"Don't
make me a goddess. I am an ordinary woman with ordinary desires," Irom
Sharmila, seen as the world's longest hunger striker, once told an associate.
"I
want to eat good food, get married, want to have children. Please don't put me
on a pedestal. I am just an ordinary person engaged in an extraordinary
struggle."
Her
struggle has been against India's notorious Armed Forces Special Powers Act, a
draconian law which gives the security forces sweeping powers to arrest people
without warrants and even shoot to kill in certain situations. Aug. 9 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36983424
Irom Chanu Sharmila (born 14 March 1972), also known as the
"Iron Lady of Manipur" is a civil rights activist, political
activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. On 2 November 2000, she
began a hunger strike which she has ended on 9 August 2016, after 16 years of
fasting. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been
called "the world's longest hunger striker".
In her natal chart, the Sun [24pi] makes a hard aspect to a
Ceres [9le]-S.Node[4le] conjunction. Her progressed Sun [8ta] is beginning a
square to radix Ceres. The current New Moon [10le] fell conjunct Irom Sharmila’s
Ceres-S.Node. In the excerpt below, Nick Fiorenza explains the dynamics of the
New Moon stars in his post entitled Darkness
& Delusion to Light & Illumination:
This August 2, 2016 New Moon lies
amongst the stars of the Egyptian Scarabaeus (our modern Crab), between Acubens
and Asellus Aus of Cancer. It nests over the head of Hydra. North are Alpha
Lyncis and Gianfar of Draco. South is Tureis on the Puppis of Argo Navis.
Cancer, commonly the crab today, is
also the Egyptian Scarabaeus, an image that articulates the theme of humanity's
emergence from suppression, darkness, dogma, and delusion and its reawakening
back to light. The Scarab is an appropriate mythical figure here because the
beetle emerges from its snuggle in its own dung, where it matures. This theme
also applies to our individual emergence from the family nest of the collective
consciousness that we acquiesce to and uphold. The Scarab is a symbol of
regeneration, transformation and re-birth, of being self-created, or self-made,
to rise from itself—hence humanity's association with the beetle’s emergence.
Cancer, or the Scarab, imparts a nurturing, protective and cultivating quality,
ultimately to support this emergence. This lunar cycle impels us to hold onto
that which is of value and is truly nurturing but it also impels us to relinquish crustaceans or
calcifications in consciousness that limit our emergence into light and
illumination.
Now if we factor in the keyword “food” for Ceres from Martha Wescott [2], the
picture is perfectly clear.
CERES: The need for nurturing; food; the relationship
between mother & child; issues of “taking care of” people, plants and
animals; growths/cysts; herbs and grains.
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