The Dallas suburb of Rowlett has a strange new
sight in the trees along one of its streets: giant spider webs "draping
the trees like shrouds," according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Service urban entomologist Mike Merchant, in a piece featured in the
university's AgriLife Today. It seems that the town's CA Roan Drive is adorned
with webs that reach up to 40 feet into the trees and house thousands of
spiders. Merchant said that the massive web structures are not entirely
unprecedented but are still rare. Aug.7
A New Moon
overshadows events for a whole month and this more so in those places where it
is placed on the angles. A chart for the current New Moon at Dallas is shown here. Notice that the New Moon is significantly
placed on the descendant square Uranus. At
23 Cancer it is conjunct Pollux [23cn], of the Gemini Twins.
The Twins
are of partnership in mutual cooperation, linking and uniting their efforts in
the world which is why they are often shown joined at the hips and embracing
each other. Therefore, the star defining the New Moon does indicate joint projects like that of the spiders in
the news.
But why spiders? We don’t have to look very far for that answer.
Uranus [20ar] which squares the New Moon is conjunct the star epsilon Reticulum
[20ar]. Reticulum means a netlike formation or structure; a network [1].
"In Ancient Rome a class of
gladiator, the retiarius, was armed with a net which he used to immobilize his
opponent by entangling him in the meshes, thus placing him at his mercy",
"Nets may also be compared with the web in which spiders lurk for
prey" [Penguin Dictionary of Symbols].
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