Bellerophon
The EU
is resisting calls from hotheads to supply arms to Ukraine, saying it won’t be
pulled into a confrontation with Russia. Europeans cite the progress in
implementing a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine between Kiev and local rebels. The
idea of providing lethal aid to Kiev is popular among many NATO officials and
American politicians. US House Speaker John Boehner and a bipartisan group of
top lawmakers called on President Barack Obama to deliver the weapons. But
Europeans are opposing the move, which would likely escalate tensions with
Russia.
“The
European Union today is extremely realistic about developments in Russia. But
we will never be trapped or forced or pushed or pulled into a confrontative
[sic] attitude,” the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini told the
media on Friday, following an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Riga,
Latvia.
The chart for
the upcoming solar eclipse of March 20 at Brussels where the EU is
headquartered can help explain the above news. Eclipses offer an opportunity to resynchronize ourselves with
the ever-changing cosmic currents supporting our evolutionary progression in
consciousness. They tend to bring about endings and new beginnings. How
dramatic these changes can be and the symbolic issues involved are a function
of star alignments and other aspecting planets occurring at the time of the
eclipse. Although eclipses effect the entire Earth, they are of great
significance in places where they aspect the meridian or horizon axis. Here we find
that the eclipse [29pi] is conjunct the star Scheat and falls on the Descendant
of the European Union’s radix chart.
Scheat,[29pi]
is the beta star of the constellation
Pegasus. It has a traditional reputation
of injury by one’s own hand or that of another. Winged horse Pegasus is about the ability to rise above difficulties on the
one hand and the danger of overreaching on the other [1]. The capacity to master primordial life forces
and rise above difficulties is illustrated in the story of Perseus and
Andromeda whereas the danger of overreaching is brought out in the story of
Bellerophon.
Bellerophon was
"the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus,
before the days of Heracles". As Bellerophon's fame grew, so did his
hubris. Bellerophon felt that because of his victory over the Chimera, and
because he thought he was a god he deserved to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm
of the gods. However, this presumption angered Zeus and he sent a gadfly to
sting the horse causing Bellerophon to fall all the way back to Earth. Pegasus
completed the flight to Olympus where Zeus used him as a pack horse for his
thunderbolts [2].
With an
eclipse taking place on Scheat, the issues presented above are brought to the
fore. Are we going to exhibit true mastery over primordial forces or are we
going to overreach and suffer a great fall? This is the question that this star
raises. It would appear in our context that the EU is choosing to tame the
primordial forces while the US and Nato are exhibiting a degree of hubris that
might lead to a great fall.
The Solar
Eclipse of March 20 is placed in the mundane 11th house at Brussels.
The 11th house rules allies and friendly nations. With a square to TNPs
Kronos-Hades on the Ascendant opposite TNP Cupido, the eclipse is referring to
the possibility of a deterioration (Hades) of relationships (TNP Cupido is
sense of group unity) with its allies (11th house eclipse) because
of differences of opinion (Kronos) [3]. In a previous post [4] we had looked at
the chart of NATO to understand why the “Atlantic Bridge” was falling down.
There we had seen how the current Neptune transit was weakening the NATO structure and undermining
associations. Here the solar
eclipse [29pi2] is conjunct the
Mars-Neptune midpoint [29pi50]. In our present context this can be interpreted
as lack of energy or desire (Neptune) for war (Mars).
[1] The
Living Stars; Dr. Eric Morse
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