PLUTO IN AQUARIUS

 

Having acknowledged the Solstice of Capricorn, emphasised by a New Moon, and spent three days in thought, meditation and mundane preparation, most of us are now ready to acknowledge the birth of the Christos or the coming of a greater spiritual awareness, celebrated by the Christians in a day called Christmas. Others have different names for this time of the solar cycle.

The Christos according to Leonardo.

Let those who are privileged to enjoy the festivities have a thought and prayer for those still in turmoil following a year of turmoil.

 

One does not like to be a kill-joy, but folks it is not over yet. The tiny but powerful planet Pluto is sitting at the threshold of Aquarius. At the doorstep between Capricorn and Aquarius, Pluto hovers throughout 2023. This major transit between zodiac signs denotes a major shift in cosmic influence. But it is hard to pin down or translate into useful information, although many will have a go at it.

Tiny and slow moving Pluto took 16 slow grinding years to pass through the sign of Capricorn and as it is with Pluto, you can’t really see or comprehend what is going on until there is enough distance in time and space to look back and observe what had occurred. And so, we do look back and see that Pluto in Capricorn brought some incredibly important shake-ups such as those in our precious institutions of banking and money systems based on greed of a few, and large company control of smaller players, and puppet governments, and other organisations, all of which come under the influence of Capricorn. Being an EARTH sign, we of course saw what can happen, not only with mother nature and planet Earth, but also the massive changes to Earth’s inhabitants – we no longer have just boys and girls but a full range of gender expressions – when have we seen that in history before? There is a rather neglected side of Capricorn that points to the god Pan and the god Priapus and the fundamental life force that runs through us and all of created beings. Not to forget the Great Triple Moon goddess who has reclaimed her throne.

                        

 

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Pan the Great Green God of Nature                          Triple Hecate by Stéphane Mallarmé

The time period of Pluto in Capricorn reached something of a peak with the by now famous and renowned conjunction of major planets in 2018 and 2020/1  [see blogs of December2018 and December 2020 and November 2021]

Pluto, god of the ‘Underworld’ or the ‘Otherworld’, of treasure hidden in the dark, will move in and out of Aquarius over the next couple of years until he/she finally settles in the AIR sign of Aquarius in 2025 and stays there till 2044; 19 to 21 long years. Will the people of the future generations look back on this time and see how radically new ways of moving through the air came into being? Will it be a time of developing more ways of using air to fuel our ever-growing energy needs? Will there be an ever-increasing awareness of air pollution and the impact on the importance of good breathing, to both our physical and psychic development.  Will we care for each other more and more or will we be subjected to ever increasing surveillance to make sure that the many are dancing to the demands and ‘rights’ of the few?  In which case, there are bound to be many major revolts and revolutions ahead, as the followers of Saturnian control, discipline, and the past, compete with the followers of Uranian search for freedom, innovation and the future. But then again, the few who can combine the two ways to produce practical innovation can lead us to a future Utopia? Will there be a continuing thinning of the veil between dimensions, an increasing blurring of the line between the worlds of reality and virtual living, aided by runaway technology? Either way, over the next 20 years, the mental world is sure to dominate in the end. With our thoughts, we create the world said ‘Monkey’.

Water and Air

Pan and Hecate

    

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #50

c1000 BCE      TUATHA DE DANANN followers of the Goddess Danu/Dana and early occupants of Ireland will be taken over by Celtic invaders, sometime in the 4^th century BCE, (21a) perhaps by Milesians from Spain and of Cretan origin. The Tuatha had four treasures, known as the Four Treasures of Ireland and nominated as magical emblems of the Tuatha gods. The Four Treasures are the ‘Cauldron of the Dagda’, father of all; the ‘Spear of Lug’; the ‘Sword of Nuada’; and the ‘Stone of Fal’. (10)

Cauldron of Hochdorf

                    LUGH of the Long Arm a hero who comes to live among the Tuatha de Danaan. His face shone like the sun. He wore a silver chain, token of the Milky Way running across the heavens, he carried the seven-coloured rainbow, his sword was called ‘Answerer’, and his boat the ‘Wave-Sweeper’ was inherited from the god of the Ocean. [371]

Scabbard of Hallstatt

                    The Celtic race probably originated in France (Gaul) before expanding throughout Europe (Germany and Britain) and the Middle East in the latter part of the first millennium BCE, thus they ranged across Europe from the Caspian mountains to Ireland. Eventually the Celts will be repulsed by the Roman and Germanic tribes and withdraw into Gaul by 1^st century BCE, although they will remain a heavy influence in Ireland and Britain for much longer. (13) After being beaten by the Romans in the future, the Celts will gradually be converted to Christianity in the 5^th century CE. (9)

Celtic God Cernunnos

                    Celtic society is divided generally into three classes:- the priests and priestesses called Druids and Dryads, the warriors, and the common people or serfs. Teachings and philosophies of the priest cast were not recorded but transferred by oral teaching, as in the case of many ancient peoples including the Hebrews. It is known from archaeological research that the Celts, or rather the priestly Druids and Dryads, understood and applied astronomical and mathematical knowledge. (9)

                    The priestly cast in old Irish are called Drui and are followers of the Moon Goddess Artemis.  The priestesses reigned supreme in the first matriarchal phase of the Druidic cult but later the male Druids as priests of Be’al, the one god identified with the sun, takeover in the second patriarchal phase of the cult. Generally, as bardic wizards, the priestly cast kept the oral tradition alive to eventually form the nucleus of future medieval sagas, epic, and ballads, such as those of King Arthur. (13. 28)

The Four Treasures by

Marg Thomson

                    Celtic knowledge will descend through the generations in knowledge of the Four Seasons and the Four divisions of the solar year. These are celebrated in the Spring Rite of flowering EARTH at Beltane, the Summer Rite of the heat or FIRE at Lammas, the Autumn Rite of WATER at Samhain and the Winter Rite of the new light of AIR at Candlemas.

The Magician of the Four Treasures

by J.M.Simpson

                    Towards the end of this millennium waves of migrant peoples now begin to bring new cultural influences into Spain and Europe. Celtic people speaking an Indo-European language spread their culture, and settlers from more advanced civilizations establish towns along the Mediterranean coast: Phoenicians at Cadiz, Greeks at Malaga and Ampurias, and Carthaginians at Cartagena. (102)

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #49.

                     ELEVENTH CENTURY BC (1099-1000)

                     During this century is found the first mention of Tibet by the Chinese.

 

1099                KING WU (1099-1055) son of King Wen of China, creates the ‘Later Heaven Ba gua’, a symbolic diagram to represent the manifestation of spirit in Nature. It is the natural progression from Fu Xi’s ‘Early Heaven Ba gua’ of c2890 BCE. This Ba gua simulates the movement of Qi and its effect in nature. [120]

Mother Goddess Kwan Yin

1063               Estimated total eclipse over Thebes in ancient Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period. (240. 241) Note that at around the time of the creation of both the Chinese Ba gua, and the land of IS-RA-EL, there occurred total eclipses over Egypt.

 

c1020 BCE      SAUL founding king of the Hebrew monarchy in Israel. Saul, as son of Kish, was anointed by the prophet Samuel. Saul is leader of the Hebrew tribe of Benjamin and his leadership unites all the Hebrew tribes to form the one kingdom of IS-RA-EL, located in Palestine. Saul will eventually be killed in a battle against the Philistines. (102)

                       The name Palestine is derived from the name of the invading Philistines who came from Asia Minor and the islands of the Aegean Sea. (038) Are these invaders therefore of Cretan Minoan and Greek heritage?

1000 BCE        Babylonian Cuneiform texts [1000-500 BCE] record Sirius as KAK.SI.DI - the ‘arrow star’. In Sumerian and ancient Chinese cultures, Sirius was part of a Bow and Arrow constellation. In Western culture Sirius is located as part of cCanis Major. (47)

David slays Goliath. By Michelangelo.

c1000 BCE      DAVID of the Hebrew tribe of Judah, crushes the Philistines and re-unites the Israelite tribes to re-establish an empire of Israel based in Jerusalem, a fortress city formerly inhabited by the Jebusites. By this act the throne and rightful heritance of the tribe of Benjamin falls to the tribe of Judah. Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is made the home of the ark containing ‘The Law’. (7)

                       Palestine, as the Kingdom of the Jews, reaches its height under the rulers David and Solomon. Jesse, father of David, may be the root of the vine of the Merovingian dynasty.  Isaiah, in 750 BCE, will prophesy a new ‘Davidic’ line from another branch of the Jesse tree, not that of David. According the Barbara Thiering (220)the Essenes were referred to as ‘the Vineyard’.

                       David’s possibly symbolic life can be divided into four parts. The first part lived as a shepherd at Bethlehem. The second part lived as a fugitive at the court of King Saul. The third part lived as King over Judah at Hebron. The fourth part lived as King of Israel. (248) David was born in Bethlehem where Jesus will be born in 1000 years’ time. David is the Shepherd King who slew the giant Goliath. (337)

 

                       Around this time, the ‘New Kingdom’ of Egypt falls, and Kush emerges as an independent state with a capital called Napata, which is near the 4^th cataract of the river Nile.

                       During the reigns of Ammon, Sesac, Orus, Memmon, Egyptian astronomical observations are used for navigation, for determining the length of the solar year [by heliacal risings and settings of stars], for fixing of the solstice points, for grouping fixed stars into asterisms. The Sidereal zodiac of the constellations becomes set and the four cardinal points are marked out by the fiducial stars, that is, Alcyone of the Pleiades, Aldebaran, Regulus and Arcturus/Spica. The sidereal zodiac is divided into 30° divisions and known as the Hypsomatic and Egypto-Babylonian zodiac. (30)

At this time, the star Sirius rises heliacally at Heliopolis the site of an Egyptian GWB mystery school. This date is also the official timing of the writing of the Hindu ‘Rig Veda’. (226)

Goddess Gayatri

 

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #48.

 

1150              KING WEN, of China, followed by his son Wu, Duke of Chou, added counsels for correct conduct, to the original mute divination of the ‘I Ching’ book of oracles (c2704 BCE). This ancient book of oracles was composed by the Yellow Emperor, the legendary civilizer of China. The philosophy enclosed in this book is based on number mysticism and provides the foundation for the future philosophies of Confucius and Lao-Tse.

                       King Wen’s contribution turned the ‘I Ching’ from a simple oracle into a ‘Book of Wisdom’, so that instead of giving just a straight yes/no answer, the oracular hexagrams would now give guidance and advice. By manipulating stalks of the sacred yarrow plant, linear symbols can be attained and known as trigrams whose interpretation gives sayings of wisdom. King Wen is the progenitor of the Chou dynasty (1150-249 BCE) and is credited with making 64 hexagrams from the original 8 of Fu Hsiå (2852 BCE]. 

Chinese Trigrams

1130                 BRUTUS (d.1103BC) of Britannia. Another name of Brutus is ‘Hugh The Mighty’. Following the fall of Troy, [c1600 BCE] Brutus now leads  a colony of Celtic Trojan exiles from their home land to settle ‘the White Land’ later to be called Albion and then Britain. From these people will come the line of the ‘High Kings’ or Arviragus of ancient Britain. These colonials represent the blood-line that carries an ancient initiate knowledge. Their hereditary title of ‘Merlin’ (Myrrdin) means strength, wisdom and initiatic power of a Priest-King. Their descendants will be traced through the daughter of Joseph of Arimathea (and therefore of the Judaic royal line of David) to King Arthur and then to the Tudor rulers of Britain. (48) Somewhat parallel to the future Merovingian bloodline of the European continent. Brutus is the grandson of Ascanius Julius, son of Aeneas, and of Creusa who was the daughter of King Priam of Troy who ruled during the great war with Greece. (131)

                        At this same time in history, the Temples of Thebes in Greece and Egypt are aligned to the rising star Eltanin. It is a star in the head of the circumpolar constellation Hippo or Draco, once the centre of the heavens and called the ‘Great Serpent or Dragon’. The Dragon guards the entrance to the Hesperides where the golden apples of wisdom grow.

From the potteries of the Grecian Thebes

1122 BCE            An Astrolabe records the earliest known Assyrian reference to the star Sirius as ‘gag-si-sa’ or the arrow-star. (30)

Star Sirius

1100 BCE             Babylonian star catalogue nominates the Pegasus Square formation, of the Pegasus constellation, as the ‘Primordial Field’ and leading the stars in the way of Ea. (31)

Star map of the Pegasus Square or the I-iku of EA

                        In this same year, it is thought that a meteor from Mars crash landed in the Antarctic ‘Allan Hills’ of planet Earth. It will be discovered by man in 1984 CE and in the 1990s when they decided to take a closer look at it, it will be thought to contain fossils of ancient life forms. The writer asks, ‘Was the Cosmos Seeded with Life?’ (341)

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #47.

 TWELFTH CENTURY BCE (1199-1100)

1184 BCE

                       THE HOUSE of DARDANOS after more than 2000 years this family line is scattered following the Fall of Troy in the Trojan War. Subsequently, hero Aeneas goes to Italy with 88,000 Trojans, whilst his son Brutus leads another party to Britain where they establish the city of Trinovantium, later to become the great city of London. Brutus gives his name to a stone from which royal accessions will be traditionally proclaimed by future generations. (131)

                                Achilles the destroyer of Troy has Ursa Major and the Pleiades figured on his battle shield, indicating that these constellations are important to the reign and fall of Troy. (71)

 

                      

     Achilles famous shield as described by Homer in the ‘Iliad’ 

and interpreted by Angelo Monticelli, 

an Italian neoclassical painter [1778-1837] 

From Le Costume Ancien ou Moderne, ca. 1820. 

Homer’s ‘Iliad’ Book 18, describes Achilles shield constructed by Vulcan the fire god: - 

The god Vulcan -

First, he shaped the shield so great and strong, adorning it all over and binding it round with a gleaming circuit in three layers……He made the shield in five thicknesses, and with many a wonder did his cunning hand enrich it. He wrought the earth, the heavens, and the sea; the moon also at her full and the untiring sun, with all the signs that glorify the face of heaven- the Pleiads, the Hyads, huge Orion, and the Bear, which men also call the Wain and which turns round ever in one place, facing Orion, and alone never dips into the stream of Oceanus. He wrought also two cities, fair to see and busy with the hum of men. In the one were weddings and wedding-feasts. …..[in the other war]….. He wrought also a fair fallow field, large and thrice ploughed already….. He wrought also a field of harvest corn…. He wrought also a vineyard…. He wrought also a herd of homed cattle…. The god wrought also a pasture in a fair mountain dell…… All round the outermost rim of the shield he set the mighty stream of the river Oceanus. 

Warriors of Troy

                     The star Electra, or Alcor of the constellation Ursa Major, (also called the Fox Star) is known as the mother of the House of Dardanos. (3000 BCE). The star Electra, mother of the Dardanus is saddened when she witnesses the fall of Ilion, and so leaves her station among the Pleiades to become the ‘Fox Star’ or Alcor of Ursa Major. According to Babylonian legend this star, known to them as Era, was powerful among the gods and took its place at the beam of the wagon of Ursa Major. Alcor is associated with the Babylonian planetary god Nergal or Mars. The Sumerian story of ‘Utnapishtim’, records that Nergal/Mars/Alcor is responsible for the first great world flood. Thus, the legends read that when Electra/Era frees herself from the yoke of Ursa Major or from the Pleiades group in the time of the fall of Ilion/Troy, in 1185 BCE, there will come the end of a world-age, presumably the Pleiadic age. (71)

 

                      After the fall of Troy, Aeneas takes the Palladium, a sacred and protective talisman of Athene, to Rome where a new civilization is established. When Constantine later comes to power [312 CE] he will take the Palladium out of Rome and bury it in his new eastern capital of Constantinople which used to be called Byzantium. (295)

 

                       Other authors [133] place the Trojan War at c1111 BCE based on archaeological evidence of Troy VIIa. The first settlement of this site was c3300 BCE.

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #46.

 c1273 BCE

KING UNTASHGAL [Untash-Gal/Untash-Huban] (c.1265-1245) reigns in the middle period of a new upsurge of Elamite power. The Elamites are of the country of Elam, located south-west of Mesopotamia, and whose capital is old Susa. Untash-Gal and his successors are notable for their spectacular architecture, including a ziggurat and beautiful sculptures located in the city of Dur-Untash. The Elamites spoke a unique language, not related to any other, ancient or modern, and will not be completely understood in the future by those who rediscover this civilization. Elam was also unusual in having a matriarchal social structure; although the rulers were male, succession to the throne was through the female line, a new king being called the ‘son of his sister’. Elamite culture will eventually be submerged under the growing power of the Medes and Persians. 

Stele of Untash-Gal depicting a local god with snakes [Louvre]

c1250 BCE

KHAEMWESE priest and eldest a son of Ramesses II, made the first recorded history of Egypt. Khaemwese was a high priest of Ptah and a noted magician. He was a student of the inscriptions on temple walls at Sakkara, and the sacred books of the temple libraries. 

Ptah “I will live and have power through bread’ [Am Dwat]

SHALMANESER I (1274-45 BCE) of Assyria, founds the temple site of the future city of Nimrud on previous ruins on the east bank of the Tigris. The walls of Nimrud’s palace-temple will depict the Babylonian god Enlil/Bel and his consort Ninlil/Beltis paying homage to the sacred tree. The city of Nimrud, the ancient Biblical Kalhu or Calah, will be named after the legendary hunting hero Nimrod. The city of Nimrud in the future will be further extended by Ashur-nasipal II as the capital of Assyria (c883 BCE), only to be finally overthrown by the Medes in 612 BCE. One temple at this site is dedicated to Ninurtu or Nimrud (patron god of the earlier Kulhu); one temple is dedicated to Nabu, god of writing, and contains a cuneiform archive. Shalmaneser will conquer Israel and scatter its tribes who had taken up residence there following the Exodus. 

TUKULTI-NINURTA I (d.1208) is the successor of Shalmanser I, and continues the building up of the Assyrian Empire.

Relief from Kapara Palace depicting Assyrian gods.

1200 BCE

AUA an Egyptian scribe writes a text on primary cosmic forces, whilst the island of Crete is destroyed by an historical sea-quake, and its migrating Cretan inhabitants move through Syria by way of Asia Minor and thence sail to the west. These refugees arrive at Gaetulia in North Africa and finally reach Ireland via Spain to become the Irish Milesians. This would explain the wide distribution to be found of ‘Celtic’ design in jewelry and artifacts.

 

Around this time also, the Hittite Empire is being destroyed, by human invaders rather than a natural disaster. These invaders come from the west and are called the ‘Sea People”, who may well have been Atlantians. Assyria rises to power, and inherits the culture and religion that come through Sumeria and then Babylon. The Assyrian chief god, Asher, took on the attributes of the earlier gods, Enlil of Sumer and Marduk of Babylon. The new Assyrian law is based on the code of the earlier Babylonian king Hammurabi. 

FULL MOON IN CANCER

 During this powerful Full Moon in Cancer, it is a good time to meditate on mother, queen and country! Also, don’t forget your own immediate family, and as an extension of that, your own feelings about life and the emotions engendered in your close family relationships.

“I am Kephera, Lord of the Rising”

Kephera is the ancient Egyptian god attributed to the zodiac sign of Cancer and symbolised with the image of the scarab beetle. We now know this zodiac sign by the name of the Crab which reminds us in a way of the Kephera beetle. This sign Cancer is also a reminder of the birth every day of the renewed sun god in his form of Kephera. We too should seek to create our world anew. 

 

With the Full Moon in Cancer giving the signal, it is a good time to acknowledge your intuitive feelings whilst being aware that emotional sensitivity might get in the way of clear perception. During this highly emotional time, protect your feelings and don’t be too judgmental of others and their emotions. For those so inclined, there is a lot of creative work to be done under the impetus of full flow of imagination.

 

The moon is very happy in the zodiac sign of Cancer and encourages us to give full vent to kindness and caring of others, as well as nurturing our business ventures, cleaning up the house and giving attention to the family and heritage.

 

Cancer is a water sign: drink lots, wash, swim or sail. Do everything in moderation though so that things are not tipped out of balance. Let us be open to making good changes even if they do appear a little radical to begin with. Check out the environment and how we should be living.