Hermes, Athenian red-figure
Panathenaic amphora C5th B.C.
Three
CNN employees have resigned amid the network’s very fake news scandal in which
it was forced to retract a hit piece on President Donald Trump and his
associates. June 26
In mundane astrology, the transits of the outermost five
major bodies of the solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
– are considered important when the bodies that make up these cycles arrive at
significant angular relationships. Jupiter-Pluto
form a square [90 degrees] aspect in 2016-17.
During this period, there are times when a third faster
moving planet triggers the square. Between June 25 and July 2, Mercury and Mars
are forming a T with Jupiter-Pluto. One June 27, Mercury forms an exact square
with Jupiter. A chart for this event brings the T-square to an alignment with
the horizon and meridian axes at Atlanta, Georgia, where CNN has its
headquarters. In this configuration, the meaning of the Mercury-Pluto (forming)
opposition is sufficient to explain the news story.
But first here is an extract from The Spiritual Dimension of Pluto Aspects by Moses Siregar in which he
explains how Pluto works:
The bad guy is on the
run, and the good guys are on his heels. The villain runs into a crowded room
and grabs the first innocent victim that he can find, and holds the damsel
close to himself, shouting, "don't shoot or the girl gets it!" The
villain escapes out the back door, hoping to make it off with its hostage and
survive. This is what happens when Pluto
aspects a planet in a birth chart. But the bad guy is probably not who you
think he is.
The miscreant almost
escapes, but then he slips, and the hero lunges in, knocking back the
scoundrel, and setting the girl free. The bad guy swings at him, but the good
guy dodges, and then lands a punch of his own, bringing the rogue to his knee.
The villain, powerless before the police that now surround him, is captured,
and must face defeat and full exposure of all wrongdoing. Justice is served.
Order is restored to society.
This is what happens
when Pluto aspects another planet in a birth chart, and when consciousness is
victorious over illusion.
The bad guy is an
overly dramatic representation of ego, defined here as the jumble of
unconscious tendencies trapping us in ignorance and suffering. The planet
aspected by Pluto represents the kidnapped victim, which is the aspect of our
psychology that becomes captured by ego. The hero and the police are Pluto, the
power of Truth emerging in our awareness, encouraged by the presence of
enlightened beings. http://www.astrologyforthesoul.com/moses/pludoaspctx.html
In our case, the “kidnapped
victim” is the planet Mercury known as Hermes to the Greeks.
Hermes was the personal herald of Zeus, the
king of the Gods, and the patron-god of all heralds. His kadukeios (the
herald's staff) was the device of office held by official messengers in ancient
Greece. Hermes was also the god of guile in its many aspects: including
deception, crafty words, persuasion, and the wiles of thieves and merchants. http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/HermesGod.html
From this reference, we understand how, in its negative
expression, the “kidnapped” Mercury-Hermes can be associated with the news media which has become deeply
invested in lies and deception. However, in its positive expression, (which we
are seeing here too), Mercury-Pluto
aspects are related to investigative reporting. It relates to a detective like
mentality and a powerful need to know secrets.
The hero in our story is the investigative reporter who carried out the “sting”
to arrive at the truth.
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