The German parliament has approved a resolution
declaring that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War
One was a "genocide". Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their people
died in the atrocities of 1915. Turkey says the toll was much lower and rejects
the term "genocide". The vote heightened German-Turkish tensions at a
time when Turkey's help is needed to stem the flow of migrants. Turkey has
recalled its ambassador and its leader threatened further action. 2 June http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36433114
In 1915,
leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre
Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. On April 24, 1915, the Armenian
genocide began [1]. That day, the Turkish government arrested and executed
several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, ordinary Armenians were
turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian
desert without food or water. Though reports vary, most sources agree that
there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the
massacre. By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally
ended, some 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were dead, with many more
forcibly removed from the country.
The approval
of the resolution by the German parliament is elegantly explained by the March
9 Solar Eclipse which fell on Achernar,
alpha Eridanus. Aratus called Eridanus, “The River of Many Tears”. Diana
Rosenberg links it to “massacres, acts of violent religious intolerance”. It
was active in 1524 when Franciscan priests brutally suppressed the Aztec
clergy, killing their priests; at the November 1793 New Moon at Nantes on the
Loire River, the month “noyades” Carrier’s mass drowning of the citizens
suspected of being opposed to the revolution began; in 1830 when the US
Congress passed the Indian removal Act to force all tribes into “Indian Territory” west of the Mississippi
River.
In Berlin, the Solar Eclipse makes a hard
aspect to the MC. On the MC are stars of Bootes, the Herdsman and Argo, the
Celestial Ship. The shepherding instincts of the herdsman combines with Argo’s
second brightest star Miaplacidus to bring about mass movements. These stars
were transited in 1934 at the start of the 7500 mile “Long March” of 100,000
Communist Chinese troops through almost impassable terrain to escape
extermination campaigns: only about 10,000 survived: “the most extraordinary
march in human history”. This was also the Full Moon in the traditional month
of Passover of 5500 BCE which Edgar Cayce gave for the Exodus of Hebrew slaves
from Egypt. [1]
Progressing
the eclipse chart to June 2, the date of the news, brings the Ascendant to the
“reaction point” of the eclipse T-square, thereby triggering it. Among other
stars conjunct the eclipse are those of
Phoenix, the Firebird that rises from it ashes and several others in the
flowing waters of Aquarius’ Urn. Diana Rosenberg writes, “here Eridanus’ great
River of Time and the flow of water from the Urn sweep away past errors and
regrets”.
The German
parliament’s resolution on Thursday that
recognized their country’s role as the Ottoman Empire’s then key ally and said
it was now responsible for promoting awareness of the 1915-1916 Armenian
genocide is an admission of an error if not a regret.
PS:
In
addition to Obama’s visit to Hiroshima on May 26, here is another example of
regrets and atonement coming just before the June 5 New Moon which activates
the solar eclipse.
More than 40 years after the end
of the Vietnam war, dozens of ageing former American soldiers have gone back to
the country to live. Some had difficulty adapting to civilian life in the US.
Others have gone back in the hope of atoning for wrongs they believe were
committed during the war. At the foot of one of Da Nang's Marble Mountains
women with rice hats walk around selling souvenirs. A lift takes tourists to
the top, where on one side they look out over the countryside of central
Vietnam, on the other the South China Sea.
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