diwali end and beginning
photo by Gada & Lodriguss
"One of the most spectacular sights in all of nature is the corona during a total solar eclipse.
The corona is the sun's atmosphere. It actually extends far out into the solar system, well past the Earth. It has an extremely wide brightness range of more than 10,000 to 1, and although the human eye has the ability to accommodate it and see detail in the brightest portions near the lunar limb as well as the faintest parts in the outer sections, normal photographic film is not able to record such a great range of contrast.
One of the greatest challenges for the eclipse photographer is to record on film an image that even remotely approximates what can be seen visually."
This eclipse totality will be visible in the south pacific from northern Australia to the Juan Fernandez islands.
Total Solar Eclipse chart
New Moon 13 November 2012 at 22:08 gmt, for 7e15, 43n42
symbol 22° Scorpio
Rudhyar:
Hunters shooting wild ducks.
Key: The socially accepted release of an individual's or a group's aggressive instincts. What this symbol clearly stresses is the socialization of man's primitive instincts according to a cultural ritual. Social hunting is a regulated seasonal outlet for male aggressiveness - a safety valve for emotional pressures in human beings in whom animal compulsions and bio-spheric values are still strong.
In this symbol, society willingly accepts - and in accepting, ritualizes and to some extent refines - the aggressiveness inherent in most individuals.
The Keywords are socialization of instincts
Jones:
Hunters starting out for ducks.
This is a symbol of the simplicity of self-expression and the straightforward honesty of desire which men tend to exhibit from birth in nearly every realm of normal or everyday activity, and of the average individual's need for genuine psychological elbow-room in his dealing with the world about him. Here is freedom of action willy-nilly, as marked in the frequent determination of the human spirit to have this by one means if not by another.
The keyword is enterprise.
When positive, the degree is a complete lack of personal frustration and a constant refinement of special and practical skills in the approach to daily problems, and when negative, a callous exploitation of all life.
noted aspects:
The North Node at 26° Scorpio, a mid-point to Mercury and the Eclipse point
indicates all that should give way for new occurrences
which happen through intensification of emotional/mental energy.
Jupiter and Mercury both retrograde are in mutual reception
with Jupiter in Gemini opposite the Sagittarius Mercury.Mars mid-point
reminding us that desire for honesty and truth is our best shield,
specially as Mercury now in a confused square to Neptune in Pisces
will soon step back into Scorpio.
Mars is ending its sojourn in Sagittarius
to move onto the Uranus-Pluto square.
Venus in Libra is stepping out of trine with Jupiter.
Saturn the timekeeper is trine Chiron the healer, quincux Uranus the radical
and sextile Pluto the regenerator.
This Eclipse in alignment with previous eclipses, brings some of their resonances back.
But the true nature of the Eclipse will only unfold progressively each time planets and luminaries activate the point.
For instances with Mercury on 20th November and 2nd December.
Kitab al-Bulhan - late 14th c. - left
Zakariya al-Qazwini - right
Sadwes - Satevis / Alpha Scorpii, Antares - found in the Každom (crooked tail) constellation / Scorpius
one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic, considered a royal star presiding over the 26000 yrs cycle,
is the watcher of sunset and of the West - ruler of its cardinal direction,
reaches dominance in mid-season after the Fall Equinox,
oversees the element of water and guards one of the four vortexes,
is associated with the right/left flow of solar energy and the winds blowing 'hot and cold'.
For the ancients and the devoted
the astrology gates corresponded to the four sacred elements (Earth, Fire, Water, Air)
located in the middle of the fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius),
and represented the passage-ways from one state of being to another
and the four essential transformative principles of Life.
Through the gate we enter a landscape with a rainbow of hope and light;
we can climb upwards, away from the decay of the body and the rule of the skeleton.
It symbolises hope in the face of hopelessness, change in the face of the unchangeable, a new way forward in spite of everything that may militate against progress.
The real kingdom of death is free of the material world and the "death" that occurs there;
it is a place to shed the trappings of the material world and come to the light.
Less literally, to brave our fears leads to transformation.
The end is the beginning.
In my experience, a total solar eclipse on any of the chart gates
usually heralds a major turn for the world at large;
its effects start unfolding before the Eclipse day
and last for several years.
... I am thinking of the August 1999 Eclipse.
Sri Lakshmi Gayathri Mantra
