Kalawati Devi Rawat is known as the woman who
brought electricity to her remote village in the hills of the northern Indian
state of Uttarakhand, writes BBC Hindi's Salman Ravi. It was the early 1980s
and she had just been married and moved to Bacher village to live with her
husband. The village had no electricity and she found life tough once it got
dark in the hills. One day, she led a group of village women to meet government
officials at the district headquarters in Gopeshwar to demand that their
village be electrified. But the authorities were unmoved. March 20 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35802709
As this news
story breaks, an exact Venus-Neptune conjunction occurs today. A chart for the
mundane event has a T-square straddling the meridian with the conjunction on
the IC. For the star backdrop of the
conjunction, the following extract from Diana Rosenberg appears to describe Kalawati Devi perfectly:
“Whither shall we
go? Not an empty question for these children of Cygnus, Pegasus and Aquarius
(as well as healing goddess Gula, his
ancient predecessor), for these souls must make a choice: whether to remain
aloof to the anguish of others (or cause it!), or to learn sensitivity and
compassion through their own painful experiences, becoming “wounded healers”
who develop an impulse to help, teach, save and restore. The polarity is
sharply defined, for while some here are humanitarian reformers with a social
conscience, others are cold and selfishly autocratic, utterly indifferent to
the sufferings of their fellow human beings. Whatever their choices in life,
they often make great demands upon
themselves; many are courageous and adventurous, believing in strong tough
leadership. Despising weakness and dependency, they are capable of great feats
of physical discipline, and most evince endurance as well as moral strength,
fearing only the fear within themselves. Even those whose lives are contented
and secure seem to need to pit themselves against great odds or extraordinary challenges”.
The Sabian
symbol of the IC [13pi] is also meaningfully
connected to Kalawati’s story.
[13Pisces] An Ancient Sword Used in
Many Battles, is Displayed in a Museum.
Keynote: Through the effectual use of
his will a consecrated man can become a symbol of courage for all those who
follow in his footsteps.
But as we
know planetary energies seldom work in isolation. The T configuration contains
a Mars-Jupiter square which in its most positive manifestation is, in the words
of Ebertin, “successful creative activity”.
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