Astropost: Varuna, floods, Australia and Brazil

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Zodiac rearranged?

The internet is buzzing with the news that the zodiac has been rearranged, says K Fox TV.com. Of course, the stars are the stars and the signs are the signs, like yesterday. Nothing was 'rearranged'. They are talking about the difference between sidereal and tropical astrology and every astrologer knows about the differences between the systems and about the sign of Ophiucus. I quote Wikipedia:

"The difference between sidereal and tropical astrology is in the opinion whether the system as defined by Ptolemy in the 2nd century should be fixed to the seasons, i.e. the orientation of the Earth relative to the solar system, or to the background stars, i.e. the orientation of the Earth relative to the galaxy. Tropical astrology chooses the former, sidereal astrology the latter option. Both systems coincide for times close to the historical definition of the Zodiac, i.e. Classical Antiquity"

The tropical zodiac starts with Zero Aries (see the post about Aries Point) on March 21 (spring time). Spring doesn't start on April 19 (that is where Zero Aries is in the Sidereal zodiac).

K Fox also mentions a 13th sign: Ophiuchus. It is not part of the tropical astrological zodiac now. Maybe it should? Read what Betty Matteson Rhodes thinks of Ophiuchus.

Astrology is the art  of interpreting the astrological picture of the sky at the time and place of a certain event. Astrologers are to decided what is in that picture of the sky. The contents of the picture (the chart) depend on culture and on views in time in history. And astrology is more than sunsigns. In fact, I hardly use them in my posts on this blog. In whatever system the aspects and the midpoints remain the true basics of astrology.

But apparently, the discussion is a hype on the internet today, started by an astronomer. Again. There is nothing new under the sunsigns:)...

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Even the Washington Post writes about the 'new' zodiac signs...
And here is Star Tribune.com about it...

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Is the Sun sign changing to Aquarius now?

A lot of visitors for the post about 'Signs of changing times' (in your individual chart!) and the 'Sunsign changing" (about the individual progressed sunsign) made me think of the reason why and what they were searching for. It seems that birds dropping out of the sky and large amounts of dead fish, the floods, the lack of activity on the surface of the sun and other 'biblical' events scare a lot of people. They want to know if the sun sign is changing now or if 2012 is really 'the end of times'. And apparently, one of the signs of the end of the world (they think) is the end of the Age of Pisces. There are two posts on this blog with an answer for them:

Exit mundi or Age of Aquarius (http://astropost.blogspot.com/2009/10/2012-exit-mundi-or-age-of-aquarius.html) about the Maya calendar, chart of December 2012 with yod and the Age of Aquarius.

1. EXIT MUNDI

In that jpost I wrote that there has never been an enormous disaster predicted by means of astrology. The Tsunami and September 11 were NOT predicted, by noone, and certainly not like this: 'On September 11, 2001 in New York Muslim terrorists will hit a building by plane'. So how can anyone be so sure about what exactly will happen on December 21, 2012 and where? They can't because there is no chart of the world! A chart is related to time AND place on earth. In other words: 'the world' doesn't have a chart or horoscope.

The Mayas didn't know about Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Mayas knew about their world (South America). They had no idea about Spain, for example and they thought that the Spanyards were Gods. So, they didn't exactly 'know it all'. 

They also didn't know about the Yod in the December 21, 2012 chart with the Saturn-Pluto-Jupiter-Yod. And even if they did: the 'finger of God' in the Yod is pointing at Jupiter, the planet of protection, in the ninth degree of Gemini. If you want to see this Yod as a bad sign, I will ask you why. Because Jupiter will be conjunct Aldebaran. See Constellation of Worlds and you will find:

With Jupiter: Great ecclesiastical honor and high military preferment. [Robson*, p.121.]

The 9th degree of Gemini is a nice sabian degree, too.

They also didn't have our method of calculating the years, months and days as we do since a few ages. So adding numerology to the Maya Calender to prove 'the end of times' is only contributing to the effect (fear, exitement) and has nothing to do with the Mayas. Astrology isn't numerology... Back to astrology.

2. AGE OF AQUARIUS

The end of the Age of Pisces (the 2000 year cycle of today) could be Zero Aries of 2012 (March 20, 2012), says Gene Ray in the post on this blog: Age of Aquarius)
If that is so, what could happen? The world didn't end when the Age of Pisces started. Why would the world end when the Age of Aquarius begins? In the individual progressed chart sunsigns change every 30 years and we don't all die when that happens. Barack Obama's sunsign changed 5 months ago and this is only resonating the (growing) change in lifestyle as a President. My sunsign changed (to Aquarius, as a matter of facts) when my lifestyle changed. Just think of how our lifestyle changed since World War II, with all new technologies and you see that we are already changing our lifestyle. In fact, since the beginning of humanity!   

CONCLUSION

Some people just love doom theories (immediate climate change, the Russians will be coming and a comet may hit the earth and more of such stories). Twitter and the internet inform us immediately and that is how we know about events all over the world. Maybe that is scary sometimes. We can only try to be carefull and be alert and do the best we can. Why spend energy on a fictious idea, while there are dozens of disasters around us and we don't care? If you were in Somalia or in Haiti you would think that the end of the world is already here, but if you were having a nice holiday somewhere, would you think of your world that way?  

With astrology you can see something coming up, but there is not much you can do, except being prepared to do the best you can or simply hold your breath and NOT be afraid too much. Because just like proclaimed disasters and falling asteroids, some transits and progression come and go without any impact. Why is that? I don't know. Maybe they were only meant to keep you alert and to feel alive or maybe the idea of the brain is to make your blood flow! So let the sunshine in, like in the song! And watch what REALLY happens in your world today. Don't forget to see the good things. Today they found a way to stop Avian Flu!

Exit this story! CU on December 22, 2012:)

LINKS

One of the funiest sites (IMO) is Exit Mundi. Here you see a collection of end-of-world scenarios. There are so many that you can't help to start laughing!:)
Read Exit Mundi and you will notice again that you are here, alive and well.

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INTERPRETING PROGESSED MOON ASPECTS

The progressed (or secondairy) Moon is the position of the Moon on the xth day after birth for the xth year after birth. You need to know your hour of birth in order to calculate the Moon or the progressed Moon! The moon moves through the signs in about 28 months and makes aspect with the progressed and natal birth positions. Here are some ideas about how to interprete the aspects of the progressed Moon. Please keep in mind that the progressed Moon tells us more about how we feel,than about actual measurable effects. With a Progressed Moon conjunct Saturn you might just worry to much or be down, not for a particular reason. If there would be any reason, you could tell that from the other progressions and transits. It takes 3 or more indications for major events.

Varuna, floods, Australia and Brazil

The God Varuna

There have been horrible floods in Queensland Australia and in Brazil. Saturn and Varuna are making hard aspects with Australia's natal and progressed chart.  Varuna is conjunct Brazil's Sun/Moon midpoint and quindecile the nation's IC with Saturn in the first house. Varuna is the God of the water and the seas. Astro.com was so kind to publish the ephemeris of Varuna.

Varuna, the symbol of floods and waters, is in hard aspect with the Ascendant of the Australian natal chart (that I found on Astrodatabank). Varuna is quindecile the nation's Saturn.
The progressed chart of Australia has Varuna close to the ascendant and transit Saturn inconjunct the progressed Midheaven. That seems to be illustrating the situation. Above is the progressed chart, with transits. Below is the Ausralian natal chart with transits.

Australian natal chart and transits

Brazil's natal chart and transits

There are also floods in Brazil. Above is the chart of the discovery of Brazil*) (source = Astrodatabank, rating = A). Transit Varuna in the 23rd degree of Cancer is quindecile the natal IC and conjunct the natal Sun/Moon midpoint. (Just calculate: (32+193)/2=112.5=23rd of Cancer).

MORE VARUNA...
When Ed Stafford walked along the Amazone, his progressed Sun was trine Varuna all the time (During his 859 day journey, the progressed Sun was trine Varuna (symbol of the waters!) and square Quaoar (new realities!).

When there was an earth quake followed by a tsunami in Chili, Varuna was on the Descendant at location (see the complete post here). This is the chart of that moment and place.

Chart of the moment of the tsunami in Chili

*) This chart is not the national chart of Brazil!

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Read this site astrologic.ru for more about Varuna: http://www.astrologic.ru/english/Varuna.htm).
See the ephemeris of Varuna on Astro.com

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