Russia ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya dies

One of Russian ballet’s most iconic dancers, Maya Plisetskaya, has died of a heart attack in Munich, Germany at the age of 89. “Her husband, [the composer] Rodion Shchedrin has just called me. She died from a massive heart attack – the German doctors did their best, but she could not be saved,” Bolshoi Theater general director Vladimir Ourin told TASS news agency. As she traveled the world, performing her trademark piece, The Dying Swan, and the lead parts in Swan Lake , Spartacus, and The Sleeping Beauty, she became synonymous with Soviet ballet itself, which was undergoing a resurgence. April 2 http://rt.com/news/255153-russian-ballerina-plisetskaya-dies/

Understanding the world around us depends on our power to perceive patterns of meaning, to make the right connections, recognize what belongs with what. In this post, as in so many others before, we will see how astrological symbolism can explain world events by helping us to think in terms of new categories different from the ones to which we are habituated.

Of all  cardinal ingresses of the Sun, the Capricorn Ingress is considered by many mundane astrologers to be the most important. Shown here is sidereal Capricorn Ingress for Munich, Germany where Maya Plisetskaya died. Notice Saturn [2sa] in the 8^th house square Mercury [2pi] and Neptune [6pi] in the 11^th. H.S. Green’s statement about Saturn in 8^th : “Death of aged persons, of some state official or public or prominent persons” summarizes the news accurately. But more significantly Saturn is conjunct the stars of Hercules about which Diana Rosenberg comments, “With strongman Hercules providing courage, energy and physicality and a daring, all-or-nothing spirit that needs and seeks expression, many here become dancers, acrobats and sports champions. A Latin epithet for Hercules was saltator, ‘leaper’”. If we now combine this with the stars of Mars and Neptune, the picture becomes exceedingly clear. Here we have the star Deneb Adige, alpha Cygni [6pi] of Cygnus, the Swan. Diana Rosenberg notes, “Cygnus sponsors an extraordinary number of artists…preferred fields include theatre, dance (especially ballet)”. Is it a coincidence that Plisetskaya’s trademark ballet was The Dying Swan ?!

If we now progress the Ingress chart to May 2, the date of Maya Plisetskaya’s death, we find that Saturn-Neptune-Mars reach the angles triggering the event. In passing, we note that the asteroid Orpheus [6pi] linked to death is conjunct Neptune [6pi].