Scarabaeus
– the Dung Beetle
Researchers have known for a few years now that the
dung beetle uses the Milky Way galaxy as a map to get itself across the
landscape, as it pushes a precious ball of dinner poo toward a safe place to
eat. Now, scientists from Sweden’s Lund University have established that all
the beetle needs is one good snapshot taken of the heavens in order to find its
way. It doesn’t “rely on an innate prediction of the natural geographical
relationship between celestial cues,” as the researchers wrote. And the kicker?
The beetles take this single heavenly picture while simultaneously dancing atop
their poo ball. May 13
A seemingly
insignificant discovery like this one can reveal hidden resonances which are
normally overlooked in our preoccupation with literal meanings and surface
interpretations. The news reported above comes just a few days after Jupiter
turned direct on May 9. A chart for Jupiter’s direct station drawn for Lund,
Sweden has the Jupiter-Neptune-Saturn T-square placed sharply on the horizon
axis.
Sextans
Here Jupiter
is conjunct not only stars in the foul gases emanating from the hind of the
Lion but also to stars in the sail of the Celestial Ship Argo as well as its
Sextant [1] . So essentially, this is an area where there is danger of susceptibility
to manipulation by our leaders (“foul gases” of the Lion) but also the
possibility of using our capacity to discriminate what is true from what is
false and then charting a course (“sextant’) for our spiritual journey (celestial
ship Argo).
By
association the stars in the hind of the Lion also refer to his poo so how
inspiring or even humbling that a dung beetle that lives in animal dung has
developed its capacity to use the Milky Way, (in much the same way as a sailor should
use the sextant or compass), to chart its own course!
Nick Fiorenza
summarizes Jupiter’s direct station in the following words:
Jupiter's direct station impels
us to discern for ourselves and to mobilize our own creative potential based
from our own wisdom rather than reacting to and continuing to blindly follow
the antic propaganda of antiquated sociopolitical structures.
What follows
next will seem impossible to believe. What is not so obvious in the chart above
is the fact that Saturn is in a sharp paran aspect to Praesepe, M44
Cancri. About Praesepe, Nick Fiorenza writes:
Praesepe, M44, the beehive star
cluster, crib or manger, in the Egyptian Scarabaeus (sidereal Cancer) [2]; and the
stars that make the ass of the crab (dung of the beetle). Praesepe embodies the
essence of the Scarabaeus (the dung beetle)--the emergence of soul awareness
from the darkness of human consciousness--the spiritual awakening of the human
species--much like the beetle emerges from the hive made of its own dung.
Praesepe is of emergence,
migration, new beginnings, shedding old skins, skeletons, and cocoons. It is of
emerging out of the collective frenetic confusion of mass consciousness;
finding our new path and direction; leaving behind old dwellings and the
structures of consciousness they represent; and getting out of our personal or
collective dogma and the darkness it creates. The image of Praesepe as the crib
or manger articulates the protective and nurturing environment supporting the
birth / awakening / transmutation from darkness into light.
Alignments with Praesepe may
indicate a new dwelling place is at hand or that one is in order to find. As
with the migration of bees from an old hive, before identifying their new
direction, there can be frenetic confusion at first, a scattered sense and lack
of direction before honing in on the guiding magnetic currents that guide them
toward their new home. This confusion is temporary and is part of intuiting the
feeling for the right direction, much like turning in a complete circle to
identify the way that feels right. Praesepe asks us to trust in our magnetic
sense, our inner compass--and to hone in on our new direction while honoring
the inherent scatteredness of the emergence process.
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