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Unlocking symbolic meaning in Pope’s Tacloban trip



(CNN) Pope Francis cut his trip to Tacloban short Saturday as an approaching typhoon with blistering winds threatened the city in the Philippines. The Pope donned a slicker to conduct an outdoor Mass for hundreds of thousands who gathered despite stormy weather. The Mass in Tacloban was shortened after sustained winds of 80 mph and higher gusts howled toward the city. Tacloban is still recovering from the 2013 disaster of Super Typhoon Haiyan, described as one of the strongest storms ever recorded with 195 mph sustained winds. It killed 6,300 people nationwide. January 17, 2015; http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/17/world/pope-philippines-visit-typhoon/

To a symbolist a synchronistic event like this may not possess any clear cut single meaning but instead connect to a larger gestalt of symbolic patterns unfolding in the present. We hope to discover those patterns in this post.






Let us start with  the chart for the solar eclipse of April 29, 2014 drawn for Tacloban. Here the eclipse conjunct Mercury is on the cusp of the 9th house. (If we were using the Whole Sign Houses system it would of course be firmly in the 9th ). The 9th house is linked with our higher worldview but for most it is simply the established religion. Mercury governs the wind and corresponds to high pressure of fair weather. Gentle breezes to hurricane-force winds can be found under Mercury's domain [1]. Here Mercury is conjunct the eclipse and the asteroid Toro for which one keyphrase is “strong” so we can be looking at strong (Toro) winds (Mercury). Adding to this picture are the stars of Corvus conjunct Mars [11li] which throws a quincunx aspect to Mercury and the eclipse. Diana Rosenberg writes “The stars of Corvus formed an archaic Euphratean lunar mansion whose patron god was Im-dugud-khu, “The Great Storm Bird” or the “Storm Bird of the Evil Wind”.

Mars is part of a Grand Cross that involves Jupiter (religion) and Uranus-Pluto (the need to end an old order). So by sending those blistering winds just as the Pope conducted the Mass was the “storm god” implying that narrowly understood established religions had no  place in the new order unfolding under the current Uranus-Pluto square.

In general, the revolutionary uprising and spontaneous force of Uranus is synthesizing with Pluto's intensified dismantling and opening force in the very depths of consciousness causing a profound and radical transformation in collective consciousness. Pluto becomes an opener and revealer  of a greater truth in sidereal Sagittarius. It opens the way for this greater truth to emerge by dismantling the false beliefs and structures of  all established religions [2].







If we now progress the eclipse chart to Jan.17, the date of the event, we find that eclipse reaches the MC triggering the event. Also notice that the eclipse is opposite the TNP Poseidon [3] and square the asteroid Lilith [4].

LILITH: Triangulation; selection & rejection; decisions (regarding angle or planets in  aspect).
POSEIDON: religion; intellectual or spiritual influences.

Lilith-Poseidon: Religion may have become the jealous mistress; perhaps there is  a need to reject  established ideas, metaphysics or religion.

A final confirmation comes from the star cluster of Praesepe on the progressed Ascendant [8le].

Praesepe embodies the essence of the Scarab / Cancer theme: emergence out of darkness, dogma, and delusion, out of the antiquated entrapments we had been living in, and our transmutation from darkness into light [5]. 




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