Yuri Lyubimov, the founder of Moscow Soviet Union in an interview with a British newspaper.
Lyubimov’s death on Sunday in a Moscow
The great
Russian theatre director Yuri Lyubimov was both a living history of his
country's theatre and one of its most radical exponents. To understand the news
of Lyubimov’s death we first look at the chart of the upcoming lunar eclipse of
October 8 at Moscow
The eclipse
Moon is conjunct Zeta Cephei [14ar] in King Cepheus’ crown and Alpheratz, alpha
Andromeda in the head of the chained Princess. Both these stars offer
liberation from difficult conditions through imagination, intellect, learning,
keeping to a code of honour, development of loving concern for the underdog,
the use of mental creativity and of positive, affirmative thinking. Here the
mind of Andromeda imagines and brings forth the magnificent Flying Horse,
symbol of thoughts that transcend space and time. For stars in this area (19ar-20ar near the
North Node) which include those of King Cepheus and the Sea Monster Cetus, Diana Rosenberg writes that there is a
natural predilection for solitude and study with an inner sense of form and
structure which combined with a powerful emotional expression, enables many of
their natives to excel in literature and the arts. Cepheus, a solitary,
scholarly, cultured monarch, brings forth Renaissance types with a great range
of interest and abilities. Brilliant, inventive, creative, they have an inborn
ability to inspire others.[4] The Roman astrologer Manilius, [5] gave a similar
description of Cepheus and more specifically emphasizing the connection to
theatre.
"Offspring of Cepheus will also furnish words
for the buskin of tragedy [on the 2nd-century Farnese globe Cepheus is depicted
in the garb of a tragic actor] whose pen, if only on paper, is drenched in
blood; and the paper [the audience at a performance], no less will revel in the
spectacle of crime and catastrophe in human affairs. They will delight to tell
of scarce one burial accorded three [translator's note; Thyestes unwittingly
ate his three sons, whom, their extremities cut off, his brother Atreus served
up to him as a meal: the burial incomplete because the sons were not completely
eaten, took place in the father's stomach - Cicero, who perhaps quotes the
Atreus of Accius]. The father belching forth the flesh of his sons, the sun
fled in horror, and the darkness of a cloudless day; they will delight to
narrate the Theban war between a mother's issue [between Eteocles and
Polynices] and one [Oedipus] who was both father and brother to his children;
the story of Medea's sons, her brother and her father, the gift which was first
robe and then consuming flame, the escape by air, and youth reborn from fire. A
thousand other scenes from the past will they include in their plays and
perhaps Cepheus himself will also be brought upon the stage.
"Should his powers not rise to such
masterpieces, the child of Cepheus will yet be fitted to perform those of
others he will interpret the poet's words, now by his voice, now by silent
gesture and expression, and the lines he declaims he will make his own.
"On the stage he will take the part of Romans
or the mighty heroes of myth; he will assume every role himself, one after
another, and in his single person represent a crowd; he will draw over his
limbs the aspect of fortune's every vicissitude and his gestures will match the
songs of the chorus; he will convince you that you see Troy's actual fall and
Priam expiring before your very eyes." [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century
AD, book 5, p.336-341]
And
finally, a chart drawn for the Sun-Uranus opposition aligns the
Sun-Uranus-Pluto T-square with the meridian, the Sun being conjunct the
asteroid Lacrimosa that is associated with death.
[4] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1 p.82-97)
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