Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico spent decades
hounding debtors to pay their bills—until an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street
inspired them to find a way to pay struggling people's debts. When Paola
Gonzalez received a phone call from RIP Medical Debt, she was certain what she
heard was a mistake. A prank, maybe. The caller said a $950 hospital bill had
been paid for in full: It would not affect her credit and she wouldn't have to
worry about it again. "They wanted to pay a bill for me," she said.
"I was just speechless." The 24-year-old student from Roselle Park,
New Jersey, has lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that in 2011 put her in and
out of hospitals for a year. Even with insurance she faces a barrage of medical
bills that often get pushed aside. "I can't always work," Gonzalez
said. "I'll be fine today and sick tomorrow. It's really amazing that
people would help out like this. Aug. 17 http://goo.gl/Yr0tau
Eclipses become active at least three months
prior to their actual occurrence. We are now in the shadow of the lunar eclipse
of Sept. 27 a chart for which is shown here drawn for New York. The eclipse aligns
a Jupiter-Neptune-Saturn T-square with
the meridian axis. In its positive manifestation, a Jupiter-Neptune combination
can express as good Samaritans (Jupiter) who help out the weak, the sick, the underdog
or victims (Neptune). Here Saturn is placed very appropriately in the 6th
house connected with illness and health related issues. But more significantly,
it is conjunct the star Toliman, alpha Centauri.
Symbolically,
the centaur; half man, half horse represents the complete domination by baser
influences, instincts, the unconscious uncontrolled by the spirit. The
man-beast combination illustrates the conflict between man’s lower animal
nature merged with his higher nature of human virtue and judgement, the
struggle between the savage and the benign. In the picture above notice that
the centaur is shown carrying a spear that impales a wolf. The wolf – a
despoiler of flocks, rapacious, cruel, crafty and bloodthirsty – has long been
a symbol of evil. In Christian art, animals impaled on lances often allude to
vices that must be overcome. A lance exemplifies valor, virtue, war, power,
strength and victory over evil. Here, the
centaur is shown carrying the wolf to an altar for sacrifice, in other words
giving up its old “wolfish”ways, so that
among other things, Diana Rosenberg
associates this act with “redemption”.[1]
The word “redemption”
is defined as “the action of regaining
or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt”.
Redemption is the buying back of something. You might try for redemption by
attempting to buy back a bike you sold, or you might attempt to buy back your
soul after you steal someone else's bike. Redemption comes from the Latin word redimere, a combination of re(d)-, meaning “back,” and emere, meaning “buy.”
As always,
there is a “minute hand” of the cosmic clock that occurs closer to the event
and resonates with the “hour hand” – the eclipse, in this case. A chart for the
Waxing Crescent Moon of August 18 has Saturn with the star Toliman on the
Ascendant and Jupiter-Neptune
combination aligned with the meridian.
[1] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg
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