Uranus-Pluto and Egypt

If you didn't already know, the epic Uranus-Pluto square is already in effect, although the first of seven exact alignments does not occur until June 24, 2012. The seed conjunction of the roughly 125 year Uranus-Pluto cycle took place on Oct. 9, 1965 at 17 Virgo. And the collective impulses for massive change, revolutionary upheaval-overthrow that emerged in the 60's are reaching their first 'crisis of action' phase with the waxing squares between Uranus and Pluto- a critical phase of any synodic(from one conjunction to the next) cycle.

Clearly, the political uprising in Egypt is reflective of this epochal aspect, and we can see how current events are timed or triggered by transits of Uranus or Pluto to the seed conjunction chart of 1965. For if we cast a chart for the 1965 Uranus-0-Pluto we find the Ascendant in Cairo at 6 Cancer, and transiting Pluto is exactly opposite this Ascendant. Since the Ascendant of such a mundane chart is the most sensitive point that mirrors the state of the state and it's people- major transits to this angle and/or it's ruler are crucial. In this case, the ruler of the Cancer Ascendant is the Moon at 7 Aries in the 10th house of government, and transiting Pluto will square this Moon for the first time in Feb. 2011.

From Asia & Mideast

The awakening of radical, revolutionary impulses to overthrow repressive conditions are unfolding in Egypt, where inspired by the recent protests that led to the fall of the Tunisian government and the ousting of longtime Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Egyptians have joined other protesters across the Arab world in protesting their autocratic governments, high levels of corruption, and poverty. Some astrologers have projected similar global scenarios when the Uranus-Pluto squares kick in and kick ass. But the intense drive for change and liberation in Egypt now would seem to be the first definitive manifestation of these planetary energies, that were actually seeded back in the 60's at the birth of the 125 year Uranus-Pluto cycle.

Eclipses in Tunisia and Egypt, by Mary Plumb:
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Brzezinski’s Feared “Global Awakening” Has Arrived:
"Zbigniew Brzezinski’s much feared “global political awakening” is in full swing. Revolts in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and other countries represent a truly monumental worldwide rallying cry for freedom that threatens to immeasurably damage the agenda for one world government, but only if the successful revolutionaries can prevent themselves from being co-opted by a paranoid and desperate global elite."
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Hosni Mubarak Under Fire

From BBC News:
"Cairo, Alexandria and Suez have been placed under curfew as the Egyptian government battles to restore control after the biggest protests so far.

Across the country tens of thousands of protesters turned out after Friday prayers and clashed with police.

President Hosni Mubarak, facing the biggest challenge to his authority of his 31 years in power, has ordered the army onto the streets of Cairo. He is expected to make a statement shortly.

The curfew is now in effect, but live television pictures from Cairo continue to show large crowds on the streets.

Flames have been seen from the area around the headquarters of the governing National Democratic Party(NDP) in Cairo."

From Asia & Mideast

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's birth eclipse featured Pluto(drive to power-influence) culminating in the capital city of Cairo. And the 1/4/11 solar eclipse which squared Saturn(authority, accountability, and limitations), activated the birth eclipse chart directly. The May 19, 1928 total solar eclipse occurred 15 days after Mubarak was born.

Super Bowl

If one applies mundane techniques to the Super Bowl, the 2010 Capricorn ingress(Winter Solstice chart) for Green Bay suggests the Packers will win, with the fortunate Jupiter-Uranus conjunction on the local Midheaven.

From United States

The exalted(in Capricorn) Mars- natural significator of sports and competition, is exactly conjunct the Capricorn ingress Part of Fortune in Green Bay, as well. However, Mars is applying to a difficult square with Saturn, which links the two traditionally malefic planets in a tense relationship.

The Feb. 2 Aquarius New Moon chart seems more dynamic in Pittsburgh than Green Bay- but we might assume the positive indications for a Packer victory as shown by the Capricorn ingress which covers the entire winter, are an over-riding influence.

Vesta in Capricorn

The major asteroid Vesta(Hestia)- keeper of the sacred hearth flame, enters the focused, ambitious, and structure-oriented sign of Capricorn on Jan. 28. "In the birth chart, Vesta shows how we use our sexual energy to deepen our relationship with ourselves, integrating and regenerating on inner levels so we can focus and dedicate ourselves to our work in the outer world." ~Demetra George

The mythology of Vesta/Hestia:
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Sun Halo Beyond Stockholm

From Images 108

Explanation: What's happened to the Sun? Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a large lens. In this case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. As water freezes in the upper atmosphere, small, flat..., six-sided, ice crystals might be formed. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat, parallel to the ground. An observer may pass through the same plane as many of the falling ice crystals near sunrise or sunset. During this alignment, each crystal can act like a miniature lens, refracting sunlight into our view and creating phenomena like parhelia, the technical term for sundogs. This image was taken last year in Stockholm, Sweden. Visible in the image center is the Sun, while two bright sundogs glow prominently from both the left and the right. Also visible is the bright 22 degree halo -- as well as the rarer and much fainter 46 degree halo -- also created by sunlight reflecting off of atmospheric ice crystals.

White Terrorism

From Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog:
Posted on 01/09/2011

"Jared Lee Loughner, the assassin of Federal judge John M. Roll and five others and attempted assassin of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords(D-AZ), was clearly mentally unstable. But the political themes of his instability were those of the American far Right. Loughner was acting politically even if he is not all there. He is said to have called out the names of his victims, such as Roll and Gifford, as he fired. As usual, when white people do these things, the mass media doesn’t call it terrorism.

It is irrelevant that Loughner may (at this point we can only say “may”) have been a liberal years earlier in high school. If so, he changed. And among the concerns that came to dominate him as he moved to the Right was the illegitimacy of the “Second Constitution” (the 14th Amendment, which bestows citizenship on all those born in the US, a provision right-wingers in Arizona are trying to overturn at the state level). Loughner also thought that Federal funding for his own community college was unconstitutional, and he was thrown out for becoming violent over the issue. He obviously shared with the Arizona Right a fascination with firearms, and it is telling that a disturbed young man who had had brushes with the law was able to come by an automatic pistol. He is said to have used marijuana, but that says nothing about his politics; it could be consistent with a form of anti-government, right-wing Libertarianism. I don’t think we can take too seriously the list of books he said he liked, as a guide to his political thinking. They could just have been randomly pulled off some list of great books on the Web, since there is no coherence to the choices.

The man who had most to do with Loughner after his arrest, Pima County Sherriff Clarence W. Dupnik, was clearly angered by what he heard from the assassin: “When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry … it is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."
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US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition after a gunman shot her in the head and killed six people in an Arizona gun attack on the morning of Jan. 8.

From United States

Astrologically- the 2010 Aries ingress(Vernal Equinox) chart did portend yesterday's shooting in Tucson. The Chiron(wounding)-Neptune(idealism/disillusionment) conjunction fell on the ingress Midheaven- most public point of the chart, that relates to government figures. And this prominent conjunction was square the malefic star Algol- 'losing one's head'. This was the same aspect that foreshadowed the Gulf oil spill disaster, and it was sharply in Tuscon, AZ by angularity. The Jan. 4 New Moon Solar Eclipse emphasized the Aries ingress 8th house of death and loss.

Jan. 4 Solar Eclipse

The Jan 4 partial solar eclipse at 14 degrees of Capricorn belongs to the 1280 year Saros series 151, and appears somewhat important for the US(7/4/1776) as it aligns with the natal Sun-Saturn square, during the nation's 8th Saturn return. Moreover, the first eclipse of Saros 151 which set the basic tone of this series occurred Aug. 14, 1776, shortly after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

From United States

The Jan 4 eclipse in Capricorn is square it's lord or ruler Saturn- planet of accountability and responsibilities. So generally speaking, this eclipse is a reality check of sorts, regarding our national or personal long term goals and objectives. But also on Jan. 4, Jupiter and Uranus conjoin for the final time(3rd of 3), and this aspect suggests a more hopeful and future oriented outlook, that's open to new and exciting possibilities. So whatever 'beginnings' this eclipse is seeding or foreshadows, it seems to carry both an energy for increased focus, along with a drive to forge ahead into new uncharted territory, with the potential for sudden breakthroughs.

Astronomically- the solar eclipse occurs at the Moon's North or Ascending Node, and is visible from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia.
Solar Eclipse map
Astrologically, the eclipse on the Midheaven in Baghdad, may indicate that the structural integrity of the Iraqi government may be under duress, or at least subject to restructuring, in the first half of 2011.

From Asia & Mideast

Image: Eclipsed Earth- August 11, 1999

From Images 108

This quote from astrologer Demetra George on eclipses is illuminating; "From a psychological perspective, when the light of the mind and consciousness(Sun) or the instinctive wisdom of the body and emotions(Moon) is blocked, something else that is normally under restraint emerges unimpeded. Consider the analogy of robbers who prefer to do their work at night under the cover of darkness. Eclipses can allow us to access that which has been concealed or repressed- what Jung called the shadow. This encounter with the hidden and rejected contents of the unconscious as is refers to either the solar mind of the lunar emotions can bring a person to integrate the unknown with the known, the dark with the light, the past with the future. This is the potential inherent in the encounter of the two lights perfectly aligned in conjunction or opposition at the places of the lunar nodes, with the opposing pole being the possibility of breakdown or disintegration of the psyche.

Tibetan Buddhist spiritual traditions hold that the energies during eclipses are greatly magnified, and propose that the end results of the good or bad actions that are done during an eclipse have significantly larger-than-usual ramifications in the life."

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"It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized." ~I Ching