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The Return of the Bearded Vultures to Gran Paradiso






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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