Scientists
who study child development know that kids can identify a dominant figure in a
social situation from a young age. Less has been known about how children
respond to that powerful personality, and how a child’s reaction to injustice
might change over time.
Now
European researchers have discovered that there is a defined “Robin Hood” stage
in childhood. Through two experiments, whose findings were recently published
in Developmental Psychology, (Sept.
26) a team of cognitive scientists, social scientists, and psychologists
learned that kids tend to start standing up to power, in favor of creating a
more egalitarian social structure, at around age five. By age eight, most kids
push for social equality, rooting for the underdog, when they detect an
imbalance of power.
This New Moon of Sept.1
eclipse lies in the midst of the stars Thuban of Draco, Alioth of the
Great Bear and Sextant, and Suhail
Velorum of Argo Navis in the very southern heavens. Thuban is the brightest star in the constellation of Draco,
the Dragon. The word dragon entered the English language from the Greek word
δράκων, drakon. A severe and
totalitarian authority figure came to be likened to a dragon.
Nick Fiorenza explains why it is important to move away from
such authority figures and re-align to a new level of integrity and our inner
soul / source directive and truth.
Solar eclipses offer
opportunity to redefine concepts of self and the roles we play in the world, or
how we articulate ourselves in life. They are about shifting octaves in the
nature of our self-perception and self-expression, and addressing issues that
keep us from doing so. They can invite a new beginning, way of life, or new way
of participating in life.
Thuban, in the far
northern heavens, was Earth’s pole star circa 2600 BC near the "tear of
the Bear," a point in Earth’s ~25,000-year "evolutionary cycle of the
soul" at which a turning and fractioning occurred in the hierarchical
powers governing Earth. This dramatized the separation between those choosing
to fight for a greater evolutionary vision and those wanting to maintain totalitarian
control of the Earth with their antics to do so. Alpha Sextans inspires us to
get our bearings, to reorient ourselves, and to plot our courses for the next
leg of our journeys. On a greater scale, this can be in regard to changing
allegiance from diversionary forces or currents in the world around us and to
re-align to a new level of integrity and our inner soul / source directive and
truth.
Conjoining Thuban from
the southern heavens is Vela X-1, a potent neutron star in the sail of the Argo
that creates a relentless wind driving us to respond to life. It engages us to
participate in creating our long-term evolutionary destiny. In typical black
hole fashion, this is an all or nothing deal, as that which we set in course
now affects the nature of our evolutionary future. If we take no stance we are
merely destined to chance and blown in the forever changing winds of
evolutionary time.
In addition we notice that the eclipse is square a
Mars-Saturn conjunction. In simple terms, this conjunction is about standing up
(Mars) to authority (Saturn). This becomes all the more significant since here Mars [14sa] is
conjunct the star delta (δ) Hercules, Sarin in the constellation of Hercules,
the strong man while Saturn [10sa] is
conjunct the star Antares, alpha (α) Scorpius.
About Antares Nick Fiorenza writes:
Antares is the heart
of the Scorpion. In classical astrology, Antares is the star of war and
weaponry, and with expounded meaning, to challenge the established opposing
politics (an arena common to the Antares / Aldebaran axis) with tenacious
adamancy. This is especially in regard to taking a stand against the
established conditions of our personal lives and against the established order
or authority directing our lives when those conditions or that authority are no
longer in our best interest nor supporting our evolutionary freedom and
fulfillment.
Now if we progress the eclipse chart to the September 26,
when the European research about the “Robin Hood” stage in childhood was published in Developmental Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological
Association at Washington, DC, we find that the eclipse along with the T-square
aligns with the horizon and is thereby triggered.
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