere. I was standing on the deck of the Ruckomechi safari camp, (in Zimbabwe's Mana Pools National Park)  gazing across the Zambezi River to the grey hills of the escarpment in Zambia, when my guide pointed at a non-descript island mid-stream - a low blur of vetiveria grass. "There's a baboon trapped over there," he said. "He's been there three years. We call him Robinson."  BBC; Oct 2, 2014.  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29441074






Here again we look at an eclipse that took place almost a year ago on November 3, 2013 but which continues to create events in the present. The chart for the eclipse drawn for Mana Pools has a Ceres-Vesta combination on the descendant is square Venus on the MC with both forming aspects to the TNP Admetus.

Ceres, the mother of the main asteroids, brings awareness to how we nurture and to that which is truly nurturing to us. Ceres asks for acknowledgment of our inner needs, to have self love and self worth. Negatively, Ceres can show up as over-attachment to loved ones. [1]


Mythological Vesta [1] is the revered goddess of the Vestal Virgins.  A Virgin personifies the soul in its state of primordial innocence and inviolabe purity. The Virgin in ancient times was a woman who did not belong to any man so that among other things  she symbolized a kind of aloneness or isolation to help her get in touch with her true soul intent and purpose.


Ceres-Vesta: The need for isolation or distance from loved ones in order help get us touch with our own inner needs.

The Ceres-Vesta combination is square Venus on the MC and both form aspects to the TNP Admetus.  It is also trine the asteroids Juno  (relationships) and Diana (animals). Martha Wescott’s key phrase “issues with self-containment” for Admetus confirms the need for isolation from loved ones.

Admetus: Facing blockages; encountering delays, issues with self-containment, shunning; literal and behavioral cold.

Finally, notice that Mercury [7sc26] is conjunct the stars of the Chinese lunar mansions Kang-Tchi, the Moat of the Court or Pond of the Mansion which represented the water moat surrounding the court or  palace where the prince or Emperor lived.  Mercury in turn is conjunct the eclipse [11sc16] which was part of Corona Borealis. The stars of Corona Borealis were called Lien-So, The Garland and Lien-Ying, The Endless Enclosure. In another vein it was T'ien Lao, The Celestial Prison [2]. An image of Corona Borealis or Corona Australis (the Southern Crown)  based on Bayer’s Uranometria, 1603 is shown above fits the description of  an Endless Enclosure. In our context here it is the “moat” or “water body” surrounding Robinson’s island!







If we now progress the eclipse chart to October 2, the date of the news, we find the descendant conjunct the eclipse degree bringing to life the issues mentioned above.

In summary we can say that events in our world ,even if they involve animals,  have symbolic messages for us.


[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.726-77)


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