Herakles and Pholus getting wine from large underground Pythos
India's Supreme Court has stayed a law banning
dance bars in the western state of Maharashtra and its capital Mumbai, allowing
them to reopen. Maharashtra passed the law last year after the top court
overturned an earlier ban by the state government. The state government first
banned dance bars in 2005, saying they "corrupted young people and were a
front for crime and prostitution". Bar owners and dancers had bitterly
protested against the ban. Before the ban, more than 100,000 women were
employed in some 1,400 dance bars in the state. The women would dance to
Bollywood numbers and clients often threw money at them. The case has been
going on in the court for a long time. Oct.15 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34537196
We are
still in the wake of the powerful eclipses of September. Shown here is the chart for the solar eclipse
of Sept. 13 at Bombay. The eclipse[20vi]
is conjunct the asteroid EROS [17vi] which Martha Wescott [2] delineates as
below:
EROS: Sexuality; the history,
experience and behavioral repertoire of eroticism; joie de vivre; what “turns
you on;” the Will to Live (the “passion” for life.)
The
eclipse is also square the centaur Pholus [22sa]. Philip Sedgwick explains that Pholus is the keeper of the
sacred wine . On a mundane level it is connected to food and drink - especially
linked to celebrations [1]. Linking Eros to Pholus do we get the picture of a
dance bar serving food and drinks?
If we
remember that the angles of a chart extend their orb of influence for about 10
degrees on either side, we can see that the eclipse conjoins the MC and
Jupiter and is part of a T-square with
Saturn, Neptune and Transpluto.
Here the Sabian symbol for Saturn[29sc40] is:
Phase
240: Children in Halloween costumes indulge in various pranks.
Keynote: Scorpio rules our instinctual
energies which cannot be completely overcome. So traditional societies have
built several ways of allowing these energies to operate under ritualistic
procedures that are sufficiently safe to the collective. Wherever this symbol
is found, the need for such outlets is shown to exist. The symbol therefore
points to an imaginative relief from tension.
In the
Saturn [29sc40] is conjunct the asteroid BACCHUS [27sc] linked to wine [2] so that
here the combination refers to laws (Saturn) governing bars (Bacchus).
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