Snakebite Sky
From the wettest winter Cape, we are now seeing a snakebite in the morning sky-skin, as Mars meets Jupiter precisely today @17h07 14AUG24 @16GEM40’. The venom is out, with a silent bang somewhere in your life, no doubt. For some it’s winning the doggy surf champs, for others its being ordained after much devotion and for many, its being bullied by brutal systems without effective controls; literally ‘out of control’. ‘What-to-do’ / ‘do-what-you-love’ winds blow hot and strong in these changing times.
To explore Kairos time (Time’s Quality) and Saturn/Cronos’ real time, astrology as both science and art is a key. Today, I’d like to share some Sabian Symbols from Dane Rudyar’s work and some key planetary aspects and cycles you may need, to map the enormity of this moment in your life.
- 16GEM40’ Jupiter-Mars today 14AUG24 (previous conjunction: 29MAY22 @3ARIES19’, next conjunction: 16NOV26 @25LEO53’)
- 16GEM29’ Uranus transit 6AUG1945 – Little Boy Uranium atomic bomb Hiroshima
- 16GEM36’ Uranus transit 9AUG1945 – Fat Man Plutonium atomic bomb Nagasaki
- 16GEM15’ Jupiter Midnight Star 7DEC24 (Jupiter retrograde: 9OCT24@21GEM20’ – 4FEB25 @11GEM16’)
- 16GEMINI is the north node of Venus (similar to how we work with the lunar nodes where southern declination is the work of the thing and north is intentional)
- 14GEMINI is the north node of Uranus (Uranus-Venus describes the bodymind of trauma)
- 14GEM29’ Venus Star Point 4JUN24 (Venus is now rising higher and brighter each evening in ‘Remembering and Embodiment’ Phase, the longest evening star phase of 5 crescent moon kisses where ‘Queen of Heaven and Earth’ wants each one of us filled with her golden lovelight, so WE can do our ‘love-in-action’, divine feminine work.
e 19AUG24: Problem-solving tool, the T-square where Jupiter and Mars square Saturn and Venus, who oppose officially on Monday, the 19th’s FULLLOON. Divine Action Mars-Jupiter becomes the solution in this karmic confrontation. Due retrogradation, Saturn returns to honour the agreement Venus makes now only on 1FEB25.
Gemini’s ruler Mercury is currently underworld with ancient Alphard and royal Regulus, asking us not to take revenge and to think and think again; to map, mine and lineup as many dots we can all find to scramble the mindless myopia dystopia. One’s own head can be a nightmare, let alone the ‘overmind’ collective conscious and never mind the collective unconscious. Where is your mind?
Sabian Symbols help us map. For clarity, we take 16 Gemini to be all of the 15-degree minutes and 17 Gemini to be all of Gemini’s 16th degree’s 60 minutes. So, for 16GEM I need to read the Sabian Symbol 17GEM. But in this case, I need to share both 16 and 17GEM with you, because its trickster time with Mercury’s retrograde magic.
16 GEMINI: A Woman Activist in an Emotional Speech Dramatizing Her Cause. The mind is violently moved to exteriorise and respond passionately from the heart and She attempts to move other minds emotionally / by violent means. This is the proselytizing mind and any human devoted to a cause, knows this. This ‘woman’ echoes the ‘1 ARIES’ selkie woman and indicates a person who depends on feelings and fiery images to sway a receptive public.
17 GEMINI: The Head of a Robust Youth Changes into that of a Mature Thinker. Now the mind builds concepts and intellectual formulations through which knowledge can be transferred. The preceding symbol is an explosive release of impulses generated by a new realisation of what is right and wrong and is demonstrated as a Woman’s Way, or the emotional way. Now the process is of a quiet, steady metamorphosis of biological energy into mind-power, which is seen symbolically as the Man’s Way. 2 approaches to communication are contrasted, which allows for a process of mental metamorphosis by transformation of emotion and instinct into thought and right action.
Hydra’s rain is feeling and hydrating our everything. Earthspeed helps to slow it all down enough for heartspace to find the fire to burn and turn the poison of snakebite’s poison into the essences and elixirs we need for healing and harmony. Mercury is returning to Leo’s fiery heart in early September for Virgo’s miracle of Spring. All birdsong, insect chants, frogs pulse and fish clicks are asking us to remember our garden.
Peace Peace Peace
Knysna, 14 August 2024
