Celebrations are being held in Germany to mark
the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Concerts and exhibitions
are being staged in the city and Chancellor Angela Merkel will later attend a
huge open-air party at the Brandenburg Gate. White balloons marking a stretch
of the wall will be released to symbolise its disappearance. BBC; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29974950
In 1989, a
series of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, associated
with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc's authoritarian systems and the
erosion of political power in the pro-Soviet governments in nearby Poland and Hungary . After several weeks of
civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 (18:57
hrs) that all GDR citizens could visit West
Germany and West Berlin .
Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West
Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere.
There are
several articles on the fall of the
Berlin Wall. Here is an extract from one such [1]:
The chart is set for 18.57 on 9.11.1989 in Berlin , based on data
obtained from Astro-Databank[2]. The Berlin Wall divided East and West Germany
and split families apart. It was a stone version of the Iron Curtain which
divided the Soviet bloc from Western Europe .
For me, the most enduring memory of this momentous
event was the Saturn/Neptune conjunction which was closely applying at the time
and was exact in 12th November. This event was a graphic example of the
Saturnian stone boundary of the wall being dissolved under the influence of Neptune 's close conjunction. Even more graphic was that
Saturn itself was in its natural Sign of Capricorn.
Also conjunct Saturn/Neptune was another tight
conjunction between Venus and Uranus. Between them, Uranus went about shaking
and challenging the very foundations of control and society in Eastern Europe .
However, we
must remember that a chart drawn for an event must be linked to more important first causes recognized by
mundane astrology for it to be meaningful much like the ‘minute hand’ must be
related to the ‘hour hand’ of a clock to know the time. The following extract
from Skyscript [3] explains what these first causes are:
Mundane astrology, the study of heavenly cycles
upon groups and nations is the most ancient branch of astrology. The affairs of
a nation can be judged from the horoscope set up at the time of its official
inauguration, the birth chart of its leader, and various phenomena such as
eclipses, lunations, great
conjunctions, stations, comets and ingresses.
Whenever a
conjunction of any two of the major planets occurs, predictions can be based
upon the event and the planetary positions in a map for the exact time of the
conjunction. Since we know that a great conjunction of Saturn-Neptune conjunction in 1989 is a possible
reason for the fall of the Berlin Wall we must look at the chart for the
conjunction at Berlin .
Shown here is the chart first of three conjunctions at Berlin .
We
immediately notice that the conjunction is angular (on the cusp of the 7th
house) and therefore is likely to be very meaningful for the place. The 7th
house rules both enemies as well as partnerships and unions with friendly nations [2]. So then we start thinking of a possible
dissolution (Neptune ) of a wall (Saturn) that
could unify the two sides. With this in mind when we look at the 10th
cusp we find Venus conjunct the North Node. Ebertin’s key phrase for Venus-Node
is:
Venus-Node
The stage of entering into a union.
The
conjunction of Venus-Node on the MC [4pi] is conjunct sigma Aquarii (5pi) in
the water of the Water-Pourer’s Urn. Diana Rosenberg points out that this is an
area “where people search for ideas of utopian communities and ideal forms of
human relationships… Here the great Urn of Aquarius, with its
eternally-flowing, all forgiving waters of heaven purifies and cleanses all
sins”.
Since the
nodal axis is like a rainbow bridge connecting the past (South Node) to the future
(North Node), it may be interesting to look at the stars conjunct the South
Node. The South Node is conjunct stars of Ursa Major and Draco. The primary star here is Thuban, alpha Draco.
About this area Nick Fiorenza writes:
Thuban of Draco, in the far northern heavens, just
north of Alioth, was Earth’s pole star circa 2600 BC, near the “tear of the
Bear,” a point in Earth’s ~25,000-year “evolutionary cycle of the soul” at
which time a turning and fractioning occurred in the hierarchical powers
governing Earth. This dramatized the separation between those choosing to fight
for a greater evolutionary vision and those wanting to maintain totalitarian
control of the Earth.
This
passage clearly indicates a possible transition from dictatorial control to freedom.
Progressing
the chart for the Saturn-Neptune conjunction to November 9, 1989 – the day of
the fall of the Berlin Wall, brings the conjunction to the Ascendant (within 3
degrees) and more importantly aligns the Admetus-Pluto opposition with the
meridian axis.
Admetus:
blockages; obstacles; raw materials (including stone)…a wall?;
issues with self-containment, shunning; literal and behavioral cold.
Pluto: elimination
of the unnecessary; breakdown; major change.
Combining
the keywords for Admetus and Pluto can be literally the breakdown of a wall!
Finally,
the chart for the of the First Quarter Moon of October 8, 1989 just a day
before the event had Admetus-Pluto aligned with the meridian.
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