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World's second-largest diamond 'found in Botswana'



The world's second-largest gem quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, the Lucara Diamond firm says. The 1,111-carat stone was recovered from its Karowe mine, about 500km (300 miles) north of the capital, Gaborone. It is the biggest diamond to be discovered in Botswana and the largest find in more than a century. The 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond was found in South Africa in 1905 and cut into nine separate stones, many of which are in the British Crown Jewels. Nov.19 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34867929





The news of the discovery of the Botswana diamond comes at the First Quarter Moon in which both the luminaries aspect Venus. A chart for the Moon phase at Gaborone has the Uranus-Pluto-Zeus-Venus T-square straddling the horizon axis implying that these energies are significant for the place.  In the extract  below astrologer Linda Jonson explains the dynamics of the current Pluto transit through Capricorn.  But here I urge readers to unfocus their mind’s eye and  think about what she writes in a broader metaphorical sense, to see a connection with what follows.

On a collective level, the bottom line intention of the Pluto transit through Capricorn is to evolve the existing structures of countries that are preventing their evolutionary needs. When these evolutionary requirements are met with fear, insecurity and resistance by individuals, there can be a lot of overwhelming pain because of the evolutionary pressure to transform. The pressure has to reach a very intense point in order to induce the necessary changes because of the high degree of emotional security linked with the past. Before the new can begin, there must be a death of the old. Pluto brings death and new life to Capricornian structures and conditioning patterns around man-made laws, politics, family, nationalism, traditions, social status, and the structure of consciousness itself.[1]

Diamonds are formed deep within the Earth about 100 miles or so below the surface in the upper mantle. Obviously in that part of the Earth it's very hot. There's a lot of pressure, the weight of the overlying rock bearing down, so that combination of high temperature and high pressure is what's necessary to grow diamond crystals in the Earth. The diamonds that we see at the surface are ones then that are brought to the surface by a very deep-seated volcanic eruption. It's a very special kind of eruption, thought to be quite violent, that occurred a long time ago in the Earth's history [2]


Symbolically Pluto refers to the bowels of the earth while the Uranus-Pluto square is the evolutionary pressure to transform and change. Among other things the TNP Admetus  is linked to stones and rocks while TNP Zeus is associated with heat.  Notice that all these entities are connected by hard aspects in the chart along with Venus, the planet which rules diamonds [3]!

[3] http://www.bluestone.com/article/diamond-astrology-and-famous-diamonds-17.html

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Most events under the same aspects can be connected metaphorically. Shown here is a chart for the First Quarter Moon at Moscow. Notice that the significant T-square discussed above occupies the meridian axis here with Venus on the MC conjunct Putin’s radix Sun! Has the world discovered a new “diamond” here!! The following news articles appear to be saying just that.








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