On a crisp summer morning in Degioz, a slate-roofed
village in northern Italy ,
Luigino Jocollè is sharing the local news. He and four other gray-haired men
are sitting in a tiny café, sipping cappuccino as espresso machines whir and
pastry sugar perfumes the air. But they’re not discussing sports or politics. “Three
nests!” exclaims Jocollè. His friends murmur and nod. “Three nests in a single
kilometer! Extraordinary.” They’re talking about their neighbors. A pair of
bearded vultures—breeding again in the wild a hundred years after the last one
vanished from the Alps —has taken up residence
near two pairs of golden eagles. The return of a majestic species, and the
sight of two top predators living so close together, might be cheered in many
places. But in Gran Paradiso
National Park , where
wilderness and culture live in careful balance, it’s a matter of daily
consequence. February 2015; National Geographic http://bit.ly/1KBSLml
We will use
this news to illustrate how events on earth have their reflection in the stars.
Two important mundane events connect up with this news. The first event is the
current New Moon [0aq09] and the second is Mercury station direct on February 11 at [1aq18] virtually the same position as the New Moon. A
chart drawn for the station at Degioz has Mercury placed significantly on the
descendant implying that whatever these early degrees of tropical Aquarius
stood for was going to be important for Degioz. Here Mercury is conjunct theta
Lyrae [1aq] in the east wing of Lyre/Vulture!
Mercury
[1aq] semisquares Venus [18pi] which is conjunct the star Ankaa. Alpha (α) Phoenix , Ankaa,[16pi] is a star on the neck of the mythical Phoenix . (see image).
In Greek
mythology, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or
reborn. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the
ashes of its predecessor. The phoenix was subsequently adopted as a symbol in
Early Christianity. While the phoenix typically dies by fire in most versions
of the legend, there are less popular versions of the myth in which the
mythical bird dies and simply decomposes before being born again.
Notice how
elegantly the star symbolism proclaims
the return of the Vulture!
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