Hi Everyone,
Lilith - Ceres - Pallas - Vesta - Juno - Sedna - Eris - Amazon (Amazone)
- or any other
The Asteroid Goddesses correlate to the Natural Feminine and her expression of the intuitive "feeling self." Patriarchal projections and psychological crises have distorted the natural meanings of the Feminine - so let's dig deep and examine the core archetypal principles that revive the actual, natural expression of the Asteroid Goddesses along the lines suggested by Brenda, Rad and Kristin recently.
Quote by Brenda:
.......if you look at the archetypal meanings of some of the Asteroid goddesses coming into prominence, such as Sedna, Eris, Lilith--in a patriarchal world, we get interpretations that are focused on their anger, retribution, etc, so the feminine continues to be distorted. With Ceres, we get examples of that linked to abductions and abuses of women, more related to the famine aspect, than the nurturing and abundance the Goddess holds.
Quote by Rad:
It could be very useful to examine the patriarchal overlay/projections into these natural asteroid Goddesses. And in that examination to recreate the actual, NATURAL, meanings and correlations to those asteroids.
Quote by Kristin:
I recently saw a movie that perfectly reflects the results of what happens when you abuse and destroy a natural Lilith. The movie is called "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - a Danish movie and the first of a trilogy. The lead woman in this movie is the embodiment of a Distorted Lilith - a movie where some sweet justice is served... by her. Underneath her understandable wrath and revenge is an echo of her raw feminine beauty, which includes her fearlessness, sexual prowess and power. I agree with Rad that it would be useful and valuable to explore some of the Goddess asteroids and the NATURAL meanings of these archetypes. Goddess Bless the Goddess.
Hi Linda,
I would like to also add the asteroid Amazon - shown as Amazone in the ephemeris.
I love your fighting spirit - let's Go FOR IT!
Peace,
Kristin
Juno
Juno is associated with the signs of Libra and Scorpio. She is the Goddess of Marriage and represents the capacity for committed relationships utilizing the feminine energies to express creativity, sensitivity, equality, refinement, sharing and faithfulness.
In Greek mythology she was known as Hera, Goddess of the Earth and Moon Phases. Her husband Jupiter, King of the Heavens, had many affairs, slowly stripping her of her powers; nevertheless she vowed to stay faithful even though her ideals were never met. In the on-and-off-again relationship, she became portrayed as a jealous, possessive, manipulative, vindictive and raging shrew.
Patriarchal distortions:
* the "powerless" woman vowed to an unequal marriage
* the "little woman" behind the big man
* the "battered wife" in domestic violence
* the "neurotic wife" whose needs are thwarted
* the "shrew" of violent temper and speech
* the wife "tied to the kitchen sink"
* marital collapse: the unfaithful husband and the betrayed wife
* the woman denied expression of her natural self
* the sexless marriage
* the rejected, victimized, and displaced woman
Revival of natural expression for the Asteroid Goddess, Juno:
* equality and balance in relationships
* need for commitment and consistency
* need for joy, passion, intimacy and humour
* mutual sharing, love, honesty and understanding
* women reclaiming their power
* full expression of one's creativity
* the need for space for oneself
* self-sufficient rather than co-dependent relationships
Quote from: Kristin on Sep 06, 2010, 07:39 PMI love your fighting spirit - let's Go FOR IT!
Hi Kristin!
Thanks for the encouragement.
I hope others will join in.
Love,
Linda
This is great!
Thanks for starting this thread Linda
Goddess Bless,
Bradley
Hi Linda,
Thank you so much for starting this thread. I am very interested in learning more about these archetypes and will mostly be reading along as I don't have much to contribute. However, your post brought up a question for me about faithfulness. I'm having a hard time understanding this term outside of my own patriarchal conditioning and I'm wondering if you and/or others could describe it as it might express itself in a more natural way.
In a patriarchal way, faithfulness to me seems to imply self-sacrifice and loyalty, but loyalty to patriarchal norms/ideas/etc, not to natural law. Any other ideas on this (how faithfulness plays out in patriarchal terms)? Hope this question is ok for this thread. It felt important for me to understand within the context of the asteroids/goddesses we're exploring. But if you think it is better to post as a separate topic, let me know and I can do that.
Peace and gratitude,
Ellen
Ellen, et-al,
Juno, in natural law, correlates to the power of commitment to one other where both in that commitment are themselves defined by Natural Laws: the natural masculine, and the natural feminine. Juno correlates in this way to the power of each to help facilitate the growth and evolution of the other, and thus the ongoing evolution of themselves within the context of the committed relationship. Additionally, Juno correlates, in Natural Law, to the evolution of our sexuality within the context of a committed relationship: to the point where the deepening sexuality between the two becomes a vehicle of Soul evolution. In the end, it correlates to using the vehicle of sexuality to create a trance state wherein the inner Godhead can be experienced within because of the trance like state that suspends the ego in such a way that a gravitational shift occurs, for certain amount of time, so that the center of gravity is then in the Soul itself.
This is very different that the patriarchal conditioning of 'faithfulness' correlates mainly to the women being expected to remain faithful even as the patriarchal man gives himself the right to be with others, while maintaining his 'committed' relationship to his partner. The typical dual standards and hypocrisy that emanates from the patriarchy in every way.
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is a great link to a site about Goddesses. It lists all the various Goddesses, and the cultures they come from. By clicking on whatever one you wish will bring up a his/herstory of that Goddess.
http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/goddess-myths.htm
God Bless, Rad
Linda, you are so well organized and very clear about this.
Thank you Rad for the site.
I have listened to Demetra George on Kristen's show, and will share some of the notes I took from that. I have also started reading Jean Shinoda Bolen's work on the Goddesess, and as a psychotherapist she gives examples for empowering and healing through the archetypes.
One thing Bolen noted about Juno/Hera, was that her retribution was not directed back to her husband who was deserving due to his philandering and betrayal, but rather directed at the other women he was involved in or taken out on their children. In a male dominated system a woman then must manipulate and do things in a more underhanded, indirect way. I don't have concrete examples at hand, but several instances of a mother killing her children to get back at a husband, have shown up.
Per my notes from D. George, Juno shows what you need day to day to stay in a relationship--this being demonstrated by the sign Juno is in. It shows the need for equal, just, fair partnership.
In the Myth, she gave up her power to her partner, who then, did not live up to his committments. This George says is her pathos lies in that she didn't get what she was promised, while giving up a lot of her own power . It will also show "cycles of leaving and returning, the tit for tat reciprocation that goes on in marriages."
Would Juno at the consensus level, be more representative of the patriarchal distortion? A woman who marries a man, deriving her own power and status in society relative to this man--who does not honor her or their committment--she can't retaliate at him directly, so she takes it out on others.
Am on an old, slow compter, having challenges.
Continuing, about the levels of Juno... (and I am not fully clear, but putting it out there)
Juno at the Individuated level--would be more reflective of the undistorted feminine, in that she is not in subjugation in her marriage, that she retains her power, is able to be in a fair, equitable relationship. She would not stay in a relationship if the committment was violated and not reparable.
Juno at the Spiritual level--taking this from my notes from D. George--representing Tantric union of opposites--using the union for spiritual progress, Demetra says this is especially with Juno/Neptune or Vesta contacts.
Thanks.
Quote from: Rad on Sep 07, 2010, 11:26 AM
Ellen, et-al,
Juno, in natural law, correlates to the power of commitment to one other where both in that commitment are themselves defined by Natural Laws: the natural masculine, and the natural feminine. Juno correlates in this way to the power of each to help facilitate the growth and evolution of the other, and thus the ongoing evolution of themselves within the context of the committed relationship. Additionally, Juno correlates, in Natural Law, to the evolution of our sexuality within the context of a committed relationship: to the point where the deepening sexuality between the two becomes a vehicle of Soul evolution. In the end, it correlates to using the vehicle of sexuality to create a trance state wherein the inner Godhead can be experienced within because of the trance like state that suspends the ego in such a way that a gravitational shift occurs, for certain amount of time, so that the center of gravity is then in the Soul itself.
This is very different that the patriarchal conditioning of 'faithfulness' correlates mainly to the women being expected to remain faithful even as the patriarchal man gives himself the right to be with others, while maintaining his 'committed' relationship to his partner. The typical dual standards and hypocrisy that emanates from the patriarchy in every way.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you so much. I believe I understand now. In matriarchal times, when people were living according to natural law, monogamy was not the norm. HOWEVER, faithfulness (ie, commitment to one another) was one possible way that 2 people could choose, and this was done when 2 people were making a commitment (ie, their own decision based on free choice) to foster each other's growth and in some cases foster each other's relationship to the Divine. Is this correct? And is this (faithefulnees/commitment within natural law) more likely to be the exception than the norm?
Thank you.
Ellen
Quote from: BrendaP on Sep 07, 2010, 02:45 PM
In the Myth, she gave up her power to her partner, who then, did not live up to his commitments. This George says is her pathos lies in that she didn't get what she was promised, while giving up a lot of her own power. It will also show "cycles of leaving and returning, the tit for tat reciprocation that goes on in marriages."
Hi Brenda,
I also caught Kristin's radio show with Demetra George (wonderful!) in which it was discussed that some mythologists considered "that Juno willingly gave over her power to Jupiter" and that women want to give their power away to their husbands when they're married.
The deeper meaning and reason behind giving her power away was out of an expectation and desire for a
deeper, more equitable union where true intimacy and depth could be shared (Libra). (Natural Law)
In Jupiter's tyranny, Juno was forced to wear a chastity belt, while he philandered about, completely ignoring her. Her rage came from the total subjugation of her power (Scorpio). In committing and sacrificing herself to him, she was deprived of her sacred sexuality customs, belief system and rituals. She was unable to express her "natural self," nor able to express her unique individuality within the marriage. (Distortion)
We can see the early origins of "man-made guilt" : the shame of leaving a marriage, the shame experienced by a displaced woman left to fend for herself in a patriarchal dominated society, being "owned" by a man like a piece of property. (Distortion)
Juno would not give up - but stayed for the fight (Scorpio). The patriarchy distorted the ability for women to defend and protect themselves, and this how they came to be known as "the weaker sex." Why did she keep going back to him? This is typical of modern domestic violence scenarios. (Distortion)
Another example of patriarchal distortion is Jupiter's total disregard for not only his wife, but also for the women that he used along the way. The term "woman hater" comes to mind. Perhaps the early origins of rape, having power over another. (Distortion)
In Natural Law, the couple are equal, not superior/inferior to one another. They would naturally share their resources. (Natural Law)
Brenda said:QuoteWould Juno at the consensus level, be more representative of the patriarchal distortion? A woman who marries a man, deriving her own power and status in society relative to this man--who does not honor her or their commitment--she can't retaliate at him directly, so she takes it out on others.
I would agree that this type of arrangement is evident in the 'consensus' level. Open marriage could be evident in the 'individuated' level. A woman taking her rage and misplaced anger out "on others" is definitely a distortion.
Hi Ellen,
"HOWEVER, faithfulness (ie, commitment to one another) was one possible way that 2 people could choose, and this was done when 2 people were making a commitment (ie, their own decision based on free choice) to foster each other's growth and in some cases foster each other's relationship to the Divine. Is this correct?"
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Yes.
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"And is this (faithefulnees/commitment within natural law) more likely to be the exception than the norm?"
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It was more of the exception than the norm. And one of the key reasons for that is the evolutionary / biological imperative to create ongoing diversification within the gene pool that allowed the immune systems within the species to keep evolving in order to deal with the equally mutating, and evolving, nature of bacterias, viruses, parasites, and fungus.
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God Bless, Rad
Quote from: Rad on Sep 08, 2010, 10:28 AM
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It was more of the exception than the norm. And one of the key reasons for that is the evolutionary / biological imperative to create ongoing diversification within the gene pool that allowed the immune systems within the species to keep evolving in order to deal with the equally mutating, and evolving, nature of bacterias, viruses, parasites, and fungus.
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God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you so much for your answers. I have just one follow-up, if you have time. In the above quote, you say that it "was" the norm and the reasons why. I understand that it is not the norm now (at least the stated norm or the ideal), but wouldn't it still hold true re: the immunological reasons for it still, ideally speaking (ie, in terms of natural law) to STILL be the norm today (ie, non-monogamy). It is quite striking to me the # of auto-immune dieseases now and just the level that the human species seems to be susceptible to disease generally...
Peace,
Ellen
Sedna
the return of the Divine Feminine* Inuit Goddess of the Arctic Deep.
* Her 10,000 year orbit coincides with the rise of the patriarchy and the beginning of agriculture.
* Discovered November 2003.
* She is a
new world goddess rather than old world.
* Named after the Inuit goddess who lives at the bottom of the Arctic ocean.
* Planetoid; red coloured; 3/4 the size of Pluto; 10,500+ year orbit.
* She cycles through the "inner Oort cloud."
* We are ready to incorporate her archetypal meaning into our evolutionary unfoldment.
"The last time Sedna was this close to the Sun, Earth was just coming
out of the last Ice Age. The next time it comes back, the
world might again be a completely different place."
[Michael Brown, one of Sedna's discoverers]
The Myth - sacrifice, betrayal, abandonment, redemptionBriefly, one version of the myth tells of a beautiful young woman Sedna who marries a seabird disguised as a handsome young man. She suffers betrayal in the unhappy marriage. Her father rescues her and they set off in a boat. A raging storm blows up, and to calm the sea, her father throws her overboard. Clinging tightly to the side of the boat, her father chops off her fingers one by one. As her fingers fall into the water they turn into whales, seals and sea-lions. When all her fingers are gone, she sinks to the bottom of the sea to become the Immortal Sea Goddess. As the Mother of all Sea Creatures, she presides over all fish hunted for food. If not respected, she sends starvation to punish the humans. Shamans must descend into the deep, past the abyss of the dead, to soothe her, in order that the food supply continues. When she is treated with respect, she releases her bounty.
Sedna's message * Affects cycles of growth on the Earth.
* Deals with the cyclical relationship between humanity and Earth's bounty (or withholding of her gifts).
* Teaches respect for the oceans, the biological origin of life on Earth.
* Sends a harsh warning as our oceans become polluted.
* Re-focuses on the rights of women, children, and the environment.
* Brings balance between the sexes, races, and species.
* Deals with vast millenia, and a new level of cosmic understanding.
Since Sedna is so "new," perhaps we can formulate some deeper meanings in line with Natural Law that can be attributed to her?
Sedna presently sits at 22.35 deg Taurus Rx.
Quote from: Linda on Sep 08, 2010, 10:11 PM
Sedna
the return of the Divine Feminine
* Inuit Goddess of the Arctic Deep.
* Her 10,000 year orbit coincides with the rise of the patriarchy and the beginning of agriculture.
* Discovered November 2003.
* She is a new world goddess rather than old world.
* Named after the Inuit goddess who lives at the bottom of the Arctic ocean.
* Planetoid; red coloured; 3/4 the size of Pluto; 10,500+ year orbit.
* She cycles through the "inner Oort cloud."
* We are ready to incorporate her archetypal meaning into our evolutionary unfoldment.
"The last time Sedna was this close to the Sun, Earth was just coming
out of the last Ice Age. The next time it comes back, the
world might again be a completely different place."
[Michael Brown, one of Sedna's discoverers]
The Myth - sacrifice, betrayal, abandonment, redemption
Briefly, one version of the myth tells of a beautiful young woman Sedna who marries a seabird disguised as a handsome young man. She suffers betrayal in the unhappy marriage. Her father rescues her and they set off in a boat. A raging storm blows up, and to calm the sea, her father throws her overboard. Clinging tightly to the side of the boat, her father chops off her fingers one by one. As her fingers falls into the water they turn into whales, seals and sea-lions. When all her fingers are gone, she sinks to the bottom of the sea to become the Immortal Sea Goddess. As the Mother of all Sea Creatures, she presides over all fish hunted for food. If not respected, she sends starvation to punish the humans. Shamans must descend into the deep, past the abyss of the dead, to soothe her, in order that the food supply continues. When she is treated with respect, she releases her bounty.
Sedna's message
* Affects cycles of growth on the Earth.
* Deals with the cyclical relationship between humanity and Earth's bounty (or withholding of her gifts).
* Teaches respect for the oceans, the biological origin of life on Earth.
* Sends a harsh warning as our oceans become polluted.
* Re-focuses on the rights of women, children, and the environment.
* Brings balance between the sexes, races, and species.
* Deals with vast millenia, and a new level of cosmic understanding.
Since Sedna is so "new," perhaps we can formulate some deeper meanings in line with Natural Law that can be attributed to her?
Sedna presently sits at 22.35 deg Rx Taurus.
Hi Linda,All,
One thought I had about Sedna, thinking about Linda's question of possibly finding deeper meanings, was the possibility of the natural ability to see a person for who they are, rather than being caught up with superficial appearances. Birds are a symbol for spirit, yes? Sedna, in the myth, was fooled by a disguise of a handsome young man. All the water imagery in the myth to me suggests emotional attunement as the means to perceiving this deeper reality of another - in other words, tuning into one's feelings/emotional responses to know what is true about another, or at least to begin asking oneself questions that need to be asked. Sedna having been discovered in Taurus suggests to me emotional attunement as a path of/to self-sufficiency. (I have natal Moon in Taurus, so perhaps I am projecting. But perhaps it allows me to see a possibility, also...)
Peace,
Ellen
Hi Ellen,
Thank you so much for your answers. I have just one follow-up, if you have time. In the above quote, you say that it "was" the norm and the reasons why. I understand that it is not the norm now (at least the stated norm or the ideal), but wouldn't it still hold true re: the immunological reasons for it still, ideally speaking (ie, in terms of natural law) to STILL be the norm today (ie, non-monogamy). It is quite striking to me the # of auto-immune dieseases now and just the level that the human species seems to be susceptible to disease generally...
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Yes it is still the 'norm' today despite all the patriarchal conditioning to the contrary. Which of course is the actual reason that so many in relationships, or marriages, end up becoming involved with another(s) even as they try to sustain their existing relationship/marriage. It's why roughly 50 percent or more who become married end up divorced. I remember reading a study too by a evolutionary biologist that stated that a women becomes most 'tempted' to be with another man just before and during her peak period of fertility every month. This 'temptation' does indeed reflect the natural law and biological imperative relative to the evolving immune system, and the continuing need for diversification of the gene pool in the human species.
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God Bless, Rad
Hi everyone,
Well, I've had an exciting morning! I wrote to Michael Brown, one of the discoverers of Sedna, requesting the exact time of discovery.
The computer at NASA/Caltech records the discovery of Sedna on 14th November 2003 at 6.32 [UT]. But in Mike's own words:
"Linda -- You're right. Sort of. That's the time the pictures were taken by the robotic computer, but I didn't look at them until the next morning. Not sure of the exact time, though! Mike"
Rad, since Sedna's discovery is so important, do you think the 6.32 [UT] time is good enough to use - or would you actually take the date forward to the morning of 15th November 2003, even though Mike is not sure of the exact time?
Sedna's discovery chart for 14th Nov 2003 is attached, with some amazing patterns:
* 2 Grand Trines forming the rare "Star of David" pattern.
* Water Grand Trine: Moon/Cancer, Sun/SN/Scorpio, Mars/Pisces. (Pointing downward reflects the feminine principle.)
* Earth Grand Trine: Sedna/Taurus, Jupiter/Virgo, Chiron/Capricorn. (Pointing upward reflects the masculine principle.)
* Sedna in the sign Taurus, Ruler Venus/Sag, the sign correlating to Natural Law.
* Sedna conjunct NN Taurus.
* Sedna elevated in the 10th house.
What can this chart tell us about the use of Earth's resources, past and present?
Quote from: Rad on Sep 09, 2010, 11:12 AM
Hi Ellen,
Yes it is still the 'norm' today despite all the patriarchal conditioning to the contrary. Which of course is the actual reason that so many in relationships, or marriages, end up becoming involved with another(s) even as they try to sustain their existing relationship/marriage. It's why roughly 50 percent or more who become married end up divorced. I remember reading a study too by a evolutionary biologist that stated that a women becomes most 'tempted' to be with another man just before and during her peak period of fertility every month. This 'temptation' does indeed reflect the natural law and biological imperative relative to the evolving immune system, and the continuing need for diversification of the gene pool in the human species.
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God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you so much. Just hearing this and knowing this, especially about the women's mentrual cycle and their corresponding "temptation" is amazingly helpful and changing the patriarchal conditioning. All that jealousy and anger and basic relationship mess all for now reason. Pretty astounding. I truly appreciate this teaching.
Peace,
Ellen
Quote from: Linda on Sep 09, 2010, 06:11 PM
Hi everyone,
Well, I've had an exciting morning! I wrote to Michael Brown, one of the discoverers of Sedna, requesting the exact time of discovery.
The computer at NASA/Caltech records the discovery of Sedna on 14th November 2003 at 6.32 [UT]. But in Mike's own words:
"Linda -- You're right. Sort of. That's the time the pictures were taken by the robotic computer, but I didn't look at them until the next morning. Not sure of the exact time, though! Mike"
Rad, since Sedna's discovery is so important, do you think the 6.32 [UT] time is good enough to use - or would you actually take the date forward to the morning of 15th November 2003, even though Mike is not sure of the exact time?
Sedna's discovery chart for 14th Nov 2003 is attached, with some amazing patterns:
* 2 Grand Trines forming the rare "Star of David" pattern.
* Water Grand Trine: Moon/Cancer, Sun/SN/Scorpio, Mars/Pisces. (Pointing downward reflects the feminine principle.)
* Earth Grand Trine: Sedna/Taurus, Jupiter/Virgo, Chiron/Capricorn. (Pointing upward reflects the masculine principle.)
* Sedna in the sign Taurus, Ruler Venus/Sag, the sign correlating to Natural Law.
* Sedna conjunct NN Taurus.
* Sedna elevated in the 10th house.
What can this chart tell us about the use of Earth's resources, past and present?
Linda,
You're AMAZING! Thank you for all of your incredible work and reasearch and for keeping these threads going. I'm truly astounded and tremendously humbled by your work.
Peace,
Ellen
Thank you Ellen!
I love everything you do too!
I love what I see in the Sedna chart - that beautiful Star of David!
Quote from: Linda on Sep 09, 2010, 06:55 PM
I love what I see in the Sedna chart - that beautiful Star of David!
Yes, that is beautiful. That suggests a total synthesis doesn't it? I know JWG talked about it somewhere (the Star of David) but can't quite recall where or just what he said....
And as I was just looking at it, it looks like there's a mystic rectangle also, along with a kite formation (if you include the mc). Amazing.
Mystic Rectangle: Saturn(Cancer)/Mars(Pisces)/Chiron (Cap)/Jupiter (Virgo) (water/earth)
Kite has Saturn at apex (cancer) opposed by chiron (cap).
The mystic rectangle makes me think of gender role confusion (I remember JWG talking about Mars in Pisces being confusing for a male, for example). With Chiron's involvement there's the suggestion of healing. Jupiter in Virgo's involvement to me suggests the righting of these social mores to allow a freer and more natural flow of gender expression. Anyone want to tackle Saturn in Cancer?
The Kite, in a similar vein, with Cap/Can, makes me think of gender switching.
Would either of these themes - gender roles and gender switching - be appropriate for Sedna?
Am curious as to Rad's response as to whether this would be the appropriate chart to use.
Ellen
Oh, PS - and thank you for your kind words!
Thanks Linda for the great research--and posting that chart.
Reading over the myth, I started jotting down notes as to my impressions. Some may be a reach. Am thinking perhaps that Saturn in Cancer opposing Chiron in Capricorn represents Sedna's total abandonment from the men in her life. This in relationship to the fact that she makes a choice of her own (implying that she may have rejected her father's choice). In a patriarchal culture, leaving the tribe on your own, could make you an outcast. Then both the man she chooses and her father abuse, betray, and abandon her--the punishment for her move to individuating from her family and tribe with the "birdman"--a different species even.
Thinking examples would include women as property, possibly arranged marriages, women who are mutilated (as a practice in certain cultures), to the "honor killings" of women in certain Middle East cultures, even the practice of covering a woman in a burka. An odd association came up with the movie "Boxing Helena"--a bit different, in that a man so wants to possess a certain woman that does not want him that he ends up capturing her and dismembering her (it was more black humor than graphically violent).
Her individuation comes about from crisis and trauma--she loses vital parts of herself--she is forced to let go of everything, she must completely die to her old way of being. These vital parts--hands, fingers then become her creations--which provides a tangible, physical sustenance for herself and others. A means to heal from the soul loss of trauma would be in the alchemical transmutation of the "lost parts," which she does.
She herself could do Shamanistic work of recovering soul loss, stripping away the masks.
Ellen you so beautifully wrote about the emotional self-sufficiency, I think, not only emotional, but she becomes self sufficient in a tangible, physical way as well. She no longer has to look outside of herself for anything, she has all the procreative, regenerative, self healing capabilities within.
Perhaps the 2 triangles in the chart reflect the integration of yin and yang, which might also speak of her ultimate integration.
At the Spiritual level, she would no longer need to engage in the outer world, more at home with non human life forms?
Thanks
Quote from: BrendaP on Sep 09, 2010, 09:10 PM
Thanks Linda for the great research--and posting that chart.
Reading over the myth, I started jotting down notes as to my impressions. Some may be a reach. Am thinking perhaps that Saturn in Cancer opposing Chiron in Capricorn represents Sedna's total abandonment from the men in her life. This in relationship to the fact that she makes a choice of her own (implying that she may have rejected her father's choice). In a patriarchal culture, leaving the tribe on your own, could make you an outcast. Then both the man she chooses and her father abuse, betray, and abandon her--the punishment for her move to individuating from her family and tribe with the "birdman"--a different species even.
Thinking examples would include women as property, possibly arranged marriages, women who are mutilated (as a practice in certain cultures), to the "honor killings" of women in certain Middle East cultures, even the practice of covering a woman in a burka. An odd association came up with the movie "Boxing Helena"--a bit different, in that a man so wants to possess a certain woman that does not want him that he ends up capturing her and dismembering her (it was more black humor than graphically violent).
Her individuation comes about from crisis and trauma--she loses vital parts of herself--she is forced to let go of everything, she must completely die to her old way of being. These vital parts--hands, fingers then become her creations--which provides a tangible, physical sustenance for herself and others. A means to heal from the soul loss of trauma would be in the alchemical transmutation of the "lost parts," which she does.
She herself could do Shamanistic work of recovering soul loss, stripping away the masks.
Ellen you so beautifully wrote about the emotional self-sufficiency, I think, not only emotional, but she becomes self sufficient in a tangible, physical way as well. She no longer has to look outside of herself for anything, she has all the procreative, regenerative, self healing capabilities within.
Perhaps the 2 triangles in the chart reflect the integration of yin and yang, which might also speak of her ultimate integration.
At the Spiritual level, she would no longer need to engage in the outer world, more at home with non human life forms?
Thanks
Wonderful, Brenda... This all makes total sense to me...
Peace,
Ellen
Hi Linda et-al,
I certainly share in the insights that Brenda has shared. Linda: I would go with the actual moment of sighting/ observation by the computer. So the chart you posted would be the one I would use. It's discovery is so reminiscent of the sighting/ discovery of Pluto in that Pluto was first seen when it was conjunct it's own N.Node in Cancer in 1933. In this chart we have Sedna discovered when it was conjunct the N.Node in Taurus. At that time it's own South Node was at 24 Aquarius in the 7th which is then conjunct Uranus at 28 Aquarius at the time of discovery. The N.Node of Sedna is then at 25 Leo in the 1st House. Both of these Nodes are then square the transiting S.Node of the Moon in Scorpio in the 4th, which is also conjunct the Scorpio Sun, and, of course these are opposed Sedna itself, and the Lunar N.Node in Taurus in the 10th. Both the Sun and the S.Node of the Moon in this chart then refers back to the ruler of Pluto in Sagittarius in the 5th, which is conjunct natal Venus, and both are conjunct the S.Node of Uranus. All three of these are then inconjunct the Lunar N.Node and Sedna itself in the 10th. Additionally, the natal Neptune in this chart is conjunct it's own S.Node, both of course in Aquarius in this chart's 6th House. When all of this is then fleshed in by Jupiter in Virgo, the ruler of the Pluto,Venus, and S.Node in Aquarius, in the 2nd and opposed by Mars in Pisces in the 8th, which then refers back to the ruler of Neptune, conjunct it's own S.Node in the 6th House, which then contains the Chiron in Capricorn which is opposed the Saturn in Cancer in the 12th, IT CERTAINLY SYMBOLIZES THE ENTIRE MYTH OF SEDNA ITSELF.
Within the context of the myth it all about how the natural feminine has been totally violated and destroyed by the perversion of Natural Law at the hands of men, the patriarchy. And, of course, the entire need, teaching, message for not only women to return back to their natural natures, but to rebel as fiercely as necessary against all the male dominated conditioning patterns as to what women are 'expected' to be as defined by unnatural men. And then to use themselves, each women, one at a time, to teach not only these unnatural men about what is natural and what is not, but also other women who continue to accept these patriarchal definitions of what a women is, and is not. The entire message of this natal Sedna chart is to utterly rebel against all that is unnatural. To throw it off, to oppose it. This entire chart is about how women has been used as men's scapegoats, of how they have been defined through the patriarchal distorted centuries as something dark, evil, the 'temptation' to man's spiritual downfall.
With Sedna itself in Taurus, conjunct the lunar N.Node in the 10th, and these then being ruled by the Venus, Pluto, S.Node of Uranus conjunctions in the 5th, this is all about women relearning how to be utterly self sustaining within themselves, of renewing, rediscovering, their natural inner relationships as defined by the principle and natural law of femininity, the natural feminine archetype, and fully actualizing themselves in this way. It is about rediscovering the power of their natural sexuality, and of recreating reality in general as defined by Natural Laws and principles. This would include educating men as to what natural masculinity is, and is not. Thus, or rediscovering and actualizing the natural roles between natural women, and natural men.
On a planetary level it is about the survival of the species itself: Sedna in Taurus conjunct the lunar N.Node in Taurus in the 10th, and these being square Sedna's own S and N Nodes in Aquarius and Leo. Sedna and the lunar Node are also inconjunct Pluto, Venus, and the S.Node of Uranus in the 5th, and these are ruled, again by Jupiter in Virgo in the 2nd which is opposed Mars in Pisces in the 8th, ruled by that Neptune in Aquarius in the 6th, conjunct it's own S.Node. In essence, if the patriarchal distortion to reality continues, the violations to natural laws as a result, then this would suggest and symbolize, to me, the extinction of the human species down the line. We can see in this chart that the core violation to Natural Laws that would equal that possibility being the violation of the Natural Law of giving, sharing, and inclusion, versus the patriarchal perversion which became self interest and exclusion.
There is so much more in this chart, but let's here from others about their own thoughts. And, by the way, found a neat website about Sedna. It is at:
http://www.lunarplanner.com/asteroids-dwarfplanets/Sedna.html
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad, Linda, Ellen, et al,
Rad that is a great website, thanks for finding and sharing. Thank you for your wisdom, guidance and teachings. Coming from a patriarchal education system, I had no educational frame of reference of any of this. So the teachings of EA, especially your clarification of things above, are so helpful, so necessary, so healing. Most people have no frame of reference of role models according to natural law, and continue to repeat such distortions. Living in America right now, is like living in the twighlight zone.
The dialogue and discussions here, whether I interject or not, have been so helpful to me personally, getting to challenging dogma, and even asking questions within that I would not have thought to ask or question.
Reading what you wrote Rad above, and then viewing the crazy women of the American Tea Party--who embody and perpetuate the patriarchal distortion of the feminine, and who are given so much media time, it is shocking and so depressing. There are other patriarchal cultures in the Middle East and South America where women have ascended to true power positions in ways that are more honest and integrated.
Anyway, thank you Linda, Ellen, et all for your insights, opening the door to this dialogue, teachings--what you write and express, stimulates much.
God Bless you all, and JWG
HI all,
and Brenda..I could not agree with you more.
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This is an incredible thread ..thanks to everyone who is doing their part to educate others on the natural feminine. It is time she is healed and returned to her natural state, one Goddess at a time.
The INJUSTICE linked with the feminine and extreme imbalance for lifetimes is shown with Pluto/Venus BALSALMIC in Sagittarius,lifetimes long, of her essence being destroyed and this now being a time of culmination and healing. Pluto also rules the South node in Scorpio which restates this theme and the Sun in Scorpio on the South node. The woman destroyed but back for redemption.
The KITE pattern in the Sedna discovery chart is so powerful and revealing in its message to RISE above where we have been, to fly high above the ashes, to be free of the conditioning patterns and the wounds that have injured so many.This destruction reflected in the tail of the kite, Chiron in Cap in the 6th.
The highest point in the kite, the tip of the kite shows Moon conjunct Saturn in CANCER in the 12th house. They are joined by the asteroid Ceres which reflects RECOVERING SOMETHING LOST FROM THE PAST.. ie recovering the natural feminine. It is about setting the record straight with the N Node of Jupiter also conjunct that Moon/Saturn in the 12th, cleaning up and purifying the corruption and destruction. New rules being written, RULES reflecting NATURAL LAW, rules of of the matriarchy,Saturn in Cancer. This cardinal signature also restated with Moon and Saturn along with the fact they are in Cancer suggests we have to go back and remember our matriarchal roots where everything was in a state of balance in order to then move forward, to restore the natural balance between genders-reflected in the Cancer/Capricorn axis.
The asteroid Amazon, naturally ruled by Mars and Pluto, conjuncts Saturn and the Moon turbo charging the tip of the kite. She is known to be the greatest female warrior. She takes the lead and drives this movement forward. She says "FOLLOW ME" .
The Amazon has been known to single handedly destroy armies of men in order to defend her people and their rights. In this case she represents fighting for the female race in her attempt to restore the natural balance, specifically restoring the divine right and power of the natural feminine.
Her energy is reflected in Rad's quote below.
Rad said
Quotethe entire need, teaching, message for not only women to return back to their natural natures, but to rebel as fiercely as necessary against all the male dominated conditioning patterns as to what women are 'expected' to be as defined by unnatural men. And then to use themselves, each women, one at a time, to teach not only these unnatural men about what is natural and what is not, but also other women who continue to accept these patriarchal definitions of what a women is, and is not.
"to rebel as fiercely as necessary"..sign me up..
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Ceres
the Great Mother, ancient Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility
* Discovered on 1 January 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, Sicily, Italy.
* Largest of the asteroids - now classed a "dwarf planet."
* Nestled between Mars and Jupiter.
* Circles the Sun every 4.6 years.
* Also known as Greek goddess Demeter and Egyptian goddess Isis.
* Presides over the fertility of the Earth and procreation.
* Represents the principle of unconditional love.
* Nourishing, nurturing, providing, productive, sharing, sustaining.
* Associated with Cancer, Virgo and Taurus.
Myth
Demeter's dearly loved daughter Persephone gets abducted by the lord of the underworld. In her grief, she neglects the earth, all the crops die, and famine spreads over the world. When mother and daughter are rejoined, plants grow again.
Painful experiences and distortions
* Fragmented family structures
* Separation of children from parents
* Mother complexes
* Mother's grief and fears about children
* Teenage drug abuse and crime
* Teenage pregnancies
* Child molestation
* Plight of elderly parents
* Eating disorders
* Compulsive dieting
* Attachment, dependency
* Loss, separation, grief
* Contamination of Earth's soil, water and atmosphere
* Destruction of forests
* Starvation and famine
Ceres' cure
* Need to nurture and be nurtured
* Unconditional love
* Self-worth and self-esteem
* Protection and guidance of children
* Parental obligations
* Preservation of Earth's natural resources
* Work and productivity
* Sharing of food and resources
Ceres' connection to Cancer involves women's issues, family bonds, and emotional states. Ceres as a possible ruler of Virgo and Taurus, is an archetype of environment activism and social awareness of our responsibility to sustain the Earth's resources, the need for work, productivity, and the sharing of food and resources generously. We can clearly see how the patriarchal distortions have fragmented the natural family structures, and have lead to the abuse, greed and grasping of the Earth's resources. Within Natural Law family structures are based on sharing of food and nourishment, and protection of children.
Ceres is presently at 24 deg Sagittarius, and will enter Capricorn on 8th October 2010.
Ceres conjuncts Pluto in Capricorn on 19th October 2010.
Hi Linda et-al,
Thought it may be useful to post the archetype/ story of the Ceres/Demeter myth as found on that website about the goddess myths that I posted earlier. So here it is. God Bless, Rad
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Demeter, Greek Goddess of the Bountiful Harvest
Goddess of the Bountiful Harvest
and the Nurturing Spirit
In Greek mythology the goddess Demeter was the most generous of the great Olympian goddesses. The Greek goddess Demeter was beloved for her service to mankind in giving them the gift of the harvest, the reward for cultivation of the soil.
Also known as the Roman goddess Ceres, Demeter was the goddess of the harvest and was credited with teaching humans how to grow, preserve, and prepare grain. Demeter was thought to be responsible for the fertility of the land.
She was the only one of the Greek goddesses who was involved on a day-to-day basis in the lives of the common folk. While others occasionally "dabbled" in human affairs when it suited their personal interests, or came to the aid of "special" mortals they favored, the goddess Demeter was truly the nurturer of mankind.
Demeter also was the only one of the Greek goddesses who could truly empathize with the human experience of suffering and grief, having experienced it fully herself.
The goddess Demeter is best known for her fierce defense of her daughter, Persephone, who was also known as the child, Kore (or Cora). Persephone's father was Zeus, the mighty ruler of the Olympians. The goddess Demeter had been one of his early consorts, long before his marriage to Hera.
Persephone was an obedient, cheerful girl who had a happy childhood, playing with her cousins, Artemis and Athena. Reaching adolescence, she was carefree and spirited, often dancing playfully and picking wildflowers in the meadow near her home.
Persephone's youthful beauty drew the attention of Hades, the god of the underworld, and he could not help falling in love with her. One day as Persephone reached over to pick a flower, the earth opened and the arm of Hades reached up from the underworld.
And so Hades abducted her, dragging her back to his kingdom.
Hearing Persephone's screams, the goddess Demeter rushes to the meadow, but cannot find Persephone. Carrying a torch, Demeter traveled the world day and night, never eating or resting, searching futilely for her daughter.
Poseidon, god of the sea, noticed the goddess Demeter as she traveled and pursued her with amorous intent. Then Demeter tried to fool him by changing herself into a mare and hiding herself in the middle of a herd of horses, but he was not fooled. Poseidon saw through Demeter's disguise, turned himself into a stallion, and took her at his will.
When Demeter continued her journey in search of her daughter, she met an old and poor man who was gathering firewood who invited her to return to his home to eat supper with his family and to rest on her journey. When she told him that she was searching for her daughter, he wished her success and told her that he understood her suffering since his son lay dying at home. Demeter, goddess of compasion, changed her mind and went with the kindly man, stopping only once to gather some poppies by the path. Entering his humble home, Demeter went straight away to the boy's bedside and kissed the boy lovingly on the cheek. Immediately the pallor left his face and his breathing eased, as Demeter's love had restored the son to full health.
Although it was the custom of the Greek goddesses and gods to become very vindictive toward anyone who failed to honor them in a dignified fashion, Demeter was such a kind goddess that she seldom utilized this privilege. One of the few times was when she stopped on her travels to quench her thirst by drinking from a spring and heard a man named Ascaelabus laughing at the sound of her gulping the fresh water. Embarrassed, and angry at the man for being so rude, Demeter turned him into a lizard.
Resuming her search, she soon encountered Hecate, goddess of the crossroads, who advised her to speak with Helio, goddess of the sun . . . reasoning that, since she had been riding her chariot (the sun) through the sky that day, she had surely seen what had happened to Persephone. Helio told the goddess Demeter what she had seen and that Persephone was now ensconced as Hades' wife and Queen of the Underworld. She also gave her the shocking news that Zeus himself had sanctioned the marriage, giving Hades permission to abduct Persephone.
Understandably, the goddess Demeter felt betrayed. Renouncing her divine duties that included bringing fertility to the land, Demeter left Mount Olympus swearing that the earth would remain barren until her daughter was returned to her. She took refuge in the city of Eleusis. Disguised as an old woman, the goddess Demeter was met the city rulers two young daughters at the well, and they, liking her immensely, invited her to return to their home to meet their mother. There she met their mother who was cuddling her infant son. This must have stirred Demeter's longing for her abducted daughter horribly. Demeter became profoundly depressed, almost catatonic, eyes gazing off into the distance and unwilling or unable to even speak.
Everyone tried to all that they knew to cheer their guest; but it was to no avail. Eventually one of the household servants, a middle-aged maid named Baubo, came and sat in front of Demeter and started talking, mostly making humorous comments (most likely of the "male-bashing" sort), some of them quite risque. Encouraged when she saw the beginnings of a smile forming on Demeter's grief stricken face, Baubo hiked up her skirt and "mooned" the goddess. Demeter responded with a deep belly laugh that brought her out of the deep depression. Her good nature now restored, Demeter was soon hired to work as a nursemaid to the infant son of the city's ruler.
Caring for him lovingly, feeding him on the nectar and ambrosia of the gods, Demeter grew very attached to the young Demophoon and decided to make him immortal. But, just as Demeter was holding his feet over the fire (the ritual which would transform him into an Olympian god, Demophoon's mother entered the room.
Mistakenly believing that Demeter was about to burn her son, she began to scream. The goddess Demeter then dropped her disguise, revealing the beautiful goddess that she truly was, and berated the mother for her stupidity in stopping the ritual that would have given her son immortality.
In addition, Demeter demanded that a temple be built in her honor. This was done, and the goddess Demeter remained there, sitting alone in the darkness, once again depressed and grieving for her lost daughter.
All this time, with the goddess Demeter refusing to function, the land grew barren and the harvests ceased . . . the earth saw a winter that did not end. Zeus finally opens his eyes to what was happening and sent messengers to apologize and coax the goddess Demeter to return.
Demeter, however, remained adamant that she would not return until Persephone was rescued. Finally, Zeus gave in and sent Hermes to command Hades to release Persephone.
Persephone, upon hearing the news, rejoiced for she had missed her mother sorely. As she was leaving, Hades offered her a pomegranate to eat. Persephone had refused all food while she had been in the underworld, and was surely hungry.
Although she undoubtedly knew that those who ate anything in the underworld were not allowed to return to the earth, Persephone accepted Hades' gift, eating only the seeds. Hermes borrowed Hades chariot and stallions and flew Persephone home to her mother as Zeus had ordered.
Demeter was not pleased that Persephone had eaten the pomegranate seeds and would have to return to the underworld for four months during each year, but was otherwise overjoyed to be reunited with her daughter.
Happily, Demeter resumed her divine duties and restored the fertility of the earth. Each year the goddess Demeter longs for her absent daughter and withdraws her favors from the earth for a period we know as winter, but Persephone returns each spring to end her desolation.
Once Persephone was safely returned, albeit for only a third of a year, the Greek goddess Demeter decided to reside in her temple in Eleusis where she had enjoyed the welcome and support of her friends during her long search for Persephone.
There she developed the Eleusian mysteries, a series of profound religious ceremonies that taught her initiates how to live joyfully and how to die without fear.
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The story of Greek goddess Demeter illustrates the tremendous capacity of a woman to love and nurture, within her own family and the world at large.
It also reminds us to stand firm for what is good and right, even in the face of adversity, when powerful forces are aligned against us.
The goddess Demeter's message also reminds us of the seasons of a woman's life, that even though there are times of great sorrow there is also great joy to be found.
Hello everyone.
I hope its ok if I backtrack to Juno as I would like to explore a practical interpretation of it. This chart is a good example because:
1. He is a male, and I find that most of the material written on Juno is for some reason only directed towards women.
2. It's on his sn in Sag, which is squaring the 3rd house Virgo stellium and chiron in Pisces in the 9th. This soul is first stage spiritual.
Quote from Rad:
QuoteJuno, in natural law, correlates to the power of commitment to one other where both in that commitment are themselves defined by Natural Laws: the natural masculine, and the natural feminine. Juno correlates in this way to the power of each to help facilitate the growth and evolution of the other, and thus the ongoing evolution of themselves within the context of the committed relationship. Additionally, Juno correlates, in Natural Law, to the evolution of our sexuality within the context of a committed relationship: to the point where the deepening sexuality between the two becomes a vehicle of Soul evolution. In the end, it correlates to using the vehicle of sexuality to create a trance state wherein the inner Godhead can be experienced within because of the trance like state that suspends the ego in such a way that a gravitational shift occurs, for certain amount of time, so that the center of gravity is then in the Soul itself.
This is very different that the patriarchal conditioning of 'faithfulness' correlates mainly to the women being expected to remain faithful even as the patriarchal man gives himself the right to be with others, while maintaining his 'committed' relationship to his partner. The typical dual standards and hypocrisy that emanates from the patriarchy in every way.
I just tried interpreting it, but got lost in my left brain! So I'm going to keep the space open for someone else to share their understanding.
(http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp255/arimoshe/Maleclientjunoconjsn.jpg)
Thank you,
Ari Moshe
Hi Ari,
What I see reflected in this chart is a soul who has internalized all kinds of ideas and messages of a patriarchal nature which has totally conditioned the soul's consciousness over time, and specifically its beliefs about "˜who it is'...leading to a deep underlying sense of inferiority and artificial guilt simply for the fact of the soul's intrinsic nature.
This of course is a natural soul..in this life what you could call a "˜natural man'. A natural man is vastly different than a traditional patriarchal man. Yet the past life imprint, as a function of internalizing these messages about who he is, and the guilt/inner sense of inferiority, has led to compensation patterns where in the past the soul has chosen to commit itself to partners who reflect the qualities and circumstances of elite social status...the compensatory intention being to associate itself with the symbols that were highly valued by society..the soul trying to make itself an extension of those symbols so that it too would be valued.
The reason for wanting to be valued in this way is a reaction to internalized traumas that have been linked with society projecting extreme perversions and exclusionary treatment onto the soul, as a consequence of the soul not reflecting the prevailing customs/norms/values that were expected to define every aspect of one's lifestyle. And so by committing to partners who were established in an elitist culture and living a lifestyle reflective of self-important elitist attitudes/philosophies/beliefs: i.e. "i am more important than the bum on the street..i am more important that the bum who is washing my backside and will later be fetching my dinner..or.."˜what a beautiful animal!--now kill it so I can wear it for a coat'..(these statements reflecting the inner orientation of the partner..not the soul itself) etc etc, the soul only intensified the pressure to try and be something its not, something it never has been, and something it never will be, by attracting the exact kind of messages that has led to the formation of this inner dynamic: artificial guilt/inferiority..such messages being a function of distorted patriarchal judgment.
And so the soul's subconscious orientation to intimate relationship partners has been conditioned by memories of these kinds of dynamics and situations of undermining enmeshment with partners who would constantly remind the soul of all the ways the soul just wasn't cutting it..how "˜strange and unacceptable' the soul 'is'..how 'stupid' the soul's visions were relative to the ideals and purposes it felt called to devote itself to in life..
In the current life juno is reflecting the need for the soul to FIRST make a primary commitment to the godhead..juno in sag ruled by jupiter rx in taurus/11th, opposing neptune/venus in scorpio in the 5th..relative to first stage spiritual. In so doing, the soul progressively deconditions from those artificial messages, beliefs, and behavioral reflexes that have built up and crystalized over lifetimes, and a natural self reliance based on the soul's specific individually becomes established. Additionally, a primary commitment to the godhead also entails committing to a relevant form of work..karma yoga..a work that heals, honors, serves, and promotes an inner communion with Nature in some way, and simultaneously allows the soul to conduct himself freely through an inner alignment with natural laws. Through this commitment to deepening conscious inner communion with the godhead, and committing to a work that reflects how that godhead intends to work through the soul, what would then be set in motion is a progressive deconditioning from internalized judgments and the resulting guilt/garbage/undermining behaviors that have become built up in the soul..that deconditioning then changing the nature of the soul's inner vibration.. As the change in the soul's inner vibration occurs, this allows the soul to naturally ATTRACT..taurus/11th house..a partner of like mind..a natural female..who naturally shares a commitment to the natural god and the natural laws it has created..and through a committed partnership, making these things a mutual WAY OF LIFE.
The natural partner would also possess a natural humility and natural orientation to service (juno in 6th), which the two would carry out together in the context of their relationship...or at least both would be involved in forms of work that are naturally harmonious and reinforcing in general focus. This then promotes conversations of a deep and contemplative nature...philosophies they share..discussions about the meaning of life and the larger forces that have created it, etc. (juno/sag) These conversations would be healing and a powerful affirmation of the mutual bond..it would illuminate the core affinity existing between the two, and deepen mutual appreciation of one another. They would provide each other with messages--spoken as pure, sincere truth..not as some kind of agenda--that would fundamentally validate the truth of who the other partner is, which would create an immensely positive influence in the general constitution within each partner (5th house).
In addition, we have the symbols for remembering--jupiter rx--the proper use of sexual energy as a means of evolving consciousness..which would be engaged as a devotional ritual that brings both partners into direct union with the godhead, and allows them to directly experience the divinity within each other through the conscious sexual union...jupiter rx opposing venus/neptune in scorpio..venus ruling moon in libra in the 8th house..
That's what I'm seeing anyway..
Stacie
Hi, I would like to go back for some clarification on Ceres. Thank you Linda and Rad for posting all the information.
Is there an EA position on Ceres being recently recognized, while Pluto was "demoted," what does this indicate for now, the future? I assumed this would represent a movement to the return of the undistorted female principle, or the ascension of the feminine. Perhaps it is, and thus would this be a seeding phase, and we get a backlash (Cardinal) before we can move ahead?
It will be interesting to see what unfolds with the Ceres/Pluto conjunction coming up. Over the past year or so, Ceres/Pluto has shown in some deaths/abductions--ie the Natalie Holloway case, she had a natal conjunction of Ceres/Pluto in Scorpio with Transiting Ceres conjuncting her natal Pluto/Venus for her abduction/death. When Brittany Murphy, the young actress, died, transiting Ceres conjuncted her natal Ceres while squaring Saturn.
Jean Shinoda Bolen also speaks of another distortion of Ceres as the overbearing or overcontrolling mother.
Going back to my original question about the recognition of Ceres and what that means--is the backlash primarily in the US? It seems several other patriarchal countries have been able to elect strong women leaders, and the US has Tea Party women. Esquire magazine had a recent article that said American men born from 1960-1990 were more sexist than their fathers--at a time when women are getting better education and better jobs/more pay than men. Is there something in the US chart that makes this an inherent struggle, or is this a transit situation?
The link for the Esquire article:
http://www.care2com/causes/womens-rights/blog/are-young-men-more-sexist-than-their-fathers/
Thankyou
I moved away from the original topic when I asked about the US chart, but I just looked back at it, so will attempt to answer my own question--does the Pluto in Capricorn, with Saturn in Libra, and Venus in Cancer then show the inherent patriarchal nature of the US?
Quote from: Stacie on Sep 17, 2010, 05:38 PM
Hi Ari,
What I see reflected in this chart is a soul who has internalized all kinds of ideas and messages of a patriarchal nature which has totally conditioned the soul's consciousness over time, and specifically its beliefs about "˜who it is'...leading to a deep underlying sense of inferiority and artificial guilt simply for the fact of the soul's intrinsic nature.
Stacie
Wow that was amazing to read Stacie. I'm so glad Ari posted the questions and to learn from your response.
Thank you,
Wendy
Hi Brenda,
In the natal USA chart the natal Ceres in in THE TENTH HOUSE, AND IN PISCES. It is square the natal Uranus in Gemini in the 1st. It is ruled by natal Neptune in Virgo in the 5th, which is square natal Mars in Gemini also in the 1st. The Neptune itself is ruled by Mercury retrograde in Cancer in the 3rd, and this is opposed by natal Pluto in Cap in the 9th. Mercury is ruled by the Moon in Aquarius in the 10th, and that is conjunct the USA natal Lucifer.
How long did it take for women in the USA to even have a right to vote ? On the other hand the 'feminist' movement largely manifested out of the USA in the late 60's and spread to many parts of the world. At that time transiting Neptune, the ruler of natal Ceres in the USA chart, was in Scorpio and forming a trine to this natal Ceres. It was also forming a trine to the natal Cancer planets in the USA 2nd House. At the same time transiting Uranus was in Libra, and came across the USA's Saturn in the 5th, and forming trines to Mars and Uranus in Gemini, and trines to the natal Moon with Lucifer in the 10th.
At that time both men and women who all had Pluto in Leo rebelled against the patriarchal conditioning in the USA. That was the time of 'free love', Uranus transiting in Libra. That transit also squared the natal Cancer planets, and inconjuncted natal Ceres. Of course the shock to the Pluto in Cancer generation, their parents, was total. The impact of that time in the USA lasted a long, long time, and, again, reached into many lands. It was a time of women trying to reclaim that which has been lost: the natural feminine.
God Bless, Rad
And, by the way, it means nothing that Pluto has been 'demoted' to something less than a planet. This is just people deciding what is what which means nothing other than what they say it means. The fact is Pluto has an orbit around our Sun, it has an atmosphere, and it has a Moon.
Quote from: BrendaP on Sep 18, 2010, 11:30 AM
Ceres...........the return of the undistorted female principle, or the ascension of the feminine.
Hi Brenda,
I just noticed your reference to the word, "ASCENSION" of the feminine.
Hi Rad,
Is "Ascension" referred to by so much New Age Spirituality simply, in truth, the return of the Feminine, the matriarchal, within the Age of Aquarius?
Hi Rad,
Thank you very much for your explanation. I don't feel Pluto is any "less" at all, but the word "demoted" has been bandied about close to the same time Ceres was recognized.
Does the US Ceres thus represent why the world looks to the US for its "abundance" and ability to help and heal other countries in need, and why the US looks to itself to also offer help when needed? I may be wrong, but at one time wasn't the US called the "breadbasket of the world"--a Ceres/grains analogy?
The Tea Party women (Moon-Aquarius/Lucifer?) are such a distortion of all the efforts of women from the suffragettes to the "60's. The latter group, who actively fought for their rights, seems to represent the Amazon archetype Kristin mentioned. The Tea Party women are often very pretty, while saying such reactionary, hateful, fear based messages--looking at them, I am reminded of JWG saying something to the effect of Evil looking like G-d (in Sedona) about this current time, sadly too prophetic.
Hi Linda,
I probably used the word" ascension" a bit loosely, I was thinking of cycles, a picture of cycles looks like waves, some waves go down (descend), some waves go up (ascend)--so more accurately, I was thinking of ascendancy in wave form--perhaps I should have used the word emerge, or a return.
I don't know all the New Age thinking, but from what I have read, some people felt that there would be an actual ascendancy of their souls/beings to another dimension--that their DNA was being transformed, and those that were ready would ascend, the others left behind (which, when you think of it, is like a New Age distortion of the "Rapture.") Others, I do believe are waiting for a return of the matriarchy.
Sincere thanks.
(Back to Juno...)
Stacy, that was really helpful. Thank you for sharing your understanding. I want to clarify my understanding:
The soul has deeply internalized all kinds of ideas based on religious conditioning and persecution (sag in 6th relative to squares, as well as jupiter rx in taurus in 11th) and thus the archetype of sacred commitment to another to evolve consiousness through sexuality here has manifested by way of having learned unnatural sexual practices that he did not connect to. Thus the reality of the partnership you described by which he has committed with souls of higher elite as a form of compensation for not living in his own truth- in particular experiencing the actual sacredness of sexuality with a committed partner who is equally devoted to spiritual growth.
In some cases the relationships he engaged in would have been his own syblings/family members- like in Egypt. As that Jupiter opposes Neptune Venus in Scorpio, and is ruled by Venus in Scorpio- which is ruled by Pluto in the 3rd.
And so in this life, committing to a partner with whom they can both share a deep commitment to the truth, and relearn true intimacy with God through sexual union. However a part of this process will require a de-conditioning by way of working through pl trauma that manifests as dissociation when it comes to sexuality. It is interesting to note that this soul is in a very loving and committed relationship with another woman. They both love each other very much, however there is no sexual connection. I feel this explains why.
Please let me know if anything that I wrote is a misunderstanding of this archetype.
Love,
Ari Moshe
Hi Ari,
Just wanted to check in and let you know that I'll be back early this afternoon to post the reply to this.
Talk to ya soon.
Stacie
Quote from: Stacie on Sep 17, 2010, 05:38 PM
This of course is a natural soul..in this life what you could call a "˜natural man'.
.......... in the past the soul has chosen to commit itself to partners who reflect the qualities and circumstances of elite social status...the compensatory intention being to associate itself with the symbols that were highly valued by society..the soul trying to make itself an extension of those symbols so that it too would be valued.
Hi Stacie,
Could you please confirm where the above astrological correlations are found in the chart.
I expect the above quotes refer specifically to Juno 24 deg Cap in the 6th house (conj Galactic Centre - 'daemon soul')?
And how the need to be "valued by an elitist society" correlating to Cap/7th is a Libran distortion?
Any comments on Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Lilith all near the DC?
Thanks Stacie!
Hi Ari,
QuoteThe soul has deeply internalized all kinds of ideas based on religious conditioning and persecution (sag in 6th relative to squares, as well as jupiter rx in taurus in 11th) ...
Just remember to include Saturn in this.. "˜Religion' and all the conditioning therein connects to the cap/10th/saturn archetype. In this chart we're finding saturn in the 9th..in aquarius. Oh and what's this--it is conjunct the SN of juno in the 8th house. Saturn is also trine the NN in the 12th, sextile mercury and juno in the 6th..saturn being ruler of mercury..mercury being ruler of the uranus/mars/pluto in the 3rd. Saturn is also sextile lucifer in aries in the 10th.
Quote...and thus the archetype of sacred commitment to another to evolve consiousness through sexuality here has manifested by way of having learned unnatural sexual practices that he did not connect to. Thus the reality of the partnership you described by which he has committed with souls of higher elite as a form of compensation for not living in his own truth- in particular experiencing the actual sacredness of sexuality with a committed partner who is equally devoted to spiritual growth"¦
The real issue isn't simply that he has learned unnatural sexual practices that he hasn't connected to, but is more primarily a matter of having experienced a variety of very INTENSE sexual traumas which has led to a detachment...or disassociation as you've keenly pointed out..from his inner sexual nature.
If he were to embrace sacred sexuality it would allow him to reconnect to (and experience directly within himself and the right partner) the deeper natural laws that exist within conscious use of sexual energy. This soul has experienced so much trauma in this area... And you are quite correct about the connection to sexualized relationships with siblings"¦EXCELLENT, excellent point Ari. There are deep unresolved traumas associated with exactly this issue. There's also unresolved traumas linked with extreme experiences like being gang-raped in lives as a female. These unresolved traumas have not only become crystalized within the mental, emotional/psychological bodies, but in the physical body as well, at the cellular level..taurus/11th: cellular memory. Sacred sexuality as a devotional practice, WITH A PARTNER WHO IS EQUALLY ORIENTED IN THIS DEVOTIONAL WAY, would be a direct way of counteracting the traumatic memories that are being held in the body/cellular structure....as well as the emotional, psych, spiritual, mental structures as well..
As I was contemplating this chart last night, a scenario flew into my brain that really seems to connect to the trauma signature in this chart. This scenario connects to a very recent life, either the immediate prior lifetime, or the one directly before. In this life the soul was a male, and he shared a profound connection with his sister. Following numerous lifetimes of social exclusion, persecution, projection, etc. the soul was in an inner condition of feeling utterly alienated from and within the world. This sister was a natural soul just like himself, and thus she could see his true nature, appreciate it, and related with him on that level. This relationship was the essence of the juno symbol that I described earlier. She was the one soul in his life that he experienced a like-mindedness with, and hence they were very, very close.
One factor that intensified this closeness was the factor of their home environment being utterly abusive, violent, defeating, and traumatic. This was directly linked to the father, who had a chronic behavior of taking out his inner rage, frustration, and restlessness on this soul and the sister. The sister was subjected to frequent, agressive sexual abuse by that father. Any efforts on her part to resist were met with outright physical violence..so she learned to comply.
The soul (i.e. this chart) was keenly aware of the torment this abuse created in his sister, but didn't know how he could stop it because the father had them living in fear. He was so volatile that any hint of objection would be answered with intimidation and beatings. In addition to abuse by physical violence, this soul received intense, ongoing abuse of humiliation--it was as if the father's mission in life was to break the soul down through any and every possible message and opportunity to inflame self-doubt and make this soul experience essential powerlessness and inferiority. As a coping mechanism to the nightmarish presence that the father was in both of their lives, the two siblings began a progressively deepening sexual relationship. This brought comfort to both of them. It helped them deal with the intense trauma of the shared reality within the home. Furthermore, these souls were indeed of like-mind and very close emotionally. She reflected exactly the kind of partner he needed, and he reflected the same for her. The connection of Egypt is key right here, because this served as a subconscious reference in initiation point of a sexualized relationship: i.e. it was a cultural norm in the Egyptian lifetimes (or lifetime..no clue how many) for family members to be sexual with one another. And therefore, in the context of this recent lifetime the ONLY factor that made sexual contact between these souls feel wrong was the fact that it was now a major cultural taboo. From the inner perspective of each of them, this relationship/content was natural..and equally/mutually consensual. Following through from lifetimes of various sexual traumas, and the current life sexual trauma of the sister, the sexual merging that occurred between these two actually put them in touch with, and allowed them experience, more of the true essence and power of sexual energy than socially 'appropriate' relationships they've had in their preceeding lives. It was healing for both of them. Well...at some point this violent asshole father caught them in the act and utterly blew his cap in the discovery. He immediately went after the sister and started to relentlessly beat her. The soul found himself unable to stop this and was forced to watch every bloody traumatizing second of it. The beating killed her. And the soul watched this entire thing happen right in front of face. When the realization hit that she was in fact dead, the soul found himself overwhelmed with one thought: 'It's my fault.' He saw himself as the sole reason for his sister being beaten to death"¦and within this are two critical interpretations: 1) because he had been sexual with her, she died. 2) because he acted on his own desires, she died. This trauma created unspeakable inner grief and guilt in the soul and has been deeply internalized. These internalized dynamics have been carried into the current life, and part of the skipped steps--and a key intention within juno--is to realize the actual objective causes for that event..to realize there were other reasons"¦reasons within ALL parties involved, including the sister...and allowing this kind of relationship to be recreated in the current life in a way that can be sustained. Inwardly coming to the previous realizations will provide the opening for self-forgiveness..and REINTERPRETATION. These two things-inner forgiveness and reinterpretation-will allow the soul to throw off the mental constructs that have created blockages within his sexuality and inner freedom to act on his own instinctual desires/impulses.
Does this connect intuitively?
By the way..I just wanted to say that the fact I've presented this in specific terms does not mean I expect it be taken literally as if confirmed-accurate fact. It's purely intuitive content..reflected in the core theme of pluto/uranus/mars squaring the nodes (and 6th stellium of which juno is a part) and opposing chiron/vesta"¦also the 8th house moon in aq and its inconjuncts to the 3rd house. Also the jupiter rx signature that you pointed out earlier (P.S. note the intercepted signs in 5th/11th). Also factored into this is saturn and its aspects, mercury (conjunct Juno in sag and BM Lilith in cap) and its aspects..and the resolution nodes for the skipped steps. I can go back and state these correlations more directly in the actual body of text if you (or anyone) wishes.
Great job of tuning into that sibling/sexualized relationship dynamic, Ari. Key piece of the puzzle.
QuoteAnd so in this life, committing to a partner with whom they can both share a deep commitment to the truth, and relearn true intimacy with God through sexual union. However a part of this process will require a de-conditioning by way of working through pl trauma that manifests as dissociation when it comes to sexuality. It is interesting to note that this soul is in a very loving and committed relationship with another woman. They both love each other very much, however there is no sexual connection. I feel this explains why.
Brilliant observation..
God'dess Bless
Stacie
Hi Linda,
Yes of course, happy to do that. Getting ready to run an errand, but I'll be back later to post the correlations.
Stacie, that was just beautiful. Thank you for exploring all of that.
I'm glad you mentioned that the whole sister story is an intuitive application upon the archetypes. However, when I look at the archetypes involved, I recognize that something so close to that must have been a reality.
Would you mind clarifying where in your interpretation you understood the Moon inconjunct the Virgo stellium- I couldn't quite see that.
Ari Moshe
Ok Linda..
QuoteQuoteThis of course is a natural soul..in this life what you could call a "˜natural man'.
.......... in the past the soul has chosen to commit itself to partners who reflect the qualities and circumstances of elite social status...the compensatory intention being to associate itself with the symbols that were highly valued by society..the soul trying to make itself an extension of those symbols so that it too would be valued.
Hi Stacie,
Could you please confirm where the above astrological correlations are found in the chart.
This is a combination of evolutionary state and the dominant mutable archetype represented in the chart. pluto/uranus/mars is in virgo/3rd..SN in sagg/6th conjunct the sun and juno (and by extension pluto's ruler mercury)..NN in gemini 12th..chiron and vesta in pisces/9th"¦saturn in 9th. Also SN and NN of venus, SN of mercury, and SN of uranus are also in that 6th house in sag.. Black moon lilith in 6th..
Saggitarius is the root archetype of natural law. The "˜totality' of natural law as a conscious living web or universe..Nature..Gaia..daemon consciousness..correlates to the entire mutable archetype: gemini, virgo, saggitarius, pisces.
The Galactic Center is roughly 28/29 sagg. Wolf has said that planets within a degree of this point can be indicative of daemon souls. But there are also daemon charts where this point is occupied by nothing. The signature in Ari's example chart would certainly support the potential of a daemon soul, but it actually isn't possible to know without the direct observation (I imagine Ari has a sense of this through his observation). In this way it is similar to determining evolutionary state..the symbols alone won't tell you. A chart can have dominant mutable planets and sign/house combinations and still not be a daemon soul..and a mutable emphasis won't even guarantee that a soul is a 'natural type'. it is just as possible the emphasis is reflecting a total distortion of what is natural. However, in this case, the evolutionary state has provided a tipoff that the individual, at minimum, is going to reflect a 'natural man'. The reason for this is because by the time a soul evolves into the spiritual state, a sufficient amount of deconditioning has already occurred in consciousness prior to the current life. That deconditioning archetypically promotes a reorientation in consciousness to natural law/reality. As a soul continues to evolve through the spiritual state that orientation to natural law becomes progressively deeper and intrinsic, whatever the soul type..
QuoteI expect the above quotes refer specifically to Juno 24 deg Cap in the 6th house (conj Galactic Centre - 'daemon soul')?
Bet ya a hundred bucks you meant to say Sagg ;D ..answered above..
QuoteAnd how the need to be "valued by an elitist society" correlating to Cap/7th is a Libran distortion?
It is a libra distortion yes, though what that distortion is based on and driven by is the essential issue..that issue being trauma. The need to be valued by society and the compulsion to compensate in various ways to make this happen is a direct function of traumatic memory impacting on the subconscious mind. In other words, for this soul the compulsion to compensate has been subconsciously motivated, and therefore relatively automatic behavior. The sheer force of subconscious influence in this case is based on the fact that the traumas being accessed in the soul's long term memory are directly linked to SURVIVAL issues. The power of the survival instinct can never be underestimated. We can be 100% sure in our egos that we would behave (or not behave) in a particular way regardless of any circumstance, but a triggered survival instinct can motivate behavior/choices/action that the ego never even dreamed it would carry out. So in this case the survival instinct has been the underlying force in the compulsion to compensate in order to secure appreciation/approval/resources from society"¦the subconscious message being 'my survival depends on it'.
The thing about subconscious messages is that they require no rational explanation. They simply influence behavior independent of the ego's conscious understanding or awareness. It becomes a troubling and frustrating issue because the person can't figure why they keep doing what they're doing, even as they fully recognize that their behavior is totally counter to their best interests and intentions. Yet in the end the soul has to move beyond this stuff in order for its evolution to proceed, so it will set up key circumstances which force the nature of the subconscious content/thought pattern to surface into full conscious awareness, through the focus of those current circumstances. When this happens it generates the famous question of 'why?'. Each time one makes a choice to consciously focus on/examine/objectify that 'why', the subconscious grip becomes less and conscious self-determination becomes progressively restored, then providing an opportunity for the soul to apply the self-knowledge that was gained. As the self-knowledge is applied, the core issue itself begins to resolve until it is finally culminated.
QuoteAny comments on Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Lilith all near the DC?
Sure, "¦though I've arrived at that special time where the little mortal needs some sleeps"¦ha! 'sleeps'..see what I mean? Be back tomorrow. ;-)
Thanks Stacie!
And thanks to you Linda :-)
I am so grateful for this forum, and have learned so much from the input of all from questions and responses.
Rad encapsulated the distortion and the natural feminine archetypes, and apparently all the Goddesses will reflect varying themes along the same lines, depending on culture and timing.
Just read a really good article by Betsy Reed in The Nation titled, "Sex and the GOP," which really describes the distortion we are in. The link, if interested, is
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-77/3489-sex-and-the-gop
From the article, is that there is an expected decline of women in congress, the first in the past 30 years, "the irony is that, in this so-called, year of the woman, this result will be, more than anything else, an expression of the preference and passions of angry white men."
After Rad mentioned the US Ceres, I went back and found the US Eris is at 8 Capricorn in the 8th house, natally squared by Saturn in Libra, house 5, also sextile to US natal Ceres 8 Pisces in House 10. Then transiting Eris is 21 Aries Rx conjunct US natal Chiron in house 11. There will be more to come, since the transiting nodes have been over US natal Eris, and transiting Pluto and Ceres will also move over US natal Eris.
So I answered my own question about the Tea Party women above. The distorted archeype of Eris is that she felt snubbed, and responded with stirring up anger, strife, discord, very much what we are seeing now.
Moving away from this, just wanted to express my appreciation for what everyone expresses here--there have been many times, with all of what is going on has been so overwhelming, being able to come here and read and take in what others are feeling and thinking help more than you know.
God Bless.
Quote from: Stacie on Sep 24, 2010, 05:36 AMThe sheer force of subconscious influence in this case is based on the fact that the traumas being accessed in the soul's long term memory are directly linked to SURVIVAL issues............... So in this case the survival instinct has been the underlying force in the compulsion to compensate in order to secure appreciation/approval/resources from society"¦the subconscious message being 'my survival depends on it'.
Hi Stacie,
Thank you so much for your analysis of JUNO in the chart that Ari posted. Everything you described makes complete sense on an intuitive level. I understand that the "survival issues" correlate to Taurus 11th.
Hi Brenda,
ERIS
Thanks for the article, and for looking at Ceres and Eris in the US chart as they relate to the Tea Party. The Comment "Faux women for a faux party. Real women need not apply" aptly portrays the two-fold discussion in this thread, namely, "distorted" and "natural" expressions of the Asteroid Goddesses and dwarf planets.
The 560 year cycle of dwarf planet Eris around the Sun puts her presence in people's charts (who are younger than 80) in Aries.
Eris is the Greek goddess of strife (Latin 'Discordia'). Her Greek opposite is Harmonia (Latin 'Concordia').
I will post some more notes for Eris soon.
Eris
Daughter of the Night
Goddess of discord and strife
"¢ Discovered on 5 January 2005, Pasadena, Calif.
"¢ Kuiper Belt Object, slightly larger than Pluto, classified as a plutoid, with a 560 year orbit around the Sun.
"¢ Greek word meaning strife, root of the word "eristic" meaning to strive or dispute, speaking of an argument or controversy.
"¢ Eris's role in history was to offer a gift that exposed the recipients to their own shortcomings: vanity, jealousy, anger, fighting, intolerance, envy and possessiveness.
"¢ In a more positive myth, she stimulated healthy competition.
"¢ Connected to Libra, discovered while in Aries, makes her an 'uninvited guest.'
"¢ Eris was named by astronomers, not astrologers. Myth is a starting point, but it will be many decades before the meaning of this body will be understood in astrology.
"¢ Eris' current position is 21.49 deg Aries Rx.
The Legend of Eris in Greek Mythology
Short version: Because of Eris' disagreeable nature she was the only goddess not to be invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the parents of the Greek hero Achilles. When she turned up anyway and was refused admittance, in a rage she threw a golden apple amongst the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite inscribed "To the fairest." As these were all beautiful goddesses, it was not an easy decision, so a mortal named Paris was chosen to decide who should have the golden apple. Tempted by Aphrodite's offer of the most comely mortal woman, Paris awarded the prize to the goddess of love. The rivalry of the goddesses brought about the events which then led to the Trojan War.
In Hesiod's Works and Days 11-24, two different goddesses named Eris are distinguished:
So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her; but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature.
For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honour due.
But the other is the elder daughter of dark Night (Nyx), and the son of Cronus who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.
Eris' position in the Discovery Chart is 19.45 deg Aries Rx.
Hi Linda,
Thanks so much for all the Eris info. I was going to let this lapse, until Rad mentioning US Ceres, and me checking US Eris.
I did not know Eris as daughter of the night, I love the idea of her stirring others to work--as an alternate to how it is seemingly manifesting right now.
Will be out of town and off line for a week, thanks again.
Brenda
Hi All,
Back to Ceres for a moment...
Quote from: Linda on Sep 15, 2010, 05:21 AM
Ceres is presently at 24 deg Sagittarius, and will enter Capricorn on 8th October 2010.
Ceres conjuncts Pluto in Capricorn on 19th October 2010.
Just read Stephanie Austin's Aries Full Moon (Oct 22-23) column in TMA. She writes this about Ceres, which I thought was interesting and insightful:
"As the Great Mother goddess, she gave birth to Plutis, the Greek God of the Earth's wealth. More recent versions of Plutus/Pluto's abduction of Demeter/Ceres' daughter, Persephone, illustrate the domination of matriarchal goddess cults and the Earth by patriarchal forces."
Perhaps there'll be some revelation of this in some way with the full moon... At any rate, gives great insight, I think. Ceres, the Great Mother goddess, in undistorted form gives birth to wealth (natural, harmonious, life-sustaining wealth, not distorted, destructive, greed-based wealth). Pluto, the wealth of the Earth, coming up and abducting Ceres' daughter, disrupting the natural harmony, is a reflection of the patriarchal distortion. Demeter pining for her daughter - patriarchal distortion. One view, anyway.
Peace,
Ellen
PS I don't mean that Demeter's natural and normal and necessary emotional response to having her daughter abducted is patriarchal distortion. But that the circumstances that lead to that are.
Ellen
Hi Ellen,
Thanks for sharing your insights on Ceres. The creation of the Greek sky gods correlated to a time of destruction of the natural harmony. The Greek myths are full of mayhem, murder, chaos, abduction, greed, jealousy, bribery, vanity..... These distortions were virtually unheard of during the matriarchy.
Quote by Rad: It could be very useful to examine the patriarchal overlay/projections into these natural asteroid Goddesses. And in that examination to recreate the actual, NATURAL, meanings and correlations to those asteroids.
I wonder if there are any other myths that can be drawn upon that can give insight into the natural behaviours of the asteroid goddesses? Take Eris, for example. What is the natural undistorted expression of Eris? I found it very difficult to find any natural meaning there at all; the myth was completely dominated by the patriarchal distortions of human nature.
Why did Eris have such a disagreeable nature? It all began with not being invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, or someone 'forgetting' to invite her. Once she decided to turn up to the wedding anyway, she was refused admittance. This omission and exclusion then lead to a chain of disastrous events.
Eris's rage actually began with NON-INCLUSION, the distortion of the Natural Law of "inclusion."
Hi all,
I've been following this thread, and although my knowledge of Greek mythology is limited, I find myself repeatedly going to the book The Women WHo Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. She has delved very deeply and soulfully into the many ways the divine feminine, which she calls the Wild Woman archetype, is distorted by our conditioning. Is anyone else familiar with her work? She uses myth and story telling to describethe archetypes involved in how the feminine is distorted and how it can be reclaimed. Her version of the story of Sedna for example, is quite different than what I've seen elsewhere, a much more empowered summary. I will see if there are any other parrallels with the other asteroids listed here.
With love for the Wild Woman and Natural Law, Heather
Quote from: mountainheather on Oct 14, 2010, 08:45 PM
Her version of the story of Sedna for example, is quite different than what I've seen elsewhere, a much more empowered summary. I will see if there are any other parrallels with the other asteroids listed here.
With love for the Wild Woman and Natural Law, Heather
Hi Heather,
I have heard of her, from many years back. I know I've heard her speak, not in person, but via video or on tv. I haven't read her book, though. Could you give a brief summary of her version of the Sedna myth?
Peace,
Ellen
Hi Ellen,
Yes, I will send you a summary, I am not at home for the next couple of days but I'll check it out when I get back.
peace be with you too. Heather
Hi All,
My thoughts on Eris is that she does not correlate or symbolize anything about the natural feminine in the totality of what a what the natural feminine principle/ archetype is. To me, this creation of Eris comes out of, and manifested by, hopelessly distorted men who, in turn, have distorted the natural feminine because of their own distortions. Thus, the 'projection' of this manifesting as the 'creation' of that 'goddess' by them. In other words, there is no natural feminine to reclaim in this one.
God Bless, Rad
Thank you Rad - my thoughts exactly. Eris is just a fabrication of distorted men. I would like to see some deeper meanings emerge for this asteroid as time goes on. Surely there would have been alternative meanings for the discovery of this asteroid? Astronomers named this asteroid "Eris" after first naming her "Zena" (after the TV show). Surely, astrologers during the time of the discovery must have come up with something more sensible. I wonder if a deeper meaning / symbology can be found for Eris?
Next, I'll be posting summaries for Lilith and Amazone very soon. I'm waiting to receive Kristin's CD about Lilith in the mail. Hope you're around Kristin - we would love your input into these ones! :D
Hi Linda, All,
I emailed Stephanie Austin to ask her if she could provide some sources that get beyond patriarchal distortions. Here's part of her response:
"The sources I used are:
God Herself by Geraldine Thorsten--her books is a gold mine of pre-patriarchal information, with extensive footnotes and references to explore further.
Asteroid Goddess and Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra George"
She also said she probably did some internet searching (she was thinking specifically of the Oct 22 Full Moon).
I suspect many here already know about these sources, but thought I'd share them for those who don't.
Peace,
Ellen
Quote from: Ellen on Oct 15, 2010, 05:10 PM
God Herself by Geraldine Thorsten--her books is a gold mine of pre-patriarchal information, with extensive footnotes and references to explore further.
Asteroid Goddess and Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra George"
Wow, this is great Ellen. Stephanie Austin referenced the matriarchal connections to Saturn too over the summer. I'm going to look for the article.
Quote from: Wendy on Oct 15, 2010, 07:23 PM
Quote from: Ellen on Oct 15, 2010, 05:10 PM
God Herself by Geraldine Thorsten--her books is a gold mine of pre-patriarchal information, with extensive footnotes and references to explore further.
Asteroid Goddess and Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra George"
Wow, this is great Ellen. Stephanie Austin referenced the matriarchal connections to Saturn too over the summer. I'm going to look for the article.
Hi Wendy,
Yes, I remember that and remember you mentioning it. I remember feeling just blown away by what she wrote - like just scraped away layers of garbage. I'll have to go back and look too as I don't remember the details.
Peace,
Ellen
Hi all, Early Greek worship of Hera, similar to those of all of the Greek goddesses, involve some notion of fertility. Sites of Hera worship pre-date those dedicated to Zeus, meaning that worship of her pre-dates that of worship of Zeus. ;)
-Kim
Hi Kim,
Hera (Juno)
Welcome to the MB. You're right, the Greek myth of Hera goes back long before Zeus!
When the Romans conquered Greece in the 3rd century BCE, the two cultures mixed, and so too did their gods and goddesses (Roman "Juno" and Greek "Hera").
In the oral tradition of storytelling passed down by poets and minstrels it was said that the Milky Way was formed from Hera's breast milk. As the Queen of Heaven, she was the ultimate protector, nurturer and loving mother figure of women throughout their lives.
Temples were erected in her honor throughout Greece with Argos at Peloponnesus being her main sanctuary. Many Greeks sought the Great Lady's blessings to enrich and protect their lives.
We can see the patriarchal take-over of the nurturing and loving queen Hera through her marriage to Zeus and his subsequent betrayal and violation of her trust.
Here is some thoughts about Sedna aka Skeleton Woman:
According to Clarissa Pinkola Estes in the book Women Who Runs with The Wolves the Sedna myth is a Life/Death/Life myth.
The LIfe/ Death/ Life nature is an deep inner knowing of the natural cycles of something coming in to being and then something ending.... and then something coming into being again. Sedna wants us to be in touch with her via our emotional selves, for us to be able to abide with her at the deepest level, in loss and creation, to trust this cycle. The distortion of patriarchy is the attempt to control this cycle mostly out of fear of death (all forms of death: body, ego, etc), not seeing that life emerges naturally after death too. I'm not sure how this fits astrologically but it felt relevant to our exploration of the archetype.
Heather
Hi Heather,
Thanks for passing on what you found regarding Estes' thoughts on Sedna. This is very similar to Rad's interpretation of the Sedna discovery chart:
Rad's quote: In essence, if the patriarchal distortion to reality continues, the violations to natural laws as a result, then this would suggest and symbolize, to me, the extinction of the human species down the line. We can see in this chart that the core violation to Natural Laws that would equal that possibility being the violation of the Natural Law of giving, sharing, and inclusion, versus the patriarchal perversion which became self interest and exclusion.
The Greek/Roman myths are so filled with patriarchal distortions, that it is refreshing to read other sources for interpretations and meanings of the asteroids.
Amazon (or Amazone)
Kristin's quote: She is known to be the greatest female warrior. She takes the lead and drives this movement forward. She says "FOLLOW ME". The Amazon has been known to single handedly destroy armies of men in order to defend her people and their rights. In this case she represents fighting for the female race in her attempt to restore the natural balance, specifically restoring the divine right and power of the natural feminine.
Her energy is reflected in Rad's quote below.
Rad's quote: The entire need, teaching, message for not only women to return back to their natural natures, but to rebel as fiercely as necessary against all the male dominated conditioning patterns as to what women are 'expected' to be as defined by unnatural men. And then to use themselves, each women, one at a time, to teach not only these unnatural men about what is natural and what is not, but also other women who continue to accept these patriarchal definitions of what a women is, and is not.
The asteroid Amazon was discovered on 22 April 1925 by K. Reinmuth, Heidelberg. The name "Amazone" was proposed by Gustav Stracke in 1925 after the Amazon River.
In Greek mythology "Amazon" is a group or nation of all-female warriors in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of Ukraine). Other historiographers place them in Asia Minor, Libya or India.
The mythic all-female warrior society succumbed to the likes of Heracles and Theseus, and symbolised the triumph of Greek civilization over the barbarian.
Greek mythological Amazons were:
* Antiope, daughter of Ares, lover of Zeus, she was taken prisoner by Hercules and given in marriage to Theseus.
* Penthesilea, Amazon queen, ally of Troy in the Trojan War, she fought
against Achilles by whom she was slain.
* Hippolyte, Amazon queen, sister of Penthesilea.
Queen Penthesilea at Troy was quoted as saying, "Not in strength are we inferior to men; the same our eyes, our limbs the same; one common light we see, one air we breathe; nor different is the food we eat. What then denied to us hath heaven on man bestowed."
The origin of the word "Amazon" is uncertain. Derived from various ethnonym's (ethnic groups): 'warriors' (Iran); 'to make war' (Persia); 'manless, without husbands' (Greek); 'without breast' (Greek).
Among Classical Greek tradition, the Amazons had their right breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the right is frequently covered.
The myths of the Amazons are a significant part of human culture. The Amazon myth was embraced by Greece, and from there spread all over the world. They were the earliest symbols of a society's fear of feminism. They questioned the order of life and rose against it. They would not allow themselves to be treated as less than human.
Historically, Amazons were portrayed as beautiful women in Amazonomachies, an art-form showing battles between the Amazons and Greeks. Amazons were trained to use all weapons and especially in single combat. They were honorable, courageous, brave and represented rebellion against sexism. Their tales spread quickly and soon stories of the Amazons were everywhere, including Africa, Asia, Europe, South America (the Amazon River was named after the female warriors), and North America.
In 1542, Francisco de Orellana reached the Amazon River (Amazonas in Spanish), naming it after a tribe of warlike women he claimed having encountered and fought there. The whole basin and region of the Amazon (AmazonÃa in Spanish) were named after the river. Medieval traveller John Mandeville wrote: "Beside the land of Chaldea is the land of Amazonia, that is the land of Feminye. And in that real is all woman and no man; not as some may say, that men may not live there, but for because that the women will not suffer no men amongst them to be their sovereigns."
Classicist Peter Walcot wrote, "Wherever the Amazons are located by the Greeks, whether it is somewhere along the Black Sea in the distant north-east, or in Libya in the furthest south, it is always beyond the confines of the civilized world. The Amazons exist outside the range of normal human experience."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16fvTonR_gA&feature=related
Unknown Amazonian rain forest tribe, the archetypal self-sufficient society: The men, carrying bows and arrows, had painted themselves in red and black, signifying war or danger. They were very very afraid, and there was a clear message: "Go away, we don't want contact." They are experts at living totally sustainably in the environment in a very self-sufficient way.
http://www.amazon-indians.org/Matis-Video-01.html
HI Linda,
Thanks so much for all the research on Amazone.
Just some more thoughts about her...
She is the wildest of all the goddesses and she rules the 3rd chakra, along with Mars and Pluto. Fight or flight. She operates in her natural form via pure instinct, holding nothing back, and she needs absolute freedom to express herself.
In her most natural form she is totally independent, and self-sustaining, totally complete in and unto herself, aligned with Gaia and goddess and the animal kindom..all of mother nature. She has a keen emotional intelligence like that of an animal.
Her natal placement reflects where a Soul can take the LEAD in their life. Take Joan of Arc for example. She has Amazone in Aries, in the 10th house. A female leading armies of men who was ultimately burned to death - so explicit and all seen in that one symbol.
Currently transiting Amazone is 13 Virgo Which is currently conjunct the North Node of Venus, and here we are talking about her fight for equality, her desire to even the scales in society again.
I have a passage I want to share and will do that when I get a moment..
Peace,
Kristin
EXAMPLE of AMAZONE in a MALE"S chart!
so I checked out JWG's chart out..and is this a coincidence? - he has natal Amazone at 13 Virgo..so an Amazone return right now as we are talking about the AMAZONE.
Wolf has Amazone in Virgo 13 degrees in the 10th house-
This placement can been seen in his desire to empower women in the EA work and empowering women in the world, and to help them heal the repression. He has a true sensitivity for the downtrodden, the underdog, and the less fortunate Souls and woman's power has been snuffed out for centuries due to patriarchal influence. He mentioned having many lives as a woman, so he knows firsthand those wounds too.
The Amazone placement also reflects his own blending of both genders, the equal mix of the two - the 10th house being a house that reflects the male gender, Amazone placement there -the wild woman, the other side of gender but an archetype that naturally embodies male and female qualities. Her strength when naturally operating is in the coequal balance between the two.
He is a Soul who has actualized both sides of gender and so visually looked male/female at the same time, also a reflection of his stage of evolution.
peace,
kristin
Amazone
Thanks Kristin for the great info! It was very interesting to learn that Jeff's Amazone is at 13 deg Virgo. T-Pluto in Cap will be trining his Amazone in several years time, during which his teachings to empower and heal women in the world could be heightened. That's certainly happening for myself.
Just reporting that I had a dream a few nights ago in which appeared an Amazone woman (an aspect of my self) - she was VERY tall, about 10 foot, had olive skin, brown hair. At first I was a little frightened, but after a short while she put me at ease because she was actually very friendly.
Pallas
I see from your Radio Show, Kristin, that Demetra George will be joining you very soon to talk about Pallas. I'll put together some research findings, and interested students can listen to the show and contribute their thoughts here as to the "natural undistorted expression" of Pallas.
Hi Lind etal,
Thanks for sharing the dream. Of course the Amazone can be so intimidating at first. Her energy and stature is designed for that very reason because she is bred not only to lead but to protect, a powerful Wild Woman, not just because of her size and strength but because of her connection to the animal kingdom. Your awareness is so keen in your realization that the Amazone was an aspect of yourself. There is a warrior in all women in terms of where they initiate their own unique individuality and how they express their nature to the world.
Every woman is rooted in a certain chakra ie designed by God/dess with the inherent strength of that chakra and the archetypes reflected in that energy center. But the goal, although rooted in one, is to EMBODY ALL of the goddess archetypes within you. To have all the chakras open, alive and pumping.
For example, the Amazone may be rooted in chakra #3 - pure instinct - but she would need to access the heart - bhakti, to find compassion in certain situations to do the right thing. She may need to come from the heart to make the right decision and this would require that the heart be open as well. She would need her psychic senses to be sharp to sense when there is danger near and this is reflected in the 6th chakra and so on....
"To find the Wild Woman, it is necessary, for women to return to their instinctive lives, their deepest knowing. So let us push on now and remember ourselves back to the Wild Woman Soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones. Shed any false coats we have been given. Don the true coat of powerful instinct and knowing. Infiltrate the psychic lands that once belonged to us. Unfurl the bandages, ready the medicine. Let us return now, wild woman howling, laughing, singing up to The One who loves us so. For us the issue is simple. Without Us , Wild Woman dies, Without Wild Woman, we die.
Para Vida, for true life, we both must live!"
(Excerpt from "Women who run with the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
Yes..looking forward now to Palls and the show with Demetra next week.
Thanks Linda for all of your efforts and contributions..
Peace,
Kristin
To all who are interested in listening to Kristin's interview with Demetra George on "Pallas" in a few day's time, here's a link to Guiding Stars Radio:
http://www.healthylife.net/RadioShow/archiveGS.htm
Here's an interesting link about women in the Amazon and their relations. I thought it appropro for our recent discussion of the asteroid Amazon.
http://io9.com/5687207/in-the-ancient-amazon-children-had-many-fathers-+-and-women-many-lovers (http://io9.com/5687207/in-the-ancient-amazon-children-had-many-fathers-+-and-women-many-lovers)
Blessed Be,
Wendy
HI all,
Wendy..thanks for that link..not too many natural tribes left. Also feel it is important to remind people that the Amazon does not just come from the Amazon basin but she is an archetype who has been born out of many cultures from Crete, to India to Europe and of course she still exists across the globe today.
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Thanks also Linda for posting the radio link. We had a wonderful show with Demetra George. Loads of valuable insights on Pallas. Linda, I know you are researching more about Pallas and will soon share but I thought I would add a few thoughts on the heels of this interview with Demetra which is available in the archives for those of you who missed it.
As I mentioned on air what I found most impressive about Pallas is her ability to HOLD HER OWN in a man's world. (unfortunately she was denied her femininity, to operate like a man, in order to maintain her freedom) Demetra shared that when asked who the most important Goddess is in Modern women, she said unequivocally Pallas Athene because while all of the other Greek Goddess as part of the patriarchal insurgence were demoted and demeaned and respectable women locked in their home, Palls had the FREEDOM TO WALK AS AN EQUAL.
I remember Wolf sharing that Pallas rules the Medulla thus connects to PSYCHIC DOWNLOADS and so I checked his chart to see where Pallas landed. For those of you that do not have his data -
Dec 2,1946 4:52am, Hollywood,Ca.
His Pallas is 19 Capricorn, which happens to be conjunct his South Node of Pluto in his second house., The ruler is Saturn, which is in his 9th house and is balsamic to his natal Pluto in Leo. This reflect the psychic downloads on all the ENTIRE PLUTO BOOK that came into him, Yukteswar was a Taurus by the way and Wolf's Pallas is in a Taurus house. The ruler being Saturn in Leo, the AUTHORITY, the Father of this knowledge, in the 9th, the work going global, international and having a far reaching impact.
This ninth house energy also reflects the teaching of Natural Law and the balsamic conjunction to Pluto reflects the ancient wisdom that it is.
His Pluto and Saturn also trines his Sun and South Node, South Node of Uranus and South Node of Venus which re-states pulling natural truths from the past and having all the memories that go with it., South Node of Uranus on his South node. Uranus connects to long term memory.
Wolf's Pallas at 19 Cap also sextiles his Moon in Pisces in the 4th reflecting his focus on empowering women and healing the distortions. Pallas sextiles his Venus Rx Scorpio on the other side which restates this need to re-establish Soul balance on Earth and the importance of not denying our essential Soul need for balance and the importance to recover the feminine power.
His Mercury, the ruler of his North Node in Gemini, is conjunct that Venus rx and Jupiter - clearly he came her to be a teacher of the Soul..essentially a messenger for God - Jupiter in Scorpio in the 12th.
EA is incredible - I am consistently IN AWE at its precision...What a gift we have been given...thanks Chief!
Namaste,
Kristin
Hi All,
I have not been able to follow this thread very closely due to time limitations, but I wanted to mention that in the newest issue of The Mountain Astrologer there is an article on Eris. I haven't read it, but it suggests that Xena is the more appropriate archetype for this asteroid. Thought that might be of interest.
Peace,
Ellen
Thanks Ellen for passing that on. I cannot get The Mountain Astrologer in my country. If anyone would care to paraphrase the article on Eris/Xena, I'd be grateful, and I'm sure others would be too. Thanks.
I just listened to Demetra and Kristin last night talking about Pallas. Putting together some notes very soon.
Quote from: Linda on Nov 13, 2010, 07:28 PM
Thanks Ellen for passing that on. I cannot get The Mountain Astrologer in my country. If anyone would care to paraphrase the article on Eris/Xena, I'd be grateful, and I'm sure others would be too. Thanks.
I just listened to Demetra and Kristin last night talking about Pallas. Putting together some notes very soon.
Hi Linda,
Bummer about not getting TMA in your country. I'll try to read through the article tonight and see what I can do for a summary. In the meantime I emailed the author asking if it might be possible to get a copy of the article that I could email to you. Hopefully she'll respond and that will be possible. It looks like the article was excerpted (at least in part) from a recently published book, so that might be something you want to look into. The book is called, Finding Our Center: Wisdom from the Stars and Planets in Times of Change. The author is Heather Ensworth. She's an astrologer, psychologist and Shaman. Her website is risingmoonhealingcenter.com.
Hope this helps in the meantime.
Peace,
Ellen
Summary of the TMA article, Exploring the Meaning of the Dwarf Planet, Eris (Or Is It Really Xena?)
Author: Heather Ensworth
TMA issue #154, Dec/Jan 2011
pp. 59-64
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1.) The dwarf planet Eris was originally named Xena. The name Eris came about in response to the intense argument among astronomers about how to categorize Pluto, Ceres and Eris. Ensworth says this: "Characteristic of all these examples of men and women [she cites Lucy Lawless, Gloria Steinem, Joan Baez, Al Gore and Richard Tarnas] with prominent Eris/Xena chart placements is their tendency to challenge society's mores and to follow a unique path as reformers. Such people are frequently targeted with negative projections in much the same way that the dwarf planet was seen as the instigator of conflict among astronomers and was therefore named "˜Eris'" (p. 64). Extremely interesting and insightful point.
2.) Eris, like Uranus, was renamed. And, like Uranus, the original name better reflects the energy of the archetype. The accepted name, in contrast, seems to contradict the true archetypal energies. Uranus, for example, being a god who resisted change where Prometheus was the bringer of change. She says about the Eris myth (Paris, Helen, Troy, etc.): "In the end, the need to be the best, the one chosen from the field of competitors, led to the downfall of all the people involved. Ironically, the astronomers - in their apparent need to avoid expanding the community of officially designated "˜planets,' which would result from a more liberal definition of the term - may have set themselves up for ongoing conflict." (p. 60)
3.) She makes the really interesting point about the criteria established for planetary status (at the time that Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet and Ceres, Eris and Sedna were elevated to dwarf status) mirroring the isolated and individualistic ways of the dominant culture of these times. The criteria are: a) "the planet has to be in orbit around the Sun"; b) "it has to have "sufficient mass so as to be nearly round in shape"; and c) sufficient mass [I think] to "have "˜cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.'" She says this: "From a philosophical perspective, these new criteria for planetary status, formulated by the IAU, are significant. In essence, this creates a definition of importance that is characterized by isolation and individualism. To be a planet, it is important to be large and to so dominate your own field of movement that you are the only primary body in that area of space. This may reflect our Western cultural idealization of separation and individuation, by which we also measure our human psychological functioning." (p. 59)
4.) Continuing on the above insight, she suggests that the dwarf planets, including Eris/Xena, serve the function of bringing us back to a sense of community. She writes: "All of these planetary bodies are an integral part of a larger community of asteroids and planets; they perhaps bring into our collective consciousness a corrective to the idealization of individuation and a new perspective about connection and community. " She goes on to write: "At the same time that many scientists are questioning whether our solar system may be part of a binary star system - and just as we are on the cusp of the Age of Aquarius, with its emphasis on collaboration and community - it seems fitting that these new planetary bodies are challenging our cultural over-emphasis on individualism." (pp. 59-60)
5.) Xena. Named by Michael Brown, astronomer, after the t.v. character played by Lucy Lawless. The archetype: witnessing the destruction of her village as a child, Xena raged through life, seeking revenge for the murder of her family until she realizes that she had become no different than those who destroyed her childhood community. From this moment on she becomes a warrior for peace and justice. In a sense, the reverse of the Eris archetype. Here's what Ensworth writes: "Xena's journey represented a spiritual quest without allegiance to any religious institution or defined belief system, and in this sense, it was very Aquarian. Accompanied by her friends, she roamed across the countryside and formed relationships with the diverse people that she encountered along the way, relating to them without regard to their status, power, or wealth - again, Aquarian traits. She rebelled against authorities or laws that were not in alignment with what she felt was just and fair, which is also Aquarian. As part of a modern myth, developed out of modern technology, Xena symbolizes many of the patterns characteristic of the Aquarian Age that we are moving into." She goes on to point out that, whereas western culture idealizes logic and duality, Xena "followed her own path, guided by intuition and life experience, in attunement with her body and the natural world around her. Her spirituality was an embodied one, not one of religious beliefs or dogma"¦.She represents a return to natural law"¦"
6.) Ensworth suggests that, because of the eccentricity of her orbit, we should not consider the sign that she is in when interpreting her meaning. Rather, we should consider the meaning of the constellation through which she is travelling. Currently, that constellation would be Cetus. Cetus is in an area of the sky known as "the Water" and is associated with Tiamat. Tiamat comes from Babylonian and Sumerian mythology and represents the "primordial waters from which all life comes." Ensworth writes: "She gave birth to the dragons and serpents, which we know were the earliest images of the Sacred Feminine and the divine"¦ Tiamat was the supreme goddess of the sea and of the source, the chaos, of creation." I will end with this final quotation: "So, our new dwarf planet, as she passes through this constellation, reminds us of the depths, the source of all life, and of the power of chaos, the cauldron of creation and destruction. She heralds the return of the Sacred Feminine and the dissolution and transformation of our current patriarchal belief systems. She encourages us to let go of our personal stories, to dive deep, and to return to right relationship with Source and with all life." (P. 61) Pretty cool.
7.) One final thing. Whereas the official name of Eris' moon is Dysnomia ("demon of lawlessness"), Xena's moon is named Gabrielle after Xena's companion. Gabrielle "was known for her sensitivity, compassion, and love of mythology, the way in which stories weave meaning and connections in our lives." (p. 60)
Hope this helps. I thought it was an EXTREMELY insightful article.
Peace,
Ellen
One thing that is interesting to me is that the area of sky known as the Water is in the southern part of the sky. Given that our current orientation in terms of isolation, individualism and dominance seems to be driven by a northern dominance, this southern location is interesting...
Peace,
Ellen
Thanks Ellen for that summary of the TMA article on Eris - it will be very helpful and useful to EA students.
PALLAS ATHENA
Kristin Fontana interviews Demetra George
"The most important goddess for modern women is unequivocally Pallas Athena."
"She is a very poignant image for the emergence of the feminine consciousness
and power that is occurring in the last few decades." - DG
Description"¢ In the mandala of the asteroid goddesses, Ceres is placed on the IC and Pallas Athena on the MC.
"¢ Ceres represents using the creative sexual energy to give birth to children, and to grow food in the seasons.
"¢ Pallas Athena reverses that direction. She takes that sexual creative energy and, instead of moving it out through the genital organs, moves it up the central spinal canal so that it comes out of the top of the head - as giving birth to our mental and artistic children.
"¢ She represents the nature of our creative mind as manifesting and giving forth our realized accomplishments in the world.
Greek myth "¢ Born out of the top of the head of her father Jupiter as his brain child, goddess of wisdom, goddess of war.
"¢ Took her place at the right hand side of her father as his favourite daughter.
"¢ (In classical versions of the myth) she was a virgin goddess denied having any consorts or lovers or children. She was dressed in cold steel war armour to cover up any aspect of her womanly body.
"¢ The myth denied her ever having had a mother at all, and that Jupiter was her only parent.
"¢ There was a contest between her and Poseidon (Neptune). Whoever could give the city the better gift would be awarded rulership of the city. Neptune took his trident and stuck it in the rock on top of the Acropolis and out came a salt spring. Pallas Athena planted an olive tree. It was decided that the olive tree was a much better gift because it provided food and shelter and shade. She became the ruling goddess of Athens.
"¢ Neptune got mad: Women would no longer be able to keep their own names but had to use their father's names. They were no longer allowed to own their property, and no longer allowed to give their names to their children.
"¢ Having won the contest, women were going to have to suffer and pay for it. Here we see one of the transitions between the matriarchal and patriarchal perspectives.
"¢ While all of the other Greek goddesses (particularly as the patriarchal period became more entrenched) were demoted and demeaned, Pallas Athena was the image of a women who was strong, smart, creative, intelligent, powerful, who had the freedom to walk as an equal in the world of men.
"¢ "She had the freedom to walk as an equal," but paid a very dear price for this privilege: the denial of her femininity.
"¢ Protector of Athens, to protect and defend the people of her city, very strong warrior aspect.
"¢ Was considered to be a better warrior goddess than Mars was god. Was valued by the Greeks for her mind. Mars used brute strength, she used her wit.
Kundalini - Serpent power"¢ In earlier symbolism of Athena, she is depicted in statues with a huge serpent at her side.
"¢ Sacred serpents lived in the most holy temple on the Acropolis, were fed milk and honey cakes, and were part of the rites.
"¢ On her breastplate she wears the head of the gorgon Medusa whose head is filled with winding serpents.
"¢ Her original nature is the goddess of the serpent power.
"¢ The serpent that guarded the oracular temples was understood as the symbol of wisdom.
"¢ The serpent was always connected with wisdom and healing.
"¢ Bible says, "˜Be ye wise as a serpent.'
"¢ Behind the cold, strategic, logical, rational goddess of war that the patriarchy projected her as, this is the goddess who holds the secrets of the kundalini serpent energy/power of wisdom and healing coiled at the base of the spine.
"¢ Her energy moves up through the chakras. Associated with Scorpio energy, upper chakras, 3rd eye, crown chakra, very psychic.
"¢ Indian Yogic tradition, alternate nostril breathing, balances the male and feminine channels, awakens kundalini coiled at the base of our spine, it rises upward through the spinal canal, and comes out of the top of the head as cosmic illumination (Pallas Athena).
"¢ Serpents and the goddess were paired together from the earliest imagery in ancient Sumeria, 3000 BC: images of the goddess with serpent heads or nursing serpent babies on their breast.
"¢ Very popular images of goddess from Crete and Babylonia holding two serpents in each hand.
"¢ Egyptian goddess associated with wisdom and war, depicted with the cobra. Skeletons of serpents found in the ruins of her ancient oracle city.
"¢ Northern Africa, Libya, Goddess "Anassa," the precursor of Athena, had 3 forms: maiden, mother, crow, embodied women as wise, strong warriors.
"¢ Another aspect of this trinity was Medusa, the serpent haired queen of wisdom, associated with the 3rd phase of the trinity, magic, regeneration, sexual mysteries.
"¢ In ancient arts, when serpents were depicted on goddesses, below the waist was associated with fertility, above the waist, especially on the head, was associated with wisdom.
"¢ Worshiped in Crete, became known as Athena protector of the palace. Serpents would eat the milk and honey prepared for them.
"¢ From the Mycenaean Greeks we get Athena's birth story to Jupiter here. Jupiter involved in war against his father Saturn. Sea goddess Mentes (middle of this trinity) gives Jupiter a potion that causes Saturn to vomit up swallowed brothers and sisters. They take up arms, and win the war. Jupiter, as king, ordered Mentes to be his consort, she refused, he pursued, and she became pregnant with Athena. An oracle told of Mentes pregnancy to a second child to supersede Jupiter, but in order to prevent it, he swallowed Mentes whole. One day, walking along the shores of Lake Tritonis in Libya (lake of the triple queen), Jupiter gets a headache. His head is axed open and out springs Athena his daughter dressed in full armour.
"¢ Robert Graves says she represents the ingestion and adaptation of the old feminine wisdom principle to the needs of the new patriarchal order.
"¢ From this myth, in the level of yogic practice, we see that through internalization of the goddess Mentes pregnant with Athena, Jupiter, through him absorbing the contra-sexual polarity into himself, awakened the kundalini - and that consciousness came out through his head.
"¢ Athena wears the Medusa serpent on her breastplate whose hair is filled with snakes and represents the awakening of the kundalini (pure electricity and power), her secret nature behind the logical strategic goddess of war.
Modern message of the Athena archetype"¢ Dilemma: If you are a women and you want to be strong and powerful in men's territory, they won't consider you to be a real woman, and will deny you the validation of protection and relationship.
"¢ Women who want to be as good as they possibly can in their chosen field often at the cost of intimate relationships and family.
"¢ Girls at school whose intelligence is too threatening to the male ego.
"¢ What does it mean to be a modern Athena woman (and man)? The movement toward androgyny (asexuality) that Athena represents, born of the androgynous condition of her father Jupiter, where he assimilated the feminine into himself.
"¢ Not being polarized at the sexual extremes ("girly" woman or "macho" guy), but balancing the male and female energy within, calling up the contra (opposite) sexual polarity.
"¢ Women who are smart, good in sports, warriors in the world.
"¢ Men, in their feminine polarity, who excel in the arts and other areas.
"¢ Clever girls at school seen as too threatening to be asked on dates - or men being great friends but not dateable material - because they both don't conform to the extreme sexual stereotypes.
"¢ Tremendous frustration of sexual energy puts pressure on the kundalini as the energy to be used for mind and art.
"¢ Prominent Athena useful and helpful in counseling: "What is the individual relationship to the contra-sexual polarity within them? "Has that created frustration in the early part of their life?" "What have they done in terms of that in their own creative process?"
Pallas Athena in the chart"¢ Jungian psychology of the armoured Amazon, valuing of one's rational logical strategic cold analytic qualities that help one succeed in the outer world, and seeing one's emotions feeling and vulnerabilities as being weak and undesirable. And how that spills over into the issues we have with our fathers, the issues we have in rejecting our mothers or what the feminine represents.
"¢ Healing our relationship to our own feminine.
"¢ Learning how to accept the feminine while in the outer patriarchal world.
"¢ The essence of the feminine contains wisdom and strength (these are not only masculine qualities).
"¢ The healing of the soul.
Afflicted Pallas"¢ Squares or oppositions from Saturn: the suppression of one's wisdom nature.
"¢ Seeing a women as being less feminine or less womanly because of the expression of her wisdom.
"¢ The repercussions to being smart, to expressing the pure Athena energy, to being as good as you possibly can be, as the feminine seeks to actualize that in the world.
Famous people with strong Pallas Athena"¢ Amelia Earhart, PA on her Asc,
"I can do anything a man can do, and I can do it better." "¢ Simone de Beauvoir, lover of Jean Paul Sartre, PA/Moon in the 10th, books on the new wave of feminine consciousness emergence in the early 1900's.
"¢ Marie Curie, winner of Nobel prize.
"¢ Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both with PA conjunct Sun in Aquarius.
Many Thanks from EA students
to Kristin and Demetra
for a great informative interview!
Pallas Athena
Pallas is associated with the AIR element (Scorpio was mentioned earlier on). Here's an excerpt from Demetra's book, "Astrology for Yourself" --
Associated with the element Air, the Suit of Swords and the Justice Key in the Tarot, and the yellow ray of intellect, she symbolizes getting into our heads. As the prototype of the artistically creative and intelligent woman, Pallas mirrors our desire to strive for excellence in a chosen field of creative expression.
Mythologically Pallas was made to deny her femininity in order to exercise her wisdom, courage and creative abilities. The artificial separation between being intelligent and being a "real woman" lies at the root of the modern day conflict women feel in choosing between career goals and relationship needs.
In the birth chart, Pallas gravitates to working with holistic health techniques that integrate whole patterns of the psyche. She also governs all mental healing techniques--visualization, meditation, affirmation, guided imagery and hypnosis.
The undistorted, natural Pallas enables us to reconcile the unnecessary separation between our love nature and our mental-creative wisdom.
hey kristin,
i have wolf's amazone @ 5 virgo in the 10th...is that what you meant to say?
speaking of the correlation to wolf's desire to help/speak out on behalf of the downtrodden: i'm sure many here remember the fire in wolf's words when he spoke of the injustices/abuses of power that occurred in the GWB administration. george w. bush has mars at 9 virgo..conjunct wolf's amazone. hmmm..
stacie
If we look at the pre-Classical (ancient) Greek manifestations of Juno we find that she was a fertility goddess. Many shrines to her have been found that pre-date those of Zeus indicating that she held great significance before he came along as a god of worship. If we consider her relationship to fertility (nature) we can perhaps then consider her as our own relationship to our own fecundity/sexuality/creativity. As time went on and Juno lost strength and became the somewhat demented, hysteric Hera, we see patriarchal energies enervating Juno and diminishing her to the jealous, seething wife of Zeus, pushed to the background while Zeus gets all the glory. I believe it is necessary in our individual soul's journey to re-energize Juno and to ask ourselves what is it that we are committed to creating? Juno can reveal both our greatest weakness (our so-called patriarchal Achilles heal), as well as our path to commitment to the Divine. :o Any thoughts?
-Kim
Hi Kim,
Good to hear from you again. Juno is presently at 24 deg Virgo: could this be describing the patriarchal Achilles heal suffered in sadomasochistic relationships? Looking very deeply into the state of our relationships continues as Venus moves through Scorpio.
Quote by Patricia Walsh in the Libra archetype thread:
.....for many who meet those they have unfinished business with, the relationship can have a trance like quality to it. There is something deep in the soul that is desiring completion, and that unconscious desire floods and takes over the consciousness. It's like being possessed by ones own unconscious complexes. But that is how these complexes become conscious... and then can be worked on. In EA we consider Libra to be the precursor to deep committed relationship that happens in Scorpio. To me Libra is more like flirting with the relationship (the worm on the hook) where Scorpio is where one bites and gets hooked). So in Libra (with Venus and Neptune's influence) a relationship can look and feel promising yet can turn out to have a very different reality.
Juno is associated with Libra and Scorpio.
Kim's quote:
I believe it is necessary in our individual soul's journey to re-energize Juno and to ask ourselves what is it that we are committed to creating? Juno can reveal both our greatest weakness (our so-called patriarchal Achilles heal), as well as our path to commitment to the Divine.
Great quote Kim.
I just hope that women are striving to make better choices in relationship for equality, balance, commitment, honesty and understanding. My aim is to educate women to become conscious of their individual complexes and work on them. Having Juno in Aquarius enables me to take a dispassionate look at my relationships, and gives amazing strength to make the right choices. And perhaps the asteroid Amazone could be operating there too.
Quote from Kristin:
.....she [Amazon] represents fighting for the female race in her attempt to restore the natural balance, specifically restoring the divine right and power of the natural feminine.
Btw, glad this thread is still happening. I had intended to return soon. We'll be looking at Lilith next, unless you'd like to examine another asteroid?
Had to go digging back far for this one. Had a question, while it is an overall evolutionary impulse to reclaim/integrate the undistorted archetypes--, if a person --looking specifically at the asteroid goddesses, if there were many retrogrades natally or by progression--would it be even more incumbent for that person to reclaim the undistorted archetype in this lifetime?
For a person dealing with this, would they perhaps be confronted with many crises and induce a more inward internalization until this is achieved?
Thank you.
Rad's quote (from an earlier page on this link)-
And, of course, the entire need, teaching, message for not only women to return back to their natural natures, but to rebel as fiercely as necessary against all the male dominated conditioning patterns as to what women are 'expected' to be as defined by unnatural men. And then to use themselves, each women, one at a time, to teach not only these unnatural men about what is natural and what is not, but also other women who continue to accept these patriarchal definitions of what a women is, and is not. The entire message of this natal Sedna chart is to utterly rebel against all that is unnatural. To throw it off, to oppose it. This entire chart is about how women has been used as men's scapegoats, of how they have been defined through the patriarchal distorted centuries as something dark, evil, the 'temptation' to man's spiritual downfall.
HI Brenda,
"Had to go digging back far for this one. Had a question, while it is an overall evolutionary impulse to reclaim/integrate the undistorted archetypes--, if a person --looking specifically at the asteroid goddesses, if there were many retrogrades natally or by progression--would it be even more incumbent for that person to reclaim the undistorted archetype in this lifetime?
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It depends on the evolutionary state of the Soul itself. From the individuated state onwards the answer would be yes yet the recovery would be an ongoing evolutionary process that could be finally realized within the 1st spiritual state.
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"For a person dealing with this, would they perhaps be confronted with many crises and induce a more inward internalization until this is achieved?"
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This depends, again, on the evolutionary state of the person and other evolutionary factors. This would be one of the ways until internal realization was achieved.
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God Bless, Rad
Thank you for the clarification, can get tunnel vision here.
Quote from: Rad on Oct 15, 2010, 12:20 PM
Hi All,
My thoughts on Eris is that she does not correlate or symbolize anything about the natural feminine in the totality of what a what the natural feminine principle/ archetype is. To me, this creation of Eris comes out of, and manifested by, hopelessly distorted men who, in turn, have distorted the natural feminine because of their own distortions. Thus, the 'projection' of this manifesting as the 'creation' of that 'goddess' by them. In other words, there is no natural feminine to reclaim in this one.
God Bless, Rad
Dear Rad, Linda, Elen,
Thankyou for your insights into Eris
I have a minor question and comment regarding Eris on this previous thread, hope you don't mind?
Quote from wiki:
"According to science writer Govert Schilling, Brown initially wanted to call the object "Lila", after a concept in Hindu mythology that described the cosmos as the outcome of a game played by Brahma. The name was very similar to "Lilah", the name of Brown's newborn daughter. Brown was mindful of not making his name public before it had been officially accepted. He had done so with Sedna a year previously, and had been heavily criticised. However, he listed the address of his personal web page
announcing the discovery as /~mbrown/planetlila and in the chaos following the controversy over the discovery of Haumea, forgot to change it. Rather than needlessly anger more of his fellow astronomers, he simply said that the webpage had been named for his daughter and dropped "Lila" from consideration."
Brown's personal web page about Eris still has the same URL
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/
How significant do you think this is? Could this actually be considered Eris's first name? If he changed his mind or didn't follow through i guess the answer is no. Discord and strife seem somehow inherent in the naming process of Eris, or at least confusion (so many different names) and avoiding more upset?
I was surprised when i discovered Brown first wanted to call Eris, sanskrit Lila. I have Eris natally exactly conjunct my sun/IC/ and within orb (couple of degrees) of chiron/mercury/north node. Last year i started a healing centre called "espace Lila", espace in french is another work for centre. Each time i look closely at asteroids in a chart there is this kind of synchronicity, it's amazing.
Light and Respect
Tory
Hi Tory,
Well, to me, this is similar to when we have a child and we go back and forth with this or that name which then leads to the name we finally decide upon for the child. That then becomes the name of that child for life of course. So, to me, this is why Eris is Eris.
God Bless, Rad
Quote from: Rad on Apr 30, 2012, 10:05 AM
Hi Tory,
Well, to me, this is similar to when we have a child and we go back and forth with this or that name which then leads to the name we finally decide upon for the child. That then becomes the name of that child for life of course. So, to me, this is why Eris is Eris.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad
Right, that is a good analogy. My reflection on this situation leads me to think of EA's emphasis on "observation and correlation". Each soul's experience being individual, my experience with Eris leads me to Lila, when for another person it must be an altogether different experience.
Thanks
Tory
This is a great thread. Did we never get to Lilith? I can't find much through a search. If anyone is up for explaining Lilith from e.a. point of view I would be interested.
Hi Sunyata,
We never got to Lilith, so let's start now.
THE THREE LILITHS
Here are some extracts from Wikipedia, the EA Glossary, and our EA message board:
Asteroid Lilith was discovered on February 11, 1927 by Benjamin Jekhowsky. It is part of the main asteroid belt outside the orbit of Mars. It is named in the honour of French classical music composer Lili Boulanger. Since Asteroid Lilith is the only verifiable body that exists, there is only one actual discovery chart (see below).
Asteroid Lilith (also called Original Lilith): 1181 on Astrodienst
"True" Black Moon Lilith: h13 (EA uses this one)
"Mean" Black Moon Lilith: 'Lilith' under Additional Objects [
thanks Jason!]
Dark Moon Lilith: h58, 'Waldermath'
Asteroid Lilith (Original Lilith) is a real asteroid. It is the only Lilith that is an actual, verifiable physical body. In the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Takes 4 years to orbit the Sun. Spends 132 days in each sign.
Black Moon Lilith (true/osculating): Not a solid objection. It is a mathematical point of alignment, the apogee of the Moon's orbit, furthest away from the Earth. 9 year orbit. Spends 9 months in each sign. EA uses the True Apogee for Black Moon Lilith.
Dark Moon Lilith is a real body in the sky, a "˜hypothetical planet' resembling a dust cloud, or a second Moon of Earth. Takes 119 days to orbit the Earth. Spends 10 days in each sign.
"The asteroids are symbolic transformers between two energy systems and point to the techniques by which the lower octave vibrations may be raised to a higher octave. The
Asteroid Lilith describes the first stage in the mythical journey where she is suppressed, humiliated and flees in a fiery rage to the desolate wilderness. The
Dark Moon Lilith depicts the pain of her exile where she plots and executes revenge. The
Black Moon Lilith shows how she transmutes her distorted image back into its natural healthy expression." (Demetra George)
Asteroid Lilith indicates where our WOUND originated.
Dark Moon Lilith signifies how and where we experience the distorted aspects of Lilith in our lives - her anguish, bitterness, betrayal, alienation, fear and hatred of sexuality, and revenge.
Black Moon Lilith shows how and where we cut away our pretensions, false roles, and delusions and actualize who we essentially are. (Adina)
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Asteroid Lilith (Original Lilith) (4-5 year cycle) describes the original Lilith. We have all "˜imprinted' in us the original, undistorted, female image, which is defined by the natal placement of an individual's asteroid Lilith. Where we feel free to move, act and speak our truth. This correlates in the current life to what our underlying ideal image is of a woman. The true and NATURAL expression of Lilith is that of pure, raw, feminine beauty. A woman that would chose freedom over just about anything. She is Pluto and she is also Mars. She was honored and praised for initiating and fully expressing her personal freedom and sexual passion. "In her original state, she is a symbol of true feminine power - complete unto herself and embodying her own brand of feminine self-containment, assertion and wholeness" (O'Donnell). Lilith is the octave transformer for Mars and Pluto! It serves as a bridge between the lower octave of Mars and the higher octave of Pluto. (Kristin)
Dark Moon Lilith (119-177 day cycle) signifies how and where we experience the distorted aspects of Lilith in our lives - her anguish, bitterness, betrayal, alienation, fear and hatred of sexuality, and revenge. For centuries men and women have been conditioned by our patriarchal culture to suppress this feminine strength which has resulted in bitterness and resentment, inevitably leading to distortion and rage. How this distortion is played out is indicated by the natal placement of the Dark Moon Lilith. Dark Moon Lilith is the distorted Lilith representing Lilith's flee into a fiery rage of exile where she plots and executes her revenge. Find your Dark Moon Lilith placement and know that this area ***also creates a channel by which we can release the rage.*** (Kristin)
Black Moon Lilith shows how and where we cut away our pretensions, false roles, and delusions and actualize who we essentially are. The Black Moon Lilith (9 year cycle) is the resolution Lilith where one's distorted image may be transformed into a natural healthy expression. The dark Goddess's crescent shape knife cuts away all that is not authentic in our lives. The ENFORCED (I REPEAT ENFORCED) clarity of the Black Moon allows us to penetrate to the essence, eliminating all things that are unnecessary, false and impure. Wherever you find the resolution Lilith in your chart, represents an area where it will take tremendous COURAGE, where you can release the repressed anger from lifetimes and be set free. It is also an area of TRANSFORMATION - creative energy of the feminine GODDESS pours into you. Lilith is the NATURAL WILD WOMAN in the birth chart so the Moon and the Nodes must be incorporated in the interpretation as well as Venus. Stressful aspects between Black Moon Lilith and Mars, the planet that most clearly expresses the masculine power, may indicate that a woman's independence and confidence is threatened or met with opposition by men. Her own inner male is not strong. Women who have hard aspects from Black Moon Lilith to the Moon or in the 5th may have problems with pregnancy or childbirth, possible miscarriage, unwanted pregnancy, or a fear of motherhood. Often times transiting Black Moon Lilith can bring back feelings of emotional pain, but only if it is in the area where you have compromised your primal nature. Lilith forces us to look at ourselves with utter naked EMOTIONAL honesty. (Kristin)
LILITH DISCOVERY CHARTAsteroid Lilith (Original Lilith) 7.18 Leo Rx (1181) - Appears as 'Lilit'
Dark Moon Lilith 22.10 Cap (h58) - Appears as 'Walde'
True BML 6.29 Virgo (h13) - Appears as
OSC.L - EA uses this one
Mean BML 27.35 Virgo (Lilith under Additional Objects) - Appears as Crescent on a cross
Thanks so much.
So on astrodienst I chose Lilith in the asteroids, then also typed in 1181, h13, and h58 on additional objects and I have the asteroid which is the crescent moon on a cross conjunct my ascendent in the 12th then osc. lilith aslo conjunct my ascendent but in the 1st, then 1181 shows up as lilith but is at 11 libra conjunct my uranus in 1st and then waldermath is in the 12th conjunct my south node..... so I have 4 different things.... but should there only be three?
Ok so I see Dark moon is waldermath, I see osc. Lilith is black moon, then there is an asteroid with the crescent moon on a cross and 1181 which shows up as lilith as well. What is the difference between the last two?
Hi Sunyata,
The reason that you have four items is because you are displaying:
Asteroid Lilith (shows up in astro.com as "1181")
Dark Moon Lilith (shows up in astro.com as "Waldemath")
True Black Moon Lilith (shows up in astro.com as "Oscillating Lilith")
Mean Black Moon Lilith (shows up in astro.com as Crescent on a Cross)
In EA we use true locations of points vs. their mean locations. To get rid of Mean Black Moon in your charts on astro.com, just enter the 1181, h13, and h58, and do not choose "Lilith" in the list. Then you will have the three that are used in EA.
God bless,
Jason
Thanks, Jason.
"Lilith is the octave transformer for Mars and Pluto! It serves as a bridge between the lower octave of Mars and the higher octave of Pluto."
Can you explain how this works or clarify this in whatever way you can? How do we use Lilith as a bridge from the actions of Mars as it relates to incorporating the soul intentions of Pluto?
Are there bridges between Venus/Neptune or Mercury/Uranus?
Thanks,
Sunyata
Wow, so glad to have complete clarification of the different Lilith's. I have read about it many times, without gaining real understanding.
Thank you Sunyata for picking up where we left off and Linda for clearly posting how EA uses Lilith.
Blessings,
Wendy
Quote from: Sunyata on Mar 27, 2013, 08:05 PM
"Lilith is the octave transformer for Mars and Pluto! It serves as a bridge between the lower octave of Mars and the higher octave of Pluto."
Can you explain how this works or clarify this in whatever way you can? How do we use Lilith as a bridge from the actions of Mars as it relates to incorporating the soul intentions of Pluto?
Are there bridges between Venus/Neptune or Mercury/Uranus?
Thanks,
Sunyata
Hi Sunyata and Wendy,
The Asteroids act as octave transformers because they dwell BETWEEN the inner-conscious-rational-leftbrain-personal planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars) and the outer transpersonal-unconscious-rightbrain-spiritual planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), and therefore are seen as "transformers in the archetypal circuitry" by raising lower octave vibrations to a higher octave.
The role of the Asteroids are to re-awaken the FEMININE energy so that individuals and thus the collective become more whole. The incorporation of the conscious with the depths of the unconscious requires FEMININE perception, focus, insight, awareness, sensitivity, intuition, imagination, therefore the Asteroids form this necessary "bridge."
A shift is occurring between the thinking-rational processes and becoming more in tune with the emotions. Individuals cannot give to the Collective a wholeness that they do not yet possess, therefore the Feminine needs to be fostered and nurtured in the evolution of consciousness as we come out of patriarchal conditioning to rectify the imbalance between masculine and feminine.
LOWER OCTAVE
Mercury
Venus
Mars |
OCTAVE TRANSFORMER
Pallas (feminine creative energy birthing new ideas)
Juno (sacred marriage, emotional truth)
Lilith (wisdom of the natural world, natural expression) |
HIGHER OCTAVE
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto |
PERSONAL DESIRE TO ACT FOR THE COLLECTIVE INTEREST
Mercurial mind inspired and transformed by Uranian illuminations.
Venus values and feelings raised by Neptunian compassion.
Mars personal desires acting for Plutonian individual/collective evolution. |
Love,
Linda
Hi Linda, Sunyata and Wendy,
Linda beautiful lay out of the octave transformers..and wonderful explanation.
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I wanted to offer something here to with respect to Lilith. We know that there are different planets that rule the chakras, but these Asteroid Goddesses can also be seen ruling each chakra.
Original Lilith rules the ROOT chakra as she is the undistorted natural feminine, the unconditioned wild woman, independent, totally aligned with natural law, full unto herself. She is your primal feminine ROOT, and the Original Lilith placement for a woman reflects HOW YOU WERE DESIGNED BY GOD/DESS. In a man's chart the Original Lilith placement would reflect a man's ideal image of a woman or how he most naturally actualizes the feminine within.
The Resolution Lilith, otherwise known as the Black Moon (not to be confused with the Dark Moon which is where we have all gotten off course via our distortions), the Black Moon symbolized by the Crescent Moon and cross below and most often seen in Solar Fire, symbolizes the way we get back to our ORIGINAL ROOT, hence the word Resolution. The Resolution Lilith lights the way back to our true feminine self, she shows you HOW to get back home to your unwavering center.
Working with this Lilith trinity is a powerful exercise when you weave it into the Pluto paradigm, especially considering that Lilith is the octave transformer between Pluto and Mars. Once any Soul uncovers and remembers HOW they were originally design, the Mars piece can be adjusted, as in choices made, that can now facilitate evolution. It works like a tuning fork, when any Soul is in harmony with their pure self, the weight of whatever has been collected will start flying off.
Hope this helps,
Peace,
Kristin
Wonderful information. Thanks so much Linda and Kristin.
Sunyata
Hi Linda and Kristin,
Thanks so much for posting this information! I'm excited to finally memorize the different Lilith's. They are very prominent in my chart, so very glad to harness their influence in my soul and evolutionary pattern.
Linda can you change the yellow color to something darker? I'm having a hard time reading it. Also Kristin, is Original Lilith #1181?
Thank you and Blessings,
Wendy
ASTRO.COM
Asteroid Lilith (Original Lilith): 1181 - Appears as 'Lilit'
Dark Moon Lilith: h58, 'Waldermath' - Appears as 'Walde'
"True" Black Moon Lilith (Resolution Lilith): h13 - Appears as OSC.L (EA uses this one)
"Mean" Black Moon Lilith: 'Lilith' under Additional Objects - Appears as white crescent on a cross
SOLAR FIRE GOLD:
Asteroid Lilith (Original Lilith) - Chart Options > Extra Ring Points > Asteroid.pte > Edit > Choose Lilith 1181 from Available Points > Add > Save > Select > Appears as Lilith
Dark Moon Lilith (Waltemath) - Chart Options > Extra Ring Points > Jaynehyp.pte > Edit > Choose Dark Moon W'mat2 DkM from Available Points > Add > Save > Select > Appears as DkM
Black Moon Lilith (Resolution Lilith) - Preferences > Edit Settings > Select "True Apogee" > Appears as black moon above a cross
Regarding the Eclipse of May 10th that falls at 19'31" Taurus, it will be opposing the asteroid Psyche which is at 19'09" rx in Scorpio. I dont know if anyone uses Psyche and Eros (Cupid) in their chart analysis but I found it to be an amazing myth to read .... if anyone has worked with Psyche and wants to elaborate on its meaning that would be great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche
"In the Gnostic text On the Origin of the World, the first rose is created from the blood of Psyche when she loses her virginity to Cupid"
-wikipedia
Hi Sunyata,
I checked out the Wikipedia article, but it's the end of the week and I didn't have the stamina to digest it all wholesale. If someone knows about Psyche maybe they could post a brief description...?
Anyway it'll be interesting to observe... Psyche is exactly conjunct SN Mars and close conj to NN Moon (in Scorpio) opposite the Eclipse conj Pallas, Mercury and SN Moon, and Mars (all in Taurus). So not a clear isolated manifestation of it, but it's part of the mix in the Eclipse event.
blessings Upasika
Hi Upasika and Sunyata,
Demetra George spoke on the Sacred Marriage at our last EA conference and included discussions on Psyche, Vesta and Juno . I highly recommend whoever is interested in these asteroids download her talk. It is for sale on the site here.
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Psyche = greek meaning of the word SOUL.
In the myth this represents the search for the soul mate union, under the auspices of divine union/energy.
Psyche was the most beautiful mortal, people would flock to her. This made Venus jealous so she sends her son Eros with his bow and arrow to prick her while she is sleeping and cast a spell so that she will fall in love with a monster. Instead he is SO captivated by her beauty, he pricks himself and falls in love with her. In their heavenly castle he comes to her at night. Psyche holds a candle and a dagger in case it is the monster. The situation dissolves because she does not trust him, she doubts him and Psyche is sent back to Earth tattered and in rags, pregnant and alone and looking for Eros. She was then sent to Aphrodite in her desperate attempt to find Eros. She is told in order to be re-united with Eros she was to fulfill a series of tests and trials, each test more impossible than the next, even involving a descent into the underworld -tests that were setting her up to fail. However to everyone's surprise, especially Aphrodite, she succeeds and she is transformed by the Gods into a Goddess and is allowed to marry Eros.
From my observations through synastry it can connect to the Soul mate connection between two people and also that potentially as in the myth that many trials would have to be overcome in order to be together. Via the myth, this is a theme of the pursuit of love against all odds. It also represents the power of desire/love and when this energy is channeled in such a way, what a Soul can overcome.
In a natal chart, this connects to Souls, depending of course the stage of evolution, with penetrating ability to connect and to understand others with a greater depth, carrying a psychic sense of sorts. For example Jeffrey Green has Psyche in Virgo in the 10th, a SOULWORKER for the sick, he used his psychic lens to help others heal and evolve, those that did not have the capacity to see these things for themselves. He helped the emotionally, psychologically and physically sick, Virgo, via SOUL counseling. It can represent someone who is deeply involved in Soul work of any kind.
If this Psyche is conjunct Venus in someone's chart, If following the myth this would be someone where finding true love and the one true soul mate can be in high focus. If the Psyche/Venus conjunction is making supportive aspects perhaps that soul mate is found. Also I could see this being a symbol for doing deep Soul work together in the world.
As it relates to the transit of Psyche during the New Moon Eclipse, this would certainly reflect pushing the Soul limits for growth, beyond the well of limitation. The opposition represents an opportunity to throw off something from the past that is getting in the way of evolution. Also it could bring those soul mate connections and the growth of the connection into tight focus, to confront-Scorpio and to eliminate all things that are delaying evolution for the couple if that is in question.
Each individual signature is different of course but in general Psyche is about the SOUL and what may be necessary to endure, as witnessed in the myth, in order to fulfill the desires and evolutionary intentions of the Soul.
Peace,
Kristin
Thank you Kristin, very helpful.
Hi Upasika,
Also I meant to share, I do not know your chart, so do not know what house this occurs in for you, but obviously with Psyche on your North Node in Scorpio, Ea is an ideal path forward for you, a Soul intended path forward, a future also as a Soul (Psyche) Worker. Obviously this is not a new path for you as this conjuncts your South Node of Mars so you are bringing many desires forward along these lines, to continue what has been initiated in other times. I too have Psyche conjunct my North Node but it is in Gemini in the 11th, house of astrology. Like all the asteroids, they work well to validate what can already be seen in the chart.
Peace,
Kristin
Hey Kristin and Upasika,
Thank you Kristin for the interpretation and information. My Psyche is in Gemini 5' as well in the 9th opposing a stellium in the 3rd and exactly square Eros in Pisces 5' in the 6th which is conjunct Pallas.... Transiting Neptune is now on that Eros.... long story, I used to paint then stopped ....started again....( this actually coincided with the North Node transiting over my stelluim...so 18 years in between) and an entirely new painting style has emerged for me in the past 6 months and as I was laying down to fall asleep one night, an incredibly clear image of a tree nymph appeared in my head.... i drew a quick sketch and painted it shortly after.... another painting I am working on is of a nymph bathing in a spring.... In my mind are all sorts of ideas for stylistic paintings of nymphs and goddesses. As I sit in nature which I have been able to do recently more than at any other period in my life and hear the words "the kingdom of heaven is within you and all around you" (Gospel of Thomas) as I sit in front of a river or surrounded by the magnificence of the forest and watch nature interact with its self ...... ive had some profound experiences is all I can say... I have been fascinated with ancient greek religion and especially the idea of spirits living in nature...dryads, naiads etc.... personified via nymphs and feminine spirits...that nature is alive......that it will communicate with you ...
Anyway I know this isn't the place to share my life story but thank you for listening and thank you for all the work everyone is doing here with EA.
Hi Kristin,
Thanks for sharing. But I think you misunderstood my post ... I was speaking of the mundane situation regarding Psyche at the moment of the eclipse. Like both Sunyata and you I also have Psyche in Gemini(!) but for me it's in the 2nd. But all you have shared is very interesting anyway, and (along with Sunyata) it's now got me going with Psyche - another asteroid on board, slowly getting to know more of them bit by bit.
Your painting sounds very creative and healing Sunyata...
blessings Upasika
Hi Upasika and Sunyata,
My apologies I thought that was your own signature. Yes another asteroid on board, it sure continues to add more layers of understanding, especially when the spirit of these asteroids can be reflected so vividly in our lives.
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Thanks for sharing your personal experience Sunyata..so very inspiring..what a sweet evolution and unfolding, it sounds like a true return of your artistic nature..in nature..there is a vast universe in us all..'the kingdom of heaven is within you'...indeed..
Peace,
kristin
I was reading through the old message boards and saw this about Psyche
Psyche
(Q): In synastry, when the natal asteroid Psyche of two individuals conjuncts each other's moon, could this indicate some soul affinity like same soul, or some sort of ongoing soul relationship simply suggesting a deeply intuitive and compassionate understanding of one another's soul composition, perhaps due to travelling many harrowing journeys together in the past to the underworld of life and bake again, like Psyche did because of her love for Eros? That the deep loyalty and commitment born of this abiding love of one Soul to another will always sustain in the end, no matter what? And through the process, through intense desire scenarios played out through one another, supports one another with their evolutionary process?
(A): It does not necessarily mean that they are the same soul, although it could. Yes, to the rest of it. A lot depends on the sign of the psych/moon, and house, aspects to it, but in general, the answer is yes. There is a nice Italian word for it: simpatico.
I was hoping someone could explain this exact situation except for the natal Psyche of two individuals being opposed to each others moons rather than conjunct.
Thanks,
Sunyata
Quote from: Kristin on Mar 29, 2013, 12:24 PM
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I wanted to offer something here to with respect to Lilith. We know that there are different planets that rule the chakras, but these Asteroid Goddesses can also be seen ruling each chakra.
Original Lilith rules the ROOT chakra as she is the undistorted natural feminine, the unconditioned wild woman, independent, totally aligned with natural law, full unto herself. She is your primal feminine ROOT, and the Original Lilith placement for a woman reflects HOW YOU WERE DESIGNED BY GOD/DESS. In a man's chart the Original Lilith placement would reflect a man's ideal image of a woman or how he most naturally actualizes the feminine within.
The Resolution Lilith, otherwise known as the Black Moon (not to be confused with the Dark Moon which is where we have all gotten off course via our distortions), the Black Moon symbolized by the Crescent Moon and cross below and most often seen in Solar Fire, symbolizes the way we get back to our ORIGINAL ROOT, hence the word Resolution. The Resolution Lilith lights the way back to our true feminine self, she shows you HOW to get back home to your unwavering center.
Working with this Lilith trinity is a powerful exercise when you weave it into the Pluto paradigm, especially considering that Lilith is the octave transformer between Pluto and Mars. Once any Soul uncovers and remembers HOW they were originally design, the Mars piece can be adjusted, as in choices made, that can now facilitate evolution. It works like a tuning fork, when any Soul is in harmony with their pure self, the weight of whatever has been collected will start flying off.
Hope this helps,
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Kristin, Rad,
Kristin, thank you so much for this precious information. I have been searching for more information on the original lilith/asteroid 1181 and what you wrote is really valuable.
I have some questions regarding chakra/asteroid Goddesses correlation and how to work with the original lilith and resolution lilith (h13).
About the chakras, from what you wrote in this thread, i find, if i am correct:
Lilith - Root Chakra
Amazone - 3rd Chakra
Pallas Athena - Crown Chakra
Could you provide more information on the remaining Goddesses/Chakras? This is really interesting and i never heard/read about it. Would love to know more if you or Rad can share, also about how do you see women can actively work from their own nature root developing the original chakra signature as made by God/dess, specially at this collective evolutionary juncture.
(one thing i notice is, lilith asteroid in Libra is going to be in tight square to the transiting nodal axis in first months of 2019).
You also talk about how the resolution Lilith works as way to get back to original Root.
Can we look at the resolution/black moon lilith as a facilitator, kind of like the same way a nodal ruler is to the node/Pluto, in this case, to the original Lilith? The way the original Lilith is reached/actualised is seen through the development of the house/sign/aspects of black moon?
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Helena,
My studies have morphed a bit with respect to understanding Lilith so I will share how they have evolved and why.
I only use Asteroid Lilith now in chart interpretations.
There are three known Liliths:
The Asteroid Lilith, The Dark Moon Lilith, and the Black Moon Lilith, which has made working with this archetype confusing over time. However, a trinity of three different symbols to chart out the progression of the feminine journey throughout time is not necessary for The Trinity can be seen in any one signature - The Original, Distorted, as well as Resolution.
The Asteroid Lilith known as the Original Lilith, is an actual physical body orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and whose transit is a 4-5 year cycle.
The other two points that have been studied and written about, most commonly the Black Moon Lilith and the less understood Dark Moon Lilith. The Dark Moon is said to be the Earth's second Moon by those who have claimed to see it over the last four centuries; and Black Moon Lilith, is an abstract, geometrical point in space, where by a true and mean Node exists. These points can vary to up to twenty degrees which can change one's Black Moon Lilith by house and sign.
After many years of research and working with all three of these symbols, I returned to the original teachings of JWG, looking solely at the Asteroid Lilith herself, as she is the only actual physical body. According to JWG, there is no basis in physical reality of the other two points, as they are mere projections in space, so to minimize confusion, the intent is to 'deal with what's real'.
It is also taught in EA that the trinity can be seen within any one symbol. In an attempt to simplify and offer clarity, I observe Original Lilith in her triple form. All three of these manifestations can be reflected in one signature, just as every archetype has a light and a shadow, your original and pure design is also subjected to a swing of extremity, with its purest vibration in place or its diluted distortion, as well as the way to resolution.
In terms of the Goddess Asteroids that rule the chakras:
1 Root Asteroid Lilith
2 Sacral Vesta/ Sacred Sexuality
3 Solar Plexus Amazon/ Warrior
4 Heart Tara / Goddess of Compassion
Tara states she will continue to come back to Earth until all Souls are enlightened. There are Souls who are also really drawn to MARY for the Heart, so I have worked with both.
5 Throat Pallas Athene/ The Messenger
6 Ajna Sun/Moon - Integration of masculine and feminine
7 Crown Neptune
BY the time you reach the crown, you are out of body, one with God/GODDESS
A note about Pallas Athene -
Pallas Athene, known as the MESSENGER, rules the throat chakra, for she is the Goddess of Wisdom and Justice. Demetra George considers her the most important Goddess for modern women. As the patriarchy kicked in, all of our Greek Goddesses were demoted and demeaned, respectable women were locked behind the walls of their own home. Pallas Athene represents a woman who has the FREEDOM to walk in the world as an equal to a man.
She had to pay a dear price for this privilege, a denial of her femininity and denied of having children, she is the Virgin Goddess. The myths had her deny she ever had a mother at all. She had to repudiate the feminine in order to enter the masculine world. (This will well be reflected in a woman's chart who works in a corporate world and walks around wearing men's suits.) She is strong, cool, detached, powerful and a VIRGIN (remember the movie the Virgin Queen with Cate Blanchett about Queen Elizabeth)
She is so smart, men have to acknowledge her intelligence. Notice the image I attached with all the men at her feet.
In the myths, she has the power to awaken kundalini. The procreative urge of sexual energy becomes polarized to release the mental creative impulse. Instead of moving through the genital organs, the energy is moved up through the spinal canal and out through the top of the head, giving birth to creative, artistic expression.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Enjoy diving in..
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
First, thank you so much for taking the time to answer and share the way that you did. It's really a fascinating topic for me and i will dive in :) as you say and see what comes up.
The chakra image that you posted is one of the most beautiful and inspiring i have ever seen..
Thank you,
Helena
Kristin,
That was so well explained. I want to compliment you on your prowess. Thank you, this is so useful.
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Stacie
Kristin, thanks for this fresh way of understanding Lilith. DDD
Helena and all,
You wrote:
"one thing i notice is, lilith asteroid in Libra is going to be in tight square to the transiting nodal axis in first months of 2019."
We look to REPEATING THEMES to uncover trends for what the Soul is experiencing personally as well as collectively. With the transiting nodes now in Cancer and Capricorn, even in the political sphere in the US they are calling this the year of the woman, due to so many women are dethroning men and winning political seats.
Cancer and Capricorn connects to gender, and with transiting Lilith in Libra squaring the Nodes, this directly reflects the need to establish more gender equality and balance.
The first two weeks of Feb 2019, Mars in Aries will be opposing Lilith in Libra while together they will square the Nodes in Cancer and Capricorn. This is sure to bring these gender themes surrounding control and dominance (and women fighting back) to the forefront, among other things.
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What I would encourage you all to do in order to work to recover more of your own feminine strength and root, is to locate Asteroid Lilith (1181) and through house, sign and aspects you will be able to see your root feminine nature, the distortions that have occurred to due patriarchal influences as well as a way back to you, all through one symbol.
This would also apply to a man in terms of his own experience with the feminine along his Soul's journey, Asteroid Lilith representing his ideal image of a woman, how that image became distorted as well as how the feminine energies are expressed within himself.
Peace,
Kristin
One more VITAL point I missed in my earlier post.
Another reason to only use Asteroid Lilith in EA versus the other two points, is that LILITH has NODES. Your natal Lilith has Nodes.
Today transiting NN SN
16 Nov 2018 | 6 libra 7 14 sa 28 10 cn 23 |
I will follow up with more on the Nodes of Lilith when I am able.
~Kristin
I am attaching a higher resolution Goddess Chakra image that an EA friend drew.
~Kristin
Hi All,
I am following up with some more content on Lilith as well as a simple understanding of the Nodes of Lilith.
ORIGINAL LILITH
We all have imprinted within us the original, undistorted female image, which is defined by the natal placement of Asteroid Lilith by house, sign and aspects, This correlates in the current life to what our underlying ideal image is of a woman, where we feel free to express our most uninhibited, natural, wild self.
When you are actualizing your natural design, you are integrated from your root, your Soul's center of gravity. When you move from this center, you feel in perfect harmony with yourself. You are naturally tapping into the central source of your personal feminine power.
It is taught in EA that the trinity can be seen within any one symbol: past, present, and the future. Apply this natural principle to Lilith we can correlate this with the Original, Distorted as well as the Resolution reflected in any one signature. One can observe how these three expressions of Lilith play out when reflecting upon the three layers at the root chakra. Along with the three natural planetary rulerships of the root chakra, Pluto, Uranus and Saturn, in EA, we have given Lilith rulership of the root chakra in terms of the original female design: it's archetype. She is the root of the woman, the trunk of the female tree and of the feminine nature where all the branches emanate.
The Original, Distorted and Resolution Lilith is also reflected within the planets that rule the three layers of the root: Pluto, your pure original archetype of Lilith, Saturn, the distorted or repressed feminine, and Uranus representing the woman's liberation from all that has limited full and natural expression of the original archetype of the feminine. It it that Uranian component that simply rebels and revolts against the majority, in order to promote necessary change as well as serving to awaken the consciousness of the herd state via her vibration and actualization of the natural feminine within her.
Lilith Has Nodes
The Nodes of the Asteroid Lilith symbolize how this Lilith has been expressed in the past, including its run ins with the repression of the patriarchy and the intention for this expression moving forward. The South Node for example correlates to the history (herstory) of how the power of the feminine was expressed or likely repressed, along with the consequences of what came about linked with being a woman in the world. It connects to the memories of the past that live in the cells of your being that have influenced your inner orientation to the current life being lived.
The North Node of Lilith connects to the evolutionary progression of the power of the feminine and the intentions set out by your Soul to expand upon, to deepen and develop this natural feminine impulse. The natal Lilith not only symbolizes a woman's original female design, within this signature represents how the dynamic tension of the past and the future is pulling on the Soul in every moment.
Let's take this simple example:
Asteroid Lilith in Aries/1st House
Original
She storms out of the womb with her feet on fire, ready to take on the world. She works fast and feeds off of the speed of the desires that burn deep within her. She is passionately charged and as with all fire signs, she comes into this life with a special sense of destiny, in many cases to raise the bar for women, and to balance the scales of gender, seen in the cardinal axis that she shares with Cancer, Capricorn and Libra. She is a natural leader, born with all the qualities to motivate and inspire others where they naturally want to follow her. At times they may not even know why they are following her, but they feed off of her brave tenacity and on the heels and the heat of her pursuits.
In her most natural form, she is a warrior who needs full freedom to express what is emanating from her root, without limitation or restriction, a woman who needs to be in charge of her freedom, to follow her instinct wherever it leads. Being a cardinal sign, she has the fiery spirit of initiation and the courage to take just about anything on. She has a fierce edge to her nature; nothing can stop her once she is up and running. But because the cardinal reflects something new, the energy is inevitably coupled with an insecurity of not knowing where it will lead. In addition, an inherent responsibility exists within this cardinal axis, each cardinal sign shouldering the burden of whatever has been set in motion, in this case with Aries square to Capricorn. She will be the first one out of the tent when there is danger lurking.
Aries can have blind spots as they are moving so fast on the freeway of life. They may miss what is going on at the back wings of their flight if their full focus is always fast and forward, seen in the square to Capricorn.
The relationships she will attract will have a strong sense of adventure and she must feel that they are always moving forward in life, ever growing and experiencing all the world has to offer. She will also wish to be challenged to be all she can be and the energy of the other must know what she is made of so he or she can support and keep up with this kind of movement.
Distorted
Flight or fight. If someone tries to control or limit her, she'll be gone. If she is forced to deny her nature and repress her instinct, the energy can turn into anger and rage, along with resentment that builds due to the square to Capricorn, especially anger at the very culture or system that limits her. When her buttons get pushed, she can be known to turn and burn in relationships. She will attract partners who meet some of her needs, not all of her needs in order to guarantee an exit point.
With Mars ruling Aries and the lower octave of Pluto, the distorted form of Aries in this context could translate into the woman with a dagger in her boot, for she has so much inner rage at all that went wrong, most often the rage directed at the patriarchal male in general, that she ends of going after her closest target.
Resolution
Once the wrapping of Saturn linked with conditioning is removed, she will need to be in charge of her freedom, she will need to follow what darts up from the deep, and not question its origin, but to trust what is needed for her Soul's next steps in all the ways that Aries is naturally expressed. She will will lead in overt or quieter ways but she will lead nevertheless, even if she didn't ask for that role. At the very least, she will lead by example.
SOUTH NODE of Lilith in the 3rd House/Gemini
In the past leading up to the current life, she will have had a highly restless nature. Considering the patriarchy has been in place for thousands of years, she would have been running and hiding from her nature seen with the natural square to Pisces. She may also have had lives where she ran away from her own family or culture of origin in search of her natural tribe. Always running, always searching, yet never finding.
NORTH NODE of Lilith in the 9th House/Sagittarius
Her Soul is in search of recovering the whole versus all the working parts and will come to depend on her intuitive knowing of who she is and follow that arrow of honesty. She will progressively fall into step with what she knows to be true and her body will be her guide for she will learn again that "the body does not lie."
This would be a life where she funnels all of the experiences and information gleaned from the past and channels them into a work of truths to live by. She will remember that there is nothing more powerful than being in step with your own natural rhythm, and as she becomes aligned within herself, she will teach others to do the same.
Because of her travels, should would have a natural teaching capacity and be ability to help others find their own way back home to their nature. She will have a gypsy or bohemian spirit and because she is inspired by experiencing the full spectrum of the whole, she will be attracted to all walks of life from all cultures around the world. She will not only be drawn to explore the vast reaches of who she, she will be led to reach and teach not just locally but globally.
Ultimately, she will live by example and with the mantra, Truth at all costs, for she knows there is no going back, nor would she ever want to. The horizon is all she sees!
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Let me know if anyone would like to go deeper and work on a Lilith thread.
Peace & Evolution,
Kristin
Hi Kristin and All,
a Lilith thread would be much appreciated, so you can count me in. Hope it can go forward.
The energy is strongly pointing that way for all women and personally that would also be very synchronistic as i am going through strong "root" transits - transiting SN about to be exact conjunct natal lilith and trine SN lilith, with natal SN lilith conjunct jupiter, and natal lilith conjunct moon that are then square moon's nodes, so talking about recovery time for sure.
In the spirit of your previous posts, and given that pallas is currently conjunct Lilith, i ended up going back to Demetra George and particularly enjoyed her chapter on the Soul Work of Pallas Athena, i quote:
"The Soul work for the Pallas Athene woman is to recover her lost feminine origins; "to see her not as a goddess who has renounced her femininity, but as one who teaches us to recognise courage and vulnerability, creativity and receptivity, as equal feminine qualities".
This so fits the present energy of powerful women like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her natal lilith is conjunct NN lilith at 1/7 Sag.! This is a women who ruined a pair of shoes campaigning, so she did it with her own feet on the ground and, looking from the outside, very much rooted in herself, her own creativity, her own intelligence, not neglecting her beauty and femininity and not afraid to look vulnerable just because she was facing an immense job. And that was her strength, such an example!
In my view, after dwelling on it, i would say this slow recovery work is first, and pretty much in essence, a call for women to stop fixing what is not wrong in themselves and put on the shoes for their own sake. And since undistorted female energy is naturally giving, that will be very positively manifested outside, in the right away and atmosphere. It think this is a pretty crucial step. To locate any inner (or outer) "something is wrong with me" when it isn't, because that would be exactly locating that saturnian conditioning and stepping away, detaching. What i think it then starts to happen naturally has a consequence of that is an opportunity to tap in an immense creative place within themselves that is incorruptible, maybe lilith herself.
Although, i am drawn to feel every woman's root will tend to harmonize/integrate in a very personal/unique way all of the Goddesses/chakras in the essence of this same root, will you say so?
Also Kristin, i wonder where do you see ceres and juno fit, or don't fit at all, with Lilith and the original female root? Is it because they were the mother and the wife, so implicating the existence of an external other, not exclusively the process of integrating inner female/male within the self?
Thank you as always for your time and wisdom,
Helena
Hi Kristin,
Thanks for taking the time to share and post your excellent examples of the original Lilath, and it's Nodal Axis. I truly hope that the proposed thread you asked others about can truly happen because it can be so helpful for both men and women to understand exactly what the original feminine archetypes are, and how to unlock those original soul fingerprints.
And thanks too to Helena for her thoughts about this, and the relevant questions she is asking.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Everyone,
I would like to participate in this thread...
I would also at some point when I'm ready like to share my own Lilith story and how I started to heal myself from deep patriarchal distortion and the resulting victimization I have felt in this life with the supporting EA behind the story.
Thank you,
Heather
Hi Helena,
This is an ideal time to be diving in and working on your Lilith root. It is no coincidence that when you posted on Pallas and Lilith, these two Goddess Asteroids were conjunct.
Many years ago, when I was developing material for a workshop on the 7 natural roots of women, Evolution of the Goddess, I consulted with JWG and Demetra and they both felt that we are limited with using Greek mythology as symbols of the natural roots of women due to the patriarchal stories that pervade these myths.
I was in search for the Goddess ruler of the HEART chakra. I explored many different asteroids here, including Juno. But if you know the story of Juno, the asteroid for devotion and union, she was married to Jupiter who would tie her to a bed post while he was out gallivanting with other women. This obviously speaks directly to the submissive woman and the furthest thing from an equal.
Lilith was considered to be Adam's first consort, pre-Eve, but she refused to be submissive to a man, refused to lie beneath him in any way. So she rebelled and flew into the night in a rage never to return. She represents this original feminine root, wild, alluring and yes, even rebellious if anyone tries to get in her natural way or tries to mess with her need for equality. In her original nature, one thing she would never do is apologize for how she was created. That is what I call a natural woman!
So, I agree, for women to start by fixing what is not wrong in themselves.
This is seen in the Virgo/Pisces axis and the Garden of Eden Myth.
After Lilith's fllee, Eve is created from the rib of Adam, a patriarchal creation. She is made to feel guilty because of Adam's choice to eat the forbidden fruit. Adam says, "If you weren't so desirable, I wouldn't have sinned." Women have been made to feel responsible for man's spiritual downfall and feel they must be punished.
Adam feels guilty for eating the forbidden fruit and blames Eve for her erotic pull and this guilt turns into anger. The Sado/Masochistic loop lives on and will continue until the conditioned guilt is expunged and women allow themselves to celebrate the power of what patriarchal men have felt so threatened by and in so many cases destroyed.
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Lilith has many faces, so in working on Lilith and the Nodes to uncover the root feminine nature of the Soul in question, you are free to weave in other asteroids as they become prominent, such as Ceres or Pallas stories, and speak to their influence.
Peace,
Kristin
P.S.
Awesome about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Lilith, can we get a time on her?
See attached..one of my favorite images of Obama when he was running.
He literally wore out the bottom of his shoes as well.
Hi Heather,
Great...and welcome.
I would like to focus on developing the archetypes first and using examples as you do so as in the houses, signs and aspects before using personal examples.
However, at some point it may be fruitful for those participating in this thread to share a personal experience with the intent to encourage others along their way.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Everyone,
Ok thank you Kristin for teaching us all here...
Heather
This is very awesome, Kristin! Your insights & this idea for a new thread
It's so funny because the other day after I read what you had posted...I needed to really digest & internalize it...
&...with much going on within my life....turns out Lillith is just past an exact return in my chart
Also balsamic conjunction with mercury, give a degree...then will be with Pluto, too
and...
These three oppose Pallas Athene...
Very much incredible timing!
I sure hope that you do this new thread.....
Thanks!
Hi Kristin, Rad, Heather and All,
Kristin, is always such an immense moment of clarity to read your words. Thank you, really.
This that you wrote, "one thing she would never do is apologize for how she was created. That is what I call a natural woman!", is very important to remember because i think most women that have not abandon the desire to be true to themselves have it at their core but in a very exhausted soul.
And yes, you are wright of course, seeing it as it is there certainly is no coincidence to Pallas, as my natal pallas is conjunct saturn (ruling that lilith), both retrograde in leo, so again more to tap in, as in every woman and every soul's story we have this Goddesses walking along with us no matter what... one just got love astrology as a supreme teacher on natural law :-)
Looking forward to continue to learn from all you have been teaching us.
It is really funny the Obama picture you posted! I don't have the birth time for Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, just the birth date, October 13 1989.
Rad, also thank you very much for your words. I completely agree with you about this being important for women as much as for men. I think that if all souls will have this male/female imprint throughout their evolution, raising consciousness is as much as recovering divinity for both male and female archetypes, instead of a polarised discourse. Even though female souls are the ones that most seem to feel this emergency of course, i hope this new neptune in capricorn generation will start to blend it in, as they are already starting to do form what i see.
Heather, so nice to hear from you! Nerissa, great to hear from you too. :-)
Best to All,
Helena
If I'm not mistaken: it's interesting to note that, the south node of lillith is hanging out with Pluto's north node - lillith's past being crucial to pluto's future (to put in simple generic terms) - not surprisingly being in Cancer, the moon, the feminine
Also that the range of Lillith's north node, in Sag., is conjunct a certain generations Neptune!
It is clearly time to recover the spiritual, natural root and nature of this archetype
Welcome Nerissa and Hello again Helena and Heather,
It is wonderful to feel the feminine charge.
Yes, Nerissa, It is crucial for Pluto's future, for women to recover their wholeness and to access a raw strength to be who they are no matter what. Is is essential now to return this planet to a semblance of balance. Remembering also that the North Nodes of Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter are all in CANCER.
This thread is not just for women however, men are welcome as well. We will also be discussing Lilith and how she represent a man's IDEAL image of a woman, as well as how the distortions have impacted his journey.
Let me know if anyone else is interested in participating.
We will start simple on Sunday.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone,
Kristin
Hi Kristin and All,
Just wish to leave a link to a very interesting author whose work lies exploring mythology and archetypal symbolism, always with a keen insight. I found this article by chance in the sequence browsing my old bookmarks and another article by this author, and is quite synchronistic of our present discussion from the point of view of recovering the masculine, with a refreshing view on the transiting nodes with a healing perspective.
For anyone interested here it is the link
https://symbolreader.net/2018/07/27/transcending-toxic-masculinity/
All the Best,
Helena
Hi Kristin and all, I will be following along on the MB. This is a particularly busy time for me so I don't know how much time I can spend on contributing to the subject but I will do my best. Thank you for the discussion on this important asteroid. Love to all. DDD
Hello Helena, Heather, and Nerissa, (and I invite anyone else who would like to jump in)
We will start simple by expanding upon the Asteroid Lilith in Aries or in the 1st House archetype, looking at her nature ~ Original, Distorted and Resolution.
Please work to develop this trinity in your own words and understanding of this archetype.
I am re-posting what I wrote and I am adding a bit on her sexuality but that can be developed as well.
LILITH in ARIES/1st House
She storms out of the womb with her feet on fire, ready to take on the world. She works fast and feeds off of the speed of the desires that burn deep within her. She is passionately charged and as with all fire signs, she comes into this life with a special sense of destiny, in many cases to raise the bar for women, and to balance the scales of gender, seen in the cardinal axis that she shares with Cancer, Capricorn and Libra. She is a natural leader, born with all the qualities to motivate and inspire others where they naturally want to follow her. At times they may not even know why they are following her, but they feed off of her brave tenacity and on the heels and the heat of her pursuits.
In her most natural form, she is a warrior who needs full freedom to express what is emanating from her root, without limitation or restriction, a woman who needs to be in charge of her freedom, to follow her instinct wherever it leads. Being a cardinal sign, she has the fiery spirit of initiation and the courage to take just about anything on. She has a fierce edge to her nature; nothing can stop her once she is up and running. But because the cardinal reflects something new, the energy is inevitably coupled with an insecurity of not knowing where it will lead. In addition, an inherent responsibility exists within this cardinal axis, each cardinal sign shouldering the burden of whatever has been set in motion, in this case with Aries square to Capricorn. She will be the first one out of the tent when there is danger lurking.
Aries can have blind spots as they are moving so fast on the freeway of life. They may miss what is going on at the back wings of their flight if their full focus is always fast and forward, seen in the square to Capricorn.
The relationships she will attract will have a strong sense of adventure and she must feel that they are always moving forward in life, ever growing and experiencing all the world has to offer. She will also wish to be challenged to be all she can be and the energy of the other must know what she is made of so he or she can support and keep up with this kind of movement.
Sexual Nature
Her Sexual nature is to be number one, with the desire to initiate gestures of love, attention and affection, and she is most often the one who will initiate the 'ultimate act'. Within this, she is a Soul who prefers being 'on top' (this would also be true for one with Lilith in the 10th or in Capricorn), allowing her to be in a position to direct the rhythm at her will. The Aries archetype alone will enjoy experiencing the feeling of the sexual surge as she comes to know more about who she is in those physical bursts. There does not need to be any kind of attachment or committed relationship in order for her to step into that space with another for it is all about the new, the uninhibited and the freedom to explore places she has never been.
Distorted
Flight or fight. If someone tries to control or limit her, she'll be gone. If she is forced to deny her nature and repress her instinct, the energy can turn into anger and rage, along with resentment that builds due to the square to Capricorn, especially anger at the very culture or system that limits her. When her buttons get pushed, she can be known to turn and burn in relationships. She will attract partners who meet some of her needs, not all of her needs in order to guarantee an exit point.
With Mars ruling Aries and the lower octave of Pluto, the distorted form of Aries in this context could translate into the woman with a dagger in her boot, for she has so much inner rage at all that went wrong, most often the rage directed at the patriarchal male in general, that she ends of going after her closest target.
Resolution
Once the wrapping of Saturn linked with conditioning is removed, she will need to be in charge of her freedom, she will need to follow what darts up from the deep, and not question its origin, but to trust what is needed for her Soul's next steps in all the ways that Aries is naturally expressed. She will will lead in overt or quieter ways but she will lead nevertheless, even if she didn't ask for that role. At the very least, she will lead by example
It's time to unravel the repression,
With passion and peace,
Kristin
Hi Kristen,
I will endeavor to keep up with this thread as I can...but with Uranus back in aries my Uranus/Uranus opposition strikes back ;)
Today, I thought I'd have to say I could not participate due to lack of internet, much less electricity...but: for now, looks like I'll have both
It's hard to add to what you've already posted!
But as I was thinking of relating to the symbols....really occurred to me I'm not sure I have the original archetype fully fleshed out within my mind.
I certainly understand the distorted!....but, the original archetype seems so utterly buried, repressed that it seems that it is so foreign to anything almost remotely what we'd call 'feminine' in many ways that it's hard to even speak of it
It could be I am confusing things.
Lillith, if it is the original feminine - would seem to be, in a way, a symbol of synthesis & wholeness - the opposites united and brought forth....it would not be 'just' feminine...but the totality of male/female.
It's a bit confusing, then, in a way - to me anyway: because female is the 'opposite' of male and yet the primordial feminine births BOTH...
What we assign to either/or male/female in the primordial feminine contains it all.
Maybe I am confusing Lillith with a more greater Goddess archetype...?
So, when I think of Lillith in Aries or 1st house: I think of, in it's natural state, a real merging of the male/female sexual principles and drives....the instinctive desire nature would be intense, but broad ( because of the Mars/masculine qualities of Aries/1st) And the instinctive drive to right action would be aligned with the protective instinct...again the feminine in natural state within the Aries function...
I won't say more for now....thinking I am not seeing the 'original' archetype clearly...?
Thank you!
Hi Nerissa,
YES. Being that Aries is cardinal/yang, and thus naturally masculine, Lilith in Aries/1st house is a Soul who will naturally emanate masculine within the feminine. Lilith in Aries/1st house is part of the cardinal combination where gender assignment exists in Cancer and Capricorn and that need for BALANCE of both is reflected in the Libra archetype. A Soul who is naturally male and female would apply here with respect to the ORIGINAL Lilith in Aries/1st house. In her original form, yes, she is equally masculine and feminine.
Nice addition.
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You wrote
I certainly understand the distorted!....but, the original archetype seems so utterly buried, repressed that it seems that it is so foreign to anything almost remotely what we'd call 'feminine' in many ways that it's hard to even speak of it
Perhaps you can share more on the distorted and thus the resolution.
Take your time to feel through this progression.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Ladies,
I agree with Nerissa in that I wrote a thorough example of the Original Lilith in Aries/1st (see last post on previous page) but if there is anything you wish to add, please do. There is always more along these lines, especially in each of your own experience of this archetype. I do not want to limit you. ;)
Please work to develop more of the distorted and resolution. How does she make her return?
An extremely distorted manifestation of Lilith in Aries/1st is exemplified in the Swedish film, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", where the lead character Lisbeth stops at nothing to seek the ultimate blood curdling revenge of her accusers and abusers, "What is hidden in snow, comes forth in the thaw." In her case, she had to take things into her own hands, she had to access all that was within her not only to experience justice, but to stay alive. Of course this could also be a Lilith In Scorpio/8th.
Let me know if you have any questions,
Kristin
For Some INSPIRATION
Halo Ladies,
Let me know how you are progressing on your post and what your timeline is for submission. This can be kept to simple themes.
Thanks loads,
Kristin
Hi Kristin, Heather and Nerissa,
this is indeed passionate work, although a lot to embrace :) but i'm almost finishing i think, so i would be able to post shortly.
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Everyone,
Lilith in Aries/1st house:
Lilith in Aries comes into the world wanting to be free she wants ultimate freedom she comes into life wanting to ride the wind merge with the wild run with the wolves. She is independent willing to try anything at least once and doesn't need others to go first. She naturally has both genders never seeing any limitation because she was born a female she always does what all the guys do to. This is the kind of girl who rides motorcycles and who raced around in a mustang 5.0 and jumped on snowboards with the boys when she was young. She scaled the sides of mountains using only the roots and cracks to get to the top and whenever someone told her she couldn't do something she did it anyway, she doesn't see anything as a limitation, She is bold and brave and a natural leader as well a natural protector of others.
Lilith Aries Distortion:
The distorted form of Lilith in Aries comes into life with a lot of unresolved anger and possibly even rage and as Kristin shared in a very distorted version of Lilith in the movie The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo she comes in wanting justice in the form of revenge. In a sence Lilith distorted energy leads one into feeling repressed thwarted held down blocked and this can be seen through the square between Aries and Capricorn or 1st to the 10th house she can also project this back onto others as a need to control her environment and others. Repressed held down and blocked through society the patriarchy the men in her world or her father or family of birth, through the distortion of Aries we tend to want to project anger at others or attack others. From my own experience with this energy and from what I understand through my own struggles with the distorted form of Aries one can come off to others as combative pushy and confrontational and this is especially painful when one does not desire to come off this way to others and truly loves all. Through the distortion Lilith comes into life possibly pulling in situations and relations with others where she may experience attacking or being attacked. I personally know this to be true as I was born to an Aries sun sign father who was abusive to me as well as over half the long term relationships I had with men had sun sign in Aries. I know how painful the life lessons are that we pull in with the distorted form of this energy as I have personally struggled with this energy my whole life with others and with in myself, one of those relationships I pulled in was so abusive that I honestly don't know how I made it out alive. To go through life with a distroted Aries archetype is to struggle to understand human existence and what it means to be a social being, Libra. When we are distorted through Aries we may not fit in we dont relate to others well we are kind of like a social outcast of our own making. When Lilith is in Aries in distorted form I feel her inside me as just kind of wild. Lilith in Aries distortion is kind of a lonely life because we just dont engage others naturally.
Lilith in Aries Resolution:
Lilith in Aries root archetype and Natural recovery is one of a Natural Leader, she was born to lead the way and to naturally lead the way she will need Libra as her anchor. With Libra as our anchor we come to understand that we are all equal to each other and that no person is more or less important than the next and through Libra as her anchor Lilith in Aries naturally wants to do what she does for the benefit of others. To be a natural leader of others makes me think of the Aries archetype in a very instinctual way Aries doesnt really think or plan Aries just naturally moves instinctually lives life. The way to naturally lead is one where we do things to encurage others or help them along their own path. The way I have come to understand this is through working with animals and especially dogs its like a mother wolf with her pups on her first outing with them outside the den. She naturally just leads you will not see her slowing up to much or stopping to much for her little pack she kind of just does her own thing she doesnt put emphasis on showing care as to what the pups are doing behind her and they naturally dont want to be left behind so they follow and when it naturally comes to a time when a pup gets a little hung up on a log or doesnt want to cross a little stream she naturally comes to nudged them along always helping but not controlling or doing it for them but encouraging them to do it for themselves and only rescuing when a pup really needs to be. In working with animals and especially dogs is how I started to understand myself and others much more and about this natural animal energy in us that I link to the Aries archetype. You know when you watch the dogs play they are quite physical with each other body checking and bumping and biting and as humans we all have these same qualities in each of us at least this is my observation and yet in human form we are learning that we probably dont want to body check a stranger at the store and that physical harm or anger or violence projected at others is not the best way forward. Lilith in Aries uses fierce diplomacy peace and love to lead the way in human form yet Lilith will also know when she naturally must step in as Peace is the only way but not Peace at all cost. Lilith in Aries in resollution is naturally fierce and she will stand up for whats right and she will fight against the Patriarchy. She naturally wants equality and the best use of her anger is towards the courage to fight for Libras natural justice for truth and equality.
Thank You,
Heather
Hi Kristin, Heather, Nerissa and Everyone,
I would agree with what Nerissa has mentioned. To dive into the origins of the original female archetypes will be as much a process of remembering as a journey to myth and imagination.
To keep an honest view on what the archetypes really represent today one has to first admit that most of it has been lost/repressed and only creativity will get us back in touch with the truth of our original natures.
In that way, i have applied this premises to my participation on the thread, which turns to diving into the natural archetypes with much curiosity, few answers and the only certainty that natural females are not perfect but flesh and bone women.
LILITH IN ARIES/1ST HOUSE
Original
Pure soul fire, she embodies Lilith's most primal instincts. Aware of the separation, she comes to find that the deepest parts of her own essence, the most pure and raw parts of herself, are exactly and only that - her own. When she looks at the world, she will know to be on her own to find who she is, what she wants, what moves her, what roads to take and not to take. There are few role models to look at and she will not be looking for approval. Her innate femaleness would be about how unique she is, and how different and independent she is from everyone else around her. Is she alone?
In a world made to tell her what to do, made to own her and expecting her to fit in, she is particularly and unusually wired to say no. The energy she carries inside is specially needed. She is brave, courageous and explorer by nature, a loner if that's what it takes, but not lonely. She will be curious and passionate about her world and the next adventure waiting to happen. In her pure original female root, this is what makes her special - she is brave to stand by herself honouring who she really is, the natural matter real leaders are made of. Whenever a soul starts alone standing firmly grounded in itself, vibration of truth fills the air and others sit up and take notice. This lilith is just that. Even if if she does not know how exactly to do it or what will follow, just by connecting to her root, the strength within her soul will inspire others.
If she finds herself in a dark room this strength will come out. In emergency, her pure instinct will be to advance in the dark until she finds the door or a way out. A door she will leave open for the ones that stayed. It is who she is and how God/dess made her. Insecurity can come at times with cardinal/aries but she fights insecurity with action. When she does it, she is proud of who she is and her strength unquestionable.
Can we we forget this is a mars, yang, feminine essence? This is the female that comes defying all concepts of femininity linked with any form of confinement. It is essential for her to show traits not exactly fitting any of the patriarchal models for the female or, better say, specially not fitting any of them. She has come to life with a well integrated maleness. She owned it and could never hide it. It is who she is. It has come up with the need to start anew, stand for herself, take action, speak her mind, loud if needed, run wild, naked and free. This is an independent woman. Free from any judgments, boxes, ideas or expectations of what a woman should be. This woman's essence is not static, it unfolds as she evolves, what is constant is the desire to do so at any moment.
We cannot also forget, through the natural sextiles to gemini and aquarius, and the trines to leo and sagittarius, that her strong creativity comes as much in taking action, as in inspired thinking. This is a very intelligent woman, thoughts arriving are naturally different/original, she can constantly reach new information, and with her mars nature she can act on it. From the root of her own self, very strong, creative women are born.
In an intimate relationship, this woman will reject any connection where she would be forced to do anything she does not want to do, be diminished in any way, or her desires not honoured and respected. She will value honesty and independence in a partner as much as she values it in herself. She feels that there is something very special about her and she is passionate to share and discover that sense of uniqueness. Sexuality is a very special way (i would say crucial) she can most feel/free/express her natural self and show others how to free/experience what is unique about themselves too.
Sexual preferences will be adjusted to the moment, the person she is with, what she would like to experiment, with no limits to what that should be as long as there is strong, intense, physical sensation. I agree with Kristin that in sexual contact this is a woman that needs as much to feel in control (she is instinctively aware of her needs and how to meet them) as she needs not to feel she is being controlled or restricted in any way. Mostly, mars wants what it wants when it wants it, and if she finds a partner that can adjust to that she is a happy woman, if not she will keep going and experience what life brings along, just being herself.
Monogamy is not exactly a concept fitting her nature, she will live life having as many sexual experiences as she desires, and passionately doing so. With a partner, she needs to find a way to experience and reinvent herself on daily basis, with and because of the interaction in the relationship. Secrets, lies, attachements and manipulation would put her off as this is a woman naturally open and honest about the nature of her desires. Instinct and desire being the necessary condition to initiate sexual contact.
With the cardinal challenges, she could face crisis when it comes to balancing her desire for strong physical contact and sensation, independence, and how she really feels about others in her life.
In essence, how much is she willing to give to the other and give up of her own freedom whenever commitment and real emotional intimacy come up? How can this reach a state of inner balance and equality in relationship?
This natural side of lilith won't fit any pre-existing structure. When she accesses her heart she re-invents herself and the structure of relationship.
Distorted/ Resolution
This is the Amazon woman, the female warrior. From her own center she can create and destroy.
In the best of all worlds, amidst the patriarchal darkness, she would have the anger to destroy all that's unnatural and the passion to create anew from what is, the ideal expression of the grand fire trine.
From a more universal perspective there is a why to her choice of incarnating the warrior. Repeated denied access to her freedom can make her forget it and forget that her personal fight is yet not that personal. She is not alone, she shares it with every other woman and every other soul that stands for the true. That maybe sometimes she just happens to be the one God/dess has called to be on the frontline. When she acts on exclusive behalf of herself she is forgetting all of this, all other souls, she is forgetting her true nature, she is forgetting her own Divinity. Who she is, is born out the will to build better, to star new foundations, create a new world. I get the sense that her soul has been through so much that this time she just wishes to leave the past behind.
It seems that the truth about her is that this a woman that can fight but she no longer wants to. Anger is born when this inner desire meets the realities of a made up world.
From the squares to cancer/capricorn, anger build up can start in the family of origin, evolve to work where she is undervalued, to tension in the family she starts and all crisis therein. At some point, distorted lilith in aries can live through women who lost all perspective not knowing what they stand for anymore, felling just anger and resentment. In extreme situations this can turn into a snowball of revenge and destruction.
Sexual abuse can also be in the origins of her most deep felt anger. One of the most difficult situations to recover and resolve, would be for this woman to internalise any projected guilt for her naturally strong sexual energy. This is seen not only in the square to capricorn but the inconjunct to virgo (and scorpio). This will be one of most important things this woman should never try to fix or feel ashamed of because it is not wrong. It is an absolute essential part of her original self, as it is the understanding that they cannot fix other's projections and judgements, so the best fight is to keep their integrity and strength intact within themselves and applied constructively to their reality. That's when others will follow her example and from the strength she emanates, also able to renew their own lives.
I would like to know your opinions on this, but of the charts i have seen with Lilith in Aries, it is unquestionable how strong inside these women are. It is a strength and inner freedom that no one could deny, it is felt all around them. Even when this is a woman who's life was spent home dedicated to the family, she has done it in her own way and everything would appear to naturally turn around her. It is in my view, the direct effect of taking charge of their lives no matter what the situation they are in. The strength in their souls seems to have the answer for the resolution itself, it only requires that they pick themselves from the ground and, strangely or not, that would be their femaleness calling them, the part in them that wants to live, to care, to give life and create. Is that part that they will call with the mars fire.
If i'm not mistaken, i've seen the charts of two notorious women who's aries lilith shines well for us to see. One is the writer Joan Didion, the other is artist Miranda July. i will leave some interesting examples of Miranda July's work bellow.
Hi All,
Just wish to add an example of what distorted Lilith in Aries can be in real life, a case i had forgotten but applying very well here.
This is a case of a woman with so much anger that this anger has been progressively destroying the all family, of husband and two boys and anyone that gets too near. The husband is a positive example of the capricorn archetype, a capricorn himself, taking responsibility, leading by example in a loving way. He has been mother and father. At some point in their lives the eldest son started to be confrontational at school and with the mother. The father was able to take the boy to psychology meetings and at some point also both parents went. After the meeting, the psychologist met only with the father to tell him that the wife was, if i can translate it well to english, in "live flesh". No skin. Wherever she is touched there is a live wound and she reacts aggressively at minimum approach, with no known reason, she has always been a bit like this, evolving to worst and refusing to heal herself. There seems to be nothing the family can do for her. Progressively everyone is leaving her, emotionally and physically.
Unfortunately a very sad story, still not resolved, but nonetheless seemed appropriate to mention in the understanding of the distortions of the archetype.
All the best,
Helena
Hello Heather, Helena & Nerissa,
First of all, I just wanted to share how incredible it is to feel the sincerity of your desire to unearth the feminine roots that have been so buried over time. I feel an inner joy growing whenever efforts are made to redeem her. This starts with understanding how she is wired in every way as well as seeing the distortions clearly so she can heal.
Together you have all filled in more of the Lilith in Aries/1st House story and made it feel more WHOLE. As you allow yourself to fall into those crevices, you will always be able to recover more.
I will follow with feedback,
Thank you all for taking the time to develop this thread....SHE thanks you!
So well done,
Kristin
Hi Heather,
I loved in particular how you weaved in her connection to the wolves. She is a wild child, a wild woman and she is built and born to run with the wolves and to ride full bore on the wild stallion; unbridled, naked and free.
You wrote:
She is willing to try anything just once..
Never needs others to go first.
SO TRUE...in fact she WANTS to go first.
You also wrote "whenever someone told her she couldn't do something, she did it anyway"
Telling a Lilith in the 1st/Aries she can't do something, makes her want to do it even more. This can get a teen into fast trouble with her parents. :D
In the distortion section when you used the analogy of your Aries abusive father. Remember that you were dealing with a patriarchal male which would have had layers and levels of this archetype that would play out differently than in a woman. In an earlier post I spoke about the Garden of Eden Myth, Eve's guilt that led to the need to repent, and Adam's guilt that lead to rage. The sadist in the man and the masochist in the woman. While there are women that are also sadistic in their anger, the experience you had as a child and his treatment of you reflects this dynamic of how this repressed rage manifests in a man who has that kind of control over a woman and/or children in some cases. I realize you were just letting us know you felt Aries in full but just wanted to make sure you were clear.
Lilith in Aries distorted and her rage is directly linked with the control and domination of the patriarchy and the injustices that occurred. She has no desire to dominate and punish in this way, especially those that are weak. Her rage is directly targeted at that patriarchal male and how they have taken advantage of the women.
The Amazons/Lilith in Aries of our time were known to take on armies of men, and prevail, all to protect their tribe and their children. They would lay their life on the line for their families, seen in the square to Cancer.
In your Resolution, again I loved your mother wolf examples and how they encourage their cubs to do it for themselves..spot on.
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Lilith in the 1st/Aries - they do naturally LEAD by EXAMPLE!
Great work,
Kristin
Greetings Helena,
I can understand the feeling of needing to work around and through those layers that have kept us from our natures. Women have become numb to their truth and it can be a challenge to hear the sound of the drum, the heartbeat that is calling us home.
Thank you for be willing to dig.
You wrote:
She cannot be told what to do.
Yes, this choice must always come from within her. Her movements and her choices must be born out of her instinctual being.
I agree fully as well that is in her own natural vibration that others in her midst benefit. It is the vibration that emanates from her root, the very strength of her Soul, that inspires others to have the courage to do the same.
I really loved this.
She fights insecurity with action. SO TRUE! Action is how she LEARNS.
The insecurity is seen in the cardinal archetype but also in the natural square to Cancer. In Aries this insecurity exists because they are initiating something new and not sure what they will find.
You wrote
One of the most difficult situations to recover and resolve, would be for this woman to internalize any projected guilt for her naturally strong sexual energy. This is seen not only in the square to Capricorn but the inconjunct to Virgo (and Scorpio). This will be one of most important things this woman should never try to fix or feel ashamed of because it is not wrong.
Excellent addition and ever so true as well. This very piece and the learned guilt she carries will need to be expunged in order to access her full freedom again.
In your added post about the family you know. This is a classic example of how dangerous anger can be when its repressed and when all the negative emotions connected with anger are held onto, such as resentment. Her anger has literally festered for so long that it has burned away even the Capricorn skin that is in place to protect her.
I absolutely loved that you shared some example of Lilith in the 1st/Aries. What an image of that little girl Miranda. This is so Aries/Cancer.
You have filled in more of the gaps, very well done Helena,
Kristin
Hi Heather,
Yes, that makes perfect sense.
That IS why you called in that father...both sides of that coin.
And now you can help others understand the WHY to their realities. Ea is amazing.
Good growth girl,
Kristin
Hi Nerissa,
Just wanted to check in to see if you were working further on the 1st House/Aries distorted and resolution of Lilith before I share anything more.
Let me know,
Thanks,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
thank you so much for your warm encouragement and for giving back so much more to take in.
I agree this is a time and a topic calling people to access their inner light. I was approaching this subject with some friends aside from astrology, and whenever this comes up everyone has its own story and inner knowledge. One of this friends life project is trying to create a school with new teaching that respects and encourages children's individuality, it turns out she has lilith in sagittarius! We already know this stuff but one can never end with amazement!
I really like the example of Miranda July's work too, it is part of an interactive exhibition where everyone is invited to step on these pedestals, how cool is that for lilith aries to put others on a pedestal? ;D
Thank you again,
Helena
Hello All,
Another wonderful example of Lilith in the 1st/Aries House, is singer/song writer Sarah Mclachlan who was the founder of LILITH FAIR Tour ~ a Celebration of Women in music. She spearheaded an all female musical artist festival bringing 2 million people together to raise money for battered women.
Sarah's Moon is in Capricorn in the 2nd house and squares a South Node (of the Moon) in Libra in the 10th and the North Node in Aries in the 4th. Notice the strong cardinal axis here and her desire to balance the scales of gender and justice.
Her natal Asteroid Lilith is in the 1st House in Sagittarius, so we must combine this archetype with Aries.
Her Strong Sagittarian influence is seen with her 9th House Pluto, Sagittarius rising and Lilith in Sagittarius in the 1st House. Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, is in Virgo and also in the 9th house. Sarah spent six months in the woods alone writing her breakthrough album that soared internationally as well, called
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. Her lyrics in this album are about Love and Loss, Death and Rebirth.
Mclachlan's South Node of Lilith is in Taurus (Music) in the 5th so she brings her music to the stage in a far reaching way. Her North Node of Lilith is 1 Capricorn which is exactly conjunct her VENUS, the ruler of her South Node of the Moon in Libra as well as the South Node of her Asteroid Lilith in Taurus.
An example here of some of her lyrics....
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
All the fear has left me now
I'm not frightened anymore
It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh
It's my mouth that pushes out this breath
And if I shed a tear I won't cage it
I won't fear love
And if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear love
Peace,
Kristin
Thanks for waiting for me, Kristin and all of you...
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Original, natural root expression:
Her inherent drive is naturally male/female, she does not judge or question what she is, a natural expression that does not stop to reflect on any limitations: whatever she is, there is no judgment, but the pure freedom of her natural drive to exist, and her right to express herself (regardless of social norms or expectations), that is yoked to a greater goal, a goal and purpose that is not merely ego-driven but the pure action of who she innately is (on all levels: emotional, mental, physical)that she knows, consciously, instinctively or on faith, that she is the pure expression of Source.
This is rooted in the recognition that she, as all beings, have the right to live, to be the creatures of God/dess. She expresses this purely in her thoughts, feelings, words, actions. She, most importantly, uses her instinct to create harmony versus divisiveness, sex to unite versus power/domination, she uses her natural gifts including leadership to PROTECT others: she protects their right to act, speak, live and express themselves fully and accepts other's rights as though they are her own. She protects others as though they are herself. Without a mission of deeper purpose for her gifts and drives she would be rootless.
Distortion:
Whether male or female, there is rage against the strictures of society, the limits on their freedom, anger at any perceived judgment upon them. They are ego-driven, without a root purpose, fearful of separation from any meaning or relatedness - which is compensated by egomania.
They will maneuver however they can into positions of power to feel secure and validated within their ego. They will use anger, manipulation to control others. They use sex as power - withholding, or even celibate - depending on the co-dependant nature of the relationships they are within (if any). They hold that 'might is right'. They cannot relate to others, or listen...the deeper in their own self-justified anger they become the more they will justify the absolute worst, in themselves & others.
Both sexes can exhibit misogyny. Both genders can be enraged with others of their own gender, or the opposite, who do not conform to the social norms. This is a compensation for their own anger and not feeling they can freely express their own individuality and sexuality.
They are the epitome of an ego without an anchor.
Resolution:
Recognition of the actual source of who she is, faith in that which creates the intrinsic instinctual nature of her consciousness, to ultimately rediscover that root. In doing so, being capable of owning to her own actions, divisiveness and lack of empathy - taking responsibility, not allowing herself to be a victim. Within that, she will open up to true relatedness - on every level.
She will have a deeper goal, a purpose. She will live her right to exist, and that right is rooted in her natural RELATIONSHIP to all that is - the greatest good is learning to use her spirit, inventiveness, inexhaustible energy and drive to protect that very spark and spirit that she understands is within everyone, not just herself.
Her sexual energy is open and playful. She is not childish, but childlike. She no longer weaponizes her gifts. She gives as much as she receives. She can use her sexual energy to diffuse tense, or even potentially violent situations, and emotions. She gives without judgment or expectation, understanding her own intrinsic connection to the whole, being emotionally rooted within it.
She is a true spiritual warrior: just as the ancient myths of Amazons, to Arjuna, Joan of Arc, and Ghandi....
(a fair amount of correlation pulled in the grand cross: libra, cancer, capricorn...)
Also: I wanted to say how much I agree with the Lisbeth Salander character! I had only just recently reread the books: I have not watched the movie. But, heck yeah - she is lillith in a rage, though 'justified'...lillith in an Aries rage without much self-reflection...but she did do much of what she did to protect others...so they could not abuse others. At the end of the novels: she is very much humbled by so many people who helped her, that genuinely cared, that believed her - and put their lives on the line. That went totally against her 'on my own' Aries mentality...she had to open up and let them in (libra/cancer)..and realize she may have doubted and misjudged so many (capricorn)
She is a great character!
Thanks again Kristin and all who have posted: amazing to read all your thoughts & insights. Was hard to add to what is already awesome :) !
Hi Kristin, Heather, Nerissa,
So beautiful all this learning and sharing, thank you all!
Kristin, thank you for posting this. I'm not very familiar with this singer but all you shared from her is just amazing. What was very insightful for me in seeing this example is the shift from the energy from the sign to the house. Sagittarius expressed through Aries, seems to make the aries energy more impersonal for lilith. Mars not so much ruling her root but her drive, and it is interesting how this ends up in the need to be alone in the woods to create from the depth of her inner truth above all fear, insecurity and external conditioning. That culminating in a gift so much larger then herself.
One thing i would like to ask, since you mention the nodes, from what i have seen, are lilith's nodes for anyone alive at this moment always in between this signs?,
South Node - Taurus, Gemini, Cancer
North Node - Sagittarius, Capricorn
Thanks again,
Helena
HI Nerissa,
Thank you for your wonderful contribution.
The process of feeling into the archetypes and reflecting upon them further deepens our understanding.
Each of you have your own unique lens and way of inwardly experiencing this archetype, so all 3 of you have added onto what I shared and thus added onto the whole.
"in her natural form you said there is no judgment..yes a natural woman never judges or apologizes for whose she is..especially a 1st house Aries."
and when this is distorted, she harshly judges herself and the way she was created BECAUSE of being severely judged by cultural conditioning.
Also, you wrote
She, most importantly, uses her instinct to create harmony versus divisiveness, sex to unite versus power/domination, she uses her natural gifts including leadership to PROTECT others: she protects their right to act, speak, live and express themselves fully and accepts other's rights as though they are her own.
YES
I would also add that the sex is to unite but also to EXPERIENCE, remember she is learning about herself through the adventure of the newness. She does like to dominate but it is a natural domination, not to abuse but to be in control, thus her desire to be 'on top.'
In her natural form, She is a fierce protector through her leadership and by being on the front lines and she is also well aware that her role is no more important than anyone else. Shaman is the same as the corn picker.
In your section on the distortion, I loved your tag line
They are the epitome of an ego without an anchor. Excellent metaphor.
In addition, Lilith in the 1st/Aries can be very selfish when this is distorted and anger is ignited and make their own pain more important than another's. There is a need to embrace the polarity in Libra here.
RESOLUTION
You wrote
being capable of owning to her own actions, divisiveness and lack of empathy - taking responsibility, not allowing herself to be a victim. Within that, she will open up to true relatedness - on every level.
Yes, in the Resolution of Lilith in the 1st/Aries, the Soul is learning to take RESPONSIBILITY for whatever they set in motion versus setting it on fire mid stride, and making other's needs equal to her own in relationships, and in commitments of any kind. The key here is FOLLOW THROUGH, all the way.
Great Job working with remaining remnants that are so key to this archetype,
Kristin
Hi Helena,
One thing i would like to ask, since you mention the nodes, from what i have seen, are lilith's nodes for anyone alive at this moment always in between this signs?,
South Node - Taurus, Gemini, Cancer
North Node - Sagittarius, Capricorn
Great Question..
Yes, this is a generational evolutionary thing. It takes more than one to accomplish the intent to return to a state of balance again. These nodes in most cases will be in a different house. In addition, by looking to the ruler of the nodes by house, sign and aspect, this will give it further context and personal meaning.
We must remember too the different evolutionary states.
The Nodes of asteroids and planets moves at different rates than the Nodes of the Moon. The Moon moves swiftly and it never goes retrograde which accounts for some of this.
Obviously one size will not fit all if you see the same Nodes for two Souls born near one another. The entire chart must be taken into consideration to dial in on the specific Soul story.
Peace,
Kristin
Thanks Kristin for your feedback! Couple things you pointed out clicked for me, and made clear some things that seemed elusive to my mind
More I think on it, seems this Aries/1st placement for lillith could be one of the more tough placements. The sense of one's intrinsic nature being 'wrong' or denied and subverted would be so intense for these people.
And, until recently, so much of the Aries archetype has been a fairly lopsided 'male/masculine' energy - a masculine energy that is cut off from the feminine & distorted. For too long women were told that they couldn't do things: whether because women supposedly couldn't (getting an education or having artistic ability), or that it wasn't 'feminine' or womanly.
Bhaskara,
Thank you so much for your lovely and kind words :)
so...I keep thinking about this archetype!
And how perfect it is to generate a deep sense of a lack of being accepted for who one innately is in this reality at this time (well, for awhile).....
Thinking how much more appropriate it is to relate male/female to the idea of yin/yang instead. There is no gender assignment in the latter. And there is no doubt there is meaningful difference between the human expressions of sexual gender & body function...but, Aries: it is what it is no matter what it is, it will be that & expect to be accepted.
Anything less is traumatizing
But..what I was really thinking about is how - for women- we've made so many strides, because, on the whole, we are united...women can be in combat, play sports...and still be 'women', still have babies, families etc. I think of Danica Patrick - she's a race car driver, but otherwise a total fashionista clotheshorse!
When it comes to men, though....? I've spoken with a few, intelligent and 'enlightened' men but even so, they find it very very hard to come outside the gender assignment.
I will point out that wanting to dress nice, in pretty colors, fabrics, wear makeup, and be emotionally sensitive & open does not mean you're not male!!
A man can be a man and still be, & do & feel all of those things....and be a man...and quite possibly the same man who goes & rescues a family from a fire, or is a hero on the battlefield....they are not mutually exclusive
They accept women can be fluid in gender assignment - but they simply cannot accept that with their own gender... They acknowledge what I say, but they also have no idea how to move forward....
History shows men have enjoyed all the fashion, accessory circumstances that are now only accorded to women (in the west): jewelry, adornments in general, expressive clothing: or the 16th century: men in wigs, lace and heels, etc.
I don't know: just been thinking about this in regards to the Lillith/Aries archetype.
Not sure how men are going to be able to move forward unless they do embrace & make a relationship to the inner feminine...
Thanks!
Hi Everyone,
Kristin, thank you for reaching back on the nodes. From an evolutionary perspective i hope we can at some point approach this more deeply, as to why this signs and the overall meaning for the generations, hope we can get on that.
Also been loving your discussion, Heather and Nerissa. Well, from my point of view it all comes at how far each soul has been, relative to experimenting with gender switch, and what it feels like to be in each gender, what the conditioning really feels like. Otherwise, from a long time, is just an effect of social and patriarchal expectations as to how one should behave in their own gender, from the outside. But also, from my own experience, it does not necessarily mean that a man with an already developed feminine side (in appearance and expression, regardless of sexual orientation) already feels at ease/expresses that side when it comes to intimacy. That would be also another world within a world in my view. Or, that a man showing no feminine traits isn't very caring, gentle and openly showing emotions in more intimate contact. I think it comes down to what's really going on inside and how "safe" one truly feels in the outer world and inner world, and how that can translate in harmony or not. That going for male and female of course. Don't know if you agree on this...
I would also completely agree with Heather about what you said, Nerissa, on the trauma that aries goes through by not being accepted for what it is...That is the bottom line, but there is always the possibility for aries to break free, the other expression of Aquarius and with the sextile, aries gets it instinctively ant takes to action. Even if that is anger, is breaking some patterns. The solution is probably to apply that anger to built something for itself, like in the example of Sarah Mclachlan Kristin shared :-)
Looking forward to continue,
Helena
P.S. About how men deal with anger in a positive way, i leave an excerpt of singer Gregory Porter interview about racism, one of the most beautiful, honourable expressions in the life of a great soul,
"My personality is to absorb an experience, let it live in me. I've been treated like I was a piece of s---, but my protest and anger and pain has come out sometimes as beautiful songs." He cites Our Love from his 2012 album, Be Good. "Walking in New York with my lady, minding our own business, enjoying a beautiful day, somebody walked past us and said 'that's a weird couple. She white, he black, he big, she little.' I could have turned around and shown my anger but I let it stir inside. And I wrote a song about how the love we have is bigger than petty stones thrown at the gates of our castle. So when I see thousands of people singing that at a show, the slight has been conquered.
"It's personal to me - I took that insult and I bought my house with that. I've been called n----- a thousand times, but I've turned it into my son's college education. I feel righteous. And I feel lucky."
Hi all,
I wanted to add something in response to something Nerissa wrote.
At the end of her post she spoke of weaving in all of the cardinal archetypes:
"a fair amount of correlation pulled in the grand cross: libra, cancer, capricorn"
This is exactly how to understand how this energy operates. This would be true for any of the other cardinal signs as well, including those in the fixed and mutable signs. Within each quality there exists one sign in each element, so you are able to weave in all of the energies that make up the full expression.
For example:
Cardinal - Aries/fire, Cancer/water, Libra/air, Capricorn/earth
Fixed - Taurus/earth, Leo/fire, Scorpio/water, Aquarius/air
Mutable - Gemini/air, Virgo/earth, Sagittarius/fire, Pisces/water
So when you have Lilith within any house of sign you will be working around and through the energies that serve as growth points. Take for example Pluto through the houses and signs. We look to the polarity point for the evolution of that Soul. The polarity symbolizes the furthest stretch and an embodied growth that reflects evolution.
I realize for Lilith in the 1st/Aries, the inconjuncts to Scorpio and Virgo are an even more extreme stretch but in terms of really growing through any one quality ie cardinal, all of the sides of Cardinal must be developed, remembering again in this context, Cardinal is about GENDER, male/female, and integrating both sides until the Soul reaches a more androgynous state of balance seen with Libra.
I remember when I was first watching the EA videos of JWG teaching and a friend of mine came over and asked, "Who is that woman on the screen?" I said, "That, is what you call a natural man." The more evolved the Soul is, the more the Soul has integrated both sides of gender, equally male and female. Of course this Soul has switched genders in many lives as well in order for this to occur. JWG has Venus Rx on the ascendant in Scorpio, Moon in the 4th and Mars on the South Node, and Saturn balsamic to Pluto in the 9th, a natural man, all the cardinal energies reflecting this axis.
Just some further thoughts..
Kristin
Hi Nerissa,
You wrote:
I've spoken with a few, intelligent and 'enlightened' men but even so, they find it very very hard to come outside the gender assignment.
Intelligent men may appear enlightened, but are they actually evolved?
If they were evolved they would be emotionally integrated and secure enough within themselves to allow themselves to be vulnerable. Enlightened and Evolved Souls do not allow themselves to be conditioned.
I have run across many that talk the talk but inwardly, and thus outwardly, do not walk the walk.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Heather,
You wrote:
For men that are like that, like frozen in gender assignment just put a baby animal or a little puppy in there arms and you see there feminine side come right out...
So True...
The reason men and women alike become soft like the tender underbelly of Cancer when they hold a puppy or any animal for that matter is because animals are PURE EMOTION. They do not have an agenda. They are exactly who they are no matter what, wide open and wanting to give and receive love.
So this allows the human to follow suit, to fall into their emotional bodies, naturally.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Helena,
You wrote
I think it comes down to what's really going on inside and how "safe" one truly feels in the outer world and inner world, and how that can translate in harmony or not. That going for male and female of course. Don't know if you agree on this...
Yes, I do agree.
It really does all come back to the CANCER archetype, how SAFE and SECURE anyone feels to either slip into a space of real intimacy as well as to feel safe enough to express their nature in full without fear.
Cancer initiates the WATER TRINITY.
True Intimacy occurs through the emotional door, and it is through this door that two Souls can reach those deeper degrees of connection ~ Cancer , Scorpio, Pisces.
We must feel safe in order to TRUST.
Peace,
Kristin
One more thing.....
The distorted Aries archetype in a woman when she becomes enraged due to being trapped or limited by the patriarchy and told she cannot do something throws her way out of balance, she become reactive versus responsive. The Capricorn/Male energy does indeed dominate, snuffing out the Cancer.
Yogananda taught that, "Anger blots out God."
Think about this relative to the water trinity, Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.
The way to God is via this river of energy.
So as long as she remains angry and reactive, with no channel for release, she will remain separated from her Soul and from her growth and thus separated from God.
~Kristin
P.S.
It is important to remember that anger is natural to consciousness. It is what we do with the anger that becomes the issue. Suppression of the anger is the real killer, because it will inevitably become distorted. It's similar to submerging a beach ball under water. You can only hang onto that ball of emotion for so long before it launches out of the water in some unpredictable way, injuring others in the process.
Hi Kristin and Everyone,
as usual your sharp insight delivers so much i keep having to let it in slowly, with many layers. Thank you, really, for taking the time and energy to naturally empower women with your words and wisdom.
One thing that stood out for me from your latest posts, is to go to the elements to see how this works in the natural world, Fire and Earth. What can be curious from what i understand, is that for instance in ancient Chinese wisdom, these two elements are known to have nourishing qualities for one another, although strong fire usually supports/creates earth, too much earth can deplete fire. The same going for how women with strong fire energy like aries have been depleted by the patriarchal pressure instead of nourished for their qualities. Using this analogy it seems like all the fire has been waisted when these women keep trying to feed/nourish in the wrong place/way, reactive energy as you mention. But i wonder, how can she be responsive in an environment that is not supportive of her? That's where i begin to think that in the root of this lilith, the only way is for her to create a supportive environment first, cancer, positive emotional ground so she can go up to capricorn using aries, the new start for social change. This for me makes a bit of sense, thanks for setting the environment so we can reach better understanding ;-) It has been such a great thread so far with a lot of good synergy.
Many thanks!
Helena
P.S. Kristin, one more thing on the moon/cancer energy. On your last zoom meeting, on the nodal shift to cancer/capricorn, you mentioned things starting to change very quickly with moon ruling the north node and changing signs so fast by transit, and i see that could not be more accurate. To tune into the moon making great evolutionary opportunity.
Hi All,
Before we move to the next step, if Lilith is in the 1st House, she will more likely be in another sign, so this needs to be weaved in. If Lilith is in the 1st house in another sign, remember that the HOUSE comes first. As with Pluto, we always start with the house placement.
Obviously, a Soul who has Lilith in the 1st House in the sign of Aries will carry a double signature. Her desire for freedom can be so total that commitment may be a challenge of any kind. In may be a Soul who does not choose to marry or have a family at all. Her independence comes first. If there is a distorted need for independence, she will be keep everything at an arms distance and not allowing anyone to get too close, for fear she will lose that freedom she is so wired to defend.
In a prior post when sharing about the nature of the sexuality for a Lilith 1st House/Aries, 'there does not need to be any kind of attachment or committed relationship in order for her to step into that space with another for it is all about the new, the uninhibited and the freedom to explore places she has never been.'
When you combine this archetype of Aries with a water sign, the energy substantially changes, as when the Lilith in the 1st House initiates something sexually that is being acted upon instinctually, with Cancer, a shyness can emerge at the same time, a natural innocence that is born out of pure emotion. This can in some cases cause her to pause, resulting in the two steps forward, one step back experience. This would occur in particular if there was a fear of being judged for the wildness that was being expressed. If the Soul was totally in her nature, without patriarchal influence, this would reflect a wide open passionate Soul who was able to reach tremendous depths through her sexual exchanges, as long as there was total trust, as the water trinity is activated in this example. Lilith in the 1st reflects the raw pure physical desire, putting that in a water sign would reflect the capacity to merge on a far deeper plane in partnership. This would also be a Soul where being a mother would be integral to her journey.
Please let know if you have any questions.
We will move to the next step on Wednesday.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi All,
It is useful to remember, because of the nature of this thread, that all forms of life, upon conception, are female. After conception if the new life form is to be a male it then is transformed into that gender within the womb of the female. Within this natural law lies the possibility and reality of female forms of life who are able to reproduce themselves without any external impregnation taking place at all. And, within this, they can generate the males of their species within themselves.
When humans got around to conceiving and Ultimate Source for the Creation, this occuring roughly around 8,000 B.C.E, the first name given to this Ultimate Source was female: Namu. Namu roughly translates into ORIGIN.
God Bless, Rad
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Hi Ladies and All,
So for our next step, we will put the South Node of Asteroid Lilith in Gemini
I left some intentional gaps in this archetype in origin, distortion, and resolution, so you can work to develop them further.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
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The South Node of the Asteroid Lilith symbolizes how the feminine has been expressed in the past, including her run ins with the repression of the patriarchy. The South Node correlates to the history (herstory) of how the power of the feminine was expressed and repressed, along with the consequences of what came about linked with being a woman in the world. It connects to the memories of the past that live in the cells of your being that have influenced your inner orientation to the current life being lived.
South Node of Lilith in Gemini/3rd House
She is a restless Soul with an inexhaustible need for diversity, a Soul who has desired to explore a variety of experiences and circumstances as she comes to know her place in the world within these changing landscapes and morphing realities, each one teaching her more about who she is. Gemini is a mutable archetype, which is one of unrestricted growth and perpetual expansion. She hears an inner call for self-knowledge which manifests as a deep inner restlessness that is fueled by a continuous inner dialogue with herself. These thoughts are induced by exposure to life itself and this helps her answer the question, "Who am I?"
Her restlessness is also a result of boredom for nothing is able to hold her focus for too long. It is this restlessness that motivates her Soul to have new experiences where she collects facts and information to temporarily cling to in order to build a logical structure to explain her relationship to the environment. By knowing the environment, she knows herself. However, she never feels that she knows enough, so out she goes on a hunt for more knowledge and more knowns.
She has an inherent curiosity which has her collecting vast amounts of information with the feeling that each idea or thought that she follows adds onto her in some way, for the more she knows about the world, the more she feels secure and at home within it. She leans heavily on the left brain where she intellectually organizes everything she accumulates, giving names and classification to things in the phenomenal reality in order to give it a world view, which is why words hold so much power.
Inwardly she relates to herself through a reactive process whereby she poses a variety of thought possibilities that lead to outer experiences in her desire to understand herself. By initiating experiences of all kinds, where she is bringing in information from a variety of sources, she inwardly reacts to these thought possibilities in such a way that the action itself produces self knowledge. Thus because we live in a time/space universe that is defined and understood through polarity, this process of expansion must then contract. She learns about herself through cycles of contraction which are induced as a reaction to excessive expansion. "Do I really believe this?" "Do I really need that?" What does this really mean to me?" The contraction also occurs due to the degree of absolute overwhelm from the cycle of expansion and taking in indiscriminate amounts of information. By withdrawing from the deluge of external stimuli, she is able able to weed out what doesn't fit or feel right.
She never idles for too long for her inner center is always moving, each new thought or idea replacing the next so there is no real rooted foundation from which to pull from, only a moving target that is easily replaced with the next new fact or shiny thing that is calling for her attention. Her inner center is a revolving door of intellectual and emotional perspectives and it is the movement itself that becomes her foundation and the freedom to experience this movement is what she needs to feel emotional secure.
She needs to be in relationship with others in part so she can unload all of what she has accumulated and process the pent up mental energy. This interaction with others brings a constant need to adjust her ideas which means more and more facts are needed to explain in more detail the complete picture of who she is and the world she lives in. When she is in a contraction cycle, she can be very reactive in her conversations with others. There will be the tendency to interrupt and not let others finish their sentences or she is not able to finish her own, not allowing for either person to actually hear what the other one is saying. The contraction cycle is experienced as too much water in the cup and an absolute inner resistance to taking in any more information.
In her strength, she has a fast working wit and a keen mind to assimilate many moving parts at once. She is a natural messenger. Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, rules the throat chakra. The Asteroid Goddess Pallas Athene is also given rulership here for she is the Goddess of Wisdom and Justice and respected for her intelligence. In her original state, she has a natural capacity to communicate with all walks of life, animals included, and easily adapts and integrates with whomever she is interfacing with. She could have been a runner between tribes where messages were delivered and diplomatic agreements were reached due to her knack for knowing what others need, serving as a bridge between two worlds. Her ability to see both sides of a situation allows her to find common ground with a foreign force where alternative solutions are gained and agreements are reached seen in the trine to Libra and Aquarius.
Sexuality
She is non-monogamous and open, "˜at least in her mind', to all sexual possibilities. As a result, she may be bi-sexual in nature in order to fulfill her natural need for variety and diversity where both sides of the sexual whole can be experienced. If she is limited to one gender there may always feel to be something unexplored which can lead to that "˜something missing' feeling seen in the square to Virgo.
In her sexual experience, she will want all of the senses to be included as well as all of the erogenous zones covered. The use of hands are key and integral to maximum sensation, along with an attraction to variety of positions as it increases the span of coverage and feeds her need for diversity.
She will have a strong mental orientation to the sexual experience that induces detachment and a feeling of separation from the partner. While this may be important for her to observe herself and the partner in this way in order to learn more about who they are as sexual beings, it can become highly frustrating for it does not allow her to totally fuse emotionally and physically due to being caught too much in her head.
Words hold a great deal of power to unlock her in those intimate spaces as well whether she is the one using them to stoke the sexual fire or she is fueled when her partner uses words to lead her further into a feeling.
Distortions
Considering the patriarchy has been in place for thousands of years, she would have been running and hiding from her nature for fear of consequences or punishments that her natural form of expression would have produced. One way of hiding can occur through idle chit chat or excessive talking about nothing of real importance, anything to distract another from a central seeded truth. There is too much talking and not enough listening. The hiding is seen in the natural square to Pisces and the avoidance of her truth can be seen in the T-square to Virgo/Pisces and the opposition to Sagittarius.
The distorted Gemini archetype can be known to talk over others and not let them get a word in edgewise. She can talk until she turns others off or talk in circles where conversations are started that go no where and that ultimately mean nothing. She will also have a tendency to react to words spoken by others that does not allow her to listen, leading to arguments and confrontations.
When this energy is repressed and thus distorts, the shadowy cast can result in dishonesty and duplicity due to her need for diversity in this world of duality, as she sees both sides of something she wants to explore and does not want to be limited. A curious sexual appetite to explore whatever she wishes is not condoned in a patriarchal reality so these encounters may lead to clandestine affairs seen in the square to Pisces. Bisexual desires can manifest from this need for diversity and in a repressed society this would have had to occur in secret. To cover up or explain herself, lies would have had to be told to protect her from humiliation or in extreme cases exile.
Just like two sides to any coin, she can flip to extremes manifesting as a Jekyll and Hyde split personality, one minute wanting it this way and the next wanting it another way. You may never know what you are going to get at any given moment in time as her energy can shift in unpredictable ways. The extreme swings in her energy are a result of feeling limited to have the full freedom to experience and express the diversity of her desires.
She is a runner and a Soul who always has one foot out the door. She is never able to sit still for too long and she will do anything she can to distance herself from the truth of her own nature. She may have had lives where she ran away from her own family or culture of origin in search of her natural tribe for it would have been highly common to hide within a family that is not remotely cut from her same cloth to ensure her own truth would remain behind lock and key. She is always running, always searching, yet never finding.
Resolution
Her evolution is dependent on developing her intuition as opposed to the intellect so the facts and information that she does collect can take on a deeper meaning and allow her to understand the metaphysical and cosmological laws that are the basis for the facts themselves. This deeper connection to the information will allow her to find the truth of this understanding, so she can experience the actual knowing of anything within herself.
One key way to harness and quiet her mind is is to align with one comprehensive philosophical or metaphysical system so she can give all of those floating thoughts that are flying around a bottom line, allowing her to be able to synthesize all of the content into a more holistic view of understanding and how all the working parts fit into the whole.
She will learn by only expressing a version of herself, there will always be yet another prism to discover,which will forever feed the feeling of being disjointed and scattered. By tailoring her focus within a comprehensive philosophical or spiritual area of study, she will energize a more streamlined approach to everything, including herself, allowing her own parts to merge and become integrated. "Evolution comes when she is able to understand the essential unity of all paths leading to the whole truth."
It is her natural need for diversity that she must come to celebrate again versus allowing it to be deplored. The resolution and her healing comes when she is able sit in the truth of who she is in full and steep in that tonic with an unwavering commitment to its unveiling. The fog can only clear and the healing can only happen when the thoughts are forced to the back seat and her emotions are able to speak for what the mind has been working so hard to cover up. She will learn to be able to relax in a space of comfortable silence versus always grabbing for the next thought that could pull her away from emotional substance that makes her feel vulnerable in any way.
Her ultimate healing comes when she can harness the courage to be impeccably honest with herself and others, no matter what!
Hi Everyone,
I came here to write my assignment but I just cant I am unable to continue on with things the way they are because I will not come off as authentic and as I truly am with my heart in this condition...
All I can say is I love You....
Heather
Hi Ladies,
Just checking in on your progress for posting the South Node of Lilith in Gemini. :)
Let me know when you will be able to post.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Quote from: Rad on Dec 09, 2018, 10:42 AM
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And this one called THE GREAT COSMIC MOTHER: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Cosmic-Mother-Rediscovering-Religion/dp/B009E9MKF6/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1544373716&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Great+Cosmic+Mother
Thanks Rad, I will get the first book. Everyone who reads the Great Cosmic Mother
-from the EA training with JWG ... has been so grateful to find this book. As time has marched on this still feels like the best access to the authors profound insight into the Temple of the Vestal Virgins and the distortions of the Pallas Athena archetype.
Thanks again - this book brought it all into perspective, and still does.
Gratitude - always
Tashi
Dear Heather,
Sweetheart, you are not alone. The voice of evil speaks in the language of futility. I know this for myself. I appreciate your desire to be authentic. This is one of the greatest things JWG ever taught and advocated. Just ride it out and LEARN. The value is in the effort. Keep your intention steady and ride it out. I still have to tell myself everyday the same thing. Let's hear the insights from your assignment.
Hi Kristin,
i will be able to post in a couple of days (currently immersed in Pallas Athene...)
Heather, we do feel you! I am sure Stacie's words of wisdom speak for all of us here to you.
Best,
Helena
Hi Everyone,
Stacie thank you very much for the encouragement, yah I'm trying to work through everything and continue on and keep learning...
Helena thank you as well...
Kristin my intentions are to try to post I need some time to figure it out... Thank you for teaching us all here...
Heather
Hi Heather
I have had very little time to catch up on the MB for ages, but dropped in here today and straight away saw your post. I will never forget the work we all did together on the Skipped Steps assignments - you are a very pure soul which shows so clearly in your alignment with and desire for the light, and the earnestness with which you go about your work.
We are ALL of us up against blocks, weaknesses and flaws in our psychological makeup, and our daily experience of ourselves can sometimes be pretty uninspiring. We are all in the same boat. Just as Stacie says - you are not alone!!
I have witnessed you producing some very good EA work, so you can't fool me. But I know well what it's like to run a bit flat on it sometimes, even go really blank. And to write from that space can feel like we're not saying anything authentic. But that's just the superficial mind talking - simply don't listen to it. Take your time and whatever you write will be valuable and another step forward on your journey.
I suggest you just relax and enjoy your writing ... after all this is what you want to do, and here you are doing it, so you're very definitely on track!
blessings Upasika
Hi Heather,
The value is in the effort made. When you simply focus on the EA you do very good work. And that work can benefit others as much as it benefits you. The value is in the effort.
God Bless, Rad
Hi everyone, want to share a neat experince I had that has helped/is helping me understand my own Lilith. Much appreciation to Kristin and everyone participating for this thread.
Enclosed is my chart. I have Lilith at 28 Virgo, exactly square to my Mercury Neptune in Sag in the 4th. It is also conjunt my AC which squares all of my Sag planets. Lilith squares the rulers of both of my nodes, both in the 4th house in Sag.
Some time ago my friend called me to tell me she had a dream for me where Lilith told her, "Tell him to get out of the garden." Before I explain the meaning of this I feel it will be helpful and also insightful to this archetype if I give a bit background on my conditioning with orthodox Judaism as well as the mythology of Lilith according to Judaic teaching.
I learned about Lilith when I was studying in yeshiva growing up. I'm going to include bible references in case anyone feels drawn to check it out - it's really fascinating IMO.
The first chapter of genesis states, כזוַיִּ×'Ö°×¨Ö¸Ö¨× ×ֱלֹ×"Ö´Ö¤×™× | ×ֶת־×"Ö¸Ö½×Ö¸×"Ö¸×Ö™ ×'ְּצַלְמÖ"וֹ ×'Ö¼Ö°×¦Ö¶Ö¥×œÖ¶× ×ֱלֹ×"Ö´Ö–×™× ×'Ö¼Ö¸×¨Ö¸Ö£× ×ֹתÖ'וֹ זָכָ֥ר ×•Ö¼× Ö°×§Öµ×'Ö¸Ö–×" ×'Ö¼Ö¸×¨Ö¸Ö¥× ×Ö¹×ªÖ¸Ö½× "And God made human in his image, male and female created them". There is an agada (somewhat kabalistic teaching) that teaches that Lilith was originally created with Adam, at the same time as refered to in this first chapter. Lilith refused to become subsurvient to Adam and so she was cast out.
Then, in the second chapter of genesis Adam was created, seemingly just as male, and then was described as lonely, so Eve was created from a limb of Adam (total distortion of natural law, where as Rad wrote above, the female is prior to the male). They were forbidden from eating from the tree of "knowledge of good and bad" (note "knoweldge" is also a word that is frequently used in the bible to refer to sex. See chapter 4 of genesis immediately after they were punished). Eve was tempted by a snake to eat, and she did. Result was all kinds of punishments:
Man has to work hard, women will have difficult childbirth. They were forever thrown out of the garden. Thus original sin...
This story is complete with Judea Christin guilt and presents a total distortion of what is natural and fun about life.
In the perfectionist, masochistic spirituality of the world for the past many many years, that which is natural and untamed is viewed upon as impure. The uncircumsized penis, menstral fluid, female sexuality. The bible relects this in many places and the prevelent teachings of religions throughout patriarchy have reflected this as well.
I grew up associating with a very tidy and well oiled culture. As I entered my puberty years (consider: sex drive, natural need to individuate) I took it a lot further. My prayer times were set, I followed the rituals and daily practices to a tee. How to live, what to think, what to do, who I am - it was all prescribed. One expression of distorted Sag + Virgo is following an instruction manual on how to live a good and pious religious life. Yet I always seemed to struggle a bit with this sense of what is natural and intuitive vs what fits nicely in a box even if it's not natural and intutive to me.
A recent example of this: as I have been building my van-home I notice a funny tendency to get all worked up about making things look neat (color scheme, size order of objects, where things fit in just perfeclty) only to realize time and time again that the tidy way I put things together has nothing at all to do with the usability and relevance these objects have in my life. In other words it cramps my own natural way of going about living my life and I end up just ignoring the system I set up anyway because it never actually made sense in a real moment to moment living kind of way.
Question: Does lilith correspond to shame in regards to what is wild and untamed? I'm wondering if anyone has observed and correlated this?
My spiritual journey for the past couple decades has been about returning to what is natural to me, natural to my soul. This has meant a profound simplification and relenquishing of all kinds of beliefs and ideas I have held about myself and life - which means I have been facing this latent need to be perfect, to be tidy and neat and do it all right.
Relative to Lilith in Virgo in the 1st, this need for tidiness inhibts my natural need for freedom and movement. Squaring my Sag in the 4th: there is a deep need within me to be free and at home. To experience LIFE as my home and yet the crisis here would be an inner standard/ ideal to reach that keeps me from letting go into my wild nature. Realized as I was writting this that circumsized penis can be associated with Virgo in the 1st: Cutting and "grooming" the yang appendage. Lilith, seeing the wildness of the penis as something to cast out.
Reflecting on the message my friend received "Get out of the garden". Gardens are manufactored, they are controled. It looks nice and is something I can work with - all things good for Virgo. And yet I do not want to be held back by prescriptions that hold me back (Lilith Virgo 1st). I need to be free to roam the world as I am directed by my soul to do the work I am inwardly guided to do. Wuth Lilith Virgo 1st, ruled by and squaring Mercury with Neptune in Sag in the 4th I get the imagery of harvesting wild herbs, making medicine, doing healing work to help those in needs, making healing foods and medicines etc. Of course I am attracted to women who are into that kind of stuff as well.
Note on the nodes in my chart. The south node of Lilith is 29 Gemini in my 10th house. Well note that I began this post by quoting from a commentary on a very old canonized text that has been in my familiy history for many generations (Gemini in the 10th). In my sense this reflects the introduction of "book knoweldge" which had the affect of seperating my soul from it's own natural way of healing. Virgo is intuitive with healing, Virgo is an agent of the earth and can walk and study in her ways (mutable earth). With Gemini 10th, and note my Lilith squares its nodes, it emphasizes the story of giving names to everything, defining, crystalizing ideas in the world as well as following a tradition of book thinking "people of the book" - thus inhibiting the freedom needed to learn via my own direct experience of God and nature: Virgo ruled by Mercury with Neptune and Jupiter in Sag. Life became set in stone with rules and definition, thus inhibiting the freedom of the mind to find out.
I must share one more story that just popped out.
Many years ago I was traveling in northern Israel in the ancient kabbalistic city Tsefat. I woke up in the morning feeling that my hands were full of energy. I had no previous experience with healing, but I felt that I needed to do something with my hands. I met a Rabbi who invited me over his house for Rosh Hashana lunch (Ha just remembered that there's a midrash - a rabinnic teaching similiar to an agada- that states that Adam was created on Rosh Hashana). This Rabbi pulled his back out earlier that week while picking up a big boulder. He was not able to even walk up stairs and had great difficulty in walking.
Humbly, and to my own surprise I asked him if I could do a healing. He lied down and I put my hands on his back. I had zero training at this point in my life. Never took a reiki class, never read a book on healing. When I was done he was completely healed. He could jump up and down. He couldn't beleive it. Nether could I. He told everyone about it and later that year even asked me to visit his mother who was sick.
After that experience. I have a vivid memory of walking through the old stone walls of Tsefat and thinking "What is this? What is life? What is life that this can happen? I need to know more. I want to learn all about this.". It was at that point that I determined myself to learn how to heal.
Soon thereafter I learned Reiki and began practicing. At first I was witnessing miracles. Sprained shoulders, soar throats, upset stomachs. It seemed that my hands could channel healing for anything. Yet after some time after each heaing I would get very tired and sick. I continued to receive further reiki initiation from my teachers, but no matter how much initiation I received it seemed that the more reiki I would do the more weak I would become. So I completely stopped. All this happened while Pluto was transiting on my Jupiter and the north node of Lilith.
My insight into that whole matter is I introduced knoweldge and wanted to "contrain and control and learn how to" do the healing that came naturally to me without any previous knoweldge. The Virgo relative to Gemini wanted to catalog, lean the techinques, know what everything was about and most of all get the credentials, so that I can be formally trained (10th house). All this had the effect of distorting the natural impulse that came directly from Source. All reflecting back to a core sense of inadequacy, that I am not good enough by myself with my own intuitive impulses, to find out and learn on my own through my own direct connection to God; that I needed to find an identity IN something other than what was natural to who I effortlessly am (Virgo 1st squaring Jupiter Mercury Neptune in Sag 4th).
At this time in my life I recognize that this is natural to who I am, and is something my soul has known, but I have very little interest in trying to "box it in" or "control it with knowledge". Sometimes I do healing with hands and also with voice/sound, but I notice that it's always spontaneous and I never anticipate it. I am more interested in walking my path as my soul is guided, knowing that I will be and do what I am here to and need not add anything unto it. I am sufficient and there is not something lacking I need to compensate for. In this sense I am not seeking a way or a system to place myself as the present moment is enough for me. I can sense the healing of Lilith relative to the Sag planets in this: freedom to heal intuitively and spontaneously: not putting it into tidy neat rows like plants in a garden. Also integrated into my human life, not another spiritual identiy to hide behind (all my Sag/Neptune stuff).
The north node of Lilith is 18 Sag, in my 3rd, conjunct my IC and Jupiter.
Well this just adds to the ball I'm having with my Jupiter. I'm curretly writting this at the foot of mount shasta on christma eve. It's incredibly windy that it shakes the van. I am free, in my home, learning how to keep myself warm and feed my soul. My sense is the evolutioan of the Lilith archetpye within me is communcating truth that reflects what is natural and indigenous to me (sag in 3rd, conj Jupiter) as well as coming home (IC) and living an authentic, healthy, emotionally and spiritually rich human life.
So that's a bit on my growing understanding of my own Lilith signature. Everyone is invited to add anything more or ask questions. I don't feel I understand Lilith so much just yet - so everything I write here is just what's blossoming in my awarness at this time.
Hi Ari,
Thank you for sharing your story that serves to illustrate and teach about the nature of the Lilath archetype. Your story perfectly illustrates how the archetypes manifested in your Soul context.
"Question: Does lilith correspond to shame in regards to what is wild and untamed? I'm wondering if anyone has observed and correlated this?"
Yes, it does for it is that which is natural and 'untamed' that is the very essence of men trying to control and repress the very essence of the natural women relative to the 'beliefs' that are manufactured by men in order to do this. There are countless examples that could be sited to illustrate this but, to me, one of the most disgusting of all of them is men mutilating women's body by cutting off their clitorises: female genital mutilation.
Again Ari thanks for sharing your story. I can only hope that this thread will continue by having others participate in it because it's intention is to help both men and women understand what the natural women actually is, and to help promote the actualization of that natural women so that, hopefully, our planet itself can become re-balanced into all that is natural.
Shalom, Rad
Hi all, some more thoughts/observations:
First, a great couple days for observing this archetype in all of our lives and in the world:
Jan 5/6 during and after the new Moon in Cap, Lilith will be conjunct the Moon and Pluto at 20 degrees Capricorn, just 5 degrees after the new Moon at 15 Cap. So that will be a great time to observe this archetype.
Later on in Feb Lilith will conunct the south node of the Moon, another significant transit.
Also I realized that the Lilith archetype can equally corresopnd to where we may have played the role of supressing/shaming/mutilating/hating/demonizing the natural feminine. This archetype can manifest as where we play a role in the distortion. Intuitively feeling into my own soul past I can see this for myself.
Little story in this life. I used to practice a thing called "shomer negia" which is a practijce of "watching my touch" - the idea being that touch with women can intigate sexual impulses (1st house) that are wrong, dirty (Virgo) and possibly lead to further sin. [Also that it's forbidden to touch women when they are menstrating - and since no one knows if a woman is menstrating, and its not something to ask, and that she may not have taken the ritual bath ayway etc etc... just don't touch women at all, ever - unless you are married.. at which point touch is a green light but only for two weeks out of the month...]
And so I have many memories of where this twisted up and distrotied my mind and emotional body and that of others. In one instance I was casually touched on the arm by a woman, an attractive woman of my age (age 16 or so). I instincitively swiped the part of my arm as if to indicate I was swiping her touch off of me.
I think my fear was mostly that other people will see that I was touched by a woman and associate me with someone who touches women. I felt the need to outright reject and push away the physical touch with a gesture of swiping. I remember there was no sexual or any meaningful intention behind her touch, it was just a touch that occured in a conversation, or to get my attention. I realized immediately that what I did was shaming and somewhat communicated the gesture of "superior, better, cleaner than you". I don't think I did anything about it, but I can see in retrospect that my action may have had an affect of alienating and shaming her.
I feel this further reflects the lilith in Virgo in 1st square to my Sag in 4th as it pertains to alienating and shaming women/ the feminine within and without for what is natural.
Virgo in the 1st is very kinky and has a very strong sex drive. The natural feminine archetype in Virgo wants to get into the grit and nuances of sexuality and of the body. It needs the freedom to be wild and assertive with it's sexual energy and connect with all the nuances and intricasies. When this is repressed, it manifests as a false purity that can have the effect of actually "cleansing" by way of violence and or estreme (1st house) acts of purging/cleansing that actuall violate and distort what is already perfect just as it is. IE trying to fix something natural because it's dirty and wrong, only to create trauma; to cleanse and "fix" the natural sexual energy that is dangerous, wild, destructive, dirty and so it much be purified.
I do not know if in past lives I have manifested such violent behavior towards women, I would not be surprised. I'm open to any insights/ direction you may feel called to share about this topic Rad if you feel it is helpful/relevant to share.
I do sense that I have for certain been subject to them and have subjected myself to them to myself in various extreme ways as I have done that in this life.
Hi Ari,
The distorted Lilath in Virgo in your examples occurs because of the manufactured beliefs equaling religions, customs, norms, and judgements. Relative to Virgo that can manifest as a guilt/ atonement equaling masochism, and guilt/ anger .. anger because of the guilt ... equaling sadism in various ways.
Shalom, Rad
Hi Ari,
Thank you for sharing your experience of your new discovery of how the Asteroid Lilith, the ORIGINAL Lilith, has been reflected in your life through pure expression, distortions as well as how you are uncovering how to resolve and heal this energy.
This is a clear example of how the original, distorted and resolution can be seen in one symbol, and it minimizes confusion for integrating the Dark Moon and the Black Moon, remembering that those symbols are both mere projections in space and the Black Moon can vary by 20 degrees depending on whether you are using the True or Mean Node.
This is about getting back to your ROOT design and knowing your feminine ORIGINS.
This was ideal timing as well because you have a 1st House Lilith and a South Node in Gemini which is exactly where we are in our thread and it was beneficial to hear it from a male's experience, especially with your Orthodox background.
I wanted to remind people that Asteroid Lilith ( #1181 ) must be added to the outer ring. I will attach Ari's chart here that shows his Asteroid Lilith.
You asked
"Question: Does Lilith correspond to shame in regards to what is wild and untamed? I'm wondering if anyone has observed and correlated this?"
Rad answered this question perfectly but I wanted to add that
The words wild and untamed are very Lilith in the 1st words in her original state and what I tell women that I am counseling about Lilith, is that "All women were not born to be wild, but all women were born to be natural."
There is not one Soul who I have counseled that does not feel some form of shame as a result of the patriarchy for not only expressing but admitting their natural feminine desires and the nature of this shame is always found within this Asteroid Lilith symbol.
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Thank you for putting your energy into teaching what you are newly discovering.
~Kristin
Hi Kristin and Everyone,
SN LILITH IN GEMINI/ 3rd HOUSE
Every woman's root has sacred echoes in the archetypes of taurus, gemini and cancer, lilith south node's signs. Even though each soul has its own memory of this distant past described in the specifics of house/aspects that this south is in and overall evolutionary signature, these signs show what we share as a whole, the female polarity's body of existence on earth if we can put it like that, and it is interesting to notice here also the law of trinity, these three signs for the feminine's past. And can we also say they represent earth, mind and body?
If we a look at it in the history of patriarchy, the soul that chose the path of gemini in the past is a soul that walked the road in the middle.
Taken as a natural expression of energy, this is a woman creating bridges, relating things, people and facts, as a matter of evolutionary necessity and natural adaptation. What makes her path and recovery work unique is the ability to use the mind and intelligence to understand and communicate this understanding to others, allowing others also to add their mind and intelligence to a common understanding and evolution. Evolution and expansion are in fact key for this woman's sense of aliveness. To use whatever information it has within itself (most of the times information coming out of the need to birth new meaning from the adaption work) and put that outside, sharing and giving it to others, noticing then how that has contributed to help everyone go a little step further.
The Goddess Pallas Athene is the Deity ruling over her past and i would like to focus a bit on Her.
Known for her wisdom, we have seen her passing her messages and permeating the minds of each of these women (and men too of course), their lives and professions, and the lives of everyone they have met and came into contact with, by the sharing of their gifts. They were and are Goddess special messengers.
Who were these women? In the Asteroid Goddesses book, Demetra George says of Pallas Athene that "she invented the flute, the trumpet, the potter's wheel, the first earthenware vases, the plough, rake and ox-yoke. As goddess of the arts and crafts, Pallas served as the patroness of artists, artisans, architects and sculptors. She instructed humanity in the trades of smithing and metal founding as well as the arts of cooking, embroidery, woolworking and weaving. Finally, as goddess of health and healing, Pallas Athene taught a variety of medical practices."
So we have an idea of who they were and we also have an understanding of the urgency in which they are coming back and/or remembering who they were and their own wisdom, with the impressive resurgence of these (sometimes lost) practices, as they are coming out in the world and all the souls that are now making a living from it, as well as teaching it to others, in counter movement to fast paced life, artificial products, mass production and consumption. These women are the ones that have a practical thing to say in the making of a new world and they have the inner wisdom and ancient gifts to do it. These being part of their necessary recovery work, as this a woman who's inner fulfilment would be strongly linked with her ability to have a place in a world where her talents (and most of the time her hands) can be shown and put to good use, as we are already seeing it happen.
The owl and the snake both accompany Pallas Athene. Wisdom and prophecy. These symbols in the past of the feminine so well express the duality women came to face. Both the snake and the owl are ancient symbols of magic, mystery and higher states of consciousness, and this is exactly what is and was under patriarchal target, suppression, distortion and destruction. The fear of the unknown, what was not seen to be controlled or limited.
The owl, with the big eyes that can see in the dark and its silent presence, as seen it all, knows it all, has been a witness of the darkness and forced silence these women (and Woman) have been living. They knew, but most of the times they could not share what they knew and their own wisdom. These are the women that were burned at the stake for what they in fact knew to be their truth and some of these women became warriors like Pallas Athene herself was Warrior Goddess, with strong links to the Amazon women in her mythological roots, also seen astrologically in the sextile from aries to gemini and the libra and sagittarius polarities. These were women that came to fight and be a voice for what they loved and believed.
There is also an interesting characteristic to the owl. It turns out owls have this unique way of listening, and listening in the dark. They have asymmetrical ears, one is slightly higher the other is slightly lower, and with this, whenever an owl hears a sound it is able to determine its exact location - when the sound is "aligned" in both ears, the owl happens to be facing directly where the sound is coming from, without moving the body just slightly turning the head. Isn't nature's intelligence the greatest teacher? Women and souls with the owl spirit, under Pallas Athene, are not only sure to listen very well to others but know exactly where they are coming from! It is within themselves the capacity to center still in space and time so to find meaning for their lives. Aligning higher and lower mind, spirit and matter for higher consciousness.
Of course, distortion of these qualities and we have women constantly running all over the place, doubting themselves, what they have heard, where others are coming from, doubting the truth of what they are seeing, or even becoming exaggeratedly suspicious and crazy, catching and spreading the wrong/dubious message.
As for the snake, we know the profoundness of this symbol and its dual image of both consciousness rise, kundalini energy and rebirth/regeneration, as well as evil excuse for patriarchal distortions as seen in the garden of eden. And also how some of these women's distortion started when they came to believe any false judgement projected on themselves and their true natures, specially when it came to women's natural sexuality and in equal terms to man's loss of their undistorted feminine side.
Things came so far, mythologically, has having Pallas Athene to appear in the form of the Goddess without a mother and only a father. Her fertility became her virginity, her sexual nature her chastity. And so it is in these symbols still where the recovery remains.
It is unfortunately easy to understand why this happened to her. To chose a middle way usually signals to find a way to move forward and find resolution, blending both parts. The issue was that in here it meant to learn to blend male and female, under male dominance and not under the equality of both genders, so the female side in both women and men turned out repressed in the process. Gemini also correlates to justifications and in the repressed form, SN Lilith in gemini found easy to slip into the mind to justify and create all possible excuses to hide its female nature, as well as believing these lies. As Kristin as taught, this hiding is the square of gemini to pisces. This can be also martyrdom, justifying the victim role and women finding themselves powerless, as well as criticism, Virgo, for not doing the things themselves and how they think things should be done. And to complete the grand cross, Sagittarius, how all this translates into someone who is not living a life of Truth.
Another aspect of the distorted side in this past is the woman that cannot drive herself. Or women that are driven by others, commonly the husband, and criticise constantly how the other is driving them! The aspect of driving, is still today a great reference to examine how we allow ourselves the freedom to manage and rule our lives. Look at the countries in the world that still don't allow women to drive and look at the state of the feminine in those countries. it is imperative, in my opinion if any recovery work is to be done, for women with sn lilith in gemini, 3rd house, or any lilith positions in this house/sign to quite literally learn to drive and drive themselves, any vehicle is good, even if that vehicle (or mostly!) is a bicycle :-)
Another aspect i would see standing for recovery is the need to talk with their partners about sex, not just having sex. That wouldn't work for most anyone, lack of communication, but it is healing work for women with SN Lilith in Gemini or the 3rd. This need is in the background of their own lilith placements and can remain locked in the unconscious. Let's remember women were not allowed to desire so they were even more forbidden to talk about their desires. So communication is key, again, the thing they should not try to fix within themselves because its is not wrong. it is not wrong to think and talk about sex either. This will allowed them to also know their desires the moment they arise, because and by the fact they can be experimented and expressed to and with the other. It will be liberating when it is done. They probably will need to talk about how they feel and how they like to be touched and be very sensitive to the partner's hands as they relate to mind very directly, and specially for these women. They can discern very well the intentions/thinking/desires of the other just by the way they are being touched. Since her entire brain is an erogenous zone, what she listens from her partner is also closely related to how aroused she is and she will get sexuality aroused when she is able to trust a man that speaks the truth about how he is feeling, with no judgment to what these feelings are but the capacity to share each others truth. Within this trust, she can relax the mind and go with the body and body sensations.
it is also very likely these women's male side is very well developed if we think gemini correlates too with bisexuality. Changing gender was most times a crucial part of the adaptation and soul evolution. So this is a woman who's sexuality could be very diverse and even change much relative to preferences throughout life, because that would be a natural way for her to evolve and experiment to find her truth, of course having consideration that this would not be always present in all evolutionary states and would have many other forms to represent diversity.
There is another aspect i just found out about Lilith's nodes that it is very interesting to share (i don't know Kristin if i am going a bit far out here"¦) but i started to notice that all charts that i seen have Lilith/Ceres nodal axis correlation. And so, Lilith SN is conjunct Ceres NN, and Lilith NN is conjunct Ceres SN. It is quite an information! If we relate that with how the femine's roots correlate to the rebirth of Women, and the necessary process of reviving those roots is exactly acknowledging the need for recovery and accepting this coming out of the underground as Ceres, to give birth to a new earth, well i think is such a strong symbol"¦ I would really like to know your opinion about it, if now it is appropriate time, but this really shook things for me, like finding a very important piece of the puzzle.
Thank you again and i would just like to mention once again how profound it is to be able discuss this things.
This is a very important thread, my greatest appreciation for the time you devote to this teaching Kristin (and the patience to wait on us...) and the time everyone gives to participate in it also, sharing is learning and evolving.
Helena
Greetings Helena,
Thank you for posting and for putting your heart and Soul into this Lilith journey.
I was not aware of the Nodes of Lilith mirroring those of Ceres but it feels you are really onto something here. It makes perfect sense how these Goddess energies traveled through time and how they would have been expressed and also repressed together in this way. By sharing the same NN, it would reflect how the energies are working together to resurrect the feminine.
I am limited on time this morning but will comment more on this as well your post tomorrow morning.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Nerissa,
Just checking in to see how you are coming along with the post and what your timeline is.
Namaste,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
thank you. Yes it would be very helpful if you can shed your light on it.
If i'm not mistaken seeing it, this older topic helped me confirm it
https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,835.0.html
Hi Helena,
Just wonderful what you are sharing. I just want to correct one thing you said about Amazon women having mythological origins. The reality is that there actually were, their own genetics, dna/rna, Amazon women in history that has been documented.
Here is a book that does just that: The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
https://www.amazon.com/Amazons-Legends-Warrior-across-Ancient/dp/0691170274/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1546014083&sr=1-1&keywords=amazon+women
"In her groundbreaking book, Adrienne Mayor has gone above and beyond all past works in making the Amazon women of legend real. The stories of who the Amazons were, how they really lived, and why they loved their lives with such timeless vivacity make the reader of this sensational work want to stand up and raise her sword to the sky to cheer! Never before has one author so seamlessly merged the iconic lives and lore of the Amazons with genuine images, facts, and research. With the depth of a textbook and the easy conversational style of a good friend, Mayor rapidly dispels myths about one of the strongest female cultures in history while uplifting the hearts of readers with dreams of strength and adventure. The Amazons is an absolute must-have for any person who yearns to learn about how women in the ancient world really lived and for those modern heroes and heroines who will surely be inspired by the rich, vibrant history of our world's cultures."--Virginia Hankins, actress-stuntwoman
"The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course."--Anne Fortier, author of The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel
"Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read."--Edith Hall, author of Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
"Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably."--Steven Saylor, author of Raiders of the Nile: A Novel of the Ancient World
"Adrienne Mayor excels at demonstrating the truth that lies behind what seems simply storytelling, and there is no more exciting confrontation of myth and history than in the story of the Amazons. This is a great book--at once exhaustive, scholarly, thrilling, and imaginative, spanning the history, art, and imagination of ancient peoples from Italy to China."--John Boardman, University of Oxford
"One can only wonder at the courage and conviction of the ancient warrior women who dared to defy their peers, and who became such powerful inspirations that their memory lives on for millennia. We owe it to them to remember their stories. Adrienne Mayor's fabulous book illuminates a complex picture of ancient lives. It gives us the chance to understand these amazing female fighters, and to recognize their daughters in our midst, those who fight with courage and conviction for what they know is a better world."--Samantha "Swords" Catto-Mott, medieval long-sword champion and creator of special effects in film
"In this fascinating book, which combines flowing prose, a lively and engaging presentation, and wonderful illustrations, Adrienne Mayor brings the reader into the excitement of discovering the truth about the Amazons. She demonstrates quite convincingly that the Amazon traditions largely derive from the undeniable historical fact that nomadic, armed horsewomen existed on the fringes of the ancient Greek world. Mayor is the first to examine the evidence systematically and in detail and she makes a concrete and persuasive case."--William Hansen, author of Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans
"In this comprehensive account of the Amazons, Adrienne Mayor examines the subject in a way that no one else has done and presents overwhelming evidence that they were not entirely fictitious. Only Mayor has looked at the evidence from all the relevant fields to show how, together, they can solve what to each of them separately are complete mysteries. This will be the classic book on the subject for a very long time."--Elizabeth Wayland Barber, author of The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
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Amazons"•fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world"•were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons.
But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China.
Mayor tells how amazing new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons prove that women warriors were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, she reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of the women known as Amazons. Provocatively arguing that a timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds us that there were as many Amazon love stories as there were war stories. The Greeks were not the only people enchanted by Amazons"•Mayor shows that warlike women of nomadic cultures inspired exciting tales in ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, and China.
Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. The result is likely to become a classic.
And here is a video on YouTube that does the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvhEzHQ_aw
God Bless, Rad
Hi Helena,
Yes, it is true that all of us have sacred echoes in the archetypes of taurus, gemini and cancer, lilith south node's signs , although due to the fact the South Node of Lilith connects to our most recent past and the patriarchal past of thousands of years, the sacred expression of this energy is limited, in many respects the woman's thumbprint is unrecognizable. Which is why a thread such as this is so important, to help Souls remember in order to recover.
Even though we all share a South Node of Lilith in one of these signs, the South Node of Lilith can land in any of the 12 houses, remembering that the house comes first, the foundation of that sign. For example Pluto in the 1st in Virgo, the energy of the house comes first. You may have a client who has South Node of Lilith in Gemini, but if it is in the 8th house. It will operate in dramatically different ways than say a South Node of Lilith in Gemini in the 6th house. ( I am just wanting to remind readers of this )
Your analogy of a SN of Lilith in Gemini, walked that road in the middle is just right and you can see with the natural trine to Libra and Aquarius, this would be true for the air signs, Libra the fence sitter and Aquarius more on the outskirts perhaps but definitely not IN the middle of anything. The airs signs are adept at observing and not totally committing in one direction or another. When we consider the Lilith in the 1st with a SN in Gemini, she will want to leave her options open.
I enjoyed your addition of using Pallas Athene here as she a Goddess strong in her use of the hands and the mind, a messenger through her intellectual and creative pursuits, feeding that need for diversity.
Nice addition too in looking at the other mutable energies and their relation to the SN of Lilith in Gemini can be 'running from herself', Virgo is making excuses why can can't be herself or criticizing her nature and feeling as if something is wrong with her, Sagittarius, not being honest with others so she can fulfill her need for diversity and Pisces, hiding from her nature so she is not judged an persecuted for it.
One reason as well that the SN of Lilith in Gemini Soul can lose her drive to finish something, apart from her need for diversity, is the doubt within her of not feeling smart enough, so she bails out. This is of course due to what the patriarchy has made her feel about herself.
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This will allow them to also know their desires the moment they arise, because and by the fact they can be experimented and expressed to and with the other. It will be liberating when it is done. They probably will need to talk about how they feel and how they like to be touched and be very sensitive to the partner's hands as they relate to mind very directly, and specially for these women. They can discern very well the intentions/thinking/desires of the other just by the way they are being touched. Since her entire brain is an erogenous zone, what she listens from her partner is also closely related to how aroused she is and she will get sexuality aroused when she is able to trust a man that speaks the truth about how he is feeling, with no judgment to what these feelings are but the capacity to share each others truth. Within this trust, she can relax the mind and go with the body and body sensations.
Excellent. Words and the voice are incredibly powerful to unlock a deeper experience.
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I will follow with an explanation seen in the myth why there is a North and South Node Lilith/Ceres correlation but in essence Ceres connects to Recovering Something Lost From the Past and so considering women's natures have been buried and repressed, this reflects a recovering of the power of the feminine root in women, as well as the feminine within a man.
When we see a nodal reverse of the Moon occur through transit, it symbolizes the future meets the past or the past meets the future, as in something from the past returning and being brought forward, re-worked,
Similar to the North Nodes of Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter being in Cancer, this reflects the world's need to return to the time of the Matriarchy, or more natural times when life was in far grater balance in every way, including gender roles and how the feminine and the masculine were expressed.
We can see themes of the balance being re-stored in many directions, repeating themes that are leading us back to a more natural state...in time it will happen.
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This was a wonderful addition Helena. I thoroughly enjoyed your post and how you included Pallas Athene as a symbol for Gemini, Mercury, throat chakra. Well done as well on how you honed in on the distortions of this energy, sexuality included, as a we must understand where the Soul gets stuck in order to untangle the past, leading to a recovery of the way the energy was naturally designed to be expressed.
Thank you for being here..and for the wisdom you share!
Kristin
Yesterday I was going to post that I would have thoughts gathered @ south node Lillith in Gemini/3rd by today.....glad I did not.....Uranian happenings galore. But...tomorrow, end of the day, I will post.
Sorry if I am holding this thread up....
I want to thank Ari for his insights....I am curious: did you post because you have natal Lillith in the first and south node 3rd/gemini..or is this crazy synchronicity - ?
Last winter I was living in nature: it is utterly incredible, even to this daemon soul, how the veils are lifted so easily, so simply....
Bhaskara: others have said more, but, I am another voice to add: please contribute, be who you are: we value you
And....reading your post brought to mind a little epiphany type moment for me recently: in a gorge, a river, clear night, full moon: and: moody blues fan :)
so.....
this song 'dawning is the day' - I've heard it I don't know how many times....but THIS time..it hit home
starts very nature & simple but goes deep quick....
the lines that got me:
'baby there is no price upon your head
do it, shout it
now the angry words have been said
do it, don't doubt it'
There is no price upon your head, ie, a 'bounty': the universe isn't hunting you...let that go: be free: shout it, do it, don't doubt it!
And on top of that the lyrics continue in an odd vein: 'we think we can see you' 'we think we can hear you' 'we think we have FOUND you'
That night: full moon, beavers just having fun in the river, so bright: and feeling and KNOWING: there was no price on my head...and the more you clear negative, silly, masochistic thoughts: the more "THEY" can see, hear and FIND you.... I have added link to a youtube moody blues video of this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce3ym7PnXRs
Rise, let us see you,
Dawning is the day.
Miss, misty meadow,
You will find your way.
Wake up in the morning, to yourself,
And leave this crazy life behind you.
Listen, we're trying to find you.
Flow to the sea,
You know where to go.
But still we are free,
No one tells the wind which way to blow.
Wake up in the morning to yourself,
Open your eyes and start to be you.
Listen, we think we can see you.
Baby there's no price upon your head,
Sing it, shout it,
Now the angry words have all been said,
Do it, don't doubt it.
So rise, let us see you,
Dawning is the day.
Miss, misty meadow,
You will find your way.
Wake up"¦
okay editing to add how tripped out I am at how these lyrics are so utterly naturally spiritual in nature....wow...I've never read the lyrics, just listened...'they' are trying to find us...flow to the sea, we know which way to go..but we are free..etc. WOW....
Hi Everyone,
Kristin, Rad, thank you so much for your words. It is really good to know this makes sense also to you because sincerely comes from my heart and soul...
Rad this that you posted is really interesting, I have already watched the video and it is impressive. An image that popped in my mind as how this memories are still alive today in our collective imagery is Daryl Hannah in Tarantino's movies :-) And other thing that stood out is how this women were fighters but not men haters and actually men lovers too in their own way, because I personally always felt this way, that women don't need to be against men to be their natural selves, of course that wouldn't exclude the fight for any kind of patriarchal distortion. Really nice to know this.
Kristin, thank you too... as usual I always have to read your answers more then once and receive new meaning each time... To know more about this Ceres seems important.
Nerissa, Heather, waiting on your posts too. We really do all learn from each other, each of us is unique with a distinct voice coming out of the roads we've been traveling, that's what makes us whole in this journey. And I think is no coincidence three of us started to explore all of this... Hope more people can join in too.
I have also enjoyed Ari's insights, thank you Ari for sharing your experience this way, and would like to comment further on the questions you pose, specially when it comes to shame and do so as soon as I have a little time.
Thank you,
Helena
I said I'd post so I am: however my brain feels like.......well, there is nothing truly dead so not sure I have an analogy!
This post is more stream of consciousness which I apologize for: but this, or nothing. Better something than nothing.
I haven't read the other posts - was tempted to, but found it odd with the first assignment....felt everything had been said so it was hard to post anything further.
I won't be surprised if I try to clean up my post come the morning.....
I am reminded of that movie "Miss Petigrew lives for a day" when she is trying to and very anxious to leave and says something to the effect of 'The current crisis has been averted, good day' and the gal she is hired to help says 'But the crisis is ongoing!'......very Virgo words, and pretty much how I feel. So this is what I've got under the circumstances.
Thanks!!!
The intention of SN of Lillith in Gemini relative to the natal Lillith in Aries is to incorporate the multiplicity of exposure to ideas, opinions, intellectual orientations to reality that will reflect and lead to a direct experience of who they are innately.
There will be no more intellectual ideology or posturing that does not reflect that actual nature of their souls.
A soul with SN Gemini has created reality of being free to experiment with it's identity, to be fluid, to be open to all possible orientations, to not limit itself. This soul would welcome all manner of ideas, opinions, they are oriented to opening their mind.
But this also suggests they must need to: there are issues here with previously being close minded, to allowing other opinions to affect them, to judge other's if they did not fit their opinions.
So this soul attracts many different souls, experiences, ideas and orientations to human life that will challenge their limitations.
This soul would have alternately embraced or rejected this need:
If they have embraced it the soul with the natal placement in the first would experience a true awakening of who they are via experience: not mental conjecture or posturing"¦...they will filter what they have learned through themselves via direct experience of themselves in their lives
If the soul previously rejected this need: they will find themselves constantly confronted with ideas, opinions that differ with them, that challenge them, that require them to look within to know who they innately are, what THEY not "˜believe' but know to be the truth for themselves, as relative as it may be in the moment. They will butt their "˜aries' head against many people trying to enact their own series of opinions & ideas that aren't really who they are: it's what they incorporated from others via past lives"¦"¦they will be confronted with anything false: this will be utterly direct"¦.there will be no intellectual "˜shield' they may feel totally attacked"¦.
This requires them to reflect: use that intellect to understand their own motivations and desires, and not project them...
to further it's evolution the soul has needed to attract differing views: this may have been either accepted easily or 'shut down' according to any already existing beliefs, ways of being
given the natal current node is in Aries, this suggests the soul must find it's own unique path from the multiplicity of experiences, thoughts, ideas, people it's been exposed to...to find what THEY inherently are
with Lillith in this position given the nature of current humanity: there has been distortion of truth into ideologies that are adhered to......so many ideas, so many ways to 'back up' what they think that has no basis in natural truth. So this placement could show a huge showdown between limiting beliefs and their own aggression - defending false beliefs.
This aggression will come right back to them until their intellectual hubris is worn down"¦..to open to who they are. This might well genuinely frighten this soul - they may fear themselves more than anyone.
This placement indicates the simple fact of feeling limited by their culture as to what they could think, believe, do etc
The natural desire with Lillith here is to be open: but the strictures of society may make these souls feel stifled, feel like there is no 'truth' but going through the motions of the 'ritual' without understanding WHY - these souls want the information, but they need to know where THEY fit (Aries natal) to evolve.....
I think there is general trauma with this placement, at least at this time with those Nodes of Uranus in these signs...
a huge dichotomy between the 'motions' gemini and the truth 'sag'....
Sexually these people are open - they naturally are curious, they want to, and have experimented....Lillith here suggests a natural what we now call 'bisexual'....because of current society this natural state has been demonized....given the natal aries placement these souls would be required to confront their sexuality and be honest in what ways they've allowed the 'perversion' of the natural dual nature within themselves: either via repression or externally judging others...but their own innate desire will remain: they want utter freedom
In any negative manifestations these souls may regurgitate and judge others in ways that they have been judged: classic projection....(those uranus nodes, plus aries first house correlations)
if they cannot be free, or accept who they are naturally...be repressed - sadism could be present in their sexual lives because they cannot accept because of 'ideas' and judgment of society of who they innately are: this will become distorted (the rest of mutable cross)....that which is innately natural becomes repressed
Within relationships, these souls are adept at using words, information and ideas to back what they say, they can be charismatic - in the negative they can use this quality deliberately appear other than what they are, or what they feel despite the intellectual words and thoughts......
With lillith in this placement, and in negative manifestation, the rage could be intense sadistic sexual practices: using the air quality to project their sexuality onto others (intellectual distancing via Gemini)......
ideally, with a healthy lillith - the natural duality of the sexes would be expressed within the souls own egocentric drive: a sifting of what they are, what they are not: a total acceptance, not just of themselves but just how 'multifarious' people, life, reality, sexuality are in actual life: no judgment...within that acceptance they still know who THEY are...not just in relation to the thoughts, the opinions........they know the truth via expereince and evolve via the pure expression of who they are - not 'willy nilly' because they have exposed themselves to other ideas and way of being, and not in fear of judgment for being different....
These are souls who can be utterly sexually healing to others: they get both sides of the coin"¦...there is no division or "˜roles': it's all one in blissful union"¦"¦..all creeds, sexes, orientations accepted with no judgment...given the mutable cross to sag, pisces and virgo: definitely possible past lives of utterly understanding the mechanics of sexual spirituality
Hi Nerrisa,
Thank you for posting, I realize it is a busy time of year but your energy and efforts here are valued and truly appreciated.
When I participated in threads in the past, I too would not want to read posts of others until after I was finished because it did have a way of interrupting my train of thought or feeling of flow within what I was trying to write about. We can all say the same thing in a different way through our own unique lens and this allows others to take in the teachings more wholly.
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In this thread, we are looking at a SN of Lilith in Gemini as it comes through the Asteroid Lilith in Aries so it was good that you were working to express it in this way. This was a great way to combine the energies of Aries/Gemini.
You wrote A soul with SN Gemini has created reality of being free to experiment with it's identity, to be fluid, to be open to all possible orientations, to not limit itself
As well how you described how the distorted SN in Gemini due to repression of energy would have them attracting people that went against their natural grain and challenged their thoughts and beliefs. This would remind them of who they are not and what is true for them, and indeed people coming at them with ideas or beliefs that were not in alignment with what they felt to be true for them would cause them to react Aries style.
Yes, it is very true about the trauma that can be caused for the SN of Lilith in Gemini, in terms of going through the motions as you say, this feeling that THERE MUST BE MORE THAN THIS! The feeling that there must be something MORE, the something MORE is the truth of who they are and the connection to Spirit that lives within this truth. Without that, the Virgo void is felt in full.
You wrote
These are souls who can be utterly sexually healing to others: they get both sides of the coin"¦...there is no division or "˜roles': it's all one in blissful union"¦
Yes, in a healthy expression, this would be true.
Thank you Nerissa, well done, we are all growing and gaining from your unique and wise voice.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi All,
One thing I would like to add here as we have all talked about the power of words have with a Soul in this case, and it is important to point out through the distortions, that it is words that have severely damaged the Soul psyche. Let's take for example a woman being burned at the stake. For a Soul who has a South Node of Lilith in Gemini, it would be the words people were shouting at her as she is dying that would prove to injure her more than the fire burning her flesh, the words will make a more permanent mark. This leads to a negative VIRGO programming about who she is as a woman in the world. The negative programming rendering her powerless. It is this wounding with words that she carries with her into her next life. She would rather take the bullet than have to listen to words that feel like someone is twisting the dagger or in some cases making her feel like she is going to go crazy if she hears one more word uttered. The words trigger the trauma, they trigger the event, and they trigger the entire emotion linked with the event(s), all with the message that there must be something terribly wrong with her.
Peace,
Kristin
Thank you Kristin so much for your insight, guidance & kind words!
After I posted....I thought maybe I should not have: if I cannot bring my all perhaps nothing is better considering what others are doing
My instinct was to take this placement & put it in the various evolutionary states: I think the gemini quality made me feel that need, but it just wasn't going to happen - frustrating....
I am glad what I posted was okay & acceptable....however, not surprisingly....I do believe I won't be in cell range etc. in any regular basis as it turns out after all....
Life explodes implodes every couple days in my neck of the woods: to disentangle requires another extreme measure.....
If I can, as I can, I will participate if that is okay......I will follow as I can, & look forward to the journey!
ETA Kristin: what you said about words resonates with me, in my birth chart: lillith is in balsamic conjunction to Mercury & pluto in the 6th trining Mars in Gemini...opposite Pallas in the 12th plus that Mars squaring Virgo sun & opposing Neptune...yep, just saying: I know very well that of which you speak!
Hi Everyone,
Thank you all for the encouragement but I just feel like I need to heal more and get clearer so I can contribute better... I'm here as love and I try to share that the best I know how... Thank you for sharing these teachings with all...
Heather
Hi Nerissa,
QuoteI want to thank Ari for his insights....I am curious: did you post because you have natal Lillith in the first and south node 3rd/gemini..or is this crazy synchronicity - ?
The answer is yes (-;
Instigated by a chat with Kristin and genuine desire to examine this archetype in my own soul. This conversation and the teachings shared on this thread were perfect timing with my own soul timing to look at these things - which happens to be perfect timing with exactly where the thread is at... and then of course with the clients I've since worked with who happen to have a very prominent Lilith in their charts... and so goes the never ending oneness ...
Hi All,
I am posting the chart of Melania Trump who has her natal Lilath in Gemini, her S.Node of Lilath is 7 Gemini conjunct her natal Mars, AND HER NATAL LUCIFER which is then conjunct her natal Venus/Mercury in Taurus. These are in opposition to her Neptune in Sagittarius, and square her Lunar Nodal Axis with the S.Node in Virgo, the N.Node in Pisces, with Neptune also forming squares to these Lunar Nodes.
Of course she is married to Donald Trump who has in fact made a contract with Evil: Lucifer. His N.Node of Lucifer in Pisces in his 7th House conjuncts Melania's Lunar North Node in Pisces. Her natal Lilath at 24 Gemini conjucts his Sun, Uranus, and North Node, and is opposed his Moon and S.Node in Sagittarius in his 4th House. That Moon is the ruler of his natal Venus, Saturn, and Lucifer in Cancer in his 11th. That N.Node of Lucifer in Pisces is then ruled by his 2nd House Neptune which then conjuncts Melania's natal Uranus, and conjuncts her natal Pluto which is at 25 Virgo.
They both have their natal Venus's conjunct their natal Lucifer's.
Clearly this is a manifestation of the distorted Lilath for Melania Trump. In essence, she has 'married' a Soul who has made a contract with Evil: his Faustian Deal. What does this say about her ?
What I see here are two souls who have gotten enmeshed. They have both become attracted to each other's "evils", relative to each other's needs. He is controlling her voice and she is cooperating due to the enmeshmeshment. . I notice asteroid Amazon is very near Trump's Lilith. His desire is to control and traumatize strong women, which I feel Melania is, but she is not being "permitted" to speak. He controls her. Her north node of Venus is sitting on her natal mercury, and so this what she must learn to do for herself: find her own authority in her voice and exercise it. Relative to her enmeshment with Trump it would be a primary tool to liberate her from the clutches of a man who wants to keep her natural power down. Her voice. There is also a chance she could choose to be his voice however he orders, but that will lead to trauma within herself..and others
Stacie
Stacie - it's interesting because I see your point of view....thing is I was thinking sorta the opposite of what you said! So, I appreciate the different perspective....
My instinct with her is that she has developed the negative side of Lillith all on her own - reminds me maybe a bit of Yoko Ono, her own soul history might mirror it a bit: trauma...and the lack of taking responsibility that leads to rage & justifying their rage and actions..
I see her being attracted to Trump's evil....I see her riding his coat tails so to speak....I don't think she enjoys the role of first lady AT ALL: being a public servant is not what she signed up for!!
I think it's possible she is one of the few or even only person who is 'allowed' to talk down to trump, be angry or put him in his place......I even think she could be more 'developed' in evil than he is.....
She is his 'bride' - the bride of evil.....
BUT....having said all that - I realize I could be very wrong....
What you say makes sense too......it's just from what I know about her I don't think she's a genuinely kind, caring person: in her own ways she is always supporting trump, the birther stuff - or what about that coat she wore - horribly insensitive.....
Well....be interesting to hear other's input too!
As far as astro correlations: basically what you & Rad have already pointed...lucifer/venus....north node interactions....you have a good point about her NN & Mercury......it's possible she hooked up with evil because he was an agent & she felt she had no other options or choices and now is addicted to the situations he's enabled & given her over many lifetimes....
ETA: maybe it was SHE lifetimes ago that was the agent of evil to lure Trump...just something very 'accomplished' about her: she isn't under ANYONE'S thumb
Also, despite not being all that much of a public servant or all that 'nice' she somehow manages to dodge criticism and garners sympathy....
....Maybe your take is right, Stacie: it's a gut feeling people have that she is subjected to Trump...or just maybe she eludes censure because of the help of what is termed 'evil powers' etc. that protect her & create an illusion she can hide behind?? That she is 'ok' and is more the victim than the victor....
Regardless: Trump is attracted to her precisely because of her strong negative Lillith energy....guess you could say, whatever Melania is: he deserves her!
hmmm - looking forward to see how this discussion plays!
Nerissa,
I'm in agreement with you that she has chosen her path. I don't mean to suggest she is a virtuous natural woman who just has a bandana stuffed in her mouth. She is most definitely contributing to Trump's evil agenda in her own quiet supporting way. This is the distortion aspect of Lilith that succumbs to behavavioral contagion (11th hs lilith), relative to the crowd around her. I think you have a valid point that she has developed this all on her own. The enmeshment with the soul they call Trump though, has cemented her in the sludge.
Ha - yeah, nope: no bandanna in her mouth!! ;) Gave me a giggle....
I think I know what you're saying about her....
I have an instinctive reaction to her though: sometimes, though I hate to speak of people's appearances, especially women: she looks almost inhuman
I have already edited my previous post....instead of adding to that just want to add here: that I think Trump craves to be sadistically ruled by another, especially a woman, so he has attracted her into his life.
He craves this because of his deep soul recognition of his natural wrong/guilt in his choices....I really think Melania fills this role, and maybe has for a few lifetimes.....
she may not herself have made a contract - but her own negative Lillith issues (11th/gemini: someone who can remove themselves & objectify others while connecting to their pain in a detached manner, ie, sadistic) has led her to Trump: he is the perfect specimen for her to inflict her rage, project upon, control - & he welcomes it....and she gets everything she wants...
Nerissa, I'm glad I gave you a giggle..we gotta keep laughing right?
I guess the burning question to Rad is, has she made a contract with evil yet, or are we seeing her sink into one before our eyes?
Her Pluto in the second in Virgo shows an internalized sense of inferiority, opposing Juno, Ceres, and Chiron in the 8th. Juno is in Pisces but Ceres and Chiron are in Aries. This a sado-masochistic signature if I ever saw one, one that causes her an internal rage and such a desire to osmose power. The square from mars to her north node in Pisces shows a desire to utilize deception and fool people in order to gain the kind of control and power her husband has. Best recent example that comes to mind is when she made a formal announcement from "˜"the office of the First Lady" that Mira Ricardel should be fired, and then poof! Mira was fired. This also demonstrates the projection of that silencing thing I was talking about earlier. Mira was fired because she argued with Trump staffers during a plane trip. Message: keep your mouth closed, or be axed.
Hi Rad and All,
this is a lot to look at... One thing is, i found myself unable to understand her alone, to focus on her alone. To understand her we always have to reference to him and that says something of what it is like to be abducted by the energy of evil and give personal power and integrity away. She is no longer Woman and that is one of the first things this says about her.
If she is 'only' strongly influenced by evil and out of the contract herself, there is also something really curious about her Lilith positions in Gemini because i think in the back of our minds, when trump got elected, we all hoped she would be the one to eventually turn him in, to speak up. It was clear to anyone that she was not 'in love' and was actually 'in fear' posing for a absolute fake picture of a marriage. That was clear to everyone (i remember on of my friends saying that to him her eyes screamed HELP!) and the fact that she has all those positions in gemini/taurus - sn lilith, mars, lucifer, venus, mercury and nn venus - opposition neptune, she is projecting in all of us! the picture of her martyrdom (we all 'secretly'/unconsciously hoping she would make it, feeling sorry for her...) and her whole sadomasochistic dilemma with pluto and sn in virgo/nn pisces. When she at some point gave an interview saying she was one of the most bullied person in history i laughed but now i do think she was serious... let's face it, she married evil!
The feminine roots in her, God/dess allow, still come in small details and mars strongly attached to the whole signature/rage (mars gemini, sn mars sag conjunct sn uranus, lucifer, mars conjunct mercury, sn mercury in aries) and we have hardly seen something like a first lady refuse to to touch her husband, reacting angry when he tried to take her hand! This of course also correlates literally in her case to have sex with the devil (mars/lucifer conjunct nn uranus) and the trauma therein. Trauma to her own personal power, her mars drive, the ability to stand for herself, the contamination/destruction of her vital energy.
To come to a place like that is probably linked with she believing the sadomasochistic tapes imposed on women, pluto virgo/jupiter in scorpio, and the ideas that Women should be perfect, beautiful and with a closed mouth to be of 'service'. So the gemini thing is about giving up her mind to someone else. If she ever wants something for herself, climb the social ladder, she believes she must follow these rules first, women are beautiful and men are in charge, she follows the rules of the 'perfect picture' with the consequent trauma of knowing real life is not like the picture at all.
I don't know what to think of jupiter and neptune at the 0 degrees... What is she only now starting?
Also, the fact that she hardly does something to get out of the situation is her strong taurus energy, to get used to the comforts/position she gained from being involved with him and overall social position, prevents any real coming out of the well. She simply does not want to see it until she is forced to - the virgo/pisces crisis and all the squares, besides the earth trines, allowing for compensation... That will start to happen when she comes to the realisation/crisis derived from her neptunian projection, that people actually get the truth about her and not taking as a role model at all, she will start to be thrown on to herself (maybe this is the 0 jupiter/neptune...)
I see another issue, and that is that the ruler of the nn is neptune and the ruler of the sn is mercury, overly enmeshed with everything already mentioned and both square the nodes... No easy thing, also because her nn of neptune is his pluto... Can she ever get out of this?
Helena
P.S. Rad, would her chart be a noon chart or exact time? I take her birth time is unknown?
Stacie, Nerissa,
you bring up some points i could not arrive, as she being really powerful at all. I don't see her like that, it did not occur to me... But maybe she feels like this and you are exactly right. This is what a supreme distorted lilith is about of course, to be convinced/thinking/accepting (gemini) personal power comes with a high price to pay, duplicity, and sell body and soul to any cause, even if that is an evil contact at such level... Maybe also the inconjunct of gemini to scorpio is not thinking of consequences, and she has that inconjunct from all those planets in gemini/taurus to jupiter in scorpio!
Yep, she wants to have power and she probably feels like that right now even if she is such a prop.
Helena
Hi Stacie, Nerissa, and Helena,
First my apology for not saying that the chart for her is a noon chart. I assumed by seeing her Sun right on the MC that would be self evident. So sorry for that.
Second, no, her Soul has not yet made a direct contact with Evil: Lucifer. She is right on the brink of that however relative to her choice to be 'married' to Trump.
And why she did that, made that choice in the first place is that, her inner dynamics that caused that choice, is that which reflects choices she has made in other lives that have lead to her current life.
In essence, her Soul has had deep inner desires equaling her need to be in positions of social power wherein she has formed relationships with others who have had that power in the first place: to be vicarious extensions of them. This can be seen through her Saturn in Taurus, in this life conjunct her Sun, and that Saturn is trine her Moon in Capricorn, and both of these trine her S.Node in Virgo. That S.Node is ruled by her Mercury in Taurus which is conjunct her Venus/Lucifer conjunction which also conjuncts her Mars, S.Node of Lilath, and her natal Lucifer. To become a vicarious extension is symbolized in the archetype of Taurus.
That Mars, Lucifer, and S.Node of Lilath is opposed her Neptune, and both square her Lunar Nodal Axis, as does Neptune, the ruler of her N.Node. These symbols correlate to her 'attractions' to others who are considered as some sort of 'icon', Pisces, Neptune, the 12th House archetypes, by society itself. By forming relationships in this way she then fulfills her desires for social power, status, and her inner ambition to make that happen.
She has done this by using her own resources, Taurus, to attract and form the relationships she needs to actualize those desires. Relative to that Mars, Lucifer, S.Node of Lilath conjunction opposed by Neptune that resource has been her own body, her own sexuality. She has had other lives for example where she has been a courtesan to those in social power including Kings and Queens. So her Soul desired to be born into bodies that where judged to be extremely beautiful and sexual so that she could then attract the types of Souls that would serve as the vehicles to actualize her own desires and needs.
Relative to her Mercury conjunct Venus/Lucifer/and Mars/S.Node of Lilath in Gemini this has caused her to be duplicit in her relationships with others, telling others what she felt/ feels they neede to hear, in order to fulfill her own desires. This duplicity has then manifested in all kinds of behavioral ways, and of course the causative dynamic in which she has attracted others who could be called 'silver tongue devils' who were/are full of their own duplicity. This is the cause of her attracting something like Trump who of course was fucking, oops, other women while being 'married' to her.
Of course she has been into total denial, Virgo, of her own reality, her own truth. Quite the opposite: she has set herself to be a 'victim' of those that she has formed relationships with in order to actualize her desires: Virgo. This is the 'why', Helena, of her Neptune and Jupiter being at zero in Sagittarius and Scorpio. In essence one of her 'skipped steps' is to stop being in denial of her own dynamics, and the reality she is responsible for creating by becoming totally honest with her truth, and the inner psychology within her that creates that actual truth. In that way she then recovers those skipped steps. The zero degrees of Neptune and Jupiter means that this is the first life that her Soul has created in order for that to happen.
With her N.Node being in Pisces, the ruler of that Neptune, and conjunct Trump's N.Node of Lucifer which is in his 7th House we can see yet again the 'icon' she has attracted again to fulfill her desires for social status and power. When she met Trump she was making not very much money by being a model who was trying to sell her own cosmetics. So by marrying him she went from that to being a vicarious extension of a billionaire, and the entire life shift for her this created.
Trump's N.Node of Lucifer is ruled by his 2nd House Neptune which conjuncts her Uranus in Libra, and Pluto in Virgo. That Uranus is ruled by her Venus which, again, is conjunct her Lucifer, Mars, and S.Node of Lilath. For him she is nothing more that a beautiful possession: a trophy wife. We can also see in these symbols the underlying Soul/ emotional, and psychological detachment she has from him because this is not a relationship based on actual or true love for either of them. It is a, to use Trump's psychology, a 'transactional' relationship for them both. They don't sleep in the same room or bed with one another, and Trump even locks the door that separates their two rooms at night.
TRANSACTIONAL DYNAMICS ARE THE VERY BREEDING GROUND THROUGH WHICH 'FAUSTIAN DEALS' ARE MADE.
Check this: Body language experts have hilarious takes on the "˜distant pained' marriage of the Trumps.. https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/body-language-experts-hilarious-takes-distant-pained-marriage-trumps/
Distorted Lilath indeed for Melania. The danger in this life is that her Soul will become so 'addicted' to the type of lifestyle she has because of Trump, all the recognition of her Soul has and is attracting to itself because of this, that she will go ahead a make an actual contract with Evil, Lucifer, in order to keep having this for as long as her Soul lives in this and other lives.
Her N.Node of Lilath is 9 Capricorn conjunct her Moon. Relative to the resolution of the distorted Lilath how would/ could this manifest ?
God Bless, Rad
Maybe I'm feeling giddy this morning but the image/reality of Trump locking his bedroom door against Melania is giving me giggle fits! What's the poor boy afraid of anyway?
With NN Lillith conjunct Moon, 9th Cap: the positive reality would be for her to take responsibility, speak/be/walk the talk of the truth of who she is. The likelihood of that is slim: she could take the first steps though...that will take lifetimes to 'correct'.
Fact is: she wants the social standing, and has used others, manipulated others, lied etc to gain that 'power' and social standing: she does what she wants, acts how she wants, has adulation, etc & etc
She has used her Lillith rage to create realities that SHE wants, no matter the toll to others. She cannot see herself as she really is: she justifies her needs and wants & feels she 'deserves' them, because she is 'better'
The soul has evolved the current ego to further her negative Lillith agenda -
instead of being truthful(9th): she will lie
instead of taking responsibility(Cap.): she will blame others and play victim
instead of showing compassion to others(moon): she will trample them down & gloat at her superiority
She has a choice to see her behavior and change: be honest, take responsibility and understand we are all created equal....but, I am not real optimistic she will: she simply - like her jacket said: doesn't care
Does the 9th rule contracts, or is it 3rd/gemini?
Here/there I've heard people say they 'feel sorry' for her, or sorta give her a pass, etc. on Trump: what I don't say, but think is: "Melania married Trump for a reason: and it's not because she was in love with him."
I do see her as a thorn to him: thus locking the door.
If she is so close to a contract herself: I see her as being very very angry that Trump even became president: she married him for the perks, money, power, famous friends, etc.
Here Trump is: the one who made the contract...to her, he may be 'failing' her and what she agreed to by becoming president: he is having all of his 'empire' and lies fall down around him. It's possible his fortune will be lost, the family name worthless. Then where will she be? She is incredibly angry about all this...Guess we'll see how it all plays out...
Trump was sorta her 'god' which is to say 'demon': and he's failing her...maybe why his door is locked!!!
Of course this could lead her going to the 'real deal': evil itself, then she won't need the middle man
Also: I had mentioned she had an 'inhuman' look...in the folklore of the 'fae' folk they frequently had what was called 'glamour': they could put up a shield, make themselves appear to other than they are: to dazzle....reminds me of her
(edit here: I thought this week I would lose internet, probably next week: just saying as I know sometimes there is a wait for others to post: if you don't hear from me: I don't have internet: just FYI, thanks)
Hi All,
Rad thank you for posting this extreme example of a distorted Lilith in Gemini in Melania Trump.
We have quite a spirited dialogue going with respect to what we are all witnessing in living, breathing color on the world stage.
Her story is a reminder that life and evolution is about choices. Even her choice making planet, MARS, is in GEMINI, which restates her instinct for duplicity. There is always a shadow behind her smile.
Nerissa, contracts is Saturn/Capricorn.
You wrote
Maybe I'm feeling giddy this morning but the image/reality of Trump locking his bedroom door against Melania is giving me giggle fits! What's the poor boy afraid of anyway?
There are symbols that reflect past lives of him being stabbed in his sleep or when he least expected it by a woman. Yes, I agree that she is not as powerless as she appears to some. At the very least his throat has been slit when he didn't see it coming.
Those Cancer symbols in the 11th reflect his PTSD along these lines and the element of surprise.
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Rad spoke of the danger of her addictions to a lavish lifestyle and where that can lead. Yes, her Lucifer in Gemini conjunct her Venus in Taurus inconjunct her Jupiter Rx in Scorpio speaks of this weak link of her obsession for the material world and true gluttony within it.
It does appear that she got way more than she ever bargained for in becoming First Lady. It was the last thing she ever wanted or thought could happen. She had a look of horror and shock after Trump won and it took a long time (was it a year?) to leave NY and move into the White House. There is nothing about that post that she enjoys except the title although it forces her to PRETEND (Neptune sq the nodes) that she loves him yet it is clear she is repulsed by the man.
Her Neptune and Jupiter being at zero in Sagittarius and Scorpio is like waking up from a nightmare, yet the nightmare is real. She looks miserable. It can only be this misery that makes her stop and ask herself if any of it is worth it.
Her Neptune Rx, ruler of her NN, is in Sagittarius and moving INTO a square to her Nodes at the 10 degree mark, so the degree of disillusionment linked with power and fame is only beginning. This Neptune opposes a stunning stellium along these lines: Mars in Gemini, SN of Lilith in Gemini, Lucifer Venus, and Mercury in Taurus. Also, her North Node of Lilith and the Moon in Capricorn natally square Uranus in Libra.
These symbols also reflect the possibility of her losing EVERYTHING due to a dethroning of Trump as a result of his financial corruption.
~Kristin
P.S.
Rad you asked
Her N.Node of Lilath is 9 Capricorn conjunct her Moon. Relative to the resolution of the distorted Lilath how would/ could this manifest ?
In its purest form for the resolution of the distortion of NN of Lilith in Capricorn conjunct would be for her to take responsibility for the life she creates and to use her position of authority to empower women. I will allow space for others to say more.
Wow, Kristin! Yikes, about that @ Trump fearing his throat cut in the night. Guess he does have reason to fret.
I posted earlier: Melania is what he deserves....
Thanks: I thought Jupiter would be contracts, or even Mercury.....
I agree: Trump's downfall will be her crossroads moment....
Also: how do we find asteroid motion relative to other planets - for instance, I thought they'd be slower than Pluto, but appears some at least are quicker: re: Lucifer for instance....
Do most asteroids have a consistent relative motion to the other planets? Generally true most of them are quicker relative to, say, Pluto?
Asking to understand phasal relationships between the planets.....thanks
Hi Nerissa,
When I said contracts were Saturn/Capricorn, I was referring to the enforcement of contracts and the legal obligations within them. The contract of itself is actually SCORPIO.
You wrote:
Do most asteroids have a consistent relative motion to the other planets? Generally true most of them are quicker relative to, say, Pluto? Asking to understand phasal relationships between the planets
Yes.
Most asteroids sit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and so their motion or orbit tends to range between 3-5 years. Asteroid Lilith is 4-5 years.
They are always faster than the outer planets.
The Nodes motion of Asteroid Lilith are not consistent which is why the Nodes are not 180 degrees apart as we see with the Lunar Nodes.
~Kristin
Hi All,
Kristin, that is strong information of trump having that kind of death(?) in the past. When Rad asks what the possibilities are on the nn Lilith symbol at 9 Cap, i see right away that symbol sitting right on top of trump's pallas and opposite his mercury in the 11th, square his neptune, juno, chiron, jupiter in the 2nd. Are these symbols also referring to this?
I was trying to follow on the posts and also trying to make sense for myself of all the information. Nerissa, i do see your point in that she does not signed or likes the job she has now..
Although in this case i think Melania differs from trump in the degree of damage both of them do or can do to others. And that would be the difference between making the contact and flirting with it.
She can do some damage to him, but i don't see her hurt more then close others and disappoint trump supporters. At least in this life her degree of influence if quite limited, also one of evil tactics. It's when people sink down and feel powerless that that sort of temptations appear. In her case, she kind of got to the top of the pyramid in the context of what her beliefs allow her to, from an extreme distorted lilith perspective in an extreme patriarchal scenario. Her Lucifer is on her sn lilith in gemini. She has certainly felt powerless, then the temptations of using tactics to get more power, in her case power over information and misrepresentation, like Rad mentioned, mercury, SN ruler on all those planets and sn lilith, being the symbol of lying to please others and being lied to at the same time. Cunning might be the word.
If we see the chart with the focus on her distorted/resolution female roots, it's difficult to see anything other but this going down and very dark before or even if it gets better, so i will do a proposal more on the imaginary side...
With her nn lilith in Capricorn conjunct natal moon, she has the possibility to restore her female roots based on the complete restructuring of her own sense of authority when she develops INNER SECURITY. Inner Security for her, means she has to renounce all she has accomplished so far relative to her marriage to someone like trump, this renouncement creating the necessary detachment to acknowledge the reasons, emotional and psychologically, to be there in the first place. For example to recognise the fact that this was a marriage based on gaining what she thought she could not give from herself to herself so she went out to get it from him, even when she felt repulsed by the consequences of it as seen in the fake smile (and as i writing this i am also seeing these events as her own self-undermining/virgo).
It will also mean that she will suffer significant trauma and wound in this process relative to her relationships and mostly her relationship to her son. This is nn lilith/moon t-square uranus in libra/ceres and chiron in aries. This trauma will also correlate to she getting older and less attractive at same time this is happening, so a complete change of her self image/wound to the physical body image. This sort of trauma is necessary from an evolutionary point of view because of the skipped steps resolution concerning seeing the truth beyond any illusion she has been setting for herself. I would not see that as becoming immediately inner secure to carry on by her own means, that why this process could be very long, nonetheless just start getting rid of the junk will get things ending so they can re-start at some point. Neptune retrograde at 0 degrees can certainly make this look like an never ending process from the point of view of the soul and since nn lilith is conjunct moon that recovery will also concern the mother/son relationship and archetypally to her giving birth to a new self.
In the imaginary proposal i was alluding to she has in fact the possibility to turn the story upside down. In that nn lilith on trump's pallas and all those oppositions and squares, no wonder he locks the door, because she can speak. She knows secrets and he might have locked the door too late. Her Kassandra being on his pluto confirms this too, although he will certainly try to make everyone doubt her. Again if she tells what she knows she might lose her position, money and status but she can turn the victim into the hero if her desires reflect purity of intentions in getting rid of it all, she can be empowered by her own roots and empower other women as Kristin mentions, at least from a soul point of view. Again probably fantasy given the context, but who knows?
Helena
Hi Helena,
The locked bedroom door is more about the 'King's' fear of being assassinated or poisoned by someone. I will have Rad speak more to that.
You wrote:
With her nn lilith in Capricorn conjunct natal moon, she has the possibility to restore her female roots based on the complete restructuring of her own sense of authority when she develops INNER SECURITY. Inner Security for her, means she has to renounce all she has accomplished so far relative to her marriage to someone like trump, this renouncement creating the necessary detachment to acknowledge the reasons, emotional and psychologically, to be there in the first place. For example to recognize the fact that this was a marriage based on gaining what she thought she could not give from herself to herself so she went out to get it from him, even when she felt repulsed by the consequences of it as seen in the fake smile
Yes, imagine the challenge of starting all over again yet with NN of Lilith in Capricorn, she has been learning how to be in a man's world, she has been learning how to play the game, so she does know more than a thing or two now. To become her own inner authority is key. She has gained a great deal of leverage and we know this because when she wants something, she appears to get it.
It all comes down to what anything is worth to a Soul and for her something has to mean enough that she finally 'sees the light'. With her SN of the Moon in Virgo, she does not what it feels like to have nothing and to be nothing, or to feel like she will never amount to anything. I am wondering if those memories will ever lead to compassion, NN in Pisces, versus where things stand now.
Yes, hmmm...to turn the story upside down. She has already done that once. She was able to go from rags to riches. She can take those riches now and do something substantial with it. She surely can, but will she?
~Kristin
Hi All,
US NEWS BRIEF
Nancy Pelosi just regained Speaker of the House yesterday and reclaimed the gavel.
49 women gained seats, 48 of which were DEMOCRATS.
I feel a new wind blowing with Uranus retrograde at the tail end of Aries. Uranus stations direct in Aries on Monday, Jan.7. Prepare for a sea change of energy.
Nancy Pelosi is going to be 79 this year and she shows the men again why 'She's Boss'.
Pelosi's Original Lilith in 28 Cancer and it is conjunct PLUTO in Leo, she is nurturing the BLUE WAVE and the message that so many American want to hear. Her voice will be critical now to make the emotional and psychological shifts that this world needs.
She said, "We aren't building a wall, that's not who we are."
With her North Node of Lilith at 9 degrees of Capricorn, she has been and will be going toe to toe with Trump. She is a woman in a man's world and she is in charge again.
Her NN of Lilith is in Capricorn (just like Melania) a vivid example of how these energies can play out in light and in shadow.
Look at the image of our FUTURE ~ Minorities and Women.
GOP strategist freaks out that Dem majority "˜looks like our future' while GOP "˜looks like a board meeting' from the 1950s.
A new wind is indeed blowing!
~Kristin
Hi everyone, thank you for all the posts especially the ones about Lilith. I can see I have a lot to catch up on. I just read the posts about Melania Trump and I started to reflect on the Taurus archetype. In her case I wonder if a great emptiness within her (Pluto/Virgo and SN/Virgo) is contributing to her overcompensating by filling up that emptiness with excessive materialism, resulting in an addiction to the luxe lifestyle. Surely living a lie just to feed an addiction must be adding to the guilt she is already experiencing within her soul. With her Venus in Taurus I am curious as to why her basic survival instinct has not trumped (ahem) her desire for a fancy lifestyle. Is she not aware of her husband's allegiance to Satan? If she is, it is stunning to think she is suppressing her survival instinct to live with someone so absolutely dangerous just so she can be materially gratified. Or is she in denial about his satanism? I also wonder why, if she is so attracted to that kind of lifestyle, she does not make the effort to make it happen on her own through Taurus self-effort. Taurus laziness perhaps? Virgo deep feelings of inadequacy? Maybe both. A practicing addict will do anything for their fix until someone intervenes or the light breaks through. Let's hope that light does break through for Mrs. T.
Hi Helena,
Trump in certain prior lives has been murdered 'unexpectedly' in different ways, For example, in the life when he was the 1st Italian King, Odoacer, he met up with a Germain King who had defeated him in a battle for a dinner. At that dinner, in the German King's place, his throat was slit by that King 'unexpectedly'. He dies and his last words were 'where is God'.
With his Lucifer, Venus, and Saturn in Cancer in the 11th, ruled by his 4th House Moon in Sagittarius with the Lunar South Node and the S.Node of Uranus, these sudden, cataclysmic, traumatic events occurred in environments that he thought he could trust including family environments. These are ruled by his 2nd House Jupiter/ Neptune conjunction in Libra which is conjunct his S.Node of Mars. This is Melania's natal Uranus.
In other lives he has been poisoned, killed in his sleep with a knife, and another had his genitals mutilated where he ended up bleeding to death.
This sort of stuff is symbolized by his Mars in Leo in the 12th.
God Bless, Rad
Hi DDD,
In her case I wonder if a great emptiness within her (Pluto/Virgo and SN/Virgo) is contributing to her overcompensating by filling up that emptiness with excessive materialism, resulting in an addiction to the luxery lifestyle. Surely living a lie just to feed an addiction must be adding to the guilt she is already experiencing within her soul.
Yes, this is true. But remember too she is in the 3rd state consensus evolutionary state.
With her Venus in Taurus I am curious as to why her basic survival instinct has not trumped (ahem) her desire for a fancy lifestyle.
It is in fact that very survival instinct that has lead to exactly what she has and is doing by way of actualizing her desire for power and social status, and all the wealth that comes with it.
Is she not aware of her husband's allegiance to Satan?
No, she is not. She does not have that awareness at all. And remember too that those who have made a contract with Lucifer do all they can to hide it with the assistance of Lucifer itself.
I also wonder why, if she is so attracted to that kind of lifestyle, she does not make the effort to make it happen on her own through Taurus self-effort. Taurus laziness perhaps? Virgo deep feelings of inadequacy? Maybe both.
Remember her Mercury in Taurus, the ruler of her Lunar S.Node in Virgo, is conjunct Lucifer in Gemini with her Mars, and S.Node of Lilath. The 'influence' of Evil/Lucifer manifesting as the very desires, Mars, that has set in motion the lives that have lead to being Mrs. Trump. An example of the type of 'thought', Mercury, that this influence creates in her consciousness is the thought 'you are bigger than this', or 'you can be bigger than this', or 'you are so much more than this'. These types of thoughts manifesting relative to her life conditions that she has tried to create on her own that are so much more limited or small as compared to the types of lives that others in social power, status, and wealth have. This life itself reflects this because of her own efforts to make a living as a model selling her own cosmetics which was very limited as compared to becoming Mrs. Trump.
Understanding all this we can now understand too why her natal Lilath is conjunct Trump's 10th House Sun, Lunar North Node, and Uranus. In essence her current Lilath reflecting her existing distortions creates a dynamic wherein in Trump is a 'perfect', Lunar South Node in Virgo, vehicle for her to satisfy and actualize her Lucifer induced desires for the great social power, status, and wealth that she currently, and in previous lives, has now, and has had before.
Her natal Lilath is in opposition to his natal Lilath in Sagittarius conjunct his Moon, Lunar South Node, and the S.Node of Uranus. One of the ways this manifested in their past is when she was pregnant with Baron and of course Trump was appalled at how her body then changed to something 'gross', from his point of view, and demanded she recover how her body looked before she was pregnant after Baron was born. And, of course, he got involved with other women, a Playboy model and a professional adult porn star, at that very time.
His Lilath in Sagittarius in the 4th conjunct his Moon, Lunar South Node, the S.Node of Uranus, and opposed his natal Uranus/Sun correlates to his rebellion against all natural women: the natural women. This is one of the reasons too of why he requires the women in his life to have un-natural breasts. He nees them to look like volley balls so that requires artificial surgery to make that happen. Melania was not allowed to breast feed in own child because of this.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad, thanks for responding in the way you did to my questions. Having these answers helps a lot in understanding the symbols. I could ask further questions but want to try to figure them out on my own. One thing I had not considered was the relative lack of awareness of self-deception implied in the consensus state in certain soul and life conditions. Thanks also to Kristin and everyone else for this valuable thread on Lilith. Namaste, DDD
Well - this is pretty interesting: I keep looking at this opposition from Trumps moon/lillith to this sun/nn/uranus in 10th gemini
I think his evolving ego is in opposition to his 'mission' - he is in denial (Aquarius on the 6th, Uranus conjunct that sun/nn) of his mission of inducing trauma...yet, the trauma he creates he revels in, within a very bizarre sado/masochistic manner....
He overcompensates - Jupiter ruling that moon, with these ideas of him being 'man of the people', eating (4th house) and the narcissism: Jupiter ruling the 5th....
He is indeed attracted to & identifies with the negative lillith: the rage, the vindictive behaviors: again, a very bizzare reality of sado/masochistic behavoirs...
Trump cannot and will not see who he really is: that moon opposite the 'mission' (sun/nn/uranus)....however one of his 'gifts' via evil could be that ability: to appear other than what he is....from the get-go people would say: 'oh he doesn't mean that' 'oh, he's just being 'tough'' 'he's just a maverick' NOPE
And the ruler of the moon/lillith: in the second with chiron and neptune - ruler venus, with saturn, cancer, 11th...to be honest: so much information there, hard to 'download' ;)
But, just how he 'stuffs his face' with food - taurus as comfort...value, the mother (cancer sign)
Also the trauma - cancer venus, saturn & lucifer in the 11th......squaring those libra planets: a childish soothing himself because of traumas, past life traumas: but soothing himself via the recognition of what he has done: the contract with evil
He wants to remain a child & act like he is simple, straight forward: so you cannot blame him....& that is how so many have taken him: 'he means well' etc
To be honest: looking at this chart: I do feel like it's 'download overload'.....I think I'll try to get thoughts together more coherently: I was going to make a simple thing about that moon - but, as with all charts: you tug one thread & it all unravels...wasn't prepared for that....
Thank you to all who are posting, your thoughts, insights.
Thanks Kristin - for guiding us!
And thank you Rad for knowledge we would otherwise not have
Hi Kristin, Rad, All,
Kristin, really great to see Nancy Pelosi chart with NN lilith at the exact same degree than that of Melania, thank you for sharing this. That NN lilith is opposite chiron, and this chiron is square the nodal axis. Do you see this a possible symbol of throwing off many many emotional wounds, crucial part of the skipped step resolution, relative to her own power and establishing her authority as a voice for women on restoring the application of natural law relative to the feminine, lilith also in cancer, scorpio moon? She does have jupiter conjunct the resolution node plus all that aries fire ruled by mars conjunct vesta, venus and uranus in taurus. Again a great counterpoint to the distorted taurus expressed by Melania's soul. A real example of perseverance in standing for what's right, for as long as it takes.
I kept thinking these last days, don't know if anyone has written on this i imagine so, on how chiron wounds could archetypally relate to the masculine polarity in all of us. I could be bias because my natal chiron is in aries. Anyhow i say this proposing that in a sense, the core wounding is in respect to all those parts in us that had to separate from the feminine in order for the species to evolve. And the difficulty and pain this represented and keeps representing in our evolution, wether we are male or female, and all distortions for the male and female origins within this process.
I first started making this association reflecting on the teachings of the Jung psychologist James Hollis relative "the wounding and healing of men" as he puts it and how these wounds are part of the masculine path, well integrated in indigenous cultures by the elders in rites of passage, and how distortions of the male energy occur when this process was/is denied instead of integrated since the loss of our origins. The process of denial representing the history of patriarchy itself. This occurring originally as consequence of the need for separation and transcendence of the initial merging with the feminine experienced through the mother.
Independently of how well this process goes for women and men, wounding could be significantly more powerful for men because women will need to actualise from their original nature/mother and men need to separate from it, at least in part. Don't know if this makes sense and i'm sure could lead to many roads...
Coincidently, after writing this i ended up checking chiron's appearance chart, 1977, and in that chart the moon at 9 degrees capricorn (NN lilith degree for Melania and Nancy) is square the nodal axis and pluto, lilith in aquarius is in exact square to chiron in taurus and still in opposition to mars in cancer.
It maybe a coincidence but we could make the point, not diverging much from the purposes of this thread, and pose some questions relative to how the masculine polarity, as a healthy and necessary expression, is a very significant part for the restoration of the female original roots, women developing it in themselves and in the social roles they represent, as well how this could open the field for equal necessary balance in men healing their wounds and positive integration of the feminine. No gender over the other and the end of expectations towards distorted gender roles.
Both women and men have lost access to their original natures and in result of considerable wounds so i see this making a bit of sense at least.
Rad, this most likely ends up going in direction to all that you shared on melania and trump's charts. Them being the exact opposite of what healthy integration and restoring mean. Thank you for all that information we could not have otherwise, i imagine you don't have an easy 'job' because just thinking about any possible solution for this gave me a light head and absolutely no mental energy... It was clear to me that things are as they are and there is only so much we can hope, although i'll share some thoughts.
I cannot help to acknowledge how the feminine is tremendously powerful of course, even in distorted expression and how trump's soul evolution can show just that relative to castration and the feeling of powerlessness. Can i ask if he had already made the contract when he died saying 'where is God'? I take no?
Women can be indeed very negatively powerful relative to the psyche of men and i failed to see that in Melania because of the pretense reality in which she lives and with who she shares her existence with, but i see it is exactly what she might have been in the context of the realities her soul has been creating, taking also from her SN mars/Sn uranus connection in his lilith/sn uranus/moon conjunction, that squaring her nodal axis. She might carry a lot of guilty with all the virgo placements and then keep going, with all the taurus. Even her pluto in the last degrees of virgo denote a sub-influence of taurus. Maintaing the status quo in the box at all costs. JWG, in the Pluto II book on the archetype of taurus and relationship essential needs, teaches "The sign of Taurus will be somewhere in the birth chart, and Venus will be in a house and sign, making its own aspects. In combination, these symbols correlate with how an individual can learn this vital lesson of self-sufficiency."
We could underline here the necessary learning. We do not come to life most of the times with our relationship with ourselves in place, so to speak. Actually i take from JWG's words that much of the relationship we have with ourselves is about learning who we really are and what are our unique resources by ourselves first. With SN lilith in gemini, if this learning is not aligned with natural law, Sagittarius, and with the soul's personal truth, it is all about unlearning from this source and that, borrowing, all that it is not. And this could be the case of Melania's soul and the danger for any soul avoiding to learn more about itself from the inside first.
It is vital we Learn, probably with trial and error seems like more unlearning then learning :-) taking all the distortions. To take the opportunity of south node moon in capricorn over the nodes of pluto/saturn, and jupiter in sagittarius, and make it a time to let go any borrowed old structure and let in the ones that honour our roots seems a good idea in any case..
Thank you also to everyone contributing to thread, Nerissa, Stacie, Ari, hi DDD! and Heather hope we can hear from you soon,
Helena
P.S. Just for reference, the chiron chart mentioned is the one used by Melanie Reinhart, first chiron appearance on photographic plate, October 18th 1977.
Hi Helena,
Trump made his contract with Lucifer just after his last life. So this is the first life in which he has gained the 'super natural' powers that come from that contract.
Relative to the wounds to men and women that you are pondering about, Chiron, remember that all that started once humans began to construct artificial beliefs versus the Natural Laws that are the very root of the manifest Creation in the first place. This began, again, when humans started to become sedentary relative to it's long history of being nomadic in nature. That began to happen when humans learned to cultivate seeds and learned how to breed animals for their own purposes. This was around 7,200 B.C.E. So all the accumulating wounds since that time originate from that time.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Helena,
That NN lilith is opposite chiron, and this chiron is square the nodal axis. Do you see this a possible symbol of throwing off many many emotional wounds, crucial part of the skipped step resolution, relative to her own power and establishing her authority as a voice for women on restoring the application of natural law relative to the feminine, lilith also in cancer, Scorpio moon?
Yes, I see this Chiron in Cancer squaring the Nodes, as her being silenced by men, there are many wounds around not being heard or taken seriously. Her Pluto in Leo is also forming a disseminating square to Saturn in Taurus, nearly to the minute. Her Mercury Rx in Pisces opposing her Neptune in Virgo, and the asteroid Kassandra is Rx in Scorpio and and is conjunct her Moon. Metaphorically it's like she was locked up in a room and they threw away the key. So yes, she has come to recover her voice and her power as a woman in the world, not just for her but for those who do not have a voice or a platform to speak.
Pelosi has also been through some gender switch so she could learn for herself how to operate like a man, which is why this woman does so well in a man's world. She is un-phased. Did you see her in the Oval Office how she took on Trump?
She also has Pallas Athene in Cancer conjunct her Original Lilith, these two symbols sextile her Uranus, Venus and Mars in Taurus, which explains her ability to out-wit her male opponent.
how the masculine polarity, as a healthy and necessary expression, is a very significant part for the restoration of the female original roots, women developing it in themselves and in the social roles they represent, as well how this could open the field for equal necessary balance in men healing their wounds and positive integration of the feminine. No gender over the other and the end of expectations towards distorted gender roles.
I agree, so much of the wounding on our planet is a result of imbalance of gender ie. male dominance and the suppression of the natural power of the feminine. Also when the male energy is distorted in a woman and where that can lead.
Women like Pelosi, as well as the other 49 women in the US who just earned political posts are giving other women the courage to step into more masculine revered roles in society. This will also remind men of the vital necessity for gender healing. By integrating both genders equally, we maximize the whole.
Peace,
Kristin
P.S. Fascinating about the first appearance of Chiron's chart ~ says it all!
Hey All,
So we would like to move forward in developing this thread and our understanding of the Lilith archetype.
For this next step, we would like you to discuss the Cancer Archetype as we look at the South Node of Lilith in Cancer in this context. We will discuss distortions and Resolutions in the posts that follow. For now, simply discuss the Cancer Archetype itself in relation to a South Node of Lilith: the NATURAL ARCHETYPE OF CANCER.
Remember that whatever the sign that the South Node of Lilith is in is how that Soul was trying to actualize the inherent archetypes of Lilith before. The point is that any given soul, in whatever lifetime, has a past and present life and has chosen an archetype to do that through relative to their ongoing ea journey.
I will post an example in the next few days but wanted to give you a head's up so you could be thinking about it.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Rad, Kristin
Thank you for your answers. Rad, after reading i remembered you already mentioned this right when trump was elected i think, so my apologies for asking again. In his case we can very well see the implications of competition frame of mind versus cooperation and were it leads to in an extreme.
I understand what you mean. Chiron wounds tend to be hard to define in general, there are many viewpoints, but makes sense to me from this perspective and the times your refer. Now chiron will go into aries and all the capricorn being transited, i tend to see them as a very important layer, referring to the masculine polarity/integration, from all we've been discussing relative to lilith and the feminine and moon's NN in cancer. The inherent strength of courageous vulnerability that many are already bringing forth, like the many women's movements showing their bodies as they naturally are without shame for not fitting standards, actually quite the opposite, with proudness and sensuality for not fitting them.
Kristin, sorry if i am a bit late here as we are moving into the next step in the thread, but i just wish also to thank you too for your views on Nancy Pelosi's chart, it's a great example and i agree with you that she is one of the few people we have seen publicly and live in direct opposition to trump standing for her truth! What always impresses me the most when i see it is the firm standing people need to have to stand near evil itself. And in her case definitely lilith/pallas/pluto ruled by sun aries, moon scorpio. In EA we have the bigger picture, hard for this picture to go mainstream :-), but i think everyone feels a natural repulsion. One thing i think would be really cool is for someone to do a documentary on what felt like, body sensations, on meeting the current president of the United States. All these leaders that for better or good are not evil, what did they felt like? Would be great to watch.
Also Kristin, this might be a bit unrelated, but you are the only astrologer i have heard in other occasions mentioning the kite pattern that i don't know much about. Pelosi has this pattern very strongly emphasised, could you speak a bit about it?
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Helena,
A Kite in flight rises above the Earth, it rises above where it has been and it has the ability to climb in altitude with the help of the wind due of its shape.
If a chart has this pattern, notice the planets or asteroids that sit at each point of the kite. In Pelosi's case, she has Uranus, Venus, Vesta and Mars in Taurus all at the tip of her kite. This speaks to her focus for democracy and her fight for what is fair for the people. Her Scorpio Moon is at the tail representing a woman who has come to get her power back and to bring the power of who she was in the past forward.
She has Pallas Athene and Lilith at one point with the North Node of Pluto and North Node of Saturn in Cancer and on the other point, she has Mercury retrograde in Pisces, reflecting themes of recovering her voice as a woman and being a voice for the masses in America.
The Kite reflects an energy of support, seen in the Grand Trine and two sextiles, to actualize these intentions, which she has manifested through her determination and her efforts.
Of course we need to start with the Pluto paradigm and notice that the ruler of her South Node, Mars, is balsalmic to the ruler of her North Node, Venus and they sit at the tip of her kite. She has reached impressive heights with her work already. She has clearly, even in this life, risen above where she has been.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi All,
Just came across this image from an article about how Fear is abused in politics. I was taken by it in terms of what we have been working on here in this Lilith thread. It reminds me of Pelosi's chart with respect to these themes of being silenced in her past lives which I shared in a prior post.
In essence though, this is image reflects an archetype for what has occurred for women everywhere for thousands of years. Capricorn Man having Control over the Cancer Woman, ultimately leading to her not having a voice.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Kristin, I agree that image says it all. It immediately reminded me of that part of Christie Blasey Ford's testimony in front of that lineup of white republican men when she described Brett Kavanaugh putting his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming for help while he was sexually assaulting her. That man now sits on the Supreme Court. DDD
Hi All,
Here are a few excellent moves that perfectly reflect this trinity we are working on with Lilith: Original, Distorted, and the Resolution, within context of these times.
DISOBEDIENCE
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
https://www.amazon.com/Disobedience-Rachel-Weisz/dp/B07CLGLPJ3/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1547310488&sr=1-1&keywords=the+movie+disobedience+prime+video
You can get it from Netflix too
SAMI'S BLOOD
Sami blood.. 1930s Sweden. 14-year-old Sami girl Elle Marja and her sister are torn from their indigenous reindeer-herding family and placed in a government-run boarding school. There Elle dreams of education, of a future, only to find herself classed as racially inferior. When she attempts to escape one world of prejudice and another of old traditions, she learns the true cost of freedom.
Sami Blood .. prime video .. amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-English-Subtitled-Cecilia-Sparrok/dp/B079C1396D/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1547310295&sr=8-6&keywords=the+movie+sami+blood+prime+video
You can get it too from Netflix.
~Kristin
Greetings All,
We are now at our next step and will be discussing the Archetype of Cancer as we begin to explore the South Node of Lilith in Cancer. Please read through what I have shared and ask any questions if you wish. Please then fill in whatever you feel I have missed and develop this archetype through your own feeling lens.
We will discuss the distorted and the Resolution for South Node of Lilith in Cancer in a separate post.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
The Natural Archetype of CANCER: Self-Knowledge through the Emotional Body
The Dalai Lama says he considers himself a feminist and would like to see more women leaders because he thinks women are often innately more sensitive and peaceful.
"I insist that women should carry a more active role," he said. "If eventually most of the leaders of different nations are female, maybe we'll be safer." The South Node of Lilith in Cancer Soul has been learning how to first cultivate that feeling of safety within herself. She has known to be
wet behind the ears, especially as it relates to her emotional development. She is a woman who was ready to take a dive into her emotional body and inwardly rise up within herself through her own efforts. She has a high degree of emotional vulnerability and she has been learning to find a way to feel safe enough and inwardly strong enough in the world on her own as a woman. It's not enough to talk about it now, she wants to feel it in full, and what it means to be a woman in every way.
She is learning to minimize emotional dependencies so she can establish more security within herself. This requires her to feel all the way through whatever emotion arises on her own so she can find strength in this space. Yet much of life will be testing her growth at every turn for the tides will push her into vulnerable corners that she herself will be responsible to crawl out from within. The South Node of Cancer/ 4th house is a cardinal archetype and thus represents a chapter is closing, and a new evolutionary chapter is birthing itself.
Because of the new, these Souls will be highly emotionally vulnerable and inwardly wobbly in the world until a total state of emotional self security is realized. In essence, she has been learning how to walk emotionally, similar to a baby taking its first steps, so her growth will become a two steps forward, one step back process. Because Cancer/Capricorn connects to gender, it may also be that in prior lives this woman was a man and is learning now to develop the other side of gender in order to balance both sides in full.
If not, then the evolutionary intent is to access the natural inner male and integrate it within her ongoing actualization of her own femininity. The evolutionary intent is to become equally male and female and to cultivate both sides of the whole. Another reason for the insecurity may be due to not feeling at home in this new gender, hormones included, especially given how patriarchal cultures have defined masculinity and femininity.
She knows that the only way to evolve is to get naked and enter the river of emotion, which equals letting go of the mind and allowing the water to lead her more deeply into her tender center. Cancer initiates the water trinity that opens emotional channels into the Soul, and then further into her connection to Spirit. She wants to feel a direct connection to the Mother, and the oneness of her origins, which reflects the law of duality and her need to return to the safety of the womb. The cardinal archetype naturally wants to initiate and to explore but she will experience a frequent swing between the extremes of the desire to separate and the desire to return: to go home. Her reaction to the freedom of what was set in motion, and a need to immediately return is a result of her need to feel safe and secure.
South Node of Lilith in Cancer wants to feed and feel that union with the Whole. She is learning the fastest way to experience wholeness, and her own holiness, is through the act of surrender; surrendering to the emotional current, the full YIN experience that will lead her back home to herself, and back to the sea. She is learning to gain the inner strength to enter spaces out of desire ( Aries and Scorpio) versus emotional need and dependence ( the insecure child manifesting through Cancer ). She desires to harness her own feeling of freedom to express her greatest vulnerabilities knowing this is where ultimate strength is found.
She is PURE EMOTION. Similar to being in the center of a wave that swells and crashes on the surface of the sand, she feels everything and her moods can ebb and flow with the cross currents that come with being one with the tides. She feels her way through life first and it is her emotional body that influences her thoughts and her every move. Her emotional state shifts with the phases of the Moon, and with each shift she is learning more about her emotional weak links and reminded of where the inner work needs to be done. Anytime she expresses an energy of dependency of any kind, she will find herself inevitably thrown back upon herself.
Due to her heightened sensitivity, she has a fear of being vulnerable. She is introverted in nature and will retreat into her shell for safety when the outside world becomes too much. The South Node of Lilith in Cancer's emotional reactions linked with her insecurity can have her alternating between seeking out people and environments who she expects to fulfill displaced emotional needs, or she seeks out others who she can dominate and control in order to feel secure: to make others dependent upon her.
In her healthiest expression, she knows how to nurture every space she enters, and is tender beyond measure. She has the capacity to create a space of safety for the ones she loves. She embodies the feeling of home. In fact HOME IS EVERYTHING to her; the hearth, the stove, the smells, the sounds. It is the womb that she creates where she finds safety, solace and comfort. Her home is her heaven which includes the Souls of family who share that space with her.
In essence, a woman with a South Node of Lilith in Cancer has desired to express the intrinsic nature of FEMININITY, inwardly actualizing the pure emotion of the feminine and the embodiment of the feminine. This will include a desire to bear children and to be a mother herself, and to know that experience in full. The feeling of life within her womb will double the experience of being a woman and her role in contributing to new life itself. One example of a natural expression of how this archetype is expressed in the context of society in terms of work could be a Soul who chooses to be a mid-wife.
The polarity is the 10th house/Capricorn, which reflects a Soul who is learning self determination and to walk on her own two feet. She is learning to take responsibility for her own actions which leads to emotional maturity. Her sense of identity will come through actualizing her right work in the world which includes establishing her personal authority and individuality in the context of society. The child becomes an adult. Instead of looking for others to make it happen for her, she digs in and makes it happen on her own and for herself.
SEXUALITY A feeling of safety occurs directly through touch, not talk. You can know exactly how she is feeling through the essence of her own touch. Her touch on your skin can be warm, deeply comforting and re-assuring.
It is essential for a woman with a South Node of Lilith in Cancer to feel emotionally secure when opening herself up in intimacy. Trust is paramount and it is the pure exchange of emotion that will open the door to her shell and allow her to slip into those vulnerable spaces with another. An emotional connection that is rooted in trust must precede the sexual act.
As opposed to the cardinal archetype of Aries, she cannot just jump right in, she needs warming up, which occurs slowly and through emotional harmonizing with her partner. An initial feeling of safety can also occur through soft holding and caressing without sexual intent as well as soothing whispers. Once she softens and trusts, stronger holding and kissing follows, which is her foreplay where her own lips or those of another are allowed time to express and explore the body. She will have a strong oral orientation during foreplay and will desire to be touched by her partner through oral stimulation of her breasts and yoni. She will have a strong orientation to using her lips and her mouth as well on the male organ which connects back to a child's need to bond with a mother at birth through breast feeding and the security it creates.
It may be too that her South Node of Lilith in Cancer represents her desire to experience being with a woman sexually so she can feel in full what it means to BE a woman and to pleasure a woman.
Once the feeling gates are open and she is emotionally resonating with their partner, she can experience a deeply permeating erotic union that combines the power of emotion with the sexual senses.
Following a sexual act, she will need to be held closely and in a full body way similar to a baby being held known as "spooning", so all of the emotional and physical sensations from the sexual exchange can be cradled in a bubble that allows her to feel safe and secure, and not judged, as a result of allowing herself to become so vulnerable.
Ultimately, she is learning to lose her fear of being vulnerable, which is what submersing herself into the water of emotion is all about. She is learning that
WATER is Life's Greatest Sustainer, and the deeper she travels the more empowered she will be. She is learning the more OPEN she becomes, the more centered and balanced she will feel.
It is this feeling of balance that generates a feeling of inner security, and an inner feeling of comfort of who she is. This will then allow her to generate this same feeling of security and safety not only within her own family but in the lives of her tribe, her community or her country.
***There is not much evidence left on the planet where natural tribes remain in place, tribes who equally honor women, but I was amazed to discover in recent years an ancient natural tribe where women were praised, if not exalted, for being women in the clan. The Zo'e tribe in the Amazon, a natural tribe of people living deep in the rain forests of Brazil, first met outsiders in 1982 after having no interaction with the outside world, when evangelical missionaries made contact. Ironically, or not, they were decimated by disease soon after, their numbers are now growing again. What I find so honoring of the role of women, is that their men and their boys dress up as a woman the day a baby is being born to present a sincere tribute to femininity. The boys walk around the tribe dressed in woman's garb for a few weeks following the birth of the baby. Even if the little new born is a boy, he will also be crowned as a queen.
Kristin: what you posted about this tribe brings to mind something I've been trying to articulate....in between feeling I might be offending some, or simply misunderstand, plus difficulty in expressing myself I've not said anything.
Back when the thread first began I was wondering what exactly was 'natural' - that we are so far from it: do we even know anymore....
Souls are male/female love/evil etc etc: microcosm of the whole.....
but each soul has a specific reason or desire to either be male or female in a human body - it is NOT the same experience or will fulfill the same purposes, the sexes are not necessarily interchangeable
Naturally speaking it would seem that the female of the human NATURALLY embodies both male/female attributes...it is natural for a woman to express whatever is culturally determined to be either male or female according to her desires: even in this culture..finally now: a woman can and does do both what is considered 'female' and what was once the dominion of only the 'male': this is natural
Whereas the male of the human species is NOT within his physical form 'both' like a female is - he is 'singular': one of the most important emotional/psychological spiritual needs for a male is to make a RELATIONSHIP to the female - not necessarily literally, but within himself. But his role is always MALE - in relationship to the needs of the female: ie, the whole
So, it's become backwards nowadays really: that a female can only be what society deems 'feminine' and must relate to a male god...
IN A NATURAL CULTURE
it is the male who realizes he must make a relationship within & without to the female who is the WHOLE
It does seem at least, that women, by right of their actual human bodies, NATURALLY have the capacities & identities of the entire WHOLE
Not sure I am articulating this well...& hope I'm not offending anyone
Also, while I'm here I wish to say, that RE: what Rad said about Trump's last life, or the inbetween being when he made a contract with evil is what I think I was picking up on in a previous post: that moon opposite sun/nn/uranus.....his ego is resisting the 'mission' evil has given him according to his own choices - within that symbol though you can see where he is 'evolving' toward nonetheless....
Editing to add: 'self-image' was the word with Trump & his moon/4th that I could not recall: his self-image is in opposition to the 'mission' evil has gave him....
Hi Nerissa,
We need to remember that the ego manifests from the Soul itself: it is not separate from it. It is the desires of the soul within Trump that are the causative determinants that have lead to his making the contract with Lucifer. The ego or self image generated from his Soul is not in opposition to itself. The 'mission', as you put it, is a function of his own Soul desires. And his Soul is responsible for those desires and choices. Being responsible for his own choices is that which Trump's Soul and ego is in denial of. It is in denial because his Soul NEEDS TO FEEL LIKE IT IS A VICTIM to anything or anyone that stands in his way of actualizing his core Soul desires for absolute power and domination of others. His Soul has and does consider itself to be a Zarathustra: a super human Soul who is superior to all others with the exception of a few like himself. This is why he like to be buddies with other evil Souls like Putin, etc.
His Soul needs to feel like a victim because it is through that dynamic that he has and can justify anything that he does relative to his desire to be that Zarathustra with absolute power and dominion over others. In essence, what he is opposing is accepting the responsibility in his own actions which is the very essence of the lessons that correlate with his North Lunar Node, Sun, and Uranus in his 10th House.
It is his own Soul's desires for ABSOLUTE POWER OVER OTHERS, TO BE A ZARATHUSTRA, THAT IS THE CAUSE OF HIM MAKING THAT CONTRACT WITH EVIL/ LUCIFER. His Soul can make itself a VICTIM TO ITSELF relative to being in denial of making that contract in the first place.
Relative to your thoughts/ questions about what is natural to be male or female simply remember the core and underlying natural law: it is the female principle that is the origin of life including the archetype of being male. Thus, the totality of the female archetype IS WITHIN THE MALE ITSELF just as the totality of the male is WITHIN THE FEMALE BECAUSE IT IS THE FEMALE THAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE MALE. The male gender is not just one thing, just as the female in not just one thing. There is a natural diversity of archetypes that are specific to the female gender just as that is true for the male gender.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Kristin,
makes total sense now, the kite pattern, thank you for taking the time to explain it in Pelosi's chart. Great example, and i agree with DDD, that picture exactly describes current reality still today. I ended up thinking that the kite pattern can be too the intelligence within the soul to grow 'wings' around that initial opposition right?
Thank you too for the film links! I aim be able to post in a few days on this new segment.
Helena
Hi All,
When I was drafting the Cancer piece, I was reminded of a song that speaks so well to this archetype:
WARM WHISPERS by Australian musician Missy Higgins.
and Guess what ?
She has South Node of Lilith in Cancer (Mars in Cancer too)
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnSsILubpag&start_radio=1&list=RDNnSsILubpag&t=150
and for a more wild/edgy live version..she really comes out of her shell at the end and accesses that square to Aries, and then the shy Cancer in her quietly crawls back in her shell again, two steps forward, one step back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycNBnqI1mY
"Warm Whispers"
Your warm whispers
Out of the dark they carry my heart
Your warm whispers
Into the dawn they carry me through
And I'm weeping warm honey and milk
That you stay surrounding me, surrounding me
Your warm whispers
Letting me drown in a pool of you
Your warm whispers
Keeping the noise from breaking through
And I'm weeping warm honey and milk
That you stay surrounding me, surrounding me
Yeah I'm weeping warm honey and milk that you
Stay surrounding me
Your warm whispers
Your warm whispers
And I'm weeping warm honey and milk
Your warm whispers
Yeah, I'm weeping warm honey and milk
Your warm whispers
Oh, yeah. Oh, whoa
Oh, yeah. Oh, whoa
(But you're gone)
Your warm whispers
(But you're gone, you're gone
You're gone you're gone
You're gone you're gone)
Your warm whispers
(But you're gone, you're gone and
You're gone you're gone and
You're gone you're gone)
Your warm whispers
(But you're gone, you're gone and
You're gone you're gone and
You're gone you're gone)
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Thank you, Rad!
Yes, I was thinking more about his Moon ruled by Jupiter: that he has this inflated self-image he can justify with all manner of beliefs/belief systems....the ruler in 2nd: that reinforce his own inner sense of need/worth to maintain this inner fiction (Neptune there too: seems pretty clear)....& that Venus in the 11th/Cancer: goes back to that Sun/nn/uranus as well: entirely tied into that dynamic just described - the 'mission' and the justification for that mission based on ego-aggrandizement coupled with trauma: and the utter intention of creating mass trauma for others: in the future he will be the figure head of other mass-movements...
He is described as a 'stress-eater': looking at those cancer/11th/jupiter/second house: could it be more clear??
It is also interesting to see the dynamic of 'denial' ie, Virgo: it rules the second (self worth, relation to the self), Mercury rules the sun/nn/uranus 'contract' dynamic, it is in the 11th (trauma & within that sado-maschoism) in cancer (his self-image) and the sixth is ruled by.....Aquarius, right back to that Uranus etc!!
What do you see Rad about the future of this life, and beyond that what you can or wish to share, considering his moon is conjunct his south node?
....he is bringing into this life previous dynamics: but it's a redo...since he has made a contract after that most recent past life: I imagine certain dynamics are 'better' to his point of view - but the end result is the same despite the contract...
His entire chart becomes so self-referential, variations on a theme: reminds me, I think of the dissection of Yoko Ono's chart that there is 'no way out'...also, Trump, as Ono, has the Mars in the 12th: Rad said he felt frequently that this placement gives to mind a person who could have an outward appearance but have a 'knife in their boot'....
And: thanks for the clarity @ gender issues: the societies I was looking at, looking closer, though much more natural then the current earth, are still patriarchal in nature.....that's my issue: where is any example of what is natural anymore?
Hi Nerissa,
I would rather not say anything about the rest of Trump's life, and his future, at this point in time.
The only example of folks living naturally anymore can only been seen through individual humans here and there, this small community and that. That's about it, sadly, at this point in time
God Bless, Rad
Kristin thanks for the link to Missy Higgins' song and lyrics. Beautiful. DDD
Hi All,
So we are continuing our journey with Lilith, and will now move to the next step by discussing the archetype of Cancer and how this archetype manifests when it is distorted.
Remember that for any Soul who has repressed what is natural prior to this life, will be born with these distortions coming into this life. This applies for a majority of the human race. Very few Souls have the courage to fully honor and own their natural design.
So if you have already been preparing something or want to comment on the pure form of Cancer, please do, and for those who would like to participate in the next step, please share a distorted expression of South Node of Lilith in Cancer.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi All,
I want to thank Kristin, Rad, and all that have participated on this thread! I have gained a lot of valuable wisdom from reading what has been shared here. I would like to add my understanding of the archetype of Cancer expressed in the pure form.
The pure expression of the archetype of Cancer is one of self-security, and able to express both vulnerability and strength simultaneously (Capricorn polarity). In essence, to access vulnerability in such a way that we become self-secure and stronger than before. In this way, the inner child becomes a healthy "adult child" through emotional maturation (Capricorn polarity). Within this, is the ability to nurture others in ways that the Soul was perhaps not nurtured as a child; to heal emotional wounds of the past through nurturing others first. By doing so, the Soul can nurture the community at large in some way.
The Cancer/4th house/Moon archetype symbolizes a recovery of our original root/origin as we return to The Source of All Things, God/dess. Astrologically speaking, the natural trine from the sign of Cancer (self-image/origin) to the sign of Pisces (Source) reflects this process. The key within this is to effect emotional healing through developing an internal state of security, and cultivating a positive self-image that is does not seek security through others.
Often, when we see the sign of Cancer emphasized in the natal chart it symbolizes that emotional needs were not meet as a child. In a positive expression, this experience can be used to effect internal nurturing, and to purge external sources of security. In addition, helping others heal from their own wounds through promoting self-care and self-security rather than a dependency on oneself or others.
In a pure expression, the sign of Cancer can be expressed as a type of "universal mother" archetype who cares for the community at large in some way. From my understanding, in natural times there was no "nuclear family," or "us four and no more" mentality as we know it today. In addition, children were raised communally.
I look forward to continuing this journey with you all here!
Namaste,
Deva
Hi All,
I took me a while to put something together, probably more than the origins, but that was the intent.
Thank you to Kristin too for that beautiful song and inspiration, it was on my mind for a whole day :-) and also to Deva for coming to teach us. Looking forward too to more insights, thoughts and sharing of everyone who wants to join in, Heather and Nerissa.
Thank you,
Helena
SN LILITH CANCER/ 4TH HOUSE . FINDING THE ORIGINS
Tuning In
These women have been tuning in.
From Gemini's leaves to Taurus's trunk and stems, Cancer branches are in the roots of the Female Tree. Theirs is the past as well as the future of the feminine.
NN Pluto in Cancer, Soul collective future, goes to the depths from where they have been and come from. The return to Mother.
Cancer is yin, in her origins she is embodies the essence of the female polarity. In her journey, we wonder who's behind that courageous choice to keep coming from the origins no matter what? Who were these women that endured the patriarchy from a place of emotion, feeling and care? It is my proposal that they, or at least some essential part of themselves, had to remain hidden, over there in the roots of the Tree to preserve the most sacred part not only of themselves but Ourselves. But also that the original expression of the archetype is too about honouring the sacredness of the inner life.
It is from the depth of these unknown, unseen places, that they continued to be mothers, lovers, partners, friends, caretakers, midwives.
Most of the times, they only gave. Love, nourishment, kindness, food for body and soul, but Who's body and soul? Sometimes it is true that they just end up spent, lost and alone.
If The Future is Female, the most recent past in collective evolution was essentially not female. It was extraordinarily difficult for these women to keep touching the memories of who they really are, going there to what they are feeling and experiencing first. To value and be valued for that. This can be seen astrologically not only in the opposition to capricorn/sn pluto and the cardinal squares, but the Sagittarius/Aquarius inconjuncts. This shows the crisis, trauma and indirect paths they endured just to be themselves and honour the truth in their natures, on God/dess behalf. These women were the keepers of the feminine Tree, they kept its roots alive, working from underground, so some day, their flowers and fruits can grow free.
They were not calling it the forbidden fruit for nothing amidst Patriarchy distorted symbology. It was essentially in fear of Truth that distortions were and are created. We have seen and been studying this in the case of soul's like Nancy Pelosi, her innermost truth standing tall in face of collective fear, firmly rooted and alive. It might not always been like this. We could only imagine what it was like for her to tune in and come back to show it, but she did it on her own for sure. We can see it.
Sometimes it can just be anger, righteous anger coming out, an emotion women were taught to hide or something not "˜pretty' to show, at least under others standards.
But even if personally we don't connect directly to Lilith's SN expression in Cancer, the 4th house or in aspect to the moon, we would be always in touch with the beginning, the origin she shares with all of us. Her need for going inside and find pure emotion.
She knows there's magic to tuning in.
All births come from there. We feel insecure, unsure, vulnerable, afraid, we don't know. Let's imagine, from the aries/cancer square, something completely new trying to come to life, how not to feel all of that? It's just natural, we don't have to expect it to be any different. This is the thing SN Lilith in Cancer does not have to fix and she would never try to fix in her Original self. It is not wrong to feel all of that, it's natural. In surrendering to the truth of what is, magic happens. It's in this place God/dess conspires to makes us happy. It really does as we know it, we all have experienced those moments in life where giving up the struggle was exactly finding the answer, and almost by magic something new was born. A new path, creative inspiration, love, moment of bliss. Born from the inside, out of our courageous act to accept vulnerability and just open the inner door. Does this also mean we had to close the outer door? Probably yes, even if for a moment, and a crucial act to understand the journey of this woman's essence.
The Moon Goddess and the Deities in the Underground
It's Lunar Eclipse time and here we are honouring Her. An eclipse with moon at zero degrees Leo and how beautiful it is to see this Lilith's ruler staying here at the entrance door of the Sun sign, both sharing equal place, moon and sun, at the third eye chakra, calling our intuitive wisdom, spiritual awareness and balance of rest, play, listen, talk, gestate, create, give, receive.
The Moon rules not only over our emotional bodies she is the ancient ruler for the passage of time. The inner cycles inside Chronos time, Saturn.
She presides over natural rhythms, our bodies and earth rhythms. She rules over women's cycles, sexuality and fertility. Every 28 days she introduces to our awareness the requests of our souls and women's menstrual cycles and life's passages are deeply rooted in Her wisdom. Many women today are bringing back the tools our ancestors relied on for natural living and communion with the Moon, to trust the intelligence of life and earth's whispers and cultivate staying grounded. From women sharing with other women practical tools on how to adjust their life's flow with their menstrual cycles, intuitively trusting the wisdom of their bodies to knowing when to act, when to stay; to astrological timing with the new and full moon's themes and celebrate these cycles with each other with natural rituals.
We can all find our own unique way to live under Her guidance. Personally, i found profound connection, for some years now, in keeping a little lunation book journal i created, nothing fancy. The guidance and synchronicity i have received over these years is beyond extraordinary. I would encourage any woman with the desire to dive deep into their own essence to create their own personal way to live with the moon.
In my journal i decided to keep track of the new moon themes from an astrological perspective, what they point to in my chart and watch what goes during the month, with a little space for dreams and other messages and synchronicities, then i leave a space open for the next full moon at the same sign, in around 6 months time and see how life (and the things i not even remembered), at all times bring developments, new insights and usually circles/closes around the same issues or souls wishes to work in the areas they archetypally and literally point to. It's quite an exercise. It teaches to trust in the natural cycles of life and of our connection to the Whole. Naturally grounds and protects the soul from any external references or themes holding to much meaning in favour of true inner development and focus. As with any process, it has its own time and that's usually the fun of it ;-)
This connection to the Moon probably unveils a little bit more on Ceres/Lilith nodes correlation too. If Ceres, as Kristin remembered, is a symbol for the recovery of something lost from the past, I would risk to propose that Lilith in Cancer with her Moon rulership presides over each Goddess stay in the realm of the unseen. I am no expert to the mythological themes, but tend to find they teach us many stories some of them with a common message permeating many cultures and times.
From the Woman's journey perspective, whenever true feminine essence was endangered Goddesses went underground, be it the underworld, the earth or the sea.They were out of human sight for a while. Usually to find themselves or lost parts of them, to rest, to cry, to recover, to survive and to come back. Goddess Moon with her original wisdom, has always been watching over them and their perilous cycles and journeys. Original Lilith herself flew there, Ceres was there, Isis, Sedna, Psyche and many other Goddesses and mythological figures that also tell us stories of wisdom in retreat.
One of my favourite it is the story of Psyche, interesting to remember here.
In some way she tells us the story of the soul's need for self-care in order to find true Divinity. To meet the other from her Divine place and nothing less, as well as how the female is too essentially erotic. She embodies the original expression of vulnerability and courage behind self-love as the fundamental task women and the feminine part in each soul, mature expression of emotions, has in the development of inner security, so all that can be given to or experienced with the other comes unconditionally from there and from that awareness. She shows how that process unfolds, sometimes inadvertently, and how we mature and grow incorporating emotion.
She is a symbol for divine union and the encounter with erotic love with a particular message that none of that would be ever possible if the soul ignores the inner path. When Psyche was initially married to Eros, in the condition of the most beautiful mortal, she had this rule where she could never ever see him under the light. In this stage she was the symbol of women madly in love with an idea of the other, Psyche, but fundamentally unaware of the desires of her soul and her erotic self, unable to consciously see Other because Psyche didn't not expressed yet her true self out of self-love and self-care.
In her story, she undergoes alone this process of passing four impossible tasks (interesting to see here too the four points in the grand cross as essential turning corners in evolution) where nature always, almost by magic, comes to help and keep company, teaching how to blend the masculine and feminine energies, learning to fly over the "river of hate", focusing on the tasks at hand and ignoring distractions that commonly appear as other people, helpless and already dead, asking for her help, trying to take her down with them, astrologically, Libra's square to Cancer and the need for balance giving/not giving.
Nonetheless right in the end of her journey after passing all the tasks she chooses to disobey, (she actually disobeyed twice because it was her original curiosity that led her to shed a light on eros that then set her through all of this). The rules were very specific, she was to bring this beauty ointment from the underworld and deliver it to Aphrodite so she could reunite with her beloved again. But at the end of her quest, feeling tired, worn out, in need for rest and care, Psyche decided that she would not give this beauty ointment to Aphrodite. Even if she risked life doing it, she would give what she needed and conquered by her own means to herself and only from there she could reunite with her love.
This was of course very controversial, although i agree on this view that at the end of the quest she was different, she manage the right to make her own decisions, she had just conquered/recovered her own Divinity, she was to see/meet herself and her needs clearly and so she was ready to experience Divine love. "In all interpretation of the myth that I have come across Psyche is scorned for her "narcissistic" wish to be beautiful for Eros. But I think we can look at what she did form a symbolic standpoint: the soul wants to purify itself and be beautiful to in order to merge with the Beloved (understood as God, like in Sufism or Christian mysticism). She is a drop that longs after the ocean."*
The Sn Lilith in Cancer woman in her original form, desires to merge with the other, wants union, physical touch, tenderness and most of all, give and receive love. She is shy, but like Psyche, she can be adventurous, put herself under trouble to learn how to be mature and be responsible for herself. She will deeply trust her intuition. Originally, her love his unconditional, the water grand trine, and that love is everywhere and extended to everyone.
Sexually she would rather want to kiss a whole day then a five minute intense sexual encounter, something rather difficult if not impossible for her, specially with no prior intimacy. For her every little thing matters. The atmosphere, the scents, the sounds, all belong to the experience. Is like the outside world meets the inner world in equal amounts. Sexual intimacy will also need time and ritual, things unfolding slowly at their own pace. Nothing would put this woman more out of her center then to be made to rush, or be touched aggressively. She will need time before, during and after sex. Most importantly she will need to share caress and touch after orgasmic experiences. She won't have the same needs all the time but she will need a safe, secure and nurturing environment to express what she needs. And also most of all from her love and intense physical union and bonding, she will want to create new life from within herself, born out of love.
Wholehearted
It is both serendipity and magic that during the writing of this part of the thread i came across this amazing woman, who happens to had given one of the most all time viewed Ted Talks, on the Power of Vulnerability for wholehearted living. You probably know her, Brene Brown, and is no wonder she has Lilith and SN Lilith in Cancer.
Many pages can be written on this Lilith but she simply, on a very cancerian way, shares with us how she went to pull it through, and she gives us all her Love.
Here is her talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability/transcript
And i also leave bellow an image, with valuable guidelines taken from her work, that could well translate the return to Original Lilith in Cancer
*from https://symbolreader.net/2013/11/12/eros-and-psyche-3/
Hi Kristin,
After posting i have been reflecting on gender relative to SN Lilith in cancer, so went to this that you wrote,
"Because Cancer/Capricorn connects to gender, it may also be that in prior lives this woman was a man and is learning now to develop the other side of gender in order to balance both sides in full.
If not, then the evolutionary intent is to access the natural inner male and integrate it within her ongoing actualization of her own femininity. The evolutionary intent is to become equally male and female and to cultivate both sides of the whole. Another reason for the insecurity may be due to not feeling at home in this new gender, hormones included, especially given how patriarchal cultures have defined masculinity and femininity."
I can confirm from the few cases that i know personally, besides Nancy Pelosi as you mentioned, that it's true changing gender previously has happened, and was thinking on perspective, that relative to SN Lilith gemini's more androgynous state, that probably SN Lilith in cancer issues relative to gender and integration of the inner male/female are very emphasised, a big soul issue, and i didn't refer to that, would you see it being so?
It's curious that some of this souls would have NN Lilith in sagittarius, others capricorn, so a general guideline could we say that this could help us know if the integration has already occurred and now more a question of following one's true relative to gender preferences, sagittarius, and still needing to work on the integration of the male polarity and inner security/authority issues in the case of Capricorn?
In essence from what i get from this cases, it seems that if changing gender occurred in this life, now a woman, this is a woman that is also re-learning about her own feminity much more than acting from the Origin. It seems that until that power of vulnerability is addressed things are always even if for a bit, distorted, right?
Thank you,
Helena
Hi All,
Deva, Thank you for your presence here on the Lilith thread and for sharing some key additions. Your post reminded me of something I wanted to share with everyone when we see Cancer emphasized in a birth chart and the need to develop internal security.
It is important to remember that this is true for the Soul at any stage of evolution. Souls in the advanced stages of the Spiritual State will endure intense emotional tests as well. Just because a Soul is evolved, does not mean they do not continue to experience these emotional hits. These hairpin turns can be some of the toughest growth points to endure so the Soul can cultivate a total sense of emotional strength and security, which ultimately leads to an inner union with the Divine. As we have all been sharing with the teachings of the archetype of Cancer, the only real way forward is by doing the deep emotional work, which opens a door to the Soul and a direct channel to the Eternal: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.
Take the story of Yogananda for example. He lost his mother at the tender age of 11, whom he was extremely close to. They were separated when she passed and she died so quickly that he did not even have a chance to feel her touch one last time or to say good-bye to her.
Yogananda was devastated by her death. He shares this story in his Autobiography and the Soul reasoning that he needed to lose his earthly mother was so he would seek to access the unconditional love of the Heavenly Mother.
Clearly, he was thrown into an absolute state of vulnerability. This proved to be a heart-wrenching loss, but one that would propel him into his destiny as a "Spiritual engine , who would carry many Souls to God's Kingdom." Her last words in a letter to him were, "Farewell my child; The Cosmic Mother will protect you."
He has Venus and Mercury in Sagittarius in the 4th house, a Cancer house. Venus rules his North Node in Taurus in the 9th, and Mercury is ruler of his Pluto in Gemini in the 10th. Pluto rules his 4th house cusp as well. His South Node of Mars and South Node of Uranus are conjunct his 4th house Venus and Mercury, reflecting the sudden loss of his mother and his need to go at it "alone".
Yogananda has a 12th house Leo Moon.....Heavenly Mother.
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I remember JWG saying more than once how alone the Soul can feel as one deepens into the latter stages of the Spiritual State of evolution. This is because very few in their life, if any, will have a similar inner awareness of the world and beyond. How can another really understand the emotional reality of someone who is much further along? This experience alone will have the Soul feeling very much 'on their own.' It is an archetype for those at the advanced stages of evolution, and it emphasizes the constant need for the 4th house push no matter where you are on the wheel.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Helena,
I thoroughly enjoyed your post and wish to comment in full, not only to your generous offering but also to the questions that you asked.
I am quite limited on time today but will respond in the morning.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
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Hi Deva,
I wanted to add comment to something you said that I loved along the lines of tribe.
You wrote
In a pure expression, the sign of Cancer can be expressed as a type of "universal mother" archetype who cares for the community at large in some way. From my understanding, in natural times there was no "nuclear family," or "us four and no more" mentality as we know it today. In addition, children were raised communally.
Yes, A natural form of expression for the Cancer Archetype is to be a MOTHER TO MANY!
At times you may see charts for Souls with a strong Cancer signature who do not have their own children in this life or have trouble conceiving, perhaps because their primary role is to nurture themselves and their own inner child. However, they may choose professions where they can be a Mother to Many as in being a teacher or a social worker etc.
Great addition..
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Dear Helena,
JWG used to teach that when you understand the ROOT, then the branches take care of themselves. This is true as well with a woman's natural design. When you fertilize and feed this central truth, the various forms of expression evolve naturally, from branches to leaves, to flowers.
I loved your title Tuning IN...the natural expression of Cancer knows how to do that, for they are forever turning in and FEELING everything.
You wrote
In her journey, we wonder who's behind that courageous choice to keep coming from the origins no matter what? Who were these women that endured the patriarchy from a place of emotion, feeling and care? It is my proposal that they, or at least some essential part of themselves, had to remain hidden, over there in the roots of the Tree to preserve the most sacred part not only of themselves but Ourselves. But also that the original expression of the archetype is too about honouring the sacredness of the inner life.
So true....In the Ted Talk that you shared on Vulnerability...loved it! so cool that Brene Brown has Lilith in Cancer and SN Lilith in Cancer. You can see the gender switch in her energy as well.
I was deeply drawn to how she spoke about the difference between courage and bravery.
"The word Cour means HEART" in Latin, she says. Those woman who had the courage to be vulnerable are women who experience more joy in their life. "It is the Birthplace of joy and creativity and love," "They believed what made them vulnerable, made them beautiful."
YES!!! and this is a natural truth.
and yes HIDING had to happen for these women and still happens in this patriarchal repressed reality, the hiding to protect what is so sacred. The natural TRINE to PISCES.
The women indeed kept the tribe in a state of balance, keeper's of the flame which includes sacred sexuality.
You wrote
All births come from there. We feel insecure, unsure, vulnerable, afraid, we don't know. Let's imagine, from the aries/cancer square, something completely new trying to come to life, how not to feel all of that? It's just natural, we don't have to expect it to be any different. This is the thing SN Lilith in Cancer does not have to fix and she would never try to fix in her Original self. It is not wrong to feel all of that, it's natural.
So true, I cannot tell you how times I have heard from clients with a strong Cancer signature that for their entire life people are telling them how sensitive they are (as if it's some kind of disease) It is the distortions with the Soul that create emotions that others react to. So it is not the sensitivity that is the issue, it is the repression of emotion over time that then can create the struggle as you spoke about..but it is within this pain..the struggle ..when something new and beautiful can be born. I loved how you spoke about this. We have to have the courage to GO THERE to be uncomfortable and to feel naked and alone...this is when real growth and true evolution happens.
A powerful example using the story of Psyche, and so true...Aphrodite was jealous of her beauty,and her strength, so much because she was able to access the power of vulnerability. She realized in her own journey and obstacles that she had to endure that nothing was more vital than becoming WHOLE unto herself which could only occur by leaning into her own divinity. A very ARIES/CANCER/SCORPIO/PISCES pursuit.
Your sharing on the pure Cancer sexual nature was spot on.
Excellent...thank you Helena,
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
P.S. I will follow-up in an additional post to answer your questions.
Hello Again Helena,
You asked
I can confirm from the few cases that i know personally, besides Nancy Pelosi as you mentioned, that it's true changing gender previously has happened, and was thinking on perspective, that relative to SN Lilith gemini's more androgynous state, that probably SN Lilith in cancer issues relative to gender and integration of the inner male/female are very emphasised, a big soul issue, and i didn't refer to that, would you see it being so?
Just because a Soul has South Node of Lilith in Gemini, it does not necessarily mean that they are naturally more androgynous. So much will depend on the evolution of that Soul, as well the need to look at the entire birth chart. A South Node of Lilith in Gemini will reflect their need for diversity and often this can mean they will desire to experience the feminine and the masculine within those experiences but it will not equal an androgynous nature across the board.
When the Soul has South Node of Lilith in Cancer, there will be a need to cultivate the inner feminine as well as the Soul learning how to establish inner security, regardless of whether they have switched genders or not. But yes, a big soul issue would be in establishing more inner balance between the inner feminine and inner masculine, seen in the natural square to Libra.
You asked
It's curious that some of this souls would have NN Lilith in sagittarius, others capricorn, so a general guideline could we say that this could help us know if the integration has already occurred and now more a question of following one's true relative to gender preferences, sagittarius, and still needing to work on the integration of the male polarity and inner security/authority issues in the case of Capricorn?
There are no general guidelines. The North Node of Lilith in Sag relative to South Node of Lilith in Cancer has it's own archetypes. This does not mean that the integration of the male/ female has already occurred compared to North Node in Cap. The issue is to understand in the Soul's context why they have chosen the Sag or Cap North Node of Lilith.
You asked
In essence from what i get from this cases, it seems that if changing gender occurred in this life, now a woman, this is a woman that is also re-learning about her own feminity much more than acting from the Origin. It seems that until that power of vulnerability is addressed things are always even if for a bit, distorted, right?
Yes.
Any Soul for example who represses what is natural in other lifetimes, will be born with those distortions coming into any given life. For a Soul with a South Node of Lilith in Cancer, they will be desiring to express and access the fullness of their femininity naturally but the distortions will also be present until they are worked through and evolved. It's about being able to recognize what is natural, as in origins, versus what is distorted. But essentially YES, to re-learn and REMEMBER how this Cancer energy manifests in a pure form. Emotionally open and vulnerable = beautiful!
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
i couldn't thank you enough for the time you devote to this teachings and encouraging words.. Really.
I wish we can continue this thread and more people join in on this fascinating topic. If i can say anything is that before i start putting something together i have absolutely no idea of is going to come out :) and that's what's great about it, is we just put questions to ourselves and answer to what makes sense in our realities and maybe sharing them is always adding something to a greater Whole, and it's been a joyous journey!
Really something to contemplate what you shared on Yogananda's life, it would never cross my mind how much the Souls in very advanced stages of evolution can experience lack of understanding, but might be so true, as you said, who can really understand their emotional reality? It only adds to the respect and admiration for their passage on earth...
Thank you also for answering my questions on gender in this context. I look forward we develop it more as time goes.
Blessings Kristin,
Helena
Hi All,
We have discussed some of Pelosi's natal chart but with recent events, I wanted to share some of what is going on in her chart through transit.
Just prior to the shutdown in the US being released, and the government being re-opened (for the next few weeks), Trump was heard saying over and over , I will not cave."
It is in fact Nancy Pelosi who was and is the one who will never cave in.
Witness her ongoing push of success in the transits, especially to benefit the country financially (Taurus )
Pluto and Saturn are progressively forming a GRAND TRINE with her Taurus stellium and Neptune in Virgo, while sextiling her Scorpio Moon. This is a LONG range transit providing her with considerable leverage.
This also suggests she will be getting a little help from ON HIGH (Neptune) ~ "Lord knows we need it."
I so wish we had a birth time on her....using a Noon chart.
Rad posted this article today on the Environment thread.
Nancy Pelosi looking to introduce bill that would stop future shutdowns
Note:
Pelosi's Original Lilith in Cancer makes an EXACT opposition the the USA natal Pluto in VS at 27 degrees.
Pelosi's South Node of Lilith is 29 Taurus
Pelosi's North Node of Lilith is 9.51 VS
Feel free to comment further.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
P.S. I just took a peek at the Pelosi/Trump composite chart ~ it also says it all.
Hi Kristin,
How do you see the transit of nodes square nodes in this case?
Nancy Pelosi has Pluto, Lilith, Pallas, Chiron all square the nodal axis and now the transiting NN is just passing there. I know JWG said about it that is was like being at crossroads... Is the point to focus on both NN and respective rulers? That would point to her moon in scorpio/venus in taurus in opposition... I get confused, it seems like too many crossroads added also the skipped steps with resolution on the SN.
One thing that occurs to me is that transit NN Cancer is going to ask for to recover lilith/pallas/chiron origins, coming from the depths of her soul and what was lost, moon in scorpio.
NN moon in libra points to sn Lilith, again recover, and venus in taurus, this time in a way that brings stability to the soul. Would that be some of it? Although NN and venus are inconjunct... Not very clear to me.
Also, Kristin, i am with some extra work until Wednesday, only after that will be able to post on the distorted Lilith in Cancer, hope that is ok and others can post too.
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Helena,
Well we have already witnessed this as a changing of the guards when the transiting North Node crossed over her natal Pluto and the Nodes squared her natal Saturn before changing signs early November, which was when she won back the position of Speaker of the House and was given the gavel back earlier this month.
Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn trine her Venus and Mars in Taurus, she is weaving her way forward, plodding along and staying true to the system, the constitution. Brick by brick, step by step until one day, a mountain will be moved. Slowly, but surely, she will wear Trump down.
Pelosi has recently been referred to as IRON LADY ~ Saturn on her South Node, iron correlating to Saturn.
Here is a great article on her https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/reinvigorated-trump-battle-nancy-pelosis-star-shines-78/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/reinvigorated-trump-battle-nancy-pelosis-star-shines-78/)
Now the Nodes are approaching a square to her Natal Nodes, the exact degrees of which will occur late April/early May but they are already strongly influencing her chart as you mentioned, the tr North Node has already crossed over her Pluto, Lilith, Pallas, Chiron. This does reflect the potential for a true turning point in her personal journey.
How do you see the transit of nodes square nodes in this case?
The transiting nodes squaring her natal nodes correlate to the POSSIBILITY of creating skipped steps depending on choices made during that transit, and relative to that transit it means the opportunity to completely/recover the skipped steps that were inherent from the birth moment, the underlying intention for the life is to recover the skipped steps in order to keep evolving and that is exactly how it has and is playing out in her life. Think about the fact she became speaker of the house, house equaling Cancer ,within the government, Capricorn, for a second time ...
In past lives she has given up in the face of too much opposition and it caused her to go into an inner hole, hiding there, due to her own inner estimation of personal survival being the reason, causing the skipped step. So this second chance at being speaker .. in this life ... will allow her to literally shine, and resolve that skipped step.
The deal now for her is that she has learned how the system works to such an extent that she has become a 'master' at it ~ Saturn on the South Node, so yes, this will help her recover her power as a woman in a man's world and this experience gives her the backing that she needs to not so much as blink or buckle under the pressure. All the memories from other times when she retreated and experienced total powerlessness (Moon in Scorpio, tail of the kite) are deeply IN her, and this also contributes to her fierce motivation to do it different this time, no matter what.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
P.S.
Transiting Saturn in Capricorn crossed over Pelosi's North Node of Lilith at the same time the transiting North Node in Cancer crossed over her natal Lilith 28 Cancer. History becomes Her-story in the making.
Hi Kristin,
i totally agree, History becomes Her-story in the making. I now get it! Thank you for making it so clear :)
And so true, an iron lady at 78 just like the matriarch of a community in her community.
I just want to add something on the inconjuncts, pondering on what you said.
She has two parallel inconjuncts (it looks almost like a road drawing), one from moon, lilith/pallas/chiron ruler, to the south node, the other from venus/uranus, nn ruler, to the north node. Venus is conjunct uranus, community, so it was only when she found her group, other women to back her position, that all is possible.
God/dess time, no? The inconjuncts usually tell a story of crisis and indirect roads until we get whole picture and this couldn't be a better example.
Thank you Kristin, as always,
Helena
Hi All,
Welcome to our FUTURE!
Pelosi may be 78 but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just had her Saturn return. She is only 29 years old.
Ocasio-Cortez has SOUTH NODE of LILITH in CANCER in the 7th house, which is ruled by an Aries Moon in the 3rd.
Ocasio-Cortez has billionaires running scared with her proposal to tax the super rich, She has a South Node of the Moon in LEO the 8th house, remembering the 8th house connects to BIG money and big power over the little people. This is her own way of recovering her power, in her case, this power is directly linked with fighting for HER people and for her homeland.
Her South Node of Lilith in Cancer (18.13 degrees) in the 7th is conjunct Jupiter and squaring her Mars in Libra as well as her Sun, the ruler of her South Node in Leo in the 8th. She is like a wild Indian, even wearing a suit, playing by the white man's rules and she is coming to even a score.
"It's scary," Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer for Guggenheim Partners, told CNBC. "By the time we get to the presidential election, this is going to gain more momentum. And I think the likelihood that a 70 percent tax rate, or something like that, becomes policy is actually very real."
Cortez's Original Lilith (0.52 degrees) as well as her North Node of Lilith (7.18 degrees) are BOTH in Sagittarius in her 12th house, conjunct Venus and the South Node of Uranus. That Venus rules her Sun in Libra: equality.
Jupiter just crossed over those points and then crossed over her Sagittarius Ascendant. Transiting Uranus will re-enter Taurus in March and progressively trine her natal Uranus, Saturn and Neptune in Capricorn.
She is just getting started!
Please Feel Free to comment on her Liliths in this chart!
Peace,
Kristin
P.S. Check out the 3 great articles on her in the Environmental thread.
Hi Kristin and All,
i have had a very 'uranian' week, with unexpected things going and demanding my attention, i am sorry i could not follow through as i thought.
I plan to post as soon as i can but better wait on Nerissa, and anyone more that wants to join in on Original Lilith in Cancer? Nerissa, would you agree? I have seen you have also some difficult times going for you and your family, not easy i could only imagine, hope everything goes for the better for you in these times.
My uranus opposition is still coming so i could not comment from personal experience, but agree to be great to follow on the subject.
Kristin, thank you for the actual chart on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The more i see it, the more i am amazed on how she brings to us all the Goddesses. I saw Daniel already approaching it in last zoom meetings, and it was very interesting, maybe Daniel can comment a bit on it? From my point of view she really has all this messages, the grand cross of Goddesses:
Vesta conjunct Neptune/Saturn/Uranus in Capricorn
Juno conjunct Sun Libra
Ceres conjunct Jupiter/Chiron and this conjunct SN Lilith Cancer
And then Moon exactly conjunct Pallas in Aries! (this conjunct Nancy Pelosi's Sun and God/dess knows we need good fire to start :))
That's too how she brings all these SN Lilith in Cancer messages, rulled by the moon, for us to remember. It looks like new ideas to us but i think on a soul level everyone knows what she is talking about... I am curious on her evolutionary state though. Would Ocasio-Cortez be 3rd Stage Individuated and Nancy Pelosi 3rd Stage Consensus? I'm not feeling sure about this...
And then, all the Goddesses are in Grand Cross conjunctions plus Lilith/NN Lilith in 12th, God/dess, ruling the sun and ruled by the Jupiter/Sn Lilith Cancer. Amazing how she brings to us this powerful feminine that is undeniable, we don't have to understand astrology, everyone feels and sees it!
Since this goes for the purposes of this thread, i would like to mention she also has another Goddess very prominent. Since she has the curious name Alexandria i have always felt ancient Egypt energy to her so i checked Isis (asteroid 42).
And AOC has Isis asteroid at 12 Scorpio, conjunct Pluto; NN Isis at 16 Cancer, conjunct Sn Lilith/NN Pluto and
SN Isis at 4 Sag conjunct Lilith, NN Lilith and Venus.
What i think this says is that her original female root emanates the teachings of Mother Goddess Isis that tells a story of putting together, out of her creatively will, a whole out of the separate/desmembered parts not only of the feminine but also the masculine, the same way Isis brought Osiris back to life. It would be an interesting subject to dive in, this symbology coming through AOC's energy.
Hope to hear more thoughts on this amazing soul.
Helena
Hi Kristin, is the chart for AOC a noon chart or known birth time?
Hi Stacie,
This is a known birth time.
Dig in if you wish :)
~Kristin
Hi Helena,
Regarding stage of evolution.
Yes, Pelosi is 3rd stage consensus.
Yes, AOC is 3rd stage Individuated from what I can tell so far.
I will wait to comment further in case others would like to jump in.
Peace,
Kristin
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has natal Pluto in Scorpio in the 11th, Venus in sag/12th ruling 11th house, conjunct asteroid Lilith. She has a vision that is vastly bigger than herself. She is rising up to be a voice on behalf off the downtrodden and for those who struggle with the inequalities that permeate US culture, relative to race, relative to gender, and relative to socioeconomic status. Jupiter rules AOC's natal Lilith, and this found in the 7th house in cancer conjunct Chiron. She understands that humanity is one big family in all it's diversity, and is incensed that certain populations in our collective are still being shunted aside on the basis of stigma and exclusionary justifications. She has found her voice in previous lives (SN of moon in Leo 8th), and she has had some practice in generating herself as a fierce force in confronting the bullshit. The Lilith/Venus conjunction in sag/12th shows that she views caring for the earth just as important as caring for ourselves. Her proposal of a Green New Deal shows that her focus and desire is to simultaneously help the people and the planet. Her Aries moon in the 3rd puts a real fire in her belly that many are taking note of. That moon in the 3rd, ruled by mars in the 10th in libra, reflects a capacity to speak in the moment from her gut, to advocate social consciousness and responsibility. The emphasized oppositions from her first house Uranus, Saturn, Neptune and Vesta, to 7th house Ceres, Jupiter, and Chiron show the struggle to find the right balance between revolutionizing society and making it more equitable for all. This of course threatens many people on both sides of the aisle, because she really is gunning for radical change, a change that many find scary or are resigned to believing can never occur. With that 11th house Pluto and all the others dynamics mentioned, she is not apologizing for having a radical vision. She is proud and secure in who she is, because she's had to learn and fight for it. She wants to inspire others, especially the downtrodden, to find their strength and be confident in who they are too. Asteroid Amazone near the cusp of the first house is also a factor that reflects/reinforces her instinctual and spiritual strength in this fight.
One thing I wanted to add to all the wonderful examples provided thus far of the distorted Lilith in cancer, is the urge and compulsion to overprotect. The psychology of this distortion manifests as a "˜mother' who tries to shield her offspring from all of the inherent dangers that life can offer, to such an extent that the child doesn't get the early hands-on experience of interfacing with the realities and pressures and difficult circumstances that adult life presents. The intention springs from deep motherly love, and is benevolent in spirit, but the result can be a grown up child who isn't prepared to navigate, negotiate, or weild his or her own inner authority when life circumstances call for it.
Stacie
Another example of a distorted Lilith in cancer is the phenomena of anthromorphosizing animals. Every spring, wildlife rehabilitation centers get innundated with baby birds who have fledged the nest and are discovered by humans who assume the baby bird has been abandoned. So they take it in, feed it things it should not eat, and attempt to form emotional bonds with the creature, which sadly often compromises the animal's chances for survival in the wild on it's own, due to the human imprint created at that impressionable stage in the animal's life. This often leads to an animal avoiding their own natural mating and feeding instincts, where they instead continue to seek the company and care of humans versus learning and applying the organic and instinctual tools that each species is born/hatched with to nurture their own ongoing survival as an individual.
Stacie
Hi Stacie,
Thanks for posting and for adding those bits about the distorted SN in Cancer. :)
We recently covered the Original expression of SN Lilith in Cancer and opened things up to hear more about how this looks when the archetype of Cancer is distorted, so we are really just getting started.
Excellent examples of the overprotective Mother as well as what happens to the baby birds when they have 'fledged the nest' and end up in rehabilitation centers. Thank you for sharing your experience with nature in this way.
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You can see how AOC's SN of Lilith 18 degrees of Cancer conjuncts Jupiter and Chiron in her 7th and how she nurtures her people and the world as you say as her 'one big family'. She has sacrificed her own needs for the sake of others time and time again, remembering her Original Lilith and her NN of Lilith are in Sagittarius in the 12th house. Talk about putting yourself on the front lines, in the line of fire in many cases. The ruler of her SN of Lilith in Cancer is the Moon in Aries in the 3rd and it squares Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in Capricorn in the 1st. Sounds like white man versus the Indian. Her Soul is learning how to choose her battles, and to know which ones she can win.
She has gone overboard in other times, lost her life fighting for her tribe, SN of Lilith in Cancer squares her Mars in Libra as well as her Sun which rules her SN of the Moon in Leo in the 8th, suggesting the two sides were very imbalanced but it was more important for her to die defending her people, to die for what she believed in, than to surrender.
I also see her energy similar to Gandhi's in terms of knowing that the way to justice and balance and peace is to recruit the hearts of many, to tap into their own need for what feels fair and just, ultimately, to UNITE THE WILL of the PEOPLE. She does this by speaking simple natural TRUTHS; giving, sharing, including, something that would be music to the ears of any natural Soul.
You are correct Stacie in that she does know how to sniff out the bullshit with her SN in the 8th, this is not her first time around in themes of this regard. She lost big last time and she really is back to even the score, not for herself but for the people aka her big family.
Another way to understand her SN of Lilith in Cancer in her 7th squaring her 10th house Mars in Libra with the Sun is that her personal relationships would have taken a back seat because she was /is too busy being a warrior and fighting for many causes, so her emotional body is under-developed. She would be attracting people she can help and rescue versus those that represent her equal, so she would not have been getting her essential needs met.
She has every intention of restoring more gender balance as well and showing women what it looks like to go toe to toe with a man. I am certain her strength scares the majority of men, unless it is a natural man.
However, when people's lives and their livelihood is on the line, survival comes first. The symbols also suggest she died relatively young in battle in her most recent lives. Hopefully this life she can make up for lost time. She is in the center of the US stage at her fist Saturn return. She's has surely been here before.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
Yes everything you said makes sense. Especially the factor of having a score to settle. I love the way her soul is executing this. Power just emanates through her physical container. She is fearlessly taking on the man and his helpers who are rubbing shoulders with murderous cohorts such as Putin and the Saudi crowned prince. And she's doing it as a simple, impassioned girl from the Bronx. If she had a stare contest with Trump, I'd put a thousand bucks on Trump blinking first.
She indeed has a score to settle, and I hope this time she is successful without having to surrender her life or get stuck in immobilizing red tape. The time seems to be ripe, but you never know..
Hi All,
Kristin, i will follow this weekend with next segment if it is ok but just wish to comment on AOC and leave this video bellow, really an example of her strength in speaking the Truth, exposing the Lies, the music to our ears as you mention, with Lilith, NN Lilith, Venus in Sag. in the 12th. And her natural simplicity, intelligence, and authority - pallas/moon in the 3rd ruled by mars in Libra in the 10th, but also the natural teacher she is as well as her playful energy. Even when the subject is serious she shows a playful approach, not at all influenced by fear but by courage and laughter, so yeah i agree she has been through a lot.
I don't remember who said that when we don't have a sense of humour we lack a sense of perspective, sometimes difficult but AOC surely knows that ;-)
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/feb/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-brutal-take-down-of-us-political-finance-laws-video
Stacie, really loved your example with the baby birds on the distortions of natural lilith in cancer.
All the Best,
Helena
Hi Kristin, All,
Once again it took me a bit longer to be able to post.
Thank you for your patience,
Helena
SN LILITH IN CANCER - DISTORTIONS OF THE ARCHETYPE
ON ASTEROID LILITH AND CURRENT TRANSITS
In the light of our current pace, i was thinking to go back to the time the thread was first restarted a few months ago, try to approach the distorted expressions of Lilith in Cancer under the current transits and hope it will all make sense, specially now Lilith turned retrograde squaring the nodal axis.
I will post bellow the chart for Lilith turning retrograde just a few days ago and the chart for thread restart with Lilith back in November, leaving it open to more thoughts if anyone wants to jump in. It seems important to get a perspective based on the evolution of our studies and what the asteroid Goddesses and communicating to us.
Just some things i would like to focus:
- Lilith/Pallas have been in tight conjunction, Pallas, the Messenger, will also go retrograde at 29 Libra;
- Both charts have Uranus at 29 Aries, squaring the nodal axis; Venus/Ceres and then Lilith/Pallas on the other side of the square, creating a grand cross;
- Lilith is retrograde on the exact same degree Venus went direct last November, Venus has been current Lilith's ruler.
With this thread we've been noticing how Lilith herself, the root, now in Libra conjunct Pallas is always in company of other Deities. With Juno in Gemini trine to Pluto/SN in Capricorn maybe She is suggesting we open our minds and observe what's going on. To listen/share our different views on what we considerer equality in relationships without compromising our truth, as well as healing, recovering and keeping alive an ancient flame from the past - Vesta, the sacred inner fire of the feminine root - Juno opposing Ceres in Sag., Ceres trine Chiron at 29 Pisces, square Vesta/Mercury/Neptune in Pisces, Mercury is the ruler of Juno in Gemini, Jupiter Sag. ruler of Ceres trines Mars/Uranus in Aries. We might have time to approach Vesta more closely later in the thread (curiously Vesta was conjunct Pluto at the time we re-started with Lilith), but in these days the t-square of Vesta with Ceres and Juno can refer to need to keep inner fire alive no matter how difficult the fight for equality gets or how hard it is to let go of past grief.
Demetra George also mentions Vesta's ancient close relationship to the moon, "The women priestesses of this time fostered the fertilizing power of the moon through caring for the water supply and tending a sacred flame which could never be allowed to die. Aside from representing the light of the moon, the sacred flame symbolized the kundalini fires of Indian yogic practice and the secret powers of sexual transmutation. The women who tended the perpetual fires were known as virgins, not because they were sexually chaste, but because they remained unmarried and belonged to no man."*
In the light of current transits i tend to see Goddesses appeal for women to dare to be free and dare to love from place of freedom, whatever that means for each soul, now with the opportunity to heal and leave old hurts behind, as chiron crosses the last Pisces degree. Leaving behind old beliefs, Neptune in square to Jupiter, structured on man made and not natural laws, most the times relative to religious and spiritual distortions and conditioning. This meaning that we are invited to let go what still surrounds us constricting and distorting the expression of the feminine, making room for our vulnerabilities as true source of strength, accepting them, moon's NN in Cancer, SN Lilith in Cancer, keeping in mind and heart that responsibility in self-care and self-love is maturing and tending the inner fire.
Since the square correlates to skipped steps in the making, or their resolution, we are living very exciting times with good opportunity for big leaps forward in our Spiritual Journeys. But as we learn in EA, is mostly our choice wether we leap forward or step back, or manage to do both when cardinal energy presses strongly.
My point in this segment will be that the Goddesses are calling us and They will back every single soul who will make the effort to give it a try.
From a personal perspective, it was very important what Kristin taught since we started, relative to asteroid Lilith and how we can view all the aspects of Her Story in a single asteroid, putting a light in a very confuse approach of many Lilith's and their meanings. I do agree with Kristin that the asteroid having its own nodes, would naturally correlate to a journey from past to present to future by itself, simply understood as part of the same story, other then looking primarily at fragmented parts of Women's souls as their whole story.
The feminine has always been full of mystery, there are always things unseen, to discover, find out, it will not end because its essence is creative and always giving birth to new life and new meaning. Nonetheless, patriarchal need for control seemed to pick up on this natural characteristic and turn it into the major flaw, something utterly wrong, to be condemned and boxed in, with a tape in the background playing endlessly. From the demon, to the bad girl and good girl, to the wife, to the saint, every woman was very easy to understand (read judge) if put in the box.
It is also possible, that astrology absorbed this distortions in some way coming out as a confusing theme with many roads to follow. In my case, until Kristin opened it this way, i tended to stay away from the subject because in my mind it was very confusing, and at some point even shameful (not that this was a conscious though). In essence, with this thread we've been discovering through the application of natural astrology, that women desiring to live from the depths of their roots will know there is no caged place they could ever fit in, the more they tap into who they really are the more others artificial confinements will tend to fall down, even when they take a larger scope in our lives as within a social or political context.
With asteroid Lilith there is a natural integration of all women's aspects and stories around the absolute need for recovery of the same root, and it seems to make sense when we observe it in our lives and feel it in the depths of our souls.
We've all also been agreeing on how difficult it is to actually know what the Original form of the archetypes refer to, as there are very few souls alive today living a true natural existence, in harmony with themselves and everything/everyone around them, making it much easier to know the distortions and unnatural expressions in comparison to the way for resolution. So our only possible exercise has been so much a desire to know, discover and recover, finding a way to solve a conflict whose resolution has origins much yet unknown but definitely alive. It is a creative act indeed!
LILITH SQUARE SN LILITH IN CANCER/NN PLUTO - BREAKING FREE FROM THE OLD TAPES
With Lilith/Pallas conjunction, we've been graced by Pallas Athena wisdom to move our lives forward recovering true understanding of women's needs. This would be particular to each women but in general SN Lilith in Cancer meeting NN of the Moon is the return to Matriarchal teachings and ways of living. With the square, we are kind of being asked, do you really know what you need?
One of the aspects of the Libra archetype correlates to projected needs, what we see in the other as lacking in ourselves and the desire to form relationship based on this perception. Resolution node in Cancer opposing Saturn, Pluto, and we can easily confuse our ability to give ourselves what we need with lacking the capacity to do so, hence insecurity. Relationship not as a way to share ourselves and evolve in the process but as a way to guarantee our needs would be met externally, or that others are dependent on us if we continuously meet their needs. The over-protecting mother as one example.
We can say security and structure, Pluto, Moon, Saturn, also come closely linked. Whenever we can build a structure that can sustain our lives we tend to feel emotionally, psychologically and physically secure, it's only natural. The question becomes when one of the main aspects supporting distortions with women with SN Lilith in Cancer is that these women were made to believe in a false sense of structure, again physical, emotional and psychological structure, from where to build their lives.This can take countless forms, but mostly will involve issues of codependency, lack of self-esteem or the need to be needed to feel secure. Meaning, that the structure they have known from Matriarchal times, in which giving, sharing and including sustained the lives of their communities assuring mutual trust and fulfilment of everyone's needs, have been replaced by a tape that says take as much as you can, keep it to yourself and be better than anyone, so you can feel safe. This inner conflict, to intuitively follow inner truth or maintain security and stability following the rules, exposes a distortion in which women give away their own sovereignty and knowledge for the love of their families, partners, friends and community stability. They have sacrificed their beliefs, authority and truth to keep going, Cancer trine to Pisces, also an expression of women's unconditional love and hope in the future of humanity.
Going back to the question Lilith is asking all of us, square to Pluto nodes, it's probably important we don't stress too much with the answer and trust more in the mysteries of the Moon and the answers she brings. In a sense that distorted SN Lilith in Cancer can be just that doubt. As well as depression, which can severely affect women with this south node in their origins. Depression can correlate to the natural need to stop and evaluate what's happening, how we feel, what we need, what needs change, the same way winter comes every year to restore balance and restart spring. The right time to tune in and withdraw, astrologically the sextile from Scorpio to Capricorn. But in its severe expression, can seriously compromise the ability to function in the world, a world by itself in a very unhealthy state, a never ending cycle. Could be significant for these women not to recover in isolation but find a community of other women in similar situations, who can mutually help each other rebuilt their balance and emotional trust within themselves, others and the world around them, and also remember how they were able to heal according to their Origin and more natural times.
Lack of trust will also be a very unnatural state for this Lilith. Originally, with the trine to Scorpio, this is a powerful woman who knows and trusts herself even if that means to trust her insecurity, so others instinctively trust and feel safe around her. She could be the mother, the matriarch of the family, the one everyone respects for her example and greatness of Spirit.
Taking this away with unhealthy and abusive relationships, either from family of origin, intimate partners, friendships or toxic workplace, the soul can weaken its light. The place where she could natural go to ground herself turns blocked and heavy, an emotional landscape she won't even wish to get close to. Fears of all kinds can take over the soul and be projected onto others, including the fear of real intimacy, and the world around them may be seen as a very hostile place.
With the grand water trine they could be naive and trust others without the necessary discrimination of who to trust and who not to, letting in their lives abusive people. Although there is one thing these women should never be ashamed of and that is their natural sensitivity and empathy. Astrologers, phychologists, therapists or close friends usually in the best of their intentions would say to these women that they need to set up boundaries. But would also be crucial that these women are not made to believe that they need to do something impossible to their natural selves which is to block the channels from which they experience the world. That setting up boundaries would be to know who they really are and what they really want so they can make clear choices and break free, stay away, from any external source of conflict undermining their happiness and the free flowing of energy and empathy. This would take great significance in the choice of intimate partners, be conscious of the reality of sexual karma, and clearly see abuse for what it is - not trying to rescue the other, but rescue themselves.
*Demetra George & Douglas Bloch, Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Phsychology and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine
Hi Helena,
A keen thought to show the 2 charts from when we started to where we are now and the correlations. Not a coincidence that tr Lilith is Rx in Libra and squaring the Nodes. We have been hearing some strong female voices in the past 3 months, voices who are demanding more equality, not just between gender but between races and economic class, and these female voices are only growing.
It is fascinating too with this being in cardinal, because it is common for Souls to come out of the gates courageous and then to have those moments of pause, reflection and fear.
As you put it..
~the need to keep inner fire alive no matter how difficult the fight for equality gets or how hard it is to let go of past grief.
Think about how this cardinal energy manifests as a desire to claim who you are, the naval chakra ruled by Mars and Pluto is on fire. The energy initiates at the root as a desire emanating from the Soul and it shoots up to the naval chakra. In time, in typical Cardinal fashion, there is a pause and the Soul says, "What the f*ck did I just do? and the energy drops back down to the root again to find security with these actions because of the insecurity it generates. Two steps forward, one step back. The courage will crawl back into the shell but it will in time re-emerge once the Soul feels safe or something in their world is threatened.
It is a great teaching how you weaved in the other Goddess Asteroids..Lilith always in company of other Deities
women desiring to live from the depths of their roots will know there is no caged place they could ever fit in, the more they tap into who they really are the more others artificial confinements will tend to fall down, even when they take a larger scope in our lives as within a social or political context.
YES. When a woman has the courage to be in the world as she was naturally designed, it will give other women the courage to do the same.
With Lilith/Pallas conjunction, we've been graced by Pallas Athena wisdom to move our lives forward recovering true understanding of women's needs. This would be particular to each women but in general SN Lilith in Cancer meeting NN of the Moon is the return to Matriarchal teachings and ways of living. With the square, we are kind of being asked, do you really know what you need?
Taking it one step further would be, do you have the courage to ask for what you need or to demand, claim and own what is needed, seen with Sn Cancer square tr Lilith? This tr NN in Cancer is also square Aries and opposing VS.
Is your desire to be whole greater than your fear of the past?
SN of Lilith in Cancer which can be felt now with Transiting NN of the Moon in Cancer squaring Lilith in Libra Rx, is requiring an emotional maturing process and an integration of the feminine principle, in women and in men, as well as in country. This symbol represents women going to battle now for what is fair and just. In some cases, it may be a women battling her own inner demons and fears of the past where her nature was demeaned and bemoaned, where she was kept in a box or at home to tend to the family and not allowed a full expression of her feminine self.
A South Node of Lilith in Cancer can also be a symbol for the little girl who never really grew up, tied to the apron strings of a parent. As well this can represent a Soul who has been born into family or tribes where they were forced to fend for themselves at a young age, or perhaps the Soul had an earlier exit than was typical for the time. If a Soul was living during a time where there was war between cultures and tribes, this can represent an emotional body was not fully developed, either from not living into their full adult life, or because the nature of the times did not support full expression of emotion so the Soul was forever forced to shoulder and stomach the full brunt of what they were emotionally experiencing on their own.
When a South Node of Lilith in Cancer is distorted, this Soul will carry a great deal of anger seen with the square to Aries, as a result of lifetimes living in a patriarchal world of repression, control and dominance ~VS. Along with a women's nature being snuffed out and the grave imbalance between gender, square to Libra. The South Node of Lilith in Cancer alone can reflect recent lives where there was a focus on defending the homeland as in the native Americans trying to protect their land and their tribes. Home is everything to Souls with this signature and when that is threatened, the Aries comes out full blast and with both barrels. The Mamma Bear Roars!
Lack of trust will also be a very unnatural state for this Lilith. Originally, with the trine to Scorpio, this is a powerful woman who knows and trusts herself even if that means to trust her insecurity, so others instinctively trust and feel safe around her. She could be the mother, the matriarch of the family, the one everyone respects for her example and greatness of Spirit.
Taking this away with unhealthy and abusive relationships, either from family of origin, intimate partners, friendships or toxic workplace, the soul can weaken its light. The place where she could natural go to ground herself turns blocked and heavy, an emotional landscape she won't even wish to get close to. Fears of all kinds can take over the soul and be projected onto others, including the fear of real intimacy, and the world around them may be seen as a very hostile place.
Yes Helena, this can create a total emotional shutdown.
Although there is one thing these women should never be ashamed of and that is their natural sensitivity and empathy.
I agree, the South Node of Lilith in Cancer is PURE Emotion, which is their GREATEST strength. Being sensitive and empathic is a gift to embody and to share, it is about the need for this Soul to find balance with it. You mentioned boundaries which is necessary. It will be essential for the woman be able to access her center of gravity, VS, while also feeling and expressing this emotion, without reacting to the world or to events in an Aries way.
Thank you Helena for bringing your Spirit to these teachings. These are tremendously valuable insights that you shared.
It truly is a time for discovery and recovery.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi All,
Here's some additional thoughts about the distorted expression of South Node of Lilith in Cancer/4th house.
The distorted expression of South Node of Lilith in Cancer/4th house may manifest as a permeating insecurity and emotional immaturity. In essence, the Soul is seeking security from the external in such a way as to block, or thwart, the natural emotional maturation process. This may be expressed as being dominated by ones emotions and/or emotionally dominating others in overt/covert ways. For example, projecting hurt through an icy silence or withdrawing emotionally are forms of emotional manipulation. At worst, this may be expressed as overt emotional abuse because of a lack of emotional control.
Conversely, as Stacie mentioned, the individual may have attracted others in early life, most typically the key female figure, who never allowed him/her to truly mature, or "grow up." The mother or key female figure may have projected negative feelings or moods when the individual made any effort to mature outside their sphere of influence. As a result, emotional suffocation takes place within relationships. The key within this is that, in both cases, emotional security is linked with this type of external dependency. Displaced emotions are then carried over into adult life and within relationships. This has the effect of sustaining and recreating the emotional wounds of the past.
Thank you again for continuing this thread. I am very grateful and inspired by what is shared here!
Namaste,
Deva
Hi Deva,
Thank you for offering some key content on the distortions of South Node of Lilith in Cancer and how this distorted expression manifests in one's inner reality and in the reality of those around them, especially with respect to displaced emotion.
In a woman or a man, this can emotionally translate into a girl in a woman's body or a boy in a man's body.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Kristin and Deva,
Thank you too for your words. Kristin, about your comment, i really laughed when after writing Lilith always in company of other Deities realising that yeah Lilith is now in Libra :-)
I was reflecting on what you've both said and have a question, that if you see in your experience, distorted SN Lilith in Cancer coming out more frequently as the woman having to grow up too fast, with much responsibility at young age so the inner child is not allowed to play so to speak? Or maybe this is just on the outside? I ask because i don't have many examples that i know more closely of, but the ones i know and also we can see it as far as what's public about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and how she had to work double to help her family, do fall in this category. So my question is more in a sense that when we have a SN, a past and something already dealt with, in case of a distortion of the archetype and considering Lilith relates to the inner strength, if these women will tend more to roll up their sleeves and get to work, Lilith energy incorporating Capricorn in a distorted, i would say forced manner, so to function in a man's world in a man's way, so on the outside this would be what appears to be in place, and the reality of the inner life something completely different like the emotional situations you refer?
Also Kristin and Deva i want to thank you too for your last talk at Guiding Stars on Jupiter/Mercury , really inspiring! It might sound unrelated but something you said about how sound and music balances the soul reminded me of a recent event and how specifically drums and drumming correlates to the root chakra and centering the soul, would you agree?
I will share my experience when i was having a very stressful week earlier this month. After living in the city all my adult life i recently moved back to the country and whenever i am in the city do do something all sorts of problems suddenly show up like a big "go away!" :-) and here i was in the car trying to solve things and a music that i really like with strong drumming starts playing in the radio and i suddenly felt me back into myself again, if that makes sense, all stresses away. Reminded me of something i read a long time ago about a way we honour Capricorn energy is by staying with the pace, entering the rhythm of life and ultimately drums and drumming, from ancient shamanic cultures to now remind the soul to keep grounded. I don't know if this makes sense to the fact Lilith correlates to the root chakra? Now that we're experiencing all this Capricorn energy by transit if we don't have it ourselves in our charts (i know do!), it's a good reminder to stay in place :-)
All the best,
Helena
Hi Helena,
I was reflecting on what you've both said and have a question, that if you see in your experience, distorted SN Lilith in Cancer coming out more frequently as the woman having to grow up too fast, with much responsibility at young age so the inner child is not allowed to play so to speak?
Yes
Since the child is essentially thrown back upon themselves to cultivate inner security, they can be forced to grow up fast and are not allowed the 'Leave it to Beaver' childhood. This can include parents that are never home because they are working and the child is left to fend for itself. Or yes, in AOC's case, to become more responsible sooner than is ideal so there is no time to play.
This reality for a Soul can occur in the Cancer archetype whether it is distorted or not because the Soul is learning to lean on itself from the inside out. It becomes distorted because we live in a world where conditioning is in place for a majority of society.
Remember too that AOC chose this reality. We now see this was in large part to prepare for the role she would play in this country, and the Capricorn government/men she would be forced to take on.
She does have her Sun and Mars in Libra IN THE 10th reflecting her need to help out with the family. If she was working two jobs while she was young to help her family, she would not have been making her inner reality a priority, so as I shared in an earlier post this can equal emotional arrestment in her intimate relationships or a fear of being vulnerable. Most likely she would choose partners she could help with her 7th house Pluto or those who need her more than she needs them, so she does not have to step into spaces that require vulnerability. She would choose relationships where she would be in control.
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Regarding music.
YES
Music connects to Taurus/Venus... and it really is a universal experience for music to be an emotional state changer. Venus can serve as a tuning fork for our emotions and it has a way of bringing some levity and light to all that feels so Capricorn heavy. It can help you relax or it can help you pick up the pace. The drumming in particular is so powerful in its ability to bring you back into your root and ground you, yet it can also help keep you in step with your own heart beat, the heart is ruled by Venus.
Goddess Bless
Kristin
Hi Helena,
Yes, in my experience the 4th house can manifest as being thrown back on yourself at an early age, either through emotionally absent parents or emotionally volatile circumstances in early life. In essence, emotional security is uprooted in such a way that the Soul is forced to mature very quickly.
Yes, personally I feel that music is a powerful way to unlock the root chakra as it accesses pure emotion. It is a wonderful way to still my mental energy and tune back into emotional reality. Also, I have found music to be a very safe way to access and process emotions, finding strength in vulnerability (4th house/10th axis).
Namaste,
Deva
Hi Kristin and Deva,
that was very clarifying :)
Thank you!
Helena
P.S. One more thing i remembered is how the water trines can function as compensation, with distorted expressions manifesting in a variety of addictions, including addiction to specific feelings and emotional states, unhealthy in nature and keeping the soul from maturing and accessing its natural emotional strength.
Hi All,
Here is an example of the distorted Cancer archetype of Lilith and how this manifests in Ivanka Trump.
(I do not have a birth time so we will use a Noon chart.)
Notice that her Pluto in Libra squares the Nodes, her North Node is in Cancer and she is about to have a Nodal Return.
Jupiter, the ruler of her Moon, is forming a balsalmic conjunction to Pluto. The Moon is the ruler of her South Node of Lilith in Cancer and her North Node.
Ivanka'a South Node of Lilith is 16 degrees of Cancer and it opposes her Original Lilith in Capricorn at nearly 12 degrees. Together they form a T square to her Saturn in Libra, the ruler of her South Node in Capricorn. Saturn is also forming a waxing square to the Nodes.
The ongoing relationship with the past with respect to family speaks for itself.
We will overlap her chart with her father in a bit but for now please comment on what you see in her natal chart in terms of the distorted dynamics in the past leading to now.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
South Node Lilith Cancer 16.27
Original Lilith Capricorn 11.31
North Node Lilith Sagittarius 10.42
Hi Kristin, All,
the fact that her natal Lilith is conjunct SN Saturn, SN Pluto, and square natal Saturn can show she has been keeping this family dynamics for many lifetimes. I wonder about the reason for Pluto to transit first all these planets before arriving then at a conjunction with her natal SN and square Pluto. Would this say she would by default tend not to take the opportunity to step away, distance herself, preferring to keep appearances and follow the rules, Saturn, when she saw things getting quite weird with her father's presidency and husband involved? In a sense she will only be in a position to see the truth about herself, Pluto/Jupiter, when she has no way out, if at all in this lifetime?
This could be also seen in her SN Lilith, i take 16 Cancer? Would put SN Lilith conjunct NN moon, with the moon in Sagittarius as you mention Kristin, correlating with dynamics of the past, Lilith, when she was overly dependent upon this family/fathers/husband, with beliefs structured on following the rules relative to what is expected of a woman, that is, being pretty and nice, all the Libra planets, even if that means subservience, the moon square the mars in virgo, in her case. Maybe with her natal sun in Scorpio and Lilith in Capricorn, this is the life in which, in all distorted senses, she is getting some power to herself as a result of this psychological and emotional dynamics, so from her point of view so far did pay off... And with this the soul is then creating a more difficult path to raise awareness about what exactly means personal power and sense of authority in the social context, from within herself and as woman, as originally symbolised by the natural expression of natal Lilith Cap.
Helena
Hi Helena,
Thanks for posting.
I will answer you more fully in a day or two.
One thing I can share for now to confirm her reality seen in these prominent signatures, is that when Ivanka's Mother and Father divorced, she was only 10 years old, her only concern was whether she could keep the Trump FAMILY NAME, because of the power, status, and wealth that came with it.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Helena & All,
DISTORTED South Node of LILITH IN CANCER
You wrote
I wonder about the reason for Pluto to transit first all these planets before arriving then at a conjunction with her natal SN and square Pluto. Would this say she would by default tend not to take the opportunity to step away, distance herself, preferring to keep appearances and follow the rules, Saturn, when she saw things getting quite weird with her father's presidency and husband involved? In a sense she will only be in a position to see the truth about herself, Pluto/Jupiter, when she has no way out, if at all in this lifetime?
Well while she is the Queen of Appearances and appears to follow the rules, there is an entirely other world of deception going on, she is her father's daughter after all.
In fact, the View's Republican Meghan McCain scorches Ivanka's shallow insincerity.
"It's the first crack in her veneer, though," McCain said. "Being caught lying on air is a different thing."
"For her and the image that she is so protective and vociferously, intensely shielded from - one of the reasons I don't like her, is I don't know what she's saying," McCain added. "To me, there never seems like there's a real person in there.
She will do anything to bend or break the rules if she can financially benefit from it, especially lie, lie lie. She learned that from Daddy.
You wrote
In a sense she will only be in a position to see the truth about herself, Pluto/Jupiter, when she has no way out, if at all in this lifetime?
She will see the truth when she and her family finally get busted..and they will. Pluto is approaching her South Node in Capricorn and squaring her Natal Pluto and Jupiter. Pluto is also opposing Trump's Venus, Saturn and Lucifer in Cancer.
Yes, the themes you point out do connect to an over-dependency on family for wealth and power. She also knew being 'beautiful' (although just a manikin in reality ) would add to her power.
Not only is she a Queen of Appearances, she is a Queen of Deception. Venus, the ruler of that Libran stellium, conjuncts Neptune in in Sagittarius, which reflects her GETTING DRUNK ON WORLD FAME.
Her Venus and Neptune conjunction in Sagittarius exactly square Lucifer at 25 degrees of Virgo.
She flies all over the world with or without Daddy to be at that table with anyone who has power, meanwhile she has young children at home who never see their Mother.
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The term PARASITE connects to Pluto, her Pluto in Libra squares her Nodes and forms a T-square with her South Node of Lilith in Cancer and her Original Lilith in Capricorn. Parasites attach to others who are powerful because they themselves are addicted to power and cannot manifest it on their own. This has occurred through the families she has been born into as well as Soul's she has been married to.
She clearly has been married to Trump more than once.
Here are their charts overlapped ~ (I overlapped her chart to his because we know his birth time and not hers)
BI-WHEEL
1. For starters, look where all of her Libra planets land...in Trump's SECOND HOUSE..$$$
2. South Node of Lilith in Cancer lands on Trumps Mercury in Cancer, the ruler of his Gemini Sun, North Node of the Moon and Uranus.
3. Ivanka's North Node is EXACTLY conjunct Trump's Venus in Cancer, as well as his Saturn and Lucifer in Cancer.
4. Her Venus and Neptune land on Trump Moon and South Node in Sagittarius in his 4th house.
Her Moon is also in Sagittarius in his 4th house with her North Node of Lilith.
5. Ivanka's Lucifer at 25 Virgo squares Trump's Moon and the Nodes.
COMPOSITE
1. Composite Venus at 9 degrees of Libra squaring the Nodes in Cancer and Capricorn. (Note: we do not have her birth time so we do not know for sure what houses the planets land in)
2. Ivanka's Original Lilith in Capricorn conjuncts their composite South Node of the Moon in Capricorn.
3. Ivanka's South Node of Lilith conjuncts their composite North Node of the Moon in Cancer.
Round and Round it goes....Soul contracts to one another indeed, but it's not about love, it's about MONEY and all the power that comes with it.
Ivanka's Liliths
South Node Lilith Cancer 16.27
Original Lilith Capricorn 11.31
North Node Lilith Sagittarius 10.42
Please add further insights if you wish for those reading this thread.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
From what you wrote i see many repeating themes around the conjunctions between SN, NN, current Lilith and natal placements/composite. If i understand correctly, when this happens the dynamics of past, present and FUTURE overlap in the current life. Would this be a reflection of mirroring a connection to Evil, in a way that he is never going to be out of the deal, so will she due to the parasitic nature of her soul? It would make sense with the fact that her soul seems to be empty, gone, nothing there, or worst, occupied. The way you put it, parasite, says it all. Evil energy distorts everything, could we say it has taken all this woman's essence? Is there an honest possibility for her to leave that coming and going?
By original design, SN Lilith Cancer manifest her power from the Heart, by no way she could ever be a Manikin, she is full of life. She is the heartbeat!
Capricorn, her original Lilith, in the positive expression of the archetype correlates with determination, integrity, resilience and mastery of one's life in every possible adversity. In the best possible way, this could be an example chart of someone who facing evil stands up to defeat it every time until its gone, every time stronger... Which makes me think again of this case as an excellent example of the importance to understand the correct application of boundaries we talked previously relative to SN Lilith in Cancer, and how that can never be about emotional repression leading women believing their feelings and emotions are signs of weakness, but to know who they are and what they want from within.
SN Lilith in Cancer is the empath, the one Lilith who's origins relate to the water trine and emotional body.
Empaths take in everything from their environment, with special sensitivity to other's emotional states. We can imagine what feels like for this type of soul to grow up in evil surroundings. These are probably the first women to take in projected guilt, shame, not being good enough and the belief of having to work hard to be what others expect them to be, the dark side of Capricorn archetype. More so when that comes from the ones close to them, family and authority figures the soul sees as role models while growing up.
Most the time this would be unconsciously taken in, as water in Cancer simply is about feeling the feelings and emotions, creating insecurity within the soul, an insecurity based on lies, projections and distortion of their natural essences. This is also an excellent example to notice how hard it is to integrate an inconjunct, in this case Cancer being naturally inconjunct sagittarius and aquarius and the trauma that results from believing a lie and from expecting validation from the outside.
About this and how frequently plays out in women's lives, remembers me of dr. Christiane Northrup (a remarkable woman who's career has been focused on the empowerment of other women) and her strong advise. In her latest book she mentions empaths and sensitive souls tend to create strong bonds with vampires, read pathological narcissists, that initially tell them a bunch of lies, making them feel special, and use their light and life energy to feed from the light and life they don't have (of course each soul would be in this situation because of their own evolutionary and karmic reasons). She tells these women to pay close attention because in this cases they were not chosen they were targeted. And this is such a universal truth for all emphatic souls but certainly for women with their original natures coming from the Cancer sign because they naturally emanate light and love, something so absent in the patriarchal state of awareness.
Considering soul contracts you mention, maybe this is the case when the empath becomes the vampire and so on...
It would be really interesting to have a birth time though. I keep being confused about whether this is a soul conscious or unconscious about her real motives and desires. She has jupiter balsamic to pluto, moon (ruler of SN lilith) in Sagittarius conjunct NN Lilith, original Lilith is ruled by Saturn in Libra, then ruled by venus in Sagittarius conjunct Neptune. Does she consciously know to be deceiving or just leaving in a fantasy world? In a sense that would it be possible for this soul to be in any way conscious of natural law?
Thank you Kristin,
Helena
Hi Helena,
"Capricorn, her original Lilith, in the positive expression of the archetype correlates with determination, integrity, resilience and mastery of one's life in every possible adversity. In the best possible way, this could be an example chart of someone who facing evil stands up to defeat it every time until its gone, every time stronger... "
That is in fact the intention within the archetype of Capricorn. But in Ivanka the parasites case she has Lucifer at 26 of Virgo natally, conjunct her N.Node of Venus, and is trine to her Lunar S.Node, and square her Neptune/Venus conjunction in Sagittarius. So in her context this correlates to the opposite of the natal Lilath in Capricorn which also means becoming responsible for one's own actions, and becoming emotionally and psychologically mature. For her this correlates to DENIAL of her actual reality, and to be invested in being a VICTIM to actual reality itself. It sustains the emotional child who is dependent on DADDY: her S.Node of Lilath conjunct his Lucifer, Venus, Saturn conjunction in Cancer.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
It's true, the last thing a parasite could wish for is the death of its host, how else could it live then?...
I always tend to look at the problem with an eye on the solution, but of course with this kind of dynamics we're in a upside down situation.
I looked at what you pointed out and really, it's the devil in disguise. We have the exact opposite of the original intent for each symbol. This woman even has the kite pattern we've mentioned previously to help her raise above all lies without getting caught (for a while at least).
If we imagine that we are seeing the chart expressing itself positively we could have this type of soul,
Lucifer conjunct Pallas/NN venus Virgo - the messenger/spokeswoman of bearer of light, God/dess, uniting people for a new future, the healer archetype
Lucifer trine SN Moon and Asc. Capricorn - personal integrity, authority and strength at the service of society
Square to Neptune/Venus Sag. - restoring lost values and natural beliefs and ways of relating
Instead we have what you mentioned and makes think if we can be discussing women Original roots/Distortion/Resolution in the cases women lack maturity, soul maturity. It seems pointless or even unreal to look at this chart and search for this soul's original feminine if her soul is still a child when it comes to knowing herself. Not that we are all very ahead and enlightened about our Original roots (as we've been seeing for the ever sense of discovery permeating this subject and discussions). It is a social/evolutionary cause even more to be discussing this things, in various contexts of society not only astrology, so more and more women can remember their Original selves. Although seeing from this case for instance, it does seem a long road is still ahead, or maybe not, maybe she is the perfect symbol, Lucifer Virgo, for collective awakening, her Lilith in Capricorn. God/dess works in many ways...
It's also interesting we're coming at this thoughts on maturity and the lack of it when studying SN Lilith in Cancer/ Lilith in Capricorn, and the distortions implying themselves women stay little girls so they don't remember or even get close to know their own authority and what they're capable of by their own means. It's the key that keeps the door locked.
Well just some thoughts and thank you Rad for mentioning it,
Helena
Hi Helena,
I checked in with Rad about some of this...so am here to answer your questions.
If i understand correctly, when this happens the dynamics of past, present and FUTURE overlap in the current life. Would this be a reflection of mirroring a connection to Evil, in a way that he is never going to be out of the deal, so will she due to the parasitic nature of her soul?
Hes has made the contract.. Prior to the current life. She has not made that contract as of yet.
It would make sense with the fact that her soul seems to be empty, gone, nothing there, or worst, occupied. The way you put it, parasite, says it all. Evil energy distorts everything, could we say it has taken all this woman's essence? Is there an honest possibility for her to leave that coming and going?
She is on the brink of her Soul essence being defined by Evil itself. She has yet to make the contract with Evil. Her Soul will be utterly exposed in this life which is underway now. As it becomes progressively exposed to her ACTUAL REALITY this will of course be put in her face, so to speak. It is at that point of progressive exposure that she will have a choice to make between accepting her actual reality, take responsibility for it, and then make inner amends to change herself. If not, if it is met by the existing denial of her actual reality, she will be given a choice after the current life to make the contract with Evil in order to sustain and actualize her desire for power, wealth, social status, and so on. If she does not make that contract she will then know, after this life, that the next lives to come will be utterly devoid of any social power, status, wealth, and so on. In fact the next life will be spent in various ways that are defined by poverty, of having no chance to change those life circumstances, and be at the mercy of those in power in the cultures of birth. This is a karmic necessity in order to counteract all the lives that have come before in which she was the parasite to others who did have that social status, etc.
She will be informed and given the choice that if she wants to keep being in a relationship to her father that she must make the contract. She will be informed then that if she does not that her relationship with her father will be severed forever.
This is all seen/ symbolized by her Lucifer in Virgo that squares her Venus, Moon, Neptune conjunction that is conjunct her father's Moon and South Node in his 4th house, and his Uranus and Sun in Gemini in his 10th House.
I keep being confused about whether this is a soul conscious or unconscious about her real motives and desires. She has Jupiter balsamic to Pluto, moon (ruler of SN Lilith) in Sagittarius conjunct NN Lilith, original Lilith is ruled by Saturn in Libra, then ruled by Venus in Sagittarius conjunct Neptune. Does she consciously know to be deceiving or just leaving in a fantasy world? In a sense that would it be possible for this soul to be in any way conscious of natural law?
She is conscious about her real motives and desires yet in DENIAL of that fact at the very same time. She knows she is deceiving herself and others while denying it at the same time. All Souls are inherently defined by Natural Laws: the essence of all Souls. This is why if any of us violate a Natural Law we feel/know immediate guilt. She has made her "˜fantasy' world REAL. It is that fantasy world that she has desired that is the cause of becoming a parasite to others in the first place.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
All,
Here is an artical about Ivanka's husband Jared Kurchner. I am also posting his chart: it is a noon chart, no birth time.
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Jared Kushner "˜will eventually be exposed as an insatiably greedy Benedict Arnold': Harvard Law professor
Bob Brigham
Raw Story
10 Mar 2019 at 18:43 ET
Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner was slammed on Saturday for being "the greatest domestic danger to America."
It started with a Twitter thread by University of New Hampshire professor and Newsweek columnist Seth Abramson.
Legendary constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe saw the thread, and said, "I'm with Seth Abramson here." ( https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1104500093577773056 )
"Smarmy, slimy, smiling Jared Kushner of 666 Fifth Avenue is the beating heart of this unprecedentedly corrupt and deeply evil administration," Tribe charged.
Professor Tribe has taught at Harvard Law for 50 years and tried 36 cases before the United States Supreme Court.
"He'll eventually be exposed as an insatiably greedy Benedict Arnold," Tribe predicted.
Like Tribe, Abramson had harsh words for Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump.
"I'm going to tell you now the chief thing I've learned from many months of research for my forthcoming book Proof of Conspiracy: Jared Kushner is now the greatest domestic danger to America," Abramson argued. "And many former US government officials know for a fact that what I've just said is true."
"Whatever you think VP Dick Cheney was to President George W. Bush, take that, make it three times as sinister, make Bush ten times more sociopathic and a devout criminal, and make Cheney stupid, venal, and entirely dismissive of our rule of law and you get what Kushner is to Trump," he continued.
"Kushner is going to get us into a devastating war with Iran. Jared, singlehandedly. Jared, to make money for himself. I'll say now that Jared more richly deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life than [Paul] Manafort, and Manafort richly deserves it," Abramson argued. "That's how bad this is."
"Whether you realize it or not, Kushner having top secret security clearance is the issue in American politics right now, as Trump circumventing our intelligence community to give his son-in-law that access is the shibboleth that made the current danger to America possible," he said.
"We need whistleblowers to blow their whistles now," Abramson concluded.
I'm with @SethAbramson here. Smarmy, slimy, smiling Jared Kushner of 666 Fifth Avenue is the beating heart of this unprecedentedly corrupt and deeply evil administration. He'll eventually be exposed as an insatiably greedy Benedict Arnold. Read the thread and watch this space. https://t.co/E1TSV520tR
- Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 9, 2019
1/ Whatever you think VP Dick Cheney was to President George W. Bush, take that, make it 3 times as sinister, make Bush 10 times more sociopathic and a devout criminal, and make Cheney stupid, venal, and entirely dismissive of our rule of law and you get what Kushner is to Trump.
- Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 9, 2019
2/ Kushner is going to get us into a *devastating* war with Iran. Jared, singlehandedly. Jared, to make money for himself. I'll say now that Jared more richly deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life than Manafort, and Manafort richly deserves it. That's how bad this is.
- Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 9, 2019
3/ I'm wondering today more than I ever have before whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller has spoken to one man: Rex Tillerson. For all that Tillerson presented a danger of a corrupt detente between Trump and Putin, I think he knows *now* exactly how dangerous Jared Kushner is.
- Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 9, 2019
4/ Don't believe anything you hear from Kushner's attorney or from Kushner. *Ever*. The latter will always be lying to you, and the former will either be lying to you or will have been lied to by his client. I don't know if Mueller can save us from this particular danger or not.
- Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 9, 2019
5/ Whether you realize it or not, Kushner having top secret security clearance is *the* issue in American politics right now, as Trump circumventing our intelligence community to give his son-in-law that access is the shibboleth that made the current danger to America *possible*.
- Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 9, 2019
6/ Our foreign policy is totally off the rails in a way that is dangerous, and the sole reason for this is the Kushner-Trump axis. Our values have been betrayed in ways that we may shortly feel so keenly our heads will spin. We need whistleblowers to blow their whistles now. /end
- Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 9, 2019
PS/ The extent to which you think that Jared Kushner does or does not keep things from his wife is precisely the extent to which you think that Ivanka Trump is complicit in covert actions that should, if there's any justice, put Jared Kushner in prison for a very, very long time.
- Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 9, 2019
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Kurchner's natal Lucifer is 5 Leo which is conjunct the USA's Lunar North Node. His N.Node of Lucifer is 10 Aquarius which is the Lunar S.Node of the USA. His natal Lilath is 18 Sagittarius, his N.Node of Lilath is 27 Sagittarius, and the S.Node for Lilath is 1 Gemini.
Connect all these symbols to Ivanka's chart, and her father as well. Once seen and understood for what this is should be horrifying to any of us.
Hi Rad and Kristin,
Thank you for answering my earlier questions, it sure is important to know this things and how they evolve.
Pondering on what you said and this last chart Rad posted, something happened that i would like to share based on my own difficulties in looking at these specific charts from the perspective of Lilith and the asteroid Goddesses.
I realised that in the course of these last months my own perception of the Goddesses has been evolving in a way that for me They really are alive in some form, not just asteroids out there in the sky or abstract points in the natal chart (of course we can extend this for any point in the chart from a EA perspective).
It's almost like Source has created this way to communicate directly with the human soul, crystalized as asteroids, stories and symbols we are able to relate to and understand with a human perception, because they not only are part of our evolutionary stories and paths, but they correspond to where we can find/recognise the natural expressions of our Origin, and evolutionary distortions included in the course of our collective and individual stories. Essentially, manifestations coming directly from Source i have come to develop immense respect for, in any chart. Don't know if makes sense for others...
In this context that has come to me as strong inner confusion, sadness and actually frustration, when i try to look for them in charts of souls that are themselves symbols of the distortion with no apparent or objective desire to any sort of resolution, as we have seen. Essentially, since most if not all souls are now in a process of remembering and recovering the original feminine, it is a natural process of discovery to 'enter' the chart from distorted to resolution. But in the cases of these souls i feel it's almost like we enter the house and have to get out to find the Goddesses. So it didn't seem to make sense.
Then at some point of looking at the charts i really gave up and found myself asking the Goddesses, probably i was in despair ;D, 'what is it that You are trying to tell here that i am not seeing?'
And the funniest thing was immediately i realised the question contained the answer. That in essence, it comes to the most simple and universal truth that what is important is that we keep our connection with Source, with the Goddesses, alive within ourselves. That we don't get to weaken this link when entering any house where we cannot seem to find Them, because what the message is in those cases is to simply open our eyes and look around. That seeing things for what they are can actually strengthen and deepen our Truth. It was quite a moment...
I am sorry if this is a personal musing with little interest anyone, i just thought i'd share it because it also might be not :-)
Regarding Kushner's chart Rad, i don't feel i would be the right person to comment as i only have some questions at this point. I realised there is a very curious aspect to the chart that makes me wonder if he already made the contract? And at the same time he seems missing personality, like hiding behind everyone? I ask this because the chart is full of compensation and ease with the trines, a symbol JWG has mentioned also as a result of the superpowers given by the contract. And it is even more curious that this chart's crisis, the squares, almost all are related with the asteroids. What also got my attention in particular is that, between Trump and Kushner, there is strong ceres/nodes/lucifer link, doubled in both synastries probably suggesting belonging to the same family or family tree for a long time? Don't know quite right how to interpret this...
Another thing i saw that i don't know yet what it means, probably the same effect of deception Kristin already mentioned with Ivanka's soul, is Neptune strongly involved with Lucifer and Lilith: NN Lucifer conjunct S. Neptune; Lilith and NN Lilith conjunct natal Neptune; Lucifer conjunct NN moon/ NN Neptune; natal moon in Pisces...
Thank you again for your time and patience,
Helena
Hi Helena,
The only reason I posted Kushner's chart was to show the commonality of the soul dynamics of Ivanka the parasite and Kushner's in terms of the evil that permeates them both. Was not really expecting you or anyone to analyze it.
There is of course other lifetimes in which the Soul currents of Trump, Ivanka, and Kurshner's do intersect in terms of being part of the family lineage. One example of that would be the life of Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia in which they all had their parts in that life. In that life Sophia was then Trump himself. Attached is a jpg of her so you can see the resemblance. Here is a link to read about that if you wish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Alekseyevna. This should help in understanding Trump's situation with Russia in this life.
In a very recent prior life Kushner was a eunuch who came to power in Iran: Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar. Here is a link to read about him in that life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Khan_Qajar. When you put that life in Iran in the context of him in this life, and all the connections he is making to Saudi Arabia, the biggest enemy of Iran, it all then begins to make sense: the evil of it. Attached in a jpg of Agha so you can see the resemblance to him in this life. In that life his Mars was in Pisces conjunct Lucifer and opposed by Ceres in Virgo. Both were square his Lunar Nodal Axis: S.Node in Sagittarius, N.Node in Gemini.
One of the archetypes of Ceres in repeating or recovering something from the past that needs to be relived or recovered for karmic and evolutionary reasons. The connection between Trump, Ivanka, and Kushner is symbolized in that way among other symbols. There is a reason that those prominent American people in that article I posted about Kushner called him EVIL as well as his wife Ivanka.
God Bless, Rad
Thank you so much Rad and Kristen
I am reading, although I do not have time to post.
Gratitude
Tashi
Rad, just out of curiosity, do souls in general tend to keep the same physical appearance/traits for many reincarnations?
These pictures are incredible...
Hi Helena,
There really is no general rule or law for that.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
And would it be that soul's tend to pick up this traits from the past lives that are being brought/dynamics in the current life?
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Helena,
Yes................
God Bless, Rad
Thanks Rad,
Helena
Hi Kristin, Rad, All,
i just noticed this new moon brings Lilith and Pallas just turning direct and searched for the exact time this has happened, and thought of sharing the chart and some ideas.
The impressive fact is that this two Goddesses have been traveling together since last year and now they turn direct on the exact same degree, both turning direct only with 31 minutes apart. First Lilith then Pallas... Wow!
I will post chart of Lilith turning direct, Pallas chart only difference is the moon changes from 28 to 29 degrees aries, that fact only by itself stressing the importance of the Message... All this happening with the moon balsamic phase on the 31st of May.
I would love to know your thoughts on this if you have time to approach it, since this seems like a remarkable time in women's evolution and Her story, specially when it comes to leaving a very long pattern of relating and thinking, eliminating guilt and all those negative patterns, i say this focusing on the fact this happens in Libra, with a balsamic moon, ruler of the NN, just days before of a new moon in gemini, south node capricorn, bringing their power back, and with moon in aries, well, fire! :)
I also had this coincidence yesterday of a friend asking me a question of one of her friends that she couldn't answer, so we were talking about it, of why and when did women lost their power and natural authority to come to a place when say a woman who's near 60 years old still feels like a little girl next to partner in a intimate relationship and searching also partners that are little boys, both wishing for the other to meet their inner child needs with a mature adult that obviously is then lacking for both, a situation many women can see themselves in no matter their age, even though their personal lives and realities are managed with independence and sense of personal authority, in this example of this person she is a grown up woman with a big network of friends, holistic therapist, still coming to a time felling like this, and how she was in awe to come to that conclusion.
It seems to show how all this really is permeating many women's psyches no matter their background's, personal evolution or life story, and like a volcano wanting to come out, questioning, so some answers can come to break patterns so ingrained, women/men don't even notice till it happens to them.
Considering Lilith's direct chart, and just with a quick look at it, what i find most impressive if we look at it from Lilith's perspective, is how women's recovery of their natural sense of power and authority, establishing it, is linked with feeling/tending to their inner fire, allowing themselves independence and freedom to see how special they are from within their selves and the power they have to change their lives from there - the moon in aries conjunct Vesta squaring the nodal axis, resolution node south node in Capricorn, to preservation of what is most sacred within themselves, or remembering a fire that cannot die, one each woman needs to find by themselves, and is absolutely unique to each soul. This surely seems to be a very important message coming with this chart, and also to be firm in keep going with passion from the new answers they find.
It's really impressive also with the ruler of the moon, mars in aries conjunct the north node and Juno all square Lilith and Pallas, by itself also squaring the nodal axis from the other side, that a paradox of the need to relate - Lilith, Pallas, Libra - and need to be also themselves in that relating, all also in conflict with establishing new emotional and sexual patterns no longer based on old security needs is asking for great work, it seems!
Given the time Lilith/Pallas spent in Libra, reminds me of something JWG said about paradoxical charts, and how Libra always willing to meet others needs is "learning how to let others FIT THEIR REALITY versus the other way around", so women creating their own realities first and then let others in second seems key, when that reality is also extended to their emotional and sexual needs and desires, honouring their natural sense of power. Of course, as whole, each woman establishing what this means for their true selves and the reality of their lives. Would you agree?
Also the sabian symbol for Vesta/Pallas direct is curious, and says "A PROFESSOR PEERING OVER HIS GLASSES AT HIS STUDENTS", with a keynote of "Problems attending the transmission of knowledge in a special cultural setup", alluding maybe to the "difficulty" of the Teacher, Gods and Goddesses's WISDOM, to be heard by humans and their earthly problems, lives and limitations of mind. How the student in its youth can learn only so far, and maybe of Goddesses patience and kindness towards human's capacities. That i think it's pretty neat and very Cancerian from Source to us, and probably also letting us know it is going to take time and gestation...
Hope to hear from you,
Helena
P.S. Mars square to chiron, and chiron itself sextile to sun in gemini, ruler mercury in gemini t-square Neptune/Eros in Pisces/Virgo, shows also a strong "answer" and message to let go/change/heal patterns of thinking related to Patriarchal distortions and wounds with new ideas based on the messages of personal truth - the sun trine Lilith/Pallas
Greetings Helena,
First, your findings here are so telling of the times and so accurately reflect reality for so many at this juncture.
The double conjunction in Libra both stationing direct at the same degree just prior to the New Moon in Gemini, does reflect a changing of the guards and while all women will not dive into the freedom with a new pair of wings, it will energize more acknowledgement of the fire that burns within. It will give women more courage to not only ask for what they need but to honor what they need without apologizing for it.
Lilith and Pallas were squaring Mars in Cancer, which reflects perfectly the story you shared about this accomplished woman who still felt like a child at 60 while laying next to her partner in intimacy. Undoubtedly, she also attracted the emotional little boy, who she mirrored in this space. We all attract others who reflect the dynamics we are working on. By attracting a man who was Cancerian himself inside, would force her Soul to cultivate her inner sense of emotional security on her own. She may have appeared to do that in other ways in the world but not where she felt most naked and insecure.
She has succeeded in every area of her life except for the space that requires the greatest vulnerability, and now she can work to restore some of that balance. As for most women, it is likely that her natural desires and rhythms were repressed in her growing years and since we attract where we are at" she would have attracted a partner who reflected her own emotional and sexual repression.
This transition in time does reflect an opportunity for women to tend to their deepest inner stirrings in order to establish more personal balance but the square to Mars in Cancer suggests it will require returning to their deepest feelings of vulnerability, also remembering we can only evolve through this waterway. Feeling insecure comes with the turf here and it's all about growing through that insecurity.
I remember reading a book once called Aphrodite's Daughter. Each chapter is a different woman's story. One in particular stands out here. It was about a woman, not unlike the example you shared, who had been married a long time and there was no emotional or sensual connection to her husband. She had met a woman of Latin origins who loved to salsa dance and cook and listen to music, everything that you can imagine would activate all of the senses and these woman formed a relationship where the Latin woman literally brought her back to life in every way, she helped her remember what it felt like to be a woman and connected to the power of her femininity again. Ultimately, the woman did return to her husband but she returned forever changed.
Considering Lilith's direct chart, and just with a quick look at it, what i find most impressive if we look at it from Lilith's perspective, is how women's recovery of their natural sense of power and authority, establishing it, is linked with feeling/tending to their inner fire, allowing themselves independence and freedom to see how special they are from within their selves and the power they have to change their lives from there - the moon in aries conjunct Vesta squaring the nodal axis, resolution node south node in Capricorn, to preservation of what is most sacred within themselves, or remembering a fire that cannot die, one each woman needs to find by themselves, and is absolutely unique to each soul.
YES. YES. YES. The key here with the Libra energy is when you wrote: one each woman needs to find by themselves, and is absolutely unique to each soul. Not worrying about how others feel about who they are. Just by being who they are, the energy that emits will encourage other women to do the same. This in fact is the most ATTRACTIVE quality a woman can embody, expressing who she is naturally.
Given the time Lilith/Pallas spent in Libra, reminds me of something JWG said about paradoxical charts, and how Libra always willing to meet others needs is "learning how to let others FIT THEIR REALITY versus the other way around", so women creating their own realities first and then let others in second seems key, when that reality is also extended to their emotional and sexual needs and desires, honouring their natural sense of power. Of course, as whole, each woman establishing what this means for their true selves and the reality of their lives. Would you agree?
Absolutely.
Thank you for bringing this here to the MB Helena,
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Helena - I want to thank you so much for your thoughts.....brilliant insights, but even more so: dead right on!
I have been living what you were describing - and many other women I met the past 10 days or so....all of us in very similar 'boats'...
Just want to thank you for the validation & insights, incredible :)
Hi Kristin and Nerissa,
Kristin, really loved this ;D and that you took the time to answer and bring your Wisdom, thank you!
Quote from: Kristin on Jun 06, 2019, 12:41 PM
does reflect a changing of the guards and while all women will not dive into the freedom with a new pair of wings, it will energize more acknowledgement of the fire that burns within. It will give women more courage to not only ask for what they need but to honor what they need without apologizing for it.
So agree... Great image! I was thinking about it and there is a natural sense of maturity coming with accepting the answers one gets. Meaning the answers will always be correct from the soul's point of view, probably specially at this times with the Feminine issues coming so strongly, and women can show their personal sense of inner authority in accordance to their higher self not if they get or not get what they thought they wanted or needed, and whether or not personal truth fits within the structure of those needs. In sense that knowing what one needs comes also with the knowledge one can meet its own needs, sometimes can't and that doesn't diminished them in anyway, or literally fly to meet it and if it is in the spirit of the times. Personal truth seems very much the glue that is putting all together moving forward.
Also ended up getting the book you mentioned in a matter of minutes, even though my time for reading now is very limited gotta appreciate times when library keeps growing now with jupiter traveling my third house ;) adding to Rad's previous recommendations earlier in the thread, hope i can catch up with the information slowly!
Nerissa, thank you so much for your kind words :)
It's true right? and also amazing.
Now there is one thing you said it's also quite interesting for me, the fact we are on similar 'boats', right when i was drawn in the past couple of days, don't quite remember how and why, to the the asteroid Sedna.
There is a lot of information already in page 1/2 of this thread, and as you might know, Sedna's many approaches to the myth all agree that at some point she ended up in a boat with a her father that then cut off her fingers and let her drown in the Sea where she remained ever since.
I have not come to many conclusions by myself yet, but simply seems she is letting us know of the importance to now bringing her back. The times we face, survival, and the fact that she travels slowly and is for years on the last degrees of Taurus, one of Lilith's south nodes, the one that also brings up issues of survival for women's natural roots. She seems also to be a symbol of being lost, the Sea, the Spirit, on the consequences of the abuse of the "male patriarchal God", the father, that cut off her fingers, or her ability to do for herself.
I like to add to the myth the story of the Skeleton Woman from Clarissa Pinkola Éstes in Women Who Run With the Wolves, because it's like a follow up on the story, on bringing her back that is beautiful. Just like Rad mentions (pag. 2 of the thread) about the discovery chart making Sedna's chart very connected to Pluto's chart, and the fact that Éstes, shows Skeleton Woman as Life/Death/Life aspect of women and their capacity to regenerate, if only we All accept things live and die, against all delusions all should be pretty, avoiding dealing with the reality of the deep stuff. This what it looks like she brings. But i will dive in a bit more and if anyone has any insights to share on it that would be great! :-)
Abraço,
Helena
P.S. Just noticed current Jupiter in transit is conjunct Sedna's Pluto discovery chart!
Thank you again, Helena - more wonderful thoughts!
I don't have a lot to add - really just want to pipe in & say thanks & keep thread going...
The myth of Sedna has always resonated with me. I have also lived in those regions where her myth is organic. It's quite the story of betrayal - & yet the people depend on her for their livelihoods - they cannot catch the seals or other food if she doesn't help them: & yet she is cast away....entirely alone at the bottom of the sea...
To have cast away the divine feminine (not just 'women' or 'females') is to have cast away the root of wholeness and inclusiveness, the totality wherein there are no opposites anymore or divisiveness - instead of living in that wholeness they now have to 'consult' with her to access their natural birthright: as though it were outside of themselves versus within.....seems to sum up patriarchy to my mind!
Hi Nerissa, All,
completely agree with you Nerissa. From what i've been understanding she is all about recovering that wholeness within. The message from the myth ends up being one of self-respect, like she embodies the whole relationship Yod, truly mastering it from an undistorted perspective. As you say, unlike many other Goddesses she gives/nurtures/grants wishes only when people come to her and show respect, a highly develop Libra trait, very different from conditional giving, also very grounded in herself, deep in the Sea... Wow Libra, Taurus, Neptune!
I have been really curious and fascinated with Sedna relative to Lilith and, even though diving in astronomy makes me feel like a kid in a playground, also in a very good way :-), i found out some interesting things.
From what i've seen so far, Sedna for me has an underlying role on the re-emergence of the sacred feminine that is starting to show itself coming from the depths, and She really comes from the depths! A trans-Neptunian object, it's one of the most distant known so far in our solar system.
Astrologically Sedna is very much the embodiment of the water trine, an actual Sea/Trans-Neptunian Goddess, not only showing in the discovery chart, but well, she is in the depths of the sea, far far away and still nurturing body and soul of humans, whether we consciously know it or not. It seems Sedna has a special place in the collective unconscious.
One of the facts that most stands out to me when i started searching briefly is coming to know it takes her circa 12000 years to complete one cycle around the sun, and making the correlation that 12000 years is too half of one Yuga cycle, if i am correct. It is intriguing!
Searching further it seems the numbers from that cycle change, depending on the sources, range from 10000 to 12000 years, the most precise being 11487. Still, in any case, around 12000 years.
Then, seeing in the beginning of the thread Linda mentions this orbit "coincides with the rise of the patriarchy and the beginning of agriculture" seems to point in that way? Rad would this correlation be correct?
If we focus on her connection to Lilith and Lilith's nodes is even more interesting to find out that Sedna is thought to come closest to the Sun in the years 2075-76, a rather rare event.
Considering Lilith's south nodes range from 25 Taurus to 19 Cancer (and this last being conjunct Pluto's north node), we know she started making a conjunction to 25 Taurus in 2016.
At this time, 2016, the nodal axis was sn pisces/nn virgo, Neptune and chiron were both in Pisces and Saturn was in Sagittarius, conjunct Sedna's discovery natal Pluto, there was an earth trine between Sedna, Pluto and Jupiter, and also a Lilith/Pluto south node conjunction in Capricorn.
Further more, in 2075, Sedna will be conjunct the north node of the moon in cancer, Neptune will be also in cancer, all at some point conjunct pluto's north node and making a journey to the last sign of Lilith's south nodes. Saturn will be back in 2075 to same conjunction to Sedna's natal pluto in Sagittarius like in 2016. Lilith will travel from Leo to Scorpio that year, ending the year in Scorpio, trine to Senda and the north node.
I won't probably be here to find out what's going to happen, or maybe not in a human body, but would certainly love to! Although it is of concern to me, relative to what humanity is going to do, seeing Pluto, Uranus, Sedna and the moon's nodes will be making a t-square, in aries/capricorn/cancer, with pluto squaring the nodal axis and chiron also in aries making a square to neptune in cancer. Too much futurology maybe... But probably the next 50 years or so will be much significant to how we are bringing Her back, Sedna being symbolic of the unconscious beat for it to be heard, seen and felt, considering women's natural roots and the future of the Soul at the same time, nurtured with the wisdom of the past. We need boats and nets and a lot of fishing but i see mostly we need not to trow her away again back into the ocean like the mythological father, whenever she/it seems scary (Estés brilliantly shares this view point in the tale i previously mentioned).
Also, i like that in the myth her fingers and nails turn into sea mammals, fish, most mentioned are seals and whales, because of the spirit these animals carry in helping/teaching us access the unconscious and inherent creative nature. Seals for instance live mostly in the sea and only come to land to give birth and breed their babies, what a symbol connected to Sedna as a Divine Feminine Goddess! Some in the species also don't have ears, which help them do swim better and, in a more symbolical away, helps stay connected to the inner voice, inner self and creative gifts, away from unnecessary noise. Isn't a possibility that her message, coming closest in some years, that something is in gestation, something new coming to land, and we have the opportunity, now in these years, to chose what that will be, relative to the Sacred Feminine?
Personally i do know the power of the whale in a very strange/funny way... At some point in my life i lived in a place for a short period and decided, when i moved in, to finally hang in my bedroom wall a beautiful illustration of a humpback whale under the moon, that for some reason i had for some time and never look like it belong somewhere else (i even attempted to put it in another place before ending up falling in the floor, so i gave up :D).
That specific time i ended up digging a lot of stuff that was hidden in the depths of my soul for sure, sometimes pretty scary things we avoid seeing or thought we had already dealt with, others accessing a creative magnetic place we all have and from where everything comes, sometimes starting as inspired dreams. And for some reason i can relate part of the enfolding of very significative events to the presence of the whale and her spirit near me, and how that was a symbol of the times i was so strongly living simultaneously, for better or worse. This only to illustrate the significance of these symbols/beings and how they can work in our lives whether we consciously want them to or not. They do.
Again just some thoughts, questions, ideas that can add to this mysterious times God/dess is bringing.
Helena
Hi Helena,
"Then, seeing in the beginning of the thread Linda mentions this orbit "coincides with the rise of the patriarchy and the beginning of agriculture" seems to point in that way? Rad would this correlation be correct?"
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Yes ........
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you for your clarification, it is intriguing indeed... I have also been searching for more information on Sophia (asteroid 251) and got a bit unclear with information here in additional threads
https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,472.0.html
https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,462.0.html
From what i understand, Sophia is Divine Mother/Mother Earth originally linked to Christianity, and from a gnostic perspective Sophia is the "Embodied Wisdom of the Earth".
In the thread it is said that Sophia relates to the original 'sacred prostitution' and that Sophia and Vesta have each their own archetypes but share the aspect of sacred prostitution. Could you share a bit more on the meaning of the archetypes and how they connect?
Intuitively i do find Sophia, Vesta and Magdalene connected in some form of trinity but would like to understand the reason why i tend to feel it is so, but at the same time i do find it hard to understand the 'sacred prostitution' linked with an undistorted view of the archetypes for each. I take that Sophia and Vesta come through Madgalene, in a actual human body... But if that is so are we talking of the de-evolution of the archetypes from the sacred and original to the prostituion aspect, but they do in fact refer to natural women and the symbolism of Vesta?
If we are to refer to this symbols for an original perspective, in the natal chart, do we see them as possible having gone through one or both phases, distorted/undistorted, but most importantly now, do they show where souls, women and men, can find direct connection the wisdom of the earth within their own bodies?
Thank you,
Helena
Helena,
Thank you for asking these questions. It's funny how synchronistic this message board, EA are....& especially anything regarding the feminine asteroids
Lately I have been thinking of the symbolism of the 'Star' tarot card & how it relates to these divine feminine symbols....the card brings into play the ancient priestess, the cycle of Venus, really all of the deep symbolism of Venus & it seems these other archetypes either are that Venus symbolism or sorta 'satellites' of it.
I am interested in how Magadalene correlates to Sophia, Venus. Like you said seems the 'embodiment' of the archetypes, energy, truth of the divine feminine
All this is so synchronistic for me - the other year first discovered these points in my chart & just recently revisited as I'm thinking of all this & how it relates to the 'Star' card.
Magdalene & Sophia are conjunct my SN Venus
Their NN are conjunct my sun (& not far from venus)
Had forgotten all this until now! Just like when this thread started I was rereading the Lillith book & unbeknowest to me was having my Lillith return!
The topic of asteroids, sacred priestess, divine feminine are some of my favorite threads on the board. I'm looking forward to Rad's insights..
Thanks.....
if this is muddled thinking - sorry: still drinking morning coffee!!
editing to add: yes, I'm thinking of the trinity here as well. 333 is a number I see all the time! Understand it's correlated to Magdalene & that archetype, which makes sense as the trinity seems to be an interface between embodiment & the disembodied....again: need more coffee - best my brain can explain for now ;)
Another edit: interesting their north nodes tend to travel through Virgo mostly (dipping into Leo & Libra too) - I associate the priestess archetype with Virgo, and for that matter Mary Magdalene with Virgo, too & also consider Vesta a co-ruler....just interesting that this archetype is being developed via Magdalene & Sophia
Hi Helena,
"From what i understand, Sophia is Divine Mother/Mother Earth originally linked to Christianity, and from a gnostic perspective Sophia is the "Embodied Wisdom of the Earth". In the thread it is said that Sophia relates to the original 'sacred prostitution' and that Sophia and Vesta have each their own archetypes but share the aspect of sacred prostitution. Could you share a bit more on the meaning of the archetypes and how they connect?"
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Christianity had not manifested yet when the idea/belief of the sacred prostitute first manifested. So the idea of Sophia being related to this is beyond me other than a 'projection' by humans that comes from the collective memories of that time into another time. There was no such thing as the sacred prostitute in Judaic times of old. In the original time of this the belief of the sacred prostitute was one wherein a women could absolve the 'sins' of men through sexual intercourse with women who were so designated as a sacred prostitute. This idea/ belief itself is traceable to Vesta in the sense of one of the natural roles of the total archetype of Lilith was one wherein certain women would initiate puberty age boys into sexuality: keepers of the flame. Those women were the archetype of Vesta within the totality of Lilith.
Coming down through time in many different cultures, patriarchal times, it was common for example for the fathers of puberty age boys to have them sexually initiated by prostitutes: "sacred" or not.
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"Intuitively i do find Sophia, Vesta and Magdalene connected in some form of trinity but would like to understand the reason why i tend to feel it is so, but at the same time i do find it hard to understand the 'sacred prostitution' linked with an undistorted view of the archetypes for each."
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The idea/belief of the 'sacred prostitute' itself is a distortion of natural laws. Remember this idea/belief was created by men, not women.
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""I take that Sophia and Vesta come through Madgalene, in a actual human body... But if that is so are we talking of the de-evolution of the archetypes from the sacred and original to the prostituion aspect, but they do in fact refer to natural women and the symbolism of Vesta?"
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The totality of the natural women in all of her natural manifestations correlates to Lilith. Remember too that the natural women relative to natural laws in not inherently monogamous. The natural women by choice would have sex with many men. In the end this was for survival of the species because of the need for genetic variation that allowed for a progressive strengthening of the immune system of the human species.
That natural law coming through time, distorted by men, manifested then as 'prostitution' where women were paid by the various men she would have sex with in some way. So from the natural to the distorted.
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"If we are to refer to this symbols for an original perspective, in the natal chart, do we see them as possible having gone through one or both phases, distorted/undistorted,"
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but most importantly now, do they show where souls, women and men, can find direct connection the wisdom of the earth within their own bodies?
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The wisdom of the Earth, all of it's natural laws, can be aligned with by liberating from all the various 'beliefs' invented by men over great lengths of time and, in so doing, redefine themselves naturally as natural men and women relative to the natural laws of each.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad and Nerissa,
Rad, i understand all you mention, so maybe my question was confusing in the first place, my apologies for that. Originally my question is related to the other thread here in this points,
"Sorry one more question popped into my head. Do you think the asteroid Sophia relates to the original sacred prostitution?
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"When I asked about the astrological symbols relating to sacred prostitution i was unclear about the vesta women. Are the Vesta and Sophia asteroids interchangeable with the two or is there another symbol that relates to the vesta women but not to sacred prostitute?
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They are not interchangeable. Each has their own total archetypes but do share this aspect of the sacred prostitute. The Vesta archetype of itself does not necessarily mean that the aspect of the sacred prostitute that is contained within it have been lived out in all when considering it in all Souls/ birth charts. It is a possibility but not an absolute."
I see my confusion started with the expression 'original sacred prostituition' related to Sophia, Vesta and natural women, when the expression is in fact already a distortion in itself and i feel the need to in my mind at least differentiate natural vesta women and the invented 'sacred prostitute'. But if you don't mind me ask again, when original sacred prostitution is mentioned above, it means then original vesta women and not the distortion?
So my question is in what way the archetypes come combined and what is specific to each, in a natural expression, as i understand what has happened when the archetype of vesta became distorted but do not follow the connection to Sophia/Vesta in natural times. I take from your answer it simply evolved side by side with vesta and all distortions therein?
Would you agree in interconnectedness of Sophia/Vesta/ Magdalen (Lilith)? Magadlene's presence is certainly a root force and inspiration for all women, specially now with incredible presence and manifestation in collective consciousness (both the distorted and original too), but i still feel like i miss the total link to Sophia.
Nerissa,
also enjoyed so much reading your post! So true.. and well, the synchronicities.., this ' EA house' honours God/Dess for sure, so it seems all people coming to it with a desire to share end up always giving something of value for sure. I also have Madgdalen/Sophia conjunction in my chart and both also conjunct other planets, nodes and asteroids, including in one side Lilith, the other also sn venus/ sn neptune. And then Sn magdalen conjunct my sun. So i was thinking if that is really a coincidence or something more general and ended up realising, from what i saw (if someone has other information please correct) that Nodes of Magdalen and Sophia, always conjunct. That is something to considerer in the link between the two. For example today,
Magdalene 25 Gem, SN 29 Pis, NN 28 Leo
Sophia 25 Libra, SN 24 Pis, NN 23 Leo
P.S. So nice you bring up the star card of the tarot! I don't know much about tarot but if i had to pick up a card to look at would certainly be the star :-)
All the best,
Helena
Helena,
I'm not surprised at all to see these archetypes so prominent in your chart!
& yes - you're correct: the NNs of Sophia & Magdalene are in cahoots - pretty amazing really :)
To me the Star card represents the pre-patriarchal archetype I associate with the divine feminine & the 'priestess' (for lack of a better word)....since this is an astrology board, I won't delve further into the symbolism! But - lots of great articles & really beautiful art work that depicts the card out there
Thank you Rad for your insights & clarifying some of these ideas for me
I see my confusion started with the expression 'original sacred prostituition' related to Sophia, Vesta and natural women, when the expression is in fact already a distortion in itself and i feel the need to in my mind at least differentiate natural vesta women and the invented 'sacred prostitute'. But if you don't mind me ask again, when original sacred prostitution is mentioned above, it means then original Vesta women and not the distortion?
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The original Vesta archetype correlates with the natural Lilith archetype, and expression of it, BEFORE the patriarchal times began. It when the patriarchal times began that things like the 'sacred prostitute' were created by men that reflects the distortions to the natural archetype of not only Vesta, but the whole of the archetype symbolized by Lilith.
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"So my question is in what way the archetypes come combined and what is specific to each, in a natural expression, as i understand what has happened when the archetype of Vesta became distorted but do not follow the connection to Sophia/Vesta in natural times. I take from your answer it simply evolved side by side with Vesta and all distortions therein?"
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I already tried to answer this Helena by describing what the natural Vesta archetype was in the times before the patriarchy. It is from that natural role in those pre-patriarchal times that became distorted once the patriarchy was set in motion: i.e the 'sacred prostitute'. The archetype of Sophia is not linked with the archetype of Vesta other than being it's own archetype within the totality of the natural women as symbolized by Lilith.
The archetype of Sophia as I understand it is one of a natural teacher, a teacher of natural laws. Thus, the inherent wisdom because of the knowledge of those natural laws. When this becomes distorted it can then manifest on 'beliefs' as defined by various patriarchal religions versus the direct knowledge gained from all the natural laws that DO NOT REQUIRE BELIEFS AT ALL. Relative to the distorted Sophia this then can manifest as trying to convert others to whatever the nature of the beliefs are: the only way stuff.
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"Would you agree in interconnectedness of Sophia/Vesta/ Magdalen (Lilith)? Magadlene's presence is certainly a root force and inspiration for all women, specially now with incredible presence and manifestation in collective consciousness (both the distorted and original too), but i still feel like i miss the total link to Sophia."
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There is of course a natural connection, inter-related, of these natural archetypes as rooted in the totality of all of those archetypes as symbolized by Lilith. To me Magalene is the archetype that correlates and teaches about the natural union of the body and the Soul, and how natural sexuality as defined by the natural roles of both women and men is used, can be used, to actualize that natural alignment.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
still find i need to go through all you mention a bit more for my own understanding but really appreciate you answered even though my questions were not that clear.
This you wrote really helps and gives meaning to this questions,
"The archetype of Sophia as I understand it is one of a natural teacher, a teacher of natural laws. Thus, the inherent wisdom because of the knowledge of those natural laws."
"Magdalene is the archetype that correlates and teaches about the natural union of the body and the Soul, and how natural sexuality as defined by the natural roles of both women and men is used, can be used, to actualize that natural alignment."
Thank you very much,
Helena
Hi All,
Can't resist to share this i remembered today. Around this time last year i saw a documentary about the life story of an incredible woman, flamenco dancer La Chana. I was far from aware at the time i saw it, of the passion we've been devoting to Lilith and Teachings here in the thread and how this all correlated, but something was so strong and primal about this woman i stood the entire film in an almost hypnotic state coming from her presence, her story and her strength. Such an incredible presence of what it is a woman coming from her own root, all others around her stand still in awe and deep respect. That's at least how i felt the entire film.
The story also shows Lilith's forced descent to the underworld, and how the patriarcal model imposed its fear and castration of the natural woman in the shape on a violent jealous husband demanding her retreat from the stage when she was at peak of her career, but also Lilith's rise and how she came back thirty years later, with her root strength intact, even if she had to dance sitting! This for me is one of the most remarkable examples of Lilith and truly a living Goddess.
This soul has natal Lilith at 19 Capricorn, exact to her Pluto Sn. Sn Lilith is exact to moon's NN in gemini and NN Lilith conjuncts ruler of moon's nn, mercury, natal sun and widely conjuncts sn moon in sagittarius.
If capricorn correlates to the beat, drumming, audible marking of time, here is this woman connecting to her root in such direct, physical, natural way.
Her birthdate is December 24, 1946.
I will leave bellow a link to the trailer of the documentary and to film if anyone is interested to check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPgocPh3we0
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lachana
Enjoy,
Helena
Hi All,
I came across a book review of Janis Joplin which prompts me to add this to our thread on Lilith. She was/ is a perfect example of Lilith manifesting within the 2nd stage Individuated Evolutionary State that begins to emerge into the 3rd Stage Evolutionary State.
I am including a review of the book here so we can all see how her Soul manifested in this way. I am attaching her chart that has her original Lilith in Aquarius conjunct her natal Venus and Lunar S.Node in the 12th. Her N.Node of Lilith is at 26 Sagittarius conjunct her 10th House Mars, and her S.Node of Lilith is at 28 Taurus in her 3rd conjunct Uranus and Saturn in Gemini, and is squaring her Lunar Node, and squaring her natal Lilith and Venus.
So, I thought I would share this in order to learn ever more about Lilith as an archetype. If any of you have your own observation or questions please share.
Namaste,
Kristin
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Here is that book review:
A New Biography of Janis Joplin Captures the Pain and Soul of an Adventurous Life
Had she not died at 27 of an accidental heroin overdose, Janis Joplin would be 76 - two years younger than Paul Simon and four years younger than Mavis Staples. Singers with scorched voices sometimes settle more deeply into them. (Have you heard the most recent Marianne Faithfull album?) One wonders at the body of recordings Joplin might have made.
A new biography, "Janis," by the music writer Holly George-Warren, performs a service by stripping away a lot of the noise around Joplin - cackling and bawdy, she was America's first female rock star and Haight-Ashbury's self-destructive pinup girl - and telling her story simply and well, with some of the tone and flavor of a good novel.
This is fundamentally an Eisenhower-era misfit story, and there are a lot of those. But Joplin's story has a special freight of pain in it. Before it embraced her, Texas turned her into a pariah.
She grew up in Port Arthur, a conservative oil town on the Gulf Coast, where her father worked for Texaco. She was a tomboy who knew early she was different.
There was her complicated sexuality. (She would go on to sleep with both women and men.) There was her instinctive and outspoken liberalism, especially as regards race, which set her sharply apart from her peers.
Then there were her looks, which she despised. "She thought her nose was too big, her mouth was too big," a friend commented. "She had freckles." Joplin referred to her own "little pig eyes," and mourned her unruly hair.
The critic Ellen Willis caught why Joplin's looks came to matter deeply in the 1960s. Her metamorphosis into a Dionysian goddess meant, among other things, Willis wrote in Rolling Stone in 1976, "that a woman who was not conventionally pretty, who had acne and an intermittent weight problem and hair that stuck out, could not only invent her own beauty (just as she invented her wonderful sleazofreak costumes) out of sheer energy, soul, sweetness, arrogance and a sense of humor, but have that beauty appreciated."
Back in Texas, however, Joplin's whole vibe alienated people. She read "On the Road" and started calling herself a beatnik. She was a sloppy dresser. She wasn't invited to her senior prom. Even friends wrote cruel things in her yearbook.
She made trips with boys across the border into Louisiana to see bands, and got branded a harlot. A football player nicknamed her "Beat Weeds," a reference to pubic hair. "When Janis walked down the hall," George-Warren writes, "the jocks threw pennies at her and called her "˜whore' and "˜slut.'"
Among the jocks at Joplin's high school was Jimmy Johnson, future coach of the Dallas Cowboys. In 1993, he told Sports Illustrated, "Beat Weeds "¦ never wore any panties." George-Warren comments: "How Johnson came by this knowledge is unclear."
While Joplin was at the University of Texas at Austin, which she attended only briefly, a fraternity sponsored an "Ugliest Man on Campus" competition. Someone entered Joplin anonymously and posters of her went up everywhere.
From early on, Joplin escaped into music. She was the kind of fan who, after hearing Elvis Presley sing "Hound Dog" on the radio, sought out the original recording by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. (Joplin would later have an early hit with her version of Thornton's "Ball and Chain.")
She learned enough about folk and the blues to stand eye-to-eye with (largely male) roots music geeks. She was a big reader, thanks in part to her shyly intellectual father. On tour she'd travel with bags of books. She named a dog Thurber, after James Thurber, the New Yorker humor writer.
Friends knew she had a powerful and unusual sound, just hearing her sing along to the car radio. This was in an era of pretty soprano voices like Joan Baez's. Joplin was like the girl in the fairy tale who, every time she opens her mouth, out hops a toad.
Joplin made the hairs on the back of people's necks prickle. She began playing coffee houses and hootenannies in Austin and elsewhere, and floored listeners; she had the force of an opera singer. She did a version of "St. James Infirmary" that unnerved people.
Joplin had an itch for emancipation. She began shuttling between Texas and the West Coast, sometimes hitchhiking. She became a well-known performer at Threadgill's, the Austin restaurant and music venue, before she moved out to the West Coast for good.
Her big personality had a dark side: depression, anxiety, mood swings. She had a capacity for excess, and a nimbus of exhausted hedonism trailed along with her. She smoked, she drank people under the table and she slowly but enthusiastically turned to drugs. She was a meth addict by the time she was 22. "Hey, man, what is it? I'll try it," she said. "How do you do it? Do you suck it? No? Do you swallow it? I'll swallow it."
The rest of Joplin's story is better known. She joined the Bay Area band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and became an international star after the band's 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Some felt that the members of Big Brother weren't on her level as musicians; she eventually went solo.
George-Warren must have needed a special database to keep up with Joplin's lovers. "Honey, get it while you can," she sang. She took her own advice. She was an omnidirectional sexual omnivore.
Joplin took in men and women the way most people take in the morning newspaper. She slept with sailors, musicians, fans and members of the Hells Angels. She turned tricks when stranded and needing money. She joked that one partner "made love in iambic pentameter." She drove into Mexico for an abortion.
She had relationships with Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of the Grateful Dead and with Country Joe McDonald. Leonard Cohen wrote "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" about her. She had dalliances with Peter Coyote and Kris Kristofferson, whose "Me and Bobby McGee" she covered. She slept with Joe Namath, of all people, and possibly, George-Warren suggests, with Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Dick Cavett. One of Bruce Springsteen's early bands opened for Joplin in New Jersey. "Help, she's after me!" Springsteen told his guitarist Steven Van Zandt.
Not everyone loved her music. "If I want to hear black singing, then I'll listen to black singers," Mick Jagger reportedly said. Joplin's shows, like her life, were so intense they made people fear for her safety and sanity.
Writing in The New Yorker, Willis described a Joplin show that was "the most exalting, exhausting concert I have ever been privileged to see, hear and feel." Joplin gave so much that Willis, presciently, became concerned.
"I didn't know if I wanted the responsibility of taking; I felt a little like a vampire," she wrote. "From now on, I decided, after two encores I stop clapping."
Here is a link to a biography of her:
https://www.biography.com/musician/janis-joplin
And
Janis Joplin On Her Own Terms
Her transformation from the ugly duckling of Port Harbor to the peacock of Haight-Ashbury
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/janis-joplin-on-her-own-terms-86303/
(ftp://https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/janis-joplin-on-her-own-terms-86303/)
HI All,
Here is another example of a young women who when she was just 15 years old sailed solo around the world: the youngest ever. This is such a wonderful example of Lilath from a natural point of view. Her natal Lilath is at 6 degrees of Taurus conjunct her Lunar South Node at 26 Aries. Her S.Node of Lilath is at 16 Cancer which is ruled by her Leo Moon. Her N.Node of Lilath is at 3 Sagittarius which is conjunct her natal Jupiter, and Pluto at 28 Scorpio.
Here is a short story about her:
Laura Dekker: a heroine for our times
She survived weeks at sea with just a few cockroaches for company - and did her homework too. Emine Saner salutes the teenage sailor
Guardian
1/12/2012
What do you do when you fulfil your life's ambition at the age of 16? Laura Dekker, the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly, arrived at the Caribbean island of St Maarten on Saturday to a rapturous welcome and a relieved family. While we wait to hear what does next, we celebrate her life so far.
She was born to sail
Her Dutch parents were living on a yacht in a port in New Zealand when Dekker was born and she was six when she first sailed solo. At eight, she decided her dream was to sail around the world, and, aged just 13, Dekker sailed solo from the Netherlands to England and back - a trip her father had hoped would "cure her wanderlust", according to her website. Her mother has said "she sails like a devil", while her grandfather says "she's a stoic. She will keep a cool head in the most extreme of situations."
She is good with cockroaches
She took on six-metre-high waves and extreme weather - on one occasion, heading in to the Cape of Good Hope, her storm jib (a sail used in storms) got jammed and she finally managed to take it down in the early hours of the morning. Another of her sails ripped completely during the voyage. She slept on a damp bed and lived on rice and pasta, with cookies and pancakes as an occasional treat. She dodged near-collisions with cargo ships, and worried about pirates. Not in the least squeamish, she had to rescue live flying fish that had flung themselves into her cabin, and scrub the stinking remains of decomposing squid from the deck. She survived weeks at sea with no company - except for the ants and cockroaches that had stowed away in her cabin. On top of all that, she had to do schoolwork.
She is determined
All of the above was nothing compared to the battle she faced against the Dutch authorities before she set off. Although her parents supported her plans, Dekker was placed under state guardianship by a Dutch court, which stopped her attempt to start her world voyage when she was 14, saying it was unsafe and would damage her development. A few months later, she ran away but was found in St Maarten and escorted back to the Netherlands. In July 2010, a court lifted the state supervision and said the trip could go ahead (in the meantime, Dekker had done training in first aid and sleep management, and was a more experienced solo sailor). "Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up," she wrote on her blog. "It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them. Now, after sailing around the world, with difficult port approaches, storms, dangerous reefs, and the full responsibility of keeping myself and her boat Guppy safe, I feel that the nightmares the Dutch government organisations put me through, were totally unfair." In their defence, Joost Lanshage from the Netherlands Bureau of Youth Care said: "If Laura had drowned we would be accused of not doing enough to protect her. Thank God she's OK and I think that's partly due to the safety measures we enforced as part of the condition for allowing her to go."
She becomes the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe
Dekker has just pipped the previous youngest, Jessica Watson, an Australian who sailed around the world, arriving in Sydney In May 2010, three days before her 17th birthday. In June 2010, Abby Sunderland, a 16-year-old sailor from the US, was rescued in the Indian Ocean after breaking her mast in an attempt to do the same. It was back in 2009 that a boy - 17-year-old Michael Perham, from England - held the record. However, Guinness World Records will not verify any of these claims, saying they do not want to encourage minors to take on dangerous challenges.
She is a reluctant superstar
Reading the blog Dekker kept during her voyage, it is clear that she values solitude and a proximity to nature. She writes about meeting penguins, seals, birds, whales and dolphins and has a deep appreciation of the beauty the world has to offer. "Yesterday the clouds gathered in an arch that reached down to the sea far on the horizon, and when the sun came down floating in the water it turned the arch into a barrel vault of lights," she wrote on Christmas Eve. "Sometimes I try [to] adjust the sails to make us go faster, but mostly I simply enjoy the endless silky blue ocean and the quiet peace that it brings," she wrote earlier in December. You can feel the apprehension of the media attention she knew she would eventually attract. "At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest."
Attached is her chart (no birth time), and a jpg of her.
Here is a link to YouTube about her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA60BScgmzw
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Thanks for this examples.
Is the travel around the seas, the way Dekker has recover her skipped step, neptune jupiter on the second. Proving her self she can survive and going beyond her limitations?
It's so beautiful this neptune jupiter, ideal travel around the natural oceans.
There is one thing that I don't understand, how she activated her ppp in the 7???
It seems all this journey quite individual in an aries way, it's true also that her skip step in second house is quite individual also, but I can not find the activation of the 7th house.
In regard to lilith the taurus side could be all the survival thing, and the sixth house... Al the techniques and learnings about how she make her own boat, trainings and the detail of making homework in the middle of the ocean, it's right?
Some more consideration to Chek if are riggt
The creation of his own boat could not be the first time, South node in the 5th, ruled by Mars in the oceanic 12th house, this Mars could also mean the captive experience by tee Dutch authorities and the fear of being captured again.
In regard to the north node, she definitely find a new innovative way, and she seems quite detach from relationships.
But I insist... I can't find how her ppp is working. Could be activated with the relationship with her father??? She learn all the navigate and boat construction from him.
Hi Sunya,
This chart has no birth time: it is calculated for noon.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Kristin,
i was contemplating Janis Joplin chart and would like to question if you see her changing gender very recently? I ask seeing the Saturn/Moon new phase relative to her overall energy and biography.
This could be a soul equating survival, sn lilith taurus, with changing gender frequently, sn lilith conjunct uranus and saturn in gemini in the 3rd, giving to a natural blending of the inner female/male but also an overall confusion, instability and crisis, now coming to a head with the skipped step.
It is interesting to see the archetypal repetition of this theme, so she has,
- sn lilith taurus conjunct uranus and saturn in the 3rd house gemini, house ruled by venus
- sn moon conjunct lilith, venus and mercury in aquarius in the 12th (culmination), house ruled by capricorn.
Her north node is in the 6th and so is pluto in Leo, that is then relative to her sun in capricorn 11th opposite pluto. Since the nn of Lilith is also in natural capricorn ruled house, and jupiter (nn lilith's ruler) is in cancer conjunct the moon in the 5th house, could it be that her resolution at the skipped goes from ending the ever changing gender role? Coming to her own power has a woman as she is, that being her own lilith self-creative actualisation. I see there could be many other directions for this chart, strong themes of trauma for example leading to equating security with masculinity, so just would like to ask if you see this as a possible expression of this soul's path?
Thank you in advance! And thank you to Rad too for posting the chart of this incredible girl,
Helena
Hi Helena,
I was contemplating Janis Joplin chart and would like to question if you see her changing gender very recently? I ask seeing the Saturn/Moon new phase relative to her overall energy and biography.
This could be a soul equating survival, sn lilith taurus, with changing gender frequently, sn lilith conjunct uranus and saturn in gemini in the 3rd, giving to a natural blending of the inner female/male but also an overall confusion, instability and crisis, now coming to a head with the skipped step.
It is interesting to see the archetypal repetition of this theme, so she has,
- sn lilith taurus conjunct uranus and saturn in the 3rd house gemini, house ruled by venus
- sn moon conjunct lilith, venus and mercury in aquarius in the 12th (culmination), house ruled by capricorn.
Her north node is in the 6th and so is pluto in Leo, that is then relative to her sun in capricorn 11th opposite pluto. Since the nn of Lilith is also in natural capricorn ruled house, and jupiter (nn lilith's ruler) is in cancer conjunct the moon in the 5th house, could it be that her resolution at the skipped goes from ending the ever changing gender role? Coming to her own power has a woman as she is, that being her own lilith self-creative actualization. I see there could be many other directions for this chart, strong themes of trauma for example leading to equating security with masculinity, so just would like to ask if you see this as a possible expression of this soul's path?
This is all more about the ongoing evolution of her Soul wherein she had, has, and will continue to evolve to a state of natural androgyny. So her Soul has been flip flopping back and forth in order for the state to be realized. Of course this has created a condition wherein she has needed to rebel against the consensus definitions of what it is to be male and female so that the underlying alienation towards that has only been intensifying within her Soul.
In turn this has made her feel alone relative to how most people, consensus, operate and behave that has set herself up to be judged in negative and abusive ways by that consensus to the point of feeling humiliated by people within that consensus. This, in turn, simply intensified that inner aloneness, and alienation.
She created an inner state wherein she needed to feel loved and accepted in increasingly desperate ways including using her sex to do so. The fame she created for herself was not enough to counteract her inner relationship to herself that felt empty, unloved for WHO she was/is just as a person independent of that fame. This then lead to any manner of behavior in order to escape from the pain of that inner aloneness.
Many of these behaviors were self destructive and, of themselves, lead to many different kinds of trauma including the trauma of losing her life through the intake of drugs.
The skipped steps, then, in her context is all about stopping the self destructive behaviors and replacing that with behaviors that would allow her to understand what that core inner aloneness was/ is all about: to objectify it. The next step for her soul, the resolution of the skipped steps, would revolve around penetrating that inner aloneness in order to understand it so that she could begin to expand her consciousness within herself that was embracing the universe within her own Soul: to "˜spiritualize' in natural ways so that that could take place.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Kirstin,
Thank you very much for replying with such clarity, depth and simplicity relative to this themes. I see the main focus will always go back to pluto in the deepest sense. Just to check if i got it right from what you say... In this case i am trying to understand the repetition of themes relative to:
- SN Lilith taurus skipped step + uranus/saturn in gemini ruled house, venus cusp
- Lilith + sn moon + venus + mercury in aquarius in Neptune ruled house, saturn cusp
This meaning the overlapping of themes originally starting with sn lilith and trauma caused by separation/rebellion from others and reaction to judgments emanating form consensus beliefs relative to her natural root as a woman and how she needed to survive as such (given is taurus), simply got repeated to an extreme over and over with Lilith conjunct south node 12th until now so the soul makes the necessary objectifying of 'why' as to a total lack of meaning, specifically meaning coming from outside/projection.
I mentioned changing gender as survival because of a strong gemini presence but in this case it will come from a desire (mercury/gemini i mean) of conscious thinking and objectification of her own inner self that will then manifest as creative self-actualisation from within and self-validation, self-love, the nn lilith ruled by jupiter conjunct moon in cancer 5th.
In this case, with ruler of skipped step resolution being skipped step itself, uranus, do we see by default a desire for self destruction and potential for repeating the skipped step? Or do you see uranus acting more as helping the soul break free, even if in such a traumatic way, for anything holding back?
On an unrelated note, i think is interesting to share relative to the thread and how it has been evolving (this is such a wonderful thread...), that last subject we discussed here some months ago was about asteroid Sophia and it's funny to see that when you posted again on these days i noticed a curious synchronicity that was a theme of this scorpio new moon, asteroid Sophia was exactly conjunct Pallas and Venus and also conjunct Lilith and mercury retrograde in Scorpio... I do see it as not only a unique opportunity to listen to Divine Mother's wisdom and messages but how Goddess spirit truly is present here not only in the thread and all this precious information it gives to our souls but the MB and this community. Truly wonderful...
All the best,
Helena
Hi Helena,
- SN Lilith taurus skipped step + uranus/saturn in gemini ruled house, venus cusp
- Lilith + sn moon + venus + mercury in aquarius in Neptune ruled house, saturn cusp
This meaning the overlapping of themes originally starting with sn lilith and trauma caused by separation/rebellion from others and reaction to judgments emanating form consensus beliefs relative to her natural root as a woman and how she needed to survive as such (given is taurus), simply got repeated to an extreme over and over with Lilith conjunct south node 12th until now so the soul makes the necessary objectifying of 'why' as to a total lack of meaning, specifically meaning coming from outside/projection. I mentioned changing gender as survival because of a strong gemini presence but in this case it will come from a desire (mercury/gemini i mean) of conscious thinking and objectification of her own inner self that will then manifest as creative self-actualization from within and self-validation, self-love, the nn lilith ruled by jupiter conjunct moon in cancer 5th.
Yes.
In this case, with the ruler of skipped step resolution being a skipped step itself, Uranus, do we see by default a desire for self destruction and potential for repeating the skipped step? Or do you see uranus acting more as helping the soul break free, even if in such a traumatic way, for anything holding back?
BOTH ARE TRUE ... This is the PARADOX OF URANUS
I noticed a curious synchronicity that was a theme of this scorpio new moon, asteroid Sophia was exactly conjunct Pallas and Venus and also conjunct Lilith and mercury retrograde in Scorpio.
I too am continually amazed at the synchronicity that is experienced and how the transits perfectly reflect reality and the natural timing of things.
Thank you for being so present here and such a wonderful teacher for others.
Namaste,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
"I too am continually amazed at the synchronicity that is experienced and how the transits perfectly reflect reality and the natural timing of things."
That is so true... Thank you too Kristin, really, for sharing and teaching all of us and being such an empowering force for women's roots. A true blessing for us :-)
Helena
Hi All,
Jane Goodall is a great example of this archetype as well. In her natal chart she has SN of Lilith at 1 degree of Gemini in her 6th house conjunct Chiron, natal Lilith is at 4 degrees of Pisces in her 3rd house, and the North Node of Lilith is at 9 degrees of Capricorn in her 1st house.
Here's a short biography:
Jane Goodall's work as a primatologist laid the groundwork for how primates, namely chimpanzees, are studied. Goodall's lack of formal training in the beginning of her career helped her to record what she experienced among the chimps on a truly organic level.
Born on April 3, 1934, in London, England, Jane Goodall set out to Tanzania in 1960 to study wild chimpanzees. She immersed herself in their lives, bypassing more rigid procedures to make discoveries about primate behavior that have continued to shape scientific discourse. A highly respected member of the world scientific community, she advocates for ecological preservation through the Jane Goodall Institute.
In July 1960, accompanied by her mother and an African cook, Jane Goodall arrived on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Gombe Stream Reserve of Tanzania, Africa, with the goal of studying chimpanzees.
Goodall's first attempts to closely observe the animals failed; she could get no nearer than 500 yards before the chimps fled. After finding another suitable group to follow, she established a nonthreatening pattern of observation, appearing at the same time every morning on the high ground near a feeding area along the Kakombe Valley.
The chimpanzees soon tolerated her presence and, within a year, allowed her to move as close as 30 feet to their feeding area. After two years of seeing her every day, they showed no fear and often came to her in search of bananas.Goodall used her newfound acceptance to establish what she termed the "banana club," a daily systematic feeding method she used to gain trust and to obtain a more thorough understanding of everyday chimpanzee behavior. Using this method, she became closely acquainted with a majority of the reserve's chimps. She imitated their behaviors, spent time in the trees and ate their foods.
By remaining in almost constant contact with the chimps, Goodall discovered a number of previously unobserved behaviors: She noted that chimps have a complex social system, complete with ritualized behaviors and primitive but discernible communication methods, including a primitive "language" system containing more than 20 individual sounds. She is credited with making the first recorded observations of chimpanzees eating meat and using and making tools. Tool making was previously thought to be an exclusively human trait.
Feel free to comment and ask questions if you wish.
Namaste,
Deva
Hi All,
I am posting the chart of Joan of Arch and a video with a song composed by Leonard Cohen and Jennifer Warnes about her. I can not find her original Lilath in any calculation program because of the date of her birth. It is her story, her absolute devotion to God through Jesus that is the essence of her story, a story of personal inspiration to me and countless others, ending in being burned at the stake because of that devotion NO MATTER WHAT. So I thought, on this Sunday, it would be good to post this music video of her. Her very last words were 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus' while being burned.
Click here for the link to that music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwUyDPXROQ
and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWTfXLAIWQ
Click here for a new documentary on Joan of Arc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edUgN5srLTs
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart and some articles on Greta Thurnberg of Sweden who is leading a whole new generation of young people to take action on the most serious issue of our times: Climate Change, and animal extinction. I am posting her natal chart, noon chart because of no know birth time, that shows her natal Lilith at 28 degrees of Sagittarius: the center of the Milky Way. It is an ultimate symbol of Natural Laws. It is conjunct her N.Node of Lilith, and her S.Node of Lilith is at 5 Gemini conjunct her natal Lunar North Node.
Here are some articles:
Greta Thunberg
Activist
Swedish activist who has gained prominence for her work to halt climate change and global warming. She rose to fame for organizing the world's first school strike for climate outside Sweden's parliament in August 2018. She gave a speech at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit, berating world leaders for not taking more actions against climate change.
Before Fame
She was diagnosed as a young girl with OCD, Asperger syndrome, and selective mutism. She later decided not to attend school until the 2018 Swedish general elections in August 2018 in response to a heat wave and wildfires.
Trivia
She has over 1.9 million followers on Twitter. She was named by Time Magazine as one of the world's 25 most influential teenagers in December 2018. She addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference that same month.
Family Life
Her mother is opera singer Malena Ernman. Her father is Swedish performer Svante Thunberg.
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Leonardo DiCaprio calls Greta Thunberg "˜a leader of our time'
Environmentalist actor says first meeting with teenage climate activist was "˜an honour'
Sat 2 Nov 2019 11.08 GMT
Guardian
Leonardo DiCaprio has praised teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg as a "leader of our time" following their first meeting.
DiCaprio, a prominent environmental campaigner, said 16-year-old Thunberg's message should be a "wake-up call to world leaders everywhere that the time for inaction is over".
The Academy Award winner shared a picture of him and the Swedish student on Instagram, writing: "There are few times in human history where voices are amplified at such pivotal moments and in such transformational ways - but Greta Thunberg has become a leader of our time.
"History will judge us for what we do today to help guarantee that future generations can enjoy the same livable planet that we have so clearly taken for granted.
"I hope that Greta's message is a wake-up call to world leaders everywhere that the time for inaction is over."
DiCaprio, 44, who most recently starred in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, said he was "optimistic about what the future holds" thanks to Thunberg and young activists like her.
"It was an honour to spend time with Greta," he said. "She and I have made a commitment to support one another, in hopes of securing a brighter future for our planet."
DiCaprio is a vocal climate change campaigner and highlighted the issue during his acceptance speech at the 88th Academy Awards in 2016.
He said: "Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating."
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Is Greta Thunberg a time traveler "˜here to save us' from climate emergency'? 120-year-old photo sparks flood of conspiracy theories
on November 22, 2019
By Common Dreams
Is 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg a time traveler "here to save us" from the global climate emergency?
A photo taken during the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon, Canada features a child that so closely resembles the world renowned climate campaigner that some Twitter users initially dismissed it as a fake.
But the 120-year-old photo was sourced to the University of Washington's Special Collections archive, leading many to jokingly conclude that Thunberg is a time traveler who arrived in 2019 to warn the world about the planetary climate crisis.
120-year-old photo sparks theories that climate activist & environmental heroine, @GretaThunberg , is, in fact, a "˜time-travel' who has traveled thru time to save our planet! Wishing her all the best and success in her mission to save the Earth. We can use the help we can get! https://t.co/YCJ35l4irh
- Dean Friedman (@DeanFriedman) November 21, 2019
So, "˜Greta Thunberg' is in a photo from 120 years ago, and it's my new favourite conspiracy. Greta's a time traveller, from the future, and she's here to save us. pic.twitter.com/5ObTjPFXvk
- Jack - J.S. Strange (@JackSamStrange) November 18, 2019
greta being a time traveler sent to save us from ourselves is the only conspiracy theory i want to hear about https://t.co/1IS1VpEyPD
- Tyler Sloan (@tesloan) November 21, 2019
Thunberg, whose activism sparked a global youth-led climate movement, is currently sailing across the Atlantic after spending more than two months in the United States.
"We had to slow the boat down to avoid some really rough weather ahead, but now we're back on track at full speed," Thunberg tweeted Thursday. "Hopefully we will arrive in Lisbon, Portugal, sometime in early December."
So we know what continent she's headed to now. The only serious question left to consider is this: Will she arrive in time?
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad, can you please tell us what date and time you are using for Greta's chart? I ran January 3, 2003, noon through solar fire and get something different to yours. Mine shows Pluto/Sag/8th, Moon at 20 cap, Taurus rising. thanks. DDD
Hi DDD,
Thanks for asking. The chart I posted before was not calculated for Sweden: by mistake. So here is her chart calculated for Sweden.
God Bless, Rad
Thanks Rad. DDD
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Amelia Earhart. Her natal Lilith is at 3 Libra in her 6th House, the S.Node of Lilith is at 3 Cancer in her 3rd, and the N.Node is at 5 Sagittarius in her 8th which is also conjunct her natal Amazon. Above all she was defined by her desire for total equality of women and men in every way.
Here is a link to her bio in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
Feel free to comment or ask questions.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad, Deva, Kristin and All,
Rad thank you for your link to Joan of Arc's documentary, what an inspiration to see this extraordinary woman's journey at a time like that and i was thinking how her spirit is so much alive right now. With pluto, saturn and then jupiter transiting her venus and sun, it's not hard to see how charts of the soul can come to life in any given time when the soul has lived with truth, what a journey!
I hope it is ok to post some comments, also relative to the previous charts posted, focusing on Lilith and the asteroid Kassandra.
First, i think is important to notice in the context of the thread how significant these past two weeks have been for women all over the world, i keep coming to the conclusion that a side of seeing things and these crazy times is how much they refer to patriarchy crisis and women rising. This is such a special time with women and men raising their consciousness and coming together to voice that awareness. Of course, patriarchy models are in crisis fighting for their own survival and they represent a majority(?)/significant percentage of people... Rad could we see this percentage as the majority of souls in the consensus stage? I seem to feel this is transversal to all society, that in the consensus people too are naturally aware of natural laws and women's rights. How would be, if you know, a right way of accessing these numbers?
Movements like the one started in Chile are so beautiful to witness and a symbol for this exactly. These movement and movements defending the earth and awareness of climate crisis are for me a living proof of Goddess presence and urgency, with a very strong feminine energy emanating from people's bodies, voices and these gatherings.
Lilith has been transiting Scorpio and that's in my view the ground from where these events of the past weeks have been sprouting, touching many souls to speak their truths. How else could something like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKNWIrj8Lw, a performance taking place in Chile on the 25th of November become a global movement, replicated in cities all over the world with thousands of women just in 1 week?
On November 25th Lilith was at 26 scorpio, jupiter and venus were conjunct at the galactic center at 28 sagittarius also conjunct ceres in early capricorn, Juno was in libra squaring the nodal axis, and Pallas was conjunct Sophia and the sun in sagittarius.
For the purpose of what we study here it's important to take this in consideration if we are to understand the collective consciousness of these times, specially if we remember much we've been discussing comes to the simple truth that women's conscious awareness and freedom relates to going back to their root and knowing within their bones they are not to blame for or fix what is not wrong in themselves. And here comes a song becoming instantly viral, a collective mantra, saying exactly this - "Y la culpa no era mÃa, ni dónde estaba ni cómo vestÃa./And the fault wasn't mine, not where I was, not how I dressed" protesting against the culture of rape, emotional, physical and psychological, aside all the structures of social and political power, emanating from this culture. It spoke to and from women's root directly!
Rape is a scorpio phenomenon and couldn't we see this is as the voice of Lilith in times were the old structure, capricorn, is breaking? Where is going to take us we don't know... but Goddess bless them, really, for being the voice that awakens many others. Them and souls like Nancy Pelosi that also this past week stated a clear "don't mess with me", refusing to take projections of others, with a special relevance for the position she occupies. We have studied the chart of Nancy Pelosi earlier in the thread and if i remember correctly her Lilith is conjunct Pluto, Lilith is ruled by natal moon in Scorpio.
To me both this examples mark a difference in the collective atmosphere because they are not about replicating the blaming, shaming or domination but about a collective desire for self empowerment by drawing clear boundaries and refusal when it comes to be the recipients and instruments of patriarchal projections in a very simple clear cut way, with singing and dancing!:-)
Also from the charts posted before i noticed a common theme in all of them, that Jane Goodall, Joan of Arc and Greta Thunberg can be seen as souls coming to us as voices and direct messengers of the Goddess at very crucial times in our evolution. Voices from the animal world, the spiritual world and the natural world respectively. As so, Jane Goodall has lilith in pisces ruled by neptune in virgo, Thunberg's lilith is in sagittarius ruled by jupiter in leo that than rules her sun in capricorn, the application of natural law. We can't tell for Joan of Arc's chart because of the date but it would be natural to see it directly aligned with Source and also to see all their Lilith's strongly connected to Kassandra.
We've been discussing Kassandra archetype on other thread recently and for me, if we see the evolution of the myth from the patriarchal perspective, Kassandra correlates to disempowering, and disempowerment connected to those who know the truth and who speak it, ultimately how the patriarchal world has disempowered women's knowledge and wisdom to give guidance, instead portraying these women as hysterical and crazy and the real curse of women starting to doubt and loosing confidence in themselves.
If in the natal chart Kassandra can be either a symbol of how we allow or deny/repress others and ourselves to live by, access and share our own wisdom and truth, it seems the problem starts because not only we live in a culture of domination instead of partnership, to quote Riane Eisler's wisdom (herself an incredible messenger of the Goddess), but also because Kassandra symbols will speak about the whole truth, not parts of the truth but truth affecting the collective in some way, meaning with impact not only in the collective future, but sometimes representing a necessarily uncomfortable guidance for personal adjustment if we are meant to live peacefully as a whole. The curse of Kassandra being also the consequence of not listening to nature and the signs of times.
Interestingly, in other versions of the myth, it is said Kassandra had a twin brother, Heleneus. And while both of them were sleeping, two snakes came and licked theirs ears gifting them with the power of prophecy.
It is not difficult to see that in fact this version/origin of the myth alludes to kundalini rise and the evolution of consciousness coming with it, natural union of the inner male and female as the twin brother and sister, and quite different from the version evolving with patriarchy where Kassandra was given the gift of prophecy by a male God, under the condition she slept with him. By refusing to do so, she was cursed that her prophecies, even though true, would not be believed. Meaning too that natural access to one's expansion of consciousness by the vehicle of natural sexuality was lost, to be cursed and not believed in.
In the natal chart, this can also give the additional meaning that Kassandra can refer with how we deal with rejection and the freedom of others relative to our desires, consensual sexual intimacy, and ultimately, with conditional giving and receiving, domination and control, if manifesting in a distorted way. In this case women historically representing the dominated role.
These subjects are part of Joan of Arc's story and in our times with the symbol of Greta Thunberg, seen by the many people trying to disempower her voice and its simple guidance, be it by the messianic role many try to attribute her to then ridicule her by it, aligning with her for personal profit, her age, etc., there are many justifications for her disempowerment. But if for some is difficult to recognise that a 16 year old has been putting the finger directly on the open wound we all share, these obvious signs of time, there are renown scientists not in any way diminished by her voice, quite the contrary, and publicly thanking this young girl for achieving so rapidly something they are calling attention for more then 2 decades and no one listened. Kassandra's both in the distorted and undistorted manifestation. In Thunberg's chart, Kassandra is conjunct natal Neptune and Neptune's south node in aquarius, ruled by uranus in aquarius conjunct Pallas.
Thunberg herself has mentioned she has in fact achieved nothing, but is that so? In reality it's true but if we look with a broader view, what could be more natural in the balsamic atmosphere, specially Saturn and Pluto balsamic to their nodes and between itself, than a symbol emanating like this? In balsamic times our needs concern the dissolution of the past, no longer finding meaning in what it was but also a time to touch ultimate meaning, uniting with Source. Not necessarily acting on the future but start seeing the new direction, and it seems to me that's what these souls do, when they instantly attract so many people without any logical reason, or because the reason is so obviously simple... It's either total delusion if they point to the past, or light, hope and direction when they really point to the future. Rad, is this correct? Souls coming to this role simply are expressing such a purity of intention relative to truth, natural law and the collective, that a natural alignment with Source takes place, naturally resonating in the souls of others, whatever their evolutionary state maybe be?
Isn't that these symbols, if they reflect a "saviour" archetype to overall society, they are not at all related to these souls themselves, utterly simple and humble, but a projection emanating from the distortion/delusions of the balsamic phase?
Considering this, Joan of Arc was an excepcional soul, not only pointing the way, but leading the way and taking direct action. Is Joan of Arc originally related to the Amazon archetype?
Would be very nice too to hear others comments on this subjects and remarkable women.
All the best,
Helena
Hi Helena,
Thanks for sharing all your thoughts and questions about the various archetypes that we have been discussing in this thread: for taking the time to do so. In the times we are living it is unfortunate that so many humans have become so self possessed that reality to them in nothing more than anything that is external to their soul/ ego complex, their subjective reality, are but props in their personal play. So they take, take, and take so more totally forgetting that natural law of giving and sharing. So thank you for doing just that: to give and to share which can benefit ALL humans.
"Rad thank you for your link to Joan of Arc's documentary, what an inspiration to see this extraordinary woman's journey at a time like that and i was thinking how her spirit is so much alive right now. With pluto, saturn and then jupiter transiting her venus and sun, it's not hard to see how charts of the soul can come to life in any given time when the soul has lived with truth, what a journey!
"Of course, patriarchy models are in crisis fighting for their own survival and they represent a majority(?)/significant percentage of people... Rad could we see this percentage as the majority of souls in the consensus stage? I seem to feel this is transversal to all society, that in the consensus people too are naturally aware of natural laws and women's rights. How would be, if you know, a right way of accessing these numbers?
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The patriarchy is clearly still the vast majority everywhere on the planet in general. The consensus state is still about 70% of all peoples on Earth.
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Thunberg herself has mentioned she has in fact achieved nothing, but is that so? In reality it's true but if we look with a broader view, what could be more natural in the balsamic atmosphere, specially Saturn and Pluto balsamic to their nodes and between itself, than a symbol emanating like this?
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To me this is not so only because her Soul has, and will continue to have, an igniting affect of other younger people all over are planet because of the Climate Change that affects all humans on the planet. Her own Capricorn judgements upon herself are defined by 'results' as in actual policies by all the world governments that reverse what is underway. That is fair enough but to me right now the sheer fact her Soul is having on igniting all the young people who ARE TAKING ACTIONS is achieving a lot. Check this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/11/greta-thunberg-time-magazine-person-of-the-year-2019
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In balsamic times our needs concern the dissolution of the past, no longer finding meaning in what it was but also a time to touch ultimate meaning, uniting with Source. Not necessarily acting on the future but start seeing the new direction, and it seems to me that's what these souls do, when they instantly attract so many people without any logical reason, or because the reason is so obviously simple... It's either total delusion if they point to the past, or light, hope and direction when they really point to the future. Rad, is this correct?
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Yes, to me this is so ............
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Souls coming to this role simply are expressing such a purity of intention relative to truth, natural law and the collective, that a natural alignment with Source takes place, naturally resonating in the souls of others, whatever their evolutionary state maybe be?
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Yes ...........
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Isn't that these symbols, if they reflect a "saviour" archetype to overall society, they are not at all related to these souls themselves, utterly simple and humble, but a projection emanating from the distortion/delusions of the balsamic phase?
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Yes ...........
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Considering this, Joan of Arc was an excepcional soul, not only pointing the way, but leading the way and taking direct action. Is Joan of Arc originally related to the Amazon archetype?
Yes, and within that the archetype of conscious spiritual masochism just like Jesus. Her N.Node in Pisces is conjunct all of Jesus's planets in Pisces in his 3rd House.
Godess bless, Rad
Thank you Rad...
I too agree that narrowing the focus is missing the real picture, and this girl has achieved already what she is meant to achieve by now, no small thing.
I was following your link and end up coming to the article at time magazine https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/. It is very well written, a good source to learn about natural Capricorn archetype, and got me to think is not a coincidence both Thunberg and Joan of Arc have a sun in Capricorn. JWG has said it is natural for capricorn to correlate not only with slowing down but with depression (if not leading to severe conditions) so that the soul has the necessary time of reflection to understand the why of what's not working anymore. And this girl, who suffered from severe depression by the age of 11 came to life only when she started acting from her own inner authority, giving purpose to her capricorn sun, even if the only thing left for her to do at her age was to refuse going on as usual. I think is brilliant that she started a protest only by herself, with a home made sign and handling a flyer saying something like "if adults don't care about my future neither will why" to justify her skipping school. Of course, instantly attracting others.
With our need for elders to lead the way and with so much distorted Capricorn in power and everything upside down the elders coming now in form of young people seems only natural, as well as fun for a change i would add :-)
Goddess bless too Rad,
Helena
P.S. I was reading the words of photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva, who took the picture for time magazine. During the brief staying of Thunberg in Lisbon, Portugal, she tried to find a place/moment that could portray an inspiring image and capture the young activist spirit. I will try to translate how she describes this moment where she mentions how nature conspired to the perfect shot, "At sunset the sky turned into a rose gold colour with a beautiful light, the tide rised and the waves started coming near her. Greta remained still, without moving, only with her hair floating in the soft breeze. In that moment i felt all elements of nature and all strengths were aligned to create magic - the greatest treasure for a photographer."
It's a poetic moment but adds to what you mentioned before Rad of her Lilith at the galactic center being an ultimate symbol for natural law/nature.
Hi Helena,
It is so interesting too relative to Joan of Arc with her N.Node is Pisces conjunct all of Jesus's Pisces planets in his 3rd house that at the very ending of that life, one of the symbols being the N.Node for that, the very last moment with the fire all around her, that he last words, words being the 3rd house, were 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus'.
Whoa.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Helena and Rad you have inspired me to post what I have been thinking about Greta's chart. It is not necessarily about the Asteroid Goddesses, and there is a lot more to say about both these wonderful women (Joan and Greta) but here it is so far:
First off, when I saw that iconic picture of Greta standing outside the Swedish Parliament with her sign "School strike for the climate" all by herself, my thought was that she is not afraid to be a group of one. The perfect example of that Uranus/Aquarius archetype. I also picked up on her intensity. Cutting right through to the heart of the matter - reading the room and not taking any BS. Speaking to those in power through action not words about the trauma humans have inflicted on Mother Earth through their lifestyles and detachment from the reality that She and her lifeforms are dying. The creative actualization that EA talks about regarding that waxing trine between Saturn and Uranus happens through the action of carefully chosen, impactful words. (Uranus/Aquarius trine Saturn/Gemini retrograde, inconjunct Mercury/Capricorn, retrograde in stellium with Moon, Sun and Chiron in Capricorn). I was fascinated by the beautiful restatement of Greta's Saturn/Gemini retrograde inconjunct Mercury/Capricorn retrograde - she has "selective mutism" - choosing her words - those with maximum meaning and impact, no idle or polite chatter here.
With Pluto in Sag conjunct SN, Lilith and NN of Lilith, Greta Thunberg is a young woman whose sense of special destiny is directly linked to her love and identification with Our Mother Earth, Nature and those Natural Laws that humanity has been violating and desecrating for too long. She is speaking forthrightly and truthfully to those in power and holds nothing back. I watched a video on youtube of her scolding NATO members at the Opening of the Climate Action Summit 2019. I mean, she gave them all a really good telling off. Right from her soul. She is speaking on behalf of our Mother Earth and feels Her pain. A natural teacher, Greta knows what she is doing and how to do it (Jupiter/Leo waning Trine to Pluto) inspiring people all over the world with the international language of action and her minimal, stright to the point words. She is the adult in the room, serious and no-nonsense (Mercury, Moon, Sun, Chiron/Cap). In a role reversal with her parents she wanted them to take responsibility for their lifestyle and actions. In their desire to be supportive of her, they did indeed change their lifestyle and habits. Her mother even gave up a career of her own.
I feel her own deep dives into herself has led to an understanding of her life's mission and what she needs to do to get it done. so much more to say but this is it so far....DDD
Quick follow-up. As of today, Greta and her mission are being criticized by the so called "Leader of the Free World" (Trump) through jealousy because she got the Time Magazine Person of the Year Cover and he didn't. Being the young, mature adult that she is, and unaffected by Trump's own immaturity, she took his words and used them in her own Twitter bio to reflect Trump's comments: "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend." (Good for her - exercising detachment from criticism she continues to forge ahead with her life's mission). Uranus/Aquarius opposite Jupiter/Leo. DDD
Hi DDD,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and the EA behind those thoughts, about Greta. They are so right on.
Check this out relative to the ever evil Trump's jealous crap towards Greta: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/13/michelle-obama-greta-thunberg-message-support-trump
Here is the chart for Michelle Obama. Her natal Lilith is at 9 Cap with her S.Node of the Moon, N.Node of Lilith is at 29 Sag, and her S.Node of Lilth is at 28 Taurus. This chart is a noon chart: no birth time.
Godess bless, Rad
Hello Helena and DDD,
Thank you for your presence here and for your sharing on Joan of Arc and Greta.
Greta is certainly a major force for good/God/Goddess to be reckoned with, and this will prove to be true as she gets ever older with her Sun, Moon, and Mercury in Capricorn.
Also, just wanting to re-state what a blow mind EA is, with her Original Lilith at 28 Sagittarius, EXACTLY conjunct the Galactic Center. This also being conjunct her SN of Mercury,the ruler of her Saturn RX in Gemini and her NN in Gemini, quite a Messenger she is.
What I also find so powerful is her natal Uranus in Aquarius conjunct Pallas and TRINE that Saturn RX in Gemini. Uranus and Pallas are also squaring her Mars and Venus in Scorpio which reflects how she is putting herself in the line of (verbal) fire with jealous Trump (Time Magazine tirade).
Of course Greta has Amazone in Aries..she is a warrior for the ultimate cause!
Goddess Bless Michelle Obama for her encouraging voice..and look at that EA, my gosh NN of Lilith also conjunct Greta's Original Lilith on the Galactic center..awesome.
Thanks all around for the energy infusing this mb.
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Kristin and DDD,
Really nice to hear from you too!
I keep astonished to see, aside from pluto in sagittarius generation and scientist community more or less, how Greta Thunberg's voice serves as major polarisation within society, whose message could and should unite us all. One of the factors i think most contributes to this is politician's double standards, giving their face and aligning with the cause because it puts them in good eyes of public opinion and specially the young voters generation representing the FUTURE but doing differently backstage.
Of course, Trump's perpetual existential delusional state doesn't even allow him to have the 'intelligence' do do that. Which gives to another different topic of right wing populism-facism rise standing by the banner of rebellion related to opinion, that is in fact open right to the spread of victimisation, towards what they perceive as lack of freedom of speech... When i see it i keep asking myself, when did common citizens or leaders in democratic first world countries in the age of internet had any problem to openly express their opinions? Of course, the problem has never been one of freedom but one of loss of their ability to convert and enslave all groups of others with the dictates of their opinions. I only see it getting aggravated once the NN moves into gemini and saturn/pluto into aquarius and we should never forget Hitler's propaganda ended up at one point with the free handling of radios to the population with access only to one frequency, the one were he brainwashed them with his 'opinions'.
So in the end many people get confused and suspicious putting all this together specially if, as Rad said, we consider most people are preoccupied exclusively with their subjective realities and most others are preoccupied only in surviving another day, and those unfortunately don't even have a voice...
Well sorry for this less happy comments because my thumb really is up to the energy here too ;D
Thank you All,
Helena
Hi All,
I am posting the chart of Mary Wollstonecraft who was a pioneer of women's equal rights in 18th century England who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Here is a link to her bio: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft
and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXC5H8c_hkw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm6kf6Pp98k
Her natal Lilith was at 26 Sagittarius conjunct her natal Pluto at 25 Sagittarius: the center of the galaxy. Her N.Node of Liltih was at 8 Capricorn conjunct her S.Lunar Node, her N.Node of Lilith was at 7 Gemini conjunct her natal Venus and Kassandra. Her natal Amazon was at 2 Aries conjunct her natal Uranus, and square in Lunar Node Axis.
Her chart is a noon chart for London, England.
Feel free to comment of ask questions.
Godess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
I am posting the chart of Monica Sjoo who was the author of the Great Cosmic Mother, radical anarcho/ eco-feminist, and who was an early exponent of the Goddess movement. She was also an incredible artist. Here are some links about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Sjoo, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbkR3dKM1L8
Her natal Liltih is at 8 Pisces conjunct natal Amazon, Jupiter, and Pallas. Her N.Node of Lilith is at 25 Sagittarius, and the S.Node at 7 Gemini.
The chart is a noon chart.
Feel free to comment or ask questions.
God Bless, Rad
HI All,
Here is the chart for Wangari Maathai who was a renowned Kenyan social, environmental and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica (Benedictine College) and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 1984, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as assistant minister for Environment and Natural resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She was an Honorary Councillor of the World Future Council. She was affiliated to professional bodies and received several awards.
Her natal Lilith is at 29 Cancer conjunct her Pluto in Leo, her S.Node of Lilith is at 0 Gemini conjunct her Mars, Venus, and Vesta in Taurus, and the N.Node is at 9 Capricorn 9 Capricorn. Her chart is a noon chart calculated for Kenya.
Here are some links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4aky8bt6A
Please feel free to ask questions or post your comments.
Godess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the birth chart for Marie Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse. Stopes publicly opposed abortion, arguing that the prevention of conception was all that was needed, though her actions in private were at odds with her public pronouncements.
Her natal Lilith was at 18 Scorpio conjunct Venus and Mercury and opposed Neptune and Chiron, Her N.Node
was at 7 Sagittarius and the S.Node was at 17 Cancer.
Here is a link for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Stopes
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Godess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the birth chart for Savitribai Phulewas an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra. She is regarded as the first female teacher of India. Along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she played an important role in improving women's rights in India. She is regarded as the mother of Indian feminism. Phule and her husband founded the first Indian girls' school in Pune, at Bhide wada in 1848. She worked to abolish the discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender. She is regarded as an important figure of the social reform movement in Maharashtra.
A philanthropist and an educationist, Phule was also a prolific Marathi writer.
Her natal Lilith is at 15 Gemini conjunct the N.Node of Uranus, her S.Node of Lilith is at 26 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is at 6 Gemini and square her natal Lunar Nodes.
For more information on her click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule
Feel free to comment or ask questions.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
My question is a bit late relative to the charts but i wish to ask if you can comment on Wangari Maathai's chart and her Lilith Pluto balsamic conjunction square the nodal axis relative to both nodal rulers, mars venus balsamic conjunction. Is there something you could add to this dynamic? I see Lilith is also in the last degree of this skipped step and is ruled by the moon itself, adding to a possible long stay of the skipped step signature.
As i understand, symbols like the one of Lilith in the natal chart add a dimension that can not be entirely personal, which makes me think when we see this signature, the feeling of resolution relative to the skipped step is only partially 'felt', by the actions of the soul, but not entirely 'accomplished' as long as society comes to a state of balance. Would this be so in your view? Would in this cases be a tendency for the skipped steps to remain for a very long time?
Thank you,
Helena
P.S. Additionally i just wish to ask if would be ok to add a chart of a man who's life is an example of incredible work on the cause of exposing situations of imbalance relative to gender and call for a change. He was renown writer Stieg Larsson, and i was very impressed, although not surprised relative to his life and work, to see his chart has lilith exact to saturn in scorpio, saturn is north node ruler.
Hi Helena,
On a Soul level she would have felt that she did all she could so in the context of the life she lived on a personal level. Of course on a collective level her Soul felt the frustration of being 'limited' because of the totality of the collective in which so many other Souls resist the very things her Soul felt needed to be done: the interface between the individual and the collective.
"Would this be so in your view? Would in this cases be a tendency for the skipped steps to remain for a very long time?"
Yes, in my view that is true. Her Soul in the context of the life she lived in fact resolved her personal skipped steps. On a collective, humanity level, of course the skipped steps of doing what is necessary for the planet remains.
"P.S. Additionally i just wish to ask if would be ok to add a chart of a man who's life is an example of incredible work on the cause of exposing situations of imbalance relative to gender and call for a change. He was renown writer Stieg Larsson, and i was very impressed, although not surprised relative to his life and work, to see his chart has lilith exact to saturn in scorpio, saturn is north node ruler."
Sure, Helena go ahead and post his chart. It is always ok to post the charts of men too in this thread.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
thank you for clarifying that. Would this feeling on a personal level translate in the natal chart for a next life no longer with the skipped step signature, even though the issues could remain on a collective level? Or that would depend on each case?
I will post bellow the chart for Stieg Larsson. It is a noon chart, no birth time, but i think is quite funny lilith showing up right in the ascendant for that one :)
Another aspect worth noticing, for the women characters he portrays as heroines for the stories, is the Saturn lilith conjunction + amazone. His Lucifer in aries ruled by mars in sagittarius conjunct the galactic center also translated in a life of research and exposure of right-wing extremism. It is again wonderful to see how astrology can help us translate our realities to a deeper meaning.
Helena
P.S. His sn lilith is 9 cancer, conjunct his natal south node and nn lilith is 2 sagittarius. Lilith's nn ruler is Jupiter in cancer conjunct natal south node
Hi Helena,
Yes, that feeling on a personal level can translate in the natal chart for the next life without that skipped step signature even though the issues could remain on a collective level. Of course the Soul could still feel the frustration because of the collectives response to those issues, but the Soul, the memories within it, knows it did all it could do.
Here is a link for more information about Stieg Larsson for those that want to know/learn more about him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stieg_Larsson
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the birth chart for Victoria California Claflin aka Victoria Woodhull was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement. In 1872, she ran for President of the United States. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some have questioned that priority given issues with the legality of her run. They disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35. (Woodhull's 35th birthday was in September 1873, seven months after the March inauguration). However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue; this may, however, be due to the fact that no one took the candidacy seriously.
An activist for women's rights and labor reforms, Woodhull was also an advocate of "free love", by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce and bear children without social restriction or government interference. "They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform," she often said. "The world moves."
Woodhull twice went from rags to riches, her first fortune being made on the road as a magnetic healer[4] before she joined the spiritualist movement in the 1870s. Authorship of many of her articles is disputed (many of her speeches on these topics were collaborations between Woodhull, her backers, and her second husband, Colonel James Blood. However, despite her ethical problems, her role as a representative of these movements was powerful. Together with her sister, Tennessee Claflin, she was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, making a second, and more reputable fortune.[7] They were among the first women to found a newspaper in the United States, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which began publication in 1870.
Woodhull was politically active in the early 1870s, when she was nominated as the first woman candidate for the United States presidency. Woodhull was the candidate in 1872 from the Equal Rights Party, supporting women's suffrage and equal rights; her running mate was black abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. A check on her activities occurred when she was arrested on obscenity charges a few days before the election. Her paper had published an account of the alleged adulterous affair between the prominent minister Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Richards Tilton which had rather more detail than was considered proper at the time. However, it all added to the sensational coverage of her candidacy.
Her natal Lilith was at 17 Aquarius, it's S.Node at 17 Cancer, and it's N.Node at 6 Sagittarius. Her amazon at 28 Libra, it's N.Node at 11 Gemini,and it's S.Node at 11 Scorpio.
For more information about her click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull
If you have questions or comments please feel free to ask or post.
Goddess Bless, Rad
HI All,
Here is the chart of Malala Yousafzai ,also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.
Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11-12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu.
On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after taking an exam, Yousafzai and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt in retaliation for her activism; the gunman fled the scene. Yousafzai was hit in the head with a bullet and remained unconscious and in critical condition at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, but her condition later improved enough for her to be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK. The attempt on her life sparked an international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle reported in January 2013 that Yousafzai may have become "the most famous teenager in the world". Weeks after the attempted murder, a group of fifty leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwÄ against those who tried to kill her.The Taliban was internationally denounced by governments, human rights organizations and feminist groups. Taliban officials responded to condemnation by further denouncing Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible second assassination attempt, which was justified as a religious obligation. Their statements resulted in further international condemnation.
Following her recovery, Yousafzai became a prominent activist for the right to education. Based in Birmingham, she co-founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation with Shiza Shahid, and in 2013 co-authored I Am Malala, an international best seller. In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize. In 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi of India. Aged 17 at the time, she was the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2015, Yousafzai was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary He Named Me Malala. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured her as one of the most influential people globally. In 2017, she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada. Yousafzai attended Edgbaston High School from 2013 to 2017, and is currently studying for a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Her natal Lilith is at 29 Virgo which is conjunct her Lunar N.Node, Lilith N.Node 8 Sagittarius, and the S.Node at 29 Gemini.
Here is a link for her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai
Feel free to post comments or ask questions.
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Native American Warrior Women of the 19th Century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT6FRczGFDk
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
i was deeply moved by this post... for some reason just the sight of this women and tears started coming down my face and at the same time what a joy... i thought of sharing this more personal moment relative to the simple EA behind it. I of course deeply admire and value this souls, and with natal amazon in scorpio conjunct uranus in the second house, libra on the cusp, this simply translates it to such a degree it's worth sharing.
Another thing is i happened to devote a bit of reflection this weekend about how warrior soul types evolve to the last states of consciousness and evolution, coming to even more questions and reflections. When the soul was created by the Source just like that, peace and truth are in fact the greater values within the soul. They are the keepers of peace and justice in such a way they will stand in the way of everything that's not, not walking away. Peace for everyone equaling the absence of it for the soul because that of course will mean a degree of confrontation and opposition at some points, relative the evolution of mankind. So in some way, quite a paradox, specially the more the soul evolves(?). Just taking the example of Joan of Arc and i doubt anyone readily wish such a fate for itself even though she will immediately attract the utmost respect of most everyone.
I wonder Rad if you have any thoughts to add on this and clarify a bit of this subject?
Thank you again,
Helena
Hi Helena,
When natural laws such as 'giving, sharing, and inclusion' are perverted and violated, i.e.that natural law becoming 'self interest and exclusion', the result to such Souls like Joan of Arc, Malala Yousafzai, and so on is to take on the role of the martyr, Pisces/ Virgo, Mercury/Neptune, in order to demonstrate and remind humans of the consequences when natural laws are violated. Any Soul making such a choice to do this is one of the greatest of all Souls to me.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
I certainly agree. This topic lead me to try and understand better how asteroid Goddesses link with chakras and soul types and the inspiring image Kristin posted when the thread was reinitiated. I see it's a complex topic. If i understand well the principle, and this older thread is also of good help https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,68.0.html, soul types connected with chakras will mean the soul will have a predominant nature relative to how it was originally created, evolving then to other sub-types within this, with a common root in Lilith/Pluto, soul types like branches in a tree? So taking the example of the warrior archetype in the case of Joan of Arc, the soul could evolve integrating the mercury/service to others/messenger/Pallas or further the one of Wisdom Teacher, on the consequence of bravery or spiritual masochism that served to share this communications and teachings?
There seems to be within these souls an inner sense of, i don't know if this would be the correct word..., discontent, relative to the incarnation in human form even in the last stages of evolution, as Guru or Avatar, just like we could see well for example in the life of Jesus. Would this be a soul type consequence, or in fact common to conscious evolution itself and all souls arriving there, as long as we continue in a world of inequality?
One other parallel thing i come to realise increasing and specially since we started this thread, synchronistically in company of a world in rapid change, some wanting to go backwards others forward, is it's becoming so clear how moving forward requires souls whose sense of inner strength integrates both the source of their feminine/masculine parts, or to say in another way, ignoring the feminine part of their strength will weaken the soul in a clear damaging way. May the soul be born male or female, the result is the same and more evident/reflected to everyone and the soul itself the more the public exposure and how this integration defies or perpetuates old power structures based on distorted masculinity.
This was another week when for example an environmental activist, working to protect migratory butterflies in Mexico was found dead with signs of torture, reporters describe him as a 'gentle man', whose work was to protect nature. When at the same time corruption of the soul stood in the eyes of everyone in the case of impeachment in the US, with sadly a woman as degrading symbol in the last decisions. Nonetheless i truly have faith these are times of going forward even if the notion of Time is very neptunian one and no one knows exactly when it is, certainly seems to be starting now...
Researching upon the context of events i thought it would be nice also to share an example i was contemplating (don't know if it is ok to post the chart), of how Lilith plays a part in this integration of the feminine within the context of U.S. politics and actions to counteract corruption, lies and abuse of power. The chart is of republican strategist Rick Wilson, someone openly going public against his own party the way it is. It's interesting to see Wilson's natal Lilith at 18 Sagittarius is almost exact to his mars/venus and NN Lilith in Sagittarius, and SN Lilith is at 7 cancer conjunct his natal north node. Wilson's actions/book have gained visibility now when transiting Lilith and mars in Sagittarius conjuncted all his natal positions. Wilson's sun is also conjunct sn amazone. Wow... as it is said, one cannot just make this stuff up and for me is 'living Lilith', not an abstract concept or idea, but simple ways to witness real turning points taking shape in the consciousness of increasingly more women and men.
For my part, i will be forever grateful for the teachings shared here, it's a nice road to remember to travel :-)
Helena
Hi Helena,
I certainly agree. This topic lead me to try and understand better how asteroid Goddesses link with chakras and soul types and the inspiring image Kristin posted when the thread was reinitiated. I see it's a complex topic. If i understand well the principle, and this older thread is also of good help https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,68.0.html, soul types connected with chakras will mean the soul will have a predominant nature relative to how it was originally created, evolving then to other sub-types within this, with a common root in Lilith/Pluto, soul types like branches in a tree?
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From that thread:
"I think it is important to remember that the Soul has not created itself. What we call God/ess is the origin of all things. Thus the origin of all Souls. And each Soul does have it's own unique nature correlating with the seven soul types that correlate to the time/space/gravitational reality of this Solar System: Earth. Thus, the inherent nature of the Soul created by God/ess is not something that can change. It is intrinsic. And, of course, it's also true that any given soul type does and will experience all the other chakras along it's progressive evolutionary journey. Yet it is the intrinsic orientation, as defined by it's unique Soul type, that the Soul will be orientated to the nature of each of the chakras. So just as Lucius is saying over and over, and rightly so, a Daemon Soul is always a Daemon Soul that can not change because all Souls unique nature has been created by God/ess, not itself. Thus, the Daemon Soul, or any other Soul Type, necessarily will experience all the other chakras it's the orientation defined by the Soul's inherent typing that defines the orientation to those other chakras."
In essence this means it is the original soul typing, like a fingerprint, that integrates and interprets all the other chakras, root natures, relative to that original soul typing.
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So taking the example of the warrior archetype in the case of Joan of Arc, the soul could evolve integrating the mercury/service to others/messenger/Pallas or further the one of Wisdom Teacher, on the consequence of bravery or spiritual masochism that served to share this communications and teachings?
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Yes, and help others evolve, according to their own root natures, as a result.
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There seems to be within these souls an inner sense of, i don't know if this would be the correct word..., discontent, relative to the incarnation in human form even in the last stages of evolution, as Guru or Avatar, just like we could see well for example in the life of Jesus. Would this be a soul type consequence, or in fact common to conscious evolution itself and all souls arriving there, as long as we continue in a world of inequality?
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Yes, it is a natural consequence of consciousness in ANY FORM where the form is limiting consciousness by the nature of the form itself.
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If you want to post the chart of that Wilson go ahead. He is within the 3rd stage consensus so this would be a good example of how the archetype of Lilith, etc, manifests in that state which is motivated, within him, to help create necessary change in America. Check this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/opinion/sunday/trump-impeachment-trial-witnesses.html and https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/republicans-want-to-either-rule-america-or-destroy-it-for-everyone-else-columnist/ . This is what Wilson, and many others, are trying to do their best to counteract the Evil that directs the likes of Trump, and the Republican party in that country. A key quote from that second article is this: "Jan. 31, 2020, was the worst day for democracy in America since April 12, 1861, when South Carolina forces opened fire on Fort Sumter. Both days represented a moment when an old guard representing a dying way of life placed their own survival ahead of that of the United States and our Constitution." This happened as the Lucifer transit, retrograde, in on top of the USA's natal Mars.
The story, example. of the Mexican man who was a natural daemon soul being killed by others souls who were/ are the antithesis of that which is natural, of that which is corrupted by their own self interest equaling exclusion, killing others because of their self interest, symbolizes the root and essence of what is happening all over the planet as humanity marches towards it's own extinction because of the corruption of all the natural laws.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
i see the topic of soul type is something i would have to take time develop it so to fully grasp, specially with asteroid Goddesses adding a layer to that, but i feel i can understand what you mean like a fingerprint integrating all the other chakras, as a focal point. The only thing i seem to know is the less the soul is conditioned the easier that fingerprint can show itself naturally, as with anything, but to be able to point there could really help women, by nature of times and in general forced to condition themselves life after life, and help on an individual level to start deconditioning processes, like a catalyst, but i see it's beyond the natal chart.
There is this question i would have though relative to chakra sounds. Is it natural for the sound connected to ones soul type to sound spontaneously during meditation, or any of the chakra sounds can show up also relative to the moment or time in life were a specific chakra is more active?
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I will post bellow the chart mentioned previously as example. What motivated me to see the chart was really true curiosity and typical pluto why as to what motivates someone, from an EA point of view and the person's point of view, to go in the opposite direction of his own kind to a point of giving its opponent his own secrets. It's a rare thing, specially in politics. Seeing Lilith with such prominence in this chart came synchronistically. And if i understand well the timing, Wilson has now come forward with a project to act against a re-election, the Lincoln project, on a mars lilith return.
I don't know or feel appropriate to go on chart observation other than the example of Lilith in this political context, although now by posting i see the chart has a skipped step, jupiter, at this moment active by the transiting nodal axis and this jupiter is ruled by mars with mars having a return in this chart, itself ruled by jupiter, which is also retrograde. Relative to EA this signature is interesting in the way that archetypally, between many possibilities, could point to a case of a soul knowing the truth and not having act on it in past lives, used it to act against others or for self-profit, or not having the opportunity or desire for its resolution in previous lives, and how the soul always creates the conditions it needs so the skipped steps could be recovered, by free choice, themes possibly seen here when we study EA.
Also thank you for the links Rad, i wonder how the rest of the year will be for the world taking this latest events. One thing i found is this decision in the US of not wanting to hear testimonies (and it's interesting listening to others correlates to libra in EA and is the principle of democracy, that all can have a voice) relative to transits in the context of this thread, is the election day transiting south node is the same mars/lilith degree conjunction we are seeing now at 20 degrees Sagittarius, so the nn has transited the current lucifer rx degree by that time. I understand there is a greater context beyond this one transit but would you have an opinion that you could share? Truth and democracy or the opposite of it is the only clear question for me.
All the best,
Helena
Hi Helena,
"There is this question i would have though relative to chakra sounds. Is it natural for the sound connected to ones soul type to sound spontaneously during meditation, or any of the chakra sounds can show up also relative to the moment or time in life were a specific chakra is more active?"
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There is a form of yoga called Laya Yoga in which the natural sounds that come from the chakras can be heard. Whatever sound is heard by the Soul at whatever moment in time correlates to that chakra being most opened at that time that allows the archetypes of that chakra or chakras to infuse the consciousness of the Soul that then promotes a variety of realizations.
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In that thread called 'the impeachment of Trump' I posted some thoughts concerning the transits taking place for the election for the president of the USA at that time.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you for your reply, i am not familiar with Laya Yoga practice but know it's a fascinating thing when sounds of outside or of nature come from within so to speak. This is a bit off topic of thread but just to conclude, this sounds have variations relative to the main typical sound described for each chakra, could you point to additional information on it? I have searched before but found very little.
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Helena,
JWG used to teach Laya Yoga. Here is an exert from his Medical Astrology book about how to practice it:
"For those of you who will hear a sound through the laya yoga technique I'm about to teach you, roughly seventy percent of you will initially hear the Mercury chakra. That's because of our current conditioning which is oriented to the left brain. We have thirty minutes left. That's good, because it will allow you to go deeper. For those who want to try it, go ahead and practice and don't worry about the time limit. When the time is up, I'll clap my hands, and that will mean it's time for you to open your eyes.
[Editor's note: during the laya yoga exercise, the workshop was not taped. Jeffrey provides readers with the gist of the exercise:
1. Sit as upright as you can. Keep the spine straight.
2. Press the thumbs against the cartilage on the ear that can be pressed in over the ear canal, to "stop up " the ears.
3. Place the little fingers over the outer top of the eyelids, pressing very gently.
4. Let the remainder of the hands and fingers lie upon the forehead.
5. Breathe normally, while focusing the attention on the sensation of air entering and exiting the top of the nose. In time and with practice, you 'II begin to hear the natural sounds of the chakras. First you 'II hear the sound of the nervous system, like a giant transmission line. Then you 'II hear the sound of the blood system pumping. Then, underneath this blood system sound, the sounds from the chakras can be heard. The goal is to unite your consciousness with whatever chakra sound you hear, with the additional goal of uniting so completely that there is no more "listener," and it's as if you become one with the sound.
The natural sounds that emanate from the chakras are:
1. the root chakra correlates to the sound of bumble bees, and is sometimes first heard as the sound of crickets;
2. the sacral chakra correlates to the sound of a flute;
3. the navel chakra correlates to the sound of a harp;
4. the heart chakra correlates to the sound of a giant church bell;
5. the throat chakra correlates to a sound like a conch shell;
6. the medulla/ajna correlates to the sound of "om. "
Jeffrey: Those of you who heard the sounds now know that they really exist. If you truly practice, the goal here is, in essence, fall absorption with that chakra or loka. The ego's not listening, yet you are the recipient of the fall teaching unique to that chakra. It's really dramatic. Again, the byproduct is a self-healing yoga. Any questions on the laya yoga exercise, or anything else we've done this morning?
Audience: Why was I getting two sounds at once in both ears?
Jeffrey: It means you have hemispheric switching.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you very much for this, i will see what comes up :-)
Relative to any other sounds, they could refer to other than chakra sounds? This is a personal question, hope is ok to ask, as i have heard previously a very distinct sound passing through my ear, of what could be described as a small stream of water falling through a surface like rocks or inside something, that's the best way i could describe it. Is this of any other origin that could be commonly identified?
All the best,
Helena
Hi Helena,
To me this would suggest that this sound of the water would correlate to a past lifetime in which you were meditating by a gentle stream of water in which your Soul merged/ unified with that sound in such a way that it promoted / created a super conscious state of awareness. So it's a very strong Soul memory manifesting in the way it is in this life.
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is another wonderful addition to our Lilith Thread.
Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a soft-spoken, Kazakh girl with a bright, shy smile, a competitive streak and a rare skill: she hunts from horseback with the aid of her 10-kilogram golden eagle.
Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga awarded the internationally known eagle huntress Aisholpan Nurgaiv with the Order of the Polar Star, one of the highest state honors in the country.
At 17-yeas old, she received the order for her contributions to promote the ethnic Kazakh tradition of hunting with eagles internationally, according to the president's press office.
When Aisholpan was 13, she became popular for her hobby of hunting with eagles. She was trained by her father to hunt on horseback with a golden eagle, traditionally a male pursuit.
Israeli photographer Asher Svidensky became the first to discover the girl in 2013 and published a series of jaw-dropping photos of the eagle huntress. Inspired by these pictures, British Director Otto Bell shot a documentary "The Eagle Huntress," in which Aisholpan starred together with her eagle.
The eagle huntress was also one of the recipients of the Asia Game Changer Awards in 2017, which recognize those making a transformative and positive difference for the future of Asia and the world.
Aisholpan shares her birthday (May 3) with some other pioneer women - including Golda Meir and civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark.
Lilith
03 May 2001 | 17 le 11 5 cp 57 9 ge 0
While I was not able to find an accurate birth time, you can see her strong Original Lilith placement in Leo as it trines Pluto in Sagittarius. Also, as a Daemon Soul, animals in flight connects to the sign of Gemini, and there she sits with a South Node of Lilith in Gemini conjunct Jupiter and her Saturn in Gemini ( her father taught her to hunt with an eagle). Aisholpan's North node of Lilith is in Capricorn and is conjunct her South Node of the Moon. She also has Mars in Sagittarius conjunct the Galactic Center, giving her an extra surge of natural prowess.
Stacy Pazura and I will be doing a webinar called One with the Wild on EA and the Daemon Soul,Saturday, Feb 22nd, which will be available for download following. We will be discussing Aisholpan's chart addressing her Daemon signature.
Feel free to comment on her chart if anyone wishes.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Rad, thank you very much for giving your opinion to my previous question. I see is something significant yes. I only realised after, that i was asking on the day pluto turned exact transiting my moon, moon equaling water... EA is truly this mazing gift from Source to soul as well as the tireless Teachers here like you, no matter how far out the questions.
Thank you once gain,
Helena
P.S. Hi Kristin, what a cool girl! Pictures are so hypnotic i almost forgot to see the chart :-)
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى"Ž, romanized: Å irin EbÄdi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian political activist, lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She was the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize, and thousands greeted her at the airport when she returned from Paris after receiving the news that she had won the prize. The response to the Award in Iran was mixed-enthusiastic supporters greeted her at the airport upon her return, the conservative media underplayed it, and then-Iranian President Mohammad Khatami criticized it as political.
In 2009, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, published a statement reporting that Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize had been confiscated by Iranian authorities and that "This [was] the first time a Nobel Peace Prize had been confiscated by national authorities." Iran denied the charges.
Ebadi lived in Tehran, but she has been in exile in the UK since June 2009 due to the increase in persecution of Iranian citizens who are critical of the current regime. In 2004, she was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "100 most powerful women in the world". She is also included in a published list of the "100 most influential women of all time."
Shirin Ebadi is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.
Her natal Lilith is at with it's N.Node at 17 Sagittarius, and the S.Node at 23 Gemini.
Please feel free to add comments or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the birth chart for Elizabeth 1, Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother, Edward VI, ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the Roman Catholic Mary and the younger Elizabeth, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
In 1558 upon Mary's death, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel. She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement was to evolve into the Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir; however, despite numerous courtships, she never did. She was eventually succeeded by her first cousin twice removed, James VI of Scotland. She had earlier been responsible for the imprisonment and execution of James's mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.
In government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and half-siblings had been. One of her mottoes was "video et taceo" ("I see but say nothing"). In religion, she was relatively tolerant and avoided systematic persecution. After the pope declared her illegitimate in 1570 and released her subjects from obedience to her, several conspiracies threatened her life, all of which were defeated with the help of her ministers' secret service. Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs, maneuvering between the major powers of France and Spain. She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France, and Ireland. By the mid-1580s, England could no longer avoid war with Spain. England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth with one of the greatest military victories in English history.
As she grew older, Elizabeth became celebrated for her virginity. A cult grew around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day. Elizabeth's reign became known as the Elizabethan era. The period is famous for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake. Some historians depict Elizabeth as a short-tempered, sometimes indecisive ruler,5 who enjoyed more than her share of luck. Towards the end of her reign, a series of economic and military problems weakened her popularity. Elizabeth is acknowledged as a charismatic performer and a dogged survivor in an era when government was ramshackle and limited, and when monarchs in neighbouring countries faced internal problems that jeopardised their thrones. After the short reigns of her half-siblings, her 44 years on the throne provided welcome stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity.
Her natal Lilith was 20 Sagittarius 44, the North Node3 was 3 Sagittarius 30, and the S.Node was 15 Cancer 17.
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ASTEROID AMAZONE
Archaeologists Just Discovered the Bones, Weapons, and Headdresses of Four Real-Life Amazon Warriors in Russia
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/amazon-women-burial-russia-1760256?fbclid=IwAR0BW0WMZekcHm-xAKE8FA3Y-srH942DzFo54rNi7XtPpnF1g5ayraHLpYk
The asteroid Amazon [1042] was discovered on 22 April 1925 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory.
The name "Amazone" was proposed by Gustav Stracke in 1925 after the Amazon River.
From the above article, the remains of the women date around 350 BC.
In Greek mythology "Amazon" is a group or nation of all-female warriors in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of Ukraine).
The archaeological dig was made in Voronezh, Russia . . . which is very close to the region of Ukraine which, in mythology, is said to be the location of the all-female warrior nation.
Kristin's quote: She is known to be the greatest female warrior. She takes the lead and drives this movement forward. She says "FOLLOW ME". The Amazon has been known to single handedly destroy armies of men in order to defend her people and their rights. In this case she represents fighting for the female race in her attempt to restore the natural balance, specifically restoring the divine right and power of the natural feminine.
Rad's quote: The entire need, teaching, message for not only women to return back to their natural natures, but to rebel as fiercely as necessary against all the male dominated conditioning patterns as to what women are 'expected' to be as defined by unnatural men. And then to use themselves, each women, one at a time, to teach not only these unnatural men about what is natural and what is not, but also other women who continue to accept these patriarchal definitions of what a women is, and is not.
Hi Linda,
Thank you for posting this.
Here is a link to one of the best books ever on the reality of the Amazon women: https://www.amazon.com/Amazons-Legends-Warrior-across-Ancient/dp/0691170274/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=amazon+women&qid=1583065187&s=books&sr=1-1
The picture below is of a girl found in Mongolia who was found to have the specific genetic, RNA/DNA, of original Amazon women. Here is a link to this girl's story: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/amazon-warrior-women-clues-evidence/1471/. Here is a link to documentary on the Amazon women, and Meiramgul the Mongolian girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2KLQoPLhZk
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Here is the chart for Rachel Carson who was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.
Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially some problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was the book Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides. It also inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
Ceres which correlates to the archetype of nature, the fertility of nature. Her natal Ceres is 10 Cancer conjunct Neptune with it's S.Node at 29 Sagittarius, and the N.Node at 16 Gemini conjunct her N.Node of Uranus, natal Pluto, Mercury, and her Sun. Her natal Lilith is at 6 Capricorn conjunct that S.Node of Ceres, with it's N.Node at 29 Sagittarius, the S.Node of her Ceres, and it's S.Node at 15 Gemini which, again, is the N.Node of her Ceres.
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Here is the chart of Marie Marvingt who was born on February 20, 1875, at Aurillac, France. A world class athlete she won winning numerous prizes in swimming, fencing, shooting, ski-jumping, skating, bobsled especially dominating the 1908-1910 seasons at Chamonix France, where she won more than 20 first place awards. She was a world class mountain climber and between 1903-1910 was the first woman to climb most of the peaks of the French and Swiss Alps. The French Academy of Sports gave her a medal in March 1910 "for all sports" (the only one they ever gave for more than one sport).
Balloons and Bicycles !
In 1901 Marie Marvingt had taken her first flight in a balloon. Some six years later on July 19, 1907 flew as the balloon pilot. In 1908, not being allowed to participate in the tour de France bicycle race (it was a man's sport, after all), she nevertheless rode the course after the race, and completed it, which only some 30 of the more than 100 male starters had done.
On October 26, 1909 not long after her first solo flight Marie Marvingt was the first female pilot to fly a balloon across the North Sea and the English Channel from Europe to England.. She continued ballooning during 1909 and 1910 winning a number of prizes and in June 1910 she received her Balloon pilot's license from the Aero Club of France (#145)
In September 1909 Marie Marvingt had her first flight in a fixed wing aeroplane piloted by Roger Sommers and in 1910 she studied fixed wing aviation with Hubert Latham, in his Antoinette. At least one journal credited her with being the first woman to solo a monoplane. A major point in her life also came in 1910 when she proposed the development of airplane ambulances to the French Government. At that time however the concept fell on deaf ears
On November 8, 1910 Marie Marvingt became the third woman in the world licensed as a pilot (#281). In 1911 Won the Coupe Femina in Turin and 1912, still inspired to create an air ambulance for France she ordered an 'airplane ambulance' from the Deperdussin company. Her concept was imortalised in a painting by Emile Friant in 1914 just a war was breaking out.
In 1914 Marie Marvingt enlisted in the French Army and served on the front lines as a male infantryman, a red cross nurse and by 1915 was serving as volunteer pilot flying bomber missions over Germany. Between the wars "La Fiancée du Danger" worked as war correspondent with French Forces in North Africa.
During this time she also devided devised metal skis for air ambulances working in Morocco and Algeria and apparently, at a later date, for a time ran a school in Morocco teaching skiing on sand dunes. Even with all this activity still found time to author and act and direct two films in 1934/35.
Marie Marvingt devoted the remainder of her long life to her dream of 1910, the concept of aeromedical evacuation, giving more than 6000 conferences and seminars on the subject on at least four continents. She was Co-Founder of the French organisation Les Amies De L'Aviation Sanitaire (Friends of Medical Aviation) and one of the leaders behind the success of the First International Congress on Medical Aviation, 1929.
On January 30, 1955. Marie Marvingt received award from the Federation National d'Aeronautique at the Sorbonne, for her work in aviation medicine, established civil air ambulance service in Morocco and was awarded the Medal de la Paix of Morocco. In 1955, at the age of 80, Marie Marvingt learned to fly a jet helicopter, flew in a US jet, and reportedly broke the sound barrier (not verified - Ed).
Marie Marvingt died, December 24, 1963 at the age of 88, the most decorated woman in the history of France, with more than 34 medals and decorations.
Her natal Lilith was at 2 Virgo conjunct her natal Moon, the N.Node at 6 Capricorn, and the S.Node at 24 Taurus conjunct her natal Pluto.
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Here is the natal chart for Beyoncé, American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child, and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which established her as a solo artist worldwide; it sold 11 million copies, earned five Grammy Awards and featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy".
Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in June 2005, she released her second solo album, B'Day (2006), which contained hits "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable", and "Beautiful Liar". Beyoncé also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe-nominated performance in Dreamgirls (2006), and starring roles in The Pink Panther (2006) and Obsessed (2009). Her marriage to rapper Jay-Z and portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), which saw the birth of her alter-ego Sasha Fierce and earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010, including Song of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". Beyoncé took a hiatus from music in 2010 and took over management of her career; her fourth album 4 (2011) was subsequently mellower in tone, exploring 1970s funk, 1980s pop, and 1990s soul. Her critically acclaimed fifth studio album, Beyoncé (2013), was distinguished from previous releases by its experimental production and exploration of darker themes.
A self-described "modern-day feminist", Beyonce creates songs that are often characterized by themes of love, relationships, and monogamy, as well as female sexuality and empowerment. On stage, her dynamic, highly choreographed performances have led to critics hailing her as one of the best entertainers in contemporary popular music. Throughout a career spanning 18 years, she has sold over 75 million records as a solo artist, and a further 60 million with Destiny's Child, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She has won 20 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's history.
On April 4, 2008, she wed rapper Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) in his Manhattan penthouse. Their first child was born on January 7, 2012 in New York City; they named her Blue Ivy Carter. Beyonce gave birth to twins on June 13, 2017 named Rumi and Sir Carter. The twins were born at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in California. Rumi, the daughter, was born before Sir, the son.
Her natal Lilith is at 0'14" of Scorpio, the N.Node is 2 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is at 14 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is at 26 Leo, the N.Node is at 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is at 7 Scorpio conjunct her natal Lilith.
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Watch her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIg9kTGBVI
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Here is the chart for Lady Gaga. who is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for reinventing herself throughout her career and for her versatility in numerous areas of the entertainment industry. Gaga began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21, through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out to pursue a music career. When Def Jam Recordings canceled her contract, she worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where Akon helped her sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and his own label KonLive Distribution in 2007. She rose to prominence the following year with her debut album, the electropop record The Fame, and its chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". The album was reissued as The Fame Monster (2009), which included the successful singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro".
Gaga's second full-length album, Born This Way (2011), explored electronic rock and techno-pop and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with more than one million copies sold. Its title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store with over a million downloads in less than a week. Gaga experimented with EDM on her third studio album, Artpop (2013), which included the single "Applause". Her collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek (2014), and her soft rock-influenced fifth studio album, Joanne (2016), continued to top the US charts. During this period, Gaga ventured into acting, playing leading roles in the miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel (2015-2016), for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and the critically acclaimed musical drama film A Star Is Born (2018). She also contributed to the latter's soundtrack, which yielded her fourth US number-one single "Shallow", and made her the first person to win an Academy, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award in one year. Gaga is due to release her sixth studio album, Chromatica, in 2020, which includes the lead single "Stupid Love".
Having sold 124 million records as of 2014, Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the fourth highest-earning female musician of the 2010s. Her achievements include various Guinness world records, 11 Grammy Awards and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She has been declared Billboard's Artist of the Year and Woman of the Year, and included among Forbes's power and earnings rankings. She was ranked number four on VH1's Greatest Women in Music in 2012 and second on Time's 2011 readers' poll of the most influential people of the past ten years. She is known for her philanthropy and social activism, including her work related to mental health awareness and LGBT rights. Gaga founded her nonprofit organization, the Born This Way Foundation, which focuses on empowering youth, improving mental health and preventing bullying.
Her natal Lilith is at 20 Aquarius conjunct her S.Node of Neptune, and the S.Node of Venus. The S.Node of Lilith is at 29 Sagittarius, and the N.Node is 9 Capricorn. Her natal Amazon is 28 Sagittarius, the N.Node is 11 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.
Here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjrdywp5nyE
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Here is the chart for Shakira who is a Colombian singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Barranquilla, she made her recording debut under Sony Music Colombia at the age of 13. Following the commercial failure of her first two Colombian albums, Magia (1991) and Peligro (1993), she rose to prominence in Spanish-speaking countries with her next albums, Pies Descalzos (1995) and Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998). Shakira entered the English-language market with her fifth album, Laundry Service (2001). It sold over 13 million copies and spawned the international number-one singles "Whenever, Wherever" and "Underneath Your Clothes".
Her success was further solidified with the Spanish albums Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 (2005), Sale el Sol (2010), and El Dorado (2017), all of which topped the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and were certified diamante by the Recording Industry Association of America. Meanwhile, her English albums Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 (2005), She Wolf (2009) and Shakira (2014) were all certified gold, platinum, or multi-platinum in various countries worldwide. Some of her songs have charted at number one in multiple countries, including "La Tortura", "Hips Don't Lie", "Beautiful Liar", "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", "Loca", and "Chantaje". Shakira served as a coach on two seasons of the American singing competition television series The Voice (2013-2014).
Shakira has received numerous awards, including three Grammy Awards, thirteen Latin Grammy Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, thirty-nine Billboard Latin Music Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, Billboard listed her as the Top Female Latin Artist of the Decade.[7] Having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, Shakira remains one of the world's best-selling music artists.[8] She is ranked as the most-streamed Latin artist on Spotify and became one of only three female artists to have two YouTube videos exceeding two billion views. For her philanthropic work with Barefoot Foundation and her contributions to music she received the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year award.
Here is a link to Wikipedia for a full description of her life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira
Her natal Lilith is at 13 Capricorn, the S.Node is 24 Taurus, and the N.Node is 2 Capricorn. Her natal Amazon is at 13 Scorpio, the S.Node is at 8 Sagittarius, and the N.Node is 4 Taurus.
Here is a link to her performance at the Superbowl in the USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILCn6VO_RU
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Here is the chart of Hélène Dutrieu was a Belgian cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital.
Biography
Hélène Marguerite Dutrieu was born on 10 July 1877 in Tournai, Belgium, the daughter of a Belgian Army officer. The family later moved to Lille in northern France. She left school at the age of 14 to earn a living.
Cycling success
Hélène Dutrieux, probably in 1896. Bicycle equipped with Simpson Lever Chain. Hélène Dutrieu began her cycle racing career inspired by her older brother Eugène- a professional cyclist. She became a professional track cyclist racing for the Simpson Lever Chain team. In 1893 she gained the women's world record for distance cycled in one hour.] In 1896[7] and 1897 she won the women's speed track cycling world championship in Ostend, Belgium, but lost her title in 1898[9] to Louise Roger. In November 1896 she won the Course de 12 Jours (12-day race) in the Royal Aquarium, London, England,and In August 1898 she won the Grand Prix d'Europe (Grand Prix of Europe). Leopold II of Belgium awarded Dutrieu the Cross of St André with diamonds in honour of her cycling success. She later became a motorcycle and automobile racer.
Stuntwoman
She began performing in variety shows as a cycling speciality act and in July 1903 she cycled a loop inside a vertical track at the Eldorado in Marseille, France. She also invented her own stunt, "La Flèche Humaine" ("The Human Arrow"), which was a c. 15 m jump with a bicycle. In September 1903 she appeared at l'Olympia, Paris. She also performed in London (Crystal Palace), Berlin and other main cities. Later, she moved on to motorcycle stunts (La Moto Ailée, Saut dans la Lune), but after a bad crash in Berlin 1904 she had to spend eight months recovering her health.
Acting career
Hélène Dutrieu had played a small role at the Déjazet theatre in 1903[16] (she played "Hélène" in "Môssieu le Maire" by Gustave Stoskopf. After regaining her health she went back to the theatre playing comedy in 1906-1909. She performed on stages such as Théâtre des Capucines, Théâtre des Mathurins, Porte Saint-Martin and Théâtre Michel.
Achievements in aviation
Dutrieu learned to fly using a Santos-Dumont Demoiselle monoplane in early 1910. On 19 April 1910 she reputedly became the first woman pilot to fly with a passenger. On 25 November 1910 Dutrieu became the fourth woman in the world, and the first Belgian woman, licensed as an aeroplane pilot, receiving Aéro-Club de Belgique (Aero Club of Belgium) licence #27. Her appearances at air shows earned her the nickname the "Girl Hawk". There was a minor scandal early in her aviation career when it was revealed to the press that she did not wear a corset while flying.
She was also style conscious, wearing the first known high fashion pilot suit, designed by the Paris couturier Bernard [20] In September 1910 Dutrieu flew non-stop from Ostend to Bruges, Belgium. From 26 September to 1 October she flew, frequently carrying passengers, at the aviation week in Burton-upon-Trent, England. She was the first woman pilot to stay airborne for more than an hour and on 21 December 1910 she became the first winner of the Coupe Femina (Femina Cup) for a non-stop flight of 167 km in 2 hours 35 minutes. In 1911 she regained the Coupe Femina temporarily with a flight of 254 km in 2 hours 58 minutes but that year's cup was eventually won by Marie Marvingt. In September 1911 Dutrieu travelled to the United States with her Farman III biplane. She competed for the women's altitude record and the Rodman-Wanamaker trophy, subsequently won by Matilde Moisant, at the Nassau Boulevard airfield meeting in Garden City, New York. In the same year Dutrieu beat 14 male pilots to win the Coppa del Re (King's Cup) in Florence, Italy. In 1912 she reputedly became the first woman to pilot a seaplane. Later the same year she won a prize in competition against four other seaplane pilots, including Réne Caudron, at Ouchy-Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1913 Dutrieu became the first woman aviator awarded membership of the Légion d'honneur (French Legion of Honour).
World War I and afterward
During World War I Dutrieu became an ambulance driver. Général Février put her in charge of the ambulances at Messimi Hospital. She later became the director of Campagne à Val-de Grâce military hospital. After the war she became a journalist. In 1922 she married Pierre Mortier and took French nationality. She later became vice president of the women's section of the Aéro-Club de France (Aero Club of France). In 1956 she created the Coupe Hélène Dutrieu-Mortier (Hélène Dutrieu-Mortier Cup) with a prize of 200,000 francs for the French or Belgian woman pilot who made the longest non-stop flight each year.
Her natal Lilith is 13 aq 36 Rx, N.Node is 9 sa 34, and the S.Node is 29 ge 37. Her natal Amazon is 28 cn 45, S.Node is 5 ge 43 and the S.Node is 6 sc 6 .
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Here is the birth chart (noon chart because there is no documented birth time ) for Jennifer Lopez also known by her nickname J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, dancer, fashion designer, producer, and businesswoman. In 1991, Lopez began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993. For her first leading role in the 1997 Selena biopic of the same name, Lopez received a Golden Globe nomination and became the first Latin actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. She went on to star in Anaconda (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), later establishing herself as the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood.
Lopez ventured into the music industry with her debut studio album On the 6 (1999), which helped propel the Latin pop movement in American music. With the simultaneous release of her second studio album J.Lo and her romantic comedy The Wedding Planner in 2001, Lopez became the first woman to have a number one album and film in the same week. Her 2002 remix album, J to tha L-O! The Remixes, became the first in history to debut at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. Later that year, she released her third studio album This Is Me... Then, and starred in the US box office number-one Maid in Manhattan.
After starring in Gigli (2003), a critical and commercial failure, Lopez subsequently starred in the successful romantic comedies Shall We Dance? (2004) and Monster-in-Law (2005). Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer (2007), received the highest first-week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States. Following an unsuccessful period, she returned to prominence in 2011 with her appearance as a judge on American Idol, and released her seventh studio album Love?. From 2016 to 2018, she starred in the crime drama series Shades of Blue and performed a residency show, Jennifer Lopez: All I Have, at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. Since 2017, Lopez has produced and served as a judge on World of Dance. In 2019, she received critical praise for starring as a stripper in the crime drama Hustlers, for which she earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
With a cumulative film gross of US$3.1 billion and estimated global sales of 70 million records, Lopez is regarded as the most influential Latin performer in the United States. In 2012, Forbes ranked her as the most powerful celebrity in the world, as well as the 38th most powerful woman in the world.[4] Time listed her among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018. Her most successful singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 include: "If You Had My Love", "I'm Real", "Ain't It Funny", "All I Have", and "On the Floor", which is one of the best-selling singles of all time. For her contributions to the music industry, Lopez has received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Billboard Icon Award, and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award among other honors. Her other ventures include clothing lines, fragrances, a production company, and a charitable foundation.
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lopez
Here natal Lilith is conjunct her natal Saturn in Taurus at 9 degrees, the S.Node is 3 Cancer, and the N.Node is 5 Sagittarius. Her natal Amazon is 25 Cancer, the S.Node is 4 Scorpio, and the N.Node is 8 Gemini.
Here is a link to her singing for the Global One World At Home song 'People': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQBqabThh4
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Here is the chart for Valentina Tereshkova. Valentina Tereshkova is a member of the Russian State Duma, engineer, and former cosmonaut. She is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.
Before her selection for the Soviet space program, Tereshkova was a textile factory worker and an amateur skydiver. She joined the Air Force as part of the Cosmonaut Corps and was commissioned as an officer after completing her training. After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, Tereshkova remained in the space program as a cosmonaut instructor. She later graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and re-qualified for spaceflight but never went to space again. She retired from the Air Force in 1997 having attained the rank of major general.
Tereshkova was a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices including being a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1974 to 1989. She remained politically active following the collapse of the Soviet Union but twice lost elections to the national State Duma in 1995 and 2003. Tereshkova was later elected in 2008 to her regional parliament, the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma. In 2011, she was elected to the national State Duma as a member of the United Russia party and re-elected in 2016.
For more about her click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
Her natal Lilith is 6 Sagittarius, N.Node is 8 Capricorn, and the S.Node is 25 Sagittarius. Her natal Amazon is 5 Sagittarius, N.Node 7 Taurus, and the S.Node is 9 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 - June 9, 1927), who was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement. In 1872, she ran for President of the United States. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some have questioned that priority given issues with the legality of her run. They disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35. (Woodhull's 35th birthday was in September 1873, seven months after the March inauguration). However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue; this may, however, be due to the fact that no one took the candidacy seriously.
An activist for women's rights and labor reforms, Woodhull was also an advocate of "free love", by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce and bear children without social restriction or government interference. "They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform," she often said. "The world moves.
Woodhull twice went from rags to riches, her first fortune being made on the road as a magnetic healer[4] before she joined the spiritualist movement in the 1870s. Authorship of many of her articles is disputed (many of her speeches on these topics were collaborations between Woodhull, her backers, and her second husband, Colonel James Blood. However, despite her ethical problems, her role as a representative of these movements was powerful. Together with her sister, Tennessee Claflin, she was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, making a second, and more reputable fortune.They were among the first women to found a newspaper in the United States, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which began publication in 1870.
Woodhull was politically active in the early 1870s when she was nominated as the first woman candidate for the United States presidency. Woodhull was the candidate in 1872 from the Equal Rights Party, supporting women's suffrage and equal rights; her running mate was black abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. A check on her activities occurred when she was arrested on obscenity charges a few days before the election. Her paper had published an account of the alleged adulterous affair between the prominent minister Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Richards Tilton which had rather more detail than was considered proper at the time. However, it all added to the sensational coverage of her candidacy.
Click here for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull
Her natal Lilith was 18 Aquarius, the N.Node was 4 Sagittarius, and the S.Node was 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon was 23 Libra, the N.Node was 11 Gemini, and the S.Node was 11 Scorpio.
Feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
in the spirit of the charts you have been posting i hope it is ok to add Michelle Obama's chart (this is a noon chart, could not find her birth time but tend to feel her natal moon to be in aquarius though).
I found interesting to consider given who she is, then not a surprise to see her natal Lilith is conjunct natal south node of the moon at 9' Cap, also conjunct her lilith nn at 29 Sag. Sn lilith is at 26 taurus.
What strikes me the most is her natal amazon at 13 leo opposite lucifer at 16 aquarius, Neptune's south node. Lucifer is also being squared by that sn of Lilith. Amazon has SN at 5 Sag and NN at 3 taurus. Her natal saturn, lilith and sn ruler, is again conjunct lucifer.
The correlations are almost direct in a way of confronting evil for a long long time and again now, considering the evolution in her life and who occupies the White House at this moment. Also i see this could also give credit to her meaningful fights being around gender and race equality. It looks like her evolution walks side by side with this regarding power figures and how she stands to be an example of that fight and power, how she dedicates herself to empowering young people is a great example, and how she could in her own way stand equally important, simultaneously united and distinct of her husband, no small thing.
Could you share your point of view relative to her chart or add anything that could be meaningful relative to this?
Thank you,
Helena
P.S. After posting i was wondering if her natal skipped step of Jupiter in aries squaring the nodal axis, pretty much exact, could remain as long as her fight for truth remains? I don't see that ending easily at these times and with a natal moon either in aquarius or pisces, there is always a feeling of fight for the whole and no just one self?
Hi Helena,
Her personal fight to remain inwardly defined by her knowing of the natural laws that were set in motion by the Source Of All Things, giving, sharing, and inclusion, natural gender roles, has also been a fight against the perversion of those natural laws manifesting as self interest and exclusion, men dominating women.
The skipped step signature in her chart actually correlates with a series of past lives that have early life endings because of that fight: unfinished lives. So that's where she, her Soul, has picked up this life from. Her Mars, the ruler of that Jupiter, is conjunct her husbands natal Jupiter in Aquarius. Alone, and together, she and her husband have been, are are, trying to do all they can on half of others relative to the natural laws that were set in motion at the time of the Manifest Creation.
What interesting timing Helena, just found this article on an American website called Conservative burned to the ground by MSNBC host for dismissing Michelle Obama as a mere "˜first wife:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/conservative-burned-to-the-ground-by-msnbc-host-for-dismissing-michelle-obama-as-a-mere-first-wife/ and here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNB0HvJMeI&feature=emb_title
She will not have an early life ending in this life. Her journey will continue on ........
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you so much for your help in understanding the skipped step. The link you posted made me want to check her natal Kassandra which is found to be at 8 degrees pisces, conjunct chiron and venus and opposed pluto and uranus, trine neptune and nn of moon, sextile lilith and moon's south node, vesta... At some level of exposure regarding this matters there's always those who try to discredit, humiliate, and Michelle Obama is a such an example for this Kassandra archetype too but also how self-emporewing is the perfect andidote, so well described in the trine to neptune (kassandra's ruler) in scorpio, soul itself and probably a bit of help from the other side :-)
All the best Rad,
Helena
Hi Helena & Rad,
Thanks for posting this bit on Michelle, and thank you Rad for sharing more about her journey. I wanted to attach a few images of her that reflect her strength and her spirit. I find the title of her recent book BECOMING so appropriate given those skipped steps and 'early exit' lives.
I wonder if Joe Biden thought about asking her to be his running mate?
Now wouldn't that be awesome?
Peace,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
That would be really awesome ;D
I was thinking about how the aspect of compensation relative to jupiter can be so positive and important so the soul can recover from what has been lost, like an ultimate necessary step. Never thought of jupiter like that and is really nice to see it from a real life example with such greatness of spirit.
All the best Kristin,
Helena
All,
Here is the chart of Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير Ú€Ùٽو"Ž; Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو"Ž; Urdu pronunciation: [beËnəˈziËr ˈbʱʊʈ.ʈoË]; 21 June 1953 - 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.
Of mixed Sindhi and Kurdish parentage, Bhutto was born in Karachi to a politically important, wealthy aristocratic family. Her father, the PPP's founder and leader Zulfikar, was elected Prime Minister on a socialist platform in 1973. Bhutto studied at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she was President of the Oxford Union. She returned to Pakistan in 1977, shortly before her father was ousted in a military coup and executed. Bhutto and her mother Nusrat took control of the PPP and led the country's Movement for the Restoration of Democracy; Bhutto was repeatedly imprisoned by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's military government and then exiled to Britain in 1984. She returned in 1986 and-influenced by Thatcherite economics-transformed the PPP's platform from a socialist to a liberal one, before leading it to victory in the 1988 election. As Prime Minister, her attempts at reform were stifled by conservative and Islamist forces, including President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the powerful military. Her administration was accused of corruption and nepotism, and dismissed by Khan in 1990. Intelligence services rigged that year's election to ensure a victory for the conservative Islamic Democratic Alliance (IJI), at which Bhutto became Leader of the Opposition.
After the IJI government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was also dismissed on corruption charges, Bhutto led the PPP to victory in the 1993 elections. Her second term oversaw economic privatization and attempts to advance women's rights. Her government was damaged by several controversies, including the assassination of her brother Murtaza, a failed 1995 coup d'état, and a further bribery scandal involving her and her husband Asif Ali Zardari; in response to the latter, the President again dismissed her government. The PPP lost the 1997 election and in 1998 she went into self-exile in Dubai, leading her party mainly through proxies. A widening corruption inquiry culminated in a 2003 conviction in a Swiss court. Following United States-brokered negotiations with President Pervez Musharraf, she returned to Pakistan in 2007 to compete in the 2008 elections; her platform emphasised civilian oversight of the military and opposition to growing Islamist violence. After a political rally in Rawalpindi, she was assassinated. The Salafi jihadi group al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, although the involvement of the Pakistani Taliban and rogue elements of the intelligence services were widely suspected. She was buried at her family mausoleum.
Bhutto was a controversial figure. She was often criticized as being politically inexperienced and corrupt, and faced much opposition from Pakistan's Islamist lobby for her secularist and modernizing agenda. In the early years of her career she was nevertheless domestically popular and also attracted support from Western nations, for whom she was a champion of democracy. Posthumously, she came to be regarded as an icon for women's rights due to her political success in a male-dominated society.
Her natal Lilith is 19 Leo, the N.Node is 17 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 23 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is at 12 Virgo, the N.Node is 1 Gemini, and the S.Node is 9 Scorpio.
Feel free to comment of ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
All,
This is the chart for Jane Austen who was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.] Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike.
With the publications of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, a short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and another unfinished novel, The Watsons. Her six full-length novels have rarely been out of print, although they were published anonymously and brought her moderate success and little fame during her lifetime.
A significant transition in her posthumous reputation occurred in 1833, when her novels were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series, illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering, and sold as a set. They gradually gained wider acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience.
Austen has inspired many critical essays and literary anthologies. Her novels have inspired many films, from 1940's Pride and Prejudice to more recent productions like Sense and Sensibility (1995), Emma (1996), Mansfield Park (1999), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Love & Friendship (2016), and Emma.[c] (2020).
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
Her natal Lilith is 10 Scorpio, the N.Node is 22 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 19 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 11 Capricorn, the Node is 11 Taurus, and the S.Node is 0 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart of Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer, and literary theory. In 1993, she began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. She is also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School.
Butler is best known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which she challenges conventional notions of gender and develops her theory of gender performativity. This theory has had a major influence on feminist and queer scholarship.[6] Her works are often studied in film studies courses emphasizing gender studies and performativity in discourse.
Butler has supported lesbian and gay rights movements and has spoken out on many contemporary political issues. In particular, she is a vocal critic of Zionism, Israeli politics,[8] and its effect on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, emphasizing that Israel does not and should not be taken to represent all Jews or Jewish opinion.
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_butler
Her natal Lilith is at 4 Pisces, it's N.Node is 6 Capricorn, and the S.Node is 24 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 15 Pisces, it's N.Node is 5 Taurus, and it's S.Node is 9 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment of ask questions.
Goddess bless, Rad
All,
Here is the chart for Patrisse Cullors (born June 20, 1983)who is an American artist and activist. Cullors is an advocate for prison abolition in Los Angeles and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. She also identifies as a queer activist.
Biography and personal life
Cullors was born in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Pacoima, a low-income neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. She became an activist early in life, joining the Bus Riders Union as a teenager. She later earned a degree in religion and philosophy from UCLA. She teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in the Public Practice Program. She also teaches in the Master's Arts in Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College.
Cullors recalls being forced from her home at 16 when she revealed her queer identity to her parents. She was involved with the Jehovah's Witnesses as a child, but later grew disillusioned with the church. She developed an interest in the Nigerian religious tradition of Ifá, incorporating its rituals into political protest events. She told an interviewer:
For me, seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my conditions-how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as part of a larger fight, a fight for my life.
Black Lives Matter
Along with community organizers and friends Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, Cullors founded Black Lives Matter. The three started the movement because of frustration over George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Cullors wrote the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter to corroborate Garza's use of the phrase in making a Facebook post about the Martin case. Cullors further described her impetus for pushing for African-American rights as stemming from her 19-year-old brother being brutalized during imprisonment Los Angeles County jails.
Cullors credits social media as instrumental in revealing violence against African Americans, saying: "On a daily basis, every moment, black folks are being bombarded with images of our death ... It's literally saying, 'Black people, you might be next. You will be next, but in hindsight it will be better for our nation, the less of our kind, the more safe it will be."
Other activism
Cullors has served as executive director of the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails. The group advocated for a civilian commission to oversee the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in order to curb abuses by officers. By organizing former jail inmates as a voting bloc, the group hoped to sway the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to create such a commission, as well as gather enough votes to elect a replacement for Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who resigned in 2014 for separate reasons. However, the group did not succeed in its efforts.
Cullors co-founded the prison activism organization Dignity and Power Now, which succeeded in advocating for a civilian oversight board.
Cullors is also a board member of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, having led a think tank on state and vigilante violence for the 2014 Without Borders Conference.
Politics
Cullors co-endorsed Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, calling for unity from progressives to "beat the Bloombergs of the world and the Bidens of the world".
Awards
Cullors is a Fulbright scholar. She was named 2007 Mario Savio Young Activist of the Year. She has also received the Sidney Goldfarb award. She was named an NAACP History Maker in 2015 Also in 2015 Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza (as "The Women of #BlackLivesMatter") were listed as one of the nine runners-up for The Advocate's Person of the Year. She was also named a Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year 2016. Also in 2016, she was named one of Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders and an Honorary Doctorate from Clarkson University, among several others. She is the 2018 recipient of the José Muñoz Award from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Works
External video After Words interview with Patricia Khan-Cullors on When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, February 10, 2018, C-SPAN
In 2014 Cullors produced the theatrical piece POWER: From the Mouths of the Occupied, which debuted at Highways Performance Space. She has contributed articles about the movement to the LA Progressive, including an article from December 2015 titled "The Future of Black Life" which pushed the idea that activists could no longer wait for the State to take action, and called her followers into action by encouraging them to begin building the world that they want to see.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Patrisse Cullors.
Her book, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir was published in January 2018.
Her natal Lilith is 17 Cancer, the N.Node is 17 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 23 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 15 Scorpio, the N.Node is 1 Gemini, and the S.Node is 9 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
All
Here is the chart of Jamia Wilson. Jamia is a feminist activist, writer, and speaker. As director of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York and the former VP of programs at the Women's Media Center, Jamia has been a leading voice on women's rights issues for over a decade. Her work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the New York Times, the Today Show, CNN, Elle, BBC, Rookie, Refinery 29, Glamour, Teen Vogue, and The Washington Post. She is the author of Young, Gifted, and Black, the introduction and oral history in Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World, Step Into Your Power: 23 Lessons on How to Live Your Best Life, ABC's of AOC, and the co-author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Advocacy, and Activism for All.
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"Jamia Wilson is many things: An activist. A feminist. A storyteller. A mediamaker. But more than anything, she is a natural-born thought leader. As Executive Director and Publisher of Feminist Press at City University of New York, the former Women, Action, and the Media Executive Director, TED Prize Storyteller, and former Vice President of Programs at The Women's Media Center, Jamia has been a powerful force in the social justice movement for nearly a decade. As a leading voice on feminist and women's rights issues, her work and words have appeared in and on several outlets such as New York Magazine, The Today Show, and The Washington Post. She's also a staff writer for Rookie and has contributed to several books such as Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, and I Still Believe Anita Hill. But what we're most excited about is her own book that she's currently writing about Beyonce and feminism. (Yes, really.) It's no surprise she was named in Refinery29's "17 Faces of the Future of Feminism."
It may be true that Jamia has spoken alongside feminist greats like Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, but we think they're also lucky to have been alongside her. A true next generation leader, she has graced the stage at events such as TED Women, Netroots Nation, and Facing Race, and travels across the U.S. and beyond to college campuses to talk about race, feminism, spirituality, leadership, and so much more."
Her natal Lilith is at 18 Scorpio, the N.Node is 6 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 18 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 21 Cancer, the N.Node is 7 Gemini, and the S.Node is 14 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
All,
Here is the chart for Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams (June 1, 1928 - July 6, 2009) who was a teenage civil rights activist in the struggle for equality by the indigenous peoples in the United States Territory of Alaska. Her 1944 challenge to segregation practices was cited during the Territorial Legislature's proceedings in passage of Alaska's 1945 anti-discrimination law,] a decade before the Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks in Alabama sparked a public bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white person.
Early life and segregated Alaska
Alberta Schenck was born in Nome, Alaska, on June 1, 1928, to Albert Schenck, a white army veteran of World War I. Her mother was Mary Pushruk Schenck of native Inupiat heritage. She was born into an era when the indigenous peoples of Alaska were subjected to segregated practices that often left non-white children without an education for lack of facilities. Some segregated business establishments advertised that all their employees were white.
Alaska Dream Theatre incident
When Alberta was a high school girl in 1944, she had a part-time job ushering at the Alaska Dream Theatre in Nome, where part of her job was to make sure non-white patrons sat in their designated segregated area. She eventually registered a complaint with the theatre's manager and was fired.[6] Alberta's response became an opinion article on March 3, 1944, in The Nome Nugget newspaper.[4] She returned later with a white date, and the two of them sat in the "Whites Only" section. She and her army sergeant date refused to move when the manager demanded she move to the non-white section. The theater manager contacted the local police who arrested Schenck and placed her in jail for one night. Schenck's arrest rallied the local Inupiat community, who staged a protest at the theater until her release from jail the next day.
Anti-discrimination legislation
Indignant and determined not to be deterred, she wrote a letter to Alaska Governor Ernest Gruening and related the incident to him. The prior year, the Governor had seen his anti-discrimination bill be defeated in the Territorial Legislature. Her letter inspired the Governor to have the bill re-introduced in the Territorial Legislature, during which her experience was cited on the floor of the legislature. He answered her letter vowing that no one would again receive that kind of treatment in Alaska. The re-introduced bill passed both houses of the legislature and was signed into law as the Anti-Discrimination Act on February 16, 1945.
Death and legacy
Alberta Schenck married a man named Adams and moved to California. She died on July 6, 2009, in Anaheim of congestive heart failure.
The role Alberta Schenck played in passage of Alaska's 1945 anti-discrimination legislation was part of the Civil Rights Movement.
In 2011, Alberta Schenck Adams was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame.
Her natal Lilith was 2 Scorpio, the N.Node 26 Sagittarius, and the S.Node 17 Gemini. Her natal Amazon was 5 Gemini, the N.Node was 27 Taurus, and the S.Node was 15 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Inna Braverman is an Israeli entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is the Co-Founder of Eco Wave Power, a renewable energy company.
In 2017, Braverman was featured in the January issue of Wired Magazine UK for her accomplishments and contributions in the wave technology field and was listed on Medium.com Website as one of the 100 makers and mavericks of 2016[2] and joined the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to his visit to Sydney as part of the business delegation.
Biography
Braverman was born in Ukraine on April 11, 1986.[citation needed] When Braverman was four years old, her family immigrated to Israel. They settled in Akko. After high school, she enrolled at the University of Haifa as a Political Science and English Language and Literature major. She graduated in 2010 from University of Haifa.
Career
Braverman met David Leb, a Canadian who had a surfing, scuba diving and fishing camp in Panama, while he was visiting Israel. The two co-founded Eco Wave Power in 2011. Eco Wave Power is a renewable energy company to generate electricity from ocean waves.
Braverman travelled for the next one and a half year between Israel and Ukraine working on the design and development of the buoys and technology for generating energy from waves. In 2013, Eco Wave Power installed the first wave energy power plant in Jaffa Port, Israel. As a result, Braverman was shortlisted for the Business Green Leaders Award in 2013 in the category of Young Sustainability Executive of the Year.] Eco Wave Power obtained awards from consulting firm Frost and Sullivan in 2012 and 2013.
Braverman attended the Shell and CNBC Energy Challenge in 2013. She and her team won the event for their idea. In 2014, Braverman was invited by the United Nations to attend the Climate Summit in New York, where she presented her ideas on the use of wave energy as a resource. Subsequently, in 2015, she also participated in 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held in Paris. Eco Wave Power raised $2 million in fundraising the same year.
She is also a contributor to different technological magazines and publications, such as Green Port Magazine.
In 2016, Braverman led the execution of the Gibraltar Wave Farm. The official opening of the wave energy power station took place in May 2016. It was attended by Braverman, Fabian Picardo, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, and John Cortes, the Minister of Health and Environment.
In July 2016, her company was noted as Best Woman-Owned Renewable Energy Company in Israel by CV Magazine.] She was selected by Smithsonian Magazine as one of eight young innovators with ingenious ideas for the future of energy.
In 2017, Braverman was featured in the January issue of Wired Magazine UK for her accomplishments and contributions in the wave technology field and was listed on Medium.com Website as one of the 100 makers and mavericks of 2016. Braverman spoke at the Brain Bar Budapest in 2017.
Braverman was a speaker at the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) in 2017 on the International Women's Day about her personal experience as a woman and an immigrant in business.
By the end of 2017, her experience as a female entrepreneur was featured in a Google's Virtual Reality film, under the name of "Female Planet".[19]
In 2018, CNN chose her as "Tomorrow's Hero" with Sanjay Gupta presenting her contribution to shaping the wave energy field. Also, Eco Wave Power was featured in Pictet Bank's report on smart energy as a technology that shows prospects of the future.
Her natal Lilith is 25 Aquarius, the N.Node is 9 Capricorn, and the S.Node is 2 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 2 Gemini, the N.Node is 14 Taurus, and the S.Node is 4 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment of ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Just saw this picture and thought about sharing it here for being so iconic of what we can expect from pluto in sagittarius generation :-)
This girls created a march protest with spontaneous following of 10000 peaceful people.
Here is the link for full report and an excerpt worth mentioning in the context of pluto Sag.
"These young people are passionate about their causes and unwavering in their commitment to change. The world they have inherited is deeply troubled and desperately flawed, and they see with clear eyes both the errors of earlier generations and the hope of their own. Their power lies in the undeniable moral authority of youth: They did not cause the mess they have inherited, but they are rolling up their sleeves to clean it up."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/opinion/nashville-teens-protests.html
Helena
This is AWESOME!!!
Thank you, Helena, for posting this.
GO SAG generation!!! & and Go Girls!
Peace,
~Kristin
All,
Here is the chart for Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Cherokee: Ꭰá¥áŽ³áᎩ ᎠáᎦá¯á—Ꭿ (A-ji-luhsgi Asgaya-dihi), November 18, 1945 - April 6, 2010) was a Cherokee activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Native Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe. For five years in the early 1970s, she was employed as a social worker, focusing mainly on children's issues.
Returning to Oklahoma in the fall of 1976, Mankiller was hired by the Cherokee Nation as an economic stimulus coordinator. She progressed into grant writing and by the early 1980s, was directing the newly-created Community Development Department of the Cherokee Nation. Using her expertise in preparing documentation, which she had learnt during her activist period in California, she was successful in obtaining government funds. She designed and supervised community projects that allowed rural citizens to identify their own challenges and, through their labor, participate in solving them. Her project in Bell, Oklahoma, became a successful model for later projects and was featured in a movie, while her project in Kenwood received the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Certificate of National Merit. Her management ability came to the notice of the incumbent Principal Chief, Ross Swimmer, who invited her to run as his deputy in the 1983 tribal elections. When the duo won, she became the first elected woman to serve as Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She was elevated to Principal Chief when Swimmer took a position in the federal administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
A member of the Democratic Party, Mankiller served as Principal Chief from 1985 to 1995. During her administration, the Cherokee government built new health clinics, created a mobile eye-care clinic, established ambulance services, created early education, and adult education programs; launched job training programs; developed revenue programs, including factories, retail stores, restaurants, and bingo operations; and established self-governance, allowing the tribe to manage its own finances. She was a tireless advocate working to improve the image of Native Americans and diligently worked to combat the misappropriation of native heritage. When she retired from politics, Mankiller returned to activism, authoring numerous books and giving lectures on health care, tribal sovereignty, women's rights, and cancer awareness. She was the author of a bestselling autobiography, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People and was honored with many local, state and national awards, including the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mankiller suffered from serious health problems throughout her life, including polycystic kidney disease, myasthenia gravis, lymphoma, breast cancer, and had two kidney transplants. She died in 2010 from pancreatic cancer.
Her natal Lilith is 20 Scorpio, the N.Node is 14 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 9 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 28 Gemini, the N.Node is 21 Taurus, and the S.Node is 22 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
I would like to share this i have just came across and ask if anyone has any other complementary information.
It seems the nodes of Ceres and Isis (asteroid #42) always travel conjunct together. From what i checked so far, between the range of last degrees of Scorpio to Capricorn for the south nodes and cancer to gemini for the north node, but could be far wide.
For example today
Isis Sn 7 Sag - NN 29 Gem (natal at 25 Scorpio rx)
Ceres Sn 8 Sag - NN 26 Gem (natal at 12 Pisces)
I have been reflecting on this Goddesses as closely linked together for a while and found some authors who have mentioned it specifically. Coming to this now and seeing Isis NN is today exactly conjunct NN of the moon and Ceres trine the eclipse degree moon, i think this Goddesses are telling us something worth diving in...
Hope any other thoughts can add to this.
Have a fruitful eclipse Everyone,
Helena
Hi Helena and All,
I thought that what Helena's is asking about, bringing up, is really interesting and important archetypes that need to be understood by all of us: the archetypes. To that end I have asked the author of the book on Lilith that the SchoolOfEvolutionaryAstrology has published to help us understand those archetypes. Her name is Mary Blue. She said she would be happy to do this, and to do the best that she can. So she will be posting on these archetypes after this. If you have question please feel free to ask her.
She is also writing a book on Ceres which is in the final stages of being completed.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi,
I am Mary Blue and what follows are the archetypes of Ceres and its connection to Isis. If you have questions or comments please feel free to ask me.
Goddess Bless, Mary
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Both Ceres and Isis symbolize the Earth Mother and Her regenerative nurturing powers belonging to the sacred feminine principle in Nature. These powers include the regeneration of Life, such as in the physical processes of reproduction, growth, decay and rebirth unfurled through the cyclical seasons of Nature, and also of its lost dimension as the regeneration of Spirit, those things that regenerate the Soul and its consciousness of unity. Isis is the name given to the earlier Goddess in Africa, whereas Ceres is Her later derivative given to the Goddess honored by the Romans. In Greece She was called Demeter. The asteroids and nodes for both Ceres and Isis cycling together in the same signs reflects this venerable truth.
As most are familiar with the myth of Ceres, it deals with the loss and recovery of the Earth Goddess' regenerative nurturance that manifests through Her relationship to Her sacred daughter Kore/Persephone. This trinity reflects these same powers of the Earth Goddess' regenerative nurturance, both its physical and spiritual manifestations, that bless womankind as the Earth Goddess' sacred daughter symbolized by Kore/Persephone in the myth. The myth's narrative addresses the loss and recovery of these powers belonging to womankind, its physical manifestation as in the regeneration of life reflected by the seasonal cycles within Nature and that, somewhat encrypted in the myth, of its spiritual manifestation corelating to womankind's powers that resurrect or awaken humankind's Soul consciousness, as in a spiritual rebirth. These blessings of the Earth Mother's powers of regenerative nurturance upon womankind support her in the execution of her role and function as guardian of humankind's Way, protectress of its true nature and spiritual essence and root. This role, by the way, that blesses womankind with the Earth Mother's powers as guardians of humankind's Way is by Nature's design, unlike patriarchal governance and rule which is man-made.
With respect to the nodes themselves, each symbolizes the loss and recovery of memory and functionality for some aspect of womankind's natural role serving as guardian of humankind's Way. For instance, the South Node in Sagittarius correlates to the loss and recovery of the Earth Goddess' consciousness and powers that nurture the expansion of consciousness through knowledge as Natural Laws disseminated by Mother Earth's tutorial as Nature. Sagittarius correlates to their dispersal as the principle of knowledge or knowing through a right-brain or intuitive approach that guides the wisdom of womankind's heart. Her knowing includes the intuitive perception that all life is sacred, mineral, plant, animal, and atmospheric, and as such meant to be honored and protected as ancestral kin, and not exploited for profit and power over others.
The South Node in Capricorn symbolizes the loss and recovery of womankind's civic and spiritual authority and responsibility as guardians of humankind's Way. It correlates to the wise application of the knowledge reflected by Natural Laws to guide human decision-making that honors, promotes and preserves one of its core practical and spiritual tenets of right living, i.e. giving, sharing and including. This includes not only its application across the board for all of humankind regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation, but for all beings in Nature sharing our world, with the understanding that humankind is just one part of its Totality to which its means of survival are wholly interconnected and interdependent. When violations to Natural Law occur at this level, all balance that sustains human survival is seriously compromised or lost outright.
The South Node in Scorpio symbolizes the loss and recovery of womankind's role overseeing humankind's need for ritualistic undertakings that regenerate the consciousness of its Soul and its re-centering thereof. Through these ritualistic undertakings, the Soul's merging powers of osmotic fusion become enlivened, psychically regenerating and fortifying its bonds to one another and to its ancestral kin in the natural world at large. These rituals include various forms of meditation, such as JWG's One-Two meditation, SRF's Kriya yoga, and the like; gatherings to celebrate and honor humankind's relationship, bond and unity to Nature and its spiritual kin thereof such as through seasonal rituals at the equinoxes and solstices; to commemorate transitional gateways in the human life cycle such as childbirth, coming of age at puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, marriage, and death; to initiate journey or vision quests and/or the use of entheogenic substances (psychoactive substances used to induce a mystical or spiritual experience ie, cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, or ayahuasca) as a means to find or return to one's center..
Lastly, there is the ritual of sexuality itself in its sacred, Soul-centered form. Sexuality is one of the Soul's most delicate expression of its powers in this regard. In ancestral times, womankind transmitted its sacred mysteries that kept humankind centered in its Soul. Regarded as sacred vessels of the Goddess, womankind were respected and honored accordingly, obviously unlike in today's world. Its greatest blessing was that by its practice humankind remained centered in its Soul and, as such, experienced the peace and joy of unity and oneness to the natural world.
Whereas the South Nodes for Ceres correlate to the loss and recovery of functionality and memory relative to womankind's role as guardians of humankind's Way, the North Nodes correlate to the mutation or regeneration of consciousness that will occur through its particular archetype reflecting the subjective integration of its Truth as Soul knowledge. For instance, the Ceres' North Node in Cancer correlates to consciousness' mutation generating the consolidation of a new self-image and base of security for womankind, one whose consciousness and power emerges from the resurrection and recovery of its lost subjective root as the Earth Goddess Herself. Ceres' North Node in Gemini correlates to consciousness' mutation generating a cohesive, unified, multi-dimensional perception of reality that invokes environmental inclusion and connection at all levels through the ideational resurrection and recovery of the Earth Goddess ubiquitous Presence permeating the phenomenal world.
Hi Rad and Mary,
I just wish to express my deepest gratitude for offering to us this teachings on the archetypes of Isis and Ceres. It means a lot...
I will read it many times more for sure as it is a well with infinite layers. Thank you Mary for being available to answer any questions that might come. I am sure many of us are delighted to know a book on Ceres is coming soon :-)
Thank you for your blessing and may Goddess Bless you too,
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma (born 27 January 1949), sometimes referred to by her initials NDZ, is a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, currently serving as Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. She was South Africa's Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Nelson Mandela, Minister of Foreign Affairs, under both President Thabo Mbeki and President Kgalema Motlanthe, Minister of Home Affairs in the first term of former President Jacob Zuma (with whom she was previously married for 16 years) and Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission for Policy and Evaluation under President Cyril Ramaphosa.
On 15 July 2012, Dlamini-Zuma was elected by the African Union Commission as its chairperson, making her the first woman to lead the organisation or its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity; she took office on 15 October 2012. On 30 January 2017, she was replaced as Chairperson of the AU Commission by Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki.
She ran for the position of President of the African National Congress in 2017, but was defeated by Cyril Ramaphosa at the 54th National Conference of the African National Congress.
For more on her click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkosazana_Dlamini_Zuma
Her natal Lilith is 16 Virgo, the N.Node is 1 Capricorn, and the S.Node is 25 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 22 Sagittarius, the N.Node is 3 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
All,
Here is the chart of Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, songwriter, composer, musician, record producer and occasional actress. Jett is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and performing with the Runaways, which recorded and released the hit song "Cherry Bomb". The Blackhearts' version of the song "I Love Rock 'n Roll" was number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks in 1982. Jett's other notable hit songs include "Bad Reputation", "Crimson and Clover", "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)", "Light of Day", "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and "Dirty Deeds".
Jett has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. She has three albums that have been certified Platinum or Gold, and has been a feminist icon throughout her career. She has been described as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll and the Godmother of Punk. In 2015, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Jett lives in Long Beach, New York, and has been a NY resident since the late 1970s.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jett
Her natal Lilith is 28 Libra, the N.Node is 3 Sagittarius, and the S.Node 16 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 8 Virgo, the N.Node is 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is 10 Scorpio.
The below natal chart has an accurate birth time.
Feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws. Parks' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year, the first major direct action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement. Her case became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle succeeded in November 1956.
Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King Jr., a new minister in Montgomery who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement and went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Though employed as a seamstress at a local department store at the time, Parks was also secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She had recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for training activists for workers' rights and racial equality. She acted as a private citizen "tired of giving in". Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job, and received death threats for years afterwards.
Shortly after the boycott, she moved to Detroit, where she briefly found similar work. From 1965 to 1988, she served as secretary and receptionist to John Conyers, an African-American US Representative. She was also active in the Black Power movement and the support of political prisoners in the US.
After retirement, Parks wrote her autobiography and continued to insist that the struggle for justice was not over and there was more work to be done. In her final years, she suffered from dementia. Parks received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Upon her death in 2005, she was the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, becoming the thirty-first person to receive this honor. California and Missouri commemorate Rosa Parks Day on her birthday, February 4, while Ohio and Oregon commemorate the occasion on the anniversary of the day she was arrested, December 1.
Her natal Lilith is 29 Pisces, the N.Node is 2 Capricorn. Her natal Amazon is 7 Libra, the N.Node is 3 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you for posting Rosa Parks chart, it's a good way we can remember her and honour her in some way. When we first started studying Lilith here, her name kept repeatedly coming to my consciousness and i believe it's because she truly embodied Lilith's spirit. Now i see her natal amazon is conjunct south node of the moon libra, natal lilith conjunct north node of the moon aries. Wow...
Great warrior for equality for sure.
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the chart of Kittur Chennamma (21 October 1778 - 21 February 1829) was a rani (queen) of the Nayakas of kingdom of Kittur ruled Mallarudra sarja, who were vassals of the Maharaja of Mysore. She is a famously remembered freedom fighter who led an armed force against the British East India Company in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse to retain control over her territory, but was defeated in the third war and died in a prison. She was one of the first female freedom fighters to resist British colonisation, she is a national heroine[disambiguation needed] well known in Karnataka and a symbol of the independence movement in India.
Early life
Kittur Rani Chennamma was born on 23 October 1778, in Kakati, a small village in the present Belagavi District of Karnataka, India. She belonged to the Lingayat community and received training in horse riding, sword fighting and archery from a young age.
She married Raja Mallasarja of the Desai family at the age of 14.
Fight to retrieve supremacy of Kittur from the British
Chennamma's husband died in 1824, leaving her with a son and a state full of volatility. This was followed by her son's death in 1824. Rani Chennamma was left with the state of Kittur and an uphill task to save it from the British. Following the death of her husband and son, Rani Chennamma adopted Shivalingappa in the year 1824 and made him the heir to the throne. This irked the East India Company, who ordered Shivalingappa's expulsion, on the pretext of the Doctrine of Lapse. This doctrine was based on the idea that in case the ruler of an independent state died childless, the right of ruling the State reverted or "˜lapsed' to the sovereign. The state of Kittur came under the administration of Dharwad collectorate in charge of St John Thackeray of which Mr. Chaplin was the commissioner, both of whom did not recognize the new ruler and regent and notified Kittur to accept the British regime.
Rani Chennamma sent a letter to Mountstuart Elphinstone, Lieutenant-Governor of the Bombay Presidency pleading her cause, but the request was turned down, and war broke out. The British tried to confiscate the treasure and jewels of Kittur, valued at around 1.5 million rupees. They attacked with a force of 20,797 men and 437 guns, mainly from the third troop of Madras Native Horse Artillery.
In the first round of war, during October 1824, British forces lost heavily and St John Thackeray, collector and political agent, was killed in the war. Amatur Balappa, a lieutenant of Chennamma, was mainly responsible for his killing and losses to British forces. Two British officers, Sir Walter Elliot and Mr. Stevenson were also taken as hostages. Rani Chennamma released them with an understanding with Chaplin that the war would be terminated but Chaplin continued the war with more forces. During the second assault, Subcollector of Solapur, Mr. Munro, nephew of Thomas Munro was killed. Rani Chennamma fought fiercely with the aid of her lieutenant, Sangolli Rayanna, but was ultimately captured and imprisoned at Bailhongal Fort, where she died on 21 February 1829. Chennamma was also helped by her lieutenant Gurusiddappa in the war against British.
Sangolli Rayanna, the army chief of Kittur Kingdom, continued the guerrilla war to 1829, in vain, until his capture. He wanted to install the adopted boy Shivalingappa as the ruler of Kittur, and Sangolli Rayanna gave a valiant fight using Guerrilla war fare for the first time. Britishers could not catch Rayanna in straight fights. Finally Rayanna's own uncle helped Britishers to capture him and he was caught and hanged. Shivalingappa was arrested by the British. Chennamma's legacy and first victory are still commemorated in Kittur, during the Kittur Utsava that is held between 22nd-24th of October every year. The three-day festivities include sports, cultural programs, and lectures by notable historians on the kingdom of Rani Channamma.
Her natal Lilith is 22 Cancer, the N.Node is 9 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 18 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 15 Leo, the N.Node is 4 Gemini, and the S.Node is 17 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
All,
Here is the chart of Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON ( /ËŒfÊŠnmiˈlaɪjoÊŠ ˈrænsÉ™m ˈkuËti/; born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas; 25 October 1900 - 13 April 1978), also known as Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, Ransome-Kuti was the first female student to attend the Abeokuta Grammar School. As a young adult, she worked as a teacher, organizing some of the first preschool classes in the country and arranging literacy classes for lower-income women.
During the 1940s, Ransome-Kuti established the Abeokuta Women's Union and fought for women's rights, demanding better representation of women in local governing bodies and an end to unfair taxes on market women. Described by media as the "Lioness of Lisabi",:77 she led marches and protests of up to 10,000 women, forcing the ruling Alake to temporarily abdicate in 1949. As Ransome-Kuti's political influence grew, she took part in the Nigerian independence movement, attending conferences and joining overseas delegations to discuss proposed national constitutions. Spearheading the creation of the Nigerian Women's Union and the Federation of Nigerian Women's Societies, she advocated for Nigerian women's right to vote and became a noted member of international peace and women's rights movements.
Ransome-Kuti received the Lenin Peace Prize and was awarded membership in the Order of the Niger for her work. In her later years, she supported her sons' criticisms of Nigeria's military governments. She died aged 77 after receiving injuries from a military raid on family property. Ransome-Kuti's children included the musician Fela Kuti, doctor and activist Beko Ransome-Kuti, and health minister Olikoye Ransome-Kuti.
Click here to read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funmilayo_Ransome-Kuti
Her natal Liltih is 16 Leo, the N.Node is 9 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 29 Leo, the N.Node is 2 Gemini, and the S.Node is 17 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi all,
I have been doing some researches on the three Liliths, in order to understand myself, and some doubts popped out.
Is it possible to state (in a very general way, without considering the pluto and the nodes of the moon of the individual) that one of the ways to heal a 12th house Black Moon Lilith (H13) in Virgo could be through practices that focuses in healing both the physical and emotional body simultaneisly, like yoga, tai chi and similars? I have thought also about healthy diets, expecially those connected to vegan and vegetarian cuisine, but i'm not sure if this is not more Taurus, Cancer or even Sagittarius than Virgo.
And about the Dark Moon Lilith, the Waldemath (H58). Is it possible to the native to fully express, in a healthy way, the archetypes that the Waldemath is applying, once the Black Moon Lilith is fully integrated?
Directly opposing my BML I have the Waldemath in Pisces, together with the South Node of the Moon and RX Ceres. I interpret this as a over sacrificial, martyr tendency towards others, wanting to be the great savior of all, because those are tendencies I have always showed, especially in the first years of my life, wanting to obsessively protect mom and sister. But whenever I get aware of the shadows of this tendency that I carry till this day, and I try to change, what occur is that I tend to go to the expreme opposite. From the martyr that sacrifices everything to everyone while throwing herself to the trash, I become someone that feels absurdly needy and feels that can never get the enough value from others. It's really like a flip flop, as it occurs when someone have the skipped steps. From the needy, I go to the persona that do whatever it takes to get some applause. It's a conditional lover, never a unconditional one. After doing some work in developing self love, I am managing to stop with the control to get applauses but I am manifesting some blockages in externalize. There are the healthy feelings, I can at least feel inside, but can't seem to really express. Whenever I try to externalize, it goes in a more cold, aloof manner, much different from the way I feel. It is if there was a protective barrier that i put between me and others.
And what I have been realizing, now more recently, is that when I am in this emotional messy and I go do my practices of yoga, I can manage to find some relief.
Hi Julia,
In EA, we only work with the Asteroid Lilith, and this is why.
The Asteroid Lilith, The Dark Moon Lilith, and the Black Moon Lilith, has made working with this archetype confusing over time. However, a trinity of three different symbols to chart out the progression of the feminine journey throughout time is not necessary for The Trinity can be seen in any one signature - The Original, Distorted, as well as Resolution.
The Asteroid Lilith known as the Original Lilith, is an actual physical body orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and whose transit is a 4-5 year cycle.
The other two points that have been studied and written about, most commonly the Black Moon Lilith and the less understood Dark Moon Lilith. The Dark Moon is said to be the Earth's second Moon by those who have claimed to see it over the last four centuries; and Black Moon Lilith, is an abstract, geometrical point in space, where by a true and mean Node exists. These points can vary to up to twenty degrees which can change one's Black Moon Lilith by house and sign.
After many years of research and working with all three of these symbols, I returned to the original teachings of JWG, looking solely at the Asteroid Lilith herself, as she is the only actual physical body. According to JWG, there is no basis in physical reality of the other two points, as they are mere projections in space, so to minimize confusion, the intent is to 'deal with what's real'.
It is also taught in EA that the trinity can be seen within any one symbol. In an attempt to simplify and offer clarity, I observe Original Lilith in her triple form. All three of these manifestations can be reflected in one signature, just as every archetype has a light and a shadow, your original and pure design is also subjected to a swing of extremity, with its purest vibration in place or its diluted distortion, as well as the way to resolution.
In addition, the Asteroid Lilith has Nodes, ie a South Node of Lilith and a North Node of Lilith, hence another trinity. The other two do not.
We started a thread back on page 8 if you want to read through some of the cases studies.
Also, in your question about healthy eating and yoga, this would be ideal for Lilith in any house or sign for any Soul. :) Yoga is magic for balancing emotions because it allows the Soul to access the water trinity to get those currents moving more freely again, allowing the Soul to connect deeper, and thus higher.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Thank you for your answer, Kristin. Although I didn't realize that you were not discussing anymore about the Black Moon Lilith and Dark Moon Lilith in this thread, this is something I have been realizing in the new EA Zoom series on youtube, about Natural Astrology archetypes, and it was a detail that have been making me wonder. "Hm, why any of the speakers is mentioning about BML or DML, and just about the nodes of the asteroid Lilith itself?" Your clarification was very helpful to me! :)
All,
Here is the chart of Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde fame. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 - May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (March 24, 1909 - May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians. They were killed in May 1934 during an ambush by police near Gibsland, Louisiana.
The press's portrayal of Bonnie and Clyde was sometimes at odds with the reality of their life on the road, especially for Parker. She was present at 100 or more felonies during the two years that she was Barrow's companion, although she was not the cigar-smoking, machine gun-wielding killer depicted in newspapers, newsreels, and pulp detective magazines of the day. Nonetheless, numerous police accounts detail her attempts to murder police officers (although gang member W.D. Jones contradicted them at trial). A photo of Parker posing with a cigar came from an undeveloped roll of negatives that police found at an abandoned hideout, and the snapshot was published nationwide. Parker did chain smoke Camel cigarettes, although she never smoked cigars. According to historian Jeff Guinn, the photos found at the hideout resulted in Parker's glamorization and the creation of myths about the gang.
The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles, revived interest in the criminals and glamorized them with a romantic aura. The 2019 Netflix film The Highwaymen depicted the law's pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde.
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910 in Rowena, Texas, the second of three children. Her father Charles Robert Parker (1884-1914) was a bricklayer who died when Bonnie was four years old. Her widowed mother Emma (Krause) Parker (1885-1944) moved her family back to her parents' home in Cement City, an industrial suburb in West Dallas where she worked as a seamstress. As an adult, Bonnie wrote poems such as "The Story of Suicide Sal" and "The Trail's End", the latter more commonly known as "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde".
In her second year in high school, Parker met Roy Thornton (1908-1937). The couple dropped out of school and were married on September 25, 1926, six days before her 16th birthday. Their marriage was marred by his frequent absences and brushes with the law, and it proved to be short lived. They never divorced, but their paths never crossed again after January 1929. She was still wearing his wedding ring when she died. Thornton was in prison when he heard of her death. He commented, "I'm glad they went out like they did. It's much better than being caught." Sentenced to 5 years for robbery in 1933 and after attempting several prison breaks from other facilities, Thornton was killed while trying to escape from the Huntsville State Prison on October 3, 1937.
After the end of her marriage, Parker moved back in with her mother and worked as a waitress in Dallas. One of her regular customers was postal worker Ted Hinton. In 1932, he joined the Dallas Sheriff's Department and eventually served as a member of the posse that killed Bonnie and Clyde.[12] Parker briefly kept a diary early in 1929 when she was 18, in which she wrote of her loneliness, her impatience with life in Dallas, and her love of talking pictures.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Elizabeth_Parker
Her natal Lilith is 23 Libra, the N.Node is 5 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon
is 18 Taurus, the N.Node is 10 Gemini, and the S.Node is 12 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Júlia!
Just to add to Kristin's reply. From personal experience, we can all verify this for ourselves. It might be that for some people the three Lilith's would be a easier way to understand Lilith and we should discover personally what makes sense. In my case, the three lilith's have always put me away instinctively from the whole subject. When Kristin was kind enough to share her knowledge of the asteroid and nodes back then, it felt like someone opened the door of a house i knew really well. I just couldn't name it and that is an essential part of consciously remembering. I would say with NN now in gemini, being able to give issues or things their true name is an essential part of our future and also an essential part of remembering our true selves, the SN in Sagittarius.
With Lilith and when we find this sense of recognition it's an inner confirmation meeting what's being taught, and specially about Lilith, it's a recovery process with a distinct feeling vibration of having found an inner universal home where we're truly empowered as originally made by Source or God/dess. I honestly hope many women can resonate with the true Lilith teachings no matter how we get there. And i don't think it's a complex subject, but a simple one.
One important thing i would like to mention is that the three lilith's can (not always of course) contribute to the perpetuation of an inner sense of fragmentation making women believe they are either good or bad women, original or not original, guilty not guilty, etc. In essence that they are fragmented within themselves and not whole with their perfection and imperfections, a technique used exactly to keep women's doubting themselves and their own essence, desires and gut feelings, so a technique of disempowerment used for centuries and centuries.
If that is the case or feeling for anyone relative to Lilith i would suggest not going there that way, because Lilith IS inner empowerment. That fragmentation can also prevent the whole story of past, present and future as it is naturally told by the nodes to be cohesive and to explain HERSTORY and HER TRUTH, to allow integration of why things are the way they are and what we can do, and specially not keep doing, towards new steps and new futures.
Hope it helps :-)
Helena
Hi Helena,
That was a wonderful way to explain the three Lilith's, and why not to buy into them. Wonderful !
God Bless, Rad
Of course it helps, Helena! Thank you very much for stopping to write a little bit to me. I like very much to read what you write!
I still need to study more, for sure, both of my own chart, and of the examples presented here, because I constantly feel that in regards to EA, it takes me some time to fully "integrate" an meaning. Even this message you just wrote to me here, explaining about Lilith, I have read it some few times, again and again, as if it was... slowly digested. It's not that the content is complicated, it is not, but it's more a feeling that... althought you do understand an archetype, it took you some time to understand it so well by looking at your own chart and history and co-relating all the points to one another. As a therapist I admire says, "the mind absorbs things quickly, but it takes some time to get down to the heart". It's a little bit like that. :)
(Ps.: An interesting curiosity is that I have seem that my Lilith, the asteroid, is also in house 12, which means that what I described previously as possible "distortions" may still fit, since it's still in a Pieces house. Questions for me to ask myself in my constant self-study homework. But it is such a pleasant homework!)
Hi Júlia!
That's so true, letting things fall in place takes time indeed. Pisces is that feeling/knowing we're all in this together, and for that is so important what we're doing here, that each of us share a bit of their stories. That's what gives meaning and moving forward, that each tiny bit aligns to this and this other part...
I wouldn't see Lilith so much as a definition but a common starting point. It is a well of creative energy, so by definition we're free to give it our unique purpose, to create from there.
I mentioned the nodes because with the symbol of Lilith we see with the asteroid we are on a recovery process as a whole, which implies going back to move forward for the great great majority of women and going back to restore the wisdom of those south nodes. If you take for instance a woman with Lilith's south node in taurus and you see that woman's life not mirroring self-sufficiency, we have to ask why that is because the truth is that woman can be whole and self-sufficient BY DESIGN. So we need to go in and find where we can peel layer by layer of the dynamics keeping her from access that. It reminds me of a story i read somewhere of this woman in mid-life who's husband death left her near to ruin, with a home and family to take care, who she has always been depend on. It turns out in the middle of a very depressing time with apparently no way out that woman could find the inner spark of light in her to make up her mind and try to find out what she could do, what she already knew from her experience to get her some income. First she started gardening and occupying her days with pleasant activities when some day out of nowhere during her gardening activity she had this idea to start making this things to sell (i can't recall exactly what it was but was some craft or something) and she became instantly very successful with a high demand of what she was selling. And this is just an example but the whole issue could be simple to understand if we remember Lilith's nodes are only in three signs for everyone: taurus, gemini and cancer.
Also in the spirit of pisces you mention and for those interested in lilith in the younger generations, there is an acclaimed series now out streaming called Normal People, from an adaptation of a young woman's novel with the same name. The series speaks of teenage first love in a very beautiful way but is also a subtle and incredibly powerful work merging the past, present and future of how the feminine and the masculine can be natural, distorted and recovered as shown by the new generations. It's so touching my heart almost burst out of my chest when i saw it, because there's hope for both feminine and masculine empowerment of each other, and the series passages that subtle message for the viewer watching with care, because we're after all Normal People :-)
We know casting is not a random selection as most times the actors and actresses can represent universal symbols of the energy of the characters they are portraing, so i decided to see the chart of the young woman playing the staring role, which has new phase Pluto closely conjunct Lilith in Saggitarius (both retrograde!)... Wow
Abraço,
Helena
P.S. Thank you Rad!
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Kamala Devi Harris October 20, 1964) is an American politician and lawyer currently serving in her first term as the junior United States senator from California since 2017, and is also the Democratic vice presidential nominee for the 2020 election as the running mate of Joe Biden.
Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. She was elected attorney general of California in 2010, and re-elected in 2014.
She defeated fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African-American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate. As a senator, she has supported healthcare reform, federal descheduling of cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, and progressive tax reform. She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings.
Harris ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and attracted national attention before ending her campaign on December 3, 2019.[8] She was announced as former vice president Joe Biden's running mate in the 2020 election on August 11, 2020. She is the first African-American, the first Asian-American, and the third female vice presidential running mate on a major party ticket after Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
Her natal Lilith is 6 Aquarius, the N.Node is 8 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 27 Virgo, the N.Node is 4 Gemini, and the S.Node is 16 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
All,
Here is the chart for Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (née Jacobs, formerly Stevenson; born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who was second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to Joe Biden, the 47th vice president of the United States, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2020 election.
Born in Hammonton, New Jersey, she grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Biden married Joe Biden in 1977, becoming stepmother to his two young sons from his first marriage, Beau and Hunter, whose mother and baby sister died in a car accident in 1972. Joe and Jill Biden have a daughter, Ashley, born in 1981.
Biden has a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware, master's degrees from West Chester University and Villanova University, and a doctoral degree from the University of Delaware. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years, and also taught adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. From 1993 to 2008, she was an English and writing instructor at Delaware Technical & Community College. Since 2009, she has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College and is thought to be the first second lady to hold a paying job while her husband was vice president. She is the founder of the Biden Breast Health Initiative non-profit organization, co-founder of the Book Buddies program, co-founder of the Biden Foundation, is active in Delaware Boots on the Ground, and is co-founder of Joining Forces with Michelle Obama.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Biden
Her natal Lilith is 12 Leo, the N.Node is 25 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 18 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 9 Virgo, the N.Node is 27 Taurus, and the S.Node is 18 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States Senator from Illinois since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
Duckworth was educated at the University of Hawaii and George Washington University. A combat veteran of the Iraq War, she served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. In 2004, after her helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents, she suffered severe combat wounds, which caused her to lose both of her legs and some mobility in her right arm. She was the first female double amputee from the war. Despite her grievous injuries, she sought and obtained a medical waiver that allowed her to continue serving in the Illinois Army National Guard until she retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2014.
Duckworth served as Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs from 2006 to 2009 and as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, Duckworth was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where she served two terms. Duckworth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016, defeating Republican incumbent Mark Kirk. The daughter of an American father and Thai mother, she is the first Thai American woman elected to Congress, the first person born in Thailand elected to Congress, the first woman with a disability elected to Congress, the first female double amputee in the Senate, and the first senator to give birth while in office. Duckworth is the second of three Asian American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, after Mazie Hirono, and before Kamala Harris.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth
Her natal Lilith is 9 Capricorn, N.Node is 8 Capricorn, and the S.Node is 26 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 20 Aries, N.Node is 8 Taurus, and the S.Node is 9 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment of ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All
Here is the birth chart for Sanna Mirella Marin (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsÉ'nËÉ' ˈmirelËÉ' ˈmÉ'riËn]) (born 16 November 1985) is a Finnish politician who has been Prime Minister of Finland since 10 December 2019. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has been a member of the Parliament of Finland since 2015, and served as the Minister of Transport and Communications from 6 June to 10 December 2019. After Antti Rinne's resignation in the wake of the 2019 postal strike, Marin became prime minister on 8 December 2019. At 34, she is the second-youngest serving state leader, the youngest female state leader, and Finland's youngest-ever prime minister.
Early life and education
Sanna Mirella Marin was born on 16 November 1985 in Helsinki. She also lived in Espoo and Pirkkala before moving to Tampere.[better source needed] Her parents split up when she was very young; the family faced financial problems and Marin's father Lauri Marin[3] struggled with alcoholism. After her parents separated, Marin was brought up by her mother and her female partner.
Marin graduated from the Pirkkala High School in 2004 at the age of Marin joined the Social Democratic Youth in 2006 and was its first Vice President from 2010 to 2012. She worked in a bakery and as a cashier while studying, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees in Administrative Science from the University of Tampere.
Career
Marin's political career was described by the BBC as "beginning at the age of 20",in the years following her high school graduation and beginning her affiliation with the Social Democratic Youth. She initially unsuccessfully ran for election to the City Council of Tampere, but was elected in the 2012 elections. She became chairperson of the City Council within months, serving from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, she was re-elected to the City Council. She first gained prominence after video clips of her chairing contentious meetings were shared on YouTube.
Marin was elected second deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party in 2014. In 2015, she was elected to the Finnish Parliament as an MP from the electoral district of Pirkanmaa. Four years later, she was re-elected. On 6 June 2019, she became the Minister of Transport and Communications.
On August 23, 2020, Marin was elected chair of the SDP, succeeding Antti Rinne.
In December 2019, Marin was nominated by the Social Democratic Party to succeed Antti Rinne as the Prime Minister of Finland, but Rinne formally remained party leader until June 2020. In a narrow vote, Marin prevailed over Antti Lindtman.
A majority of the ministers in her five-party cabinet are women, numbering 12 out of 19 at the time of the cabinet's formation.] She is the third female head of government in Finland, after Anneli Jäätteenmäki and Mari Kiviniemi.
Upon her confirmation by Parliament at the age of 34, she became Finland's youngest-ever prime minister, and was the youngest serving state leader until Sebastian Kurz regained the title in January 2020.
During the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marin's cabinet invoked the state of emergency in Finland to alleviate the epidemic.
Personal life
Marin describes herself as coming from a "rainbow family" as she was raised by same-sex parents. She was also the first person in her family to attend university.
In January 2018, she and her fiancé, Markus Räikkönen, had a daughter, Emma. In August 2020, Marin and Räikkönen married at the prime minister's official residence, Kesäranta.
Their permanent residence is in the Kaleva district of Tampere, but during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, they reside at the Prime Minister's official residence Kesäranta in Helsinki.
Marin is a vegetarian.
Here natal Lilith is 28 Sagittarius, N.Node is 14 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 19 Taurus, the N.Node is 22 Taurus, and the S.Node is 22 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
P.S. When I first posted the natal chart for Sanna Marin I posted the wrong chart: the chart posted now is correct. Sorry for my blunder .......... Rad
Hi All
Here is the chart of Mette Frederiksen (Danish pronunciation: [ˈmetÉ™ ˈfÊeðÊeksnÌ©]; born 19 November 1977) is a Danish politician who has been Prime Minister of Denmark since June 2019 and Leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015. The second woman to hold either office, she is also the youngest Prime Minister in Danish history.
Besides a very brief career as a trade unionist (2000-2001), Frederiksen has never had any employment outside politics. She was first elected to the Folketing in the 2001 general election, representing Copenhagen County. After the Social Democrats won the 2011 general election, she was appointed Minister of Employment by Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She was later promoted to become Minister of Justice in 2014. After the Social Democrats' narrow defeat in the 2015 general election, Thorning-Schmidt stood down and Frederiksen won the subsequent leadership election to replace her, becoming Leader of the Opposition.
Frederiksen led her party into the 2019 general election which resulted in the bloc of left-wing and centre-left parties (her Social Democrats, the Social Liberals, the Socialist People's Party, the Red-Green Alliance, the Faroese Social Democratic Party and Greenland's Siumut and Inuit Ataqatigiit) winning a majority in the Folketing. Frederiksen was subsequently commissioned by Queen Margrethe II to lead ultimately successful negotiations to form a new government and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 27 June.
Early life
Born in Aalborg, Frederiksen's father was a typographer and her mother was a teacher. Frederiksen attended the Aalborghus Gymnasium. She holds a bachelor in Administration and Social Science from Aalborg University, and a Master in African Studies from the University of Copenhagen.
Political career
Frederiksen worked as a youth consultant for LO, The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions. She was elected as a member of parliament for Copenhagen County in the 2001 general election which saw the Social Democrats losing the first place and placing second for the first time since 1920. After her election, Frederiksen was named as her party's spokesperson for culture, media and gender equality. In 2002, she received the Nina Bang Prize for showing political courage, enthusiasm and impact with social feeling. In addition, she received the Ting Prize in 2012 and has co-authored the books Epostler (2003) and From Fight to Culture (2004). After the 2005 general election loss, Frederiksen became her party's spokesperson for social affairs. Following the election, she also served as the vice-chairperson of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats. In the 2007 general election which saw the Social Democrats losing two more seats, Frederiksen obtained 27,077 votes, placing her in seventh place in the ranking of the ten Danish politicians with the most votes.
In May 2010, it was revealed that Frederiksen's daughter, along with the children of several other prominent Social Democrat politicians, was being educated at a private school. Along with her colleagues, Frederiksen was accused of hypocrisy by the Danish press as her party had long seen the promotion of public education as a key policy. In 2005, Frederiksen had openly criticised parents who sent their children to private schools. Frederiksen responded to the criticism by saying that her opinion on private education had become more nuanced since her remarks in 2005 and that it would have been hypocritical of her to put her own political career ahead of her daughter's best interest. After the 2011 general election which led to a Social Democrats government, Frederiksen served under Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as Minister of Employment from 2011 to 2014 and Minister of Justice from 2014 until she succeeded her as party leader. As Minister of Employment, she headed for reforms of early retirement pensions, flex jobs and the employment system. Likewise, the controversial cash assistance reform meant lower cash benefits for young unemployed and provided cohabiting mutual support, among other things.citation needed
Under Frederiksen's leadership starting after the 2015 general election in which the Social Democrats returned to first place and gained three seats in the Folketing, the party has moved back to the left on economics while trying to outdo the Danish right-wing parties on having a hard line on immigration.
The 2019 general election saw the Social Democrats gaining a further seat while support for the Danish People's Party and the Liberal Alliance collapsed, costing Lars Løkke Rasmussen his majority. With the result beyond doubt on election night, Rasmussen conceded defeat. Frederiksen was appointed Prime Minister on 27 June 2019, heading an exclusively Social Democratic minority government supported by the red bloc. Despite having run on an anti-immigration stance during the election, Frederiksen shifted her stance on immigration by allowing more foreign labour and reversing government plans to hold foreign criminals offshore after winning government.
Frederiksen gained international attention in August 2019 when President of the United States Donald Trump cancelled a state visit to Denmark following her refusal to sell Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. On 15 August, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had discussed the possibility of buying Greenland with aides. Kim Kielsen, the Premier of Greenland, responded by saying that Greenland is not for sale. On 18 August, after the rumor was confirmed by the White House, Frederiksen echoed Kielsen's comments, saying that "Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland", and called the discussion "absurd". On 20 August, Trump cancelled the state visit, scheduled 2-3 September, with specific reference to Frederiksen's refusal to discuss a possible sale.
On 3 January 2020, the high-level Iranian General, Qasem Soleimani, was assassinated by the United States, which considerably heightened the existing tensions between the two countries. Frederiksen called it "a really serious situation". She avoided question on whether the killing was right, instead calling for de-escalation.
Her natal Lilith is 11 Aquarius, N.Node ios 15 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 8 Cancer. Natal Amazon is 6 Sagittarius, N.Node is 20 Taurus, and the S.Node is 23 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Sviatlana Heorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya or Svetlana Georgiyevna Tikhanovskaya (née Pilipchuk, Belarusian: СвÑÑ,лаÌна Ð"еоÌргіеўна ЦіÑ...аноÌÑžÑÐºÐ°Ñ (Піліпчук), [sʲvʲatˈɫanÉ™ ɣʲɪˈorɣʲɪiwnÉ™ t(s)ʲɪxÉnˈowskÉjÉ™ pʲɪlipˈtÍ¡É•uk], Russian: СвеÑ,лаÌна Ð"еоÌргиевна ТиÑ...аноÌвÑÐºÐ°Ñ (ПилипчуÌк), [sʲvʲɪtˈɫanÉ™ ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪivnÉ™ tʲɪxÉnˈofskÉjÉ™ pʲɪlipˈtÍ¡É•uk]; born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian human rights activist and politician who ran for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate. She is married to activist Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was a candidate for the same election until his arrest on 29 May 2020; she subsequently announced her intention to run in his place.
The incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was officially declared the victor in a contest marred by allegations of widespread electoral fraud. Subsequently, Tsikhanouskaya claimed to have received between 60 and 70% of the vote and has appealed to Western countries to recognise her as the winner, although instead they called for a re-run and no longer recognise Lukashenko as President.
Biography
Before running for president, Tsikhanouskaya was an English teacher and interpreter. She spent many summers in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, as part of a programme for children affected by the Chernobyl disaster. She is married to YouTuber, blogger, and activist Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was arrested in May 2020. The couple have a son and a daughter.
2020 presidential campaign
After her husband's arrest on 29 May, Tsikhanouskaya announced her intention to run in his place. She registered as an Independent candidate on 14 July 2020. After registering, she was endorsed by the campaigns of Valery Tsepkalo and Viktar Babaryka, two prominent opposition politicians who were barred from registering, with one being arrested and the other fleeing the country. A photo of Tsikhanouskaya with Maria Kolesnikova, Babaryka's campaign chief, and Veronika Tsepkalo, Valery Tsepkalo's wife, has become a symbol of her campaign.
The night before the election, police detained senior staffers from Tsikhanouskaya's campaign and she chose to go into hiding in Minsk, before re-emerging on election day at a polling station.
Harassment
Before the presidential campaign, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko insisted the country was not ready for a female president. Her campaign comes as Amnesty International condemned Belarus's discriminatory treatment of women opposition activists, including threats of sexual violence and threats by authorities to take children away from opposition figures and send them to state-run orphanages. In response to the threats, Tsikhanouskaya sent her children abroad to live with their grandmother. She has said she has repeatedly been threatened, recounting a phone call saying, "We will put you behind bars and place your children in an orphanage." Tsikhanouskaya said she nevertheless decided to persevere in her campaign: "There must be a symbol of freedom."
Platform
Tsikhanouskaya said that she ran for president out of love, to free her husband from prison. She has vowed to free all political prisoners in Belarus, to introduce democratic reforms to the country, and to move away from the union treaty with Russia, which many Belarusian opposition figures view as an infringement on the country's sovereignty. She has also pledged to set a referendum on returning to the original draft of the 1994 Belarusian constitution, reinstating a limit of two terms for the president. She has said that her main goal is to establish free and fair elections. She views the current election as illegitimate due to the government's refusal to register Lukashenko's main political opponents as candidates. She has pledged to deliver a plan for transparent and accountable elections within six months of taking office.
Tsikhanouskaya's economic platform emphasizes increasing the importance of small and medium sized businesses in the Belarusian economy. She plans to offer interest free loans to small and medium sized businesses, cancel state inspections of private entities and provide legal protection for foreign investors. Tsikhanouskaya intends to allow profitable state owned enterprises to continue to operate, while requiring unprofitable state owned enterprises to get help from outside professionals.
Supporters
Though running as an independent, Tsikhanouskaya has attracted support from across the spectrum of Belarus's political opposition. Vital RymaÅ¡eÅski, co-leader of Belarusian Christian Democracy, announced his party's support, as did the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly), United Civic Party of Belarus and Belarusian Women's Party "Nadzieja". She has also received support from 2010 presidential candidate Mikola Statkevich. Ivonka Survilla, President of the Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic expressed her support for Tsikhanouskaya.
Rallies in support of Tsikhanouskaya and in opposition to Lukashenko have been the largest in the history of post-Soviet Belarus, attracting crowds of 20,000 in Brest and 60,000 in Minsk.
Official results
The official results published by the Central Election Commission of Belarus gave Tsikhanouskaya 588,622 votes, or 10.12% of the vote, to Lukashenko's 80.10%. However, allegations of wide-spread fraud were immediately made public, including a formal complaint to the Central Election Commission (CEC) by Tsikhanouskaya.
Election aftermath
After the elections, Tsikhanouskaya fled to Lithuania in fear of imprisonment. "Both she and the Belarusian authorities said she had not been forced to leave." On 11 August, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas LinkeviÄius announced that Tsikhanouskaya was "safe" in Lithuania while also acknowledging that she had "few options". The President of Lithuania Gitanas NausÄ—da spoke with her upon arrival in Lithuania.[citation needed] On 11 August, the KGB of Belarus announced that an attempt was being made on Tsikhanouskaya's life, saying that the protesters needed a "sacred sacrifice". Polish government has alloted a residence for Tsikhanouskaya and other members of the Belarusian opposition in the Praga-PoÅ,udnie district of Warsaw. She opened the residence along with the Belarusian House in Warsaw during a visit to Warsaw a couple days later where she met with Polish Premier Mateusz Morawiecki. Her fellow opposition activist Valery Tsepkalo has also moved to Poland from Ukraine.
Here is a short film about her: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007331325/belarus-tikhanovskaya-opposition-leader.html?action=click>ype=vhs&version=vhs-heading&module=vhs®ion=title-area&cview=true&t=10
Here natal Lilith is 15 Taurus, N.Node is 2 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 15 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 10 Libra, the N.Node is 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is 9 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
This will be our youngest lil woman to date who is following her fingerprint and doing what she can to clean up this planet and make positive change in the world.
Zoë Williams is a ten-year-old native Oregonian who started her conservation awareness around age seven. She is committed to protecting sharks from shark finning and fishing, plus continuously reducing plastic pollution by doing local and beach clean-ups, and educating kids and adults through public speaking, art, music and writing. Zoë's dream is to continue her conservation work while going to school and preparing to become a Marine Biologist and Oceanographer.
In March of 2020 she released her first children's book called Coral's Quest. It is a WONDERFUL children's book about saving the sea. So if you have children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews or know friends of children, this would be an ideal gift for the times and it would encourage Zoe to KEEP ON GOING.
Here is a brief description of her book and a place to purchase it.
https://mascotbooks.com/mascot-marketplace/buy-books/childrens/picture-books/corals-quest/
(More of the proceeds reach Zoe if you use the above link, and she donates a percentage to SAVE THE OCEAN)
You can also find it on amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Corals-Quest-Zo%C3%AB-Williams/dp/1645433269/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E6S8DROPZ9AF&dchild=1&keywords=zoe+williams&qid=1601740423&sprefix=zoe+williams%2Caps%2C449&sr=8-1
Zoe's Lilith is 9 Virgo in the 2nd house.
Her South Node of Lilith is 16 Cancer in the 12th, on her South Node.
Her North Node of Lilith is 10 Sagittarius in the 5th.
HERE SHE IS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV--gDipVSo
She just recently wrote her first piece of music..here she is at the piano. You can feel her South Node of Lilith in the 12th, conjunct her South Node of the Moon. So much emotion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBpDCVJHuA
Lastly, if Covid wasn't enough for this young activist, Zoe and her family tragically lost their home in the recent fires in Southern Oregon. See Pic attached. While the home was insured, her Spirit has been broken but she is fighting hard to find joy in the ways she can.
Feel free to ask any questions and if you would like to reach out to Zoe personally, her Instagram page is
sharksareourfriend.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
P.S Photo credit to Zoe's mom Kristan Kelly Williams
Zoe your music touched me to the core... Keep going Zoe keep sharing your Light with the world!
Heather
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Zuzana Caputova, the president of the Slovak Republic who was born on June 21, 1973 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
What to Know About Zuzana Caputova, Slovakia's First Female President
Liberal candidate Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia's presidential election on Saturday, becoming the central European country's first ever female president.
Despite having almost no political experience, the 45-year old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner won 58.4 percent of the vote in the second-round vote, defeating the European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic. The political newcomer soared to popularity in just a few months with a campaign that focused on a struggle for justice.
The president is mostly a ceremonial role in the country of 5.4 million, as Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini is responsible for overseeing the government. But when Caputova takes office in June, she will have important blocking powers, will be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and will have power to appoint top judges.
Where does Caputova come from?
Caputova was born to a working-class family in the town of Pezinok in what was then central Czechoslovakia. The divorced mother of two daughters rose to prominence and was nicknamed the "Erin Brockovich" of Slovakia after leading a successful case against a toxic landfill that was planned in her hometown in 2016. Her 14-year-long case against the wealthy land developer involved organizing protests, filing lawsuits and writing petitions to the European Union. The campaign earned her a prestigious Goldman Environmental prize in 2016.
She recently became vice-chair of Progressive Slovakia, a party so new that it has not yet run in the parliamentary elections.'
How did she win the election?
Caputova built her campaign on a vow to fight corruption, by stripping the police and prosecutors of their political influence. Last year's murder of the investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova has put the issue of political corruption at the forefront of public discussion. And Caputova said Kuciak's murder was the reason she decided to run for president.
Kuciak, who had worked to expose corruption among the political elite was shot and killed in February 2018. Five people were charged with the murder, including a millionaire with alleged links to the center-left political party, Smer. Kuciak's death sparked anti-government protests attracting tens of thousands of people, which eventually forced Prime Minister and Smer leader Robert Fico to step down. The party is still the largest in the national parliament, however, and Pellegrini is its prime minister.
Caputova's liberal values also appealed to younger voters in a country where same-sex marriage is not yet legal. Caputova is in favour of same-sex unions and has said that LGBT adoption is better than leaving children in orphanages. On the question of abortion, she said she believes it is a woman's right to make that decision.
What about her appealed to Slovakian voters?
Her approach to politics, judging by the responses of Slovakians TIME spoke to. "She seemed like someone Slovakia needed - kind, honest and never criticized her opponents," said Antonia Halko, a 28-year-old wholesale manager from the town of Bardejov in Slovakia who voted for Caputova.
"I saw her talk in person at an event on January 30th and I knew immediately I was going to vote for her. She was very authentic, humane and I simply trusted what she was saying - which is a pretty rare feature in the Slovak politics," said Juraj Scott, a charity-worker from Slovakia's capital city, Bratislava.
Corruption among officials was also a core concern. "We all started to realize that we needed to stand up to the corrupt government because our country wasn't safe. Caputova promised that nothing like this would ever happen again," Halko said.
What does her victory mean for European politics?
Caputova's election is a rare progressive victory in central Europe where nationalist rhetoric has grown over the past few years. In neighboring Hungary, Poland and Austria, governments are dominated by right-wing, nationalist parties. In these countries and elsewhere, liberal parties have struggled to counter populist leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orban whose campaigns focus on migration and social issues.
But Slovakia's election provides evidence that dissatisfaction with the status quo can usher in more progressive leaders. "I am happy not just for the result, but mainly that it is possible not to succumb to populism, to tell the truth, to raise interest without aggressive vocabulary," Caputova told a crowd of supporters in Bratislava.
Caputova's victory, which came on a low turnout of 40 percent, is likely to be only the beginning of the fight for the progressive left in Slovakia. The European Parliament's elections in May and the parliamentary elections next year will be the real test of the movement's strength.
Her natal Lilith is 21 Pisces, the N.Node is 17 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 23 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 12 Aries, the N.Node is 1 Gemini, and the S.Node is 8 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for KatrÃn Jakobsdóttir (pronounced [ˈkÊ°aËtrin ˈjaËkÊ°É"psËŒtouÊ°tɪrÌ¥]; born 1 February 1976) is an Icelandic politician serving as the 28th and current Prime Minister of Iceland since 2017. She has been a member of the Althing for the ReykjavÃk North constituency since 2007. She became deputy chairperson of the Left-Green Movement in 2003 and has been their chairperson since 2013. KatrÃn was Iceland's Minister of Education, Science and Culture and of Nordic Co-operation from 2 February 2009 to 23 May 2013. She is Iceland's second female prime minister, after Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. On 19 February 2020, she was named Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.
Education
KatrÃn was born in ReykjavÃk. She graduated from the University of Iceland in 1999 with a bachelor degree with a major in Icelandic and minor in French. She received her M.A. in Icelandic Literature from the same university in 2004 for a thesis on the work of popular Icelandic crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason.
Non-political career
She worked part-time as a language adviser at the news agency at public broadcaster RÚV from 1999 to 2003. She then freelanced for broadcast media and wrote for a variety of print media from 2004 to 2006 as well as being an instructor in lifelong learning and leisure at the MÃmir School from 2004 to 2007. She did editorial work for the publishing company Edda and magazine JPV from 2005 to 2006 and was a Lecturer at the University of Iceland, ReykjavÃk University and Menntaskólinn à ReykjavÃk from 2006 to 2007.
Political career
She became deputy chairperson of the Left-Green Movement in 2003 and has been their chairperson since 2013.
She has been a member of the Althing for the ReykjavÃk North constituency since 2007.
KatrÃn was Iceland's Minister of Education, Science and Culture and of Nordic Co-operation from 2 February 2009 to 23 May 2013.
Before becoming Prime Minister, she was chairperson of the Left-Green Movement. In the wake of the 2017 Icelandic parliamentary election, President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson tasked KatrÃn with forming a governing coalition to consist of the Left-Green Movement, the Progressive Party, the Social Democratic Alliance, and the Pirate Party. Coalition talks between the four parties formally began on 3 November 2017, but were unsuccessful because of Progressive Party concerns that her coalition would have too thin a majority. As a result, she sought to lead a three-party coalition with the Independence Party and Progressive Party. After coalition talks were completed, President Guðni formally granted KatrÃn a mandate to lead the government, which was installed on 30 November. She is the second woman to serve as Prime Minister of Iceland.
KatrÃn opposes Icelandic membership of NATO, but as part of the compromise between the Left-Greens and their coalition partners, the government does not intend to withdraw from NATO or hold a referendum on NATO membership She opposes Iceland joining the European Union. The coalition government does not intend to hold a referendum on continuing Iceland's accession negotiations with the EU.
According to political scientists, her government "combines conventional economic and social emphases (e.g. support for the regions and primary industries) with opposition to European integration." Despite being a coalition government of the left socialist Left-Greens, the centre (Progressive Party) and the right wing (Independence Party), the coalition was stable throughout 2018.
Personal life
KatrÃn is married to Gunnar Sigvaldason and the mother of three sons (born 2005, 2007 and 2011).
She hails from a family which has produced many prominent people in Icelandic politics, academia and literature. She is the younger sister of twin brothers Ãrmann Jakobsson and Sverrir Jakobsson [is], who are both professors in the humanities at the University of Iceland. KatrÃn is the great-granddaughter of the politician and judge Skúli Thoroddsen and the poet Theodóra Thoroddsen , and granddaughter of the engineer and MP Sigurður S. Thoroddsen . The poet Dagur Sigurðarson is her maternal uncle.
Her natal Lilith is 23 Scorpio, the N.Node is 2 Cancer, and the S.Node is 25 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 13 Virgo, N.Node is 3 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.
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Goddess bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (/dÊ'əˈsɪndÉ™ ˈÉ'ËrdÉœËrn/; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who is serving as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party since 2017. First elected to the House of Representatives as a list MP in 2008, she has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Mount Albert since March 2017.
Born in Hamilton, Ardern grew up in Morrinsville and Murupara, where she attended a state school. After graduating from the University of Waikato in 2001, Ardern began her career working as a researcher in the office of Prime Minister Helen Clark. She later worked in London, within the Cabinet Office, and was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Ardern was first elected as an MP in the 2008 general election, when Labour lost power after nine years. She was later elected to represent the Mount Albert electorate in a by-election in February 2017.
Ardern was unanimously elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party on 1 March 2017, following the resignation of Annette King. Just five months later, with an election due, Labour's leader Andrew Little resigned after a historically low opinion polling result for the party, with Ardern elected unopposed as leader in his place. She led her party to gain 14 seats at the 2017 general election on 23 September, winning 46 seats to the National Party's 56. After a period of negotiations, New Zealand First chose to enter a minority coalition government with Labour, supported by the Green Party, with Ardern as prime minister; she was sworn in by the Governor-General on 26 October 2017. She became the world's youngest female head of government at age 37. Ardern later became the world's second elected head of government to give birth while in office (after Benazir Bhutto) when her daughter was born on 21 June 2018.
Ardern describes herself as a social democrat and a progressive. The Sixth Labour Government has focused particularly on the New Zealand housing crisis, child poverty, and social inequality. In March 2019, she led the country through the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings, rapidly introducing strict gun laws in response, and throughout 2020 she directed the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ardern led the Labour Party to victory in the 2020 general election, gaining a majority of seats in Parliament.
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern
Her natal Lilith is 24 Libra, the N.Node is 4 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 4 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 1 Cancer, the N.Node is 8 Gemini, and the S.Node is 4 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
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Here is the chart for Sahle-Work Zewde (Ge'ez: ሳáˆ...ለወáˆá‰... ዘá‹á‹´; born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian politician who is the current President of Ethiopia and the first woman to hold the office. A career diplomat, she was elected president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018[
Sahle-Work was previously Special Representative of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union at the level of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
In December 2019, Sahle-Work was named the 93rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, and the highest-ranking African woman on the list.
Early life and education
Born in Addis Ababa, Sahle-Work attended elementary and secondary school at Lycée Guebre-Mariam in Addis Ababa, after which she studied natural science at the University of Montpellier, France. She is fluent in Amharic, French, and English.
Diplomatic career
Sahle-Work was only the second woman to be appointed an ambassador in Ethiopia's history (Ambassador Yodit Emiru was the first woman to hold an ambassadorship).
A veteran in the Ethiopian foreign service, Sahle-Work served as Ambassador to Senegal, with accreditation to Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Guinea, from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 2002, she was Ambassador to Djibouti and Permanent Representative to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).] She later served as Ambassador to France, Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and was accredited to Tunisia and Morocco from 2002 to 2006.
Sahle-Work subsequently held other high level positions including Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Director-General for African Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia.
Career with the United Nations
Until 2011, Sahle-Work served as Special Representative of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA).
In 2011, Ban appointed Sahle-Work as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). Under Sahle-Work, the Nairobi office became a more important UN hub for East and Central Africa, according to the 2012 Africa Yearbook.
In June 2018, Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Sahle-Work as his Special Representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) at the level of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.She was the first woman to hold the post.
President of Ethiopia
Sahle-Work was appointed as President of Ethiopia on 25 October 2018, the first woman to serve in the role] and the fourth president since the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition was elected in the newly established Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1995. She replaced Mulatu Teshome, who resigned in unclear circumstances, and Sahle-Work is expected to serve two six-year terms.
Although her role is largely ceremonial (with most executive power lying with the Prime Minister), Sahle-Work's election made her Ethiopia's first female head of state since Empress Zewditu. As of 2019, she is Africa's only serving female head of state.
On 25 March 2020, Sahle-Work announced on Twitter that she has pardoned more than 4,000 prisoners in a move to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia. She also pardoned more than 1,500 prisoners on 2 April 2020.
Her natal Lilith is 1 Sagittarius, the N.Node is 6 Capricorn, and the South Node is 24 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 28 Aquarius, N.Node is 5 Taurus, and the S.Node is 9 Sagittarius.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Kristin, Stacie and All,
Just wish to mention something in the follow up of our ea zoom yesterday. I mentioned briefly Lilith in Capricorn in the example chart of Patti Smith but have just made the connection that Joe Biden has natal Lilith at 26 Capricorn, one degree from natal Pluto on the USA chart and i see that as quite something!
If, as most of us hope, he gets a chance to win this seems to be a very god indicator for women's rights to say the least.
Let's just hope that one goes,
Helena
P.S. After posting i am noticing i "wrongly" typed very god indicator instead of very good indicator ;D i'll leave it there ;)
Hi Helena,
That IS quite something, and (hopefully) foretelling of what is to come.
Incredible that Biden's Original Lilith is exactly conjunct the USA Pluto in Capricorn
with the Saturn transit now conjunct that point. EA blows me away every day.
I noticed the 'god typo' and loved that you left it in...it works even better.
Another great warrior for women and for equal rights who has Lilith in Capricorn is Michelle Obama. She has Lilith at 9 degrees conjunct her South Node. Lilith also conjuncts her Mercury and trines her Uranus in Virgo. This means that transiting Uranus in Taurus is forming a Grand Trine with her Lilith/South Node in Capricorn and her natal Uranus in Virgo. Might this also be a sign that all of her own efforts to help this country, and thus the world, are paying off?
Tic Toc says the Saturn clock...tapping our toes while we wait for Tuesday. :)
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
P.S.
Vice President Joe Biden's Efforts to End Violence Against Women
On June 20, 1990, then-Senator Joe Biden introduced the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in the United States Congress. This act was a landmark piece of legislation that changed the way our country responded to domestic violence and sexual assault. VAWA changed law enforcement practices, improved the criminal justice system, and created a network of services for victims. The bill established new federal crimes of interstate domestic violence and stalking, doubled penalties for repeat sex offenders, and sparked the passage of laws at the state level to protect victims.
Many experts credit VAWA with contributing to a dramatic decrease in the rate of domestic violence in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the overall rate of intimate-partner violence dropped 64% from 1993 to 2010.
He is "proudest" of this legislation from his career in the Senate.
Oh wow, so Kristin, at the time that happened, saturn was transiting at 23 Cap on that exact day, June 20 1990...
Like you say, we never cease to amaze ourselves with this natural law that is astrology :-)
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Ana Brnabić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ðна Ð'рнабић, pronounced [âna bř̩nabitÉ•]; born 28 September 1975) is a Serbian politician who has been the 12th and current prime minister of Serbia since 2017. She is the first woman and first openly gay person to hold the office.
She entered government as the minister of public administration and local self-government from 11 August 2016 until 29 June 2017, under Prime Minister Aleksandar VuÄić and Acting Prime Minister Ivica DaÄić. In this role, Brnabić initiated reforms of central government services in Serbia.
After he was inaugurated as the president of Serbia on 31 May 2017, VuÄić proposed Brnabić as his successor in June 2017. Prime Minister Brnabić and her Cabinet were voted into office on 29 June 2017 by a majority of 157 out of 250 Members of the National Assembly of Serbia. Elected as a non-partisan politician, she joined the ruling Serbian Progressive Party in 2019.
In 2019, Brnabić was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 88th most powerful woman in the world and as the 19th most powerful female political and policy leader.[4][5] Some observers have described that she has no political power in line with the constitutional role of chief of the executive, claiming that Aleksandar VuÄić, the leader of the governing party, had accumulated power in his position of the president.
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Brnabi%C4%87
Her natal Lilith is 11 Libra, the N.Node is 4 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 26 Leo, N.Node 10 Gemini, and the S.Node is 11 Scorpio.
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Goddess bless, Rad
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Here is the chart for Anandamayi Ma (née Nirmala Sundari; 30 April 1896 - 27 August 1982) was a Bengali Saint, described by Sivananda Saraswati (of the Divine Life Society) as "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced." Precognition, faith healing and miracles were attributed to her by her followers. Paramahansa Yogananda translates the Sanskrit epithet Anandamayi as "Joy-permeated" in English. This name was given to her by her devotees in the 1920s to describe her perpetual state of divine joy.
Biography
Early life
Anandamayi was born Nirmala Sundari Devi on 30 April 1896 to the orthodox Vaishnavite Brahmin couple Bipinbihari Bhattacharya and Mokshada Sundari Devi in the village of Kheora, Tipperah District (now Brahmanbaria District), in present-day Bangladesh. Her father, originally from Vidyakut in Tripura, was a Vaishnavite singer known for his intense devotion. Both parents were from well regarded lineages, though the family lived in poverty. Nirmala attended village schools of Sultanpur and Kheora for approximately 2-4 months. Although her teachers were pleased with her ability, her mother worried about her daughter's mental development because of her constantly indifferent and happy demeanor. When her mother once fell seriously ill, relatives too remarked with puzzlement about the child remaining apparently unaffected.
In 1908 at the age of twelve years, 10 months, in keeping with the rural custom at the time, she was married to Ramani Mohan Chakrabarti of Bikrampur (now Munshiganj District) whom she would later rename Bholanath. She spent five years after her marriage at her brother-in-law's home, attending to housework in a withdrawn meditative state much of the time. It was at Ashtagram that a devout neighbor Harakumar, who was widely considered insane, recognised and announced her spiritual eminence, developed a habit of addressing her as "Ma", and prostrated before her morning and evening in reverence.
When Nirmala was about seventeen, she went to live with her husband who was working in the town of Ashtagram. In 1918, they moved to Bajitpur, where she stayed until 1924. It was a celibate marriage-whenever thoughts of lust occurred to Ramani, Nirmala's body would take on the qualities of death.
On the full moon night of August 1922, at midnight, twenty-six-year-old Nirmala enacted her own spiritual initiation. She explained that the ceremony and its rites were being revealed to her spontaneously as and when they were called for. Although uneducated on the matter, the complex rites corresponded to those of traditional, ancient Hinduism, including the offerings of flowers, the mystical diagrams (yantra) and the fire ceremony (yajna). She later stated, "As the master (guru) I revealed the mantra; as the disciple. I accepted it and started to recite it."
Dhaka
Nirmala moved to Shahbag with her husband in 1924, where he had been appointed as the caretaker of the gardens of the Nawab of Dhaka. During this period Nirmala went into ecstasies at public kirtans. Jyotiscandra Ray, known as "Bhaiji," was an early and close disciple. He was the first to suggest that Nirmala be called Anandamayi Ma, meaning "Joy Permeated Mother", or "Bliss Permeated Mother". He was chiefly responsible for the first ashram built for Anandamayi Ma in 1929 at Ramna, within the precinct of the Ramna Kali Mandir. In 1926, she reinstated a formerly abandoned ancient Kali temple in the Siddheshwari area. During the time in Shahbag, more and more people began to be drawn to what they saw to be a living embodiment of the divine.
Dehradun
From her shift Dehradun onwards various scholars were drawn to Anandamayi Ma's light, gift, power and message of love, though she continued to describe herself as "a little unlettered child". Prangopal Mukerjee Mahamahopadhyay Gopinath Kaviraj, Sanskrit scholar, philosopher, and principal of Government Sanskrit College in Varanasi and Triguna Sen were among her followers. Uday Shankar, the famous dance artist, was impressed by Anandamayi Ma's analysis of dance, which she used as a metaphor for the relationship between people and God. She was a contemporary of the well known Hindu saints like Udiya Baba, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Ramdas, and Paramahansa Yogananda.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandamayi_Ma
Her natal Lilith was 20 Gemini, N.Node 7 Capricorn, and the S.Node at 8 Gemini. Her natal Amazon was 13 Libra, the N.Node at 19 Taurus, and the S.Node at 27 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
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Here is the chart for Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, and its adaptations for film and stage, The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her June 27 birthday is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in Pennsylvania and, in the centenary year of her birth, was recognized by a presidential proclamation from US President Jimmy Carter.
A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971 and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
Her natal Lilith was 20 Libra, the N.Node 14 Sagittarius, and the S.Node 25 Gemini. Her natal Amazon was 16 Capricorn, the N.Node 3 Gemini, and the S.Node 7 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
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Here is the chart of Maria Montessori who was an Italian physician, educator, and innovator, acclaimed for her educational method that builds on the way children learn naturally.
She opened the first Montessori school-the Casa dei Bambini, or Children's House-in Rome on January 6, 1907. Subsequently, she traveled the world and wrote extensively about her approach to education, attracting many devotees. There are now thousands of Montessori schools in countries worldwide.
Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870, in the provincial town of Chiaravalle, Italy. Her father was a financial manager for a state-run industry. Her mother, raised in a family that prized education, was well schooled and an avid reader-unusual for Italian women of that time. The same thirst for knowledge took root in young Maria, and she immersed herself in many fields of study before creating the educational method that bears her name.
Beginning in early childhood, Maria lived in Rome, growing up in a paradise of libraries, museums, and fine schools.
Breaking Barriers in Education
Maria was a sterling student, confident, ambitious, and unwilling to be limited by traditional expectations for women. At age 13 she entered an all-boys technical institute to prepare for a career in engineering.
In time, however, she changed her mind, deciding to become a doctor instead. She applied to the University of Rome's medical program, but was rejected. Maria took additional courses to better prepare her for entrance to the medical school and persevered. With great effort she gained admittance, opening the door a bit wider for future women in the field.
When she graduated from medical school in 1896, Maria was among Italy's first female physicians. Though she was not the first female medical school graduate, as reported by many of her biographers, it does not detract from her accomplishment. Defying conventions, norms, and expectations to successfully make her way in this rigorous, male-dominated field required tremendous strength, dedication, and perseverance.
Birth of a Movement
Maria's early medical practice focused on psychiatry. She later developed an interest in education, attending classes on pedagogy and immersing herself in educational theory. Her studies led her to observe, and call into question, the prevailing methods of teaching children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The opportunity to improve on these methods came in 1900, when she was appointed co-director of a new training institute for special education teachers. Maria approached the task scientifically, carefully observing and experimenting to learn which teaching methods worked best. Many of the children made unexpected gains, and the program was proclaimed a success.
In 1907, Maria accepted a challenge to open a full-day childcare center in San Lorenzo, a poor inner-city district of Rome. The students were under-served youngsters, ages 3 - 7, who were left to their own devices while their parents went out to work. This center, the first of its kind in the nation, and a high-quality learning environment, became the first Casa dei Bambini.
The children were unruly at first, but soon showed great interest in working with puzzles, learning to prepare meals, and manipulating learning materials Maria had designed. She observed how the children absorbed knowledge from their surroundings, essentially teaching themselves.
Using scientific observation and experience gained from her earlier work with young children, Maria designed learning materials and a classroom environment that fostered the children's natural desire to learn and provided freedom for them to choose their own materials.
To the surprise of many, the children in Maria's programs thrived, exhibiting concentration, attention, and spontaneous self-discipline. The "Montessori Method" began to attract the attention of prominent educators, journalists, and public figures. By 1910, Montessori schools could be found throughout Western Europe and were being established around the world, including in the United States where the first Montessori school opened in Tarrytown, NY, in 1911.
I celebrate Maria Montessori"¦and the fact that she overcame the stifling conventions put on women of the late nineteenth century and succeeded in establishing her own voice for all to hear and follow.
Phyllis Povell, "Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch"
Feminist, Pioneer, Icon
In the years following, and for the rest of her life, Maria dedicated herself to advancing her child-centered approach to education. She lectured widely, wrote articles and books, and developed a program to prepare teachers in the Montessori Method. Through her efforts and the work of her followers, Montessori education was adopted worldwide.
As a public figure, Maria also campaigned vigorously on behalf of women's rights. She wrote and spoke frequently on the need for greater opportunities for women, and was recognized in Italy and beyond as a leading feminist voice.
Maria Montessori pursued her ideals in turbulent times. Living through war and political upheaval inspired her to add peace education to the Montessori curriculum. But she could do little to avoid being ensnared in world events. Traveling in India in 1940, when hostilities between Italy and Great Britain broke out, she was forced to live in exile for the remainder of the war. There she took the opportunity to train teachers in her method.
At war's end she returned to Europe, spending her final years in Amsterdam. She died peacefully, in a friend's garden, on May 6, 1952.
Her natal was Lilith 25 Leo, the N.Node 2 Sagittarius, and the S.Node at 13 Cancer. Her natal Amazon was 14 Gemini, the N.Node was 12 Gemini, and the S.Node was 7 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
HI All,
Here is the chart for Debra White Plume. She championed the rights of the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota and was a leader in protests at Wounded Knee and oil pipeline sites.
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Debra White Plume, Defender of Her Tribe, Is Dead at 66
She championed the rights of the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota and was a leader in protests at Wounded Knee and oil pipeline sites.
By Michael Astor
NY Times
12/5/2020
Debra White Plume, a prominent Native American activist who faced down police bullets, uranium mining companies and oil pipeline projects in trying to protect the traditional Oglala Lakota way of life, died on Nov. 10 in Rapid City, S.D. She was 66.
The cause was cancer, which was found in her lungs and abdomen, according to her husband, Alex White Plume.
In 1973, Ms. White Plume was among the first people to join the American Indian Movement's occupation of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota, over demands that the U.S. government respect its treaties with Indigenous tribes from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The police surrounded the town - the site of an 1890 massacre by U.S. cavalry troops - and a 71-day standoff ensued. Both sides traded fire almost nightly, leaving two Native Americans dead and one federal agent paralyzed by a gunshot.
"It was a moment in time - there was the women's movement, there was the civil rights movement, there was the Vietnam War stuff going on, and we just said, "˜That's enough for us, too. We're not going to take this anymore,'" Ms. White Plume said in a videotaped interview in 2016 with the independent news organization Democracy Now!
But little changed. Today some 20,000 Oglala Lakota eke out a hardscrabble existence on the reservation. Unemployment hovers at about 85 percent, alcoholism is rampant, life expectancy is 30 years below the national average, and treaty rights are routinely ignored.
Those conditions prompted Ms. White Plume, in 1999, to help found Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way), an advocacy group dedicated to cultural preservation and the protection of Lakota treaty rights through nonviolent direct action. She became its executive director and held that title at her death.
Ms. White Plume came to see that the biggest challenge facing Native Americans was in protecting their water supply. She and others feared that uranium mining, just outside the reservation, could contaminate water with radioactivity and chemicals like arsenic, used in the extraction process. And they saw two major oil pipelines in the works - the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access - as threatening not only ancestral burial sites but also aquifers.
In 2015, Ms. White Plume was the lead plaintiff in a still unresolved lawsuit to stop the giant uranium mining company Cameco from expanding its operations at Crow Butte, a sacred site across the Nebraska border and within Lakota treaty territories. (The company has suspended its mining there.) And she had a leading role in promoting nonviolent direct action to protest the oil pipelines.
In 2011 she was arrested outside the White House in Washington during a protest over the Keystone project, a 1,200-mile pipeline that would extend from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska.
Here natal Lilith was 4 Scorpio, N.Node 2 Sagittarius, and the S.Node 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon was 11 Scorpio, the N.Node 11 Gemini, and the S.Node was 6 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
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Here is the chart for Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova (Russian: ÐадеÌжда ÐндреÌевна ТолокоÌнникова, IPA: [nÉˈdʲeÊdÉ™ tÉ™lÉˈkonʲËɪkÉ™vÉ™]; born November 7, 1989), nicknamed "Nadya Tolokno" (ÐÐ°Ð´Ñ Ð¢Ð¾Ð»Ð¾ÐºÐ½Ð¾), is a Russian conceptual artist and political activist. She was a member of the anarchist feminist group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the controversial street art group Voina. On August 17, 2012, she was convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after a performance in Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. On December 23, 2013, she was released early with another Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina under a newly passed amnesty bill dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Russian constitution.
Tolokonnikova was recognized as a political prisoner by the Russian human rights group Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Amnesty International named her a prisoner of conscience due to "the severity of the response of the Russian authorities".
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About
Russian conceptual artist and political activist who is known for being a member of the Anarchist Feminist group Pussy Riot as well as the street art group Voina. She is most recognized for her performance at the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior where she and other members of the group held a "Punk Prayer" for which they were arrested.
Before Fame
With a passion for literature and art, she enrolled in the philosophy department of Moscow State University. She first joined the Voina street art collective in 2007. She earned further recognition when she joined the activism group Pussy Riot where she participated in several demonstrations including Punk Prayer for which she was arrested. While in jail, she wrote letters and participated in hunger strikes to bring attention to the corrupted system.
Trivia
She is the co-winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought in 2014. She was also a part of the documentary feature film following her Punk Prayer performance which premiered at Sundance in 2013.
Family Life
She married Pyotr Verzilov, a fellow artist who earned recognition for storming the field of the 2018 World Cup final. Together they had a daughter named Gera in 2008.
Associated With
She and fellow member Maria Aluokhina appeared in Chapter 29 of the Netflix original series House of Cards alongside Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, and Michael Kelly where she criticized a fictional representation of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Tolokonnikova
Her natal Lilith is 9 Sagittarius, N.Node is 12 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 14 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 22 Sagittarius, N.Node is 26 Taurus, and the S.Node is 20 Scorpio.
She was born above the Arctic Circle in Russia. The chart below is thus cast for the Equal House System.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Debra Anne Haaland (born December 2, 1960) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative from New Mexico's 1st congressional district since 2019. The district includes most of Albuquerque, along with most of its suburbs. Haaland is a former chairwoman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico. Along with Sharice Davids, she is one of the first two Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress. Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people and a 35th-generation New Mexican. Haaland is a political progressive who supports the movements to abolish ICE and to implement the Green New Deal and Medicare For All.
On December 17, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would be nominating Haaland to serve as United States Secretary of the Interior in the incoming Biden administration. If confirmed, she would become the first Native American to run the Department of the Interior. She would also be the first Native American Cabinet secretary in the history of the United States.
Early life and education
Haaland was born in Winslow, Arizona. She is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo people. The Pueblo people have lived on the land that is now the state of New Mexico since the 1200s and Haaland identifies herself as a 35th-generation New Mexican. Her mother, Mary Toya, a Native American woman, served in the United States Navy. Her father, Major J. D. "Dutch" Haaland, a Norwegian American, was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and recipient of the Silver Star for his actions in Vietnam; he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in 2005. As a child in a military family, Haaland moved frequently. She attended 13 public schools across the United States before the family settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be close to family who also belong to the Laguna Pueblo. Haaland graduated from Highland High School in Albuquerque. She has three sisters and a brother.
After graduating from Highland High School, Haaland worked at a local bakery. She enrolled at the University of New Mexico, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1994. Four days after graduating, she gave birth to her daughter, Somáh . As a single mother, Haaland started a salsa company to support herself and her daughter. At times during this period, she did not earn enough money to afford housing and had to rely on friends for shelter. She also relied on food stamps at times. She earned her Juris Doctor in Indian law from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2006, but is not a member of the New Mexico State Bar. Haaland became the first Chairwoman elected to the Laguna Development Corporation Board of Directors, a Laguna-owned business created to strengthen the Laguna Community and its economy. As chairwoman, she oversaw business operations for the second largest tribal gaming enterprise in New Mexico and successfully advocated for the corporation to create policies and commitments to earth-friendly business practices. She served as the tribal administrator for the San Felipe Pueblo from January 2013 to November 2015. During her 2018 campaign for Congress, Haaland still had student loans from law school.
Earlier political career
In 2012, Haaland served as the state's vote director for Native Americans in Barack Obama's 2012 presidential reelection campaign. She served as the chair of Democratic Party of New Mexico Native American Caucus from 2012 to 2013. She ran for Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico in 2014] Her ticket, headed by then-Attorney General of New Mexico Gary King, the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Mexico, lost to the Republican ticket of Governor Susana Martinez and Lieutenant Governor John Sanchez.
Haaland was elected to a two-year term as the chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico in April 2015. During her tenure, New Mexico Democrats regained control of the New Mexico House of Representatives and the office of the New Mexico Secretary of State.Haaland has been credited with rebuilding the state party after large defeats for Democrats in New Mexico in 2014.[29] She raised enough money during her two-year term as chair to pay off seven years' worth of debt incurred under previous chairs.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Haaland
Her natal Lilith is 22 Pisces, N.Node is 18 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 29 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 25 Sagittarius, the N.Node is 14 Taurus, and the S.Node is 26 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Arabic: نادية Ù...راد باسي طه"Ž; born 1993) is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.
Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities".
In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict". She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
Presently, she is an advocate for Sustainable Development Goals appointed by Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Early life and capture by ISIS
Murad was born in the village of Kocho in Sinjar District, Iraq. Her family, of the Yazidi minority, were farmers. At the age of 19, Murad was a student living in the village of Kocho in Sinjar, northern Iraq when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community in the village, killing 600 people - including six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers - and taking the younger women and girls into slavery. That year, Murad was one of more than 6,700 Yazidi women and girls taken prisoner by Islamic State in Iraq. She was captured on 15 August 2014. She was held as a slave in the city of Mosul, where she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped repeatedly. She successfully escaped after her captor left the house unlocked. Murad was taken in by a neighboring family, who were able to smuggle her out of the Islamic State controlled area, allowing her to make her way to a refugee camp in Duhok, Kurdistan Region. She was out of ISIS territory in early September or in November 2014.
In February 2015, she gave her first testimony to reporters of the Belgian daily newspaper La Libre Belgique while she was staying in the Rwanga camp, living in a converted shipping container. In 2015, she was one of 1,000 women and children to benefit from a refugee programme of the Government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which became her new home.
Career and activism
On 16 December 2015, Murad spoke to the United Nations Security Council about human trafficking and conflict. This was the first time the Council was ever briefed on human trafficking. As part of her role as an ambassador, Murad will participate in global and local advocacy initiatives to bring awareness of human trafficking and refugees. Murad has reached out to refugee and survivor communities, listening to testimonies of victims of trafficking and genocide.
In September 2016, Attorney Amal Clooney spoke before the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to discuss the decision that she had made in June 2016[ to represent Murad as a client in legal action against ISIL commanders. Clooney characterized the genocide, rape, and trafficking by ISIL as a "bureaucracy of evil on an industrial scale", describing it as a slave market existing online, on Facebook and in the Mideast that is still active today. Murad has received serious threats to her safety as a result of her work.
In September 2016, Murad announced Nadia's Initiative at an event hosted by Tina Brown in New York City. The Initiative intends to provide advocacy and assistance to victims of genocide. That same month, she was named the first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC).
On 3 May 2017, Murad met Pope Francis and Archbishop Gallagher in the Vatican City. During the meeting, she "asked for helping Yazidis who are still in ISIS captivity, acknowledged the Vatican support for minorities, discussed the scope for an autonomous region for minorities in Iraq, highlighted the current situation and challenges facing religious minorities in Iraq and Syria particularly the victims and internally displaced people as well as immigrants".
Murad's memoir, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, was published by Crown Publishing Group on 7 November 2017.
In 2018, director Alexandria Bombach produced a documentary film called On Her Shoulders that featured Murad's life story and activism.
In 2019, Murad addressed the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom where she spoke about her story and the ongoing challenges faced by Yazidis nearly five years after the 3 August 2014 attacks and laid out a "five-point plan of action" to address the challenges they face in Iraq. Murad was included among a delegation of survivors of religious persecution from around the world whose stories were highlighted at the summit. As part of the delegation, on 17 July 2019, Murad met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with whom she shared her personal story of having lost her family members, including her mother and six brothers, and pleaded with him to do something.
Personal life
In August 2018, Murad became engaged to fellow Yazidi human rights activist Abid Shamdeen. They have since married.
Her natal Lilith 27 Libra, the N.Node is 29 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 28 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 17 Leo, the N.Node is 4 Taurus, and the S.Node is 5 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Maya Reis Gabeira (born April 10, 1987) is a Brazilian big wave surfer. She is most known for having surfed a 73.5 ft/22,4 m high wave in Nazare, Portugal in February 2020, recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest wave ever surfed by a female. It was also the biggest wave surfed by anyone that year. She also held the previous record for biggest wave ever surfed by a female, of 68 ft/20,8 m established in January 2018.
Gabeira has received numerous accolades including the ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete and is considered one of the best female surfers in the world as well as one of the most influential female surfers of all time.
Maya started surfing at age 15 in Rio de Janeiro and started competing at 15 years old. In 2004 she decided to become a professional at 17 while living in Australia and moved to Hawaii that same year to surf world class waves.
She quickly emerged as the world's top female big-wave surfer, winning global championships surfing challenging spots like Mavericks, Waimea, Todos Santos, and South Africa's shark-infested "Dungeons".
She has won the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards for four consecutive times (2007 to 2010) in the Best Female Performance category.
In 2008, she became the first woman to surf the Alaskan Sea.] Gabeira also became the first woman to surf California's Ghost Trees and Tahiti's Teahupoo.
In 2009, Gabeira won the ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete. Later that year, Gabeira surfed the biggest wave ever by a female when she successfully rode a 14 metres (46 ft) wave at Dungeons, a big-wave surf spot in South Africa.
In 2010, she got the 2010 Teen Choice Award for Best Female Action Sports Star.
In 2012, she was awarded the XXL Big Wave Awards for Girls Best Overall Performance for the 5th time. She also appeared in the ESPN The Body Issue that same year.
On October 28, 2013, Gabeira lost consciousness and nearly drowned while surfing a massive wave at Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal; she was saved by her fellow Brazilian big-wave surfer Carlos Burle. She had to be revived on the beach and later ended up in the hospital.
In 2016 the documentary Return to Nazaré by Red Bull TV shows how Maya Gabeira returns to Nazaré after having suffered the terrible accident surfing on the same beach in 2013. It is the portrait of a struggle to overcome obstacles, both physical and mental.
In January 2018 Gabeira surfed a 68 ft high (20.8m) wave in Nazare, PT, recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest wave surfed by a female surfer.
Gabeira has been nominated twice for the Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year, in 2014 and in 2019.
She is one of the highest paid female big wave surfers on the planet. Gabeira is sponsored by Billabong and Red bull and currently lives in North Shore (Oahu) in Hawaii in the United States.
In February 11, 2020, Maya set a new Guiness World Record for the Largest wave surfed (unlimited) - female. It was held in WSL Nazaré Tow Surfin contest and the wave measured 73.5 feet (22.4 m).[1][2] The wave was also the biggest wave surfed by anyone that year.
Personal life
Gabeira is the daughter of Fernando Gabeira, one of the founding members of the Green Party of Brazil. Her father is the son of Lebanese immigrants[ and is a former member of a guerrilla group responsible for the kidnapping of the US Ambassador in Brazil, Charles Elbrick, in 1969. He later wrote an award-winning book about the incident which was turned into the Academy Award nominated film Four Days in September. Her mother, Yamê Reis, is a famous Brazilian fashion designer.
Here is an article of a full interview with her: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/dec/31/im-fascinated-by-power-force-and-bravery-the-woman-who-surfed-the-biggest-recorded-wave-of-2020
Her natal Lilith is 11 Taurus, N.Node is 9 Capricorn, and the S.Nodeis 2 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 25 Cancer, the N.Node is 14 Taurus, and the S.Node is 5 Sagittarius.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
All,
Here is the chart for acinda Kate Laurell Ardern (/dÊ'əˈsɪndÉ™ ˈÉ'ËrdÉœËrn/; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has been serving as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party since 2017. First elected to the House of Representatives as a list MP in 2008, she has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Mount Albert since March 2017.
Born in Hamilton, Ardern grew up in Morrinsville and Murupara, where she attended a state school. After graduating from the University of Waikato in 2001, Ardern began her career working as a researcher in the office of Prime Minister Helen Clark. She later worked in London, within the Cabinet Office, and was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Ardern was first elected as an MP in the 2008 general election, when Labour lost power after nine years. She was later elected to represent the Mount Albert electorate in a by-election in February 2017.
Ardern was unanimously elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party on 1 March 2017, following the resignation of Annette King. Just five months later, with an election due, Labour's leader Andrew Little resigned after a historically low opinion polling result for the party, with Ardern elected unopposed as leader in his place. She led her party to gain 14 seats at the 2017 general election on 23 September, winning 46 seats to the National Party's 56. After a period of negotiations, New Zealand First chose to enter a minority coalition government with Labour, supported by the Green Party, with Ardern as prime minister; she was sworn in by the Governor-General on 26 October 2017. She became the world's youngest female head of government at age 37. Ardern later became the world's second elected head of government to give birth while in office (after Benazir Bhutto) when her daughter was born on 21 June 2018.
Ardern describes herself as a social democrat and a progressive. The Sixth Labour Government has focused particularly on the New Zealand housing crisis, child poverty, and social inequality. In March 2019, she led the country through the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings, rapidly introducing strict gun laws in response, and throughout 2020 she directed the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ardern led the Labour Party to a historic victory in the 2020 general election, gaining an outright majority of 65 seats in Parliament, the first time this has happened since the introduction of proportional representation.
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern
Her natal Lilith is 20 Libra, the N.Nodeis 14 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 25 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 20 Gemini, N.Node is 2 Gemini, and the S.Node is 7 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), known professionally as Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer and songwriter. She was originally a member of the girl group Choice. In 1995, LaFace Records saw potential in Pink and offered her a solo recording contract. Her R&B-influenced debut studio album Can't Take Me Home (2000) was certified double-platinum in the United States and spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top-ten songs: "There You Go" and "Most Girls". She gained further recognition with the collaborative single "Lady Marmalade" from the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack, which topped many charts worldwide. Refocusing her sound to pop rock with her second studio album Missundaztood (2001), the album sold more than 13 million copies worldwide and yielded the international number-one songs "Get the Party Started", "Don't Let Me Get Me", and "Just Like a Pill".
While Pink's third studio album, Try This (2003), sold significantly less than her previous work, it earned her the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. She returned to the top of record charts with her fourth and fifth studio albums, I'm Not Dead (2006) and Funhouse (2008), which spawned the top-ten entries "Who Knew" and "U + Ur Hand", as well as the number-one single "So What". Pink's sixth studio album, The Truth About Love (2012), was her first Billboard 200 number-one album and spawned her fourth US number-one single, "Just Give Me a Reason". In 2014, Pink recorded a collaborative album, Rose Ave., with Canadian musician Dallas Green under a folk music duo named You+Me. Her next studio albums, Beautiful Trauma (2017) and Hurts 2B Human (2019), both debuted at atop the Billboard 200 chart, with the former becoming the world's third best-selling album of the year.
Noted for her distinctive raspy voice and acrobatic stage presence, Pink has sold over 90 million records worldwide as of 2020,[citation needed] making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. Her career accolades include three Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award and seven MTV Video Music Awards, including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. In 2009, Billboard named Pink the Pop Songs Artist of the Decade. Pink was also the second most-played female solo artist in the United Kingdom during the 2000s decade, behind only Madonna. VH1 ranked her at number ten on their list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music, while Billboard awarded her the Woman of the Year award in 2013. At the 63rd annual BMI Pop Awards, she received the BMI President's Award for "her outstanding achievement in songwriting and global impact on pop culture and the entertainment industry."
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_(singer)
Her natal Lilith is 15 Virgo, N.Node is 2 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 14 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 11 Taurus, N.Node is 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is 14 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Amanda S. C. Gorman (born 1998) is an American poet and activist from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. In 2021, she delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
Early life and education
Gorman was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1998. She was raised by her mother, Joan Wicks, a teacher, with her two siblings. She has a twin sister, Gabrielle, who is an activist and filmmaker. Gorman has said she grew up in an environment with limited television access. She has described her young self as a "weird child" who enjoyed reading and writing and was encouraged by her mother.
Gorman has an auditory processing disorder and is hypersensitive to sound. Gorman also had a speech impediment during childhood. Gorman participated in speech therapy during her childhood and Elida Kocharian of The Harvard Crimson writes in 2018, "Gorman doesn't view her speech impediment as a crutch-rather, she sees it as a gift and a strength." Gorman explained to The Harvard Gazette in 2018, "I always saw it as a strength because since I was experiencing these obstacles in terms of my auditory and vocal skills, I became really good at reading and writing. I realized that at a young age when I was reciting the Marianne Deborah Williamson quote that 'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure' to my mom."
Gorman attended New Roads, a private school in Santa Monica, for grades K-12. As a senior, Gorman received a Milken Family Foundation college scholarship. She studied sociology at Harvard College, and graduated cum laude[ as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Poetry and activism
Gorman's art and activism focus on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman said she was inspired to become a youth delegate for the United Nations in 2013 after watching a speech by Pakistani Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Gorman was chosen as the youth poet laureate of Los Angeles in 2014. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015.
In 2016, Gorman founded the nonprofit organization One Pen One Page, a youth writing and leadership program. In 2017, Gorman became the first author to be featured on XQ Institute's Book of the Month, a monthly giveaway to share inspiring Gen Z's favorite books. She wrote a tribute for black athletes for Nike and has a book deal with Viking Children's Books to write two children's picture books.
In 2017, Gorman became the first youth poet to open the literary season for the Library of Congress, and she has read her poetry on MTV. Gorman wrote "In This Place: An American Lyric" for her September 2017 performance at the Library of Congress, which commemorated the inauguration of Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate of the United States. The Morgan Library and Museum acquired her poem "In This Place (An American Lyric)" and displayed it in 2018 near works by Elizabeth Bishop.
While at Harvard, Gorman became the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate in April 2017. She was chosen from five finalists. In 2017, Gorman won a $10,000 grant from media company OZY as part of the OZY Genius Awards.
In 2017, Gorman said she wants to run for president in 2036, and she has subsequently often repeated this hope. After she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's Inauguration in 2021, Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for this 2036 aspiration.
In May 2020, Gorman appeared in an episode of the web series Some Good News hosted by John Krasinski, where she had the opportunity to virtually meet Oprah Winfrey and issued a virtual commencement speech to those who could not attend physical commencements due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S..
In 2020, Gorman presented "Earthrise", a poem focused on the climate crisis.
Gorman read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, and is the youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration in United States history. Jill Biden recommended Gorman for the inauguration. After January 6, 2021, Gorman amended her poem's wording to address the storming of the United States Capitol. During the week before the inauguration, Gorman told the Washington Post book critic Ron Charles, "My hope is that my poem will represent a moment of unity for our country," and that "with my words, I'll be able to speak to a new chapter and era for our nation."
Soon after Gorman's performance at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, her two upcoming books, a poetry collection titled The Hill We Climb and a project for youth titled Change Sings: A Children's Anthem, were at the top of Amazon's bestseller list.[48] Both books are scheduled to be released in September 2021.
Her natal Lilith is 13 Sagittarius, N.Node is 8 Cancer, and the S.Node is 25 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 14 Gemini, N.Node is 8 Taurus, and the S.Node is 9 Sagittarius.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you so much for posting Amanda Gorman's chart. I have contemplated her chart this week and oh my, of course her natal Lilith is conjunct Pluto in Sag. but I didn't knew her lilith's nn is conjunct natal moon and that her south node lilith's ruler is conjunct neptune in Aquarius, now transited by all the planets there. And that nn amazon is conjunct Pluto Lilith... What an inspiring soul presence she has, Goddess bless her.
I have noticed the chart has Pluto square the nodes and a stellium on the south node, which is not the resolution node. Without a personal comment on the specifics of the chart, could this be a chart type where the south node conjunctions can represent a gift that is now in total fruition to share with others?
How do we look at the resolution node on the other hand when those are the cases?
Thank you,
Helena
P.S. To correct my question, because for some reason I had 'framed' mercury to be in Aries, but now confirm is in a new conjunction to the south node in pisces, maybe that gives it an arian energy and simply confirms the fruition? In any case it gives me the question as to in cases where there is a fruition and the resolution node and ruler are not back to the south node. Does it imply a certain constant balance between past and future, or something else?
Hi Helena,
The resolution node, and it's ruler, with aspects to other planets, correlate to how in the current life the skipped steps from the past become resolved, how to resolve, in the current life. The skipped steps themselves of course correlate in her case to that Pluto square the Nodes, and the planetary rulers of each by their own house/ sign location.The fruition is symbolized by that Sun, Jupiter conjunction to her S.Node, the location of the ruler Neptune by sign and house, and aspects that it makes.
Since we do not know the birth time it's not possible to know the total depth of what all these symbols correlate too, but we can understand quite a bit of what the fruition and skipped steps is about by the nature of the signs that these symbols are in.
In her case what is being brought forth from past lives that correlates to fruition is intended by her Soul to have and expanded expression, manifestation, is new ways: the new phase between Mercury, ruler of the N.Node, and the S.Node. The archetypes of teaching, writing, and in general helping humans in various ways are that which correlate to what the fruition is about. The expansion of the fruition is symbolized by the Sun/Jupiter conjunction of that S.Node. Jupiter is of course the ruler of her natal Pluto in Sagittarius.
I feel drawn to share with you Amanda's most recent prior life so that this will help you grow with your own understanding of EA, and how all of this works. Her very last life was a person named Susan King Taylor who lived during the Civil War in the USA. The connections between these two charts will help you understand these dynamics of the fruition from the past to the present life, and how this becomes expanded upon. Notice for example how the current life N.Node is conjunct the natal Mars of Taylor's chart. The current life Sun is the S.Node/ Saturn conjunction in the last life. Just for starters.
Here is a synopsis of that life:
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912)
Original entry by Ronald E. Butchart, University of Georgia,
Susie Baker King Taylor was the first Black educator to teach openly in a school for formerly enslaved African Americans in Georgia. As the author of Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers, she was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences.
Susie King Taylor the daughter of enslaved parents, was born in Liberty County on August 6, 1848. When she was about seven years old, her owner allowed her to go to Savannah to live with her grandmother. Despite Georgia's harsh laws against the formal education of African Americans, she attended two secret schools taught by Black women. From them she gained the rudiments of literacy, then extended her education with the help of two white youths, both of whom knowingly violated law and custom.
In April 1862 Baker and many other African Americans fled to St. Simons Island, occupied at the time by Union forces. Within days her educational advantages came to the attention of army officers, who offered to obtain books for her if she would organize a school. She thereby became the first Black teacher for freed African American students to work in a freely operating freedmen's school in Georgia. She taught forty children in day school and "a number of adults who came to me nights, all of them so eager to learn to read, to read above anything else." She taught there until October 1862, when the island was evacuated.
While at the school on St. Simons Island, Baker married Edward King, a Black noncommissioned officer in the Union forces. For three years she moved with her husband's and brothers' regiment, serving as nurse and laundress, and teaching many of the Black soldiers to read and write during their off-duty hours. In 1866 she and Edward returned to Savannah, where she established a school for the freed children. Edward King died in September 1866, a few months before the birth of their first child. In 1867 she returned to her native Liberty County to establish another school. In 1868 she again relocated to Savannah, where she continued teaching freedmen for another year and supported herself through small tuition charges, never receiving aid from the northern freedmen's aid organizations.
In the 1870s King traveled to Boston as a domestic servant of a wealthy white family. While there she met and married Russell Taylor. She remained in Boston for the rest of her life, returning to the South only occasionally. After a trip to Louisiana in the 1890s to care for a dying son, she wrote her Reminiscences, which were privately published in 1902. She died ten years later. In 2019 the Georgia Historical Society erected a historical marker honoring King Taylor near the Midway First Presbyterian Church in Midway, Georgia.
In that life her natal Lilith 26 Cancer, the N.Node was 3 Sagittarius, and the S.Node was 7 Cancer. Her natal Amazon 5 Leo, the N.Node was 10 Gemini, and the S.Node was 5 Scorpio.
Her natal chart and picture are attached below.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
how cool is that poem when we know this you shared... And poetry the ultimate higher expression of that pisces mercury.
I really felt curious about the chart because I can't remember other chart to have this combining symbols of what it looked like total fruition with skipped steps, that always limit and condition in a very defined way, in a such a young person.
From what I gather the soul can invest a lot of energy dedication and life purpose to, like in Amanda Gorman's poem see things can come again not "broken but simply unfinished"... I really love that line when you see this soul's evolution and probably it wouldn't hurt us all to have that in mind once in a while.
Lilith square the nodes is such a volcano eruption like energy, one can't just miss it, it will go on real active fire if one tries to ignore the essential root nature, and in her case her Lilith comes from an exact conjunction to mercury in cancer, her nn ruler also in the past life, that was square Pluto in Aries (ruled by the mars in virgo, now her nn of the moon), now Lilith comes conjunct Pluto square the nodes. That for me would point to the root of the skipped step altogether and how the soul's essential nature can't be missed.
Am I correct to see the repetition of the mars trine Pluto phase as another confirmation for the fruition state? If so, is this more uncommon than common? To repeat the Pluto mars phase in the subsequent life? In this case the trine is just starting in the last life, out of sign.
Thank you very much Rad for sharing this real life examples with us,
Helena
Hi Helena,
Yes, you are correct about that in the context of this particular Souls evolutionary journey. It is that individual context through which to understand that link between the two lifetimes.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Kim Wall who on On 10 August 2017, Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall boarded the midget submarine UC3 Nautilus, in Køge Bugt, Denmark, with the intent of interviewing its owner, Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen. She was reported missing after Nautilus failed to return to Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. The submarine was found sunken the following morning and Madsen was arrested upon being rescued from the water. Between 21 August and 29 November, Wall's dismembered body parts were found in different locations around the area. Charged with her murder, Madsen was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on 25 April 2018 by Copenhagen City Court[2] following a widely publicised trial. The case is also known in Denmark as UbÃ¥dssagen (transl."‰"The submarine case").
Kim Isabel Fredrika Wall (22 March 1987 - 10 or 11 August 2017) was a Swedish freelance journalist. She was born in Trelleborg, Scania, to Ingrid and Joachim Wall, and had a younger brother, Tom. After graduating from high school in Malmö, Wall received a bachelor's degree in international relations at the London School of Economics and a dual master's degree in journalism and international relations at Columbia University in New York City. At the time of her death, she lived with her Danish boyfriend Ole Stobbe in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen.
Wall wrote reports about a variety of topics for publications such as The Guardian, The New York Times, Vice, Slate, and Time. In March 2016, the German journalist association Zeitenspiegel awarded her the Hansel Mieth Prize for Best Digital Reportage for "Exodus", a multi-media report on climate change and nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, which was published by Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Events
On Thursday, 10 August 2017, Wall and Stobbe were preparing to host a farewell party in Refshaleøen prior to their planned move to Beijing on 16 August. Before the party, she received a text from Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen-with whom she had requested an interview earlier in the year-inviting her to interview him on board his midget submarine UC3 Nautilus. Wall agreed to join him on the submarine for two hours and boarded Nautilus around 19:00 local time (UTC+2). The submarine never returned to the harbour and Stobbe called the police at 01:43 that night to report Wall missing. Nautilus was sighted in Køge Bay southeast of Amager by Drogden lighthouse at 10:30 the next morning; it foundered at 11:00.
On 21 August 2017, a cyclist found Wall's torso washed up on a beach in the southwest of Amager.[16] A post-mortem examination found 15 stab wounds, mostly in the groin. On 6 October, assisted by cadaver dogs provided by the Swedish police, police divers found two plastic bags in Køge Bay containing Wall's head, legs, clothes and a knife; six days later, a saw was found in the water. On 21 and 29 November, police divers found Wall's arms in the bay. Police probed possible links to other murder cases in Scandinavia, including the unsolved death of 22-year-old Kazuko Toyonaga in 1986 in Copenhagen, but did not find connections to any of them.
For more click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Wall_(journalist) and https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/13805402/kim-wall-swedish-journalist-death/
Her natal Lilith was 1 Taurus, N.Node 9 Capricorn, and the S.Node was 28 Taurus. Her natal Amazon was 22 Cancer, N.Node 10 Taurus, and the S.Node 8 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Julie Bindel (born 20 July 1962) is an English radical feminist writer and co-founder of the law-reform group Justice for Women, which since 1991 has helped women who have been prosecuted for killing violent male partners.
A former visiting researcher at the University of Lincoln (2014-2017), and former assistant director of the Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations at Leeds Metropolitan University, much of Bindel's work concerns male violence against women and children, particularly with regard to prostitution, stalking, religious fundamentalism, and human trafficking.
Bindel has written or co-written over 30 book chapters and four books, including Straight Expectations (2014) and The Pimping of Prostitution (2017). She is also the editor, with her partner Harriet Wistrich, of The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys (2003). She has written regularly for The Guardian, New Statesman, the Sunday Telegraph magazine, and Standpoint.
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Julie Bindel Biography
Title:
Journalist and Cofounder of Justice for Women
Position:
Con to the question "Should Prostitution Be Legal?"
Reasoning:
"Decriminalisation of the sex trade benefits pimps and brothel-owners, not women. Abolition is the only progressive solution."
"Why Prostitution Should Never Be Legalised," The Guardian, Oct. 11, 2017
Involvement and Affiliations:
Freelance Journalist, primarily for The Guardian
Cofounder, Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize, 1998-present
Cofounder, Justice for Women, 1990-present
Member of the Board, SPACE International
Member of the Advisory Board, Byline
Visiting Researcher, Lincoln University (UK), 2014-2017
Visiting Journalist, Brunel University (UK), 2013-2014
Researcher, Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University (UK), 2000-2004
Former Researcher and Assistant Director of the Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)
Education:
Undergraduate study, Leeds Metropolitan University, date unknown
Other:
Twitter: @bindelj
Was ranked 98 out of the top 101 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain by The Independent's "Pink List", 2010
Her natal Lilith is 18 Virgo, N.Node is 6 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 2 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 26 Taurus, N.Node is 7 Gemini, and the S.Node is 4 Scorpio.
Please feel free to commment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for MarÃa DomÃnguez Remón (1 April 1882 - 7 September 1936) was a Spanish journalist, poet, and republican socialist politician. In 1932 she was the first democratic mayor of the Second Spanish Republic in the town of Gallur, Zaragoza. She was shot by Francoists at the beginning of the Civil War.
Biography
MarÃa DomÃnguez was the second daughter of a family of humble peasants. She could barely go to school for a few years, so she was largely self-educated.
A marriage to Bonifacio Ba Cercé was imposed upon her at age 18. Seven years later, tired of humiliation and ill-treatment, she fled home to Barcelona, where she worked as a maid.
DomÃnguez returned to Pozuelo de Aragón, and with the savings she had managed to put together she bought a machine to make hosiery, which allowed her to make a living.
She began to write, and sent an article to the Madrid newspaper El PaÃs, which was published. She studied teaching, and took the exam in 1914, with a negative result. She settled in Zaragoza, enrolling in night classes at the School of Arts and Crafts while working to sew stockings at home.
Soon, DomÃnguez became an assiduous contributor to the republican weekly Ideal de Aragón, the organ of expression of the newly created Aragon Autonomous Republican Party, writing under the pseudonym Imperia. In 1917 she worked as an untitled teacher for a few months in a school in the hamlet of Mendiola in the Navarrese valley of Baztán, but had to leave because of health problems. However, she had time to take exams at the Teaching School of Pamplona, and was approved. She fell seriously ill from the 1918 flu pandemic, staying in bed for more than a year.
She worked as a maid in the house of the republican politician Venancio SarrÃa.
In 1922 she was widowed, and remarried to shearer Arturo Segundo Romanos in the church of San Gil de Zaragoza. She settled with her husband in Gallur.] There, both participated in the constitution of the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) at the end of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.
DomÃnguez contributed to the Zaragoza socialist weekly Vida Nueva, whose first issue appeared on 4 May 1930. Beginning on 14 April 1931, she carried out an intense feminist, socialist, and republican propaganda campaign. In her writings she defended the Republic from "old politics", fought "the enemies of democracy", proclaimed the active role of women, and denounced recent injustices.
In July 1932 the Gallur city council chosen in the elections of April 1931 resigned in full due to popular pressure and the political conflicts facing the country.
The civil governor of the province appointed DomÃnguez chair of a management commission. She thus became the first woman to be in charge of a mayor's office. She occupied the position of mayor of Gallur from 29 July 1932 to 6 February 1933..
During her tenure, she applied the labor legislation of the Republic, created rural labor markets to reduce unemployment, established a unitary school for boys and girls, offered grants to teachers to hire cleaners so that the children did not have to clean, approved a grant for coal sacks so that children did not have to carry it home from school, and approved the renovation of schools to make them more dignified.
She attended the 17th Congress of the UGT in 1932, where she was secretary of the tenth session.
On 6 February 1933, DomÃnguez had to resign her position due to a law approved in the Congress that replaced the management commissions which had been created as a transitory measure. She left satisfied with her work, but disillusioned and tired of censorship of her efforts by the municipality.
After leaving office she dedicated herself to teaching and journalistic collaborations. Her writings were militant and incisive, loaded with irony, intelligence, and a world view. She signed some articles with the pseudonym MarÃa la tonta (MarÃa the fool).
The values she defended were equality of women, freedom of thought, universal suffrage, the struggle against oppression, liberation from cultural and religious prejudices, education, culture as a driving force for change, courage, love not imposed but chosen freely, and the work of translating ideals into concrete actions.
In 1934 the progressive Editorial Castro of Madrid published the book Opiniones de mujeres (Opinions of Women), in which four of her lectures are collected: Feminismo, La mujer en el pasado, en el presente y en el porvenir, El socialismo y la mujer, and Costa y la República. The volume includes a prologue and a lecture by the lawyer and journalist Hildegart RodrÃguez.
During the coup of 18 July 1936, DomÃnguez sought refuge at her sister's house in Pozuelo de Aragón. There she was arrested a few days later and shot by the pro-Franco side on 7 September 1936, in the walls of the cemetery of Fuendejalón, a nearby town. Her husband, Arturo Romanos, was shot shortly thereafter in the town of Tabuenca.
Her natal Lilith 16 Pisces, N.Node 10 Capricorn, and the S.Node 0 Gemini. Her natal Amazon was 15 ta 51, N.Node 12 ta 29 , and the S.Node 6 sa 26.
Please fee free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad, this is a really interesting chart to study, thank you. One question, do you give her a skipped step with the Mercury/Uranus Moon opposition. I am always unsure if I actually heard JWG say he allowed up to 17 degrees for a skipped step.
Thanks
Tashi
HI Tashi,
No he did not.
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia (née Vella; 26 August 1964 - 16 October 2017) was a Maltese writer, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta. In particular, she focused on investigative journalism, reporting on government corruption, nepotism, patronage, allegations of money laundering, links between Malta's online gambling industry and organized crime, Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme, and payments from the government of Azerbaijan. Caruana Galizia's national and international reputation was built on her regular reporting of misconduct by Maltese politicians and politically exposed persons.
Caruana Galizia continued to publish articles for decades, despite intimidation and threats, libel suits and other lawsuits. She was arrested by the Malta Police Force on two occasions. Caruana Galizia's investigations were published via her personal blog Running Commentary, which she set up in 2008. She was a regular columnist with The Sunday Times of Malta and later The Malta Independent. Her blog consisted of investigative reporting and commentary, some of which was regarded as personal attacks on individuals, leading to a series of legal battles. In 2016 and 2017, she revealed controversially sensitive information and allegations relating to a number of Maltese politicians and the Panama Papers scandal.
On 16 October 2017, Caruana Galizia died close to her home when a car bomb was detonated inside her vehicle,[8] attracting widespread local and international condemnation of the attack. In December 2017, three men were arrested in connection with the car bomb attack. Police arrested Yorgen Fenech, the owner of the Dubai-based company 17 Black, on his yacht on 20 November 2019 in connection with her murder.
In April 2018, an international consortium of 45 journalists published The Daphne Project, a collaboration to complete her investigative work. The GUE/NGL Award for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information was established in 2018 in honour of Galizia.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/31/police-maltese-journalist-killed-power-station-reporting-daphne-caruana-galizia
Her natal Lilith was 7 Aquarius, N.Node 2 Sagittarius, and the S.Node was 12 Cancer. Her natal Amazon was 9 Virgo, N.Node 11 Gemini, and the S.Node was 6 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Mary Anning (21 May 1799 - 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England. Anning's findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
Anning searched for fossils in the area's Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils. Her observations played a key role in the discovery that coprolites, known as bezoar stones at the time, were fossilised faeces, and she also discovered that belemnite fossils contained fossilised ink sacs like those of modern cephalopods.
As a Dissenter and a woman, Anning was not able to fully participate in the scientific community of 19th-century Britain, who were mostly Anglican gentlemen, and she struggled financially for much of her life. As a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions. However her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, based it largely on fossils Anning had found, and sold prints of it for her benefit.
Anning became well known in geological circles in Britain, Europe, and America, and was consulted on issues of anatomy as well as about collecting fossils, but the only scientific writing of hers published in her lifetime appeared in the Magazine of Natural History in 1839, an extract from a letter that Anning had written to the magazine's editor questioning one of its claims.
After her death in 1847, Anning's unusual life story attracted increasing interest. Charles Dickens wrote an article about Anning's life in February 1865 in his literary magazine All the Year Round.
In 2010 the Royal Society included Anning in a list of the ten British women who have most influenced the history of science.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning
Her natal Lilith was 7 Pisces, N.Node 1 Capricorn, and the S.Node 14 Gemini. Her natal Amazon was 18 Aquarius, the N.Node 25 Taurus, and the S.Node 20 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment of ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you for posting the Mary Anning's story and chart. It is a fascinating life story and have never heard about it. There is one thing that aside from the lilith conjunct pluto (and lilith's nodes on her moon's nodes) that i think it is interesting is the ceres pluto conjunction. From what i gather this relates to nature's direct intervention and help in the soul's life when it's needed. In her story, where themes of survival are very present, this correlated to direct help, nurturing, knowledge and teaching from Nature that allows this survival, and coming from ceres is then shared in a way that everyone benefits. To a greater or lesser degree i think this can be always the case when ceres is directly linked to the soul and karmic signature.
There is also an interesting story in her infancy that she was the only survival from a lightning strike that killed all the three women under a tree and one of them was holding her. In the chart is this seen in the uranus trine to the north node?
Also an additional topic. I was seeing the recent New York Times documentary on Britney Spears called "Framing Britney Spears" and find this is a deeply disturbing document and a teaching resource for those who study this things, particularly connected to Lilith, in her case how controlling and brainwashing women (and how women can take in this projections to hurt themselves, mental illness, etc.) can go to an extreme where an adult woman making millions of dollars a year and supporting financially her entire family, lawyers and opportunistic people, is now for more than a decade declared by justice as unable to make decisions on her own. I think she is a symbol that is sending the world a strong message of the complete distortion of everything that is natural.
What is most disturbing is seeing this is a woman with a 1st house pluto and strong sagittarius energy and is in a situation where she is locked in and society/family has thrown the key and this is happening on full display for everyone to see.
Rad if you see appropriate to discuss this case, could you post her chart? I can't display nodes for the additional depth.
Her birthdate is December 2nd 1981, 1.30 am, McComb (MS) USA.
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Helena,
Here is the birth chart for Britinay Spears. I really know almost nothing about her or her situation but please feel free to go ahead and initiate a discussion about her if you wish. Her natal Lilith is 22 Capricorn, N.Node is 18 Sagittarius, the S.Node is 0.09 of Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 23 Virgo, N.Node is 14 Taurus, and the S.node is 26 Scorpio.
The Cancer symbols certainly seem to correlate with what you have shared thus far not to mention her Lunar Nodal Axis in 4th/10th, Pluto conjunct Saturn squaring those nodes with it's ruler, Venus, conjunct that S.Node in the 4th.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you for that. Yes, i pretty much knew the same. Now some media coverage, including the documentary I mentioned, has brought to light a part of her true situation and is involving many discussions from the point of view of women's rights issues and how even this very famous star is in essence, and quite literally, being hostage of patriarchy and consensus projections. In short means that for last 13 years or so she has been in a legal situation in that her father was given control of her finances and she has been declared unable to manage, what could be an indefinite ruling, meaning she is trapped in this situation and the most amazing thing is that this person is the one paying for everything with her work, from her lawyers to her father lawyers that are against her...It's hard to think of a greater masochistic scheme and something as much absurd that someone who is an adult providing for herself from her own work is not able to decide her own life, a problem that seems to have arised from postpartum depression and mental instability, where family took advantage to step in control. If I understand correctly it is indeed a woman who internalised the idea she deserves exploitation and punishment and can't take care of herself to a large degree. Her mars in virgo in the 12th square neptune in the 3rd, moon in Aquarius ruled by Uranus in the 3rd.
I think this is a very interesting case to study from an EA point a view given her famous status and how at this point most souls and the issues they deal with when coming to the public sphere are are symbols of a much universal message. So I thought it was interesting to share it here for others too if they're interested.
From what I can understand she is 3rd state consensus just moving to first individuated, so if this is correct the issues she faces also impact a significant number of other souls that are also starting to question the consensus and make others reflect, which is in fact happening.
The chart correlations are too sadly accurate for a soul who has taken in significant distortions, and I would just like to bring attention to Lilith energy has a very significant symbol as to why she was not able to conform to the consensus anymore and so the crisis. Given for example the fact that her story seemed to have faced a turning point when she at some point finally refused to perform, make more money, if her father continued to manage her finances, and this has happened last year when Pluto was transiting Lilith and the south node. In my opinion this is significant enough, lilith's natural nature metamorphosing from the distortions with the Pluto transit, to confront the skipped step issues of Pluto Saturn and Jupiter in the first, and finally take the steps to break free (her moon in Aquarius, as nn ruler, also resolution node for the skipped steps).
Of course, what is shocking many people is it is only because she is a woman (and a desired symbol for the consensus 3rd stage) that a thing like this has happened, no other famous man that had a mental breakdown was declared unable to take care of his life and "given" indefinitely back to its father by a judge, and that is why this story is being given so much coverage. It is becoming obvious for our current society that this an absurdity, which is definitely a good thing.
All the best,
Helena
Hi Helena and Rad,
Many, many years ago, approximately 2005-2007, I had a client who was a nanny for Brittany for a short time. It was not long after her first child was born. As it has been documented, Brittany was experiencing intense postpartum depression and terrible mood swings, she was a total basket case. These hormonal shifts are not uncommon for women having children, but in her case, they were extreme (Pluto and Saturn in Libra squaring her Venus and SN in Capricorn in the 4th). At that time, transiting Pluto in Sagittarius was squaring her 12th house Mars in Virgo.
She was definitely forced to grow up fast, and by the age of 8, she was already 'going places' in the entertainment industry. Her need to grow up fast is seen with the SN in Capricorn in the 4th conjunct Venus, the ruler of her Pluto/Saturn balsamic conjunction in Libra. This is not a lifestyle conducive for a healthy integration of maturing emotion, especially with the pressure of that kind of work and needing to be 'on' all the time.
By the time she became a mother herself, in many respects, she was still emotionally functioning as a young girl, as she became famous for 'acting out' and exhibiting a high degree of displaced emotion. This behavior is a result of the emotional arrestment that occurred from repressing emotion in those critical growing years.
We teach in EA that there are no victims, so the question becomes WHY did she set up the life in this way? In recent lives she was born into powerful families where positions of 'status' and wealth were handed down to her. With her Pluto and Saturn forming a balsamic conjunction in Libra while squaring the Nodes, as well as Venus in Capricorn, the ruler of her skipped steps, she carries a deep guilt from past lives with respect to inheritance issues involving manipulation of power over others in order to get what she wanted. Therefore, with Mars in Virgo in the 12th trine the S.node / Venus, there has been a need to atone for these choices in recent lives.
We can see this atonement in how she created a situation for herself where her father was given all control of the decision making linked with her money that was not handed down to her but money that she herself earned.
If through these court battles she resumes full control of her wealth and becomes in charge of her financial choices again, a healthy and optimal way to atone for her guilt would be in using her position and wealth to help those in need or to better the world in some way, Mars in Virgo in the 12th trine Venus and SN in Capricorn.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hi Kristin!
Thank you for stepping in with a light on this, specially from advantage viewpoint of your experience in this story. I really couldn't arrive to what you say but makes sense, specially with the mars balsamic to Pluto. Of course this woman is victim of her own choices, if anything. I still think that paying someone to be against you in justice is one of the most extreme masochistic dynamics I have seen and no matter how much guilt anyone can personally feel on their journey, the fact that a society in a free country confirms this in court of law is such a caricature of the extremity things can get, that's why I find the story interesting from an EA point of view and capable of advancing people's minds for the absurdity in all of it.
What do you make of Lilith here? The more I study into this things the more it is clear to me that lilith in the charts of women, specially when it's prominent, is almost the why behind the why, the key that can unlock everything. And here the Pluto transit tends to confirm it.
Relative to the chart and juxtaposing that to the interviews in the documentary, what I saw was this woman who has used the attention she had on the beginning or her early career to her own empowerment, a child prodigy meaning she really already knew how to do this, but that came to a very high cost of having to suppress all the desires and emotions that didn't fit in the desires of the society that was giving her all that fame (that is why I see her in this threshold point between consensus and individuated as very significant, do you agree?), this came to a point of having a relationship (with another famous singer) where her virginity and whether or not she remained a virgin was a social topic that she had to justify, it is heartbreaking to see this interview where this powerful girl/woman is in fact interiorising the guilt of something she naturally feels is wrong, you can see it in her eyes. And well this same society didn't question if her boyfriend was a virgin... It still blows my mind how that can fit into a soul with 1st house Pluto and a sagittarius sun. Of course the answer is as you say, the ruler of that Pluto is venus in Capricorn and Saturn is balsamic to Pluto which is the why of the repression relative to the evolutionary state, if I'm correct.
I also tend to have framed skipped steps in my understanding, and when I see it in the chart, as something that is not finished, that is not accomplished, that is not done, so that's why in her case it all comes down to a woman that is not free, that represses her instincts to please the whole leading to the volcano like eruption that is lilith in the south node Cap. saying "well, no..." and the caos that necessarily arises to reach those emotions, the nn cancer moon Aquarius, and in her case the first house and fear of entrapment probably contributed to the postpartum depression being so severe. But thing is, as a society, and or course we don't know the specifics of the case, I still think this is a story of quite literal patriarchal projection of the "crazy woman" and not a woman that needed treatment and support, not the message you go on and make money for all of us and we take care of you because you're crazy. And she apparently is finally not agreeing and fighting with that. I also tended to see the family interactions and the moon Aquarius in the 5th ruled by Uranus vesta as almost like child abuse almost like prostitution, where she is providing for all the family, would this not be the case at all?
Well for me in essence this is an example of a story that can contribute for women to question this things that are much transversal to mainstream society and I hope it sparks a bit to real lilith fire in all of us ;-)
Then again thank you Kristin for your light on this,
Helena
Hi Helena,
As timing would have it I saw a brand new report on Australian 60 minutes about Spears: here is a link to youtube if you want to watch it......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIvJpl1esM
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
This is an excellent addition to the documentary, in fact I had forgotten a part that replays here relative to what I had mentioned before about being so clear to social treatment differences relative for instance sexual expectations, where there was an interview of her where she was asked whether she remained a virgin and at the same time, you can see it here, another interview of the boyfriend where he is asked to brag, and I quote, if he "fucked her"...
It's just a detail but illustrates the whole thing and I'm so happy to notice that this was just 20 years ago and how much the world and collective consciousness as evolved (even if very little in the big picture) that an interview of this sorts would backlash for sure instead of being fun and universally accepted for stars with this level of fame and public acclaim.
Of course, this sort of speech is being wrapped up in a whole new package branded as "cancel culture", another trumpist inheritance, that because it appropriates universal rights and notions of freedom of speech confuses people in all sorts of social corners and allows this to continue but with a lesser degree of mainstream acceptance.
Thank you for posting it Rad,
Helena
Hi Helena,
The prior lives where Brittany inherited money and a position of status comes from the Pluto/ Saturn in Libra squaring the nodes. Pluto equaling inheritance, and Venus, the ruler of Pluto in Libra on that South Node in Capricorn in the 4th. Her wounding others with those choices can be seen with Chiron in Taurus in the 8th/ inheritance/manipulation, etc ..It is retrograde, hence her need to repent and re-route her choices seen with Mars in Virgo balsamic to Pluto/Saturn in Libra, to heal those tendencies from the past.
Her Lilith in Cap conjunct her Venus and South Node re-states the power she was given in the past through families of origin. However, in this life, that natal Lilith is all about GROWING UP and becoming an adult and taking responsibility for her own life, remembering too that her s.node of Lilith is 0.09 Cancer in the 9th, ruled by the Aquarius moon in the 5th ie. not really wanting to grow up.
The resolution node of her skipped steps is the North Node in Cancer, thus ruled by the Moon in Aquarius in the 5th. So it would seem given that the natal Lilith in the 4th with Venus/ S.Node that the inner growing up taking place in this life will manifest via the controls in place and in the environment created by those controls that will take her into her next life.
Her Moon in Aquarius, the ruler of her North Node in Cancer, also reflects the rebellion we are now witnessing, so yes I agree, a 3rd stage consensus Soul but "tip toeing" into the 1st stage Individuated.
Remember that the trinity ie past, present, future, can be seen in any signature.
In particular with Lilith, as we know, there is the original expression, the distorted, and the resolution, which can also ALL be seen within ONE symbol. (which is why early on in this asteroid goddess thread we suggested people only focus on the asteroid Lilith versus the dark Moon and the black Moon Lilith to minimize confusion, remembering too that the Asteroid Lilith is an actual asteroid with Nodes versus the other two being projections in space)
The distortions can also be seen through the hard aspects to the Original Lilith or the shadows that exist within any archetype. Every archetype, as you know, has a light and a shadow.
So while the long term goal for Brittany will be to become her own inner authority and in charge of her entire reality, that may be a lifetime or two away depending on efforts made, because in this life, she still prefers to have a more controlled environment to lean on. Perhaps too because of not trusting herself with those choices due to echoes of the past.
Her Original Lilith in Cap with its square to Pluto/Saturn reflects the guilt in her Soul that she carries into this life. The trine to Mars in Virgo in the 12th, her highway for atonement and giving away her power in a sense so she does not make the same mistakes twice or thrice.
It is important to remind ourselves that her Soul set this life up in this way. According to the documentary, she is not wanting to give up the controlled environment, she appears to agree that she needs that kind of over sight. But she does want to remove her father from the picture. Perhaps she has come to find out the hard way that family cannot be trusted, or that she is not wanting to be responsible for floating her family's lavish lifestyle.
Again, it would be a fine thing if she won this case and re-directed monies to a meaningful cause or to those in need. This would be cathartic to her Soul to know she has made a difference in this way. Her choices leading to something good, something that benefits the whole.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
P.S.
You wrote." What do you make of Lilith here? The more I study into this things the more it is clear to me that lilith in the charts of women, specially when it's prominent, is almost the why behind the why, the key that can unlock everything.
I agree..As an archetype, Lilith symbolizes the feminine fingerprint, and thus her sense of power for who she how she was created as a woman in the world.
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Transiting Pluto is conjunct her Asteroid Lilith and Venus in Capricorn, so an opportunity to eliminate anything that does not add onto her journey and anything that limits her growth. In essence, it could lead to an ascent (Capricorn) of her own feeling of personal power....power without so many chains.)
And, yes, it is sure to unlock her in many ways.
Hi Kristin and Rad,
This is such an interesting story in so many ways from an EA and social perspective. Thank you again for expanding on the past because i really would not have arrive at those dynamics per se. Nonetheless this prompts other questions i can't have the moment to expand right now but will approach when i can.
Thank you,
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Loujain al-Hathloul (Arabic: Ù,,جين اÙ,,هذÙ,,ÙˆÙ,,"Ž Lujjayn al-HadhlÅ«l; born 31 July 1989) is a Saudi women's rights activist, a social media figure, and a former political prisoner. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia. Al-Hathloul has been arrested and released on several occasions for defying the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia and was arrested in May 2018, with several prominent women's rights activists, on the charge of "attempting to destabilise the kingdom" after being effectively kidnapped in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). As of October 2018, her husband, Saudi stand-up comedian Fahad al-Butairi, had also been forcefully returned from Jordan to the Kingdom and was under arrest.
Al-Hathloul was ranked third in the list of "Top 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2015". In March 2019, PEN America announced that Nouf Abdulaziz, al-Hathloul, and Eman al-Nafjan would receive the 2019 PEN America/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. Al-Hathloul was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2019". Al-Hathloul was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 and 2020. She is shortlisted for the 2020 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize - the winner will be announced on 16 April 2021. She was released from prison on 10 February 2021.
Women's rights activism (2014-2017)
Al-Hathloul is known both for her role in the women to drive movement and in opposing the Saudi male guardianship system. On 1 December 2014, she was arrested and detained for 73 days after an attempt to cross the border in her car from the UAE to Saudi Arabia, on charges related to defying the female driving ban in the kingdom.] She has a UAE licence but the Saudi police still arrested her. Al-Hathloul attempted to stand in Saudi local elections in December 2015, the first vote in Saudi Arabia to include women, but was barred.
In September 2016, along with 14,000 others, al-Hathloul signed a petition to King Salman asking for the male guardianship system to be abolished. On 4 June 2017, she was arrested and detained at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam. The reason for the arrest was not officially disclosed, although Amnesty International believed it was for her human rights activism, and al-Hathloul was not allowed access to a lawyer or any contact with her family.
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain_al-Hathloul
Her natal Lilith is 12 Scorpio, N.Node is 4 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 5 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 28 Scorpio, N.Node is 8 Gemini, and the S.Node is 4 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (Arabic: شيخة Ù,,طيÙØ© بنت Ù...ØÙ...د بن راشد Ø¢Ù,, Ù...كتوÙ..."Ž, romanized: Laá¹Ä«fa bint Muḥammad bin RÄshid al-MaktÅ«m; born 5 December 1985) is an Emirati sheikha and a member of the Dubai ruling family. Her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is the prime minister of the UAE, and her mother, Huriah Ahmed al M'aash, is from Algeria.
She has two half-sisters with the same name. She is the full sister of Sheikha Maitha (born 1980), Sheikha Shamsa (born 1981), and Sheikh Majid (born 1987).
Sheikha Latifa escaped from Dubai in late February 2018 and was forcibly returned from international waters near the Indian coast by a joint India-Emirates operation on 4 March 2018.[11] In December 2018, the Dubai royal court said that she was back in Dubai. She is believed to currently be held against her will under the order of her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifa_bint_Mohammed_Al_Maktoum_(II)
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ROYAL ESCAPE Who is Princess Latifa of Dubai and why did she run away?
19 Feb 2021,
Tariq TahirChiara Fiorillo
The Sun
PRINCESS Latifa sent secret video messages to her friends saying she has been held "hostage".
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uu1z3bgDWM
The daughter of Dubai's ruler said she feared for her life as she was kept in a villa that was turned into a jail. On February 19, the UN stepped in and asked the United Arab Emirates for "proof of life". In response, the Dubai royal family has now said Princess Latifa is "being cared for at home".
Who is Princess Latifa of Dubai?
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum is the 35-year-old daughter of Dubai's billionaire ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
The Sheikh is the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates - and reportedly has several children from various wives.
In a 40-minute video released her escape bid, Latifa said she had previously tried to leave the UAE aged 16 but was captured at the border, jailed for three years, beaten and tortured.
The Princess laid out the reasons why she wanted to flee in the video.
She alleged her family had imprisoned and tortured her and she wanted to escape the clutches of her father.
The Princess also said she was the daughter of the Dubai ruler and an Algerian mother, Horriya Ahmed.
Where is Princess Latifa?
In a video she sent to her friends - which was obtained by BBC Panorama - Princess Latifa said she was being kept in a "villa jail".
She said: "I'm doing this video from a bathroom because this is the only room with a door I can lock."
The Princess explained she couldn't lock the door to her room as there was no key.
The villa is believed to be in Dubai, according to BBC Panorama.
On Friday, February 19, the Dubai royal family issued a statement claiming the princess is now "being cared for at home".
In the statement issued via the UAE embassy in London, the family said: "In response to media reports regarding Sheikha Latifa, we want to thank those who have expressed concern for her wellbeing, despite the coverage which certainly is not reflective of the actual position."
"Her family has confirmed that Her Highness is being cared for at home, supported by her family and medical professionals.
"She continues to improve and we are hopeful she will return to public life at the appropriate time."
No photos of video footage was released with the statement proving the princess is alive, however.
The princess accused her father of holding her hostage.
In a secret message to her friends, she said: "I'm a hostage and this villa has been converted into a jail.
"All the windows are barred shut, I can't open any window.
"There's five policemen outside and two policewomen inside the house.
"And I can't even go outside to get any fresh air."
She added she didn't know when she would be released - and on which conditions.
Her worried friends, however, have said she stopped sending messages and called for the UN to step in.
On Feb 19, the UN asked the United Arab Emirates to provide "proof of life".
A spokesperson for Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, said on Friday that the UN had "expressed our concerns regarding the situation, in light of the disturbing videos which have surfaced this week. We have requested more information and clarification on the current situation."
She added: "We asked for proof of life."
Princess Latifa said she wanted to run away due to her family background.
In a video, she accused her father of mistreating her and her sister Shamsa along with other serious charges, including murder.
According to friends, Princess Latifa of Dubai saved up £315,000 and contacted Hervé Jaubert, a former French spy and naval officer.
She learned he had escaped the Dubai authorities, because of a financial dispute, by putting on a burqa and then scuba diving into international waters.
A 2010 book he wrote Escape from Dubai, which prompted Sheikha Latifa to contact him, he said.
Together with Tiina Jauhiainen, her Finnish martial arts teacher and friend, she drove over the border to Oman where a dinghy and then jet skies took them to Mr Jaubert's 100ft yacht called Nostromo.
But after a week at sea on the Indian Ocean, Mr Jaubert claims they were spotted and monitored by reconnaissance planes.
Then off Goa they were boarded by what appeared to be crew from the Indian coastguard.
The runaway princess was then dragged off the yacht by what were believed to have been commandos.
Ms Jauhiainen said she watched her friend being dragged away "kicking and screaming for her life".
She has not been seen in public since and her Instagram account has been closed.
Relatives insist Sheikha Latifa is "safe" in Dubai and released a video of her at the end of last year at home with former Irish President Mary Robinson.
What's happened so far:
July 2000: Latifa's older sister Shamsa escapes during a family holiday in their Surrey estate. A month later she is found by her father's men. She is then flown back to Dubai on a private plane.
June 2002: Princess Latifa makes her first escape attempt at the age of 16. She is to get across the border of UAE and Oman but is caught and brought back to Dubai. She is imprisoned for three years and four months.
2010: Latifa meets fitness instructor Tiina Jauhiainen, they become close friends.
2011: The Princess contacts Herve Jaubert, a French businessman who previously escaped Dubai.
February 2018: Latifa is planning to escape Dubai.
February 24, 2018: Latifa and Ms Jauhiainen meet and then join Mr Jaubert. They plan to fly to India and then Latifa hopes to get to the United States and claim political asylum.
March 4, 2018: Their boat, off the coast of India, is boarded by special forces. Latifa is dragged off the boat. Ms Jauhiainen and the crew are detained in a high security facility in the UAE. Two weeks later, they are released.
December 2018: Latifa's family say she is "safe in Dubai". Some pictures of her are released.
April 2019: Princess Haya, the second "official wife" of Sheikh Mohammed, escapes Dubai to the UK.
2020: Lawyer David Haigh realises messages to Latifa are not getting through and contact with her is lost.
February 2021: Former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson says she is deeply worried about Latifa. On Feb 19, 2021, the UN asked the United Arab Emirates for proof that the Dubai ruler's daughter is still alive, and in response, the family issued a statement saying she was now "being cared for at home"
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Her natal Lilith is 5 Capricorn, N.Node is 19 Sagittarius, S.Node is 27 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 15 Taurus, N.Node is 13 Taurus, and the S.Node is 27 Scorpio.
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Here is the birth chart for Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (/ˈaɪlɪʃ/ EYE-lish; born December 18, 2001 at 11:30 am) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She first gained attention in 2015 when she uploaded the song "Ocean Eyes" to SoundCloud, which was subsequently released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom. The song was written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. Her debut EP, Don't Smile at Me (2017), became a sleeper hit, reaching the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Eilish's debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200, reached number-one in the UK, and became one of the best-selling albums of 2019. The album's fifth single "Bad Guy" became her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2020, she performed the theme song "No Time to Die" for the James Bond film of the same name, which became her first number-one single in the UK. Her later singles "Everything I Wanted", "My Future", and "Therefore I Am" peaked within the top 10 in the US and UK.
Eilish has received several accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, and one Brit Award. She is the youngest person and the second in history to win the four main Grammy categories-Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year-in the same year. In 2019, Time magazine placed her on their inaugural Time 100 Next list. Eilish is the 26th-highest-certified artist of the digital singles era, according to the RIAA.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish and Billie Eilish's film shows post-Britney pop pressures are as tough as ever: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/26/billie-eilish-the-worlds-a-little-blurry-documentary-film-britney-spears-pop-stardom
Her natal Lilith is 7 Scorpio, N.Node is 22 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 29 Cancer, N.Node is 9 Taurus, and the S.Node is 0.09 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; Hebrew: ×—× ×" ×¡× ×©"Ž; Hungarian: Szenes Anna; July 17, 1921 - November 7, 1944) was a poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member. She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.
Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, then imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission. She was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. She is regarded as a national heroine in Israel, where her poetry is widely known and the headquarters of the Zionist youth movements Israel Hatzeira, a kibbutz and several streets are named after her.
Early life
Szenes was born on July 17, 1921, to an assimilated Jewish family in Hungary. Her father, Béla, a journalist and playwright, died when Hannah was six years old. She continued to live with her mother, Kathrine, and her brother, György.
She enrolled in a Protestant private school for girls that also accepted Catholic and Jewish pupils; however those of the Catholic and Jewish faith had to pay double and three times the amount Protestants paid. After her mother thought it was too expensive, Szenes was declared a "gifted student" and allowed to only pay double the usual amount. This, along with the realization that the situation of the Jews in Hungary was becoming precarious, prompted Szenes to embrace Zionism, and she joined Maccabea, a Hungarian Zionist students organization.
Immigration to Nahalal
Szenes graduated in 1939 and decided to emigrate to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine in order to study in the Girls' Agricultural School at Nahalal. In 1941, she joined Kibbutz Sdot Yam and then joined the Haganah, the paramilitary group that laid the foundation of the Israel Defense Forces.
The scholar of Jewish Mysticism Joseph G. Weiss was in love with her and parts of their correspondence were published after his death.
In 1943, she enlisted in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class. Later the same year, she was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was sent to Egypt for parachute training.
Arrest and torture
On March 14, 1944, she and colleagues Yoel Palgi and Peretz Goldstein were parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group. After landing, they learned the Germans had already occupied Hungary, so the men decided to call off the mission as too dangerous.
Szenes continued on and headed for the Hungarian border. At the border, she and her companions were arrested by Hungarian gendarmes, who found her British military transmitter, used to communicate with the SOE and other partisans. She was taken to a prison, stripped, tied to a chair, then whipped and clubbed for three days. She lost several teeth as a result of the beating.
The guards wanted to know the code for her transmitter so they could find out who the parachutists were and trap others. Transferred to a Budapest prison, Szenes was repeatedly interrogated and tortured, but only revealed her name and refused to provide the transmitter code, even when her mother was also arrested. They threatened to kill her mother if she did not cooperate, but she refused.
While in prison, Szenes used a mirror to flash signals out of the window to prisoners in other cells and communicated using large cut-out letters that she placed in her cell window one at a time and by drawing the Magen David in the dust.
Trial and execution
She was tried for treason in Hungary on October 28, 1944. There was an eight-day postponement to give the judges more time to find a verdict, followed by another postponement, this one because of the appointment of a new Judge Advocate. She was executed by a firing squad on November 7, 1944.
She kept diary entries until her last day. One of them read: "In the month of July, I shall be twenty-three/I played a number in a game/The dice have rolled. I have lost," and another: "I loved the warm sunlight."
Her diary was published in Hebrew in 1946. Her remains were brought to Israel in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Her tombstone was brought to Israel in November 2007 and placed in Sdot Yam.
During the trial of Rudolf Kastner, Hannah's mother testified that during the time her daughter was imprisoned, Kastner's people had advised her not to obtain a lawyer for her daughter. Further, she recalled a conversation with Kastner after the war, telling him, "I don't say that you could have saved my daughter Hannah, but that you didn't try - it makes it harder for me that nothing was done."
After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were informed on November 5, 1993.
Poetry, songs and plays
Szenes was a poet and playwright, writing both in Hungarian and Hebrew. The following are four of her better known poems. The best known of these is "A Walk to Caesarea", commonly known as Eli, Eli ("My God, My God"). The well-known melody was composed by David Zahavi. Many singers have sung it, including Ofra Haza, Regina Spektor, and Sophie Milman. It was used to close some versions of the film Schindler's List.
Her natal Lilith is 18 Aries, N.Node is 7 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 1 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 29 Pisces, N.Node is 7 Gemini, and the S.Node is 5 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Arabic: نادية Ù...راد باسي طه"Ž; born January 14,1993) is an Iraqi Yazid human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months.
Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their lives and communities".
In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict". She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
Presently, she is an advocate for Sustainable Development Goals appointed by Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Early life and capture by ISIS
Murad was born in the village of Kocho in Sinjar District, Iraq. Her family, of the Yazidi minority, were farmers.] At the age of 19, Murad was a student living in the village of Kocho in Sinjar, northern Iraq when Islamic State fighters rounded up the Yazidi community in the village, killing 600 people - including six of Nadia's brothers and stepbrothers - and taking the younger women and girls into slavery. That year, Murad was one of more than 6,700 Yazidi women and girls taken prisoner by Islamic State in Iraq. She was captured on 15 August 2014. She was held as a slave in the city of Mosul, where she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, and raped repeatedly. She successfully escaped after her captor left the house unlocked. Murad was taken in by a neighboring family, who were able to smuggle her out of the Islamic State controlled area, allowing her to make her way to a refugee camp in Duhok, Kurdistan Region. She was out of ISIS territory in early September or in November 2014.
In February 2015, she gave her first testimony to reporters of the Belgian daily newspaper La Libre Belgique while she was staying in the Rwanga camp, living in a converted shipping container. In 2015, she was one of 1,000 women and children to benefit from a refugee programme of the Government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which became her new home.
Career and activism
Human Rights panel in Vienna in 2018: left to right: 1 Abid Shamdeen 2 Nadia Murad 3 Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein 4 Karin Kneissl 5 Michael O'Flaherty 6 Hauwa Ibrahim 7 Max Schrems 8 Susana Chiarotti
On 16 December 2015, Murad spoke to the United Nations Security Council about human trafficking and conflict. This was the first time the Council was ever briefed on human trafficking. As part of her role as an ambassador, Murad will participate in global and local advocacy initiatives to bring awareness of human trafficking and refugees. Murad has reached out to refugee and survivor communities, listening to testimonies of victims of trafficking and genocide.
In September 2016, Attorney Amal Clooney spoke before the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to discuss the decision that she had made in June 2016[20] to represent Murad as a client in legal action against ISIL commanders] Clooney characterized the genocide, rape, and trafficking by ISIL as a "bureaucracy of evil on an industrial scale", describing it as a slave market existing online, on Facebook and in the Mideast that is still active today. Murad has received serious threats to her safety as a result of her work.
In September 2016, Murad announced Nadia's Initiative at an event hosted by Tina Brown in New York City. The Initiative intends to provide advocacy and assistance to victims of genocide. That same month, she was named the first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC).
On 3 May 2017, Murad met Pope Francis and Archbishop Gallagher in the Vatican City. During the meeting, she "asked for helping Yazidis who are still in ISIS captivity, acknowledged the Vatican support for minorities, discussed the scope for an autonomous region for minorities in Iraq, highlighted the current situation and challenges facing religious minorities in Iraq and Syria particularly the victims and internally displaced people as well as immigrants".
Murad's memoir, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, was published by Crown Publishing Group on 7 November 2017, which is an autobiographical in which she describes being captured and enslaved by the Islamic State.
In 2018, director Alexandria Bombach produced a documentary film called On Her Shoulders that featured Murad's life story and activism.
In 2019, Murad addressed the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom[30] where she spoke about her story and the ongoing challenges faced by Yazidis nearly five years after the 3 August 2014 attacks and laid out a "five-point plan of action" to address the challenges they face in Iraq.] Murad was included among a delegation of survivors of religious persecution from around the world whose stories were highlighted at the summit. As part of the delegation, on 17 July 2019, Murad met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with whom she shared her personal story of having lost her family members, including her mother and six brothers, and pleaded with him to do something.
Personal life
In August 2018, Murad became engaged to fellow Yazidi human rights activist Abid Shamdeen.] They have since married.
Here is a link for her book The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Girl-Captivity-Against-Islamic-ebook/dp/B06WLJZRDN/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Nadia+Murad&qid=1617449296&s=books&sr=1-1
For more: https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/nadia-murad.html
Her natal Lilith is 27 Libra, N.Node is 28 Sagittarius, S.Node 29 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 18 Leo, N.Node is 4 Taurus, and the S.Node is 5 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Tristane Banon (born 13 June 1979) is a French journalist and writer. She is the daughter of Anne Mansouret and Gabriel Banon. She is a regular contributor on youth affairs at the French news website Atlantico.
Early life and education
Tristane Banon was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France. She is the daughter of Anne Mansouret, Socialist vice-president of the general council of Eure, representing Évreux-Est, in Upper Normandy. and French-Moroccan businessman Gabriel Banon who served as industrial policy advisor to French President Georges Pompidou and as economic advisor to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. She is of Moroccan Jewish descent on her father's side and Iranian and Belgian on her mother's side.
She is a god-daughter of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's second wife Brigitte Guillemette.
Banon earned a diploma from the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris.
Career
Banon initially worked as a journalist, anchorwoman on a television show about new information and communication technologies, and as a sport journalist. She was employed in the politics department, and later the cultural department, of the French weekly Paris-Match, then worked at the daily newspaper Le Figaro.
Her first book, a long essay entitled Erreurs avouées"¦ (au masculin) about the biggest mistakes in the lives of political figures, was published in November 2003 by Anne Carrière. A short novel, Noir délire, inspired by the death of French actress Marie Trintignant, was released the same year in the literary review Bordel.
Her first novel J'ai oublié de la tuer ("I Forgot to Kill Her") was published in September 2004 by éditions Anne Carrière (édition Le Livre de Poche n° 30743). The novel, described by Banon as part-autobiographical, tells the story of a young girl's ruined childhood, neglected by her mother and forced to fend for herself against an alcoholic and abusive nanny.
Her second novel Trapéziste ("Trapezist") appeared in 2006, followed by Daddy Frénésie ("Daddy Frenzy") in 2008.
Allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
On 5 February 2007, during a television chat-show, Banon alleged that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had attempted to rape her in 2002 during the course of an interview while she was researching Erreurs avouées: "It ended really badly. We ended up fighting. It finished really violently "¦ I said the word 'rape' to scare him but it didn't seem to scare him much"¦ " Strauss-Kahn's name was initially bleeped out when the television program was broadcast. The news website AgoraVox later repeated the allegations with his name included and Banon subsequently repeated them on a video recording. Banon's mother, Socialist Party politician Anne Mansouret, said in an interview that she had persuaded her daughter not to file charges at the time of the alleged rape attempt.
On 16 May 2011, it was reported Banon planned to file a legal complaint against Strauss-Kahn. On 20 May, Banon's lawyer, David Koubbi, said that neither he nor Banon wanted to be used (instrumentalisé) by the American judicial system in the New York v. Strauss-Kahn case, later dismissed due to the unreliability in the statements of the main prosecution witness. On 4 July, following Strauss-Kahn's release from house-arrest on his own recognizance in the New York case, David Koubbi said that Banon would file a complaint against Strauss-Kahn the following day. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers responded by saying they would in turn file a complaint of false accusation (dénonciation calomnieuse) against Banon.
The allegations were referred to, but without naming Banon explicitly, in Christophe Dubois' and Christophe Deloire's best-selling 2006 book Sexus Politicus about the private lives and sexual mores of leading French political figures. They were also the subject of the concluding chapter of Michel Taubmann's authorised biography Le Roman vrai de Dominique Strauss-Kahn ("The True Story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn"). Banon contested the version of events described in the biography when it appeared in May 2011.
In July 2011, the Paris prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation into Banon's complaint. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers said he had instructed them to open a countercomplaint against Banon for slander. In September Banon stated that if there is no criminal prosecution, she would bring a civil case against Strauss-Kahn. According to a report in L'Express, Strauss-Kahn admits to attempting to kiss Banon. On 29 September, Banon confronted Strauss-Kahn at a Paris police station at the request of French prosecutors investigating the alleged assault. In October the French public prosecutors dropped the investigation. They stated that there was a lack of evidence regarding the allegation of attempted rape. Although there was evidence of the less serious charge of "sexual assault", that charge could not be prosecuted because of the statute of limitations. According to transcripts of the police interrogation released by Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, Strauss-Kahn stated that, as Banon was leaving the apartment, he attempted to embrace her and to kiss her on the mouth; she pushed him away forcefully, saying something like "What are you doing?" and left.
In 2020, Banon was featured in the Netflix documentary series Room 2806: The Accusation, which details the New York allegation and other cases of alleged sexual assault by Strauss-Kahn, based on interviews with persons involved.
for more: Strauss-Kahn accuser Tristane Banon helps shape new French rape law: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/26/dominique-strauss-kahn-accuser-tristane-banon-helps-shape-new-french-law
Her natal Lilith is 9 Leo, N.Node 20 Sagittarius, and the S.Node is 21 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 24 Aries, N.Node is 29 Taurus, and the S.Node is 11 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Yulia Vladimirovna Tsvetkova (born 23 May 1993) is a Russian artist and activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. On the 11th of February 2020, she was recognized as a political prisoner.
Biography
Tsvetkova's mother, Anna Leonidovna Khodyreva, was born and raised in the city of Kirov. Khodyreva is a teacher by training, and also studied set design. She worked as a director's assistant at the National Theatre for many years. Khodyreva founded the first early childhood education center in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in 1996.
From a young age, Tsvetkova was engaged in creative endeavors. By the age of thirteen she had her first solo exhibition at the Komsomolk-on-Amur modern art gallery. For several years she hosted "Amur Stars," a youth program on the local television channel. She was designated as one of the gifted children of the Khabarovsk Territory.
At the age of 15, Tsvetkova left school with dreams of becoming a choreographer. She moved to Moscow at the age of 17, where she trained at a variety of dance schools, studying modern dance. Later, she studied martial arts and parkour. She received her ADAPT coaching certification from the London-based Parkour Generations, but was forced to end her sporting career due to injury.
Tsvetkova began studying direction and screenwriting at the London Film School, but due to personal reasons was forced to leave her studies and return to her hometown of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Between 2013 and 2017 she conducted English, theatre, and dance classes for children.
Activism
In 2018, Tsvetkova began her activism. She wrote and lectured on feminism, LGBT rights, anti-militarism, and the environment.
On 9 September 2018, she opened a city community center for civic initiatives. The cultural center hosted weekly lectures, "Living Library" sessions, support groups for schoolchildren and mothers, environmental actions, and an inclusive market for handmade goods.
In 2018 she founded the Merak Theatre Company, which staged original productions. The theatre was non-hierarchical, with actors actively participating in the production process. Shows included elements of improvisation, dance, and forum theatre. In 2018, Merak staged three performances: a dance based on Stravinsky's Sacred Spring, a poetic performance about growing up, named "Evolution," and an English-language show titled "The History of English." In 2018, Merak performed at the largest venues in the city. "The History of English" was named one of the city's top ten major productions.
During the second half of 2018, the theatre was preparing four productions for the Color of Saffron activist art festival: a dance about the Prague Spring, a performance on prosecution titled "The Untouchables," a satirical anti-war performance named "Bless the Lord and His Ammunition," and a humorous performance titled "Pink and Blue" about the dangers of gender stereotypes.
At the beginning of February, the theatre administrator received a call from city officials. A city employee asked about the performances and the festival, inquiring about the anti-war performance. The next day, the Merak's venue had its permits revoked. Tsvetkova appealed to the media to publicize this illegal interference into the youth festival's activity. After receiving media attention, Tsvetkova and the theatre administrator were summoned to speak to city officials. The officials asked that they not spread negative publicity about the city, and to not conduct performances based on anti-militaristic themes or about persecution.
The theatre found a new venue, and preparations for the festival continued. The second week of March police arrived at the local school and interrogated the theatre's underage actors. They conducted these interrogations without the presence of the children's parents, and asked them about "homosexual propaganda" and extremism. The next day, the owner of the festival's new venue was summoned to speak to city officials, where she was told that she would be stripped of her property should she hold an "LGBT Festival."
Tsvetkova decided that the performances should be shown regardless, but to a closed audience of the performer's parents, and select members of the press. The audience numbered 15 spectators, and the performance was filmed.
In June, Merak Theatre Company released "Fairy Tales - Realistic Tales," an English performance about Russian fairy tales. In November 2019, the recording of the performance of "Pink and Blue" was screened at the St. Petersburg Feminist Festival "Eve's Ribs." The show was also attended by the police.
On December 3rd, 2019, the Theatre Critics Association published an open letter in support of Tsvetkova's artistic, educational, and civil activities.
Criminal charges
Declared a political prisoner by the Memorial society.
According to Memorial's human rights advocates, the criminal prosecution against Yulia is connected to her public position and the importance of her role in the feminist movement.
She is the organizer of the activist art festival Saffron Flower (in Russian) and the founder of the "Woman--not doll" project which destigmatizes the female body. She is also the director of the "Merak" youth theater.
Yulia was accused of illegal production and traffic of pornographic material through the Internet. The prosecutor requested a prison sentence from 2 to 6 years for her for managing a feminist website "The Vagina Monologues", likening its content to pornography.
She is under house arrest since 22 November 2019. The investigation against her began on 24 October 2019 after a report from well-known "Jihadist Moral" activist Timur Bulatov. On December 13, 2019, while under house arrest, Yulia Tsvetkova was declared guilty according to the homophobic "gay propaganda" law for committing an administrative offense by promoting non-traditional sexual relations between minors through the Internet and was fined 50.000 rubles for publishing content regarding the rights of LGBT groups on the web.
On January 17, 2020 Yulia was informed of a new charge included in the same report for her picture with the text: "Family is where love is. I support LGTB+ families". On July 10, was fined 75,000 roubles ($1,000) on charges of spreading "gay propaganda" among minors by publishing drawings of same-sex couples with children online.] On February 24, 2020 Tsvetkova informed her friends and followers on social networks about the threats and blackmail coming from the extremist homophobic group "The Saw" ("Пила").
On February 26, 2020 Tsvetkova filed a complaint against the Investigation Committee regarding the illegitimate restriction of her right to medical care during her house arrest.
On March 2, 2020 the police informed of a new complaint from Bulatov against Yulia's mother - Anna Khodyreva, in which he accuses her of propagandizing unconventional values.
On April 16, 2020 Yulia Tsvetkova received the international award "Index on Censorship" under the "Art" category, becoming the second Russian woman to receive this award after Anna Politkovskaya.
On June 27, 2020 over 30 female activists detained after one-person protests in support of Yulia Tsvetkova in Moscow. On July 7, 2020 the third administrative case opened against Tsvetkova under Russia's "gay propaganda law"
More: https://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/10696650-russia-puts-feminist-activist-trial-pornography.html#.1258-stage-hero1-9
Her natal Lilith is 16 Libra, N.Node is 29 Sagittarius, S.Node is 14 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 13 Leo, N.Node 24 Taurus, and the S.Node 18 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نواÙ,, اÙ,,سعداوي"Ž, 27 October 1931 - 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman".
She was founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. She was awarded honorary degrees on three continents. In 2004, she won the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe. In 2005, she won the Inana International Prize in Belgium, and in 2012, the International Peace Bureau awarded her the 2012 Seán MacBride Peace Prize.
Early life
The second-eldest of nine children, Saadawi was born in 1931 in the small village of Kafr Tahla. Saadawi was "circumcised" (her clitoris cut off) at the age of six, yet her father insisted that all his children be educated.
Her Upper Egyptian father was a government official in the Egyptian Ministry of Education, who had campaigned against the rule of the British occupation of Egypt and Sudan during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. As a result, he was exiled to a small town in the Nile Delta, and the government punished him by not promoting him for 10 years. He was relatively progressive and taught his daughter self-respect and to speak her mind. He also encouraged her to study the Arabic language. However, when El Saadawi was 10 her family tried to make her marry, but her mother supported her in resisting. Both her parents died at a young age, leaving Saadawi with the sole burden of providing for a large family. Her mother, Zaynab, was from a wealthy Ottoman descendant family; Saadawi described both her maternal grandfather, Shoukry, and her maternal grandmother as having been of Turkish origin.] Even as a child she objected to the male-dominated society she lived in, with sons valued far more highly than daughters, reacting angrily to her grandmother who said that "a boy is worth 15 girls at least... Girls are a blight". She described herself proudly as a dark-skinned Egyptian woman since she was young.
Career
Saadawi graduated as a medical doctor in 1955 from Cairo University. That year, she married Ahmed Helmi, whom she met as a fellow student in medical school. They have a daughter, Mona Helmi. The marriage ended after two years. Through her medical practice, she observed women's physical and psychological problems and connected them with oppressive cultural practices, patriarchal oppression, class oppression and imperialist oppression.[20] Her second husband was a colleague, Rashad Bey.
While working as a doctor in her birthplace of Kafr Tahla, she observed the hardships and inequalities faced by rural women. After attempting to protect one of her patients from domestic violence, Saadawi was summoned back to Cairo. She eventually became the Director of the Ministry of Public Health and met her third husband, Sherif Hatata, while sharing an office in the Ministry of Health. Hatata, also a medical doctor and writer, had been a political prisoner for 13 years. They married in 1964 and have a son. Saadawi and Hatata lived together for 43 years and divorced in 2010.
In 1972, she published Woman and Sex (اÙ,,Ù...رأة واÙ,,جنس), confronting and contextualising various aggressions perpetrated against women's bodies, including female circumcision. The book became a foundational text of second-wave feminism. As a consequence of the book and her political activities, Saadawi was dismissed from her position at the Ministry of Health. She also lost her positions as chief editor of a health journal, and as Assistant General Secretary in the Medical Association in Egypt. From 1973 to 1976, Saadawi worked on researching women and neurosis in Ain Shams University's Faculty of Medicine. From 1979 to 1980, she was the United Nations Advisor for the Women's Programme in Africa (ECA) and the Middle East (ECWA).]
Imprisonment
Long viewed as controversial and dangerous by the Egyptian government, Saadawi helped publish a feminist magazine in 1981 called Confrontation. She was imprisoned in September by President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. Saadawi stated once in an interview, "I was arrested because I believed Sadat. He said there is democracy and we have a multi-party system and you can criticize. So I started criticizing his policy and I landed in jail". Sadat claimed that the established government was a democracy for the people and that democracy as always was open for constructive criticism. According to el Saadawi, Sadat imprisoned her because of her criticism of his purported democracy. Even in prison she still found a way to fight against the oppression of women. While in prison she formed the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. This was the first legal and independent feminist group in Egypt. In prison, she was denied pen and paper, however, that did not stop her from continuing to write. She used a "stubby black eyebrow pencil" and "a small roll of old and tattered toilet paper" to record her thoughts. She was released later that year, one month after the President's assassination. Of her experience she wrote: "Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies."
In 1982, she founded the Arab Women Solidarity Association. She described her organization as "historical, socialist, and feminist".
Saadawi was one of the women held at Qanatir Women's Prison. Her incarceration formed the basis for her memoir, Memoirs from the Women's Prison (Arabic: Ù...ذكرات ÙÙŠ سجن اÙ,,نساء"Ž , 1983). Her contact with a prisoner at Qanatir, nine years before she was imprisoned there, served as inspiration for an earlier work, a novel titled Woman at Point Zero (Arabic: اÙ...رأة عند Ù†Ù,طة اÙ,,صÙر"Ž, 1975).
Further persecution, teaching in the US, and on-going activism
In 1993, when her life was threatened by Islamists and political persecution, Saadawi was forced to flee Egypt. She accepted an offer to teach at Duke University's Asian and African Languages Department in North Carolina, as well as at the University of Washington. She later held positions at a number of prestigious colleges and universities including Cairo University, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Sorbonne, Georgetown, Florida State University, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1996, she moved back to Egypt.
Saadawi continued her activism and considered running in the 2005 Egyptian presidential election, before stepping out because of stringent requirements for first-time candidates. She was among the protesters in Tahrir Square in 2011. She called for the abolition of religious instruction in Egyptian schools.[citation needed]
Saadawi was awarded the 2004 North-South Prize by the Council of Europe. In July 2016, she headlined the Royal African Society's "Africa Writes" literary festival in London, where she spoke "On Being A Woman Writer" in conversation with Margaret Busby.
At the Göteborg Book Fair that took place on 27 to 30 September 2018, Saadawi attended a seminar on development in Egypt and the Middle East after the Arab Spring and during her talk at the event stated that "colonial, capitalist, imperialist, racist" global powers, led by the United States, collaborated with the Egyptian government to end the 2011 Egyptian revolution. She added that she remembered seeing then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Tahrir Square handing out dollar bills to the youth in order to encourage them to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood in the upcoming elections.
Nawal el Saadawi held the positions of Author for the Supreme Council for Arts and Social Sciences, Cairo; Director General of the Health Education Department, Ministry of Health, Cairo, Secretary General of the Medical Association, Cairo, Egypt, and medical doctor at the University Hospital and Ministry of Health. She was the founder of the Health Education Association and the Egyptian Women Writers' Association; she was Chief Editor of Health Magazine in Cairo, and Editor of Medical Association Magazine.
Writing
Saadawi began writing early in her career. Her earliest writings include a selection of short stories entitled I Learned Love (1957) and her first novel, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor (1958). She subsequently wrote numerous novels and short stories and a personal memoir, Memoir from the Women's Prison (1986). Saadawi has been published in a number of anthologies, and her work has been translated from the original Arabic into more than 30 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and others.[citation needed]
In 1972, she published her first work of non-fiction, Women and Sex, which evoked the antagonism of highly placed political and theological authorities.[citation needed] It also led to her dismissal at the Ministry of Health. Other works include The Hidden Face of Eve, God Dies by the Nile The Circling Song, Searching, The Fall of the Imam (described as "a powerful and moving exposé of the horrors that women and children can be exposed to by the tenets of faith"), and Woman at Point Zero.
She contributed the piece "When a woman rebels" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global, edited by Robin Morgan,] and was a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.
Saadawi's novel Zeina was published in Lebanon in 2009. The French translation was published under the pseudonym Nawal Zeinab el Sayed, using her mother's maiden name.
Saadawi spoke fluent English in addition to her native Egyptian Arabic. As she wrote in Arabic, she saw the question of translation into English or French as "a big problem" linked to the fact that
"the colonial capitalist powers are mainly English- or French-speaking.... I am still ignored by big literary powers in the world, because I write in Arabic, and also because I am critical of the colonial, capitalist, racist, patriarchal mindset of the super-powers."
Her book Mufakirat Tifla fi Al-Khamisa wa Al-Thamaneen (A Notebook of an 85-year-old Girl), based on excerpts from her journal, was published in 2017.
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Advocacy against genital mutilation
At a young age, Saadawi underwent the process of female genital mutilation. As an adult, she wrote about and criticized this practice. She responded to the death of a 12-year-old girl, Bedour Shaker, during a genital circumcision operation in 2007 by writing: "Bedour, did you have to die for some light to shine in the dark minds? Did you have to pay with your dear life a price ... for doctors and clerics to learn that the right religion doesn't cut children's organs." As a doctor and human rights activist, Saadawi was also opposed to male circumcision. She believed that both male and female children deserve protection from genital mutilation.
Religion
In a 2014 interview, Saadawi said that "the root of the oppression of women lies in the global post-modern capitalist system, which is supported by religious fundamentalism".
When hundreds of people were killed in what has been called a "stampede" during the 2015 pilgrimage (Hajj) of Muslims to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, she said:
"They talk about changing the way the Hajj is administered, about making people travel in smaller groups. What they don't say is that the crush happened because these people were fighting to stone the devil. Why do they need to stone the devil? Why do they need to kiss that black stone? But no one will say this. The media will not print it. What is it about, this reluctance to criticize religion? ... This refusal to criticize religion ... is not liberalism. This is censorship."
She said that elements of the Hajj, such as kissing the Black Stone, had pre-Islamic pagan roots. Saadawi was involved in the academic exploration of Arab identity throughout her writing career.
El Saadawi described the Islamic veil as "a tool of oppression of women".
Objectification of women
She was also critical about the objectification of women and female bodies in patriarchal social structures common in Europe and the US, upsetting fellow feminists by speaking against make-up and revealing clothes.
United States
In a 2002 lecture at the University of California, Saadawi described the US-led war on Afghanistan as "a war to exploit the oil in the region", and US foreign policy and its support of Israel as "real terrorism". Saadawi held the opinion that Egyptians are forced into poverty by US aid.
Film
Saadawi is the subject of the film She Spoke the Unspeakable, directed by Jill Nicholls, broadcast in February 2017 in the BBC One television series Imagine.
Death
Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at a hospital in Cairo.[67][68] Her life was commemorated on BBC Radio 4's obituary programme Last Word.
Her natal Lilith was 26 Virgo, N.Node 10 Sagittarius, and the S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon was 00.46 Sagittarius, N.Node 2 Gemini, and the S.Node 18 Scorpio.
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Hi Rad and All,
Found this booklet cover from 1970 on the subject of New Feminism by random and it's amazing how the protest hand in the cover is so much like the asteroid lilith glyph, so I thought it would be a fun curiosity to share.
I am passionate about glyph creation and symbology and I wonder when was this glyph created, if there is a way to know?
In any case it's nice to see the Lilith glyph as powerful protest hand in the 70's ;D
Wishes of full moon blessing to All,
Helena
Hi Helena,
I really don't know.
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Here is the chart for Manizha Dalerovna Sangin (née Khamrayeva; Russian: Манижа Ð"алеровна Сангин (Хамраева); Tajik: Манижа Ð"алеровна Ҳамроева; born 8 July 1991), known professionally as simply Manizha, is a Russian-Tajik singer and songwriter. Beginning her career in 2003 as a child singer, Manizha went on to perform with the music groups Ru.Kola, Assai, and Krip De Shin, before later pursuing a solo career. She will represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Russian Woman".
Early life and education
Manizha was born on 8 July 1991 in Dushanbe to parents Najiba Usmanova, a psychologist and clothing designer, and a father who worked as a doctor. Her parents are divorced, and her father did not want Manizha to begin a singing career due to believing it was not a suitable career choice for a Muslim woman. Manizha's grandfather was Toji Usmon, a Tajik writer and journalist with a monument dedicated to his honor in Khujand. Her great-grandmother was one of the first women in Tajikistan to remove her veil and begin a career of her own; in response to this, she had her children removed from her care, although she later was able to return to them and begin working outside of the home. Manizha changed her surname from Khamrayeva to Sangin in order to honor her grandmother, who was one of the first people who encouraged her to pursue music.
In 1994, Manizha and her family fled Tajikistan due to the Tajikistani Civil War, subsequently settling in Moscow. After arriving in Moscow, Manizha began studying at a music school, where she studied piano. She afterwards left the school to begin training with private vocal coaches. Manizha studied psychology at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Career
2003-2015: Early career
Manizha began her career in 2003, performing as a child singer. She took part in a number of children's singing competitions, winning the Grand Prix of the Rainbow Stars competition in JÅ«rmala, becoming a laureate of the Ray of Hope festival organized by Mir, and becoming a laureate of the Kaunas Talent competition in Kaunas. She recorded a number of songs in both Russian and Tajik, before joining the music project Ru.Kola in 2007. That year, she became a finalist at the Five Stars music competition in Sochi.
Manizha later left the Ru.Kola project, and joined the Russian group Assai in 2011. She later left Assai to join Krip De Shin soon after, which was formed along with other former members of Assai. With Krip De Shin, she recorded an extended play and performed at various music festivals throughout Russia. Due to creative differences between herself and the band, she later opted to leave the group. After leaving the group, Manizha moved to London, and later began studying gospel music in both London and New York City.
2016-2020: Independent breakthrough
In 2016, Manizha returned to her music career, with the release of several independently released singles. The singles were followed up by the release of her debut studio album Manuscript, which was independently released in February 2017. Following the release of Manuscript, Manizha began working on her second release. Her second studio album ЯIAM was later released in March 2018. While describing the album, Manizha stated that it was based around the "architecture of the personality" of a person. Her debut solo extended play Womanizha was later released the following year, in April 2019.
2021-present: Eurovision Song Contest
In March 2021, Manizha was confirmed to be taking part in the Russian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Russian Woman". The final was held in Moscow on 8 March 2021, where Manizha was declared the winner after receiving 39.7% of the public vote. As the winner, she will now represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held in Rotterdam.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manizha and https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/09/russia-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters
Her natal Lilith is 27 Taurus, N.Node is 10 Sagittarius, S.Node is 28 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 25 Taurus, N.Node is 5 Gemini, and the S.Node is 6 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Angela Madsen (May 10, 1960 - June 21, 2020) was an American Paralympian sportswoman in both rowing and track and field. In a long career, Madsen moved from race rowing to ocean challenges before switching in 2011 to athletics, winning a bronze medal in the shot put at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Madsen and teammate Helen Taylor were the first women to row across the Indian Ocean. She died in June 2020 while attempting a solo row from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
Early life and education
Madsen was born in Xenia, Ohio, on May 10, 1960. Educated at Fairborn Baker High School in Fairborn, Ohio, she became a single parent at the age of seventeen, which impeded her chance for an athletics scholarship.
Military career
Most of Madsen's immediate family were military, so when her brothers told her she "couldn't make it as a marine", it made her determined to join. She enlisted in the Marines, leaving her daughter with her parents until she completed basic training. After passing training, the Marine Corps provided Madsen with a home for her and her daughter. She was sent to Fort McClellan in Alabama to train as a military police officer and her first duty station was at the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, near Irvine, California. At El Toro, she joined the women's basketball team, at center, and when the team competed at the Marine Corps West Coast Regional Basketball Tournament, Madsen was scouted by the women's Marine Corps team.
Spinal injury and surgery
In 1980, at her first Marine Corps basketball training session, she fell on the court and another player stepped on her back, rupturing two discs in her spine. This in turn led Madsen to undergo surgery to her back, but a string of errors resulted in her suffering an L1 incomplete spinal cord injury and paraplegia.
The US military refused to pay for Madsen's medical bills following the accident, and, in the dispute that followed, Madsen lost her home and her marriage fell apart. She fell into depression and became homeless, sometimes sleeping in her wheelchair in front of Disneyland.
Paralympic career
Madsen's life turned around when, after attending a National Veterans Games, she was introduced to wheelchair basketball. She took up the sport and began to rebuild her life. The defining point in her recovery came after she fell onto subway tracks in San Francisco and feared that she had broken her neck. This event made her reassess her life as a disabled person, and she decided to live her life to the fullest. She wrote an autobiography, Rowing Against the Wind, published in 2014.
Rowing career
Madsen was introduced to rowing after her wheelchair basketball sponsor invited her to a learn-to-row event in Dana Point. She found she was a natural at the sport and liked that she did not need to use a wheelchair to participate. In 2002, the International Rowing Federation added adaptive rowing to the World Rowing Championships, and Madsen, classified as a trunk-and-arms (TA) competitor, was selected to race at the 2002 World Rowing Championships. She finished in silver place in the single sculls. In the next three years she entered each of the World Championships, winning the gold medal in the doubles sculls in every tournament.
While a competitive rower, Madsen was also enjoying ocean-rowing events, and from her home in California she had access to the Pacific. She began rowing between Newport, California, and Dana Point, and began entering 20-mile races. After Madsen met Louisville Adaptive Rowing Program volunteer Tori Murden, who was the first American to row the Atlantic solo, she became inspired to undertake an ocean journey. Over the following years Madsen took on multiple ocean treks. In 2007, she became the first woman with a disability to row across the Atlantic Ocean. Two years later she became, along with Helen Taylor, one of the first two women to row across the Indian Ocean. Madsen was also part of a team that circumnavigated Great Britain.
In 2008, Madsen represented the United States at her first Summer Paralympics, competing at the 2008 Games in Beijing in the mixed double sculls with William Brown, though they did not progress through the repechage and finished seventh.
Athletics career
Madsen made her first appearance for the United States as a F56 track-and-field athlete in 2011. Her results leading up to the games qualified her for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, competing in the shot put (F54-56) and javelin throw (F54/55/56). She finished fifth in the javelin, but a throw of 8.88 metres was enough to win her a bronze medal in the shot put. She also competed for the United States at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, and in 2016, at the Boiling Point Track Classic at the University of Windsor in Canada, Madsen won her shot put event with a distance of 9.43, setting a new world record. Also in July 2016 Madsen was announced as a member of the US team to compete at Rio in the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where she finished eighth in the women's shot put F56/57, and seventh in the women's javelin throw F55/F56.
In November 2014, Madsen received the Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundation for Global Sports Development in recognition of her community service efforts and work with youth.
She held six Guinness World Records and was working toward another (as the oldest woman and first paraplegic to row across the Pacific alone) at the time of her death.
Personal life
Madsen came out as gay in 1981, while in the US military. She met her wife, Debra, in 2006. In 2015 she was a grand marshal for the Long Beach Pride Parade.[16] Madsen resided in Long Beach, California.
She was found dead nearly halfway into her solo row from Los Angeles to Honolulu on June 22, 2020. The journey was being filmed by Soraya Simi.
Her natal Lilith was 12 Pisces, N.Node 4 Capricorn, and the S.Node 11 Gemini. Her natal Amazon was 00.03 Sagittarius, N.Node 12 Taurus, and the S.Node was 24 Scorpio.
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Hi All,
i thought of sharing an ancient ritual that is celebrated today in my country (and probably others?) that is traditionally seen coming from christianity but its origins are of ancient pagan root of celebration of the Goddess and for me it is the day of celebration of CERES, as it is called the day of the of the ear of wheat (hope i'm making a good translation from the portuguese "dia da espiga")
So for anyone that wishes to also join in their own location, this is a ritual celebrated in the month of May to thank the Goddess for her prosperity (with christianity the day is always a Thursday which in reality is Jupiter's day) and go out in the fields picking a bunch of flowers and crops and save the bunch in our homes until it is renewed the next year at the same time.
Traditionally, the bunch is composed of 5 of each: poppies, marigold, olive branch, rosemary and ear of wheat or other cereals. But there is no rules, we can just get creative pick whatever flowers we like :-)
I found this is such a beautiful simple ritual to celebrate Mother Nature and Her gifts that i thought of sharing!
A beautiful Ceres day to everyone,
Helena
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Here is the chart for Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Appearing in the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".
Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". The same year, she performed "Love Song for a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Her 1995 studio album, Medusa, includes "No More I Love You's" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale". To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions". She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard magazine. In 2004, she received both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Lennox's vocal range is contralto. She has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. In 2012, she was rated No. 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history". As of June 2008, including her work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide. As part of a one-hour symphony of British Music, Lennox performed "Little Bird" during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. At the 2015 Ivor Novello Awards, Lennox was made a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the first woman to receive the honour.
In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/ AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa-this includes her SING Campaign which she launched in 2007. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012 she performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. In 2017, Lennox was appointed Glasgow Caledonian University's first female chancellor.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lennox
Her natal Lilith is 16 Sagittarius, N.Node 23 Sagittarius, S.Node 11 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 22 Sagittarius, N.Node 6 Taurus, S.Node 1 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Luchita Hurtado ([luˈt͡ʃita urˈt̪aðo]; November 28, 1920 - August 13, 2020), born Luisa Amelia GarcÃa Rodriguez Hurtado, was a Venezuelan-born American painter based in Santa Monica, California, and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Born in Venezuela, she moved to the United States as a child. Although she became involved with art after concentrating on the subject in high school and created art over eight decades, she only received broad recognition for her art towards the end of her life. Her work has strong environmental and feminist themes that bridges many genres, bearing influence from different art movements and cultures.
Hurtado was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.
Early and personal life
Hurtado was born in MaiquetÃa, Venezuela, on November 28, 1920. Her mother moved from Venezuela to New York with her two sisters and worked as a seamstress. Hurtado and her older sister joined their mother and aunts in New York shortly afterwards in 1928, while their father stayed in Venezuela. She studied fine art at Washington Irving High School, took classes at the Art Students League, and volunteered at La Prensa, a Spanish-language newspaper where she met her first husband, Chilean journalist Daniel de Solar. The couple married when Luchita was 18, and went on to have two children together. At the invitation of Rafael Trujillo, the then-dictator of the Dominican Republic, Hurtado and de Solar moved to Santo Domingo to start a newspaper. The couple moved back to New York, where they became close with a group of Latin American artists and journalists, such as Rufino Tamayo.
She and de Solar divorced in 1942. She subsequently married Wolfgang Paalen, an artist and collector, after being introduced to him by Isamu Noguchi. Hurtado's son from her first marriage, Pablo, died of polio at age 5. She wanted to have another child, while Paalen did not, so the couple divorced.
During this time, her circle of fellow artists expanded. One such connection she made was with Ailes Gilmour, who had roomed with Hurtado and de Solar when they were still married. Gilmour was the half-sister of Isamu Noguchi, so Noguchi and Hurtado became close, often visiting galleries together.
In 1951, Hurtado moved to Los Angeles with fellow artist Lee Mullican who she would then marry that same decade and remained married until his death in 1998. Together, they had two sons: Matt Mullican, a New York-based artist,[4] and John Mullican, who works as a film director.
Hurtado died on the night of August 13, 2020, at her home in Santa Monica, California. She died of natural causes, just 76 days short of her 100th birthday.
Art career
In 1944, Hurtado made window displays and painted murals for Bloomingdale's. She also began freelance work as an illustrator for Condé Nast and as a muralist for Lord & Taylor in New York. In 1946, she and her second husband Wolfgang Paalen travelled together to Mexico to research pre-Colombian art, and Hurtado took photographs that were later published in 1952 in Cahiers D'Art to accompany an article, "La Plus Aincien Visage du Nouveau Monde".
In the 1970s, Luchita Hurtado founded the feminist group, Los Angeles Council of Women Artists.] In 1972, Hurtado participated in a feminist-focused group exhibition, "Invisible/Visible," at the Long Beach Museum of Art, which was organized by Judy Chicago and Dextra Frankel. Of her work in this exhibition, Frankel described Self Portrait (1971) as "[looking] down and sees herself in a way men never see women"[. In 1974, she had a solo exhibition at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Though Hurtado participated and shared feminist beliefs with many groups, when asked to join a West Coast chapter of the Guerilla Girls, she declined.
Outside of her work for Bloomingdale's, Conde Nast, and the two Los Angeles exhibitions she participated in, Hurtado's work was largely unknown until 2015. Ryan Good, former studio director for Lee Mullican, Hurtado's third husband, was cataloguing his estate when he came across a number of paintings signed "LH". Upon asking Hurtado, he learned that she was the artist behind these works. Good showed these paintings to Paul Soto, founder of Park View Gallery, who then launched her second ever solo exhibition, Luchita Hurtado: Selected Works, 1942-1952, which ran from November 12, 2016 - January 7, 2017. From there, her career erupted. Hurtado's work was included in the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. exhibition in 2018. She was called the "hot new discovery" of the exhibition by the L.A. Times, and generally received extremely favorable critical reception. Eventually her work caught the attention of Hans Ulrich Obrich, a Swiss art curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in which she had her first international solo exhibition, titled Luchita Hurtado: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn. She remained active in the arts until her death, with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibiting a key career survey of hers in February 2020. Several visitors asked the curators if her birth date was incorrect because the work seemed contemporary.
Art imagery and reception
Hurtado engaged with different styles and drew elements from 20th-century avantgarde and modernist art movements such as surrealism, abstraction, and magical realism. ]Hurtado incorporated womb imagery into her work long before feminist art would incorporate the same subject matter during the feminist art movement in the late '70s. Among her most well-known works is the "I Am" series of the 1960s; self-portraits that Hurtado painted by looking down at her own body, often in closets as it was the only place she could work in between child-rearing and managing the home. According to the New York Times in recent years, the environmental themes in her work became more specific and urgent, as she took up the issue of climate change. Some of her later paintings and works on paper added block-lettered texts, like "Water Air Earth," "We Are Just a Species, and "Mother Nature," to her signature images of figures in wide, open-armed stances, who seem to be merging with the trees around them. She had said that when it comes to this planet, she hoped that it is not too late for people to make a difference; even if it is a small one, everything counts.Others, reprising her earlier works' top-down perspective, showed globes emerging like infants from the birth canal.
Of her artworks depicting nude women, Christopher Knight, a Los Angeles Time art critic said of her work, "her drawings' loosely Surrealist forms recall dense pictographs from a variety of cultures, ancient and modern. Among them are prehistoric cave paintings, Northwest and Southwest tribal art, pre-Columbian reliefs, and the abstract paintings and sculptures." Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009-2019 Anne Ellegood said of Hurtado's, "you can imagine how meaningful they were at that time in terms of female artists taking back the ability to represent their own bodies and shifting the so-called male gaze and controlling that gaze." Novelist and critic Yxta Maya Murray, of Artforum, described her works depicting nude women as being "less about the pleasures and trajectories of the body than about its suspension in otherwise throwaway moments." Writing about her work, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist said that, "[Hurtado's] masterly oeuvre offers an extraordinary perspective that focuses attention on the edges of our bodies and the language that we use to bridge the gap between ourselves and others. By coupling intimate gestures of the body with expansive views of the sky and the earth, Luchita maps a visceral connective tissue between us all."
Despite receiving belated recognition for her work, Hurtado did not harbor feelings of resentment towards that fact. In a 2019 interview with fellow artist Andrea Bowers for the magazine Ursula, she said, "I don't feel anger, I really don't. I feel, you know: 'How stupid of them.' Maybe the people who were looking at what I was doing had no eye for the future and, therefore, no eye for the present."
Her natal Lilith is 3 Capricorn, N.Node 10 Sagittarius, S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 25 Sagittarius, N.Node 1 Gemini, S.Node 18 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Marie Louise Cruz (born November 14, 1946), known as Sacheen Littlefeather, is an American actress, model and activist for Native American civil rights, best remembered for representing Marlon Brando at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973 to decline the Best Actor award for his performance in The Godfather. The favorite to win, Brando boycotted the ceremony in protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans and to draw attention to the standoff at Wounded Knee. During her speech, the audience response to Brando's boycotting was divided between jeers and applause.
Littlefeather was born in Salinas, California, to a Native American father and European American mother. During the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz, she became active in the Native American activist community. After the Academy Award speech, she went on to work in hospice care. She continues to work in activism for a number of health-related and Native American issues, and has produced films about Native Americans.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacheen_Littlefeather and https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/i-promised-brando-i-would-not-touch-his-oscar-secret-life-sacheen-littlefeather
Her natal Lilith is 4 Capricorn, N.Node is 13 Sagittarius, S.Node is 11 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 2 Virgo, N.Node is 23 Taurus, and the S.Node is 22 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, born 9 December 1950) is a Kittitian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist.
A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.
In a recording career spanning nearly 50 years, Armatrading has released 19 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations.
Early life
Joan Armatrading, the third of six children, was born in 1950 in the town of Basseterre in what was then the British colony Saint Christopher and Nevis. Her father was a carpenter and her mother a housewife. When she was three years old, her parents moved with their two eldest boys to Birmingham in England, sending Joan to live with her grandmother on the Caribbean island of Antigua. In early 1958, at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Brookfields, then a district of Birmingham. (The area, now mostly demolished, has been absorbed into the district of Hockley.) Her father had played in a band in his youth, later forbidding his children from touching his guitar. At about the age of 14 Armatrading began writing songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano that her mother had purchased as "a piece of furniture". Shortly thereafter, her mother bought her a £3 guitar (equivalent to £59 in 2019)[13] from a pawn shop in exchange for two prams, and she began teaching herself the instrument.
Armatrading left school at the age of 15 to help support her family.[3][4] She lost her first job (as a typist and comptometer operator) after taking her guitar to work and playing it during tea-breaks.
Career
Armatrading first performed in a concert at Birmingham University for her brother at the age of about 16. She only knew her own songs, but her brother asked her to perform something that would be familiar to the audience; she chose "The Sound of Silence". She then performed her own songs around the local area with a friend from school, and played bass- and rhythm-guitar at local clubs. In 1968 Armatrading joined a touring production of the stage musical Hair.[6] There she met the lyricist Pam Nestor in 1970, and they worked together on Armatrading's debut album Whatever's for Us, released by Cube Records in 1972. Nestor wrote the lyrics to 11 of the 14 songs on the album, while Armatrading wrote the lyrics to three of them, performed all the vocals, wrote all the music and played an array of instruments on the album. Although Nestor was credited as co-lyricist, Cube regarded Armatrading as the more likely star material. These events produced a tension that broke up the partnership.[citation needed]
On 28 November 1972 Armatrading appeared on the BBC Radio 1 John Peel Show performing "Head of the Table", "Spend A Little Time", "Child Star" and "Whatever's For Us". She sang and played acoustic guitar and piano. In 1973 Cube released on the Fly label (catalogue: Bug 31) Armatrading's first single, "Lonely Lady" (with lyrics by Nestor), a song that had not been included on the album. It proved unsuccessful in the charts, and a period of inactivity for Armatrading followed while she extricated herself from her contract with Cube Records. The single was subsequently withdrawn by Cube and re-released as a promotional single in the US by Armatrading's new label A&M Records, the same year (as A&M1452). In January 1974 she appeared again on the John Peel Show. Performing "Some Sort Of Love Song", "Lonely Lady" and "Freedom", she again sang and played acoustic guitar and piano, but was accompanied by supporting musicians Snowy White (guitar), Mike Tomich (bass) and Brian Glassock (drums).
In 1975 Armatrading was free to sign with A&M Records, and issued the album Back to the Night, which was promoted[by whom?] on tour with six-piece English jazz-pop group The Movies. Armatrading credited English singer Elkie Brooks on the sleeve notes as she had cooked for Armatrading and the band in the studio while they had been making the album, which was produced by Brooks' then husband Pete Gage. A major publicity relaunch in 1976 and the involvement of producer Glyn Johns propelled her next album, Joan Armatrading, into the Top 20 and spawned the Top-10 hit single "Love and Affection". The album mixed acoustic work with jazz-influenced material, and this style was retained for the 1977 follow-up Show Some Emotion, also produced by Glyn Johns, as was 1978's To the Limit. These albums included songs which continue to be staples of Armatrading's live shows, including "Willow", "Down to Zero", "Tall in the Saddle", and "Kissin' and a Huggin'". Also at this time Armatrading wrote and performed "The Flight of the Wild Geese", which was used during the opening- and end-titles of the 1978 war film The Wild Geese. The song was included on the soundtrack album for the film, originally released by A&M Records, later released under licence as a Cinephile DVD. A live album entitled Steppin' Out was released in 1979.
Between 1972 and 1976 Armatrading made a total of eight appearances in session for the John Peel show, and the decade saw her become the first Black British female singer-songwriter to enjoy international success.
Armatrading appeared as the musical guest for Season 2, episode 21 of NBC's Saturday Night Live, which originally aired on 14 May 1977. She performed "Love and Affection" and "Down to Zero".
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Armatrading and https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/17/joan-armatrading-consequences-review-strikingly-inventive-songwriter-deserves-her-due
Her natal Lilith is 26 Sagittarius, N.Node 19 Sagittarius, S.Node 25 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is
14 Aries, N.Node 11 Taurus, S.Node 27 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and video. Some of her pieces refer to issues of race, and may combine formality with racial stereotypes and depict "ordering principles" society imposes.
Background and education
Gallagher was born on December 16, 1965, in Providence, Rhode Island. Referred to as African American, she is of biracial ethnicity; her father's heritage was from Cape Verde, in Western Africa (but he was born in the United States), and her mother's background was Caucasian Irish Catholic. Gallagher's mother was a working-class Irish-American and her father was a professional boxer.
In Rhode Island, Gallagher attended Moses Brown, an elite, Quaker college preparatory school. At sixteen, Gallagher entered her first year at Oberlin College in Ohio (1982–1984) and studied writing. Gallagher did not finish her education at Oberlin College and ended up joining a carpenters' union in Seattle. Before her art career, Gallagher worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and Maine. In 1989 she attended Studio 70 in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, before earning a degree in fine arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1992. Her art education further continued in 1993 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
Career
Gallagher gained recognition as an artist in 1995. Prior to her Gagosian showing, Gallagher had solo shows at Mary Boone in Soho, New York, and Anthony D'Offay in London. As her first solo show in New York, Gallagher chose Mary Boone's space because of its neutrality, in which she stated, "because there the abstract qualities of my work stand out first".
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Gallagher
Her natal Lilith is 26 Cancer, N.Node 21 Sagittarius, S.Node 18 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 25 Scorpio. N.Node 9 Taurus, S.Node 29 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961, 7:45 PM, Sandringham, England, United Kingdom – 31 August 1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales—the heir apparent to the British throne—and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her enduring popularity as well as unprecedented public scrutiny, exacerbated by her tumultuous private life. Her legacy has had a deep impact on the royal family and British society.
Diana was born into the British nobility and grew up close to the royal family on their Sandringham estate. In 1981, while working as a nursery teacher's assistant, she became engaged to Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Their wedding took place at St Paul's Cathedral in 1981 and made her Princess of Wales, a role in which she was enthusiastically received by the public. The couple had two sons, William and Harry, who were then second and third in the line of succession to the British throne. Diana's marriage to Charles, however, suffered due to their incompatibility and extramarital affairs. They separated in 1992, soon after the breakdown of their relationship became public knowledge. The details of their marital difficulties became increasingly publicised, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1996. Diana died the next year in a car crash in Paris, leading to extensive public mourning and global media attention.
As Princess of Wales, Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions across the Commonwealth realms. She was celebrated in the media for her unconventional approach to charity work. Her patronages initially centred on children and youth but she later became known for her involvement with AIDS patients and campaigning for the removal of landmines. She also raised awareness and advocated ways to help people affected with cancer and mental illness. The Princess was initially noted for her shyness, but her charisma and friendliness endeared her to the public and helped her reputation survive the acrimonious collapse of her marriage. Considered to be very photogenic, she was a leader of fashion in the 1980s and 1990s.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales
Her natal Lilith is 2 Cancer, N.Node 12 Sagittarius, S.Node 26 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 2 Pisces. N.Node 3 Gemini, and the S.Node is 6 Scorpio.
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Hi Rad,
just one question relative to Princess Diana, i remember (don't know if correctly) seeing an old thread where there was the study of Diana and Queen Elizabeth's chart mentioning that they were in fact the same soul, i can't find the thread though, is it still accessible?
Helena
Hi Helena,
I have no recollection of that, and do not know where that thread would be if at all.
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I am posting the chart of Jesuit priest whose name is Rev. Stan Swamy from India. His birth date is 26 April 1937, in Madras India.
Here is his story.
A Jailed Priest's Death in India Stirs Outrage
The Rev. Stan Swamy was among more than a dozen activists jailed under a broad antiterrorism law that critics say is used to stifle dissent.
NY Times
July 10 2021
July 5, 2021
NEW DELHI — A Jesuit priest and activist with Parkinson's disease, whose high-profile arrest was seen as an example of the broad scope of the Indian government's unpopular antiterrorism law, died on Monday still in custody at a hospital in Mumbai, his lawyer said.
The Rev. Stan Swamy — at 84 the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India — was arrested last October under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, which critics say is meant to stifle dissent. His detention incited widespread accusations of government cruelty.
Rights activists and other critics say the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used the act and the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to round up government critics and silence activists who are protesting what they see as the government's iron-fisted and anti-minority policies.
A number of academics, writers and poets are being held under antiterrorism laws that have been used to criminalize everything from leading rallies to posting political messages on social media.
Nearly all of the accused remained imprisoned throughout the pandemic, even as India temporarily released thousands of other prisoners out of concern that they were likely to acquire the virus while in custody.
In October, just after his arrest, Father Swamy recorded a video that was uploaded to YouTube.
"Because of my age, I have certain ailments," he said. "This is something that I am communicating to them and let us hope that some human sense will prevail."
Father Swamy's trembling hands — characteristic of many with Parkinson's — made it difficult for him to eat and drink and he formally asked the court to give him a sippy cup and straw. After a month that was granted.
But the priest's repeated requests for bail, which cited his frail health, were denied. In May, when Father Swamy became very ill, he was moved to a private hospital, where he was found to have Covid-19. That is where he died, his lawyer, Mihir Desai, said.
Father Swamy lived in the mineral-rich but largely impoverished state of Jharkhand in eastern India. For half a century, he was an advocate for Jharkhand's tribal Adivasi people, pitting himself against big mining companies and the public officials behind them, and other marginalized groups, including the Dalits, the lowest in Hinduism's caste hierarchy.
As industrialization reached Jharkhand in the 1980s, Father Swamy set up a center dedicated to social activism, particularly the protection of Adivasis' legal rights to land and water.
"He was a champion of the poor and the voiceless," Stany D'Souza, a fellow Jesuit, said during an online memorial on Monday.
The son of farmers in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Father Swamy was sent to Jharkhand as a teenage Jesuit novice.
"He fell in love with the Adivasi way of life: their egalitarianism, their consensus-based decision-making, their closeness and their contentment," said Tony PM, another Jesuit priest who worked with Father Swamy in Jharkhand.
But last October, members of India's counterterrorism task force entered Father Swamy's communal home in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, and took him to a prison in Mumbai, India's financial capital.
He was among more than a dozen people who were arrested under India's sweeping antiterrorism act. Their arrests stem from an event that began as a commemoration of a 200-year-old Dalit military victory but spiraled into communal violence that left one person dead.
Father Swamy and more than a dozen other activists were accused of inflammatory speech and of ties to Maoist insurgents who have been fighting the Indian state for decades.
Father Swamy denied the charges, but he along with the others accused were kept in detention as the investigation into the so-called Koregaon Bhima case dragged on.
"This is inhuman," Justice Madan Bhimarao Lokur, a former judge on India's Supreme Court, said during the memorial. "I have been watching for two years now the pulverization of human rights. It has been a downhill slide and it has culminated in today's tragic death."
Hundreds of tributes — from condolences to condemnation — were made on Twitter, including from Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India's main opposition party, the Congress party.
Eamon Gilmore, the European Union's special representative for Human Rights, said that the E.U. had repeatedly raised the priest's case with the authorities.
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders, condemned his jailing. "The news from India today," she posted on Twitter, "is devastating."
For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Swamy
His natal Lilith is 5 Sagittarius, N.Node is 7 Capricorn, S.Node is 7 Gemini. His natal Amazon is 3 Sagittarius, N.Node 18 Taurus, and the S.Node 29 Scorpio.
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Hi Helena, here is the bi-wheel chart of Princess Diana and her previous life as Elizabeth 1st of England. I downloaded it from the MB a couple of years ago. DDD
Quote from: Helena on Jul 10, 2021, 04:43 AM
Hi Rad,
just one question relative to Princess Diana, i remember (don't know if correctly) seeing an old thread where there was the study of Diana and Queen Elizabeth's chart mentioning that they were in fact the same soul, i can't find the thread though, is it still accessible?
Helena
Hi Helena,
I recall this too & with a cursory search of 'Princess Diana' there is a reference to this in the 2012 post by 'Gray' under the 'Group practice' stating he enjoyed the correlations/discussion about Diana & Elizabeth - I, too, thought that it was confirmed that one of Diana's previous lives was Elizabeth & she had one inbetween the two.....but, again, it cannot be found to confirm, there's nothing much but posts that reference the original discussion.
Hi Rad, DDD and Nerissa,
Thank all for dispelling my original confusion. It was probably a practice thread? In any case i see i had a confusing memory of Queen Elisabeth II and Diana being same soul (split) i now see it's wrong...
It's very interesting to see both charts and no wonder why people instantly felt admiration for Diana. I will have to look at it better but it's quite a remarkable the synastry.
Best to All,
Helena
P.S. Rad just to confirm, is Elizabeth natal Lilith for year 1533 at 20 Sag., Sn 15 cancer, NN 3 Sag.?
Hi Helena,
Yes.
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Here the chart for Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; Hungarian: Szenes Anna; 17 July 1921 – 7 November 1944) was a poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member. She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.
Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border by Hungarian gendarmes. She was imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission. She was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. She is regarded as a national heroine in Israel but has largely been forgotten in her birthplace of Hungary according to The Guardian. In Israel her poetry is widely known and the Yad Hana kibbutz as well as several streets, are named after her.
Early life
Szenes was born on July 17, 1921, to an assimilated Jewish family in Hungary. Her father, Béla, a journalist and playwright, died when Hannah was six years old. She continued to live with her mother, Kathrine, and her brother, György.
She enrolled in a Protestant private school for girls that also accepted Catholic and Jewish pupils; however those of the Catholic and Jewish faith had to pay double and three times the amount Protestants paid. After her mother thought it was too expensive, Szenes was declared a "gifted student" and allowed to only pay double the usual amount. This, along with the realization that the situation of the Jews in Hungary was becoming precarious, prompted Szenes to embrace Zionism, and she joined Maccabea, a Hungarian Zionist students organization.
Immigration to Nahalal
Szenes graduated in 1939 and decided to emigrate to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine in order to study in the Girls' Agricultural School at Nahalal. In 1941, she joined Kibbutz Sdot Yam and then joined the Haganah, the paramilitary group that laid the foundation of the Israel Defense Forces.
The scholar of Jewish Mysticism Joseph G. Weiss was in love with her and parts of their correspondence were published after his death.
In 1943, she enlisted in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class. Later the same year, she was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was sent to Egypt for parachute training.
The parachutists' mission
Between 1943 and 1944 the Jewish community in Palestine (Yishuv) decided to send Jewish parachutists behind enemy lines to assist both Allies forces and the Jews in occupied Europe. The mission was a cooperation between the Yishuv and British forces to create Jewish commando unit within the British army. Szenes volunteered and was selected along with only 32, chosen out of 250, to be sent on active missions.[
Arrest and torture
On March 14, 1944, she and two colleagues were parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group. After landing, they learned the Germans had already occupied Hungary, so the men decided to call off the mission as too dangerous.
Szenes continued on and headed for the Hungarian border. At the border, she and her companions were arrested by Hungarian gendarmes, who found her British military transmitter, used to communicate with the SOE and other partisans. She was taken to a prison, stripped, tied to a chair, then whipped and clubbed for three days. She lost several teeth as a result of the beating.
The guards wanted to know the code for her transmitter so they could find out who the parachutists were and trap others. Transferred to a Budapest prison, Szenes was repeatedly interrogated and tortured, but only revealed her name and refused to provide the transmitter code, even when her mother was also arrested. They threatened to kill her mother if she did not cooperate, but she refused.
While in prison, Szenes used a mirror to flash signals out of the window to prisoners in other cells and communicated using large cut-out letters that she placed in her cell window one at a time and by drawing the Magen David in the dust.
Trial and execution
She was tried for treason in Hungary on 28 October 1944 by a court appointed by the fascist Arrow Cross regime. There was an eight-day postponement to give the judges more time to find a verdict, followed by another postponement, this one because of the appointment of a new Judge Advocate. She was executed by a firing squad on November 7, 1944. She kept diary entries until her last day. One of them read: "In the month of July, I shall be twenty-three/I played a number in a game/The dice have rolled. I have lost," and another: "I loved the warm sunlight."
Her diary was published in Hebrew in 1946. Her remains were brought to Israel in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Her tombstone was brought to Israel in November 2007 and placed in Sdot Yam.
During the trial of Rudolf Kastner, Hannah's mother testified that during the time her daughter was imprisoned, Kastner's people had advised her not to obtain a lawyer for her daughter. Further, she recalled a conversation with Kastner after the war, telling him, "I don't say that you could have saved my daughter Hannah, but that you didn't try – it makes it harder for me that nothing was done."
After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were informed on November 5, 1993.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/16/hungary-wartime-heroine-hannah-szenes-remembered-100-years-after-her-birth
Her natal Lilith is 18 Aries, N.Node 7 Sagittarius, S.Node 1 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 29 Pisces, N.Node 7 Gemini, and the S.Node 5 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter. A classically-trained pianist, Keys began composing songs by age 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records. After disputes with the label, she signed with Arista Records and later released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001. The album was critically and commercially successful, producing her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Fallin'" and selling over 12 million copies worldwide. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002.
Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was also a critical and commercial success, spawning successful singles "You Don't Know My Name", "If I Ain't Got You", and "Diary", and selling eight million copies worldwide. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards. Her duet "My Boo" with Usher became her second number-one single in 2004. Keys released her first live album, Unplugged (2005), and became the first woman to have an MTV Unplugged album debut at number one. Her third album, As I Am (2007), produced the Hot 100 number-one single "No One", selling 7 million copies worldwide and earning an additional three Grammy Awards. In 2007, Keys made her film debut in the action-thriller film Smokin' Aces. She, along with Jack White, recorded "Another Way to Die" (the title song to the 22nd official James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). Her fourth album, The Element of Freedom (2009), became her first chart-topping album in the UK, and sold 4 million copies worldwide. In 2009, Keys also collaborated with Jay Z on "Empire State of Mind", which became her fourth number-one single and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Girl on Fire (2012) was her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. In 2013, VH1 Storytellers was released as her second live album. Her sixth studio album, Here (2016), became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart-topping album. Her seventh studio album, Alicia, was released on September 18, 2020.
Keys has received numerous accolades in her career, including 15 competitive Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 12 ASCAP Awards, and an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association. She has sold over 50 million albums and 40 million singles worldwide making her one of the world's best-selling music artists and was named by Billboard the top R&B artist of the 2000s decade. She placed tenth on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years. VH1 included her on their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 100 Greatest Women in Music lists, while Time has named her in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005 and 2017. Keys is also acclaimed for her humanitarian work, philanthropy and activism; she co-founded and serves as the Global Ambassador of the nonprofit HIV/AIDS-fighting organization Keep a Child Alive.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Keys
Her natal Lilith is 23 Sagittarius, N.Node 1 Capricorn, S.Node 26 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 14 Cancer, N.Node 3 Taurus, and the S.Node 7 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years. Her full-length directorial debut, Eltavozott nap/The Girl (1968), was the first Hungarian film to have been directed by a woman, and won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Valladolid International Film Festival.
Mészáros' work often combines autobiographical details with documentary footage. Prominent themes include characters' denials of their pasts, the consequences of dishonesty, and the problematics of gender. Her films often feature heroines from fragmented families, such as young girls seeking their missing parents (The Girl) or middle-aged women looking to adopt children (Adoption).
Although Mészáros has made over fifteen feature films, she is arguably best known for Diary for My Children (1984), which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first entry in a trilogy of autobiographical films which also includes Diary for My Lovers (1987) and Diary for My Mother and Father (1990).
Throughout her career, Mészáros has won the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale; the Golden Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival; the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival; and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
Early life and education
Born in Budapest, Mészáros spent the first two years of her life in the Soviet Union, where her parents had emigrated as communist artists in 1936. While there, Mészáros's father, László Mészáros, was arrested and killed in 1938 under the Stalinist regime and her mother died giving birth. Orphaned, Mészáros was raised by her foster mother in the USSR where she attended school. After returning to Hungary in 1946, Mészáros went back to Moscow to study at VGIK, returning again to Hungary only after her graduation in 1956.
Career
Mészáros began working at the Budapest Newsreel Studio in 1954 where she made four short films, and then for the Alexandru Sahia documentary studio in Bucharest, Romania, from 1957–59. She then returned to Budapest in 1958 to make science popularization shorts, and documentary shorts, where she worked until 1968. Mészáros joined the Mafilm Group 4 in the mid-1960s, and directed her first feature in 1968. At this time, Mészáros was the first woman director in Hungary to make a feature film. In the 1980s Mészáros made her semi-autobiographical "Diary films" that had a major impact on "Hungarian cinema" because of her conscious depiction of the government and individual past experiences. She challenged the censorship in Hungary and ascertained herself as an integral voice in the country's cinema. Since Mészáros first feature in 1968 she has made over fifty films, won numerous awards, and has been a judge on various film panels; she also continues to make films to this day.
Legacy
Mészáros films are in many ways reflective of her experiences growing up and deal with issues that are relevant to her life. Having lost both of her parents early in life, and having spent much of her youth living in a post-Stalinist Hungary Mészáros life was rife with tragedy and oppression, and her films are often reflective of this. Additionally, because Mészáros spent many of her first years as a filmmaker working in documentary films, many of her feature films also contain much documentary footage. In most Mészáros features the films are open-ended, lack a conventional plot, and dialogue is sparse.
In terms of content, Mészáros films explore the wide and often tragic gaps between ideals and realities, and between parents and their children. Mészáros's films deal with realities usually ignored in Eastern European cinema: the subordination of women, conflicts of urban and rural cultures, antagonism between the bureaucracy and its employees, alcoholism, the generation gap, dissolution of traditional family structures, and the plight of state-reared children.
Mészáros is one of few female filmmakers who consistently makes films both critically and commercially successful for an international audience. Her eight feature films made from 1968 to 1979 are concerned with the social oppression, economic constraints, and emotional challenges faced by Hungarian women. In her own words Mészáros explains: "I tell banal, commonplace stories, and then in them the leads are women—I portray things from a woman's angle."[This quote needs a citation]
Personal life
Mészáros was first married to László Karda (a filmmaker), in 1957, but they divorced in 1959, and in 1960 she married Miklós Jancsó, a Hungarian film director and screenwriter whom she met during her time with the Mafilm Group 4. Although they later divorced in 1973, their two sons, Nyika Jancsó and Miklós Jancsó Jr., have each separately worked as director of photography on many of her films. She later married the Polish actor Jan Nowicki, but they divorced in 2008. Nowicki starred in many of her films, including the principal role in The Unburied Dead. His son from an earlier relationship, ?ukasz Nowicki, starred in Mészáros' film, Kisvilma. Mészáros also has a daughter, Kasia Jancsó, from her second marriage.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rta_M%C3%A9sz%C3%A1ros
Here natal Lilith is 10 Virgo, N.Node 3 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 18 Scorpio, N.Node 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is 10 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress and activist. Born in San Bernardino, California, and raised in Simi Valley, Woodley began modeling at the age of four and began acting professionally in minor television roles. She first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013).
Woodley made her film debut in The Descendants in 2011, and went on to star in the coming-of-age film The Spectacular Now (2013). For the former, she won a Cannes Trophée Chopard as well as received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the latter won her a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. She achieved wider recognition for her starring role as a teenaged cancer patient in the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and as Beatrice Prior in the science-fiction trilogy The Divergent Series (2014–2016). From 2017 to 2019, she played a sexual assault victim in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2021 she starred in the critically acclaimed drama films The Mauritanian and The Fallout.
Woodley is also an environmental activist and has served as a board member of the political action committee Our Revolution.
Early life
Woodley was raised in Simi Valley, California. Her mother, Lori (née Victor),] is a school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, a school principal. She has a younger brother.
At 15, she was diagnosed with scoliosis and was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to stop her spine from curving further. Woodley attended Simi Valley High School.and modeled at the age of four. She also took acting classes from Anthony Meindl.
Career
1999–2010: Career beginnings and Secret Life
Woodley began her acting career in 1999 with a minor role in the television film Replacing Dad. She went on to feature in minor television roles in The District and Crossing Jordan (in the latter, she portrayed the 10-year-old version of Jill Hennessy's title character). She followed with a leading role in the television film A Place Called Home (2004) as California Ford, which earned her a nomination for a Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actress in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special. She also originally played the young Kaitlin Cooper in The O.C. and appeared as the titular character Felicity Merriman in the television film Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005). Her performance received another Young Artist Award nomination, this time for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, or Special (Comedy or Drama). Following this, Woodley appeared in numerous guest roles in other television series, including Everybody Loves Raymond, My Name is Earl, CSI: NY, Close to Home, and Cold Case.
Woodley was then cast as the main character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013), about a 15-year-old girl who learns she is pregnant. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends, and herself, as well as life at Grant High School. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly praised her performance, stating, "It lifts a well-meaning, rather brave, but ramshackle show a notch." Popular among viewers, the show became one of ABC Family's most-watched telecasts throughout its five-season run, spanning over 121 episodes.
2011–2014: Film debut and breakthrough
In 2011, Woodley made her feature film debut in The Descendants, where she played Alex, the troubled elder daughter of Matt King (played by George Clooney). Her performance received positive reviews from critics. A. O. Scott from The New York Times said, "Ms. Woodley [gives] one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory." Peter Debruge from Variety said that her performance is a "revelation" and that "in the role of Alex, she is displaying both the edge and depth the role demands." Receiving accolades for her performance, Woodley received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. People named her one of 2012 "Most Beautiful at Every Age." Woodley was also considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon's "Young Hollywood Issue".
Woodley starred in the film adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel, The Spectacular Now, as Aimee Finecky, an innocent, bookish teenager who begins dating the charming, freewheeling high-school senior (Miles Teller). The film premiered at Sundance on January 18, 2013. Her portrayal of Aimee gained praise from critics; Los Angeles Times' critic Betsy Sharkey said that Woodley and Teller "bring such an authentic face of confidence and questioning, indifference and need, pain and denial, friendship and first love," while another critic from The Guardian said that they gave "remarkably strong performances" that "display a depth of feeling that's breathtaking in its simplicity and honesty." Additionally, Woodley won the Special Jury Award for Acting, alongside Teller, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
In October 2012, Woodley was offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.] On June 19, 2013, she was cut from the film. Director Marc Webb told The Hollywood Reporter that the cut was "a creative decision to streamline the story and focus on Peter and Gwen and their relationship," and that everyone loved working with Woodley. She had also signed on to star in White Bird in a Blizzard, directed by Gregg Araki. Although filming took place in October 2012, the film was not released until January 20, 2014, at the Sundance Film Festival and then on October 24, 2014, to wider audiences, where it received mixed reviews. In the film, she plays teenager Katrina "Kat" Connors, whose life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears. Critic Moira MacDonald commended her by saying, "Woodley's depiction of Kat is low-key, natural, and utterly unaffected; as she has in every role, she makes the character her own, with her scratchy little voice and level gaze."
In 2014, Woodley starred as Beatrice "Tris" Prior in the film Divergent, an adaptation of Veronica Roth's best-selling young-adult novel of the same name, and the first installment in The Divergent Series. Set in a dystopian and postapocalyptic Chicago, the film received mixed reviews, but Woodley's performance as Tris received a positive reception; Sam Allard from Orlando Weekly said, "with her performance as Tris Prior in Divergent, Woodley rescues and then raises up a film that could have been an utter disaster." Divergent reached the number-one spot at the box office during its opening weekend, and was a financial success.
Afterwards in 2014, Woodley starred as Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars, the film adaptation of John Green's novel of the same name. She portrayed a 16-year-old cancer patient who meets and falls in love with Augustus Waters (played by Ansel Elgort, who also played her brother in the Divergent series), a similarly afflicted teen from her cancer support group. Green said via Twitter about Woodley; "There were so many amazing auditions for the role of Hazel, but Shailene's love for the book and her understanding of Hazel blew me away." The film was a blockbuster success, grossing over $307 million worldwide. Woodley's performance received critical acclaim from critics; Peter Travers in Rolling Stone called her a "sublime actress with a résumé that pretty much proves she's incapable of making a false move on camera", and Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times called her performance as Hazel Oscar-worthy, adding, "she's that memorable". On November 14, 2014, she received The Hollywood Film Award for Hollywood Breakout Performance – Actress for her performance as Hazel.
2015–present: Further film and television work
In 2015, Woodley reprised her role as Tris in The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the second installment in The Divergent Series. Her performance once again received critical acclaim, with Daniel M. Kimmel of New England Movies Weekly writing, "Woodley does solid work here as she's done elsewhere, and continues to be someone to watch." Despite a more negative critical reception than the previous film, Insurgent was commercially successful, making nearly $100 million in its worldwide debut and grossed $295.2 million worldwide. She reprised her role again in the penultimate film of the series Allegiant (2016). The film, however, was poorly reviewed by critics and a box-office bomb. Lionsgate had planned for the final film in the series to be made for television, but Woodley announced that she would not be a part of it. She next starred opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone's biographical thriller Snowden (2016),] in which Gordon-Levitt portrayed Edward Snowden. Owen Gleiberman's review said that Woodley "gives a performance of breathtaking dimension: As the movie goes on, she makes Lindsay supportive and selfish, loving and stricken."
Starting in 2015,] Woodley took a break from filming for nearly a year, stating in a later interview that she "had hit a wall with acting." From 2017 to 2019, Woodley starred as a sexual assault survivor, alongside Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, in two seasons of the HBO drama series Big Little Lies. She was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe Award in 2017 for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television respectively for her role.] She also starred in and produced the biographical film Adrift (2018), with Baltasar Kormákur as director. Her performance as Tami Oldham Ashcraft, a real-life sailor who was stranded at sea after a storm, with Daniel Feingold from WSVN calling her work "Oscar-worthy". Woodley was awarded the Rising Star Award during the 2018 Deauville Film Festival.
In 2019, Woodley starred in the romantic drama Endings, Beginnings alongside Sebastian Stan, Jamie Dornan, and Matthew Gray Gubler. In 2021, she starred in the real-life Guantanamo Bay drama film The Mauritanian alongside Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Benedict Cumberbatch and also had a small supporting role in the critically acclaimed film The Fallout. She also starred in the romantic drama film The Last Letter from Your Lover alongside Felicity Jones, based on the bestselling book by Jojo Moyes.
Upcoming projects
She will next star in Misanthrope, an upcoming thriller centered on a talented but troubled cop who is recruited by the FBI to help profile and track down a serial killer. The film is set to be directed by Damián Szifron. Woodley will serve as a producer on the film. She will star in the thriller Panopticon with Anthony Mackie and Jacob Latimore, which will begin filming in New Mexico in summer 2021. She joined Jack Whitehall in the upcoming comedy film Robots, which is slated to begin filming in New Mexico in August 2021. She is set to star in the upcoming Showtime hourlong drama series Three Women, based on the award-winning and bestselling book by Lisa Taddeo. Filming is set to begin in Fall 2021. She was also cast in Girl Named Sue, a film based on the true story of Sue Webber-Brown, a DEA agent who created the Drug Endangered Children (DEC) protocol. She joined Shia Lebeouf and Robert De Niro in the upcoming crime drama After Exile, with Joshua Michael Stern as director. In November 2020, she joined The Fence a political satire film that will reunite her with Miles Teller for their fifth film. The film will be directed by Grímur Hákonarson. She is attached to star in animated feature Scarygirl and romance film No Baggage, which are in pre-production and development respectively.
Personal life
In 2018, Woodley confirmed she was dating Australian-Fijian rugby union player Ben Volavola. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she said: "I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are". In April 2020, the relationship with Volavola was reported to have ended.
Woodley was reported to have been in a relationship with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers since 2020. In February 2021, Rodgers referred to his "fiancée" during his acceptance speech for the league's MVP award at the NFL Honors ceremony, confirming that he was engaged, but not to whom. Woodley confirmed she was engaged to Rodgers in a February 22 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Activism
Woodley is an avid environmental activist and climate advocate. In 2010 she and her mother co-founded the nonprofit organization All it Takes, a youth leadership program that aims to educate young people to practice empathy, compassion, responsibility, and purpose in hopes to foster sustainable, positive change for themselves, others and the environment. She supported Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 and 2020.
In 2016, Woodley protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an underground petroleum transport pipeline. In October, she was arrested for criminal trespassing in Saint Anthony, North Dakota. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year of probation.
In mid-2016, Woodley joined the board of Our Revolution, a political organization aimed to educate voters about issues, get people involved in the political process, and work to organize and elect progressive leaders.]
On September 29, 2016, Woodley was honored at the 20th Anniversary Global Green Environmental Awards, receiving the Entertainment Industry Environmental Leadership Award for co-founding All it Takes. In October 2016, she was given the Female EMA Futures Award during the 26th Annual Environmental Media Association (EMA) Awards.
In 2018, Woodley took activist Calina Lawrence to the 75th Golden Globe Awards as her guest; they met at Standing Rock while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
In July 2019, Woodley became an Oceans Ambassador for Greenpeace and embarked on a three-week-long expedition to the Sargasso Sea to study the impact of plastics and microplastics on marine life, and to document the importance of this unique ecosystem for protection under a new global ocean treaty that is being negotiated at the United Nations.
Her natal Lilith is 11 Cancer, N.Node is 14 Sagittarius, S.Node is 11 Cancer. Her natal Amazon
11 Gemini, N.Node is 22 Taurus, S.Node is 22 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Lilian Bland (28 September 1878 – 11 May 1971) was an Anglo-Irish journalist and pioneer aviator who, in 1910–11, became one of the first women in the British Isles, and maybe even in the world, to design, build, and fly an aircraft – the Bland Mayfly.
Early life
Bland was born in Maidstone, Kent on 28 September 1878, to a family of Anglo-Irish gentry, the third child of John Humphrey Bland and his wife Emily Charlotte (née Madden) and lived at Willington House, located on Willington Street (formerly, Willington Lane). Around the turn of the century, she began working as a sports journalist and press photographer for various London newspapers; she lived an unconventional lifestyle for the period; smoking, wearing trousers, hunting, shooting, and fishing.
Between 1900 and 1906, following the death of her mother, Bland (aged 28) and her father moved to Tobercorran House in northern Ireland. Tobercorran was the family house in Carnmoney, and was located on Glebe Road West, just north of Belfast where Bland and her father moved in with her aunt Sarah. Sarah had married General William James Smythe on 15 December 1857; the couple had not had children at the time of Smythe's death on 12 July 1887. The two siblings decided to set up house together, which was how Bland and her father came to live at Tobercorran.
From here, Bland continued her photographic work, spending days on remote Scottish islands photographing seabirds, which increased her fascination with flying.
Aviation career
The Mayfly was an aircraft designed and constructed by Lilian Bland in 1910
Bland's uncle Robert sent her a postcard of the Blériot monoplane from Paris, inspiring her to take up flying. She studied the measurements of the monoplane during the first official aviation meeting held in Blackpool in 1909, and added her own thoughts into the design of her plane, the Mayfly. The Mayfly had similar wings to Blériot's design, but it could get off the ground by itself. At that point, no one in Ireland had yet made a powered flight – the first would be Harry Ferguson, in December – and to make an aircraft would involve building it herself. Her late uncle, General William James Smythe, an astronomer and member of the Royal Society, provided a house with a workshop. After some background reading on the Wright brothers, and becoming inspired by their achievements, Bland successfully built a flyable model biplane with a wing span of six feet.
From this, she progressed to a full-scale glider with others' help, which was built from spruce, bamboo and canvas, and completed early in 1910. For months of experiments, she made numerous glider flights to improve the plane. The finished glider had a wingspan of 20 feet and 7 inches, and weighed 200 pounds. Due to the doubts that were expressed to her about its flying capability, Bland, with deliberate irony, named it Mayfly. The resulting Mayfly was tested by gliding it from Carnmoney Hill, being progressively strengthened and tested with heavier loads, until Bland felt it was strong enough to take an engine. The load test was done by four Irish constables. Since the plane could lift four men, Bland believed it could carry one English engine.] She ordered a light 20 horsepower two-stroke engine from A. V. Roe & Co. for £100, and after some delays brought it to Carnmoney in July.
The horizontally opposed two-cylinder engine achieved 20 horsepower at 1000 rpm. Bland was eager to test the engine-powered aircraft before its petrol tank was ready, so she improvised: an empty whiskey bottle was used instead, with Bland's deaf aunt's ear trumpet as the engine hose. This construction was not quite a success—the engine's vibrations compromised the security of the plane's nuts, bolts, and struts, and Bland's flight would have to wait.
Preparations of the Mayfly started in 1909, and the first successful flight was made at Randalstown in late August in 1910, a short hop off the ground.] While perching on a canvas open-air seat, she manipulated controls to maintain the flight in balance after running forward about 30 feet and stayed in the air for a quarter of a mile. The controls consisted of a bicycle handle bar. Not only did this make Bland the first woman to fly an aircraft in Ireland, but the Mayfly also became the first powered biplane in Ireland. In 2017, Sinead Morrisey recounts one of Bland's flights in her poem The Mayfly.
She continued experimenting with further flights, mostly around thirty feet (ten metres) in length, sometimes requiring examination of the ground to identify when the Mayfly had actually lifted off. The longest flight after the first try was approximately one-quarter of a mile (400 metres). She began to plan an improved version, and offered biplanes for sale at £250 apiece without an engine and gliders for £80 to fund further development. The Mayfly was able to stably glide over 90 yards and rise 30 feet even in gusty winds, according to Bland's words. The aircraft was however not capable of much more, and would not cope with a larger engine. Finally, Bland gave the Mayfly air-frame to a boy's gliding club and sold the engine.
Later life
By April 1911 she was running a car dealership in Belfast, Ireland, but in October 1912 gave up the business to marry her cousin Charles Loftus Bland (born 21 October 1881). Charles was a lumberjack from British Columbia and had returned to Ireland to propose to Lilian.[6] The couple married on 3 October 1911 and soon emigrated to Canada where they built their own farm on virgin lands.
Charles and Lilian had their first and only child, Patricia Lilian Bland, on 13 April 1913. Patricia died of tetanus in September 1929, at the age of 16. The couple separated soon after, with Lilian moving back to England and Charles going on to marry his second wife, Mary (who was a cousin of both Lilian and Charles).
Bland returned to the United Kingdom in 1935, settling in Kent. She became a gardener and gambled her wages on the stock market in the hopes of getting more money. She also wrote a memoir about her life during this time, which is yet to be published. By the 1950s, Bland had retired to Cornwall. In 1971, at the age of 92, Bland was quoted by the Belfast Telegraph for saying that the only excitement left to her was gambling. She died soon after on 11 May of the same year.
Legacy
Bland was commemorated by an Ulster History Circle blue plaque at the family home in Carnmoney, County Antrim and Mayfly was presented to the Dublin Club. Glengormley Park in Newtonabbey was renamed Lilian Bland Community Park in August 2011; at the same time a stainless-steel sculpture of the Mayfly was unveiled. Four of her paintings were put up for auction in Penzance in July 2021.
A 2021 exhibition on Irish innovators presented by National Museums NI the Ulster Transport Museum in Cultra, Belfast, featured Bland's contribution to Irish aviation.
Her natal Lilith is 11 Cancer, N.Node 4 Sagittarius, S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon 7 Libra, N.Node 10 Gemini, S.Node 12 Scorpio.
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Just caught a live interview (on CNN's Gps by Fareed Zakaria) with an extraordinary woman, Mahbouba Seraj, a woman's right's activist who's life has been dedicated to, in her words "trying to be the voice of the voiceless" women in Afghanistan, where she is and has been living and working in the past decades, and where she was born.
Unfortunately there is little to know from an astrological point of view but much more important is to pray for her and the work she is doing right now, so if any of you can please include this amazing soul in your prayers, in such a perilous time for the women and girls in this part of the world, that so much resemble the rest of the world how much women have endured in the past centuries but also how much we have progressed nonetheless in some places.
It's worth to register an excerpt of the interview, a very touching moment when all we see is men in powerful positions deciding wars and strategies and people's lives, she gave this humble answer to a world of insanity:
"Q: Mahbouba, you must be worried watch the Taliban rising, not just of the work that you are doing but you must be worried about your personal safety, of your own life?
A: You know Mr. Zakaria, I am not a very brave person, I really am not, and I am not a martyr either, I love my life, and I want to be alive because the women of Afghanistan still need. But this is something, this one thing, why I am here, why am staying, what I am doing and how I am doing it is because it's my job, it's my responsibility, and I have to do that. And that's exactly why I am doing it. So you know this where I am, this is where I want to stay, and want to be for my girls, for my sisters and for my daughters, right now they are my daughters mostly because they're young and I am an old woman now but at the same time, you know, I just want to be here, because I know my presence really gives them the kind of moral and the kind of support they really need in these very hard times. So that's exactly what I am doing."
May Goddess bless and protect her soul and the fate of all this women.
Helena
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Here is the chart for Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829), called "Marianne" and nicknamed Nannerl, was a musician, the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and daughter of Leopold (1719–1787) and Anna Maria Mozart (1720–1778).
Childhood
Maria Anna (Marianne) Mozart was born in Salzburg. When she was seven years old, her father Leopold Mozart started teaching her to play the harpsichord. Leopold took her and Wolfgang on tours of many cities, such as Vienna and Paris, to showcase their talents. In the early days, she sometimes received top billing, and she was noted as an excellent harpsichord player and fortepianist.
However, given the views of her parents, prevalent in her society at the time, it became impossible as she grew older for her to continue her career any further. According to New Grove, "from 1769 onwards she was no longer permitted to show her artistic talent on travels with her brother, as she had reached a marriageable age." Wolfgang went on during the 1770s to many artistic triumphs while traveling in Italy with Leopold, but Marianne stayed at home in Salzburg with her mother. She likewise stayed home with Leopold when Wolfgang visited Paris and other cities (1777–1779) accompanied by his mother.
There is evidence that Marianne wrote musical compositions, as there are letters from Wolfgang praising her work, but the voluminous correspondence of her father never mentions any of her compositions, and none have survived.
Marriage and children
In contrast to her brother, who quarreled with their father and eventually disobeyed his wishes with respect to career path and choice of spouse, Marianne remained entirely subordinate to her father. She fell in love with Franz d'Ippold, who was a captain and private tutor, but was forced by her father to turn down his marriage proposal. Wolfgang attempted, in vain, to get Marianne to stand up for her own preference.
Eventually, Marianne married a magistrate, Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg (23 August 1783), and settled with him in St. Gilgen, a village in Austria about 29 km] east of the Mozart family home in Salzburg. Berchtold was twice a widower and had five children from his two previous marriages, whom Marianne helped raise. She also bore three children of her own: Leopold Alois Pantaleon (1785–1840), Jeanette (1789–1805) and Maria Babette (1790–1791).
Leopold's raising of her son
An unusual episode in Marianne's life occurred when she gave birth (27 July 1785) to her first child, a son who was named Leopold after his grandfather. Marianne had traveled from her home in St. Gilgen to Salzburg for the birth. When she returned to St. Gilgen, she left her infant in the care of her father and his servants. The elder Leopold stated (by a letter that preceded Marianne back to St. Gilgen) that he would prefer to raise the child for the first few months himself. In 1786, he extended the arrangement to an indefinite term. Leopold continued to care for his grandson, taking delight in his progress (toilet training, speech, and so on), and commencing with the very beginnings of musical training. Marianne saw her son on occasional visits, but in general was not involved in his care. The arrangement continued until the death of her father, on 28 May 1787.
Biographers differ on the reasons for this arrangement. Little Leopold was ill in his infancy, and perhaps needed to be kept in Salzburg for this reason, but this does not explain why he was still kept there after his recovery. Another possibility attributes the arrangement to Marianne's delicate health or her need to take care of her stepchildren. Biographer Maynard Solomon attributes the arrangement to Leopold's wish to revive his skills in training a musical genius, as he had done with Wolfgang. He also suggests that giving up her son was indicative of Marianne's total subordination to her father's wishes.
Relationship with Wolfgang
When Wolfgang was a toddler, Nannerl (four and a half years older) was his idol. According to Maynard Solomon, "at three, Mozart was inspired to study music by observing his father's instruction of Marianne; he wanted to be like her." The two children were very close, and they invented a secret language and an imaginary "Kingdom of Back" of which they were king and queen. Wolfgang's early correspondence with Marianne is affectionate, and includes some of the scatological and sexual word play in which Wolfgang indulged with intimates. Occasionally Wolfgang wrote entries in Marianne's diary, referring to himself in the third person.
Wolfgang wrote a number of works for Marianne to perform, including the Prelude and Fugue in C, K. 394 (1782) and the four Preludes K. 395/300g (1777.). Until 1785, he sent her copies of his piano concertos (up to No. 21) in St. Gilgen.
Concerning the relationship between Wolfgang and Marianne in adulthood, authorities differ. According to New Grove, Wolfgang "remained closely attached to her." In contrast, Maynard Solomon contends that in later life Wolfgang and Marianne drifted apart completely. He notes, for instance, that after Wolfgang's visit to Salzburg in 1783 (with his new wife Constanze), Wolfgang and Marianne never visited each other again, that they never saw each other's children, and that their correspondence diminished to a trickle, ceasing entirely in 1788.
Wolfgang died on 5 December 1791. Sometime around 1800, Marianne encountered Franz Xaver Niemetschek's 1798 biography of Wolfgang. Since this biography had been written from the perspective of Vienna and of Constanze, much of its content was new to Marianne. In an 1800 letter, she wrote:
Herr Prof. Niemetschek's biography so completely reanimated my sisterly feelings toward my so ardently beloved brother that I was often dissolved in tears, since it is only now that I became acquainted with the sad condition in which my brother found himself.
Later years
Crypt 54 (St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg): communal vault in which Mozart's sister Maria Anna and Michael Haydn are buried
Marianne's husband died in 1801. She returned to Salzburg, accompanied by her two living children and four stepchildren, and worked as a music teacher.
In her old age, Marianne had her first encounter in person with Wolfgang's widow Constanze since the visit of 1783. In 1820, Constanze and her second husband Georg Nikolaus von Nissen moved to Salzburg. Although Marianne had not even known that Constanze was still alive, the encounter was apparently "cordial", though not warm. Eventually, Marianne did the Nissens a great favor: to help them write a biography of Wolfgang, Marianne lent the Nissens her collection of family letters, including Wolfgang and Leopold's correspondence up to 1781.
In 1821, Marianne enjoyed a visit from Wolfgang's son, Franz Xaver Mozart, whom she had never met during her brother's lifetime. The son had come from his home in Lemberg to conduct a performance of his father's Requiem in remembrance of the recently deceased Nissen.
In her last years, Marianne's health declined, and she became blind in 1825. Mary Novello, visiting in 1829, recorded her impression that Mrs. Berchtold was "blind, languid, exhausted, feeble and nearly speechless", as well as lonely. She mistakenly took Marianne to be impoverished, though in fact she was frugal and left a large fortune (7837 gulden).
Marianne died on 29 October 1829, at 78 years, and was buried in St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg.
Her natal Lilith is 24 Aquarius, N.Node 4 Sagittarius, S.Node 5 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 18 Libra, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node 5 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter. A classically-trained pianist, Keys began composing songs by age 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records. After disputes with the label, she signed with Arista Records and later released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001. The album was critically and commercially successful, producing her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Fallin'" and selling over 12 million copies worldwide. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002.
Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was also a critical and commercial success, spawning successful singles "You Don't Know My Name", "If I Ain't Got You", and "Diary", and selling eight million copies worldwide. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards. Her duet "My Boo" with Usher became her second number-one single in 2004. Keys released her first live album, Unplugged (2005), and became the first woman to have an MTV Unplugged album debut at number one. Her third album, As I Am (2007), produced the Hot 100 number-one single "No One", selling 7 million copies worldwide and earning an additional three Grammy Awards. In 2007, Keys made her film debut in the action-thriller film Smokin' Aces. She, along with Jack White, recorded "Another Way to Die" (the title song to the 22nd official James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). Her fourth album, The Element of Freedom (2009), became her first chart-topping album in the UK, and sold 4 million copies worldwide. In 2009, Keys also collaborated with Jay Z on "Empire State of Mind", which became her fourth number-one single and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Girl on Fire (2012) was her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. In 2013, VH1 Storytellers was released as her second live album. Her sixth studio album, Here (2016), became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart-topping album. Her seventh studio album, Alicia, was released on September 18, 2020.
Keys has received numerous accolades in her career, including 15 competitive Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 12 ASCAP Awards, and an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association. She has sold over 90 million records worldwide making her one of the world's best-selling music artists and was named by Billboard the top R&B artist of the 2000s decade. She placed tenth on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years. VH1 included her on their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 100 Greatest Women in Music lists, while Time has named her in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005 and 2017. Keys is also acclaimed for her humanitarian work, philanthropy and activism, e.g. being awarded Ambassador of Conscience by Amnesty International; she co-founded and serves as the Global Ambassador of the nonprofit HIV/AIDS-fighting organization Keep a Child Alive.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Keys
Her natal Lilith is 23 Sagittarius, N.Node 1 Capricorn, S.Node 26 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 14 Cancer, N.Node 3 Taurus, and the S.Node 7 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad & all,
I only now came across this wonderful soul: Simona Kossack....
She was a nature photojournalist, ecologist, scientist & generally accused of being a witch!
The headline of an article I hope to share a link to states how she : slept with a lynx, & a wild boar on the roof...& a 'terrorist crow'
If you google her you'll find many stories & amazing photographs.
Unfortunately her birth time is unknown, that I know of...
She has asteroid lillith conjunct the moon & square Juno/Cap & Venus/Jupiter Cancer
& these planets are with the nodes of Saturn, Pluto
Her nodes are footsie with the nodes of Neptune, the moon's nodes being square to Ceres/Mercury
Black Moon is conjunct Pluto - in square to Vesta
Pallas is with Mars & opposite Chariklo (in myth the wife of Chiron)- I haven't done much research into Chariklo -
she is a healer & 'shamaness' in her own right, & was a trusted confidant of Vesta (who is argued to be the first 'god/dess' & even more primordial as she is represented merely as a flame, something before form -
I feel Chariklo has a very 'Mary Magdalene' vibe to her......it's the ancient world that gave us Crete....
& so much has been repressed or mis-represented
Simona is truly an amazing soul - I have no idea how I've not known of her until now!
I hope those here enjoy her story, accomplishments & the amazing photos of her with the wild
Birth data: May 30, 1943
There are some wonderful articles & amazing photos but I cannot figure the attachments - they aren't going through, but I hope those intrigued will research her...
Hi Nerissa,
I am posting her chart for you, a photograph, and a link to an article called The Extraordinary Life of Simona Kossak: https://culture.pl/en/article/the-extraordinary-life-of-simona-kossak
Here is a link to more pictures of her: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrCwGGclTBhRH8AWhAnnIlQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANZSFNBTExfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=the+extraordinary+life+of+simona+kossak&ei=UTF-8&type=dss&hsimp=yhs-102&hspart=mozilla&fr=yhs-mozilla-102#id=74&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F38%2Fba%2F2e%2F38ba2eb3895802bd0960a97a45cfd225.jpg&action=click
Her natal Lilith 23 Aries, N.Node is 27 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 18 Sagittarius, N.node 26 Taurus, and the S.Node 16 Scorpio.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Thank you, Rad, for posting her chart & photo & article!
Rad, did you find Simona's birth data- is the chart posted her accurate time,etc?
I'd been thinking about what house her Pluto could be in & I 'felt' all houses BUT the 12th - & then figured that was probably exactly where it was!
It was funny to see this chart the next morning....
Also, her sixth house - her pets (sixth) being unusual (Aquarius)!
I was going to add some thoughts on the chart - but will wait to know if this is her birth time.
I have wanted to ask a basic question - it was said, here on the board, or the Glossary - that an opposition is about 'throwing off' something - I'm not sure I understand what is meant by that.
I've considered oppositions to be very dynamic - you have one planet being the PP of the other - does one or the other planet needs to be 'thrown off' for evolution to proceed - ?
I'd been thinking it was more of an integration of the energies.
She has a Mars/Neptune opposition - & that Mars is ultimately the final dispositor of the chart, if I'm looking correctly.
I was seeing a push/pull between her ego, God & the natural/unnatural pushes or pulls that would manifest in her life - & one of the bottom lines is to reorient her mind/brain - right/left - instinct & intention.
She clearly has, among other archetypes, this sacred warrior(ess) energy very strongly.
I was also wanting to clarify that her Taurus placements would be considered square to the nodal axis, skipped steps - it's a little wide, but I'm thinking these were skipped steps...
Thank you!
BTW - edited to change 'sign' to 'house' as far as Pluto....
Hi Nerissa,
I do not know the birth time for her. The chart I posted is for a noon birth time.
An opposition relative to 'throwing off' something correlates to existing dynamics within the Soul need to be eliminated in order for the ongoing evolution of the Soul to proceed. Understanding the entire birth chart is of course necessary in order to know exactly what those dynamics are.
God Bless, Rad
Thanks Rad - that noon chart would make some sense - I was going to try to understand this opposition better but without the houses - not sure.
Regardless it seems we've a right/left brain - intuition/faith/thought/action dynamic with the Mars placement & Neptune/Virgo
And that Mercury (Neptune Ruler) square the axis (AQ/Leo) - & applying to AQ - well, the development of objectivity (which with a heavy Aries nature can be challenging) - & her Sun - both the ruler of Pluto AND the NN - & Uranus (SN ruler) - conjunct in Gemini!
And it's there near the nodes of Uranus - she seems to exemplify the ability to merge individual life/will with God's will & use her mind in both left/right brain to then utilize her knowledge, experience, in a scientific manner to the end goal: protection of what is natural.
I still am not sure what needed to be 'thrown off' though - the 'flip-flop' between right/left brain, intellect/intuition... - ?
Could you use her chart/life to elucidate how/what needs to be 'thrown off' with regard to her Mars/Neptune opposition - ?
I was wondering if you'd an idea of what her evolutionary state could be- ?
Thank you, Rad!
Hi Nerissa,
I have not had any time to really look into her life so can't really comment in detail about what her Soul is needing to throw off in order for her evolution to proceed. At minimum however it has something to do with how she puts her ideas/thoughts together that comprises her empirical understanding that generates the rationalizations for her and other peoples behavior: how she explains to herself and others that which convinces her of the truth of whatever phenomena she is focused on at whatever moment in time.
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
I ran across an article in the Guardian newspaper about a new movie that has been made about Princess Diana wherein the actress Kristen Stewart plays her. The article is very, very striking in how Stewart experienced a sense of Diana's presence while making this.
Here is that article:
Kristen Stewart felt Princess Diana gave her 'sign off' for Spencer role
Actor who plays the Princess of Wales in critically lauded drama says there were moments during the shoot when it felt as if Diana was 'trying to break through'
Andrew Pulver
Guardian
Thu 9 Sep 2021 10.43 BST
Kristen Stewart has spoken about getting a "sign-off" from Diana, Princess of Wales for her performance in the biopic Spencer, recently premiered to considerable acclaim at the Venice and Telluride film festivals.
In an interview with the LA Times after the film's North American premiere at Telluride, Stewart said she had some "spooky, spiritual feelings making this movie", which takes place over three days during the 1991 Christmas break, when Diana was staying at Sandringham house. "Even if I was just fantasising. I felt like there were moments where I kind of got the sign-off."
Stewart added: "[Diana] felt so alive to me when I was making this movie, even if it's all between the ears and it was just a fantasy of mine. But there were moments where my body and mind would forget she was dead."
"It was ... a fight to keep her alive every day, and so remembering that she was dead was just absolutely lacerating. It just destroyed me constantly. And that itself felt spiritual ... there were times where I was like, 'Oh, God,' almost like she was, you know, trying to break through. It was weird. And amazing. I've never felt anything like it in my life."
Spencer, directed by Chilean film-maker Pablo Larraìn, has been widely praised since its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Friday. In a five star review, the Guardian's Xan Brooks called it "rich and intoxicating and altogether magnificent", while the Daily Telegraph, in another five-star review, described it as "thrillingly gutsy, seductive, uninhibited film-making".
After its Venice screening, Stewart told a press conference of her admiration for and empathy with Diana, saying: "We haven't had many of those people throughout history. Diana stands out just as a sparkly house on fire."
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This kind of connection between Souls occurs though what can be called hyperspace. Hyperspace is that place where the astral realms and our physical realm interface. It is also that realm in which a Soul can communicate with another Soul within the physical realm itself. Hyperspace correlates with Aquarius, Uranus, and the 11th House.
So I thought it would be interesting to look at their chart together to see the EA astrology between them. I am attaching their individual charts, the synastry charts between them, and their composite. I am also attaching some pictures of each of them, and a photo of Stewart as she appears in this new movie.
Diana's natal Lilith Diana is 2 Cancer, N.Node 12 Sagittarius, S.Node 26 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 2 Pisces, N.Node 3 Gemini, and the S.Node 6 Scorpio.
Kristen's natal Lilith is 1 Aquarius, N.Node 9 Capricorn, and the S.Node is 2 Gemini. Her Amazon is 21 Aquarius, N.Node 14 Taurus, S.Node 5 Sagittarius.
Here is a link the the trailer for this movie: https://youtu.be/-9DKkF7Wmww
Please feel free to make comments or ask questions about what you see in their connections.
Goddess Bless, Rad
pictures ... and composite chart
Hi All
Here is the chart for Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, women's rights activist, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry in 1977, Murray was the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest, in the first year that any women were ordained by that church.]
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Murray was virtually orphaned when young, and she was raised mostly by her maternal grandparents in Durham, North Carolina. At the age of 16, she moved to New York City to attend Hunter College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1933. In 1940, Murray sat in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus with a friend, and they were arrested for violating state segregation laws. This incident, and her subsequent involvement with the socialist Workers' Defense League, led her to pursue her career goal of working as a civil rights lawyer. She enrolled in the law school at Howard University, where she was the only woman in her class. Murray graduated first in her class, but she was denied the chance to do post-graduate work at Harvard University because of her gender. She called such prejudice against women "Jane Crow", alluding to the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. She earned a master's degree in law at University of California, Berkeley, and in 1965 she became the first African American to receive a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Yale Law School.
As a lawyer, Murray argued for civil rights and women's rights. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall called Murray's 1950 book, States' Laws on Race and Color, the "bible" of the civil rights movement. Murray was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve on the 1961–1963 Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. In 1966, she was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg named Murray as a coauthor of a brief on the 1971 case Reed v. Reed, in recognition of her pioneering work on gender discrimination. This case articulated the "failure of the courts to recognize sex discrimination for what it is and its common features with other types of arbitrary discrimination." Murray held faculty or administrative positions at the Ghana School of Law, Benedict College, and Brandeis University.
In 1973, Murray left academia for activities associated with the Episcopal Church. She became an ordained priest in 1977, among the first generation of women priests. Murray struggled in her adult life with issues related to her sexual and gender identity, describing herself as having an "inverted sex instinct". She had a brief, annulled marriage to a man and several deep relationships with women. In her younger years, she occasionally had passed as a teenage boy. A number of scholars, including a 2017 biographer, have retroactively classified her as transgender. In addition to her legal and advocacy work, Murray published two well-reviewed autobiographies and a volume of poetry. Her volume of poetry, Dark Testament, was republished in 2018.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray and https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/17/how-is-pauli-murray-not-a-household-name-the-extraordinary-life-of-the-uss-most-radical-activist
Her natal Lilith is 7 Scorpio, N.Node 13 Sagittarius, S.Node 13 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 11 Taurus, N.Node 25 Taurus, and the S.Node 21 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg born 3 January 2003 is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticises world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis.
Thunberg's activism began by persuading her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate). Soon other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week somewhere in the world. In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests involving over a million students each. To avoid energy-intensive flying, Thunberg sailed to North America where she attended the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Her speech there, in which she exclaimed "How dare you", was widely taken up by the press and incorporated into music.
Her sudden rise to world fame made her both a leader in the activist community and a target for critics, especially due to her age. Her influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other newspapers as the "Greta effect". She received numerous honours and awards, including an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, inclusion in Time's 100 most influential people, being the youngest Time Person of the Year, inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019), and three consecutive nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize (2019–2021).
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg and https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/sep/25/greta-thunberg-i-really-see-the-value-of-friendship-apart-from-the-climate-almost-nothing-else-matters and https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/24/people-in-99-countries-take-part-in-global-climate-strike
Her natal Lilith 27 Sagittarius, N.Node 25 Sagittarius, S.Node 5 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 11 Aries, N.Node 5 Taurus, and the S.Node 3 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist. She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt was involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.
Omvedt's dissertation was titled Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930.
Omvedt's academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class, caste and gender issues. Besides undertaking many research projects, she was a consultant for FAO, UNDP and NOVIB and served as a Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa, a professor of sociology at the University of Pune and an Asian guest professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen. She was a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and research director of the Krantivir Babuji Patankar Sanstha.
Biography
Gail Omvedt was born in Minneapolis, and studied at Carleton College and at UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in sociology in 1973. When she went to India for the first time in 1963~64, she was an English tutor on a Fulbright Fellowship. She was an Indian citizen since 1983. She lived in rural India in a town in Maharashtra called Kasegaon with her husband, Bharat Patankar, her mother-in-law Indumati Patankar and cousins.
In the years before her death she was working as a consulting sociologist on gender, environment and rural development, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Oxfam Novib (NOVIB) and other institutions. She was a consultant for UN agencies and NGOs, served as a Dr. Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pune, as Asian Guest Professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen and as a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. She was a Visiting Professor and Coordinator, School of Social Justice, University of Pune and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Gail Omvedt was a former Chair Professor for the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair of Social Change and Development at IGNOU. Omvedt died on 25 August 2021 in Maharashtra at the age of 80.
Activism
Omvedt worked with social movements in India, including the Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental movements, farmers' movements and especially with rural women. She was active in Shramik Mukti Dal, Stri Mukti Sangarsh Chalval which works on issues of abandoned women in Sangli and Satara districts of southern Maharashtra, and the Shetkari Mahila Aghadi, which works on issues of women's land rights and political power.
Views
Gail Omvedt was an Ambedkarite scholar who contributed immensely to anti-caste movement. Omvedt was critical of the religious scriptures of Hinduism (or what she specifically regarded as "brahminism") for what she argued is their promotion of a caste-based society.
In addition to her criticism of their purported advocacy for the caste-system, Omvedt also dismissed the Hindu tradition of venerating the Vedas as holy. In a 2000 open letter published in The Hindu addressed to then-BJP President Bangaru Laxman, she gave her perspective on the Rigveda:
As for the Vedas, they are impressive books, especially the Rg Veda. I can only say this only from translations, but I am glad that the ban on women and shudras reading them has been broken, and that good translations by women and shudras themselves are available. But to take them as something holy? Read them for yourself! Most of the hymns are for success in war, cattle- stealing, love-making and the like. They celebrate conquest; the hymns about Indra and Vrtra sound suspiciously as if the Aryans were responsible for smashing dams built by the Indus valley people; though archeologists tell us there is no evidence for direct destruction by "Aryan invasion", the Rg Veda gives evidence of enmity between the Aryans and those they called dasyus, panis and the like.
Omvedt posits that Hindutva groups foster an ethnic definition of Hinduism based on geography, ancestry and heritage in order to create a solidarity amongst various castes, despite the prevalence of caste-based discrimination.
Omvedt endorsed the stand taken by Dalit activists at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism that caste discrimination is similar to racism in regarding discriminated groups as "biologically inferior and socially dangerous".
She called the United States a "racist country" and has advocated for affirmative action; however, she compared American positive-discrimination policies favorably to those of India, stating:
It is a sad comment on the state of Indian industrialists' social consciousness that such discussions have begun in an organised way in the U.S. before they have been thought of in India itself.
and, with respect to perceptions of "group performance", in the United States and India, Omvedt wrote:
Whereas the U.S. debate assumes an overall equal distribution of capacity among social groups, in India the assumption seems to be that the unequal showing of different caste groups on examinations, in education, etc. is a result of actual different capacities.
She on occasion supported big-dam projects[20] and GMO crops.
Controversy and criticism
Andre Beteille's criticism
Omvedt's portrayal of caste-discrimination and violence as forms of "racism" was opposed by the Indian government and sociologists in India, including Andre Beteille, who while acknowledging that discrimination exists, deeply opposed treating caste as a form of racism "simply to protect against prejudice and discrimination", describing such attempts as "politically mischievous" and "worse, scientifically nonsense". Beteille argues (that):
In the past, some groups claimed superior rights on the ground that they belonged to the Aryan race or the Teutonic race. The anthropologists rejected such claims on two grounds: first, on the ground that within the same human species no race is superior to any other; but also on the ground that there is no such thing as an Aryan race or a Teutonic race. We cannot throw out the concept of race by the front door when it is misused for asserting social superiority and bring it in again through the back door to misuse it in the cause of the oppressed. The metaphor of race is a dangerous weapon whether it is used for asserting white supremacy or for making demands on behalf of disadvantaged groups.
Marxist critique
Omvedt was criticized for a perceived "anti-statist" bias in her writing as well as "neo-liberal" economic sympathies. Scholars have also questioned the sincerity of her claims regarding the "authenticity" of her work, writing:
In this paragraph, Omvedt is transformed from dangerous American outsider to revolutionary insider, player of a song proclaiming: 'We will cut the throats of the rich!' The chapter strategically ends with these words, which, written and sung though they are by anonymous labourers, can be heard only through Omvedt's (technological) agency. The rest, as they say, is history. The remainder of the book unsubtly suggests what Omvedt does not say explicitly--that she has accepted the leadership role thrust upon her by the initially skeptical masses.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/29/gail-omvedt-us-sociologist-who-lived-by-her-principles-among-indias-poor
Her natal Lilith is 3 Scorpio, N.Node 3 Sagittarius, S.Node 5 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 3 Virgo, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node 4 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
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Here is the chart for Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police.
Early life and education
Born Altheia Jones in 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, she was one of the three daughters of Viola Jones, a Port of Spain dressmaker and clothes shop proprietor, and Dunstan Jones, the principal of a government school. Her parents also held local leadership roles in the People's National Movement during her childhood.[6] She attended St George's College in Barataria, where she was regarded by her chemistry teacher as "a vibrant, sparkling girl of exceptional ability". In 1965, she left Trinidad to complete a PhD in biochemistry at University College London.
Political activism
While studying in London, Jones-LeCointe became involved in community organising against racism and for the rights of people of African and Asian heritage in the UK. She worked as a teacher and organiser in the Universal Coloured Peoples' Association (UCPA).
After the arrest and departure of Obi Egbuna in 1968, Jones-LeCointe became a central and leading figure of the British Black Panther Movement. She recruited a central core of activists into the movement, including Darcus Howe and Eddie LeCointe. Eddie LeCointe, her husband, was also a leading figure of the British Black Panther Movement.
Jones-LeCointe was a Panther teacher; she spoke at schools and taught classes in anti-colonialism. Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson joined the Black Panther Youth league after seeing Jones-LeCointe debate at his sixth-form. In an interview with The Guardian, Johnson describes Jones-LeCointe as "perhaps the most remarkable woman I've ever met".
Notable achievements
Jones-LeCointe played a key role in ensuring that defending black women and girls was at the core of the movement. This included building structures into the organisation to ensure that men suspected of the abuse or exploitation of women were interrogated and punished if found guilty. W. Chris Johnson, writing in Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges (edited by Miescher, Mitchell and Shibusawa, 2015), states: "Jones-LeCointe's authority, and her energetic pursuit of justice, unsettled Panthers who did not see anti-sexism as an intrinsic part of revolutionary praxis."
Under her leadership, the Panthers' influence and reach in the community increased considerably. They produced a newspaper, Freedom News; led campaigns against police brutality and discrimination in employment, housing and education; and ran sessions to encourage black people to study books by radical authors. By the 1970s, Jones-LeCointe had led the recruitment of more than 3,000 people to the British Black Panther Movement.
Influence and impact
Jones-LeCointe is considered by academics and her contemporaries to be the leader of the British Black Panther Movement. According to the British Black Panthers' official photographer Neil Kenlock: "Althea (sic) never called herself the leader, but she led us." Jones-LeCointe says: "I don't know how I've suddenly become 'a leader,'" she recalls, "we didn't recognize those categories ... we believed in collective leadership."
As part of the Mangrove Nine, Jones-LeCointe and her fellow activists successfully defended themselves and for the first time, spoke about racism in the Metropolitan Police on an official platform - the courtroom. Their arguments and their win, led to the formation of the notable 1976 Race Relations Act.
Jones-LeCointe was one of the nine protesters arrested and tried in what has since been described as "Britain's most influential black power trial", and by Bryan Knight of The Guardian as "one the most significant legal cases in British history."
In 1969 and 1970, The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill became the target of repeated police raids. The police claimed the restaurant was a hub for criminal activity, despite a lack of evidence found. A march was organised by local Panthers and community leaders to demand police get their "hands off The Mangrove".
The March
On Sunday, 9 August 1970, an estimated 150 people took part in the protest. Jones-LeCointe and Howe addressed the demonstrators outside the restaurant. Jones-LeCointe spoke on community self-help and rights for British citizens.
The protesters were flanked and monitored by hundreds of police officers, with the estimated number of police officers ranging from 200 to 700. The heavy-handed policing led to clashes in the crowd.
During the march, Jones-LeCointe was coming to the aid of an injured woman when she was seized by three police constables and carried to a van.
The Trial
Jones-LeCointe and Howe made the decision to represent themselves in the trial. They also argued for an all-black jury to deliberate on the case — however, this was denied. Nonetheless, the Mangrove Nine successfully rooted their defending arguments in class struggle and thereby showed that they had a shared struggle with Britain's working-class community against institutionally oppressive government structures. In her closing speech, Jones-LeCointe pointed out the persecution of the black community by the police in Notting Hill.
In December 1971, the jury found the defendants not guilty of the most serious charge of conspiracy to incite a riot, which marked a turning point for racial justice in the UK and the recognition of systemic racism within British institutions. The jury asked for more lenient sentencing as Jones-LeCointe was pregnant. Jones-LeCointe and three others were convicted of assault. Judge Clarke suspended the sentences.
Depiction in the media
Jones-LeCointe appears in the 1973 Franco Rosso and John La Rose documentary film The Mangrove Nine.
In 2017, Jones-LeCointe's role in the British Black Panther Movement gained renewed interest following the release of Sky Atlantic drama miniseries Guerrilla, inspired by the emergence of British Black Power.
Guyanese/English actress Letitia Wright portrays Jones-LeCointe in the Mangrove episode of Steve McQueen's 2020 film anthology/television miniseries Small Axe.
Alongside Ian Macdonald QC – as well as Selma James, who was a witness in the Mangrove Nine case – Jones-LeCointe features in the documentary How the Mangrove Nine Won, a first-hand account of the case, filmed in 2016 and launched in November 2020 by Global Women's Strike as a fundraiser for the Haitian Emergency Relief Fund.Medical career
Jones-LeCointe is a medical researcher and practises as a haematologist in Britain and Trinidad.
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Here is the chart for Sally Rooney (born 20 February 1991) is an Irish author and screenwriter. She has published three novels: Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), and Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021). Normal People was adapted into a 2020 television series by Hulu and the BBC. Rooney's work has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, and she is regarded as one of the foremost millennial writers.
Early life and education
Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, in 1991, and grew up there.] Her father, Kieran Rooney, worked for Telecom Éireann and her mother, Marie Farrell, ran an arts centre. Rooney has an older brother and a younger sister. Rooney studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011. She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013. Rooney has described herself as a Marxist.
A university debater, as a student at Trinity College Dublin, Rooney rose through the ranks of the European circuit to become the top debater at the European University Debating Championships in 2013, later writing of the experience. Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative role.
Career
Early career
Rooney completed her first novel—which she has described as "absolute trash"—at the age of 15. She began writing "constantly" in late 2014. She completed her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, while studying for her master's degree in American literature. She wrote 100,000 words of the book in three months.
In 2015, her essay "Even If You Beat Me", about her time as the "top competitive debater on the continent of Europe", was seen by an agent, Tracy Bohan, of the Wylie Agency, and Bohan contacted Rooney. Rooney gave Bohan a manuscript, and Bohan circulated it to publishers, receiving seven bids.
She had seen my story and wondered whether I had anything else she could read... But I didn't send her anything for ages... I don't know why. I didn't want her to see this shoddy draft.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Rooney and https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/sally-rooney-enters-the-activist-author-debate
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Here is the chart for Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University Fresno (formerly Fresno State College) and acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education. Her inclusion in hundreds of publications in various areas of the world showcases her influence in the worldwide art community. Additionally, many of her books have been published in other countries, making her work more accessible to international readers. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with labor-intensive skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Chicago's most well known work is The Dinner Party, which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party celebrates the accomplishments of women throughout history and is widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork. Other notable art projects by Chicago include International Honor Quilt, The Birth Project, Powerplay, and The Holocaust Project.
Chicago was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Chicago
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Here is the chart for Holly Ffion Humberstone is a British musician from Grantham, England. In 2021, she signed a record deal with Interscope and Polydor Records. Her first EP following the signings, The Walls Are Way Too Thin will be released on 5 November 2021.
Personal life
Humberstone is from Grantham and is one of four sisters.[2][3] As of April 2019, she is studying at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Musical style and influences
Humberstone cites Damien Rice, Ben Howard, Phoebe Bridgers, and HAIM as musical inspirations.[4] Rice's debut album O is considered by Humberstone to be her 'first favourite album'.
Career
Humberstone performed at Glastonbury Festival 2019 on the BBC Introducing stage.
Her debut single "Deep End", was released on 30 January 2020. Her second single, "Falling Asleep at the Wheel", was released on 19 March, while her third single, "Overkill", was released on 26 June. On 30 July 2020, she released a cover of "Fake Plastic Trees" by the English rock band Radiohead. Her debut EP, also titled Falling Asleep at the Wheel, was released on 14 August, which contained her three previous singles, alongside the tracks "Vanilla", "Drop Dead" and "Livewire".
On December 9, 2020 she was included in VEVO DSCVR's Artists To Watch 2021.[16] She performed her song Vanilla on the channel.
In March 2021, ahead of the release of her single "Haunted House" and her second EP, Humberstone signed with Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Darkroom/Interscope Records in the United States. She also landed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group.
On 13 October 2021, Holly performed "Scarlett" from her forthcoming EP, The Walls Are Way Too Thin on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Here is a recent article on her from the Guardian:
Interview: 'I have chaos in my head all the time': Holly Humberstone, pop's pandemic breakout star
After releasing her introspective debut EP last year, the 21-year-old emerged from lockdown with millions of listeners and a major label deal. Can she protect the intimacy behind her success?
Laura Snapes
Guardian
Thu 28 Oct 2021 12.00 BST
Perched on a wall outside a cafe in Haggerston, east London, Holly Humberstone looks like a harried off-duty waitress. She leans on her knees and stares at the pavement as she smokes. It is only when she looks up, revealing racoon-sized orbs of copper eyeshadow at odds with her well-loved brown hoodie, that her identity becomes clear.
She is, in fact, a harried, very briefly off-duty pop star. The makeup is from a photoshoot that had her holding uncomfortable poses in the street while van drivers yelled abuse. After returning from her first US tour two days ago, the 21-year-old songwriter from Lincolnshire found that the London flat she shares with her older sister had been burgled. Work has left little time for her friends back home, relationships she is trying to hold fast to because "everything else is so alien to me", she says of life now, sounding shellshocked. "It's a weird job."
Most of us returned to some version of our old realities post-lockdown. Humberstone was thrown into a new one. Her debut EP, last year's Falling Asleep at the Wheel, made her a rare breakout singer during a pandemic that has blocked most traditional routes to success. Her intimate music thrived in the circumstances. The quaver in her voice gives her detailed lyrics the sense of uncomfortable truths being spoken aloud for the first time, to ex-boyfriends and sisters struggling with depression. Her silvery sound, which earned her second place in the BBC Sound of 2021 poll, is sombre yet tender, flecked with pop's pulses and worthy of comparison to her songwriting heroes Phoebe Bridgers and the 1975 (her recent single Please Don't Leave Just Yet was co-written with Matty Healy).
Listen to The Walls Are Way Too Thin, from the EP of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hmuTxo88U
The purpose of her songwriting hasn't changed since she was 11, she says. "I have chaos in my head all the time. When I sit down to write, it's working through all these things that I'm going through. When I put it in a song, it's a more manageable piece to understand. It's really my therapy."
When real life resumed, Humberstone had a small kind of stardom to reckon with, alongside the regular worries of young adulthood. Her new EP, The Walls Are Way Too Thin, brims with the fear of change. On the advice of surveyors, her family left the crumbling rural cottage where she had spent her life. "My ultimate comfort, sacred space," says Humberstone – the place where her parents, NHS medics, encouraged their four daughters to be creative and make a mess. She moved to London ("overwhelming"), her parents went to Wales and her sisters scattered around. They recently lost their grandma, too. Growing up with three sisters left her shocked by the reality of touring with an all-male crew in the US: "Them coming into my room and there's sanitary towels everywhere and I'm like: let's just clear that away ..." (Next time, she wants an all-female band.)
"It's a really awkward age where you have to face all these things for the first time," says Humberstone, a sweetly nervy talker who persistently describes herself as "awkward". On her right hand, a ring spells out "SISTER".
I feel really uncomfortable about people who aren't involved in the creative process telling me how I should write
Change, however, is speeding down the pipe. Humberstone is trying to appreciate the shock of realising her lifelong dream as success uproots the stability on which it was founded. Going to the US had always been her yardstick for "making it". She couldn't believe anyone turned up to her sold-out gigs in New York and Los Angeles, let alone knew her songs. (She once said her lyrics had to be tattoo-worthy; several fans asked her to handwrite lines to get them permanently inscribed.) She performed on Jimmy Fallon's late-night show, appearing alongside Victoria Beckham, whom she was too scared to meet. "When I see somebody that I really idolised, my first instinct is to run away."
But the shows did neutralise one fear. In lockdown, "the only way of judging my success was statistics on my phone screen", says Humberstone. She would look up peers and compare streaming figures. "Constantly! It's shitty, and I know other people were doing it as well." That conditioned state of comparison felt familiar from attending a girls' grammar school. Finally meeting fans and other musicians dissolved it. "We've all come through a pandemic, we're all still working and it's sick to see how many other amazing young females are doing so well," she says, proclaiming her love for Matilda Mann, Gracie Abrams and Dora Jar.
With 2.2m monthly Spotify listeners and tour dates stretching into next summer, Humberstone is now trying to protect the conditions behind her vulnerable songwriting and reckon with her ambition. In March, she announced that she had left the Apple-owned label services company Platoon (which supplies industry infrastructure while allowing artists to remain independent) for Polydor, a major. "The songs were connecting people and I thought I might as well try to reach a wider audience," she says. She is aware that some young women report having an awful time at major labels. "I don't know how much you can prepare for that," she says. "The best thing I can do to protect myself is to have people around me who understand what's going on." She says she puts more pressure on herself than the label ever could.
She is still working with her small team and retained her master recordings in the deal – as well as her creative control. "I made it very clear that I don't want any fingers in the pie," she says. "I feel really uncomfortable about people who aren't involved in the creative process telling me how I should write my songs." She has made most of her music to date with Rob Milton, formerly of the Nottingham-based indie band Dog Is Dead, and finds writing with strangers anxiety-inducing. Yet she looked up two blue-chip songwriters during her trip to LA to see what they might come up with. "I idolise these people and it was fun, but still tricky," she says. The point, she insists, isn't striving for pop hits. "I just go in with my baggage and my feelings."
After her autumn tour concludes, Humberstone has time off to write her debut full-length. "An album is the most terrifying thing ever," she says. "It's so final and such a big piece of work to be happy with." The songs written so far touch on the return of her social life and some decisively brief flings. After the end of a three-year relationship, documented in her debut EP, she has decided her career means she doesn't have the energy for romance: "And I like being on my own at the moment."
Success hasn't changed how she sees herself. She is always going through an awkward phase, she says. "And I still have major impostor syndrome."
The Walls Are Way Too Thin is released on 12 November on Polydor
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Here is the chart for Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist and violinist. Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five. At seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta. The U.S. premiere a year later at Opera San Jose was released on DVD by Sony Classical. Deutscher's piano concerto was performed when she was 12. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019.
Background
Alma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England. She is the daughter of academic, Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and Israeli linguist, Guy Deutscher. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara.]
She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. At four she was composing and improvising on the piano, and by five, had begun writing down her compositions. These first written notations were unclear, but by six, she could write clear compositions and had composed her first piano sonata. At seven, she composed her first short opera, at nine, a violin concerto, and her first full-length opera at age ten. According to her father, she could name the notes on a piano when she was two. "For her third birthday I bought her a little violin as a toy. She was so excited by it and tried playing on it for days on end, so we decided to try to find her a teacher. Within less than a year she was playing Handel sonatas." In a 2017 interview with the Financial Times, Deutscher said: "I remember when I was three and I was listening to a lullaby by Richard Strauss, I loved it! I especially loved the harmony; I always call it the Strauss harmony now. And after it finished I asked my parents 'How could music be so beautiful?'"
Deutscher's initial media exposure may be traced to writer and comedian Stephen Fry publicising her YouTube channel when she was seven, by writing: "Simply mind-blowing: Alma Deutscher playing her own compositions. A new Mozart?", with a link to one of Deutscher's videos. Television crews arrived at her family home the next day. Guy Deutscher spoke of his concerns surrounding Alma's initial press coverage. He explained that the family had been unprepared for the intense exposure, and that they view as their most important tasks protecting her and ensuring that she has a happy childhood. In September 2014, a viral YouTube mashup video released by Israeli musician Kutiman ("Give It Up") featured a 4-second ostinato assembled from pieces of one of Deutscher's early videos.
Critical reception
Much of the critical response to Deutscher's compositions in the first years of her public exposure centered on her young age and status as a child prodigy. Commenting on the public perception of child prodigies and their musical output, Deutscher told the newspaper Die Zeit when she was 10: "I want my music to be taken seriously ... and sometimes it's a little bit difficult for people to take me seriously because I'm just a little girl."
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Deutscher
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Here is the chart for Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist. Her self-titled debut album Melissa Etheridge was released in 1988 and became an underground success. The album peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200, and its lead single, "Bring Me Some Water", garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female. In 1993, Etheridge won her first Grammy award for her single "Ain't It Heavy" from her third album, Never Enough. Later that year, she released what would become her mainstream breakthrough album, Yes I Am. Its tracks "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window" both reached the top 30 in the United States, and the latter earned Etheridge her second Grammy award. Yes I Am peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and spent 138 weeks on the chart, earning an RIAA certification of 6× Platinum, her largest selling album to date.
In October 2004, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and chemotherapy. At the 2005 Grammy Awards, she made a return to the stage, performing a tribute to Janis Joplin with Joss Stone. Stone began the performance with "Cry Baby" and Etheridge, bald from chemotherapy, joined her to perform the song "Piece of My Heart". Their performance was widely acclaimed and India.Arie wrote "I Am Not My Hair" about Etheridge. Later that year, Etheridge released her first compilation album, Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled. The album was a success, peaking at No. 14 on the Billboard 200, and going Gold almost immediately. Her latest studio album is The Medicine Show (2019).
Etheridge is known for music with a mixture of "confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals." She has been a gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993. She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations throughout her career, winning two, in 1993 and 1995. In 2007, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up" from the film An Inconvenient Truth. In September 2011, Etheridge received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
For more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Etheridge and https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/18/melissa-etheridge-music-motherhood-coming-out-brad-pitt
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Here is the chart for Madeleine Madden The Wheel of Time actor. 'As an Aboriginal woman, my life is politicised'
Early life
Madden grew up around Redfern, a Sydney inner city suburb, and attended Rose Bay Secondary College. The daughter of Lee Madden (Gadigal and Bundjalung) and art curator and writer Hetti Perkins, Madden grew up in a political family; she is the great-granddaughter of Arrernte elder Hetty Perkins and the granddaughter of activist and soccer player Charles Perkins.] Her aunt is director Rachel Perkins. She has two older sisters and two younger half-sisters, including actress Miah Madden. Their father died in a car accident in 2003.
Career
In 2010, at age 13, Madden became the first teenager in Australia to deliver an address to the nation, when she delivered a two-minute speech on the future of Indigenous Australians. It was broadcast to 6 million viewers on every free-to-air television network in Australia.
Television
Madden starred in Australia's first indigenous teen drama, Ready for This, and in the critically applauded Redfern Now. She has also starred in The Moodys, Jack Irish, My Place and The Code. In 2016 she starred in the miniseries Tomorrow, When the War Began which is based on the John Marsden series of young adult books. In 2018 she played Marion Quade in the miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock, Crystal Swan in the TV miniseries Mystery Road and Immy DuPain in the series Pine Gap. She currently stars as Egwene al'Vere in Amazon's adaptation of The Wheel of Time novels.
Film
Madden has starred in short films by Deborah Mailman, and Meryl Tankard and co-starred with Christina Ricci and Jack Thompson in Around the Block. Her first film acting job was at 8 years old. She aims to become a director in the future.
When she was 21, Madden made her big Hollywood debut as Sammy in the 2019 Nickelodeon film Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/23/the-wheel-of-time-actor-madeleine-madden-as-an-aboriginal-woman-my-life-is-politicised
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Here is the chart for Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (4 October 1862 – 2 September 1925) was a Dutch editor and translator of the letters of the van Gogh brothers. She was the wife of Theo van Gogh, art dealer, and the sister-in-law of the painter Vincent van Gogh and became a key player in the growth of Vincent's fame.
Early life
Johanna Gezina Bonger was born on 4 October 1862 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the fifth of seven children, the daughter of Hendrik Christiaan Bonger (1828–1904), an insurance broker, and Hermine Louise Weissman (1831–1905). Her youngest brother, Willem Adriaan Bonger (1876–1940), became an important criminologist. The family was musical, holding evening performances of quartets, and Johanna became an accomplished piano player. Unlike her elder sisters, who helped out with household duties, Johanna, a "cheerful and lively child", was permitted to further her education by studying English, and earning the equivalent of a college degree. She stayed some months in London, working in the British Museum library.
From the age of 17 she kept a detailed diary, which was to become a source of much information about Vincent van Gogh. At this time she also came under the influence of the non-conformist writer Multatuli.
Adulthood
With son Vincent Willem at the studio of photographer Raoul Saisset, 4 Rue Frochot, Paris, 1890
At the age of 22 she became a teacher of English at a boarding school for girls at Elburg, later teaching at the High School for Girls at Utrecht. About this time while in Amsterdam she was introduced by her brother Andries to Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent. One of the Van Gogh sisters described her as "smart and tender".
First marriage
Theo became preoccupied with Johanna, and the following year paid a visit to Amsterdam to declare his love. Surprised and annoyed that a man she hardly knew should wish to marry her, she rejected him. However, she accepted his proposal the following year, and they were married in Amsterdam on 17 April 1889. Their son, Vincent Willem, was born on 31 January 1890. Following Theo's death in January 1891, Johanna was left a widow with her infant son to support.
She was left with only an apartment in Paris filled with a few items of furniture and about 200 then valueless works of her brother-in-law Vincent. Although advised to dispose of the pictures, she instead moved back to the Netherlands, opened a boarding house in Bussum, a village 25 km from Amsterdam, and began to re-establish her artistic contacts. She had not kept her diary during her marriage, but resumed it, intending that her son should read it someday. To earn extra income she translated short stories from French and English into Dutch. In 1905, to the evident disapproval of her family, she was one of the founding members of a women's socialist movement, but did not allow this to interfere with raising her son.
In 1892, while organizing an exhibition of Vincent's works, she was harshly criticized by artist Richard Roland Holst:
"Mrs Van Gogh is a charming little woman, but it irritates me when someone gushes fanatically on a subject she knows nothing about, and although blinded by sentimentality still thinks she is adopting a strictly critical attitude. It is schoolgirlish twaddle, nothing more. [...] The work that Mrs Van Gogh would like best is the one that was the most bombastic and sentimental, the one that made her shed the most tears; she forgets that her sorrow is turning Vincent into a god."
Second marriage
Johanna Bonger, by her second husband Johan Cohen Gosschalk, 1905
In August 1901, she married Johan Cohen Gosschalk (1873–1912), a Dutch painter who was born in Amsterdam. She was widowed again in 1912. In 1914, she moved Theo's remains from Utrecht to Auvers-sur-Oise, and interred them in the spot next to Vincent's grave. A sprig of ivy taken from the garden of Dr Paul Gachet carpets both graves to this day.
Work and van Gogh letters
After the death of Vincent and her husband, she worked assiduously on editing the brothers' correspondence, producing the first volume in Dutch in 1914. She also played a key role in the growth of Vincent's fame and reputation through her donations of his work to various early retrospective exhibitions. She wrote a Van Gogh family history as well.
Johanna van Gogh stayed in contact with Vincent van Gogh's friend Eugène Boch to whom she offered the painting portrait of Eugene Boch in July 1891. She also stayed in touch with Émile Bernard, who helped her to promote Vincent van Gogh's paintings.
The legacy and renown of Vincent van Gogh the long-suffering artist began to spread in the years after his death; first in the Netherlands, and Germany and then throughout Europe. His friendship with his younger brother Theo was documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh-Bonger published the letters in three volumes in 1914. Johanna initially worked closely with German art dealers and publishers Paul Cassirer and his cousin Bruno to organize exhibitions of Van Gogh's paintings in Berlin and in 1914 to publish the first volume of the Letters to Theo. Publication of the letters helped spread the compelling mystique of Vincent van Gogh, the intense and dedicated painter who suffered for his art and died young, throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
Later life
She lived in New York from 1915 to 1919, where she began the work of translating Vincent's letters into English.[7] In 1919, she returned to Amsterdam. She died on 2 September 1925, at the age of 62, in Laren, Netherlands. At the time of her death, she was still occupied translating 526 of Vincent's letters into English. She had one child and four grandchildren.
Her natal Lilith 16 Libra, N.Noe 5 Sagittarius, N.Node 18 Cancer. Her natal Amazon 5 Sagittarius, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node 13 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Sanna Mirella Marin (Finnish pronunciation: [?s?n?? ?mirel?? ?m?ri?n]; born 16 November 1985) is a Finnish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Finland since 10 December 2019. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), she has been a member of the Parliament of Finland since 2015 and briefly served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 6 June to 10 December 2019. Following Antti Rinne's resignation in the wake of the 2019 postal strike, Marin was selected as Prime Minister on 8 December 2019.
Taking office at age 34, she is the youngest person to hold the office in Finnish history,as well as currently the world's second-youngest state leader, after Giacomo Simoncini, who has been Captain Regent of San Marino since 2021.
Early life and education
Sanna Mirella Marin was born on 16 November 1985 in Helsinki. She also lived in Espoo and Pirkkala before moving to Tampere. Her parents split up when she was very young; the family faced financial problems and Marin's father, Lauri Marin, struggled with alcoholism. After her biological parents separated, Marin was brought up by her mother and her mother's female partner.
Marin graduated from the Pirkkala High School in 2004 at the age of 19. Marin joined the Social Democratic Youth in 2006 and was its first Vice President from 2010 to 2012. She worked in a bakery and as a cashier while studying, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees in Administrative Science from the University of Tampere.
Early political career
Social Democratic Party
Marin's political career was described by the BBC as "beginning at the age of 20",[8] in the years following her high school graduation and beginning her affiliation with the Social Democratic Youth. She initially unsuccessfully ran for election to the City Council of Tampere, but was elected in the 2012 elections. She became chairperson of the City Council within months, serving from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, she was re-elected to the City Council. She first gained prominence after video clips of her chairing contentious meetings were shared on YouTube.
Marin was elected second deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 2014. In 2015, she was elected to the Finnish Parliament as an MP from the electoral district of Pirkanmaa.[18] Four years later, she was re-elected. On 6 June 2019, she became the Minister of Transport and Communications.
On 23 August 2020, Marin was elected chair of the SDP, succeeding Antti Rinne.
In December 2019, Marin was nominated by the Social Democratic Party to succeed Antti Rinne as the Prime Minister of Finland, but Rinne formally remained party leader until June 2020. In a narrow vote, Marin prevailed over Antti Lindtman. A majority of the ministers in her five-party cabinet are women, numbering 12 out of 19 at the time of the cabinet's formation. She is the third female head of government in Finland, after Anneli Jäätteenmäki and Mari Kiviniemi.
Upon her confirmation by Parliament at the age of 34, she became Finland's youngest-ever prime minister, and was the youngest serving state leader until Sebastian Kurz regained the title in January 2020.
During the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marin's cabinet invoked the state of emergency in Finland to alleviate the epidemic. When Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven could not attend a European Council meeting in October 2020 because of his mother's funeral, Marin stepped in to represent Sweden. In return, Marin asked Löfven to represent Finland at a Council meeting later that month.
On 25 May 2021, Finnish media reported that Marin and her family were paying about €300 per month for groceries with public funds as a part of the Prime Minister's tax-free housing benefits. The legality of the arrangement was questioned since the housing benefits do not explicitly include food provisions. Later, it[clarification needed] was found to be €850 per month.
In December 2021, Marin was criticised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case. She had been told that going out in public was permitted due to her having been vaccinated. Once she had been texted that this was not the case, she got tested and apologised on Facebook.
Personal life
In January 2018, Marin and her fiancé, Markus Räikkönen, had a daughter, Emma.] In August 2020, Marin and Räikkönen married at the prime minister's official residence, Kesäranta.Their permanent residence is in the Kaleva district of Tampere, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, they have resided at Kesäranta. She has explained that, if it was up to her, she would move to the countryside.
Marin describes herself as coming from a "rainbow family", as she was raised by same-sex parents. She was the first person in her family to attend university.
Marin is a vegetarian.
In October 2020, Marin took part in a photo shoot for the Finnish magazine Trendi in which she wore a blazer with nothing underneath. It generated much public controversy, with critics accusing her of tastelessness and demeaning her office, and others defending her and accusing the critics of sexism.
Awards
Marin was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020. On 9 December 2020, she was selected by Forbes to rank 85th on the list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In 2020 she became a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Marin was selected for the cover of the prestigious Time magazine's "Time100 Next" theme issue, which showcases one hundred influential leaders from around the world.
Her natal Lilith is 28 Sagittarius, N.Node 14 Sagittarius, S.Node 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 19 Taurus, N.Node 22 Taurus, and the S.Node 22 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Vanessa Nakate (born 15 November 1996) is a Ugandan climate justice activist. She grew up in Kampala and became a celebrity in December 2018 after becoming concerned about the unusually high temperatures in her country.
Early life
Nakate grew up in the Ugandan capital, Kampala neighborhood. Nakate graduated with a business administration in marketing degree from Makerere University Business School.
Actions for the climate
Inspired by Greta Thunberg to start her own climate movement in Uganda, Nakate began a solitary strike against inaction on the climate crisis in January 2019. For several months she was the lone protester outside of the gates of the Parliament of Uganda. Eventually, other youth began to respond to her calls on social media for others to help draw attention to the plight of the Congolian rainforests. Nakate founded the Youth for Future Africa and the likewise Africa-based Rise Up Movement.
In December 2019, Nakate was one of a handful of youth activists to speak at the COP25 gathering in Spain.
In early January 2020, she joined around 20 other youth climate activists from around the world to publish a letter to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, calling on companies, banks and governments to immediately stop subsidizing fossil fuels. She was one of five international delegates invited by Arctic Basecamp to camp with them in Davos during the World Economic Forum; the delegates later joined a climate march on the last day of the Forum.
In October 2020, Nakate gave a speech at the Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture urging world leaders to "wake up" and recognise climate change as a crisis, tying it to poverty, hunger, disease, conflict and violence against women and girls. "Climate change is a nightmare that affects every sector of our lives," she stated. "How can we eradicate poverty without looking at this crisis? How can we achieve zero hunger if climate change is leaving millions of people with nothing to eat? We are going to see disaster after disaster, challenge after challenge, suffering after suffering (...) if nothing is done about this." She also called for leaders to "leave their comfort zones and see the danger we are in and do something about it. This is a matter of life and death."
Nakate started the Green Schools Project, a renewable energy initiative, which aims to transition schools in Uganda to solar energy and install eco-friendly stoves in these schools. As of now, the project has carried out installations in six schools.
On 9 July 2020 Vanessa Nakate was interviewed by Angelina Jolie hosted by time magazine about the power and importance of African voices in the climate justice movement. In August, Jeune Afrique magazine named her among the top 100 most influential Africans. In August 2020, Vanessa Nakate joined former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the Forum Alpbach to discuss climate activism.
In September, Vanessa spoke on a panel entitled "Sparking an Era of Transformational Climate Leadership" for the World Resources Institute; she talked of her perspective in "Conversations with Climate Changers" for Oxfam. Vanessa Nakate was announced by the United Nations as the SDG 13 young leader in 2020. Nakate was featured among OkayAfrica's 100 Women is an exclusive platform to pay homage to 100 women of excellence among the diaspora during Women's History Month. Nakate was mentioned among the most influential young Africans in 2020 by YouthLead. Nakate was a keynote speaker at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2021 on 16 March 2021 alongside other notable world leaders. Her delivery included criticism of the German Federal Foreign Office as organizers for screening the input from youth climate activists that was not applied to other invited speakers.
Writing in The Guardian in October 2021, Nakate argues that the countries and corporations largely responsible for greenhouse emissions should compensate African countries and communities for the loss and damage arising from climate change that they are now suffering.
In a 2019 interview with Amy Goodman for Democracy Now!, Nakate expressed her motivation for climate action: "My country heavily depends on agriculture, therefore most of the people depend on agriculture. So, if our farms are destroyed by floods, if the farms are destroyed by droughts and crop production is less, that means that the price of food is going to go high. So it will only be the most privileged who will be able to buy food. And they are the biggest emitters in our countries, the ones who will be able to survive the crisis of food, whereas most of the people who live in villages and rural communities, they have trouble getting food because of the high prices. And this leads to starvation and death. Literally, in my county, a lack of rain means starvation and death for the less privileged".
Political views
Nakate is on the council of the Progressive International, an international organisation promoting progressive left-wing politics. She has criticised capitalism, linking it to environmental degradation.
Omission from photo
In January 2020, the Associated Press (AP) news agency cropped Nakate out from a photo she appeared in featuring Greta Thunberg and activists Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Loukina Tille after they all attended the World Economic Forum. Nakate accused the media of a racist attitude. The Associated Press later changed the photo and indicated there was no ill intent, without presenting its apologies. On 27 January 2020, AP executive editor Sally Buzbee tweeted an apology using her personal account saying that she was sorry on behalf of the AP. Nakate responded that she did not believe the AP's statement or their apology, further responding: "As much as this incident has hurt me personally, I'm glad because it has brought more attention to activists in Africa. ... Maybe media will start paying attention to us not just when we're the victims of climate tragedies."
Awards
Nakate received the Haub law environmental 2021 Award in recognition of her citizen diplomacy in bringing the voice of her generation to global environmental campaigns and for her inspiring climate activism in Uganda and beyond.
Vanessa Nakate and Six Other Young Activists Honoured by 2020 Young Activists Summit During a Live Discussion on Post-COVID-19 World. Bringing together Over 8,600 People from Around 100 Countries.
Nakate was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020.
She was also on the list Time100 Next published by TIME magazine on 17 February 2021, and is featured on the cover of TIME's November 8/November 15, 2021 issue.
Her natal Lilith is 19 Virgo, N.Node 14 Sagittarius, S.Node 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 19 Pisces, N.Node 22 Taurus, and the S.Node is 22 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Luisa-Marie Neubauer (born 21 April 1996) is a German climate activist. She is one of the main organisers of the school strike for climate movement in Germany, where it is commonly referred to under its alternative name Fridays for Future. She advocates a climate policy that complies with and surpasses the outdated Paris Agreement and endorses de-growth. Neubauer is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens and the Green Youth.
Life
Neubauer was born in Hamburg as the youngest of four siblings. Her mother is a nurse. Her grandmother was married for some years to Feiko Reemtsma. She got involved in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, sensitized Luisa Neubauer to the climate problem and gave her her share of the taz cooperative. Two of her three older siblings live in London. Her cousin Carla Reemtsma is also a climate activist.
Neubauer grew up in Hamburg-Iserbrook district and completed her high school diploma at the Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium [de] in Hamburg-Blankenese in 2014. In the year after her graduation she worked for a development aid project in Tanzania and on a ecological farm in England. In 2015 she started studying geography at the University of Göttingen. She did a semester abroad at the University College London[1] and received scholarships from the German government and the Alliance 90/The Greens-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation. In 2020 she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Science.
Early activism
Neubauer has been a youth ambassador of the non-governmental organization ONE since 2016. She was also active for the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, 350.org, the Right Livelihood Award foundation, the Fossil Free campaign and The Hunger Project. With the campaign Divest! Withdraw your money! she forced the University of Göttingen to stop investing in industries that make money with coal, oil or gas.
Fridays For Future
As of the beginning of 2019, Neubauer became known as one of the leading Fridays For Future activists. Many media outlets refer to her as the "German face of the movement." Neubauer rejects comparisons of herself and other strike organisers to Greta Thunberg, saying: "We're building a mass-movement and reaching out quite far in our methods of mobilising and gaining attention. What Greta does is incredibly inspiring but actually relatively far from that."
Neubauer does not see the strikes as a means of directly affecting politics. More important is the work behind the strikes: "What we're doing is incredibly sustainable. We're creating structures and turning the events into educational experiences. And we're leading debates on the principles of climate protection."
Following the protests of Fridays For Future Germany against Siemens for a specific infrastructure project in Australia, Neubauer met Joe Kaeser in January 2020. On 13 January 2020, it was announced that Neubauer had turned down an offer by Joe Kaeser to sit on the Siemens Energy board. In a statement Neubauer said that "If I were to take it up, I would be obliged to represent the company's interests and could never be an independent critic of Siemens," she explained. "That is not compatible with my role as [a] climate activist.". Joe Kaeser stated that he did not offer Neubauer a seat in the companies' Board, but that he is open to have Neubauer on a Board on environmental questions.
On the day before Siemens announced that they will keep the contract with Adani to provide the rail infrastructure of the Carmichael coal mine in Australia. Neubauer told the news agency DPA: "We asked Kaeser to do everything possible to stop the Adani mine. Instead he will now profit from this disastrous project." She added that this decision was "so last century" and that Kaeser was making an "unforgivable mistake".
Her natal Lilith is 13 Gemini, N.Node 8 Capricorn, S.Node 5 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 9 Pisces, N.Node 17 Taurus, and the S.Node is 1 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Amazon Prime Video series Transparent, as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the HBO series Big Little Lies.
Career
Early TV work
After leaving school in the late 1970s, Arnold got her first TV jobs as a dancer on shows that included Top of the Pops. She first came to prominence as an actor and television presenter alongside Sandi Toksvig, Nick Staverson and Neil Buchanan in the 1980s children's television show No. 73. This Saturday morning show on ITV, in which she played Dawn Lodge, had a similar premise to that of The Kumars at No. 42 in the way that the show was part sitcom, part chat show and based at a domestic residence. In addition to these parts, the show had the usual mix of music, competitions and cartoons that was in keeping to the formula of British Saturday morning children's TV of the 1980s. After a couple of years of experience in front of the camera, Arnold realized, "Television was great fun and I went along for the ride, but I never felt that comfortable in front of the camera".
In 1988 No. 73 had morphed into 7T3, with the set being moved from the Maidstone house (in fact in TVS studios in Kent) to that of a theme park. This revamp would only last the season, but Arnold would be seen for another two years in the same timeslot as part of the Motormouth presenting team. In 1990 she presented and wrote for the environmental awareness show for teens, A Beetle Called Derek. This also featured Benjamin Zephaniah and gave exposure to The Yes/No People of Stomp fame.
Directing
After retiring from her career as a television presenter, Arnold studied directing at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles and trained in screenwriting at the PAL Labs in Kent. Her early short films included Milk (1998) and Dog (2001). She won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Wasp, in 2004.
She was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. Also in 2003, she directed an episode of the Channel 4 series Coming Up titled "Bed Bugs", though she is sometimes erroneously credited as "Andrew Arnold" for the work.
Red Road is the first instalment of Advance Party, a planned set of three conceptually-related films by different first-time directors. Set on a housing estate in Glasgow, the revenge-themed story centres on a CCTV (security TV cameras) operator who develops an obsession with someone she observes, for reasons that become clear through the progress of the film. The picture has won the British director comparisons with established names such as Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier. Screen International critic Allan Hunter said the film was "likely to emerge as one of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film Festival (2006)." It went on to win the Jury Prize at Cannes that year.
She won the 2007 BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for directing Red Road. In 2008, Arnold was reported to be directing an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Sharp Objects for French production company Pathé, but the project never materialized. In 2011, she was reported to be working on a television project with writer Danny Brocklehurst called Dirty, but this project also failed to materialize.
Her 2009 film Fish Tank premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, where she once again won the Jury Prize. The film also went on to win the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film in 2010. In 2011, she completed shooting an adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, produced by London's Ecosse Films. The film was shown in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September where it won the Golden Osella for Best Cinematography.
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the film industry.
In 2015, it was announced that she would direct two episodes of the Amazon Studios series Transparent.
Wasp
Initially released in 2003, Wasp was a short (26 minutes) written and directed by Arnold. It stars Natalie Press as a struggling single mother determined not to let her four young children prove an obstacle in the pursuit of igniting a relationship with an old friend (Danny Dyer). Arnold's native Dartford is the setting. The film was commissioned by the UK Film Council and the Britain's Channel 4. It won the Sundance Short Film Prize in 2005, and won Arnold an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Red Road
Red Road was a 2006 film that is a part of a creative series proposed by the Advance Party of Filmmakers to create three films using the same characters, all directed by different new directors. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow, Scotland which were the tallest residential buildings in Europe at the time they were built. It is shot largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light.
One rule was that if any of the directors decide to incorporate a new main character, then all of the other films must incorporate that character as well. All three directors cast together so they could all see who they believed would fit their film as well as the others. Arnold mainly used first-time actors, stating that "I always want the world that I create to be its own universe. When you have really famous people, I find that it is very hard to transcend that awareness. I am always aware of who they are. When you see someone for the first time, that universe feels even more real. I like the idea of working with either unknowns or people that haven't even acted before." Red Road cost $1 million to make and was shot digitally on a schedule of six weeks. The film was accepted into competition for the Palme d'Or in Cannes and received the Jury Prize.
Fish Tank
Fish Tank premiered in 2009 and was accepted into competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Jury Prize. In its initial production, distributor Artificial Eye had acquired the UK theatrical rights, while ContentFilm International handled the worldwide sales. The film was backed by the Limelight Fund, BBC Films and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund. The film was shot entirely on location in the UK. Arnold was adamant about shooting the film in chronological order, so that the journey of the film would make sense to new coming actor Katie Jarvis. She would only give her a day's worth of script to study so that she could take it day by day. The film originally premiered on around 45–50 screens in Britain, making them less accessible to the general public. In regards to this, Arnold said, "I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them. I wish cinema [owners] could be braver, or had more money to help them show films like mine." The film cost around $2 million to make, which is still a relatively low budget for a feature-length film. Fish Tank won many awards including the best film award at the Evening Standard Film Awards. Fish Tank was released on 11 September 2009. The film and Arnold were honoured at the 20th Annual Women in Film and TV Awards in 2010.
Wuthering Heights
Arnold's third film was based on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel and starred Kaya Scodelario and James Howson. This is the first film that Arnold has directed which she did not write herself, though she did co-write the screenplay. Originally, the film adaptation was set to be directed by Peter Webber, who directed Girl with a Pearl Earring, but Arnold was asked to take over and gladly accepted. The film was made in 18 months, which is half the amount of time Arnold used to make Red Road and Fish Tank. Oscilloscope Laboratories picked up the North American distribution rights to the adaptation, which won Best Cinematography at the Venice Film Festival in 2011, being praised for its visuals.
American Honey
Arnold's fourth film, American Honey, revolves around a group of young adults traveling across the country selling magazine subscriptions. The meandering plot focuses on the journey of the mag-crew kids as they drink, smoke, dance, joke around, and have various conversations in their van. The film had its world premiere and competed for Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It won Arnold her third Jury Prize. The film features a mix of both professional and non-actors, with all the non-actors being found through construction sites, parking lots, and on beaches. Out of the 15 youth actors cast, 11 had never acted before.[36] The lead Sasha Lane was spotted by Arnold on a beach during spring break. Arnold shot the film in chronological sequence, not telling her actors where they were going next. The film was released in the United States on 30 September 2016, and in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2016, by A24 and Focus Features respectively.
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Here is the chart for Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnian pronunciation: born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for having written and directed Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.
Early life
Zbanic was born in Sarajevo on 19 December 1974 into a Muslim family. Žbani? went to local schools before attending the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where she got a degree. She worked for a time in the United States as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. In 1997, she founded the artist's association "Deblokada" and started making documentaries and short films.
Career
Zbanic went to the United States in order to work as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater. She also learned to act as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop.
She was one of the promoters of Serbian Radical Party, but she was expelled, because she rejected to eat pork meat after one of their rallys. After her return to Bosnia and Herzegovina, she founded the artists' association "Deblokada" (meaning "de-blocking.") Through Deblokada, wrote and produced many documentaries, video artworks, and short films. Her work has been Zbanic seen around the globe, screened in film festivals and shown at exhibitions such as the Manifesta 3 in Slovenia in 2000, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel in 2004, and the Istanbul Biennale in 2003. Since then she has made well-received feature films.
Zbanic's 2006 feature film Grbavica, won the Golden Bear at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at the International Feature Competition Festival in 2006, and was awarded the Best European Film and best European actress award in 2006. Her 2010 film Na putu (On the Path), which explores the relationship of a young couple living in Sarajevo, was screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.]
Zbanic's 2020 war drama film Quo Vadis, Aida? won the Audience Award at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Best International Film Award at the 2021 Gothenburg Film Festival, entered into the 77th Venice International Film Festival and also won the Best International Film Award at the 36th Independent Spirit Awards. Further more, in March 2021, the film was nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language and Zbanic was nominated for Best Director at the 74th British Academy Film Awards. On 15 March 2021, Zbanic's film was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.] At the 34th European Film Awards held in December 2021, Quo Vadis, Aida? won the Award for Best Film. Also, Žbani? won the Award for Best Director and cast member Jasna Djuricic won the Award for Best Actress at the same awards.
Themes and characters
Žbani? acknowledges that her films deal chiefly with the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She says that she uses film to explore problems and issues relating to her life. She knows that she is up against high standards of film in competition with the mass of other regional cinematography. Žbani? strives to create characters that are not just "black and white," as real people are not that simple. She does not create characters who are strict saints and heroes, but who might be weak and also brave and tolerant. In 2017, Žbani? signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.
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Here is the chart for Mia Amor Mottley, SC, MP] is a Barbadian politician and attorney who has served as Prime Minister of Barbados since 2018 and as leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the eighth person to hold the office of Prime Minister in Barbados and the first woman to hold either position. She is also Barbados' first prime minister under a republic system.
Mottley has been the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Saint Michael North East since 1994. From 1994 to 2008, she held a succession of ministerial portfolios including the post of Attorney-General of Barbados becoming the first woman to be appointed as such. She is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.
Mottley was twice the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly of Barbados first from 2008 to 2010 then from 2013 to 2018. In 2018, the Mottley-led BLP won a historic landslide victory in the 24 May general election, securing all 30 seats in the House—making them the first party to accomplish this feat—in addition to winning 72.8% of the popular vote, which is the highest share ever achieved by a party in a general election.
She won a second term in office in a landslide victory at the 2022 general election, a snap election that she called.
Political career
Mottley first entered Barbadian politics in 1991, when she lost an election race in St. Michael North East against Leroy Brathwaite (a defeat of fewer than 200 votes). Between 1991 and 1994 she was one of two Opposition Senators in the Upper House, Senate of Barbados where she was Shadow Minister of Culture and Community Development. During that time, she served on numerous Parliamentary Joint Select Committees on areas including Praedial Larceny and Domestic Violence.
Following the BLP's victory in the 1994 Barbadian general election, Mottley was appointed as the Minister of Education, Youth Affairs and Culture in September 1994, under Prime Minister Owen Arthur. At the age of 29, she was one of the youngest Barbadians to be assigned a ministerial portfolio. During her tenure, she co-authored the White Paper on Education entitled Each Child Matters, which draws the link between better education and job fulfillment.
She was elected General Secretary of the Barbados Labour Party in 1996. In that year and again in 1997, she was Chairwoman of the Caricom Standing Committee of Ministers of Education.
Mottley was appointed Attorney-General of Barbados and Minister of Home Affairs in August 2001 and is the first female (in Barbados) to hold this position. She is also the youngest ever Queen's Counsel in Barbados.] In addition to being a Member of the Privy Council of Barbados, she was the Leader of the House and a member of the National Security Council and the Barbados Defence Board. She is also credited with being the visionary behind the Education Sector Enhancement Programme, popularly known as "EduTech", which aims to increase the number of young people contributing to the island's sustainable social, cultural and economic development. This revolutionary programme involves the widespread use of information and communication technologies to assist in improving the quality of the teaching and learning process.
More information on EduTech can be found at https://mes.gov.bb/Departments/PCU/.
In Youth Affairs, Mottley directed the establishment of the Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme and a National Youth Development Programme.
Two years later Mottley was the second female Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Social Council of Barbados and the Deputy Chairman of Barbados's Economic Council. She held the chairmanship of a number of key Cabinet sub-committees, notably on Telecommunications Reform and on oversight of the administrative and legislative initiatives to prepare Barbados for the advent of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy.
In a government reshuffle in February 2006, Mottley was appointed Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, a post she also held until 2008, where her responsibilities put her in charge of key economic agencies.
Following the BLP's defeat in the 2008 Barbadian general election held on 15 January 2008, and Owen Arthur's resignation as party leader, Mia Mottley was elected as BLP party leader in a leadership election on 19 January 2008 against former Attorney-General of Barbados, Dale Marshall (politician). She is the first woman to lead the party, as well as the country's first female Opposition Leader. Mottley was sworn in as Opposition Leader on 7 February 2008. She promised the people that the Barbados Labour Party would be a strong and unified Opposition that would fight for the rights of all citizens in the country.
On 18 October 2010, Mottley was ousted as Leader of the Opposition following a vote of no-confidence by five of her parliamentary colleagues. The five MPs placed their support behind former Prime Minister Owen Arthur, who assumed the leadership position that same day after another leadership election where former Prime Minister Owen Arthur defeated Mia Mottley.
In the February 2013 general election, the BLP was narrowly defeated, obtaining 14 seats against 16 for the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). A few days after the election, on 26 February 2013, the BLP parliamentary group elected Mottley as Leader of the Opposition, replacing Arthur.
Prime Minister
In the 24 May, 2018 general election the BLP won the biggest majority government in Barbadian history, winning over 70% of the popular vote and all 30 seats in the legislature. Mottley was sworn in as Barbados's first female Prime Minister on 25 May 2018. During her tenure as prime minister, she has held the additional portfolio of Minister of Finance.
In May 2018, Mottley disclosed previously uncovered financial obligations of the state, saying that the new government inherited a large debt. Disclosure of information about the current level of debt led to an increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio from 137% to 175% — the fourth-highest value in the world after Japan, Greece, and Sudan. Mottley announced that new government had no other choice than to ask the IMF to facilitate debt restructuring.[citation needed] A week later following the election, on 5 June 2018 Barbados failed to fulfill its obligation to pay the 26th coupon on Eurobonds maturing in 2035. This was the first time in history that a sitting government did not fulfill its obligation.
In the 2019 New Year Honours Mottley's father Elliott Mottley received a knighthood on the nomination of the Barbadian government.
Mottley addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 27 September 2019 with a 39-minute speech centred around climate change and its effects on Barbados and other Caribbean nations.
In 2020 Mottley served as the Chairperson of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) bloc, a rotating position held for 6 months.
In a September 2020 speech, Mottley announced a plan to abolish Barbados' monarchy, removing the British sovereign Queen Elizabeth II as the country's head of state, making Barbados a republic. She argued that after over 54 years of independence, it was time for Barbados to "fully leave our colonial past behind." Under her proposal, the country would retain a parliamentary system, with a mostly ceremonial president as head of state. The goal was to conclude the plan by 30 November 2021, the 55th anniversary of the country's independence. Whether the process could be completed by that time was "not clear", according to an investigation of the situation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in March 2021.
On 27 July 2021, the Day of National Significance in Barbados, Mottley announced that Barbados's cabinet had decided that Barbados would become a parliamentary republic by 30 November.]
On 12 October 2021, incumbent Governor-General of Barbados, Dame Sandra Mason was jointly nominated by Mottley and the leader of the opposition as candidate for the first President of Barbados, and was subsequently elected on 20 October. Mason took office on 30 November 2021 in a ceremony also attended by Charles, Prince of Wales.
Mottley addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 24 September 2021 with a short speech to support UN Secretary-General António Guterres' warnings that the world is moving in the wrong direction. She threw away her original script and instead gave a passionate post in which she called for global, moral leadership in the fight against climate change, economic and technological inequality, racism and unfair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Following her party's landslide victory in the 2022 election, Mottley was sworn in as prime minister for a second term on 20 January.
Her natal Lilith is 15 Cancer, N.Node 5 Sagittarius, S.Node 18 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 00.33 Scorpio, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node is 12 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Marie Françoise Gilot (born 26 November 1921) is a French painter, best known for her stormy relationship with Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. Gilot was already launched as an accomplished artist, notably in watercolours and ceramics, but her professional career was eclipsed by her social celebrity, and when she split from Picasso, he discouraged galleries from buying her work, as well as unsuccessfully trying to block her memoir, Life with Picasso.
Early life
Gilot was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to Émile Gilot and Madeleine Gilot (née Renoult). Her father was a businessman and agronomist, and her mother was a watercolor artist. Her father was a strict, well-educated man. Gilot began writing with her left hand as a young child, but at the age of four, her father forced her to write with her right hand. As a result, Gilot became ambidextrous. She decided at the age of five to become a painter. The following year her mother tutored her in art, beginning with watercolors and India ink. Gilot was then taught by her mother's art teacher, a Mademoiselle Meuge, for six years. She studied English literature at Cambridge University and the British Institute in Paris (now University of London Institute in Paris). While training to be a lawyer, Gilot was known to skip morning law classes to pursue her true passion: art. She graduated from the Sorbonne with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1938 and from Cambridge University with a degree in English in 1939. Gilot had her first exhibition of paintings in Paris in 1943.
School
Gilot's father Emile wanted his daughter to be just as educated as he, and as a result, oversaw his daughter's education very closely. Gilot was tutored at home, beginning at a young age, and by the time she was six years old, she had a good knowledge of Greek mythology. By the age of fourteen, she was reading books by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred Jarry. While her father had hoped she would go to school to become a scientist or lawyer, Gilot was frequenting museums in Europe to understand and gain an appreciation for the masters. When Gilot was seventeen, she attended the Sorbonne and the British Institute in Paris and had a baccalaureate degree in Philosophy. She received her English Literature degree from Cambridge University. During 1939, Gilot's father still wanted her to complete a degree in international law, and out of fear that Paris would be bombed during the war, Gilot was sent to Rennes, France, to begin law school. At the age of 19, she abandoned her studies in law to devote her life to art. She was mentored by the artist Endre Rozsda. In 1942, after abandoning law several times, and returning on the insistence of her father, Gilot studied law for a second year and passed her written exams, but failed her oral exams.
Picasso
At 21, Gilot met Pablo Picasso, then 61. Picasso first saw Gilot in a restaurant in the spring of 1943. Dora Maar, the photographer who was his muse and lover at the time, was devastated to learn that Picasso was replacing her with the much younger artist. After Picasso's and Gilot's meeting, she moved in with him in 1946. They spent almost ten years together, and those years revolved around art. He painted La femme-fleur, then his old friend Matisse, who liked Gilot, announced that he would create a portrait of her, in which her body would be pale blue and her hair leaf green.
It was believed by some art historians that Gilot's relationship with Picasso is what cut short her artistic career. When Gilot left Picasso, he told all art dealers he knew not to purchase her art, whereas Gilot herself has noted that continuing to identify her in relation to Picasso "does her a great disservice as an artist."
Picasso and Gilot never married, but they did have two children together because he promised to love and care for them. Their son, Claude, was born in 1947, and their daughter, Paloma, was born in 1949. During their ten years together, Gilot was often harassed on the streets of Paris by Picasso's legal wife, Olga Khokhlova, a former Russian ballet dancer, and Picasso himself physically abused her as well. In 1964, eleven years after their separation, Gilot wrote Life with Picasso (with the art critic Carlton Lake), a book that sold over one million copies in dozens of languages, despite an unsuccessful legal challenge from Picasso attempting to stop its publication. From then on, Picasso refused to see Claude or Paloma ever again. All the profits from the book were used to help Claude and Paloma mount a case to become Picasso's legal heirs.
Gilot's work
Françoise Gilot was introduced to art at a young age by her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother had held a party when Françoise was about five years old. A certain man caught Gilot's eye as being interesting, and she asked her grandmother who the man was. He turned out to be a painter, Emile Mairet. Gilot's father became close friends with the painter, and Françoise would often tag along to visit his studio. At age six, Françoise's mother began teaching her art, with the exception of drawing. Her mother believed artists become too dependent on erasers, and instead taught Françoise in watercolor and India ink. If she made a mistake, she would have to make it intentional to her work. By the age of thirteen, she began to study with Mlle. Meuge, which continued for six years. At the age of fourteen, she was introduced to ceramics, and a year later, she studied with the Post-Impressionist painter Jacques Beurdeley. At the age of 21, she met Picasso. Although Picasso had influenced Françoise Gilot's work as a cubist painter, she developed her own style. She avoided the sharp edges and angular forms that Picasso sometimes used. Instead, she used organic figures. During the war, Gilot's father attempted to save the most valuable household belongings by moving them, but the truck was bombed by the Germans, leading to the loss of Gilot's drawings and watercolors.
Her stature as an artist and the value of her work have increased over the years. In 2021 her painting Paloma à la Guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby's in London. As of January 2022 her work is on exhibit in multiple leading museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Personal life
From 1943 to 1953, Gilot was the lover and artistic muse of Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children, Claude and Paloma.
Gilot married artist Luc Simon in 1955. Their daughter Aurélia was born the following year. The couple divorced in 1962.
In 1969, Gilot was introduced to American polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk at the home of mutual friends in La Jolla, California. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and a 1970 wedding in Paris. During their marriage, which lasted until Salk's death in 1995, the couple lived apart for half of every year as Gilot continued to paint in New York City, La Jolla, and Paris.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Gilot designed costumes, stage sets, and masks for productions at the Guggenheim in New York City. She was awarded a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1990.
In 1973, Gilot was appointed art director of the scholarly journal Virginia Woolf Quarterly. In 1976, she joined the board of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, where she taught summer courses and took on organizational responsibilities until 1983.[citation needed]
Gilot splits her time between New York and Paris, working on behalf of the Salk Institute, and continues to exhibit her work internationally.
In 2010, Gilot was awarded the Officer of the Légion d'honneur, the French government's highest honour the arts.
In August 2018, Gilot released three sketchbooks, these documented the journey she went on in Venice, India and Senegal.
In popular culture
Gilot is played by Natascha McElhone in the 1996 film Surviving Picasso, and by Clémence
Poésy in the 2018 season of Genius, which focuses on the life and art of Picasso.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/style/francoise-gilot-it-girl.html
Her natal Lilith is 14 Aries, N.Node 16 Sagittarius, S.Node 5 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 18 Pisces, N.Node 17 Taurus, and the S.Node is 25 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Mitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990) is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter. She has been cited by The Guardian as "the US's best young songwriter". Mitski self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012) and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. After graduating, she released her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014), through Double Double Whammy. She then signed with Dead Oceans in 2015, where she released her critically acclaimed albums Puberty 2 (2016), Be the Cowboy (2018) and Laurel Hell (2022).
Early life
Mitski Miyawaki was born Mitsuki Laycock[9] on September 27, 1990, in Japan to a white American father and a Japanese mother. Her first language was Japanese, growing up in a small town in Mie Prefecture. She moved frequently while growing up due to her father's job at the United States Department of State, living in countries such as Turkey, China, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo before settling in the United States. She sang in a choir in high school and was 18 when she wrote her first song on the piano.
Career
2012–2015: Lush; Retired from Sad, New Career in Business; and Bury Me at Makeout Creek
After enrolling at Hunter College to study film, Mitski decided to pursue music instead and transferred to SUNY Purchase College's Conservatory of Music, where she studied studio composition. During her time at Purchase College, she recorded and self-released her piano-based first and second albums, Lush (2012) and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), as student projects. While there, Mitski also met Patrick Hyland, who has produced each of her albums after Lush.
After graduating, she served as the vocalist for the short-lived prog-metal band Voice Coils and began work on her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, which was released on November 11, 2014, through Double Double Whammy. The album represented a sonic departure from Mitski's orchestral and classical piano background found in her first two albums, exchanging it for raw, impulsive guitar.[20] It garnered acclaim from numerous publications.
2015–2017: Puberty 2
On December 22, 2015, Mitski signed with Dead Oceans before releasing new music the following year. She announced her fourth studio album, Puberty 2, on March 1, 2016, and shared the lead single, "Your Best American Girl". She released another single, "Happy", before the release of the album on June 17. The album was recorded over a two-week period at Acme Studios in Westchester County, New York and was produced by longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland. The album received widespread acclaim from music critics. "Your Best American Girl" was named the 13th best song of the 2010s by Rolling Stone.
In a 2016 episode of the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time, her song "Francis Forever" was covered by Olivia Olson as the character Marceline the Vampire Queen.
On February 21, 2017, the Pixies announced US tour dates with Mitski as a supporting act. On May 1, a compilation album consisting of 100 songs by different artists titled Our First 100 Days was released. It includes Mitski's cover of One Direction's song "Fireproof". The compilation aims to raise funds for organizations that support causes threatened by Donald Trump's proposed policies. Mitski played a cover of the song in 2015, but that version has since been taken down. Mitski also covered Frank Sinatra's 1951 classic "I'm a Fool to Want You" for the 7-Inches For Planned Parenthood compilation album.[36] On October 4, 2017 Lorde announced Mitski will be an opening act for selected dates as part of her Melodrama World Tour. On November 1, a short film starring Mitski called Sitting was released.
black and white photo of a young Asian-American woman with shoulder-length black hair singing.
On April 20, 2018, Mitski teamed up with the experimental band Xiu Xiu on the song "Between the Breaths" for the soundtrack of the sci-fi comedy film How to Talk to Girls at Parties, based on the short story of the same name.
On May 14, 2018, Mitski's fifth studio album, Be the Cowboy, was made available for pre-order without prior announcement. The lead single, "Geyser", was released on the same day alongside its accompanying music video. The second single, "Nobody", was released on June 26, 2018, accompanied by the music video, and the third and final single to precede the album, "Two Slow Dancers", was released on August 9 alongside a lyric video. Be the Cowboy was released on August 17, through Dead Oceans. It was critically acclaimed and named the album of the year by publications including Pitchfork, Vulture and Consequence of Sound.
On tour in 2019, Mitski began incorporating choreography into her live performances inspired by Butoh, a form of dance theater developed in post-war Japan, in which "performers draw on chaotic internal emotions but depict them with precise, repetitive gestures." The approach reflected her wish to "give audiences something new" on her second headlining tour since Be the Cowboy's release, as well as a desire "to develop her own, idiosyncratic ways of maintaining a grip on an audience," since she'd learned "that the jumping around onstage, getting everyone pumped up, doesn't come naturally to me." Mitski worked with performance artist Monica Mirabile to devise the tour's "highly stylized, sometimes unsettling" movements. Butoh influenced choreography was also used in her music video for "Working for the Knife".
In August 2019 Mitski ended her hiatus from social media to post a statement denying allegations made by a Tumblr user that she had been involved in a child trafficking ring. In the statement Mitski stated "I don't know the accuser, and I don't know how or why they have come to associate me with their trauma."
In September 2019 at the final performance of her Be the Cowboy Tour in Central Park, Mitski announced that it would be her last indefinitely. She later talked about how she planned to quit music completely and "find another life." By early 2020, Mitski had changed her mind and decided to return to music, partly because she owed her label another album and partly for her herself. She described making the decision to continue, "What it came down to was, 'I have to do this even though it hurts me, because I love it [...]?This is who I am. ... I'm going to keep getting hurt, and I'm still going to do it, because this is the only thing I can do.'?"
2020–present: This Is Where We Fall and Laurel Hell
Mitski shared her new song, "Cop Car", in January 2020, a never-released piece from the soundtrack of The Turning. She was featured in the song "Susie Save Your Love" from Allie X's album, Cape God, released in February 2020.
On October 29, 2020, it was announced that Mitski will provide the soundtrack to the graphic novel This Is Where We Fall. The sci-fi Western story written by Chris Miskiewicz and Vincent Kings "unpacks themes of theology, death, and the after-life". Of the project, Mitski said "It was exciting to make a soundtrack for a comic book, It allowed me to work outside of my usual songwriting form and try to approach it like a score, but without any of the cues that come with working alongside a moving image, which ended up being both freeing and challenging. I hope the end result helps to immerse you in the story!" A country song called "The Baddy Man" was released as the first preview from the soundtrack on March 5, 2021. Z2 Comics released the album on cassette with the standard hardcover novel on May 5, 2021. A limited edition deluxe vinyl was also released. At the moment, Z2 has no plans to put the soundtrack on streaming services.
On October 4, 2021, Mitski announced on her social media that she would be releasing a new single, "Working for the Knife", the next day as the lead single to her upcoming sixth studio album. The song would later be named the 7th best song of 2021 by Pitchfork. Soon after the song's release, Mitski announced her 2022 European and North American tour. She followed it up with "The Only Heartbreaker" on November 9, 2021.The same day, Mitski announced her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell, would be released just before her European and North American tour, on February 4, 2022. On December 7, 2021, "Heat Lightning" was released as the third single from the album. On January 12, 2022, "Love Me More" followed as the fourth single from Laurel Hell.
Musical style
Mitski's lyrics often explore her anxieties and have been coined by some as 'sad indie girl music,' a category many women who write emotional lyrics are put into. E. Alex Jung described her as "an artist whose music feels like being ushered into a private opera house of melodrama" with lyrics full of "roiling fury, destructive impulses, humiliation, longing, heartache, and hunger". Angie Martoccio of Rolling Stone described her earlier albums as a "wry running commentary on twentysomething angst, raw desire, and often unrequited love". Lucy Dacus, a singer-songwriter who has at times opened for Mitski, described her music as "really visceral ... She's connected to a part in herself that wants to scream. Maybe you don't live in a space where you can scream, or maybe you don't have the words for what has happened to you. Mitski provides a space for that." Similarly, Mitski has described her music as a place where people "can put all of their feelings, their ugliness, that doesn't have a place in their own lives." As a result, Mitski has stated in interviews that she has an uneasy relationship with her fans because she finds their relationship to her and her music overwhelming. Her fanbase has been described as both "extremely online" and as rivalling "Taylor Swift and BTS in intensity, if not size." In an interview in 2022 she described the audience at one of her shows as "unrelenting. Everyone needed a piece of me... I was so overwhelmed by hands grabbing at me that I was crying."
Personal life
Mitski reflects her eclectic cross-cultural identity as "half Japanese, half American but not fully either", a feeling that is often reflected in her music, which occasionally discusses issues of belonging. She said that she uses the descriptor "Asian-American" mostly for the benefit of others but does not think of herself that way.
In a 2016 interview with The New York Times, Mitski expressed the tension of being a private person and her discomfort with the attention that comes with being in the public eye, therefore preferring to keep her personal life private.
Mitski lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She is vegan, likes horror films, and has pet cats.
Interview: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/04/mitski-us-best-young-songwriter-im-a-black-hole-where-people-dump-feelings
Her natal Lilith is 26 Capricorn, N.Node 4 Sagittarius, S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 00:31 Pisces, N.Node 10 Gemini, and the S.Node 11 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.
Life and career
Estés was born in Gary, Indiana, to Emilio Maria Reyés and Cepción Ixtiz, who were from Mexico. She is a certified senior Jungian analyst. She earned her doctorate, from the Union Institute & University [1981], in ethno-clinical psychology on the study of social and psychological patterns in cultural and tribal groups. She is the author of many books on the journey of the soul. Beginning in 1992 and onward, her work has been published in 37 languages. Her book Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of The Wild Woman Archetype was on the New York Times' best seller list for 145 weeks, as well as other best seller lists, including USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal.
Estés began her work in the 1960s at the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois. There she worked with World War I, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War soldiers who were living with quadraplegia, incapacitated by loss of arms and legs. She has worked at other facilities caring for severely injured children as well as shell-shocked war veterans and their families. Her teaching of writing, storytelling and traditional medicine practices continued in prisons, beginning in the early 1970s at the Men's Penitentiary in Colorado; the Federal Women's Prison at Dublin, California; the Montview Facility for Youth in Colorado; and other institutions.
Estés served as a board member of the Maya Angelou Minority Health Foundation (now called Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity) at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Estés served as appointee by Colorado governors Romer and Owens to the Colorado State Grievance Board of the Department of Regulatory Agencies (D.O.R.A.) from 1993 to 2006. She was elected as chair and for thirteen years worked with the state of Colorado Attorney General's lawyers, as well as a board of legal experts and helping professionals, to focus on public safety regarding mental health practitioners. She has been an advisory board member for the National Writers Union, New York; and an advisory board member of the National Coalition Against Censorship, New York. She is an advisor to El Museo de las Americas, Denver, Colorado, and a contributing editor and storyteller-in-residence for The Bloomsbury Review.
Estés debuted in spoken word performance at Carnegie Hall, New York (2000), along with Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. Together the author-poets wrote lyrical song-poems for a libretto of woman.life.song..
Estés is managing editor for TheModeratevoice.com. She has written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Publishers' Weekly and The Denver Post. Estés' Guadalupe Foundation has funded literacy projects.
Estés was a recipient of the Keeper of the Lore Award, a Gradiva Award (from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis), a Catholic Press Association award, the Book of the Year Honor Award, American Booksellers Association, and Colorado Authors League Award. She received the Las Primeras Award, "The First of Her Kind", from the Mexican American Women's Foundation, Washington D.C. She is a 2006 inductee into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame which recognizes women who are of international influence. Estés is the recipient of the President's Medal for Social Justice.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Pinkola_Est%c3%a9s
Her natal Lilith is 17 Libra, N.Node 1 Capricorn, S.Node 25 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 6 Aries, N.Node 3 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Jayanti Buruda born July 1, 1989 in Serpalli, India. She is a Adivasi girl from the indigenous Koya tribe. She is actively working for the equality of women in the context of an intense patriarchal area of India: Odissa. She became a journalist and is now seeking a political office that she hopes will facilitate her desire to help women.
Here is her story.
The girl from Serpally who conquered journalism
April 7, 2018
NWMi: Network Of Women In Media India
Jayanti Buruda, recipient of the first NWMI Fellowship (2017-18), describes her challenging journey from a village in the remote Malkangiri district of Odisha to becoming the first Adivasi girl to study and become a journalist. She feels the NWMI Fellowship recognised her potential and allowed her to follow her dream.
My name is Jayanti Buruda. I am an Adivasi girl from the Koya tribe. My life started in Serpally, a small village in Odisha's Malkangiri district. Since my childhood, it was a dream to pursue education somewhere outside but my father used to say if you have the desire to study, you can do so in any place. In the school that I studied there were hardly any teachers or any competition among the students, which was quite discouraging for me. But, anyway, with the guidance of my teachers I passed my tenth standard exam – the only student to pass, out of the 11 students in my class.
I was born on July 1, 1989. Since my childhood, I have always felt different from others. I used to see and understand the world and people differently from other children of my age. My mind was always filled with questions about life and living, but I never got any answers from others. Rather, they found my attitude strange. However, I got a lot of solace being with nature. Although I never received my answers from nature, I always felt the trees, forests, moon and the stars understood me and my feelings.
I was always empathetic to the problems of others in my village and was also a favourite among the villagers. Everyone in my village was proud of me and expected that I would achieve something great. My biggest supporter and source of strength was my mother,who gave me self-confidence. She would jump to my defence and support me in every little thing, even when my brother used to tease me about my dark complexion.
This is how I completed my schooling in my village. I went to Malkangiri town for my college education. I had never left my family and, in fact, had not stepped out of my village earlier. But going to the town to pursue my education was exciting. I made new friends and my teachers supported me in my studies. College was a good platform which enabled me to learn many things, discover my purpose. I went through a transformation there which I had never imagined was possible in my life.
On becoming a journalist
However, everything changed with the death of my mother in 2007, when I was doing my graduation. I was 19 years old, and my life turned into a battlefield. The twists and turns in my life thereafter took me far away from everyone and I became quite alone. I involved myself in social work and was recognised for it but I became distant from the people close to me. I took all my decisions myself but drifted away from other people.
Soon after my graduation, my friends helped and supported me in seeking admission to the post-graduation course at the Central University in Koraput, about 150 km from Malkangiri. I did my Master's in Journalism and Mass Communication at the university from 2012 to 2014. I faced a lot of harassment and discrimination while at the university, both as an Adivasi and as a young woman. I was completely lost in many ways, but my friends helped me regain a sense of purpose and revive my hopes. It was then that I seriously started thinking of becoming a journalist. I felt the profession would help me build not only my own identity but also that of my community.
After completing the course, I had to do an internship in Bhubaneswar. I again faced problems because I didn't have any place to stay in the city. However, I was fortunate to come across a veteran media person from Odisha, Mr Biren Das. He took me under his wing and taught me the nuances of media and journalism. While working with him, I was proud to be known as an Adivasi girl. Since my childhood I have seen Adivasis being humiliated and tortured. I always wondered if being born Adivasi was due to a mistake that we had committed. I worked in his media house for two years and gained new perspectives as an Adivasi girl, as a person and as an Adivasi journalist.
Soon after that I got an opportunity to work at Kalinga TV. I returned to Malkangiri because I wanted to report about my district and my people. I didn't know that working as a female journalist in Malkangiri would be so tough. There was hardly any co-operation from my seniors and I faced what I now recognise to be sexual harassment at the workplace. My will power was about to take a dent when I got the opportunity to meet a few people who taught me to understand media in a way which was not possible earlier. I met CG Net Swara's Shubhranshu Chowdhury, who had come on work to Malkangiri. He invited me to participate in a media workshop in Raipur where I met several other people and learnt many things.
It was here that I met Vasanthi (NWMI member Vasanthi Hariprakash), who was a godsend for me. She helped me to understand myself and my work better. With her help, I got a sponsorship that allowed me to attend a workshop in New Delhi, conducted by international media person Christopher Kent. I was the only journalist from Odisha at the workshop. I got the golden opportunity to interact with Christopher, who explained to me about narrative journalism. Over coffee one day, Christopher also enlightened me about journalism, media and several other things, all of which were quite valuable for me.
All these people I met at various points in my life not only understood me but also made me understand certain things. This was something I had always looked for in my life earlier. I consider myself truly fortunate that, despite being from a remote place like Malkangiri, I was able to meet such people.
The NWMI and I
I came to know from Vasanthi about the NWMI and was happy to discover that so many women journalists were part of the network, a platform that embodied a sense of sisterhood. I was even happier when I got the chance to attend the NWMI national meeting in Hyderabad in November 2016. The journey of about 550 km took two days. I went by bus from Malkangiri to Motu End and crossed the border of Odisha by boat. From there, I took an autorickshaw to Konta, where the borders of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh meet. An overnight bus ride took me to Hyderabad. I was amazed to meet so many women journalists from different parts of the country and hear about their work. It was exciting to get an opportunity at the meeting to freely speak about myself and my own work. Ever since then I have been a part of the network through the Yahoo group and WhatsApp group, and keep in touch regularly, more so with some members.
Later, after I went back to Malkangiri, I was overjoyed to find out that I was the first recipient of the NWMI Fellowship, which was launched after the Hyderabad meeting. It was like a dream come true as I had never thought that I would ever receive such a big and prestigious award.
The Fellowship that I received for one year starting from April 2017, meant a lot to me. It connected a girl from the obscure Malkangiri district to the whole world. It was the NWMI that recognised and encouraged this identity of mine. People only know Malkangiri as the home of Maoists. But now they know it also has girls like me who have dreams of their own and who want to establish their own identity; who want love, peace and happiness and harbour the hope of connecting with the world.
There are several young people like me who are in search of such opportunities and do not want to be known as 'Maoists.' I was once questioned by the police as a Maoist suspect because I was an Adivasi girl who knew several languages and who was educated. I was questioned for a long time in the police station for this. We do not want 'Maoists' to be the only identity of Adivasis. We also want to create our own identities with dignity and as a right. This is something I was able to get from the NWMI Fellowship. It supported me both financially and professionally at a time when I was almost broken due to various adversities and it gave me the strength to continue on my chosen path. I was also delighted to be awarded a travel grant to attend the NWMI's 13th National Meet in Chennai in January this year and reconnect with network members.
I did not have a laptop or a camera of my own and had to depend on others for such essential equipment while working. Seeing my problems, the NWMI family presented me with a new laptop through which I could work from my home. With the Internet connection I was able to accomplish a lot of things. Earlier I did not have any means of conveyance of my own, but with part of the Fellowship amount, I was able to buy a scooter which again has helped make me independent and my work easier.
The laptop helped me in filing stories, writing scripts and editing visuals. For the first time I am able to plan and do my stories without depending on anyone else. During the Fellowship period, I was able to report on several issues which are close to my heart. Among them were stories on women farmers, a village where there are no roads or drinking water, and health issues in Malkangiri. I also wrote about an elderly couple who contemplated suicide because their only son, who had migrated for work, went missing; about the destruction of forests in Malkangiri due to forest fires; about child labour; and about the rising temperature in the district due to various reasons.
The laptop is also my gateway to the world, enabling me to learn to speak and write English well. I am trying to improve my English through various websites and channels. This is an important step forward for me. Learning English will help me to connect with the outside world better.
The NWMI Fellowship is a beacon of hope for young people like me from far-flung, conflict-ridden, tribal areas, and especially for women journalists who are far away from the mainstream. I hope the NWMI Fellowship will support more young women journalists like me in the future and give them an opportunity to make their dreams come true. My sincere and heartfelt gratitude to the NWMI for the Fellowship and for welcoming me into the network community.
For more: https://www.orissapost.com/odisha-panchayat-polls-journalist-and-social-worker-koya-tribe-woman-jayanti-buruda-now-eyes-politics/ and https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/how-baby-mrutyunjay-was-born-in-malkangiri/
Her natal Lilith is 10 Scorpio, N.Node 12 Sagittarius, S.Node 26 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 29 Scorpio, N.Node 3 Gemini, and the S.Node is 7 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Chloé Zhao, born Zhao Ting born 31 March 1982), is a Chinese-born filmmaker, known primarily for her work on independent films. Zhao's debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Her second feature film, The Rider (2017), was critically acclaimed and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director.
Zhao gained further success with Nomadland (2020), which attracted international recognition and won many awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and numerous Best Picture awards. Zhao won awards for directing at the Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards; at each body, she was the second woman to win. Earning four Academy Award nominations for the film, Zhao won both Best Picture and Best Director, becoming the second woman in history to win the latter after Kathryn Bigelow in 2010,[6] and the first woman of color to win the category. The film has not received a theatrical release in China, with speculation that it was due to her past comments on the nation, and news of her Best Director win at the Academy Awards was also censored.
Zhao's latest film is the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals, which she co-wrote and directed, and was released on 5 November 2021.
Early Life
Zhao Ting (??; Zhào Tíng) was born on 31 March 1982 in Beijing. Her father Zhao Yuji was an executive at Shougang Group, one of the country's largest state-owned steel companies. After amassing significant personal wealth, he later moved on to real-estate development and equity investment. Yuji was tied to a number of offshore companies during the Panama Papers leaks. Zhao's mother was a hospital worker who was in a People's Liberation Army performance troupe.
In an interview with Vogue, Zhao described herself as "a rebellious teen, lazy at school" who drew manga-influenced comics and wrote fan fiction. She loved films growing up, especially Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai. From an early age, Zhao was drawn to influences from Western pop culture. After her parents separated, her father married comic actress Song Dandan, whom Zhao had grown up watching on television.
Although Zhao was still learning English at the time, her parents sent her to Brighton College, a private boarding school in the United Kingdom at the age of 15. She later moved to Los Angeles by herself, living in a Koreatown apartment in 2000, and attended Los Angeles High School. She next attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she majored in politics and minored in film studies, graduating in 2005. Bartending and working odd jobs after graduating helped her realize that she enjoyed meeting people and hearing about their lives and histories, giving her the push to attend film school. A Vulture article reported that "Four years was enough to turn her off of politics...she found herself drawn more to people than to policy". Following up on her undergraduate film minor, she next joined the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Graduate Film Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While attending Tisch, Zhao studied under director Spike Lee, who has directed popular films such as Malcolm X (1992) and Old Boy (2013). She told USA Today that she appreciated Lee not sugarcoating anything, saying that "he will just tell you as it is", something she that she claims she needed. After enrolling in the Graduate Studies film program at NYU in 2010 she made her first short film Daughters.
Career
Chloé Zhao's first work is her 2009 short film The Atlas Mountains, the story about Helen Thomas who develops a brief yet passionate relationship with an immigrant worker who comes to fix her computer.] She also released a second short film titled Daughters, a film about a 14-year-old girl Maple, living in rural China, who is forced into an arranged marriage and leads to her taking a dangerous path in order to try and break free. This short won First Place Student Live Action Short at the 2010 Palm Springs International Short Fest and Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Cinequest Film Festival.
In 2015, Zhao directed her first feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me. Shot on location at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the film depicts the relationship between a Lakota Sioux brother and his younger sister. An already existing reservation, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has approximately 2.1 million acres, around 46,855 member, and occupies the Oglala Lakota, Jackson, and Bennet counties. In Zhao's film, the brother Johnny plans to leave home and move to Los Angeles with his girlfriend when he graduates high school, but struggles with the thought of leaving his sister Jashaun at home with their troubled mother who is grieving the loss of their father. Focusing on the real lives and struggles of the surrounding community, the film is able to showcase the realness of people and problems they are faced with. In a Filmmaker article, Zhao stated that her rebellious years in her childhood is what pushed her to leave China and study abroad, helping her connect to the plot of the film which focuses on a character struggling in this environment. Half improvised, around 100 hours of footage was collected as Zhao worked with the real residents of the reservation to draw inspiration from their lives and personalities in order to help shape her story. She was able to utilize the natural landscape around her in this film in order to create a place of revelation, where people can be closest to God. Using wide and long shots, she created a documentary-like film that feels authentic, the desolate beauty of the Great Plains creating a story that depicts both freedom and hopelessness. It premiered in 2015 as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance Film Festival. It later played at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Director's Fortnight selection[36] and was nominated for Best First Feature at the 31st Independent Spirit Awards.
In 2017, Zhao directed The Rider, a contemporary western drama, which follows a young cowboy's journey to self-discovery after a near-fatal accident ends his professional riding career. The film was executive produced by her father, Yuji Zhao. As with her first feature, Zhao engaged a cast of non-actors who lived at the filming location, in this case on a ranch. Her inspiration came from Brady Jandreau—a cowboy she had met and befriended on the reservation where she shot her first film—who suffered a severe head injury when thrown from his horse during a rodeo competition. Jandreau would star in the film, playing a fictionalized version of himself as Brady Blackburn. According to an Indiewire article, this film discovers a new side of the Western theme, revolutionary because a Chinese immigrant changing the nation's "oldest genre". The article stated that the film became "the type of film it is because of a man and a woman, because the two of us wanted to work together and understand where we were coming from".
The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight selection and won the Art Cinema Award. It earned her nominations for Best Feature and Best Director at the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards. At the same ceremony, Zhao became the inaugural winner of the Bonnie Award, named after Bonnie Tiburzi, which recognizes a mid-career female director. The film was released on April 13, 2018, by Sony Pictures Classics and was critically acclaimed. Peter Keough of The Boston Globe wrote: "[The film] achieves what cinema is capable of at its best: It reproduces a world with such acuteness, fidelity, and empathy that it transcends the mundane and touches on the universal."
In 2018, Zhao directed her third feature film, Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. The adaptation from Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century was shot over four months traveling the American West in an RV with many actual nomadic workers. Bruder's book revolved around characters that can be found in the film, such as Linda May, a 64-year-old living in her van and scrounging for jobs in order to buy land for a permanent home. Other characters, such as Bob Wells, a nomad vlogger of CheapRVliving YouTube channel and website and in charge of the annual nomad meet-up featured in the film, are real people that Bruder encountered when writing her book and Zhao included in her movie. The film tells the story of a widow who lost everything in The Great Recession and decides to travel in her van across the American Midwest, beginning a journey of self-discovery. Starring Frances McDormand, the actress and Zhao formed a strong bond quickly and McDormand became a huge element of the filmmaking process and its success, her and Zhao finding inspiration within one another. They met a day before the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards, where McDormand was nominated for Best Actress and Zhao received a $50,000 grant for women directors, both showing excitement at the event and hinting at their future project together. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim and won the Golden Lion award, and subsequently played at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award. The film was released on February 19, 2021, by Searchlight Pictures. Zhao won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Nomadland, making her the first woman of Asian descent honored,[ and only the second woman to win a Golden Globe for directing since Barbra Streisand in 1984. In April 2021, Zhao won the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the second woman to do so (Kathryn Bigelow being the first).
In September 2018, Marvel Studios hired her to direct Eternals, based on the comic book characters of the same name. The film follows the events of the 2019 Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, featuring a new team of superheroes that must reunite in order to fight an ancient enemy of the human race, the Deviants. Zhao was heavily influenced by Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) and Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook (2004) in crafting the MCU film. It was released on November 5, 2021. Zhao is both the director and one of the four writers of the film, the other being Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, and Kaz Firpo. After its release, Eternals began receiving mixed reviews, The New Yorker stated that Zhao's style of directing dialogue scenes "reveals the absurdity of the script", saying "it might as well have been done via green screen, for the little tangibility and texture that it offers the characters and viewers alike". The article also claimed that the film has reportedly been banned in Saudi Arabi and Kuwait due to the relationship between two male characters, Phastos and Ben. Although the film has received a fair amount of negative reviews, it still made $161.7 million opening weekend and became No. 1 at the box office.
On February 15, 2021, Variety reported that with "34 awards season trophies for directing, 13 for screenplay and nine for editing, Chloe Zhao has surpassed Alexander Payne (Sideways) as the most awarded person in a single awards season in the modern era."[needs update] In 2021, she appeared on the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlo%c3%a9_Zhao
Here natal Lilith is 14 Pisces, N.Node 9 Capricorn, S.Node 00:19 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 18 Virgo, N.Node 12 Taurus, and the S.Node is 7 Sagittarius.
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Here is the chart for Kira Oleksandrivna Rudyk born 14 October 1985) is a Ukrainian politician and current leader of the political party Voice and since 2019 a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
Biography
Born on 14 October 1985 in Uzhhorod,[6] Rudyk graduated in 2008 from the Faculty of Informatics of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Information Control Systems and Technologies. She worked in several IT companies in Ukraine and the United States, and went from being a tester to a top manager.
In 2005 she started her IT career as a software tester at Software MacKiev and in 2010 she moved on to leading functions at MiMedia (2010—2013, Rudyk worked in the US for 8 months) and TechTeamLabs (2013—2016).
In 2016 she became the chief operating manager of Ring Ukraine. Rudyk served as COO of Ring Ukraine,[8] a division of Ring Inc. purchased by Amazon in 2018.
Rudyk participated in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election and was elected as a deputy, contesting the election placed third on the election list of Voice.[7] After Svyatoslav Vakarchuk stepped down as the leader of Voice on 12 March 2020, Rudyk was elected to replace him.
At the 29 July 2021 Voice party congress seven of the party MPs were expelled from the party. Five of them had already written statements to leave the party. These five were dissatisfied with, according to them, the "cementing of Kira Rudyk's control over the party."
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'We are resisting' - Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik says her country will fight as 'we are the good guys'
Ukrainian MP, Kira Rudik, has told ITV News that she will bear arms and fight for her country.
Rudik is the leader of Ukraine's Voice Party, the opposition to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party which is currently in power.
The MP joined Ukraine's political spectrum in 2019, championing the right for the country to be a state for the people, peace and security.
Once a critic of Zelenskyy's politics, Rudik says she now firmly stands behind him as he is doing 'what a president should do'.
She spurred international reaction overnight on Friday, after posting a picture of herself holding a Kalashnikov rifle on Twitter.
Speaking from Kyiv, Rudik told ITV news that she is 'afraid' of the current situation in Ukraine, but most of all is angry at Putin and the Russian invasion.
"I'm so angry right now. I'm a woman, I have to bear arms and fight the tyrannies of those who want to take what is ours.
"That they would come and try to throw me away from my house, that would scare my family and then change the way that my country works - and when you are very angry, there is no place for the fear.
"When you are very angry, there is no place for the fear, I will be afraid afterwards. Right now I will have to get very strong, train and make sure that we have all of the supplies we need."
When asked about whether she will use her rifle, Rudik said she will use it 'if she has to'.
"I'm training to use. I will use it if I have to. This is what most Ukrainians do. We are getting ready to resist and we are resisting.
"Putin thought he could take Ukraine in just one day. We look at that. He was not able to take any major cities. There are 3 thousand Russian soldiers that are down right now and we will be fighting back as hard as possible.
"We will not retreat, we will show the world what the Ukrainian nation is capable of."
Her words come as skirmishes broke out in Ukraine's capital this morning, with street fighting breaking out as russian troops near Kyiv.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy echoed similar thoughts this morning in a recorded video in downtown Kyiv.
"We aren't going to lay down weapons. We will protect the country." He said. "Our weapon is our truth, and our truth is that it is our land, our country, our children. And we will defend all of that."
Rudik added that she firmly believes Ukraine are ' the good guys'.
"In the story about bad guys and good guys, we definitely know that we are the good guys.
"And I hope, and I believe that the good guys always win. So that is what our plan is, to win. Because we are the good guys."
Rudik warned other nations that the change that is happening is 'not just about Ukraine'.
She urged world leaders to pay attention to Putin's actions, asking them to take him seriously.
"Is there any force in the world right now that can stop Putin?
"I thought that this force would be the United States, Britain, Germany and maybe, France. But what I know now is that this force is Ukraine. We will fight him back to Russia, and then a little further, just to make it even for the children who are learning what the sirens mean."
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The Extraordinary Leadership of Ukrainian Parliament Member Kira Rudik
"It was own decision to stay here and not to flee. First of all, because I'm a politician and I'm representing my people and they didn't go anywhere." – Ukrainian Parliament member Kira Rudik
As leaders we pray for the peace and safety of the Ukrainian people during this time of the horrific and senseless Russian invasion. God, please help them.
Crisis does not make a leader, it reveals one. Last night, I witnessed one of the most extraordinary acts of leadership I have ever seen. Appearing on the The Sean Hannity Show, Ukrainian Parliament member Kira Rudik discussed the reasons why she chose to arm herself and stay in Kyiv and defend her family, city, and country from the Russian military.
Earlier in the day, she posted the following image on social media:
I learn to use #Kalashnikov and prepare to bear arms. It sounds surreal as just a few days ago it would never come to my mind. Our #women will protect our soil the same way as our #men. Go #Ukraine! 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/UbF4JRGlcy
— Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) February 25, 2022
An Extraordinary Leader
At the 24:24 in the video below, mark Hannity asked about her safety and willingness to remain in Kyiv. Rudik said, "It was own decision to stay here and not to flee. First of all, because I'm a politician and I'm representing my people and they didn't go anywhere."
What an extraordinary statement from an extraordinary leader! As she and countless others bear arms to protect their city, the following are just several of the many lessons we learn Rudik followed by supporting comments:
Leaders are responsible for their own decisions. They take ownership of the outcomes they have influence over.
Leaders must be courageous and make hard decisions.
Leaders engage issues and conflict. They do not run from them.
Leaders represent and serve the people.
Leaders must pay a greater price than those they are called to serve.
I wrote earlier this week The 3 Greatest Abilities A Leader Must Have. They must be reliable, dependable, and available. Rudik and many other Ukrainian leaders are the embodiment of these virtues. She didn't go anywhere.
Leaders Always Point To A Brighter Tomorrow
While things appear in dire straights, Rudik did what all great leaders do. She provided hope for her people and country and pointed to a brighter tomorrow.
Rudik said, "Second, because I woke up, I looked at all of this and was thinking why would we do this? Why would we go away? He's coming to relent with his forces (and) we are able to fight him back. We are actually doing it very good. In two days, he lost like 3,000 men which is probably the most he lost in the latest wars he was fighting throughout the world. So the Ukrainian army is fighting him very, very hard and we are resisting in the best ways of the Resistance. So I believe we'll be able to fight back."
Notice the phrases she uses:
"Why would we go away?"
"We are able to fight him back."
"We are actually doing it very good."
"The Ukrainian army is fighting him very, very hard"
"We are resisting in the best ways"
"We'll be able to fight back"
Just three hours ago at the time of this writing, she even posted the following:
I planned to plant tulips and daffodils on my backyard today. Instead, I learn to fire arms and get ready for the next night of attacks on #Kyiv. We are not going anywhere.
This is our #city, our #land, our soil. We will fight for it. So next week I can plant my flowers. Here. pic.twitter.com/TCMGogKVt5
— Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) February 26, 2022
Our prayers are with the people of Ukraine. Our prayers are for God's protection and peace. Our prayers with Kira Rudik and all leaders like her.
May all our countries have leaders like her.
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Her natal Lilith is 17 Sagittarius, N.Node 7 Sagittarius, S.Node 18 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 26 Taurus, N.Node 6 Gemini,and the S.Node is 15 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Natalya Vladimirovna Sindeyeva born June 11, 1971) is a Russian journalist, founder, main owner and chief executive officer of the Dozhd media holding, which includes Dozhd TV channel, the Republic.ru online magazine and the Big City [ru] magazine. Co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station, founder of the Silver Galosh [ru] anti-award. Three times laureate of the "Media Manager of Russia" prize, honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio.
Early life and education
Natalya Vladimirovna Sindeyeva was born in Michurinsk into the family of a military dentist. From the age of three, Natalya was transferred to the care of her grandparents. As a child, she was fond of sports, graduated from a ballet school, studied music and folk dances. After school she received a specialty "teacher of elementary grades and mathematics" at the Michurinsk State Pedagogical Institute (MGPI).
Career
After graduation in 1992 she moved to Moscow. In the beginning, she worked in an Italian clothing company and on a project for a night show on the water in the Chaika pool. Working as a promoter at one of the exhibitions, Sindeyeva met with producer Pavel Vashchekin and later became his personal assistant. At that time, she established contacts with future key figures in the media market: Sergei Kozhevnikov [Wikidata], the founder of the Russian Media Group [ru], radio producer Mikhail Kozyrev [Wikidata], Andrei Wolf [Wikidata] and Otar Kushanashvili. In 1993, she moved to the 2x2 TV channel, where she worked her way up from secretary to producer of the Thousand and One Nights TV show.
While working on 2x2, Natalya met her future husband Dmitry Savitsky [ru] and together with him started creating the FM radio station Silver Rain. While working on the radio, Sindeyeva met a Russian businessman and restaurateur Jamil Asfari, who became her second husband. In 2002, the couple had a son, Luca.
In 2005, at a match of the Chelsea[9] football club, Sindeyeva met the banker Alexander Vinokurov [ru], who was then the head of the investment bank KIT Finance [ru]. In 2006, she graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics Russia, course of business development Entrepreneur Essential 4. In 2006 Sindeyeva and Vinokurov married and in 2009, their daughter Alexandra, was born. Together with Vinokurov, who became the main investor, Sindeyeva created the Dozhd media holding.
On February 2, 2020, Sindeyeva announced on air of her own programme that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Silver Rain, 1995-2009
Together with her first husband Dmitry Savitsky, Sindeyeva created the Silver Rain FM radio station. The first broadcast took place in 1995. Savitsky became the general director, and Sindeyeva became the general producer of the station and organizer of the anti-award for dubious achievements Silver Galosh [ru].
Many well-known journalists were brought to work at the radio station. In addition, Silver Rain gained popularity due to its availability via the Internet and the concept of "music non-stop" introduced by Sindeyeva.
From 2002 to 2009 Natalya served as commercial director of Silver Rain, while retaining the position of general producer. After leaving the radio station, she remained its co-owner.
Dozhd media holding, 2007-present
Since 2007, Natalya Sindeyeva has been developing the Dozhd media holding, which includes the channel of the same name, as well as the Republic.ru publication and the Big City [ru] magazine. Aleksandr Vinokurov is an investor in all three projects, but legally Sindeyeva alone owns the Elephant and the Big City; in the Dozhd channel she has 95% (another 5% for Vera Krichevskaya [ru]). The exact amount of investment in the holding has not been disclosed, but by mid-2013, according to some estimates, the total investment in the channel alone could have reached $40 million.
In 2012, the total revenue of the holding amounted to 433 million rubles, according to Russian Accounting Standards. The TV channel accounted for almost 66% — 285 million rubles, the Slon.ru portal (created in 2009) — 20%, the rest – the magazine and website Bolshoi Gorod (acquired in 2010). No resource brings operating profit. In June 2014, plans were announced to combine all projects into one holding company and bring it to an IPO on the Moscow Exchange.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/defiant-to-the-last-moscows-media-star-takes-aim-at-putins-brutal-clampdown
Her natal Lilith is 28 Virgo, N.Node 21 Sagittarius, S.Node 20 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 18 Libra, N.Node 29 Taurus, and the S.Node is 11 Scorpio.
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Here is the chart for Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist and opinion columnist with The Washington Post. She is author of the investigative book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up
Background and family
Rana Ayyub was born in Mumbai, India. Her father Mohammad Ayyub Waqif, was a writer with Blitz, a Mumbai-based magazine, and an important member of the progressive writers movement. The city witnessed riots in 1992–93, during which time the family moved to the Muslim-dominant suburb of Deonar, which is where Rana largely grew up. Ayyub is a practising Muslim.
Career
Rana's worked for Tehelka (lit. "commotion/uproar"), a Delhi-based investigative and political news magazine. Rana has previously been critical of the BJP in general and Narendra Modi.[8] By her own account, a report done by Rana Ayyub was instrumental in sending Amit Shah, a close associate of Narendra Modi, to jail for several months in 2010.
At Tehelka, Rana worked as an investigative journalist and her big assignment was to carry out the sting operation upon which her book Gujarat Files was based. At the end of the sting operation, the management of Tehelka refused to publish any story written by Rana or based on the data collected by her. Rana continued to work with Tehelka for several months more. In November 2013, her boss Tarun Tejpal, the editor-in-chief and major shareholder of Tehelka, was accused of sexual harassment by one of his journalist subordinates. Rana Ayyub resigned from Tehelka in protest against the organisation's handling of the charge against Tejpal. She now works independently. In September 2019, Washington Post hired her as its contributing writer to the Global Opinions section.
In October 2020, HarperCollins India published an open letter written by Ayyub, to protest the controversial appointment of Actor Gajendra Chauhan as the Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), as part of the book Inquilab: A Decade of Protest which contains speeches, lectures and letters said to "capture the most important events and issues of the past ten years."
The Gujarat sting operation
As an investigative journalist working with Tehelka, Rana Ayyub took up a project to conduct a prolonged sting operation aimed at snaring politicians and government officials of Gujarat and get them to reveal any potential cover-ups regarding the Gujarat riots of 2002. Rana Posing as Maithili Tyagi, a filmmaker from the American Film Institute, and set about befriending her intended targets. She spent around ten months in disguise, and got paid a regular monthly salary from Tehelka during this period. However, at the end of the exercise, the management of Tehelka felt that the recordings which she had made over the months did not provide any new or sensational information, that the data gathered by her was of inadequate quality, and that they could not publish any story on the basis of the new data.
The book
In her book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up, Ayyub documented the verbatim transcripts of recordings, made using a concealed recording device, of many bureaucrats and police officers of Gujarat. The recordings were made in the course of an undercover investigation to reveal the views of bureaucrats and police officers on the post-2002 Gujarat riots and Police encounter killings. Ayyub had been posing as 'Maithili Tyagi', a student of the American Film Institute, having an ideological affinity for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's beliefs, to enable her to make the recordings.
Dispute with Tehelka
Tarun Tejpal and Shoma Chaudhury have disputed Ayyub's claim that her story on fake encounters in Gujarat, which was the result of an eight-month long undercover investigation, was dropped by them. According to Tejpal, Ayyub's story was "incomplete". According to Chaudhury, Ayyub's story "did not meet the necessary editorial standards." Ayyub has responded to Tejpal and Chaudhury's assertions by noting that:
I must say I am not the only one to complain about dropped stories in Tehelka, the list is fairly big... Shoma Choudhury and Tarun Tejpal of Tehelka cited editorial decisions and gaps. The book is a bestseller and is getting rave reviews for its content. Let the reader be the judge.
Reception
Historian Ramachandra Guha had called Ayyub's Gujarat Files "a brave book." Jyoti Malhotra has noted that many journalists have privately applauded Ayyub's courage in authoring Gujarat Files. Priya Ramani has commented: "The abuses from the paid foot soldiers on Twitter bounce off her spiral curls smoothly." Reflecting on the procedure used by Ayyub in composing Gujarat Files, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay has observed: "Going undercover and interviewing many who had been in the thick of gruesome extra-constitutional operations required bravado and this must be appreciated."
Ayyub's investigation of the alleged Gujarat fake encounters has been listed by Outlook magazine as one of the twenty greatest magazine stories of all time across the world.[35] In 2018, Ayyub was awarded the "most Resilient Global journalist" by Dutch non-profit Free Press Unlimited for resisting attempts to stifle her work.
Criticism
In the Haren Pandya murder case, the Supreme Court of India dismissed Rana Ayyub's book, stating that "it is based upon surmises, conjectures, and suppositions and has no evidentiary value.". Ayyub termed the court's comments "puzzling", stating that the CBI had used her work as evidence in other related cases, and noting that no officer or bureaucrat had denied her claims or taken her to court.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/rana-ayyub/
Her natal Lilith is 22 Virgo,N.Node 6 Capricorn,and the S.Node 8 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 14 Aquarius, N.Node 19 Taurus,and the S.Node is 27 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
This week we will honor Oksana Baulina who was an independent news reporter from Russia who went to Ukraine to see and report on the actual reality, truth, of this war for the Russian people.
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Russian reporter killed in Kyiv shelling is fifth journalist to die in conflict
Oksana Baulina was killed with another civilian while reporting for the independent Russian news website the Insider
Rachel Hall
Guardian
3/26/2022
A Russian reporter has died after coming under Russian shelling while she filmed destruction at a shopping centre in Kyiv, becoming at least the fifth journalist to a month since Moscow's invasion on 24 February.
Oksana Baulina, who previously also worked for the Russian opposition leader Alexander Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, was killed alongside another civilian on Wednesday while reporting for the independent Russian news website the Insider.
Two other people in the group were wounded in the attack which took place in the Podolsky district of Kyiv, the outlet reported.
"The Insider expresses its deepest condolences to Oksana's family and friends," it said.
The publication added: "We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including such Russian war crimes as indiscriminate shelling of residential areas which result in the deaths of civilians and journalists."
Baulina, 42, began her career working for lifestyle magazines including Time Out Moscow and In Style, but after a decade she shifted to more political work, becoming a producer for Alexander Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.
She was briefly jailed when Russian police stormed the group's headquarters where she was coordinating a live broadcast from a national rally.
Baulina left Russia after authorities declared the Anti-Corruption Foundation an "extremist organization" in 2021 but she continued to report for the Insider and Coda Story.
After Russia invaded Ukraine a month ago, Baulina filed several reports from Kyiv and Lviv in western Ukraine for the Insider.
Sergiy Tomilenko, head of the Ukranian journalists' union, confirmed the death in a statement on Facebook, saying that Baulina was reporting on the aftermath of a shelling when she was hit by fresh fire.
Oksana was funny, dedicated and extremely brave. She was putting a new life together in Warsaw after having to flee Russia due to Navalny links and determined to do important journalism. Another victim of this awful senseless mess. https://t.co/fHUYm9PCQA
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) March 23, 2022
Alexey Kovalev, the investigations editor at the Latvian-based Russian news website Meduza, paid tribute to Baulina's "phenomenal sense of moral clarity".
"Oksana ditched a successful career in glossy magazines (I first met her at Time Out Moscow in 2006 where she edited the fashion section) to become an opposition activist, human rights campaigner and then full time reporter. Arrested several times, her org declared 'extremist'," he tweeted.
Anastasia Karimova, a program director at Foundation for Democratic Development in Washington, tweeted: "The Russian army has killed one of Russia's best people."
Vladimir Milov, who worked with her at Navalny's group, vowed to avenge her.
"I will never forget her and to all those who are responsible for her death I promise that they won't get away with (only) a trial and a verdict," Milov said on Twitter.
"What an unbelievable horror," wrote Lyubov Sobol, another prominent member of Navalny's team.
At least four other reporters have been killed during the conflict: Brent Renaud, an American film-maker, Evgeny Sakun, a cameraman with Kyiv Live TV, Irish cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova. Television news crews have described being shot at even when they have identified themselves as journalists, prompting speculation that they were targeted on purpose.
More: https://mixedarticle.com/oksana-baulina-age
Her natal Lilith is 7 Libra, N.Node 11 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 2 Taurus, N.Node 29 Taurus, and the S.Node 19 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad and All,
I think it's worth sharing and notice that today Lilith is making a conjunction to the north node at 23 Taurus which is then trine Pluto at 28 Cap, sextile Neptune and Jupiter in Pisces and square its ruler venus at 22 Aquarius, together with Juno, Saturn and mars close by... No wonder things feel weird for most people!
The conjunction is also very close to Sedna at 28 taurus. I would say we are challenged to recover a dormant life force that cannot forever sleep or lay at the bottom of the ocean, and certainly rebel for freedom, that's for sure.
I wonder if anyone wants to share any thoughts on this, but anyways wish all a great journey 'back-forward' to the root...
Blessings to All,
Helena
Hi Helena,
My feeling about this correlates with survival for the human species itself, and survival for the totality of nature in all of it's manifestations. Survival relative to this correlates with the need to return to a state of Natural Laws, the Natural Laws that regulate survival life itself in all of it's manifestations. Returning to these Natural Laws recreates a state of natural balance within the incredible diversity of the manifest Creation as applied to the planet that we all live on.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
This so true, I was connecting what you mention to something I read a couple of days ago and why this helps and applies so well to the understanding of the asteroid Lilith in the chart.
I came across a therapy in psychology that is not new and is well known called IFS where from what I understood trauma is worked by acknowledging that the psyche always creates a system to survive and protect itself, and even though this can create the dissociated parts that hide and suppress the natural instinctive self, this kind of therapy suggests that by welcoming and integrating this parts as 'part' of also a natural survival system and with practices like meditation, that the real natural self can emerge and take charge in a positive sense of self-leadership, and is a self that does not need to be cultivated or developed because it is in itself an essence that is not damaged, and it is in fact a confidant, curious and calm self, preserved by any destruction that the survival system created.
I thought to myself that this is amazing because this is in my view what in astrology we call Lilith within the Soul, and also closes a circle in the tendency to why we have created dissociating parts in this understanding of Lilith, the three liliths, that in my view, need the natural undamaged self to arise in order to integrate the understanding of Lilith, the one single force, root self,has it it is given and created by the Mother. Which I think it goes hand in hand in what you mention about survival as returns to natural laws because Lilith itself is undissociated of the ability to survive in that natural state. Also something any soul can experience by itself as true, and now we seem to have been blessed to take the opportunity to really integrate it with the Lilith NN conjunction if only we can let this essential part take charge in the midst of much trauma we can certainly see collectively in the world if not in our personal lives (the temporary skipped steps of mars, venus, Juno and Saturn) would you agree?
I don't now what you think Rad, but ever since I started to better understand Lilith here at the MB, the Lilith book and Kirstin teachings, I have been growing the notion that the asteroid Lilith in the natal chart, and this essential, creative life force, is not only in the chart of women, is not gender based and more present or absent the more the soul relates to feminine energy (of course with the patriarcal distortions most men tend to project it outside of themselves and many women tend to adopt a dissociated side of Lilith). But to give a current example we have all been contemplating, In Zelensky's chart, the president of Ukraine, a nation who has been teaching the world the value of bravery and fighting for what is true if that's what it takes, we see Lilith in Pisces ruled by Neptune in Sag., and what better example could it be of a life force that unites all democratic nations in turn of universal ideals of humanity fairness and justice? It's hard not to see the will of God/dess and Lilith's fierceness in this soul at this point in time.
Thank you again Rad,
Helena
Hi Helena,
Yes, I would agree. And we all need to remember that the essence of Natural Laws manifesting in the human being is the Natural Law of giving, sharing and inclusion wherein the survival of any group is rooted in what the group needs in order to survive. This focus upon the group vs the individual thus allows for all the individuals within a group to survive.
This Natural Law is observable and knowable in so many ways but for most it is understood in moment of great crisis, like in Ukraine now, wherein the INSTINCT in almost all humans triggers this Natural Law. Thus, almost all do what is needed on behalf of the group in order to survive. We see and know this for example when a fire sweeps through a community, and earthquake strikes somewhere, and so on.
God Bless, Rad
Hello Helena & Rad,
The most vivid example relative to Lilith was an image I saw on the very first day that Russia declared war on Ukraine.
Rad posted a story about a female parliament member in Ukraine named Kira Radik who thought she was going to be planting daffodils and tulips that weekend in her backyard but instead she was learning to use a firearm to protect her country. She was all over the news here.
This is a true expression of Lilith as Kira joined civilians to protect her city, her people, her land and her soil. This was very simple she said. It was not even a question.
Of course war of this kind is rooted in patriarchal distortions and self-interest, the furthest thing from sharing, giving and inclusion, the natural laws that Rad speaks of above.
Unfortunately, violence of any kind can also trigger the distorted Lilith where revenge feels justified. When all is said and done, nobody feels good about what happened. A natural Capricorn guilt can follow.
But the worse of humanity can also bring out the very best in humanity.
What about the woman in Poland who is showing up in the middle of the night to pick up women and children from the train station and driving them to shelters and putting stuffies in the read dashboard for the young ones to play with. She makes a bout 20 trips per night doing what she can with what she has, all while she herself is battling cancer.
Another example of a natural Lilith response.
These currents transits with Lilith in Taurus squaring Venus but also trining Pluto in Capricorn, will continue to spur on that survival strength that is so necessary in times like this.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Hello to all,
Thanks Helena for bringing up this important transit of Lilith's, whose power, beauty and wisdom never cease to amaze.
Lilith would seem to be pointing the way to our future, one that is survivable and sustainable and which can extricate us from the global cataclysm that we have created. She is showing us that the tools and know-how to resolve it lie within our grasp through re-alignment and attunement to the self-regulating and self-regenerative powers of Mother Earth (Lilith conjunct Taurus lunar North Node). For instance, it is possible to mitigate global warming through natural techniques that simply and inexpensively capture and sequester carbon in soil. Every family yard and farm, community owned lands and forests can be adapted to do so and reverse its destructive effects in our lifetimes. (ref: video documentary "Kiss the Ground" hosted by Woody Harrelson; "The soil will save us", Kristin Ohlson; "Ceres", Appendix B, Soil and the Goddess' Mystical Regenerative Powers).
Those same powers belonging to Mother Earth that transform worlds bless each individual Soul (via Scorpio powers of regeneration) and become owned to contribute to global welfare through the actualization of each Soul's unique divine seed nature (Aquarius). Those powers that bless each Soul give form and vision to humanity's sacred role as guardians and caretakers of Mother Earth. Collectively, we are challenged to unify and transform the values of the world (Uranus in Taurus ruling the Aquarius stellium) from dead-end patriarchal ones to life-giving Soul-centered ones through this faculty.
Lilith symbolizes our primal shamanic consciousness - one wholly united to a conscious Creation. The ability to perceive reality like Lilith is rooted in the human heart. When one is aligned and centered in the Soul, she become one with us as a vibrant intelligence that guides the purest instincts within our hearts. Those instincts are represented by the Neptune in Pisces transiting with Jupiter forming a sextile to her. She is showing us that the principles inherent to the sacred feminine through the Pisces archetype become the tools that expand (Jupiter) our consciousness to faithfully guide our way through this critical juncture. They are purity, dreams, imagination, the spiritual impulse, universal unity or oneness, healing, faith and hope, devotion, sensitivity and empathy, psychic awareness, simplicity, ultimate meaning, unconditional love and giving, transcendence of things that keep one bound to the material world, sensitivity/connection to the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness (whichever human and/or planetary group, like plants, animals, nature in general, that one associates with that render meaning/value to the life journey.)
If instead, out of a sense of futility (Saturn in Aquarius squaring nodes), we align to its negative side, we become sadly disempowered as victims of escapism, fantasy, addiction, delusion, confusion and disillusionment. We also allow the patriarchal's psychopathic tendencies that have distorted and traumatized humankind's consciousness to win.
Our function as guardians and caretakers of Mother Earth represented by Saturn in Aquarius rules the Pluto in Capricorn. Its trine to the Moon's North Node in Taurus signifies our Soul's collective sense of responsibility and capacity to own this sacred mantle as a quintessential function of survival and need (Moon's North Node ruler Venus in Aquarius) on both the inner and outer planes. It is time (Saturn) for humankind to step up and demonstrate with the uncompromising self-determination of its Soul (Pluto in Capricorn) its maturation in this regards. It is also time (Saturn) for its vision to be actualized (South Node of Neptune in Aquarius/North Node in Leo squared by Uranus in Taurus), for although while being vital to its survival right now, exists as the singular, most potent resource (Taurus) and faculty it possesses facilitating its unification and attunement to Nature (sextile to Neptune and Jupiter in Pisces) to secure its future. Its degeneracy and stagnation over the past five thousand years speaks for itself.
Lilith is imploring us to confront and fight for what is rightfully ours against those holding the reigns of power (Moon's South Node in Scorpio ruled by Pluto in Capricorn squared by its ruler Saturn in Aquarius) that stand in our way in our sacred role as the guardians and stewards of our beloved Mother Earth (Lilith square Aquarius planetary stellium). She is asking us to dive deep into our Soul and awaken the resources inherent to our shamanic consciousness (Lilith in Taurus on Moon's North Node) that attune us to the Great Mother's regenerative powers and abundance, all the while remaining sensitive to intuitive perceptions that stir the Mother's love in our hearts to guide our way in harmony with Natural Laws (sextile to Neptune and Jupiter in Pisces).
Each individual has the archetype of Lilith within them, which is expressed uniquely according to one's particular nature. Lilith is calling upon each to discover what that is and to actualize her potential and wisdom nature for the sake of humanity's survival, as well as the protection and survival of all kindred beings within the sacred web of life that are so dearly cherished and loved by us.
Blessings, Mary Blue
Hi Rad, Kristin and Mary Blue,
Thank you so much for your light on this. I totally agree that Lilith is pointing to how we can survive and move to the future, wonderful gift to have this open door to Her.
One thing, with Lilith's south nodes only on three signs - taurus, gemini and cancer, is that many many many people will also feel the transit of lilith on its own south node now as it conjuncts the north node of the moon and everybody in the next months will have felt this return also in gemini and cancer. It's wonderful opportunity to recover, as you all mention, and touch on our unique capacities to, together, give our best parts to the collective within the whole of our needs.
Ceres is also so strong in this times, the symbology is simple incredible, because Ceres just finished the total of three conjunctions with moon's north node (2021 in gemini two times, 2022 in taurus) and just right after it, the world has entered again in a war resembling the horrors of the past, in a country, Ukraine, and this incredible symbology here, that is the supplier of grains for much of Europe and many countries in the world, now threatening global hunger crisis... I truly hope spring allow us to recover our ability to regenerate and we embody the best of Ceres teachings.
I would like to leave a quote that I like very much from an oracle dedicated to the Divine Feminine, portraying Lilith:
"I am the voice of my Body and Soul
I choose the Life that I desire to live"
May the God/dess bless us all,
Helena
Quote from: Helena on Mar 29, 2022, 10:00 AM
The conjunction is also very close to Sedna at 28 taurus. I would say we are challenged to recover a dormant life force that cannot forever sleep or lay at the bottom of the ocean, and certainly rebel for freedom, that's for sure.
Blessings to All,
Helena
Greetings all,
Helena: The conjunction is also very close to Sedna at 28 taurus. I would say we are challenged to recover a dormant life force that cannot forever sleep or lay at the bottom of the ocean, and certainly rebel for freedom, that's for sure.
Your words provide such a succinct description for Sedna! Sedna serves to unlock or un-thaw that has been held in a frozen state for far too long. Her prominence now suggests it is time for us to resurface with an absolute, unwavering commitment to fight for what is most authentic and intrinsic to life – the right to exist and to thrive according to one's true nature, as a species, as a consciousness, as a soul, as a part of the whole. It is interesting to note that Sedna will continue to stay in trine aspect to Pluto for most of this decade, advancing from Taurus to Gemini (April 2024) as Pluto ends Capricorn and begins its 20-year tour of Aquarius. Moving from Taurus to Gemini, Uranus continues in balsamic relationship to Sedna until late May of 2026, then moves to a new phase relationship for several more years. I hold hope that lengthy alignment of Sedna in Gemini, in trine to Pluto in Aquarius, and conjunct Uranus in Gemini, is a signature for a positive shift regarding our collective learning curve and the way we perceive, create, relate, and connect. Blessings to all, Rose
Hi Rose,
That is a very promising transit indeed. Thank you for bringing it up and for your teachings on Sedna at your monthly podcast for transits with Kristin, I always listen to the wonderful insights you both share :-)
Thank you again,
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the chart for MacKenzie Scott (née Tuttle, formerly Bezos; April 7, 1970, 6:20 am) is an American novelist and philanthropist. She is known for her involvement in Amazon, her philanthropic efforts, as well as her now dissolved marriage to Jeff Bezos. As of November 2021, she has a net worth of US$62.2 billion, owing to a 4% stake in Amazon, the company Bezos founded. As such, Scott is the third-wealthiest woman in the United States, and the 21st-wealthiest individual in the world. Scott was named one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes in 2021, and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
In 2006, Scott won an American Book Award for her 2005 debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright. Her second novel, Traps, was published in 2013. She has been executive director of Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization, since she founded it in 2014. Committed to give at least half of her wealth to charity, as a signatory to the Giving Pledge, Scott made US$5.8 billion in charitable gifts in 2020, one of the largest annual distributions by a private individual to working charities. She donated a further $2.7 billion in 2021.
Early life and education
MacKenzie Scott Tuttle was born on April 7, 1970, 6:20 am in San Francisco, California, to a financial planner father and homemaker mother. She claims to have begun seriously writing at the age of 6, when she wrote The Book Worm, a 142-page book, which was destroyed in a flood.
In 1988, she graduated from Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
In 1992, Tuttle earned her bachelor's degree in English at Princeton University, where she studied under the Nobel Laureate in Literature Toni Morrison, who described Tuttle as "one of the best students I've ever had in my creative writing classes". She also worked as a research assistant to Morrison for the 1992 novel Jazz.
Career
Literary career
In 2005, Scott wrote her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, for which she won an American Book Award in 2006. She said that it took her 10 years to write, as she was helping Bezos build Amazon, giving birth to three children, and raising them. Toni Morrison, her former teacher, reviewed the book as "a rarity: a sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart". Her second novel, Traps, was published in 2013.
Amazon
In 1993, Scott and Bezos were married, and in 1994, they both left D. E. Shaw, moved to Seattle, and started Amazon. Scott was one of Amazon's first employees, and was heavily involved in Amazon's early days, working on the company's name, business plan, accounts and shipping early orders. She also negotiated the company's first freight contract. When Amazon began to succeed,[when?] Scott took a less involved role in the business, preferring to focus on her family and literary career.
Personal life
Scott was married to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, from 1993 to 2019. She met him while working as his assistant at D. E. Shaw in 1992; after three months of dating in New York they married and moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1994. They have four children: three sons and one daughter. Their daughter is adopted from China.
Their community property divorce in 2019 left Scott with US$35.6 billion in Amazon stock while her former husband retained 75% of the couple's Amazon stock. She became the third-wealthiest woman in the world and one of the wealthiest people overall in April 2019. In July 2020, Scott was ranked the 22nd-richest person in the world by Forbes with a net worth estimated at $36 billion. By September 2020, Scott was named the world's richest woman, and by December 2020, her net worth was estimated at $62 billion.
After her divorce from Jeff Bezos, Mackenzie Bezos changed her name to Mackenzie Scott, with the surname derived from her middle name.
She is now married to high school chemistry teacher Dan Jewett. The marriage was revealed in Jewett's Giving Pledge letter posted on March 6, 2021.
Philanthropy
In May 2019, Scott signed the Giving Pledge, a charitable-giving campaign in which she undertook to give away most of her wealth to charity over her lifetime or in her will; despite its name, the pledge is not legally binding.
In a July 2020 Medium post, Scott announced that she had donated $1.7 billion to 116 non-profit organizations, with a focus on racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, democracy, and climate change. Her gifts to HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, and other colleges surpass $800 million.] In December 2020, less than six months later, Scott stated that she had donated a further $4.15 billion in the previous four months to 384 organizations, with a focus on providing support to people affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing long-term systemic inequities. She said that after July, she wanted her advisory team to give her wealth away faster as the United States struggled with the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 while billionaires' wealth continued to climb. Her team's focus was on "identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital". Scott's 2020 charitable giving totalled $5.8 billion, one of the biggest annual distributions by a private individual to working charities.
On June 15, 2021, Scott announced another $2.7 billion in giving to 286 organizations. Forbes reported that Scott donated $8.5 billion across 780 organizations in one year (July 2020 to July 2021). In June 2021, Scott and Melinda French Gates launched the Equality Can't Wait Challenge, a contest to promote gender equality and expanding women's power and influence in the United States by 2030. The four winners received $10 million each and additional $8 million was split between two finalists. In February 2022, nine organizations announced gifts from Scott totaling $264.5 million. On March 23, 2022 more gifts were announced including $436 million to Habitat for Humanity[38] and $275 million to Planned Parenthood.
Forbes reported, "the unrestricted and ultimately more trusting nature of Scott's philanthropy is the exception, not the norm in their world." The New York Times noted that "Ms. Scott has turned traditional philanthropy on its head... by disbursing her money quickly and without much hoopla, Ms. Scott has pushed the focus away from the giver and onto the nonprofits she is trying to help." Scott has said she believes "teams with experience on the front lines of challenges will know best how to put the money to good use."
Her natal Lilith is 15 Gemini, N.Node 9 Capricorn, S.Node 1 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 15 Leo, N.Node 13 Taurus, and the S.Node is 5 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
QuoteOksana Baulina, who previously also worked for the Russian opposition leader Alexander Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, was killed alongside another civilian on Wednesday while reporting for the independent Russian news website the Insider.
Anastasia Karimova, a program director at Foundation for Democratic Development in Washington, tweeted: "The Russian army has killed one of Russia's best people."
More: https://mixedarticle.com/oksana-baulina-age
Her natal Lilith is 7 Libra, N.Node 11 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 2 Taurus, N.Node 29 Taurus, and the S.Node 19 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Dear Rad
Thanks for sharing this chart. Looking at her Moon at 23 Pisces, wondering if the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction at 23 Pisces on 12 April correlates to her death. Of course I see the Aquarius stellium opposite her 8h Mars as well. The last time Jupiter/Neptune were conjunct in Pisces was the second part of the Industrial Revolution. This revolution will certainly have something to do with information as the world bears witness to the madness of King Putin. I remember JWG teaching us about the end of the Pluto Capricorn days, toppling of patriarchal hierarchies... and the difficulties of this period. I am not sure if it wishful thinking or he talked about Pluto's entrance into Aquarius as a more world collaborative leadership time?
I know many elements are at play but it is very interesting to be able to study this chart. Transiting Uranus on her Vesta Chiron, the Lunar nodes transiting her natal Uranus Venus, and the wide berth of Pluto in Cap on her Mars in Cancer... So much to admire in this short life.
Bless sharing and caring...
Tashi
Hi Tashi,
The Saturn transit opposed her Mars, square Uranus,Venus, the transiting Lunar Nodes which also square her Mars, Uranus (exact) and Venus, all correlate to her death. It is not uncommon for a Soul who has Mars in stressful aspect to Uranus to have had, or will have, and early life ending through some kind of trauma: Uranus.
JWG never taught that the Pluto transit in Capricorn would correlate to the 'toppling of the patriarchies'.
God Bless, Rad
Thanks Rad
I must have decided that somehow from "The Great Goddess Mother, The Secret Language of the Earth" that he recommended, or extrapolated it myself from the 10/4 Cap Can. I appreciate your telling me. I don't ever want to mis-quote this powerful work.
God/Goddess Blessings to us all
Tashi
Hi Helena,
In your previous post about Lilith, each of the aspects identified in the IFS therapy you describe can be seen to correlate to various psychological states manifesting during the journey of the Soul. The words "natural instinctive self "reflect the primal state every Soul originates from when it individuates.Since Lilith corresponds to the original woman, just as you recognized, she is just that.
The Soul's primal state is described by Buddhists as "pure and awakened from the beginning."As described in both Lilith and Ceres books, all begins from this state. Then involutionary forces induce separation in order for that which is unconscious, the primal state, to become realized consciously and through empirical experience, capacities manifest teaching the individual how to harness the powers of the Soul to actualize this state according to its particular nature. Then that which is pure and awakened from the beginning becomes Self-realized, completing its cyclical turn, where the endpoint meets at its beginning. And since the Soul exists in a state of everlasting becoming, this cyclical dynamic regenerates the Soul endlessly.
With respect to"the dissociated parts that hide and suppress the natural instinctive self", those words perfectly describe a state of consciousness undergoing involution as it evolves. This is Lilith as the soul bird who has flown away from the Mother Tree of wisdom and eternal life in order to become conscious of her true nature. Distorted Lilith manifests herself through those dissociated parts that reflect previously experienced traumatic episodes in one's life or prior life caused by conditioning or whatever, a signature of Lilith's true nature still ripening into consciousness.
In Ceres, this same dynamic was described through the symbols of Kore and Persephone as the separation and reunion of the daughter from the Mother, correlating to the Soul's cyclical regeneration of itself through loss/separation, initiation, and recovery/return. All experiences, both good and bad, that transpire during the Soul's journey are relevant and essential, providing the knowledge needed to transform unconsciousness (ignorance as sages refer to it) of humankind's spiritual nature into a fountainhead of heart wisdom. What becomes conscious correlating to the Soul's primal state through Lilith, or Kore and Persephone, is what you have described as being "in itself an essence that is not damaged, and it is in fact a confidant, curious and calm self, preserved by any destruction that the survival system created."
Blessings to you and to all, Mary
Hello all,
Picking up from where Helena left off the other day concerning Ceres' influence right now and Rad's comments that followed:
With Ceres in Gemini and Moon's North Node in Taurus, it would appear humans are being shown the value of nurturing appreciation for all the diversity within Creation. Beyond the ethical reasons for this, there exists a practical purpose, namely the vital importance of sustainability through diversity as Rad mentioned. Ceres in Gemini brings attention to the fact that the incredible biodiversity natural to all ecosystems is absolutely essential to sustain their vitality.It creates the necessary conditions for Her self-regulating and self-regenerative powers to not only function, but thrive.
Humans categorize it (Gemini) as the conditions of sustainability, which is finally being realized by non-indigenous humans as essential to survival. This message (Gemini) is being broadcast through all media outlets covering environmental issues linked to global warming. Almost everyone who pays attention now knows of its value and importance.
This principle of sustainability belonging to Natural Law demonstrates that the greater the complexity, the greater the stability. Non-indigenous humans have finally discovered that to pull one thread out of any ecosystem's tapestry of life can unravel the whole thing. For those involved in wildlife reintroduction projects, such as reintroducing wolves back into various habitats,Nature regenerated Herself in ways beyond what anyone could have ever imagined. Like a fractal, whose changing patterns illustrate the capacity of Mother Nature's infinite regenerative powers, one thing led to the fruition of another, and another,and on and on. An amazing demonstration of Ceres' awesome regenerative powers!
With respect to Ceres in Gemini's connection to the war in Ukraine, we could all agree that the appreciation for life's diversity is the exact opposite of what is being shown by Russia's barbaric assault. These is no appreciation for the sanctity of life itself, period, full stop. As for Ukraine's inability to supply grain now threatening a global hunger crisis, the symbolism could not be more clear.
It is no coincidence that those perpetrating war crimes against the Ukranians are none other a major world producer and exporter of fossil fuels. This puts two core issues (Gemini duality) linked to our survival (North Nodes of Moon, Mars and Venus in Taurus; ruler Venus in Aquarius transiting with Mars, Juno, Saturn square Moon's nodes) right in the crosshairs that encapsulate the nature of our planetary crisis and the players involved in it. And it does so in stark relief for our objectification (Aquarius stellium).
The two players are (1) the interests of the fossil fuel industry who dominate by exclusion, force and self-interest versus (2)those of humanity at large, who collectively are trying to live in unity and peace. The question Ceres asks of us (Gemini) is what is most valued by us (Taurus - Moon's North Node) - having enough healthy food to eat, clean water to drink, and land to grow nutrient rich food upon that is cyclically regenerable in sustainable environments for ourselves, our descendants,and our sacred kin in nature, or maintaining our dependence upon fossil fuels and continue to reward and empower those that appear hell bent on destroying our world.
Research into the major sources responsible for CO2 show that the average planet dweller is not responsible for the dangerous levels of CO2 heating up the atmosphere; the lifestyles and lucrative business interests of the very wealthy are. And it is their flaunted lifestyles which the consensus has become conditioned to want to emulate in order to be "successful" too, making matters worse. Those same individuals and their business interests have suppressed the truth of global warming for decades, bringing us to where we are now. Even today, the fossil fuel companies in America proudly proclaim their efforts to mitigate global warming, yet behind the scenes they hypocritically and deceitfully continue doing business as usual.It has only been during the most recent global climate summit in Glasgow 2021 that the term "fossil fuel" was even allowed to be used in the literature identifying the source of the problem. Unbelievable!
The situation in Ukraine is clearly showing us the disaster that occurs when self-interest prevails at the global level linked to all this, which will certainly become everyone's future if not stopped. It is not an issue of territory as Russia claims, but ultimately about who owns the power to control another's reality, future, and destiny. This power has been in the hands of the wrong people for some time now, who seem to have no intention of giving it away without a struggle, even at the expense of catastrophic global upheaval, trauma and immeasurable suffering.
Clearly, humankind's addiction to fossil fuels, as Native American Indian activist Winona La Duke describes it, is the very thing responsible for our current world crisis. In the Ceres book is shared her people's prophecy about this time, where humans would be given a choice to take one of two paths - one well-worn and scorched and the other unworn and green. The well-worn, scorched path will be our future if global warming in not reversed, while the green, unworn path is our future if regenerative and sustainable practices are adopted globally and global warming is reversed. The prophecy goes on to say that if we choose the green path, an Eighth fire will be lit ushering in the rebirth of another cycle which humans will remain part of where a better future will be formed. I'm sure all of us prefer this.
The prophecy of a scorched earth reality is already manifesting on the planet from global warming, causing extreme weather conditions such as record breaking heat waves, mega fires, storms,droughts, floods.The point that Ceres emphatically makes right now with Mercury and Sun sextile her, ruled by Mars in Aquarius squaring Moon's nodes, is about humans doing the right thing NOW to mitigate and reverse global warming, by making the hard choices NOW which are wholly within their power to do so. And it can be so simple, accomplished by utilizing the tools and wisdom Mother Earth has already given us.
If anyone reading this has not seen the video documentary "Kiss the Ground" narrated by Woody Harrelson, they are highly encouraged to do so. It can be found on Netflicks, with a trailer found on Youtube. Its hopeful message reveals the basic principles of Natural Laws with respect to humankind's stewardship of planet Earth, simple tools and wisdom symbolized by the Ceres archetype Herself that we can harness NOW to reverse global warming. By doing so, the promise of Her abundance being regenerated is ensured, along with the survival of our species and our beloved planetary kin.
The last point about Ceres in Gemini is about the power of communication to transmit messages that evoke appreciation for Nature's diversity, and nurture its value as a seminal attribute that reflects the essence of our own true nature. Ceres in Gemini calls upon women as Her guardians to raise their voices in this regard. Ceres shows us that the same principle of biodiversity that nurtures stability and sustainability in the natural world is symbolic of that which nurtures humankind's well-being - as a species within itself.
Appreciation for its diversity (all races, genders, ethnicity, religion affiliation,sexual orientations, etc.) as a function of Natural Law accomplishes the same end, nurturing a complex tapestry of various talents and geniuses that when synthesized together create the best world possible for all - both physically and spiritually. This can be seen happening already as scientists and environmental groups reach out to indigenous communities for their Earth wisdom to help humankind find its way out of this mess. This is also reflected on another front by various movements such as Black Lives Matter (race inequality and discrimination), LGBTQ (sexual orientation discrimination), and others that challenge humankind's current distorted perception of its group identity.
During this time, women can make a huge difference because everything is shifting with respect to power. Where it once came from the top down, it is shifting to rise from the bottom up. This can be seen happening everywhere in all sectors of reality. That means effecting changes to mitigate and reverse global warming, our most critical time-sensitive issue at the moment, will arise from grass roots efforts. And as Rose so beautifully puts it, relative to Sedna, for everyone "to resurface with an absolute, unwavering commitment to fight for what is most authentic and intrinsic to life – the right to exist and to thrive according to one's true nature, as a species, as a consciousness, as a soul, as a part of the whole."
Blessings to all, Mary
Hi Mary,
What wonderful gifts you share with us, thank you so much for taking the time to expand this matters so meaningfully here.
Relative to Lilith, there is now in my view a need for astrology, or a great time, and in particular here through the wisdom of EA, to dive into this matters with a integrative perspective that starts with focusing on asteroid Lilith as a real physical body and its nodes has the root point to get a 'pyramid' as you put it 'to rise from the bottom up' in regards to women's true strength and power, which is in itself not power through diminishing other's power like we see when the pyramid is invert, but collaboration of everyone's best resources and diversity as true collective power, already a monumental task on its own that's being rebuild for centuries now with little by little progress.
One of the things I have been noticing is the that there is a need to understand just how much and how many times the astrological studies that focus on this Lilith or that, as separate parts, are actually distracting the soul to reach this very source, or natural instinctive self first as a built in structure by design. Of course each of us would have their own paths in the evolution/involution motion but I think it's very important to collectively not distract women with more guilt and shame and, as in this therapy I mentioned, to start a process of integration by welcoming all Lilith's as necessary survival systems created by the survival needs of the very root, or the flight of the bird away from the Mother tree as you so beautifully put it, so that She takes charge nurturing the system back to its source and strength.
I really thank you for also helping me close the gap I have had as a question for a long time as to why we always find the SN of Lilith conjunct the NN of Ceres and the NN of Lilith conjunct the SN of Ceres, so reverse paths. I'm seeing this mirrors this exact flight of the bird back and forward and the journey's of Kore/Persephone meeting at exact points each journey starts and ends. Now is a very special time, as we are seeing Lilith back to its own south nodes and Ceres's north nodes, with Ceres also at its own north nodes. Would we be witnessing a time of Lilith flying back to the Mother tree and Persephone rising up to meet the mother with a new Spring, which then would make so much meaning that them both meet so close to Sedna!? Wow... I'm sure this is my piscean nature but its difficult not to see how much we are living the myth itself and I am hopeful we see indeed a rise up.
I so much agree also that the documentary you mention, Kiss the ground, can be so inspiring of our future if we so choose. Is not without meaning that one of the results of war in Ukraine and the sanctions to Russia is that there is a shortage of pesticides, sold and manufactured mainly by Russia, that then contributes to one the world greatest problems which is intensive farming and non regenerative agriculture, where large areas of soil are used and left lifeless, which then is a major source of global warming, as nature is unable to keep its own natural regeneration for a long time.
I worry thought that the ones that most pollute are also the ones that would have the means to buy and engage in life styles that in appearance look 'green', like electric cars or consuming only bio food produces, and then have the vast majority who cannot afford it appear to be the ones that are responsible for the pollution, creating in fact an 'eco cast system' based on micro-consuming, that in reality will distract from the true questions, that you mention, of who is the biggest polluter and why. I truly hope people can individually be able to make a distinction between personal choices, which are very welcome and necessary but in essence private and personal, and structural practices that are indeed the main focus and source of global warming and very public and collective. I surely hope we don't go too fast, skipping the steps of dismantling this systems for what they are and changing the interpretation to one of collective, whole, universal meaning while Jupiter is in Pisces.
It's so interesting from what you mention of Ceres in Gemini, that also this is a war that is now being fought in the realms of disinformation and the attempt to discredit and denial (by Russia) of what's right in front of our eyes, awful atrocities and crimes, when the Ukrainian president remains a true and natural Gemini archetypal example of spreading the information and true message to all corners of the world, to as many people as possible.
Still relative to Lilith and what I mentioned from the IFS therapy, for those interested, and since those are not my words in regards to the therapy, I leave the book where it is mentioned, that's also a great source for everyone concerning the theme of Trauma and specifically the brain effects, and specially a great source for astrologers and therapists to reference that's called, quite appropriately in time of Uranus in taurus, "The Body Keeps the Score" by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk.
Also for all things Lilith and JWG's teachings on evil and how this affect women, specifically the teachings of sadism/mascohism relationships and inherent psychology that's dominating the world for so much time, there is a incredible new documentary, not very easy to watch, called Phoenix Rising, where an actress, Evan Rachel Wood, offers her testimony of her story of abuse and how she put herself in out of that situation, and how she has started to overcome it to actually promote law changes that protect other women. It is a very interesting testimony because in the midst of her own total destruction and likely death, there one or two changing moments where she inexplicably rises up to pick herself from the ground, and touches this inner strength that I would call her natural Lilith. It's a very impressive testimony.
Thank you again Mary.
Many blessings to you and all,
Helena
Greetings Helena,
I truly appreciated everything you wrote which beautifully articulated the depth of your understanding of these archetypes. Thank you for that. With regard to Lilith, the parts can definitely act as distractions to obscure her wholeness, and absolutely yes to your point about tolerating no more shame and guilt as a function of a woman's consciousness, and I would even go further, as a state of her heart.The shame and guilt is patriarchal induced, as we all know and try to remind ourselves when those feelings arise within us. Even so,every element of empirical experience introduced to consciousness forms the basis for the heart's wisdom to develop through. Even shame and guilt, for it teaches what that personally feels like, and from its knowing arises one of the heart's greatest blessings - empathy.
With respect to the issue of global warming,your worry about the conditions of inequality "creating in fact an 'eco cast system'"are certainly valid. Thanks for sharing that perspective. As far as moving too fast, Jupiter's inspirational light and potential in Pisces may be fleeting, but hopefully its wisdom is being captured right now by its conjunction to Neptune sextile the current South Node of Pluto in Capricorn and influencing/expanding the consciousness of all old-timers, whose North Nodes of Saturn and Pluto in Cancer are receiving a trine from this same conjunction.
As for Ukraine's president Zelinsky, he seems to be a prophet for these times, a virtual Aquarian knight in shining armor. What an inspiration for all as he bravely and steadfastly leads his people through this nightmare while enduring the misery a true leader's heart must as he witnesses his people suffer through unimaginable horrors. All the while, he remains strong imploring to the world for help as a matter of conscience, reminding all of the principles of fealty and kinship to a global community whose responsibility it is to act in order to sustain, protect and preserve humankind's most treasured ideals and values. Amazing blessed soul!
As for Lilith, as described previously Lilith represents the individuation point of the Soul as it separates from the Mother Tree, Goddess or Source. The archetype of Lilith is as close as one can come interpretatively and symbolically to the Soul itself once it separates. She is like the"Big Bang"which signifies the thrusting power that accompanied the individuation of the universe, although for her, she signifies the individuation of the Soul. In this context and in every birth chart, Lilith represents just that, a woman's thrusting power (to mix up the gender thing a bit :-) meaning where her greatest power exists through which the purest instincts of her Soul flow outwards for their interaction with the phenomenal world. Since she reflects the female Soul's primal nature in its most undistorted and purest form, she represents the root of womankind's inherently divine nature. As such, Lilith represents all women as manifestations of the Divine Mother, her true image, a far cry from patriarchal propaganda.
It is this seminal quality belonging to Lilith that empowers and defines every woman's function as guardian of humankind's way. To be a guardian is not simply a term used to help women recover their self-image and identity as distinguished members of society, but equally, as a call to action, if we are to actualize not only our potential, but do the thing most important that defines it, help humankind come out of this pivotal gateway and critical juncture with their Soul intact and regenerated.
With regard to the nodes for both Lilith and Ceres, the Goddess is definitely orchestrating things here because that is a topic inspired by your recent post that I wanted to address next - their meaning and significance. In essence, Lilith is the root, symbolic of our primal nature, where her nodal axis describes by archetype her thrusting power in a state of vibrant becoming. Like a seed buried in the soil, she germinates and thrusts herself up with the power of the universe behind her to actualize her potential. Ceres signifies the Goddess' mystical regenerative powers that convert the Soul's primal nature, represented by Kore in Her myth, into a fountainhead of wisdom through Persephone. Ceres' transformation mystery operates through life's eternal rounds of birth, life/preservation, and death/rebirth. Successive cycles of loss, initiation and recovery are experienced by the Soul through this until conscious realization of its primal nature arises, whereupon it is positioned at its beginning to restart another round.
The reversed nodes attest to the sacred, irrevocable and eternal bond held between women and the Goddess linked to these archetypes.Through the overlay of these converging symbols, the eternal round between sacred daughter and Divine Mother is given substance and form, immortalizing their sacred relationship within the heavens themselves. Through their mutual contact points, Ceres' transformation mystery, the eternal rounds of birth,life/preservation and death/rebirth affixes itself upon Lilith's nodal axis. This synthesizes to Lilith the Goddess' powerful dynamic of loss, initiation and recovery. Through this cycle,the full force of the regenerative powers of the Soul are applied directly to Lilith to focus, initiate and activate her full potential along with the realization of her Soul's divine nature.
It signifies the Goddess' intention/desire/need to rebirth Lilith, ushering in womankind's collective awakening through her. Womankind's collective awakening paves the way for the recovery of her role as guardian of humankind's way, where the principles of Natural Laws become the laws of the land upon which human society is organized so that it can co-exist and thrive in peace, harmony and balance to Nature.In short, this is the medicine the world needs right now to heal and recover from its sickness of ignorance it has endured far too long.
As described in both Lilith and Ceres books,it is through the sacred Daughter and Mother relationship that the Goddess endows women with certain faculties, including sexual, to guide and safeguard humankind's way. Through them,the Divine Mother's spiritual nurturance is perpetuated without end. Womankind's collective awakening catalyzed and nurtured by the powerful fusion of Lilith and Ceres signifies that that which came before, the loss of the Goddess' powers expressed through Lilith are in the process of being recovered,nurtured and fortified by Her awesome and mystical regenerative powers.These powers once belonged to Lilith, before their loss due to involutionary forces.
Through this tightly closed continuous circuit formed by the reversed nodal contact points, the Soul is blessed by Ceres' regenerative powers every step of the way to nurture the awakening and recovery of Lilith's primal nature. Behind every bend and turn in the road,an effort is made to refortify and replenish Lilith's resources as she awakens. For her resources can become easily exhausted given her nature - powerful she is, yes, but easily damaged emotionally because of her innate innocence and purity. Protecting these things is absolutely essential for they exist as the source of the Goddess' greatest power and wisdom that flows through her.
In both South and North Nodes for Lilith are infused The Goddess' mystical regenerative powers that transform Kore's primal purity into Persephone's wisdom nature. Likewise for Ceres, whose nodes are infused with Lilith's indomitable thrusting power through which flows the pure instincts of a woman's heart and Soul. Very powerful stuff!
Since Ceres's regenerative potential at the global level is wholly dependent upon Lilith's development and actualization, this configuration affirms, re-sanctifies and refortifies natal Lilith, enabling her to benefit directly from the Mother's mystical regenerative powers until she attains full recovery of her nature. When this occurs, her consciousness becomes reunited in Oneness to Her sacred Mother, as it was before all became lost, yet now consciously realized.
With Lilith's South Nodes in Taurus, Gemini and Cancer for all women, these archetypes embody where her greatest power once dwelt through which the purest instincts of her Soul flowed outwards for their interaction with the phenomenal world. It signifies her thrusting power of vibrant becoming and what is intended to be recovered,fortified and preserved in a state of primal purity as Lilith's actualization unfolds. Within its sphere of influence, she dwelt within the Mother's eternal garden. Likewise it signifies by archetype, sign and house, its ruler, aspects, etc. in what manner Lilith's nature was lost.
Lilith's North Node symbolizes by archetype (Scorpio, Sag, Capricorn) how her recovery will manifest. Considering that trauma plays into the equation for almost every Soul/woman, it identifies the archetypal elements that natal Lilith will use to help the Soul/woman heal and move beyond it. How this will be orchestrated is shown of course by the node's sign, house, ruler, aspects, etc.
With Ceres' South Node in conjunction to Lilith's North Node, it is as if the Divine Mother is there enwombing and protecting her potential through every woman as it unfolds, holding it up for the gods to bless when some level of fruition has manifested, and then recycling it back to Lilith's South Node to affirm it through Her own North Node. Ceres' North Node sits there to receive and hold a sacred space for her, replenishing Lilith's root with Her waters of life.
So it is like what you describe as a"flight of the bird back and forward and the journey's of Kore/Persephone meeting at exact points each journey starts and ends." As cited in the Ceres book, Kore and Persephone represent Lilith as the original woman undergoing an involutionary phase of development in the world cycle. Now that the wisdom of the sacred daughter as Kore/Persephone has been potentiated following her initiation while dwelling in Pluto's underworld realm of the unconscious, she is ready to hand the reigns back to Lilith. All the wisdom gained will be transmitted through Lilith to support the recovery of womankind's function as guardian of humankind's way.
With respect to your question, "Would we be witnessing a time of Lilith flying back to the Mother tree and Persephone rising up to meet the mother with a new Spring, which then would make so much meaning that them both meet so close to Sedna!?"All certainly seems to symbolize an awakening from a long sleep, while frozen in Sedna's ice, which as you say is like"living the myth." Truly, for just as we are experiencing now, they experienced an awakening and reunion to their Divine Mother after enduring a long "sleep"in Pluto's underworld realm of the unconscious.
Yet, remember that this cycle repeats itself about every 2.5 or so years, the time it takes both Lilith and Ceres asteroids to travel through the zodiac. This means both becomes regenerated and nourished from the Goddess' power and wisdom throughout this dynamic cyclically. When each transits over their own or each other's nodal axis, they are times of added potency and revelation.
If you are anyone is interested, I would be happy to apply these dynamics through the various combination of archetypes to show how it plays out.
May the Goddess bless and empower each of us indomitable Liliths,
Mary
Hi all,
I am new to this thread and I am currently in the process of reading the thread from the beginning as my interest in using the goddesses asteroids in my own work deepens; but having read the recent last two comments by Helena and Mary, I wanted to provide my own humble insight on the times we find ourselves in.
Firstly, Mary I would be interested in seeing how the dynamics you have spoken about plays out! So I look forward to your future posts. And I have to agree with the point you made about how the shame and guilt has been induced by the patriarchy and how we need to remind ourselves about this, which is very critical at this present time.
My personal experience with the asteroid goddesses is limited at this point but I've had an interest in the asteroid Lucifer being the influence of evil and the bearer of light in astrology and I feel in conjunction with the current transits of the goddess asteroids it can help provide a deeper insight into the current world events.
Currently, the transit of Ceres at 15 degrees Gemini is opposing the asteroid Lucifer at 14 degrees Sagittarius in a full phase; we can see we are living through a critical time. With the ruler of the transiting Lucifer being Jupiter in Pisces, which is building up to the grand conjunction with Neptune in Pisces on the 12th April, we can see how the current world events are showing us the transitional point humanity is in especially in terms of our personal and collective philosophies and belief systems. The War in Ukraine is an example of Lucifer in Sagittarius where Putin believes his philosophy and reasoning for the attack of Ukraine is justified! A report release by the London School of Economics (LSE) also showed that many Russians believed that Putin's reasons for attacking Ukraine were also valid!
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/03/17/what-do-ordinary-russians-really-think-about-the-war-in-ukraine/
We can see how the energies of Lucifer are playing out on the world stage. JWG said about Lucifer, and I quote "the existence of evil is dependent upon all humans, or any human, maintaining any separating desire that takes the person away from Source". Therefore, as we seek to embrace the energies of the undistorted natural goddesses and feminine energies, we need to be mindful that anything negative/evil is but a reflection that is pointing us towards liberation so we can ultimately be free from all external desires to merge with Source.
Namaste,
Rav
Hi Mary and All,
Mary, thank you so much for providing such depth of information available here so we can all learn from it. It is such a joy for me and I'm sure for many others for the existence of this message board and the gifts it has been giving us all who come with a true desire to learn and share form this wisdom of EA, so absolutely yes to going further with more extensive application of this archetypes as Rav already mentioned.
"Lilith is the root, symbolic of our primal nature, where her nodal axis describes by archetype her thrusting power in a state of vibrant becoming. Like a seed buried in the soil, she germinates and thrusts herself up with the power of the universe behind her to actualize her potential."
This is such a beautiful way to see lilith :-), I absolutely agree and thank you too for sharing that notion of anything that tries to distort that being the root of 'patriarchal propaganda', such an appropriate way this times to put it like that and to see that one of the ways women and men can get themselves free of it is through liberating the mind of this lies and mental constructs. And on the other hand, truly helps grasp the concepts of how the regeneration cycles as represented by ceres connect to lilith has intrinsic (re)initiating force.
Just this is week in my country a protest of young women (may the Goddess bless the Pluto Sag. souls that are speaking out and changing status quo all over the world) has brought to light a decades old system in one of the main law university, of all themes, where young students were subject to all kinds of harassment and classes where the so called teachers literally teached feminism was one of the worst forms of terrorism because it opposed an absolute 'divine law' saying men were by nature superior to women. And thinking this was happening in the 21st century law degree class of a democratic country. It is with hope that we are seeing the main public opinion, or consciousness, everywhere, is saying enough is enough.
Relative to the asteroid Goddesses I share an image that this week reminded me not to forget Juno at a time where Juno is conjunct Saturn and mars, after the venus conjunction too, then ruled by Uranus in taurus, of a Ukranian couple of soldiers in Kiev that took a little time off the war in a beautiful sunny day to get married. What I find most striking is the equality they portray both in the same exact clothing, same riffle on each shoulder, marrying in the presence of family and friends like any other couple, celebrating with a glass of champagne. I leave the image bellow, it's a great inspiration for a new future.
Thank you again Mary,
Helena
Hello Rav and all,
Thank you Rav for your keen insights and what a pleasure to know you are joining the thread. You are absolutely right about the symbolic nature of Lucifer within these times, and the need to be "mindful that anything negative/evil is but a reflection that is pointing us towards liberation so we can ultimately be free from all external desires to merge with Source." It is so important to not overlook the fact that in the midst of all the trauma and heartache we feel within every drop of evil exists a germ of wisdom, an inherent potential waiting to evolve into Lucifer's form as Bearer of Light. There are so many intersecting points and lines currently demonstrating this truth on the world stage as you mention, beginning with the war in Ukraine.
This perspective in and of itself that values the knowledge gained from the dark side of life in equal measure to the light side forms the basis of Ceres' transformation mystery. The ignorance stemming from the unconscious forces known as evil becomes converted into truth and wisdom through empirical experience as the Soul involutes and evolves.
Bringing this back to the sacred feminine, this is a perspective championed by women since time immemorial, when the Goddess' wisdom flowed through them for which they were once respected as distinguished members of society and honored for their capacity to keep and guide humankind's way.
Transiting Neptune and Jupiter in Pisces emphasize the many Piscean qualities of the sacred feminine through which the darkness is converted into light through the power of unconditional love and the Soul's sense of its undivided unity to the Creation. And those emphasized qualities then collectively influence humans' emotional and psychic states (unconsciously or consciously depending on evolutionary state) and their choice-making as they witness and react or respond to the currently unfolding world events.
With all the outer planets in the signs of Capricorn (Pluto), Aquarius (Saturn) and Pisces (Neptune and Jupiter) human consciousness shifts away from individual concerns to those of the collective, to re-orientate humans back towards that which they must if they are to survive - their Soul or "we" consciousness. We can see all this playing out on the world stage beginning with the global warming crisis to the war in Ukraine, and the players of good and evil involved within it as you mention. All of them upload into the forefront of consciousness everything that the world as a group collectively must manage and change if they are to survive and grow beyond it - the atrocities of war, disconnection from and exploitation of Nature, etc.
With Pluto in Capricorn orchestrating the necessary transformation to the structural organization of human society, I feel its ruler Saturn in Aquarius compels humans to objectify and take responsibility for what has been created in their failed role as global citizens and stewards of Mother Earth. Their failure due to inadequate leadership in the hands of those holding power has resulted in global warming causing extreme climate change and the suffering of untold numbers, both human and non-human. The excessive burning of fossil fuels along with the destruction of Nature's biodiversity has destroyed the Mother's regenerative capacity. Human's unceasing, ongoing and limitless exploitation of Nature's resources reaching now into the deepest wild pockets left on Earth is believed by some researchers as the cause for the release of new lethal viral and bacterial pathogens into the environment, like the current pandemic Covid 19. Saturn's ruler, Uranus in Taurus, quickens humankind's awareness of the issues and concerns about human survival stemming from those failures in leadership, and the issue of values that created it in the first place that must be transformed if humans are to survive. As a result, a growing scarcity of resources is emerging that the human lifestyle organized around patriarchal values depends upon.
The issue of survival dovetails with the issue of values which reflect essential needs and practices required to sustain human survival and well-being. This is where the sacred feminine enters, for she points the way to remedy the situation by reversing course to realign to Natural Laws that reassert basic fundamentals to accomplish and sustain this. One of those things is by reestablishing humankind's reciprocal partnership to Nature. The values belonging to the sacred feminine expressed by the asteroid goddesses provide insights and gems of wisdom to inspire and guide women to progressively lead the way towards the recovery of human society that is once again organized according to the principles of Natural Law.
As you cited,with Lucifer in Pisces ruled by Jupiter in Pisces, at a collective level it signifies the throwing off of any separating desires linked to beliefs and philosophies stemming from delusion (Lucifer ruler Jupiter in Pisces) and with its full phase opposition to Lilith to any delusions linked to humankind's original nature, such as its false notion of superiority to Nature, the glamorization of itself at Nature's expense, its treating every being in Nature as an object there to satisfy some need or pleasure it might have without respect for its/Nature's own life cycle and regenerative needs, and in general its sense of separation from Nature as this standard of operation driving industrial enterprises whose products are toxic to the environment and those living within them.
For Lilith, I see her opposition to Lucifer signifying a time when her powers of objectification (full phase aspect) to discern her dark and light nature are enhanced by this transit, both necessary to integrate the lessons involutionary forces have taught her in order for her to evolve and reach her full potential. In order to integrate them, first it is essential that she own them (Gemini trine to Saturn in Aquarius; Lucifer in Sag forming sextile) in order to ground her nature into that from which it becomes realized (knowledge gained from both dark and light sides) as she awakens from her unconscious state.
All of these intersecting issues become items of interest and issues of concern for Lilith and Ceres, both transiting in Gemini. Plus, Lilith's South Node is there for many women, as is Ceres North Node. In Gemini I perceive them both as exemplifying the power of environmental inclusion that is mentally invoked through the gathering, categorizing and dispersal/sharing of ideas, thoughts and feelings that reflect the Mother's ubiquitous presence in the phenomenal world. Lilith applies her indomitable thrusting energy to this archetype through the prism of a shamanistic consciousness, wholly united in oneness to Nature and a conscious Creation, where environmental inclusion is self-evident; whereas Ceres is expressed through this archetype as a form of external nurturance. As the Soul (through the primal Lilith) individuates and separates from the Source, it seeks connection through its environment using Gemini's tools as a means to do so and sustain its sense of inclusiveness (once self-existent for Lilith, then lost as the sacred daughter through Ceres undergoes involution.)
So these two states of consciousness operate together, switching back and forth from what was - to become something new, their integration to one another as Persephone wisdom nature. Afterwards, Lilith recovers her primal nature, although now consciously realized as gnosis of some aspect of Her universal Self.
And thanks for your interest in seeing how the dynamics between Lilith and Ceres play out. Basically the process is as described above. When the archetypes are added, an amazing story unfolds illustrating the beauty and truth that exemplifies Lilith's nature, every woman's true nature.. I will put together a few examples, which should be posted in a few days. I hope that is okay. In the meantime, if there are any questions, please let me know.
Goddess blessings to all,
Mary
Hi All,
I want to post the chart Anastasiia Yalanskaya of Ukraine. Please read her story below for she represents, to me, the very essence of Lilith that is being discussed by Helena, Rav, Kristin, Rose, and Mary Blue.
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Young Ukrainian volunteer killed delivering aid to dog shelter near Kyiv: 'She was a hero'
By Ashleigh Stewart
Global News
March 8, 2022 11:38 am
As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Anastasiia Yalanskaya insisted she would stay, even while her friends and family fled around her.
The 26-year-old Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with.
Yalanskaya's friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death.
Friends do not know why she was targeted, but believe Russian troops are increasingly killing civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission.
"I asked her to be extra cautious. That nowadays, a mistake costs extremely much," her husband Yevhen Yalanskyi says.
"But she was helping everyone around. I asked her to think of evacuation but she did not listen."
Despite denials from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the number of civilian casualties in Ukraine is mounting – though the total number remains unclear.
As of March 1, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said it has recorded 752 civilian casualties. The next day, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said 2,000 civilians had been killed.
Friends believe she was killed at close-range
Yalanskaya had been delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha that had been without supplies for three days. The town has been devastated by Russian bombardment. It is part of the line of Ukrainian defence as Russian troops make their push to Kviv.
Her final Instagram story, posted just hours before her death, shows her sitting in the backseat of a vehicle, smiling into the camera, beside bags of dog food.
Yalanskaya's best friend, Anastasiia Hryshchenko, who evacuated to Vinnytsia, 250 kilometres southwest of Kyiv, raised the alarm about her friend after she hadn't heard from her in several hours.
Hryshchenko says she had been in constant contact with Yalanskaya, due to dangerous areas around Kyiv where fighting has intensified in recent days, including the area where her friend was delivering food and medical supplies.
When Yalanskaya didn't respond for several hours, she contacted the father of a man that Yalanskaya had been volunteering with. The trio were due to return to his house after their trip.
He told her he had found their car, riddled with bullets, not far from his house, Hryshchenko says. They had delivered the dog food and had almost gotten home.
The damage to the car indicated it was fired at from a close distance and from a "heavy weapon," she says.
Though there has been no formal identification of her body, Yalanskaya was carrying her driver's licence and has distinctive tattoos that were identified by friends. Her body, along with those of the two men she was with, remain at the man's father's house, because the fighting is so intense no one can get through, Hryshchenko says.
"Not being able to help her last journey is very painful for me," Yalanskyi says. He and Yalanskaya were separated but remained extremely close, he says, a fact which other friends also spoke about. He is currently in Sri Lanka.
"She was one of the best human beings I knew. She was committed to help, to help her friends and relatives and whoever needed help," Yalanskyi says.
"She loved animals. We had a dog and a cat. She was the best partner I ever had."
'We will all be together soon, safe and at peace'
Yalanskaya, a job recruiter, had been keeping a daily blog on Telegram to inform her friends and family of her surroundings as she delivered aid around the region.
On Saturday, February 26, she wrote on the channel in Russian, after having spent the night sleeping in a parking garage due to bombing fears: "Now I realize even better how important it is to be able to just see the loved ones whenever you want."
"We will all be together soon, safe and at peace. I believe in it."
Yalanskaya's friends say 'the world needs to know she's a hero.'.
In the preceding days, she chronicled her volunteer work and spoke of her talks with the Ukrainian Armed Forces at checkpoints, saying she was proud of being Ukrainian "for the first time in my life."
On Tuesday, she wrote about helping a kindergarten in Brovary, just outside Kyiv, where 40 children were without food and diapers, as well as bringing aid to a military hospital and bringing food for volunteer dogs.
"We are not scared. We are united like never before. We help each other. We stand for hours at roadblocks and thank those who protect us," she wrote. "We will win."
On Wednesday, Yalanskaya wrote her longest post, detailing her thoughts and feelings from her week of volunteering.
She spoke of needing to drive with the windows half-open to hear which side of the road the shelling was on and to "step on the gas" while driving past the forest.
Hryshchenko says Yalanskaya had told her the fighting was particularly intense around the forest.
"Do not slow down" signs must be obeyed, Yalanskaya wrote, otherwise "you can hear random sh_t exploding right next to the wheels."
She wrote of visiting people to drop off supplies 20 kilometres from the fighting and 200 metres from the fighting.
"The 'hotter' the location you are heading to, the more people there will be at the roadblocks trying to dissuade you from going. But when they see the determination in your eyes, they will wish you strength, they will thank you, and ask you to be careful."
On Thursday, Yalanskaya outlined her plans for the next day — the day she would die.
"I am tired. Third day in the car," she wrote. "Could not get to Irpin. They blew up the bridge where I went yesterday.
"Tomorrow we'll try to enter from another side."
'She was never prouder to be Ukrainian'
Yalanskaya's friends are reeling after her death, though they are not surprised that she was killed helping people, as it was what she was known for.
Hryshchenko says Yalanskaya was a "kind and caring person" and "she could energize everyone around her."
While people had asked her to evacuate for her own safety, Yalanskaya was "absolutely sure she was needed there," she says.
Yalanskaya decided to stay in Kyiv as her friends and family fled, despite protestations from loved ones.
"She was a very good person, she was always helping everyone, she wouldn't do anything else."
Hryshchenko says civilians are now increasingly being targeted, especially around Kyiv.
"They're just randomly shooting people. They see civilians and they just shoot them," she says.
"They want people to be scared and horrified. But it only makes our people braver."
Valeriia Gorska, a former colleague and friend, said "the world should know that she's a hero."
"She was helping people. She believed in people.
"I knew her three years ago, and I knew her now, and I saw a change in her recently. She was so strong. And she was never prouder to be Ukrainian."
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Her natal Lilith is 28 Aries, N.Node 25 Sagittarius. S.Node 6 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 24 Capricorn, N.Node 6 Taurus, and the S.Node is 2 Sagittarius. Her natal Ceres is 21 Scorpio. N.Node 10 Gemini, and the S.Node is 25 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
And to celebrate her Soul these tunes that symbolizes HER SOUL AND SPIRIT
GODSPEED Anastasiia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW_IaJKA3lQ
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UglUjiJifA
Greetings Rav, Helena, Mary Blue and Rose ~ very powerful exchanges on the feminine!
Let's keep it going.. :)
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Thank You, Rad, for posting this story about the 'hero' Anastasiia Yalanskaya of Ukraine, as well as the Soul tunes to honor her spirit.
Anastasiia has a classic signature for a warrior ~ Lilith in Aries on the South Node. North Node of Mars in Aries as well, and Amazon conjunct Neptune and Mars in Capricorn, a fearless Soul for the right cause, although at her core she is more of a Peaceful Warrior, reflected in her efforts linked with helping the helpless and rescuing those in need, animals and children alike. Warriors lean on their courage but not all warriors carry a spear.
This is an absolute re-live for Anastasiia, sacrificing her own life time and time again to save the innocent. This has always been her 'cause', the very 'cause' that has led to her (sudden) death at the hands of dominant forces.
The balsamic skipped step involving Neptune and Mars in Capricorn in the 9th, squaring the Nodes, reveals the vulnerable positions she has put herself in on the front lines of war or in the line of fire in order to save the innocent. She was fearless in her footsteps, she was certain they would win, and perhaps also naïve to the real dangers that existed. Either way, for her, it was worth it. There was only once choice. She will go where she feels she is needed most, and she has died for the fight many times for this very reason.
Uranus and Mercury are joined at the last degree (29 degrees) of Capricorn and are also squaring the Nodal Axis. Uranus rules her Venus in Aquarius, and Venus ruling her Moon in Taurus, reflects the unresolved trauma she was born with and the sudden deaths in prior lives as a result of her dangerous pursuits.
FOUR planets in Capricorn are squaring the Nodes, this is immense!
Her Soul very well may have been hiding out in recent lives because of the overwhelming odds against her nature and all that she was fighting for? Anastasiia does have Saturn in Pisces as well, conditioning every other planet in her chart, and is ruled by Neptune in Pisces (which is balsalmic to Mars). Saturn in Pisces also squares her South Node of Uranus in Sagittarius in the 8th house, re-stating the themes of trauma and sudden exits. This can also represent a signature of futility and feeling frozen in a sense, given the way things have gone in the past...with so many innocent lives lost, not to mention what she may have done to try and protect them and where that led.
Given that Neptune and Mars are balsalmic in Capricorn, courage can be hard to come by after lifetimes of a barrage of patriarchal domination and witnessing so many innocent parish, although, in this life, it only fueled her on. With Uranus and Mercury forming a new phase conjunction at 29 degrees, and Uranus ruling her Venus in Aquarius, the rebel in her was returning. All she needed to access that brave vein again was for that trip wire of trauma to be activated, and for her to know it was worth the fight. This time she had to stay, refusing to flee and evacuate after encouragement from friends and family. There was a higher cause calling.
All four planets squaring the Nodes are moving away from the square, while Neptune and Mars are only one degree beyond the exact square, Uranus and Mercury are waning by six degrees, and are also in a new phase, giving her more courage and also some distance from the fear that may have kept her paralyzed in the past. This time there would be no running or hiding. This time, there would only be action.
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The transits of her death are so revealing as well. Transiting Pluto conjunct Uranus and Mercury in Capricorn while squaring her Original Lilith in Aries and the Nodes. The rulers of her Nodes, Mars and Venus, are forming a balsalmic conjunction in Capricorn while conjunct her Neptune/Mars interface. If that wasn't enough, transiting Uranus was squaring her Venus in Aquarius, the ruler of her Moon in Taurus in the 12th. These energies are overwhelming to imagine.
Rad: When does a repeating theme so extreme ever end for a Soul like hers?
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She wrote: "We are not scared. We are united like never before. We help each other. We stand for hours at roadblocks and thank those who protect us," she wrote. "We will win."
and she very well may be right in the end.
Even though she could not complete her earthly mission, stories of self sacrifice such as hers are spurring on the world and inspiring others to act, and no doubt she is influencing others from the other side.
Goddess Bless the Brave Souls of Ukraine,
Kristin
Hi Kristin,
Rad: When does a repeating theme so extreme ever end for a Soul like hers?
The extremes of the lives she has created for herself are a reflection of her desires to always remain in alignment with Natural Laws and how those laws correlate with the nature and structure of realities on this Earth. As these Natural Laws continue to be violated by the majority of humans on Earth that then lead and create the very opposite of the realities that the Natural Laws create her Soul will continue to be a warrior confronting the perversions of the realities that humans create because of the violation of Natural Laws.
As a result the types of lives she will continue to create will be 'extreme' as measured against the status quo wherein the the status quo continues to create perverse realities that harm the entire planet with all the humans and animals on it. Remember in Natural Law is can take extremes to counteract existing extremes in order to recreate natural balance.
Her next life will be defined by her commitment to recreate bio-diverse ecological realities that attempt to re-balance Nature relative to the Natural Laws. And, within this, her ongoing commitment to animals and what they need to sustain their own life forms. Her next life will be right back into the very region on Earth in which her last life was taken: Ukraine. Relative to Geodetic Lines of Earth the Taurus zone correlates to most of Ukraine.
In her death chart the transiting N.Node was conjunct her natal Moon in Taurus, the S.Node conjunct her natal Ceres and Pluto in Scorpio which is conjunct her S.Node of Mars. Her natal S.Node of Ceres is in Sagittarius conjunct her natal Jupiter, and the S.Nodes of her Venus, Mercury and the S.Node of Lilith. Her S.Node of Amazon is conjunct her S.Node of Mars and Pluto, her natal Amazon is conjunct her Mars, Mercury and Uranus in Capricorn, and her N.Node of Amazon in Taurus is conjunct her natal Lilith in Aries which is conjunct her S.Node.
She will be a warrior again: and again.
God Bless, Rad
Anastasia Yalanskaya, a tribute to this wonderful human: Watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHajjmPzx8s
Hi Rad, Kristin, All,
What an amazing soul indeed. Lilith in Aries conjunct the south node, Pluto in the 1st degree of Sag. Jupiter at the galactic center and then the stellium in Capricorn, amazon and mars! in Capricorn balsamic to Neptune, Saturn in pisces, etc. etc.. Wherever we look in the chart there is an instinct to serve the highest ideals in its purest form, a duty to do the most honourable thing, to serve. Venus is in Aquarius, at the south node of neptune, ruled again by Uranus in Cap. would put so much more value in feeling honourable, doing the right thing for her community, than it would at survival of the physical body. I doesn't seem Anastasia would stop much to think about saving her skin, and I was looking at the skipped and thinking that maybe when the soul is in great alignment with natural laws that the skipped steps are simply blocks on the road that signify how much this plane is subject to man made laws, it is not so much personal, so it will be solved when the world itself evolves. I wonder if this is correct Rad?
May the Goddess bless this soul in her journey,
Helena
P.S. just noticing she has also vesta and pallas conjunct the north node and at the moment of her death Pluto was transiting exactly square her lilith and pallas, rulled by venus in Aquarius and Pluto was also balsamic conjunct her Uranus. She was apparently shot in the head, what a monstrous crime that was committed not only to her soul but the Goddess herself, nonetheless her message of bravery, lilith and pallas, passed even with more power to inspire others to do the right thing.
Hi Helena,
Yes, you are essentially correct. Another way of saying this would be that the nature of her skipped steps are rooted in her ideals where her ideals are defined by Natural Laws themselves. Thus, relative to all the Capricorn planets squaring her Nodes, not making the necessary decisions about her own life choices that incorporate the 'realities' of others, including governmental structures and it's leaders, that then impacts on her personal choices and decisions. Relative to her S.Node in Aries conjunct her natal Lilith this includes making 'impulsive' or instinctual choices rather than, the nature of her skipped steps, 'considered' choices/ decisions that include and incorporate that realities of others.
It is this last critical point that reflects what you said about 'blocks' in the road. So it becomes necessary from the point of view of her own evolutionary journey to understand the nature of those blocks, and to learn how to make new choices/ decisions because of that allow her skipped steps to become resolved.
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
This is is a great thread I appreciate all that have offered their insights here! Anastasiia is an inspiring Soul.
Pluto in Sag/7th house-connected to the Natural Law of giving/sharing/inclusion, desire to create balance through uniting with Nature and Natural Law. Experiences of extreme perversion of these Natural Laws in past and current lifetimes, and then used her own voice on behalf of those who were violated, the innocents, and who could not help or speak for themselves. In addition she has desired to align herself with a higher cause/purpose relative to a role of serving those affected by societal systems, governments, defined by the perversions of natural laws; governments that want to assume total authority and domination over others and Nature. She did not flee and instead stayed to help the innocent no matter what the personal consequence to herself ending in loss of life. This is seen by the South Node of Aries conjunct her Lilith, the S.Node of Chiron, and her natal Amazon conjunct her Mars, Neptune, and Uranus which in turn square her N.Node in the 6th House.
Resolution of the indicated skipped steps include knowing when to give and when not too, what to give and what not too, and understanding that by martyring herself relative to her commitment to her ideals which are defined by Natural Laws that this can lead to early life endings that cuts short her capacity to reach ever more people, to teach through example, about Natural Laws.
In my view, Pluto's polarity point in the Gemini in the 1st house, and North Node in Libra/6th house highlights an essential message and natural truth that " in the end the last will come first" in terms of sacrificing her life for those who could not help themselves. The planetary ruler of he North Node is Venus in Aquarius in the 10th House which is conjunct her S.Node of Neptune which symbolizes her life serving as a motivation to others to give to those who are in need/the underprivileged in the some way.
Namaste,
Deva
Hi Rad & All,
Rad, thank you for explaining what comes next for her, and how she resolves those skipped steps.
EA is so literal, even down to Anastasiia getting shot in the head by the dark opposition. Lilith in Aries on the South Node squared by natal Neptune and Mars in Capricorn, and those skipped step points receiving a direct hit from transiting Mars.
It is SO graphic!
Her Soul really does remind me of Joan of Arc in her own way, in terms of going beyond those limits, and not considering how her choices would impact others, not to mention her own life. But willing to be able to die in her efforts to protect others, and the sacrifice involved.
Her story is such a testimony for how she was created by God, her feminine fingerprint with Lilith in Aries on the South Node and Amazon in Capricorn conjunct her Neptune/Mars ~ these symbols = SO literal...so I really loved what you wrote Rad:
She will be a warrior again: and again.
Goddess Bless,
Kristin
Greetings to all and to the beautiful hearts within you that make this amazing thread so dynamic and real. In answer to Helena and Rav's wish to show how Lilith and Ceres play out through their reversed nodal connections, what follows is just that. Since AnastasiiaYalanskaya's tragic death and inspirational story is the focus of the current thread, she is chosen with great honor and admiration to demonstrate how this works. Before starting, a quick recap of Lilith and Ceres.
Lilith in her primal state represents the totality of the asteroid goddesses combined. She is the root at ground zero. The other goddesses represent aspects of her nature that have become splintered off as a function of involutionary forces when she separates from the Mother/Source. The goddesses manifest as projections of the unconscious, through which Lilith discovers herself and her inherently divine nature.
Ceres through her sacred daughters signifies her aspect of maternal Soul nurturance through which the cycles for Her transformation mystery are tended and cultivated to advance evolutionary growth. Ceres and her sacred daughters also symbolize the eternal rounds between Soul and Source, in general, and that more specifically for sacred human daughter and Divine Mother, where Her powers that tend and cultivate evolutionary growth are transferred to womankind, blessing them with faculties to help them guide and keep humankind's way.
This process of transforming Lilith's unconscious state into realization of a woman' s true nature can be difficult as the Ceres myths attests (separation anxiety, loneliness, grief, loss of power, etc.). I am reminded of the importance for each woman to remember that her greatest power as the indomitable Lilith comes from the Mother's eternal and infinite organizing power of love - those attributes expressed through the qualities of the sacred feminine for the Pisces archetype receiving transits from Neptune, Jupiter and Venus right now, with Mars on the horizon. For that is what Lilith in her fullness is designed to do and be, a reflection, a true image of her Divine Mother in this way.
With respect to AnastasiiaYalanskaya, her natal Lilith is 28 Aries in 12th house where she applies her indomitable thrusting energy through the prism of a shamanistic consciousness, wholly united in oneness to Nature and a long forgotten memory of a conscious Creation. Through its power demonstrating the purest instincts of her heart are expressed her ideals that fuel her Soul desire to be a champion fighting for those who are most vulnerable to the exploits from patriarchal ignorance and its perversions of Natural Laws. Its ruler Mars in Capricorn in 9th conjunct Amazon reflects her sense of duty and responsibility to do so; its ruler Saturn in Pisces in 11th reveals her predisposition to sacrifice herself for the greater good at any cost, including giving her life; its ruler Neptune in Capricorn in 9th conjunct Mars, Lilith's ruler, gives her a sense of ultimate meaning through these duties she undertakes.
As the Soul through the primal Lilith individuates and separates from the Source, Ceres in Scorpio provides nurturance between herself and others through the sacred feminine's faculty of Soul bonding with another. With this signature, there exists an urge for Soul immersion to another (human and non-human) in order to cultivate the Soul's powers in this regard. With Ceres in the 6th house, in balsamic conjunction to its ruler Pluto in Sag in 7th, is shown her powerful Soul connection and relationship to animals. Pluto's ruler in 8th Jupiter in Sag reemphasizes this, where she will do whatever she intuits is necessary to help them, even risking her own security and life in the process. Ceres trine to Saturn in Pisces in 11th reveals her deep sense of community to and through them as reciprocal parts and partners of a greater whole. Her sense of ultimate meaning is derived through this connection where she thrives as a devout protector, nurturer and provider for animals (Neptune, Mars, Amazon in Capricorn 9th sextile Ceres and trine Moon in Taurus 12th) With Ceres opposing her Moon in Taurus in 12tth, her survival and needs (Venus in Aquarius in t-square) are secondary to providing for their needs (Moon's ruler Venus in Aquarius 10th in grand air trine to Ceres' North Node in Gemini and Chiron in Libra).
Lilith's South Node in Gemini applies her indomitable thrusting energy, again, through the prism of a shamanistic consciousness, wholly united in oneness to Nature with a forgotten memory of a conscious Creation, where environmental inclusion is self-existent. In the 1st house, she has learned how to speak her mind that expresses the pure instincts of her heart without caring how others might perceive her perspective on issues of deep concern to her (Pluto in Sag 7th house in opposition). With Mercury, Lilith's SN ruler, in new phase conjunction to Uranus in Capricorn, her pragmatism and methods will be rather unorthodox. She is her own authority and will do what she thinks she needs to do compelled by the pure instincts within her heart as Lilith.Through its ruler Mercury conjunct Uranus, her words will express directly her sense of urgency, responsibility and duty to take on the tasks she chooses to help others, even if she must do it alone. Consolidating them with the rest of the Capricorn stellium including Neptune, Mars and Amazon as cited, their ruler Saturn in Pisces in 11th signifies her sense of authority arises through the heart of a planetary steward, one whose vision of an ideal world includes sustaining reciprocal partnerships with all global lifeforms as a matter of conscience, representative as a golden standard for just being a decent human being.
As Kristin and Rad detail through the astro symbols, her idealism and indomitable fighting spirit which motivates with absolute determination her fight against violations of Natural Laws (Saturn in Pisces 11th ruling the Capricorn stellium) have gotten her into trouble before with Uranus square the nodes and natal Lilith, Pluto inconjunct Moon's South Node in Aries with Lilith in 12th.
With Lilith's North Node in Sag conjunct its ruler Jupiter in 8th, she will receive intuitive understanding of her Soul nature and her place within Creation and its laws that in effect bond all Souls together as one, while revealing the Natural Laws that accomplish this. Through them is experienced her Soul's thrust (natal Lilith Aries) and power (Lilith NN Sag in 8th) to bond with Nature (ruler Jupiter in 8th) which regenerates (Scorpio) her sense of purpose (Sun in 9th) and drive to keep going, nurture, protect and provide for that which she loves beyond all obstacles and personal sacrifice (Sun ruler Saturn in Pisces; Moon in Taurus opposing Pluto in Sag with Ceres in Scorpio.)
As the Soul (through the primal Lilith) individuates and separates from the Source, Ceres' South Node in Sag provides regenerative maternal, Soul nurturance through teachings within Nature that reveal to the individual Soul its true place within Creation and the Natural Laws that govern it that protect and preserve its way in harmony and balance to Nature. In conjunction to Lilith's SN ruler, Jupiter in 8th, is signified her enhanced powers of regenerative, maternal nurturance as she merges with another Soul, animals in this case (natal Ceres in Scorpio in 6th) that would help her understand these truths within Creation relative to all this: that all are Souls first, created from the same Source, then incarnate as humans and animals second. She is but one part of the Oneness, as the other is that she has bonded to. Together they form interconnecting and essential parts of an infinite and eternal Whole, the gnosis of which is regenerated whenever their Soul's bond together in psychic union.
Ceres North Node in Gemini is expressed as a form of external nurturance enlivening a Soul's sense of environmental inclusion to the world since separating (as Lilith) from the Source. She will seek connection through her environment using Gemini's tools as a means to do so and sustain her sense of inclusiveness.
Now returning to Lilith's South Node in Gemini, what I perceive is that her Soul came into this life with a burning question, "If I choose to lay down my life for a good and just cause, can I do it without being penalized in heaven, ostracized, or going to hell?" With Jupiter in Sag 8th being the ruler of Ceres SN and Lilith's NN in conjunction to them, trine Lilith in Aries 12th, and influencing Ceres in Scorpio 6th, signifies her intention to get that question answered. Through her life journey, it will be realized intuitively (Jupiter) where she will recover through Ceres SN in Sag the knowing of the consciousness of the Soul's eternal nature, not only through psychic bonds forged between herself and others (human and non-human) that she feels compelled (Scorpio) to help (6th house), but to discover the truth behind her Soul power through choice to lay down or sacrifice its human life for the better good, the ultimate and sacred sacrifice of all (Pisces).
This same dynamic of ultimate sacrifice is reflected throughout the war in Ukraine, where men and women are taking up arms to fight, a choice every society honors with distinction, those defined by Natural Law as well as the patriarchal one.
The ruler of Lilith's SN, Mercury in Capricorn, provide the necessary discipline to remain focused and thoughtful while performing the role she chooses, for which she feels her duty and responsibility as a global citizen (Saturn 11th) and to do so through the sacred feminine attributes for Pisces (Saturn sextile Neptune, Lilith, SN Moon, Moon in 12th ) . Her Saturn is receiving a last quarter square from Jupiter, bringing its intention into the life in the form of a crisis in consciousness, where its realization will set the stage for the next life. With Capricorn planets squaring the Moon's nodes, SN Aries 12th and NN Libra 6th, she is learning how to do this without fear of judgments and guilt (Capricorn) caused by patriarchal religious conditioning and institutionalized beliefs (9th) that disavow or disapprove of such practices by a woman. Their patriarchal beliefs (9th Capricorn) in contradiction to her inner knowing (ruler Saturn in Pisces 11th) dictate that a woman's place should be in the home. For such endeavors that Anastasiia undertakes, judgments would be hurled at her to the effect that she is irresponsibly wasting her life for an animal(s) sake. In this life however, her Soul has received the recognition it needed, posthumously, to erase her guilt and fears from those judgments as the world applauded and honored her noble and brave efforts.
As for Ceres South Node on Lilith's North Node in the 8th : Ceres regenerative powers nurture remembrance of the Soul's eternal nature through the Soul bonds she forges, by virtue of the experience itself, where a particular state of consciousness becomes uplifted into awareness that naturally occurs through such unions. This capacity for Soul nurturance she has developed from other lives (SN) infuses her natal Ceres and Pluto, its ruler, with its wisdom, which Lilith and her North Node will learn from. In this way, she can become empowered to be her own master (Capricorn) from a Soul perspective, an adept, by choice, free of all patriarchal conditioning and guilt, to lay down her life for the sake of goodness and light.
So the question (Lilith SN in Gemini 1st house) about laying down her life for others' benefit becomes answered. Ceres NN in Gemini, facilitated through natal Ceres and its ruler Pluto in Sag, signifies how her regenerative powers nurture this knowing as gnosis of her inclusiveness to the true Reality belonging to the eternal Soul. That yes, she can do this (Sun in Capricorn inconjunct Lilith SN and Ceres NN in Gemini) without negative repercussions, reprisals and guilt if it serves the greater good. Therein, the Mother's archetype of sacrifice (Pisces) that at all levels births, sustains and regenerates Creation is given human form through this wonderful, giving and blessed Soul, her sacred daughter Anastasiia. In this way, this aspect of Lilith's primal nature becomes realized.
This is restated through its intended integration shown by her Moon in Taurus 12th on the Ascendent trine to the Capricorn stellium including Neptune itself and sextile to Saturn in Pisces in 11th ruled by Neptune. The Moon's ruler, Venus in Aquarius, allows her to objectify this need to know from within the intuitive depths of her Soul and integrate its truth (Venus grand air trine between Ceres NN in Gemini and Chiron in Libra) which has caused her such grief and trauma (its ruler Uranus 10th square Lilith, Moon's Nodes) in past lives.
And finally that her way of giving, sharing and including, symbolized by the Moon's North Node in Libra in 6th (ruler Venus in Aquarius and Pluto in Sag in 7th ), of laying down her life for an other's benefit (Saturn inconjunct to Moon's North Node in Libra with Pallas (archetype of warrior of wisdom who fights just causes as protectress of her people and kin, human and non human alike), Chiron (wounding about her social incompatibility because of her nature, its own SN conjunct Moon's SN) and Vesta, becomes an inspiration that brilliantly, radiantly, and eternally (Vesta) will shine on to inspire others (human and non-human alike) living by the same principles as she on precious Mother Earth.
Blessing to all,
Mary
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Oliwia Dabrowska who in now helping in doing what she can for Ukrainian refugees.
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Girl in the Red Coat From 'Schindler's List' Aiding Ukrainian Refugees
By Emma Nolan
Newsweek
4/5/2022
The woman who famously played a young girl in the movie Schindler's List is working as a volunteer helping Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
Oliwia Dabrowska starred as the "girl in the red coat" in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film about the Holocaust when she was just three years old.
Now, aged 32 and working as a copywriter, Dabrowska has become a real-life hero, offering aid to Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country.
"She was always the symbol of hope. Let her be it again," Dabrowska said in a post on Instagram with a still from the film.
The coat of Dabrowska's character is the only flash of color in the black and white Oscar-winning drama, with the little Jewish girl representing the innocence of her people being slaughtered.
The former actress, who is from Krakow, Poland, told her followers on Instagram she was leading a group of volunteers who are providing aid to refugees as they arrive at the Polish border and has confirmed that she has found homes for a number of fleeing families.
On March 13, she posted a photo of herself standing near coaches wearing a high vis jacket.
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"Today Russia bombed Yavoriv. Only 20 kilometers from Poland. So close! I'm scared, but that only motivates me more to help refugees," she wrote.
"What about this family? Well, usually we transport refugees in our area, but this time we couldn't just say 'no.' They were desperate to get to their sister. Those kids... my God, I can barely hold back my tears."
In a Livestream posted to Instagram on March 14, Dabrowska said: "I don't wait for things and no one from our group of volunteers wants to hear thank you, we just do our job.
"The people need help and we give them help. I really care about every single person on the border.
"I found a home for ten families, also... I can't count how many transports for refugees from the border to mostly Krakow...and other places in Poland," she added.
"I will do everything I can, I will never forget these people, those faces, those eyes, I will never forget what I've seen.
"You can't prepare for that, you can only imagine there will be suffering people, children, old people, the sick."
Dabrowska has been receiving messages of support from people all over the world and said that she is "exhausted" but "still full of energy to help."
In Schindler's List, Liam Neeson plays Oskar Schindler who witnesses the young girl in her coat walk through terrified crowds in the Krakow ghetto in 1943 before later spotting her dead body on a cart.
It is witnessing this horror that prompts Schindler to draw up a list of workers who he can save from the concentration camps. The real-life Schindler is credited with saving more than 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust.
Dabrowska spoke about the effect that starring in the movie had on her in a 2013 interview, revealing she was "horrified" when she watched the film.
"It was too horrible. I could not understand much, but I was sure that I didn't want to watch ever again in my life," she told The Times.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has confirmed that more than 10 million people have now fled their homes in Ukraine because of the Russian invasion in what is in one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades.
It reported that over 2.3 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed the border into Poland, with others fleeing to Romania, Moldova and Hungary.
More: https://www.thethings.com/schindlers-list-girl-in-the-red-coat-oliwia-dabrowska/
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Her natal Lilith is 14 Scorpio, N.Node 27 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 5 Sagittarius, N.Node 26 Taurus, and the S.Node is 16 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Mary and all,
I have been catching up with all the posts today. I have to say that the amount of invaluable information that is shared here just blows my mind! I feel like I grow every time I come onto this MB, so thank you all! I hope I can provide something similar too. :)
Thank you Helena and Mary for your comments on my Lucifer post. It is easy to forget there is a light side to the darker Lucifer energies, which is to bring to light the natural goddess energies. With the current transit of Pluto in Capricorn we can see how we are all being pushed to seek self-mastery and responsibility for this natural way of being and remembering this once again. It can be easy for us to turn around and blame the patriarchy and the repression the feminine has experienced but that won't provide the healing that is needed on Earth. And we have seen that Anastasiia Yalanskaya was one such Soul who stepped into her power in a peaceful way.
Mary, your analysis of Anastasiia Yalanskaya's chart was extremely insightful, to the point I am sure to read it again and absorb as there was so much valuable information for me to learn from, so thank you again!
Just adding onto what everyone else has mentioned, is the fact that Anastasiia came into this lifetime with a desire to step into her own power where she could make her own decisions (PPP is in the 1st house Gemini). With the natal Pluto conjunct the SN of Mars in Sagittarius in the 7th house, we see a Soul who has in the past tried to follow her natural warrior instincts in a peaceful way, being considerate of others. Like Kristin mentioned, she was a peaceful warrior and she may have had lifetimes where she may have been forced because of society around her to not follow her truth (ruler of her SN of the Moon is Mars in the 9th house Capricorn). We can also see that with the SN of the Moon also conjunct her Lilith at 28 degrees, at a balsamic conjunction in the 12th house, we see that she was looking to close the cycle of patterns from prior lifetimes where she has been repressed in following her beliefs by patriarchal ways/societies she was born into (Mars in the 9th house Capricorn).
The goal for her would always have been about following her core truth, no matter what others thought and taking action where she felt she needed to and not to be controlled by others. One of her truths was to treat all living beings as one (Pluto in Sagittarius in the 7th house) because she understood the oneness of creation (Lilith in the 12th house). Like Kristin mentioned, she was in a re-live situation where she has sacrificed herself to help the innocent before. She had a natural and deep understanding of the daemon archetype and with Ceres in 6th house Scorpio in conjunction with her Pluto; she was never going to abandon the animals, even to save herself! With her skipped steps resolution node being the NN of the Moon in the 6th house Libra, she was always going to include animals (6th house). Deva explained her skipped steps signature, and I'd like to add that with the ruler of the NN of the Moon being Venus in the 10th house Aquarius, she showed the world that by following her value system she could be of service to a greater cause and an advocate of peace (Libra) over war (Mars).
Rad – thank you for the chart of Oliwia Dabrowska which I will look into over the next few days and provide my insights.
Namaste,
Rav.
Hi Rav & All,
A key piece in your post where you included the Daemon Soul typing.
Rav wrote:
She had a natural and deep understanding of the Daemon archetype and with Ceres in 6th house Scorpio in conjunction with her Pluto; she was never going to abandon the animals, even to save herself! With her skipped steps resolution node being the NN of the Moon in the 6th house Libra, she was always going to include animals (6th house).
There is an asteroid that we use in EA for the Daemon archetype referred to as Damiian.
We have used this asteroid symbol in looking at various charts for the Daemon Soul to verify its significance and it aligns to reflect the individual story.
Here are Anastasiia's Damiian placements.
29 cn 5 Rx n.node 16 sc 33 s.node 6 ar 55
We have discussed the 4 planets in Capricorn squaring her Nodal Axis, but it hit me, in actuality, if you include the 2 asteroids Amazone and Damiian, as well as the Nodes of planets, there are at least 10 symbols squaring her Nodes. (Sn 23 Aries/NN 23 Libra)
Mars 24 Capricorn
Neptune 24 Capricorn
Uranus 29 Capricorn
Mercury 29 Capricorn
South Node of Pluto 19 Capricorn
South Node of Saturn 22 Capricorn
North Node 28 Mercury
&
Amazone 24 Capricorn
In addition:
North Node of Pluto 20 Cancer Rx
North Node of Saturn 25 Cancer Rx
Asteroid Damiian 29 Cancer Rx
Something here about the theme of RECOVERY, in these retrogrades.
Anastasiia's Damiian is 29 Cancer Rx, a Skipped Step as well, and the most sacred piece of all. The animals = FAMILY.
This Damiian position is also EXACTLY opposing Uranus and Mercury in Capricorn, remembering how critical this 29 degree marker is, reflecting the long journey of trauma back to her Daemon nature at all costs, in her efforts to be a balancing force to preserve what is natural.
Her SN of Damiian is 6 Aries in the 11th squaring her Sun in Capricorn and her SN of Jupiter in Capricorn in the 9th, re-stating the trauma to the natural world, in her case, to the animals and to her nature in the past.
Her NN of Damiian is 16 Scorpio in the 6th, conjunct Ceres, a recovery of her inherent essence, in a Virgo house, an integral contributor of the Daemon mutable square, and her being willing to put it all on the line (Scorpio) in the animals defense. Her NN of Damiian in Scorpio is the Great Protector and Provider of Animals. This symbol is also squaring her Venus in Aquarius reflecting the sudden death as a result of her instinct to risk 'it all' for them.
I do not ever remember seeing so many symbols involved in a skipped steps story such as this. These are truly astonishing, and now adding the Soul typing of Daemon and seeing this asteroid symbol so clearly in the line of fire. It is not surprising and yet mind blowing.
EA, yet again, never ceases to amaze!
Goddess Bless the Animals and this Daemon Soul A,
Kristin
Hi All,
Here is the chart of Olena Bilozerska who joined the Ukrainian Army to help defend her country against the evil of Pig Putin.
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CUT DOWN Moment 'hero' female Ukrainian sniper shoots Russian separatists dead – as she vows to 'kill again' if Putin invades
Nick Parker, Chief Foreign Correspondent
Sun
2/4/2022
A WOMAN sniper in the Ukraine army has become a national hero after chilling footage was posted showing her killing two Russian soldiers.
Femme fatale Olena Bilozerska, 42, was filmed on the frontline using a night vision scope to hunt down Russian separatists.
Three cracks of outgoing fire from volunteer fighter Olena's Zbroyar Z-10 sniper rifle can be heard as her victim collapses with fatal wounds.
She then fixes her crosshairs on a comrade rushing to his aid - and wounds him with more shots before hitting a third soldier whose lifeless body crumples back into the trench.
The harrowing footage lays bare the daily horror in the 250 miles of World War I-style trenches around the Donbas war zone captured by Russian-backed separatists in 2014.
But veteran army volunteer Olena - credited with at least 10 confirmed kills - told The Sun she would not hesitate to kill again if Vladimir Putin's force invades - and feels no remorse.
Footage shot using her thermal imaging night sight after an attack in 2017 - which is not for the faint-hearted - has gone viral as Ukraine musters thousands of volunteer defenders.
A bird can be heard fluttering above the silent wasteland moments before the strawberry blonde assassin detects the moving heat signature of her enemy emerging from a trench 200m away.
Olena said yesterday: "'It was the night of Ukrainian Independence Day anniversary in August 2017 and these Cossacks must have assumed we were lying drunk in our trenches celebrating.
"They started getting out of a trench and passing weapons to each other."
The heat signature of an enemy soldier - glowing white in the flickering gloom - is then seen crawling straight into the crosshairs of Olena's rifle.
Taking aim, she whispers: "Ah, he got out! Look, look, look, look - crawling! Bastard."
The staccato crack of her first shot is heard 20 seconds later followed by two more fired at the soldier's torso.
Her gun's muzzle flash blurs the image before another soldier is seen leaning over his comrade and is picked off by two more shots.
A third Russian drawn into the rescue attempt is then felled by another single shot and appears to fall dead back into the trench.
Olenna said two of her three victims that night were "cargo 200" - a Soviet army term for dead from the labels once put on coffins - while the third was "cargo 300", meaning wounded.
Olena was a volunteer fighter when the attack was filmed but later joined the Ukrainian Marine Corps.
When the enemy crawls towards our position to kill me, does he think if I have a husband, parents, or kids? - of course not.
Olena Bilozerska
But she feels no remorse, insisting her enemies deserve to die if they dare to attack her homeland.
She said: "Moral anguish about the murder of a human was invented by people far from the war. An armed enemy is not a person, but a target.
"You take up a weapon against my country - that's it, you're a target. If you don't take him out in time, he might kill you or one of your comrades.
"If I didn't shoot in time and the target hid, that's when I feel angry at myself for missing my chance. And if the target is hit, I feel the pleasure of a job well done.
"When the enemy crawls towards our position to kill me, does he think if I have a husband, parents, or kids? - of course not.
"That stuff is for books and movies. Anyone who thinks along those lines in battle is already as good as dead."
Olena - left with paralysis in her right cheek when a machine gun bullet grazed her face during a firefight - blasted the Hollywood depiction of the sniper's role.
She said: "In the movies, it looks as if a sniper sees the eyes of a living human. But you cannot see the eyes.
"You just see a silhouette of an armed person and you fire at it. That's all... if you miss, you will feel as if you've lost."
Olena's husband Valeriy Voronov - a regular soldier who was beside her in the trench - collected the cartridge casings which fell as she pulled off her double kill.
And he later made a silver ring with the bottom of a bullet cartridge mounted into it for her following a sniper tradition dating back to World War I.
Olena, from Kiev, has won celebrity status in Ukraine after writing a best-selling book called "Diary of an Illegal Soldier" about her action in the trenches.
She chose the title because all volunteers who fought at the time were considered illegal.
She and her husband are both members of Ukraine's Territorial Defence Services on standby to deploy immediately if the 200,000-strong Russian force ringing Ukraine attacks.
And she practises regularly with the trusty sniper rifle she has given the traditional Ukrainian girl's name "Halia".
Olena said: "The rifle is always being cleaned and adjusted and looked after like a spoilt child.
"She does what I ask her to do, and if the Russians decide to come, I'll be only too happy to introduce them to Halia."
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3od0AKb4z1U and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZfHETJ3ZhQ
Here is the original article that has the video of her shooting: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4613225/moment-hero-female-ukrainian-sniper-shoots-russian-separatists-dead/
Here natal Lilith is 1 Virgo, N.Node 3 Sagittarius, S.Node 6 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 8 Taurus, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node is 8 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hello all,
I have amended my original analysis from this morning (I am in London!) as I didn't realise Oliwia Dabrowska's time of birth is unknown, therefore we won't use the house placements in the analysis. Please see my comments below, if you have any questions please let me know. :)
We have a Soul who is in the process of recovering/repeating/redoing lessons in regards to her Pluto Rx in the Scorpio. This is a Soul who will be curious about the environment she is in, where the key goal is for her to submerge herself intellectually into her surroundings in order to understand her life. With Scorpio it's around power/powerlessness so she can evolve beyond her personal limitations. The Rx position of Pluto again show's us that she has worked on this Soul lesson before.
We can also see that she has her natal Lilith Rx conjunct her Pluto Rx in Scorpio in a new phase, so she has started a new evolutionary journey in understand her own natural power. We know that Lilith indicates where our original wound originated and with Oliwia's being in Scorpio; her wound will have been around the power she has and hasn't had. We can see her Soul has experienced power/powerlessness, abandonment, lost and betrayal when she has spoken out in the past. With Lilith also opposing Ceres in the Taurus, we can see a conflict that has arisen in her value system in the past, which the Soul desires to resolve. Her natural nature is most likely one of sharing/caring/inclusion as her SN of Ceres Rx is in Sagittarius. With her PPP also being conjunct Ceres, a goal for her in this incarnation is to nurture others who have been abandoned.
We can see that the small but impactful role she played in Schindler's list was a pivotal role that woke the main character up in wanting to help save others. But she herself has admitted that she has only seen the movie once as she couldn't bear to watch the film and she knew then that she would never watch it again in her life. It will have taken her a lot of courage to step into her power but being a sensitive Soul, with her natal Moon in Pisces trine Pluto Rx in a First Quarter phase, she would not have been able to stand back and watch people suffer. She has 5 planets in an Rx motion, showing us the accelerated evolution her Soul has chosen in this lifetime, by inducing a natural rebellion within her to find the voice she has lost before.
A final point is the fact that the nodes of the Moon are at 29 degrees and at a stationary point which is a magnifying force, she has just recently come into a new cycle of Soul development where her Soul is working on resolving past life issues where she has most likely felt disillusioned about her own creative power therefore losing herself in the process (SN of the Moon in Leo) and the focus for her now is to be of service in a way that allows her to liberate herself by focusing on work that is meaningful where she could speak her truth (NN of the Moon Aquarius and the ruler of her Sun being Mercury Rx in Gemini). We can see that she has stepped into her PPP in Taurus, as she helps the victims of Ukraine and she also volunteer's at a dog rescue organisation. She was interviewed in the Independent Newspaper and she; "It's hard for say something about myself. I can tell you facts but facts don't describe me. I cannot judge myself. I hope I'm a good person. That's all I can say." With the way she is volunteering and helping the Ukrainian refugees, she really is a symbol and advocate of hope and peace.
Namaste,
Rav.
Hi Rav,
Thanks for taking the time to do an EA analysis of some of her core dynamics. It's another example of what can be seen and understood even when we don't have a birth time for someone.
What you have shared and presented so far is excellent: spot on.
God Bless, Rad
Quote from: Rad on Apr 28, 2022, 04:23 PM
Hi Rav,
Thanks for taking the time to do an EA analysis of some of her core dynamics. It's another example of what can be seen and understood even when we don't have a birth time for someone.
What you have shared and presented so far is excellent: spot on.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
Thank you! I completely agree about how even without a time for an individual we can still decipher a lot about their life story. This is one of the reasons why I love EA! :)
Namaste,
Rav
HI All,
This week I want to post the below story of a 77yr old women in Ukraine who has saved hundreds of dogs, cats, and one lion in the face of the Russian invasion of that country. There is not birth day that can be found, but I thought this story symbolizes the essence of the Goddess archetype, and feel her story needs to be shared.
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Europe: A shelter in Ukraine saved hundreds of cats and dogs — and a lion
WA Post
April 30, 2022 at 12:03 p.m. EDT
HOSTOMEL, Ukraine — As Russian tanks neared Kyiv earlier this year, the capital's suburbs were emptying fast. Terrified residents poured out; roads were gridlocked.
Asya Serpinska walked the other way.
The 77-year-old had spent two decades keeping her animal shelter going in Hostomel, a town northwest of Kyiv. With the threat of Russian occupation now looming, she thought, there was no place in Ukraine that needed her more.
Shelling boomed out as she arrived at the shelter. Through the gate she recognized the howling and whimpering of various animals.
"I knew it was my responsibility to look after them," Serpinska recalled.
With three colleagues, she kept most of the 700 dogs and 100 cats alive — and even rescued a lion — as Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanged shelling overhead, and as Russian forces repeatedly entered the property and threatened their lives.
Slight of build with soft gray hair, Serpinska says she was born stubborn. She says her marriage is a testament to that. She met Valentyn at 18, and although her parents didn't approve, she went ahead with the marriage anyway.
With Russian forces on all sides of Hostomel, Valentyn, 78 and fighting Stage 4 cancer, drove through the night and hostile checkpoints to bring her a generator that saved the shelter.
Serpinska grew up with animals. Later, when she was a math professor, she volunteered with animal rescue groups in her spare time. After retiring from the university 22 years ago, she founded her shelter, and four-legged creatures began pouring in.
Her favorite was Gina, a glossy black dog with mismatched eyes.
Cats look out an office window as dogs lounge outside the shelter in Hostomel. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post).
Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine upended lives across the country. As Russian forces moved toward Kyiv, officials predicted the city could be seized within weeks.
When Valentyn woke Serpinska at 7 a.m. that day, he told her it was beginning.
"The first thought that crossed my mind was that I had to run to the shelter," she recalled. "I was consciously going to war. My people were here, my dogs were here."
For some shelters, the invasion spelled tragedy. In the Kyiv suburb of Bordyanka, the owner of a government-run sanctuary left the animals in their cages and fled. Without food and water, 335 of the almost 500 dogs died.
When asked why no one evacuated the animals, Natalia Mazur, the shelter's director, asked why people hadn't been evacuated.
Serpinska was devastated when she saw photos of the animals' emaciated bodies. When she arrived at her shelter in Hostomel on Feb. 24, the first thing she did was open all the cages so the animals could roam free.
"Why didn't they open the cages there, too," she said. "It would have been so easy."
Serpinska visits puppies that were born at her shelter during the Russian invasion. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post).
As shelling continued over Hostomel, the shelter's staff kept order, no matter what was happening outside the gates. Feeding times remained 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. The rest of the day, they cleaned and watched the animals, and at night, at least 10 of the dogs huddled under Serpinska's blankets. "They thought I could protect them," she said.
Friends and family begged her to leave, but she refused. "My place is here," she told them.
She affixed a golden icon to the shelter's front door to scare away God-fearing soldiers. They entered anyway, and often terrorized the staff.
Once, as two soldiers — "dressed like Terminators," Serpinska remembered — marched toward the shelter's front gate, some of the dogs surged ahead to protect her. A Russian soldier raised his gun and shot Gina through the fence.
She had been running the fastest.
"Why are you shooting? They're good and kind," Serpinska screamed at him as her dog lay dead.
"Well, why are they barking at me?" came the reply.
Amid the chaos of the fighting, the dogs grew so scared that some dug holes meters deep in the earth. Several were killed in the bombardment.
When a shell landed on a nearby private zoo that housed exotic animals, Serpinska watched in horror as flames engulfed the building. Its owners had abandoned it, so her team battled through the smoke, rescuing peacocks and turtles.
"Only the lion got left behind," she remembered, with a frown. "For five weeks, we would go there under shelling and bullets to feed that lion, because it had been locked in a cage and we didn't have the keys."
One day, Russian soldiers placed a mine outside the cage, she said. Serpinska began negotiations.
"We said to them: 'Here's some water in the bucket, here's some food. Please feed the lion.' "
The men didn't budge, so she handed over two packets of cigarettes.
"Step back 10 meters and put them on the ground, then leave," a soldier told her.
He stooped down to grab the spoils, then detonated the mine. "It was quite an explosion," Serpinska remembered. But the lion was safe — she fed the big cat daily until Ukrainian forces reclaimed the town in early April.
Hostomel is quiet now. Homes are still deserted. Many are burned or in ruins. Driving through the town's streets, Serpinska has been reduced to tears.
But she is rebuilding.
"My parents were terrorized by the Soviets, and so were their parents before them," she said as she approached the shelter. "Our generation must resist them."
When she enters the shelter's yard, the dogs swarm her and their tails wag as they bark in a chorus.
The shelter's electricity has yet to be fixed, but the animals seem happy nonetheless. A rescued peacock ambled in a patch of sunlight from a hole in the roof. The cats were all in their bunk beds, each enclosure warmed by a little coal chimney.
"We have a saying, and it's important," Serpinska said, as she watched them. "For us, to save animals is to be human."
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYxDQBTNDA
Hi Mary, Rad and All,
Quote from: blue on Apr 12, 2022, 05:29 PM
Lilith in her primal state represents the totality of the asteroid goddesses combined. She is the root at ground zero. The other goddesses represent aspects of her nature that have become splintered off as a function of involutionary forces when she separates from the Mother/Source. The goddesses manifest as projections of the unconscious, through which Lilith discovers herself and her inherently divine nature.
Ceres through her sacred daughters signifies her aspect of maternal Soul nurturance through which the cycles for Her transformation mystery are tended and cultivated to advance evolutionary growth. Ceres and her sacred daughters also symbolize the eternal rounds between Soul and Source, in general, and that more specifically for sacred human daughter and Divine Mother, where Her powers that tend and cultivate evolutionary growth are transferred to womankind, blessing them with faculties to help them guide and keep humankind's way.
This is such an important start focus point whenever Lilith and Ceres teachings are concerned and seminal work offered here at MB too with regards the teachings off astrology meeting real and true women issues. I have been reading it and reflecting upon it, but the first time I read it It came to mind the image of the hindu goddesses with many arms. I never thought about how much it syncs with the asteroid goddesses teachings, and by no means have great knowledge of the hindu goddesses, but I'm sure it does help to view them as an additional hand and faculty given by the God/dess so that women can, in their natural expressions, be secure from within themselves of their own value and gifts to share with others from a point of view of being a differentiated equal.
I was thinking this is so interesting to see in the perspective the current transit of Lilith in gemini ruled by mercury in gemini :-) (and also ceres in gemini too)
One other thing I am contemplating relative to both ceres and lilith is that they both carry seed and cycle issues, with lilith's greatest challenge, to be able to affirm herself (the north node) over and over again as she NATURALLY IS. With this, both Ceres and Lilith also carry the themes of progeny and dealing with the pain of their children (their future) to be "abducted" by patriarchy. So much so is that Lilith, in the original distortions of Her own nature through the Judeo-Christian man made beliefs, was portrayed essentially as a muderer of babies and as a demon that would take away children, exposing the projected fears of patriarchal rulers of the powers of women's real nature creating then myths to scare them at birth. (Which in reality, through the lens of their undistorted nature, also tells us of the very close links between so many souls and specifically women who are very much aligned with their natural liliths to be also daemon souls, as the many examples Rad shows here every week. If we think the original woman was an outcast that had to flee to save her dignity, it is only natural that she would have felt embraced, loved and understood only by nature and animals, who will not judge her for what she is).
So was thinking that it makes perfect sense to look at the north node of Lilith conjunct the south node of ceres as the necessary path for Lilith to recover her natural dignity (NN's in Sagitarius and Capricorn) through recovering the themes of progeny, creativity, spring, and the ever new cycles of becoming nature offers us over and over again. But personally still feel I need to work it through some real life example charts to natural have it come together in chart analysis, so Mary your teachings are very helpful, thank you very much for that.
On the current events, I think it's really important to mention Nancy Pelosi visit to Kiyv/Ukraine to meet president Zelensky and say she won't be backing down to bullies (reference o Putin off course). We have analysed her lilith a few years ago in this thread (page 17) and she has of course, natal Lilith in Cancer closely conjunct Pluto, moon in scorpio sun in aries. What a force to be reckon with! She truly is showing us what natural Lilith is about.
Many Blessings at this solar eclipse,
Helena
P.S. In the spirit of Lilith transit in gemini I leave image of Goddess Saraswati
Greetings to Helena and all,
Thank you for your kind words and to Rav for hers in a previous post. Each of you consistently offer wisdom and insights that deepen and broaden understanding for these archetypes, all precious, like lost puzzle pieces falling back into place. I think all would agree that your posts ever so gracefully articulate the essence behind the symbols on this thread - the living heart of the sacred feminine. Wonderful!
Helena - I loved the connection you made between Gemini, Lilith, and the many-armed goddesses of ancient India including the image of Saraswati. Given a woman's capacity to do ten things at once, it occurred to me how alike women really are to those many armed goddesses! Goddess knows, for any of us who have had the privilege and honor caretaking children, one had to be functional on many planes of consciousness at once in order to do just that! And who better than Lilith and Ceres in Gemini to appreciate that!
By itself, woman's capacity to do many things at once is just one of many "differentiated" attributes specific to women, whose value has been underrated because of patriarchal posturing. And to take that point one step further, does not the Mother of us all do the very same thing, ie. Do many things at once? There is no question that every woman is a 'true" image of the Mother herself, just as that example plainly demonstrates. The Mother's faculties are a woman's own, which is exactly what I perceive original Lilith evolving towards within every woman as the means to actualize her wholeness/holiness.
And segueing to your point about the need for women to feel inwardly secure "of their own value and gifts to share with others from a point of view of being a differentiated equal" your words are spot on. They capture for me Lilith's essence and need to feel inwardly grounded, openly curious, and confident (South Nodes) in her unconditioned approach to reality, and to feel empowered and authenticated from knowing her physical, intellectual, emotional, intuitive and spiritual gifts are once again fully appreciated and respected by all members of the group to which she belongs (North Nodes). That's a future all women can hope to look forward to. But from where does this all arise? I would offer that its most potent form comes from her living and breathing Soul connection to the Mother of us all. After all, Lilith evolves within us to manifest as a modern day embodiment of shamanic consciousness. She is our link and recovery to that lost dimension, one that emanates from Source as our teacher and guide - the sacred goddess of phenomena, Mother Nature/Mother Earth.
That is her root and anchor, where her natural consciousness pivots and navigates about temporal reality in its most dynamic form. From this connection, a woman or man experiences one the most exquisite powers of the sacred feminine - as union or reabsorption (yin) to that which created its Soul, the Source. Its intelligence, whose life principles and practices are defined by Natural Law, naturally infuses and opens consciousness to guide humankind's way through intuitive Soul perceptions.
Since it is primal, it is fully unconditioned by space/time reality. Thus this archetype is known for its rebelliousness against any restriction imposed upon itself by conditioning factors operating in space/time reality, ie, the patriarchal nonsense perverting and violating Natural Laws. Hence, the rage associated with Lilith, and necessarily so, which erupts to challenge and overturn the degenerative practices and beliefs that populate the world she finds herself facing.
One of the Mother's other faculties that women possess is to give birth to new life and regenerate its renewal - not only physically, but spiritually/soulfully. The goddess Ceres and her transformation mysteries that manifest through Lilith's unconscious represents this particular faculty. Having given a lot of thought to the connection between Ceres and Lilith with respect to their nodes, it is my feeling that Ceres comes into the picture so prominently now alongside Lilith to facilitate its recovery, specifically to help humans reconnect to Soul and Source, ie their shamanic consciousness. Ceres' natal placement and nodes symbolize how the Soul operating on the physical plane through largely involutionary forces has cultivated itself in order to attempt to regenerate itself and lost connection to Source in this way.
This reconnection to Source is essential in humankind's collective journey where knowledge of its spiritual nature is being reawakened. Here the powers of the sacred feminine are reborn that are crucial to this process. In fact, its vital importance is being out-pictured in phenomenal reality as humankind's survival need (Taurus, with Uranus now transiting) to rediscover how to cultivate, regenerate and sustain Mother Earth's (Ceres) physical abundance by honoring Nature's regenerative practices and cycles in a balanced, reciprocal way according to Natural Laws. Humans are currently reaching out to indigenous peoples for this very Earth wisdom.
Thus, in order for humans to survive as spiritual beings in physical bodies, the principle for one applies to the other: As above, so below. In both spiritual and physical worlds, each must recover and cultivate their Soul's connection to Source by honoring the cycles by which both its inner and outer abundance are regenerated. Herein is the Mother's teaching behind these two archetypes interacting in the ways that they do. Their connection highlights the fact that both practices are interconnected and essential to our survival.
In addition, essential to this teaching are practices that extend beyond human needs and concerns to embrace all of the natural world. This faculty of maternal/soul nurturance is not only that expressed between human mother and child by way of the limited patriarchal view, but is universal in application, just as the Mother is. For instance, every human has a sacred obligation as guardians/stewards of the Earth. This is one of Lilith/Ceres' manifestations as goddess. Every human has a sacred obligation to nurture and care for one another, regardless of ethnicity, sexual preference, color, religion, etc. This is another manifestation. Every human has a sacred obligation to nurture and care for all living creatures to ensure their regeneration from one cycle to another. This is another. The list goes on and on.....
Involutionary forces work through all nuances of space/time reality largely as matter consciousness in this part of the world cycle. This is Ceres' realm, matter bound, involutionary consciousness, where her natal placement and nodes will operate. In contrast Lilith is Soul, primal, spiritual/shamanistic evolutionary consciousness, wholly intuitive, aligned to Natural Laws, coming through as long term memory (Uranus) from the inner dimension of consciousness. It is through the wisdom gained through Ceres' archetypal experience as Kore to Persephone that will help the primal Lilith integrate into and navigate through this existing degenerative world, and as you cite "to be able to affirm herself...as she NATURALLY IS."
As for the "themes of progeny and dealing with the pain of children", this is an interesting parallel you draw between the two. The Ceres 'myth offers itself as allegory representing what happens to the sacred Mother's daughters in a patriarchal controlled world - the heartache, longing, loss of power, etc, and worst of all is the devaluation and desecration of her daughter's natural sexuality. This tears right to the heart of the pagan traditions that then existed, where the Mother's regenerative cycles and power reflected women's own. Honoring the power and cycles of both became the center of the pagan spiritual traditions upon which their lives/survival depended.
In the Judeo Christian narrative, Lilith's unconditioned, unconstrained sexual freedom is specifically the issue of contention. With respect to her reputation as being a murderer of babies, those same cries are being hurled at women today who seek abortions. In the USA yesterday, it was revealed that its highest court in the land is positioning itself to strip a women's right to abortion as a constitutional right. It will be up to each state to legislate for itself if abortions will be permitted. At the current count, the split is 50/50 for and against.
We know ancient women had the capacity to abort pregnancies if they choose to do so. Back then as now, men were threatened by this because it usurped their control over patrilinear customs that guaranteed rights to their progeny. And this became one of the primary ways that men took power away from women in the ancient world, by shifting the political dynamics that were once based upon matrilinear succession to patrilinear succession. They infiltrated pagan tribes anyway they could to get just that.
Remember the myths interpreted by Robert Graves in the book "The Golden Bough" ? He describes tribes (in the Mediterranean region) ruled by women that had men anointed as kings for only one year. After that another successor was appointed to stalk its predecessor and either kill him and become the new yearly king, or be killed itself. In my mind, these tactics were one of probably many created by these pagan tribes to avert the patriarchal threat that could be seen everywhere destroying the Goddess communities of the ancient world.
For those tribes overtaken by the patriarchy, beyond the issue of patrilinear succession, controlling women's reproduction also ensured the replenishment of bodies to fight men's wars, where populations numbers (especially males) were often severely decimated, such as in places like early Greece. This is in fact an issue not lost sight of by women of color in today's world, who are those being unfairly targeted by abortion restrictions, compared to their white sisters. What could be the true agenda behind all this, but to foment divisiveness through social injustice and inequality.
Which brings me to the next point, which is Lilith's aspect as demoness. This again connects to her shamanic consciousness and function as tribal shamaness. Since her job was as protectress to keep the balance between humans and Nature and protect them and their way of life from evil forces, she was the spiritual authority for the pagan tribes. To ward off evil, it is a common practice for shamans to wear costumes, particularly masks that are grotesque and fearsome in nature for this purpose. Hence, the characterization of Lilith as demoness.
This same attribute as protectress can be seen in a number of ancient goddesses for the same reason - Hindu goddess Kali and even the Greek goddess Pallas Athene. Pallas Athene wears a breastplate bearing the features of a gorgon, while Kali's face in her fearsome aspect is that of a gorgon itself. Both symbolize this archetype's intolerance for the profane by their wrathful and threatening facial features - large glaring eyes, flared nostrils with a lolling tongue between tusks, and writhing serpent-like hair. Their determination, fearlessness and bravery is demonstrated by their imposing warrior-like stances.
Images of gorgons goes way back in time to around 6,000 BC. They were said to protect oracles at the earliest shrines and/or temples and continue to do so even today. Given that the patriarchy emerged around 7,200 BC, their appearance during that time speaks for itself.
This same archetype of protectress connects to Amazon women, whose warrior goddesses of the ancient world included Pallas Athene and the Egyptian goddess Neith, among others. All goddesses wore protective armor to signify their attribute as fierce warrioresses, guiding and protecting their people against the powerful threats that were emerging and growing.
As for women returning to Nature as a means of solace and affirmation for who they truly are after having everything taken from them by the patriarchy, this is definitely true. Given that Lilith's native consciousness is shamanic at its root, where else would she feel more at home!
For this aspect of Lilith, the goddess Artemis comes to mind.
Goddess blessings,
Mary
Greetings to Helena and all,
I wanted to clarify something from my last post. The actual author for the book "The Golden Bough" is James Frazer, not Robert Graves as inferred. Robert Graves is the author of "The White Goddess", who offered commentaries on Frazer's work, especially with respect to the myth cited (the succession of priest/king at Diana's sacred shrine at Lake Nemi). There is a lot of back and forth about this myth, its origins, practices, etc, and in particular its "barbarism", although none seem to capture the essence behind this particular one in my view.
It appears to be a fusion of earlier pagan rites with later patriarchal ones, and while its true nature may never be known, the point trying to be made was that certain tactics were adopted by our pagan ancestors that were purposeful in their fearsomeness. They were designed to deter territorial encroachment from patriarchal marauders through stories or shrines having gruesome attributes. These things convey clear messages: Stay away or else! This same approach applies to the use of such images as the gorgon itself, reflecting the archetype of Lilith as shamaness and protectress of her people, which is instead falsely portrayed by the patriarchy as a demoness.
Sorry for any confusion. If there are any questions or thoughts to share, please feel free.
Goddess blessings,
Mary
Hi Mary and All,
It is such a joy to have your offers here at the MB. Real grounding wisdom you offer to all of us.
When I mentioned the Goddesses with many arms, the image that came to mind reading your words, it was also because of the allegory that each of the asteroid Goddesses can be portrayed as each of these arms coming down to the whole Lilith body. Each carrying a bit of the wisdom, a bit of Her story. So nice :-)
Of course Lilith and Ceres share that special connection through Mother Nature. I remember some time ago, I think when there was all this fuss about billionaires trying to go to space, I had a dream when I was being guided to the most beautiful green landscape one can imagine by two women, maybe not Goddesses ;D but certainly wise women, and remember thinking in the dream, 'why go to space when it's all here'... That's not to say our evolution won't pass by space travel but that one of the biggest self-limiting beliefs of the patriarchal model is the idea of a certain kind of transcendence (specially of the body) that is in my view a big evolutionary attempt to skip steps in personal and collective evolution. When we know higher planes are for those who made the effort to evolve into the last evolutionary states, surely not skipping the reality of this plane and intrinsically connecting to Mother Nature. So the perspective you bring of shamanistic grounding as our collective need is certainly what natural Lilith is all about. Of course, there is a all new take of the patriarchal commercial profit model on the shamanic essence and peoples by the "white man" that worries me as to the destruction of the most sacred. But that is an all other issue...
Thank you also for the perspective you bring of the original connection of Lilith to the idea of a fearsome demon for the message of "Stay away or else" it's surely stems from the original woman voice and need for core survival. I will look at the book you mention.
There is one think I'd like to mention relative to the asteroid Psyche, is that to me there is a strong relationship with Psyche, Corse and Persephone. I tend to see Psyche's journey, in it's four stages, two plus two, as a blend of the evolution of women's psyche going down and up the daughters journey. She also evoques an idea of Eros that would come first from herself, with her journey starting with the mistaken idea she would enter the underworld in order to sacrifice herself to a beloved she had hardly knew, to a mature idea of the need to come out as having made the journey for her own evolution, bringing herself to the world as whole, not in in need of the other. Of course in this journey she is greatly help by nature spirits and animals and I have a special appreciation for psyche and how she can help women's soul journey with her story. Would you agree? One interesting thing for us to consider is that in this solar eclipse just passed, eros is conjunct the eclipse degree in taurus, trine psyche in virgo, which is a very interesting theme of soul healing.
Once again, thank you very much for your offerings Mary,
Helena
P.S. I would like lo share an image I just caught by accident as I was looking for something else, that is an add for vintage gold tone letters ;D EA truly is gold
Hi All,
Here is the story of Sofia Sapega. She was born February 10th, 1998. The chart below is a noon chart.
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Belarus plane arrest activist Sofia Sapega sentenced to six years
Russian citizen held along with boyfriend a year ago when flight she was on was forced to land
Guardian
Fri 6 May 2022 14.22 BST
A woman who ran a Belarusian opposition messaging app channel and was arrested along with her activist boyfriend when an airliner they were on was forced to land in Belarus has been convicted of charges that included inciting social hatred.
Following her conviction, Sofia Sapega was sentenced to six years in prison. Sapega is a Russian citizen, and her lawyer, Anton Gashinsky, said she would appeal to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to intervene.
Sapega and Roman Protasevich were flying from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania, a year ago when their plane was ordered to land in Belarus accompanied by a fighter jet because of an alleged bomb threat.
Protasevich was the editor of Nexta, a popular channel on the Telegram messaging app that was used to help organise protests in Belarus after the president, Alexander Lukashenko, won a disputed sixth term in August 2020.
Sapega ran another Telegram channel that published the personal data of civil servants and military personnel who took part in mass repressions of the protests.
Western countries denounced the plane diversion as tantamount to air piracy by Belarus. The European Union banned Belarusian airlines from its air space and airports as part of sanctions against the country.
"I am sorry for Sofia and her family. No one should suffer from dictatorship," the exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya wrote on Twitter after Friday's verdict.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sapega would get assistance, but declined to comment on the sentence itself.
"She is a citizen of Russia, so in any case, through our diplomats and other channels, we will continue to protect her legitimate interests," he told reporters on a conference call.
Asked, whether he thought the verdict was fair, Peskov said: "We greatly dislike it when someone comments on the decisions of our courts, so we will not comment the decision of the court in friendly Belarus."
The post-election protests were the most serious challenge to Lukashenko's authoritarian rule since he first took office in 1994.
The protests attracted as many as 200,000 people in the capital of Belarus on some days and persisted for several months. Authorities responded with a severe crackdown in which police arrested more than 35,000 people and thousands were beaten. Leading opposition figures have been imprisoned or forced into exile.
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'They will kill me': Belarusian blogger's descent into horror
Roman Protasevich had told friends he was being followed in Athens. Hours later he was escorted away at Minsk airport
by Andrew Roth in Moscow and Helena Smith in Athens
Mon 24 May 2021 14.10 BST
As Roman Protasevich's Ryanair flight began descending towards Minsk, the 26-year-old Belarusian opposition blogger grew frantic, giving his phone and laptop to his girlfriend and pleading with a flight attendant to stop the plane from landing.
"Don't do this, they will kill me, I am a refugee," a fellow passenger described him as saying. "We must, we have no choice," the attendant reportedly replied.
Soon, a visibly trembling Protasevich, who had spent much of last summer managing Telegram channels broadcasting mass protests against the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, was led away as the plane stood on the tarmac. "I'm facing the death penalty here," he said. His girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, was also detained.
Before boarding the flight from Greece to Lithuania, where the blogger lives in exile, Protasevich had told friends he was being shadowed at Athens airport by a bald man with a leather suitcase speaking Russian.
"Lol, it seems that the [security services] were following me at the airport," he texted one friend in Russian. "And even tried to photograph my documents. It's not certain. But in any case that's some suspicious shit."
At that stage there was little suggestion of the extraordinary and historic events that were about to take place. In behaviour that bore the hallmarks of a pariah state, Belarusian authorities forced Protasevich's plane to divert by calling in a bomb threat then scrambled a MiG-29 to escort it down to Minsk airport.
Four more people deplaned in the Belarusian capital, suggesting Protasevich's hunch that he was being tailed by the local KGB was correct. "[Lukashenko] carried it off beautifully," wrote Margarita Simonyan, the head of the Russian state-financed RT.
Often referred to as Europe's last dictator, Lukashenko brutally suppressed last year's protests, prompting sanctions against his regime. Now, as Europe's leaders meet to discuss their response to what the Ryanair CEO, Michael O'Leary, called a "state-sponsored hijacking", he faces the prospect of having air links to his country suspended altogether.
Protasevich had been in Greece to cover a speech at the Delphi Economic Forum by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader in exile, and then spent time a few days on holiday before boarding his flight back to Vilnius, where he lives. Tikhanovskaya and an aide, Franak Via?orka, had taken the same flight over Belarus a week earlier without incident.
Passengers onboard the flight on Sunday described a slow descent into horror as Protasevich, who fled Belarus fearing for his life in 2019, realised he would be landing in a country that has charged him with terrorism and inciting mass riots.
The plane was closer to Vilnius than Minsk when, at about 12.50pm local time, an emergency signal was activated. Belarus claims the pilot chose to land in Minsk, but Ryanair said the decision came from Belarusian air traffic controllers.
"When it was announced that the plane was returning to Belarus, I saw his reaction," Nikos Petalis, a Greek passenger who runs a fast food business in Lithuania, told Mega TV on Monday. "He started grabbing his head as if something bad was going to happen. He seemed scared ... You looked at him and thought: 'Something is going on with him.'"
"It looked like if the window had been open, he would have jumped out of it," another passenger, Edvinas Dimsa, told Agence France-Presse.
During the descent, Protasevich, dressed in a hoodie, black cap and face mask, began preparing for his arrest. "He got up and grabbed his bag and started passing his computer and telephone and some things to his girlfriend and hide some information," said a passenger seated several seats behind Protasevich.
Passengers were kept in the dark while Belarusian fighter jets flanked the plane on its approach to an emergency landing in Minsk. "The company kept sending us text messages but no explanation was ever made by the pilot as to why the plane made the emergency landing," said Petalis.
Once the Boeing 737-800 landed in Minsk, passengers were kept onboard for an hour while patrol guards with dogs assembled outside. Guard dogs were brought onboard for a security check and then the passengers were escorted to a waiting room where they were "weren't allowed to move, even go to the loo", Petalis said.
Another passenger said they were stripped down and forced to undergo body searches. "It was the old tradition of the Russian, Soviet services," he said, describing being stripped of his boots and searched "all over" by hand. "It was very unpleasant."
Before that, security officials approached Protasevich and searched him separately as his fellow passengers watched. Then, with little explanation, he was led away.
"It was straight out of a film, a horror film," said Petalis.
The whereabouts of Protasevich and Sapega are still unknown.
And: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/26/europe/belarus-sofia-sapega-roman-protasevich-ryanair-hijack-intl/index.html
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Her natal Lilith is 8 Sagittarius, N.Node 4 Capricorn, S.Node 23 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 11 Gemini, N.Node 4 Taurus, and the S.Node is 9 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Greetings Helena and to all,
Thanks for your post sharing your precious woman wisdom. With respect to the Goddesses with many arms, so true. That's an intriguing way to now perceive Lilith, where each goddess operates like one of her arms. Wonderful! As for the patriarchal shortcomings you cite, such as"billionaires trying to go to space", bodily "transcendence" and "patriarchal commercial profit models", you are absolutely right. All emanate from the same distorted root - the separation of Flesh from Spirit, which JWG emphasized the universal significance of in his teachings through the Garden of Eden myth being that which poisons all branches on the tree.
The Sacred Feminine's wisdom teaches that Flesh and Spirit are teachers of one for the other in their own ways - both sacred. This is a truth forming the foundation of a shamanistic consciousness like Lilith's. One of the ways that its Essence is naturally transmitted is simply by women through natural sexuality. Recovery of this wisdom, which is being championed by the resurgence now of the Sacred Feminine, has the potential to transform patriarchal ignorance and arrogance that influences and manifests in the ways you cited into appreciation about the preciousness and sanctity of all life, about humankind's need to own that if they wish to survive and evolve as a species.
With respect to your question about Psyche and her connection to Kore and Persephone,I agree totally. The journey into the underworld that the sacred daughters undertake is allegory for the human journey into the realm of the unconscious Soul. Spirit/Soul involutes into Flesh (to tie in the subject above) and through the teachings that the human receives in the Flesh, evolves back to Spirit/Soul as a function of Consciousness regenerating itself. Psyche's journey as laid out in your words is totally accurate, where the free-will desire of sacrificing herself for the sake of love unwittingly becomes the essence of the journey itself. And yes I agree as you intuit that Eros, representing archetypally love's desire, does come from within herself. In its purest form, Eros symbolizes the heart's initial thrust that originates within every Soul reflecting its primal desire to know and experience love.
Many reiterations of this original myth diversify to include the longing,passion and eroticism of human love-making as an aspect characterizing this desire of the Soul. This harks back to ancestral knowledge of natural sexuality's power to inwardly unify lovers through the Soul to the divine, the basis of pagan sexual rites. In later versions influenced by patriarchal thinking and lifestyles, it unsurprisingly devolved into lust. So Eros symbolizes this "love" that the Soul/Psyche desires to longingly possess with unrelenting determination and "know" as its very own.
This love with its desire that plays out in all forms in phenomenal reality is planted like a seed by the Mother/Source for its germination and ripening within every heart. It manifests as the vehicle through which every Soul's universal nature becomes realized, and the means through which its evolutionary journey unfolds and is measured. So it is huge.
The trials that Psyche undertakes designed by the goddess of love herself, Aphrodite, reveal the tremendous and seemingly impossible tasks and sacrifice, as you say, plus the odds stacked against her success, that are involved. And the beings that help, the nature spirits and animals that you mention, reminds me that life's magic through which this divine power manifests is universal, found everywhere and dwelling within all.This truth is reflected in Indigenous Earth wisdom that cautions one to respect all beings as sacred because one never knows where, when or how the Creator will manifest itself as divine love through any of them.
This archetype most definitely helps women recover Herself. This dimension of experiencing oneself as a divine lover to the Creatress or Source is a crucial aspect of every woman's journey to recover her wholeness, as you say, where she matures on the other side. She needs human and non-human relationships alike as children, partners, friends, family, community, nation, etc, serving as teachers to satisfy her Soul desire to know love in order to evolve and ultimately experience her wholeness through its wisdom.
The true love her Soul seeks in Eros is from the Source of life itself, where after all the turmoil and angst she undergoes to find it, will one day bear fruit satisfying all the longings (Eros) of her heart. She not only heals herself through the Consciousness that attends it, which now becomes her own, but can help heal others. This is Psyche's ascension into heaven, where she/the Soul reunites to Eros, symbolizing her Oneness with the Source of love itself, herself now a divine lover who has earned the privilege to dwell there eternally.
This all cycles back to Lilith herself within every women, where the recovery of her shamanistic root revolves around simply reopening her heart to Nature itself.
The symbols for the recent solar eclipse that you mention beautifully reflect this through the theme of Soul healing as you mention, planting the seed to validate, heal and own this space and need within every heart (Eros, Sun, Moon in Taurus trine Psyche in Virgo) whose purpose reflects the Soul's own root and primal desire as human (Psyche trine to Eros; Eros, Sun, Moon sextile to Mars in Pisces), including sexually through its lost,sacred use (Psyche opposition to Mars).
If there are any questions or thoughts to share, please feel free.
Goddess Blessings to you and to all,
Mary
Hi Mary and All,
Just wish to thank you for the wonderful gifts you share with us and for again taking the time to go deeper into this subjects. As usual, every time I read from what you share I found another layer of meaning. Personally I happen to have a psyche return transit that falls in my 12th house, so everything you wrote feels like all the pieces falling into place :-) It's a an asteroid I have a special appreciation for and I like specially the fact that you mention that we look at psyche has an allegory for the involutionary process. If we think about it that changes things a bit for the mortal human because we always instinctively look (and instinctively know) at the involutionary process as being something less than, but looking at it through the psyche experience there is an immediate empathy, compassion and love, in reality for our human existence (of course, this is a psyche virgo sentence ;D). Which is in itself healing.
So thank you again for broadening that overall meaning.
Many blessings,
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot who recently escaped from Russia. This is a noon chart for her. Here is her story.
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Leader of Pussy Riot Band Escapes Russia, With Help From Friends
After more than a decade of activism, Maria Alyokhina disguised herself as a food courier to evade the police — and a widening crackdown by President Vladimir Putin.
By Valerie Hopkins and Misha Friedman
NY Times
5/10/2022
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VILNIUS, Lithuania — Maria V. Alyokhina first came to the attention of the Russian authorities — and the world — when her punk band and performance art group Pussy Riot staged a protest against President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral.
For that act of rebellion in 2012, she was sentenced to two years in prison for "hooliganism." She remained determined to fight Mr. Putin's system of repression, even after being jailed six more times since last summer, each stint for 15 days, always on trumped-up charges aimed at stifling her political activism.
But in April, as Mr. Putin cracked down harder to snuff out any criticism of his war in Ukraine, the authorities announced that her effective house arrest would be converted to 21 days in a penal colony. She decided it was time to leave Russia — at least temporarily — and disguised herself as a food courier to evade the Moscow police who had been staking out the friend's apartment where she was staying. She left her cellphone behind as a decoy and to avoid being tracked.
A friend drove her to the border with Belarus, and it took her a week to cross into Lithuania. In a studio apartment in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, she agreed to an interview to describe a dissident's harrowing escape from Mr. Putin's Russia.
"I was happy that I made it, because it was an unpredictable and big" kiss-off to the Russian authorities, Ms. Alyokhina said, using a less polite term. "I still don't understand completely what I've done," she admitted, dressed in black except for a fanny pack with a rainbow belt.
Ms. Alyokhina, 33, has spent her entire adult life fighting for her country to respect its own Constitution and the most basic human rights, like freedom of expression. After being freed early from prison in December 2013, she and another member of Pussy Riot founded Mediazona, an independent news outlet focused on crime and punishment in Russia.
She also wrote a memoir, "Riot Days," and traveled internationally performing a show based on the book. Though her dream was to tour with it in Russia, only three venues agreed to host the show, and all faced repercussions.
Ms. Alyokhina was committed to remaining in Russia despite regular surveillance and pressure from the authorities. But now she has joined the tens of thousands of Russians who have fled since the invasion of Ukraine.
Ms. Alyokhina, whose friends call her Masha, had bitten her nails down to stubs, and she puffed almost unceasingly on a vape or on Marlboro Lights. She made the journey in black, three-inch platform boots without laces — a nod to her many stints in jail, where shoelaces are confiscated.
In prison, she and others instead threaded moist towelettes through the eyelets of their shoes to keep them on. As a statement, she and other members of Pussy Riot will wear them while they perform during a tour, starting on May 12 in Berlin, to raise money for Ukraine.
When it first began more than a decade ago, Pussy Riot seemed as much publicity stunt as political activism. But if their protest in the Moscow cathedral — where they sang a "Punk Prayer" ridiculing the symbiosis that had developed between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin — seemed overwrought at the time, today it appears prescient.
The church's leader, Patriarch Kirill, recently blessed Russian troops going to Ukraine, and the European Union put his name on a proposed list of people to be sanctioned.
Exactly 10 years to the day after the cathedral protest, Mr. Putin delivered a ranting speech in which he called Ukraine a country "created by Russia," laying the groundwork for his invasion.
Ms. Alyokhina listened to the speech on the radio from a jail cell. The invasion, she said, had changed everything, not just for her, but for her country.
"I don't think Russia has a right to exist anymore," she said. "Even before, there were questions about how it is united, by what values it is united, and where it is going. But now I don't think that is a question anymore."
During the interview she was surrounded by other members of the group, now a collective with about a dozen members. Most of them had also recently fled Russia, including her girlfriend, Lucy Shtein.
Ms. Shtein had chosen to leave Russia a month before, also evading restrictions on her movement by sneaking out in a delivery-service uniform. Her decision came after someone posted a sign on the door of the apartment she shared with Ms. Alyokhina accusing them of being traitors.
Ms. Alyokhina and Ms. Shtein were once imprisoned for Instagram posts calling for the release of political prisoners in Russia. In February, Ms. Alyokhina was sentenced to 15 days for "propaganda of Nazi symbolism" over another Instagram post, this one from 2015, that criticized Mr. Putin's ally, the Belarusian dictator Aleksandr G. Lukashenko. Ms. Shtein was detained at the same time on similar charges.
"They are scared because they cannot control us," Ms. Alyokhina said.
By the time she arrived at Belarus's border with Lithuania, she had a Lithuanian visa that she tried to use with her Russian domestic I.D., as Russia had confiscated her passport. By then she had been placed on Russia's "wanted" list.
In her first attempt to cross, Ms. Alyokhina was held by Belarusian border guards for six hours before being sent back. On her second try, the incredulous officer on duty just sent her away.
Two countries inch closer to NATO. A day after Finland's leaders declared that the nation would move to join the alliance, Sweden announced it would follow suit. But their acceptance into the group might not be as swift as expected: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey suggested that his country would be reluctant to openly welcome the two nations into NATO.
On the ground. Russia continued to bombard largely abandoned and devastated towns in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine without making any major gains. Ukrainian forces have been driving Russians from the area to the north around the city of Kharkiv.
G7 meeting. Agricultural ministers from the Group of 7 major economies gathered in Germany, to discuss how to mitigate the broader costs of the war. Britain imposed new sanctions on Putin's inner circle, and the European Union said it would provide additional military support to Ukraine.
Civilian killings. The United Nations human rights chief said that the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians, including several hundred who were summarily executed, have been recovered in areas near Kyiv that were occupied by Russian forces in the early stages of the invasion.
But on the third try, she got through. Ms. Alyokhina had allies outside the country working to find her a path to freedom. One was the Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson, a friend who convinced a European country to issue Ms. Alyokhina a travel document that essentially gave her the same status as an E.U. citizen. The country's officials asked that it not be named.
The document was smuggled into Belarus for Ms. Alyokhina to use. While there, she avoided hotels or anywhere she would need to show proof of identity, which could tip off the people searching for her.
Ms. Alyokhina eventually boarded a bus to Lithuania with the document in hand. She laughed when she described how much better she was treated by the border guards when they thought of her as a "European," rather than Russian.
"A lot of magic happened last week," she said. "It sounds like a spy novel."
The fact that she was able to get out of Russia and Belarus was a reflection, she said, of chaotic Russian law enforcement.
"From here it looks like a big demon, but it is very disorganized if you look from the inside," she said. "The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing."
Ms. Alyokhina says she hopes to return to Russia. But no one has any idea how that could happen, when even the most dedicated activists are imprisoned or forced into exile.
Every day in Vilnius, new members of the group were arriving, fleeing Russia and joining for rehearsals for the European tour.
After a few days, Ms. Alyokhina traveled to Iceland with some other group members to visit Mr. Kjartansson, who arranged for them to rehearse in the building that once housed the country's High Court.
Ms. Alyokhina asked Mr. Kjartansson and Bjork, a relative of his, to perform at events organized by pro-Ukrainian activists when Pussy Riot performs in Iceland. The answer, Mr. Kartjansson said, was a resounding "Yesss!"
In Vilnius, Ms. Alyokhina's phone buzzed with messages of support and relief that she was now "safe" after the weeklong journey. Ms. Alyokhina chafed at these well-intentioned expressions, which she said were off the mark.
"If your heart is free," she said, "it doesn't matter where you are."
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Her natal Lilith is 29 Leo, N.Node 23 Sagittarius, S.Node 19 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 27 Virgo, N.Node 28 Taurus, and the S.Node is 13 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Mary, Rad, All,
I thought it's interesting to share this new exhibition from the British Museum, it is spot on in what we discussed earlier. It's definitely worth seeing for those who can visit.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/feminine-power-divine-demonic
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/16/goddesses-marina-warner-volcanic-power-of-witches-she-devils-divinities-british-museum
Best to All,
Helena
Quote from: Helena on May 19, 2022, 10:23 AM
Hi Mary, Rad, All,
I thought it's interesting to share this new exhibition from the British Museum, it is spot on in what we discussed earlier. It's definitely worth seeing for those who can visit.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/feminine-power-divine-demonic
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/16/goddesses-marina-warner-volcanic-power-of-witches-she-devils-divinities-british-museum
Best to All,
Helena
Hi Helena and all,
I am catching up on this thread and just saw your post about this exhibition. Thank you for letting us know about the exhibition, which I will definitely be visiting soon! I had a look on the website and it is quite timely in terms of the discussions on this thread. It opened yesterday in London, 19th May 2022 and runs until 25th September 2022 for those of you who may have a chance to visit.
I will let you know how I find it. :)
Namaste,
Rav
Hi Helena, Rav and all,
Thanks so much for posting the info about the Feminine Power exhibit. Looks and sounds amazing! Looking forward to Rav's review of it all.
Goddess Blessings,
Mary
Hi Rav, Mary, All,
So true! I had to hold myself from booking a travel the moment I saw it (I have venus in aries ;D) because I can't estimate when I can go but making plans to :-)
There will be an event presentation online from the curators next week, that's also going to be available for later view. Those interested can check the website.
Hope to hear from Rav first impressions too. This is a great opportunity indeed to celebrate and remember the true natural feminine.
Many blessings,
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the story of Marina Ovsyannikova the Russian women who became Russia's anti-war protester on their state TV. This is a noon chart.
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How Marina Ovsyannikova Became Russia's Most Visible Antiwar Protester
Producer for Russia's flagship news show says the invasion of Ukraine was something she couldn't tolerate
By Evan Gershkovich
WSJ
March 17, 2022 4:56 pm ET
It wasn't long after Russian troops pushed into Ukraine three weeks ago, Marina Ovsyannikova says, that she decided she had to make her voice heard.
A television producer at the Kremlin's flagship network Channel One, Ms. Ovsyannikova at first thought she would join antiwar demonstrations on the streets of Moscow. Her son, fearing she would be arrested, hid her car keys.
Then she settled on a more audacious plan. As the evening news broadcast was starting on Monday, Ms. Ovsyannikova got up from her desk. Flashing her ID badge she passed through two security checkpoints and breezed past a final guard at the studio door.
Bursting into view behind the show's anchor, she shouted, "Stop the war, no to war." Before the camera cut away, she flashed a poster before millions of viewers. It read: "No war. Stop the war. Don't believe propaganda. They lie to you here. Russians against war."
Then she walked out of the studio past the stunned guard and into the hallway, where she dropped the poster on the floor and was met by executives rushing toward her. They promptly turned her over to the police.
In the space of about 10 seconds, Ms. Ovsyannikova had transformed herself from a self-described cog in Russian President Vladimir Putin's messaging machine into one of the most visible and daring dissidents opposed to his war.
"The future of my country is being decided right now," she said in an interview. And she says she wanted to stand up and be counted.
Ms. Ovsyannikova was released from detention on Tuesday and fined approximately $280 by a Moscow court for a video she released explaining her actions. Her lawyers warn she could still face charges under a new Russian law that prohibits criticism of the military and makes it illegal to describe the Russian offensive in Ukraine as a war or an invasion. The penalty: Up to 15 years in prison.
Ms. Ovsyannikova said she has no plans to leave the country and is currently staying at a secure location provided by her attorneys. Invoking a phrase popularized by jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, she added: "Anyone interested in the bright future of this country needs to be here—even if for 15 years behind bars."
Since Ms. Ovsyannikova's on-air protest on Monday, at least four top journalists of state-run television channels have resigned.
The speaker of Russia's lower house of Parliament this week called on the Channel One producer to be treated "with all severity."
On Wednesday, Mr. Putin issued a broad warning against dissent. "Any people, and especially the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish the true patriots from the scum and the traitors, and just to spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths," Mr. Putin said in remarks shown on state television. "I am convinced that this natural and necessary self-cleansing of society will only strengthen our country."
Born in the Soviet Union in the now-Ukrainian city of Odessa to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother, Ms. Ovsyannikova said she views herself as Russian, not Ukrainian. Her father, who served in the Soviet navy, was a Russian speaker who died about a year after her birth. Her mother soon moved her to Russia, where she has lived ever since.
Ms. Ovsyannikova's interest in journalism blossomed when she was a high-school student in the mid-90s and her mother was working for a local radio station. In those days, she said, the Russian press was relatively free.
"Journalism wasn't constant government propaganda," Ms. Ovsyannikova recalled. "Everyone strived for intelligent and good work."
Ms. Ovsyannikova worked for state television in her hometown after graduation before moving to the capital, Moscow, in 2002, looking for loftier opportunities. After earning a master's degree she started writing news reports for well-known anchor Zhanna Agalakova. Ms. Agalakova is one of the anchors who quit this week.
It was in 2008, when Russia launched a military campaign against the neighboring country of Georgia, that Ms. Ovsyannikova says she first started feeling "cognitive dissonance"—loving her country but disagreeing with its direction.
Still, she kept up her work at the state broadcaster. Her career had taken a back seat to her personal life and children, who are now 11 and 17, and she needed to provide for them.
Then, in August 2020, when Mr. Navalny was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent, she thought about protesting. Mr. Navalny has blamed government agents. The Kremlin has denied any involvement.
"But I understood that I work for a government channel and I can't allow myself this," said Ms. Ovsyannikova. "With all these turbulent financial crises, some constant source of income is necessary. You have to feed your family."
Less than two years later came the war in Ukraine. "We arrived at this point of evil and we can no longer tolerate it," she said. "It's a fratricidal war. Ukrainians are the same Slavs and every second Russian has relatives in Ukraine," she said. "They chose their path, their direction toward Europe, to European values. That's their choice. They are free people."
A friend of Ms. Ovsyannikova, Nina Aleksa, quit working for a state television channel in 2016 and began working for a since-banned opposition organization. The two would discuss politics while watching their children at the playground.
"She always had thoughts like this," Ms. Aleksa said. "But I never pushed her or criticized her."
Ms. Aleksa, 37, moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, a growing center of Russian émigrés, in June last year, and hadn't heard from her since she had left.
Last Saturday, she said, she received a text from Ms. Ovsyannikova.
"She asked me about emigration, how is it there, how is Tbilisi," Ms. Aleksa recalled. "She said, 'It seems this is my future.' "
Then, on Monday at 6 p.m., Ms. Aleksa received another text from her friend: Please record the 9 p.m. news. "Suffer a bit," Ms. Ovsyannikova joked to her friend. "You'll like it."
"I thought she was warning me to watch for a drop of insider information, like Putin would announce his resignation or something," Ms. Aleksa said.
When she saw Ms. Ovsyannikova on her screen, she didn't believe it. She reached her about an hour later, but Ms. Ovsyannikova said she was at a police station and would text her. She sent Ms. Aleksa a prerecorded video and asked her to share it with foreign media.
Ms. Aleksa, who now works for the Washington-based Free Russia Foundation, says donors have pooled enough funds to get Ms. Ovsyannikova and her whole family out of the country. She strongly disagrees with her friend's decision to stay.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that France would grant asylum to Ms. Ovsyannikova and that he would raise the issue with Mr. Putin.
Ms. Ovsyannikova said she believes most Russians are against the war. The day Russia launched its invasion, everyone she knew—including her colleagues—were horrified and "fell into a stupor," she said.
"The life of Russians is coming apart like a house of cards," she said, pointing to the exit of foreign companies and the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy. "People just haven't fully realized it yet."
Ms. Ovsyannikova explained why she made her placard bilingual. "What was written in English was meant for the Western public, so people abroad understand that the majority of Russians are against this pointless war," she said. "The Russian was for our zombified people that believe this propaganda machine."
The protest has been welcomed by a swath of opposition activists and independent journalists, but some were also critical of Ms. Ovsyannikova for helping push the government line for years at Channel One.
Ms. Ovsyannikova says she has decided she can no longer be part of that machine, but she brushed aside the suggestion that she had really done much to further it.
"I was a cog," she said. "Don't make me out to be a super champion of injustice and super responsible over what was happening with their propaganda."
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ovsyannikova
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Her natal Lilith is 22 Taurus, N.Node 18 Sagittarius, S.Node 23 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 27 Capricorn, N.Node 1 Gemini, and the S.Node 9 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hello all,
I visited the "Feminine power: the divine to the demonic" exhibition at The British Museum in London on Sunday, which Helena mentioned the other day. This is an international touring exhibition which will be visiting other parts of the world over the next 3 years. It's in London until 25th September, then moves to The National Museum of Australia in Canberra from 8th December 2022 – 27th August 2023. Then heads to Spain (various locations) from October 2023 – 2025. So, if anyone can get to these locations, I would definitely advise a visit!
The exhibition explores the various depictions of feminine power over the years and from the different cultures and tribes in the world. There are a range of objects, statues, ornaments and paintings depicting the feminine energies over time. You get to see the different cultural expressions of what feminine energy meant to people represented from Africa, Greece, The Middle East, India, China and Mexico to name but a few.
The exhibition is divided into 6 areas:
Creation and nature
Passion and desire
Magic and malice
Justice and defence
Compassion and salvation
Feminine power today
What interested me of course where the statues associated with the asteroid goddesses. I have outlined below the three I saw.
Isis could be seen under the section "Justice and defence" and was outlined as the "Egyptian Great Mother":
"Isis was one of the most important and widely worshipped goddesses in ancient Egypt. Her divine authority was connected to wisdom, healing and protection in both this life and the afterlife. According to myth, she resurrected the body of her brother and husband Osiris in order to conceive their son, Horus, the god whom all pharaohs were believed to personify."
Sedna was located under "Creation and nature":
"For the Inuit of the Arctic and sub-Arctic, the ocean offers up its bounty to those who take care of Sedna. Her goodwill is vital to successes in hunting. As mother of all sea's creatures, she will entangle and hide them in her hair if they are disrespected, causing any hunt to fail."
Lilith was situated under "Passion and desire":
"Lilith - the first woman. From about AD700, Jewish mystical texts identify Lilith as the first wife of Adam, created by God at the same time from the same earth. Asserting equality with her husband, she refused to lie beneath him during sex and fled Eden rather than subordinate herself to him. Long vilified for such defiance, she has more recently been celebrated as an icon of female independence."
The exhibition provides a cross-cultural look at the influence the feminine has had on earth, where the powers have been considered to be both a blessing and curse. The Lilith statue at the exhibition was the one created by Kiki Smith, 1994. As you can see the image I've attached at the bottom (not a great picture!) it's the famous bronze sculpture. I have to be honest; this was the first time I have seen it and heard about it and my first reaction was fear. It's quite an aggressive looking sculpture and that's exactly what the artist wanted to portray.
It was interesting to see the level of fear that has been associated with Lilith. There was a ceramic bowl from Iraq dated AD 500-800 and it was considered to provide protection from Lilith (see image). There is an inscription on the bowl that says "the evil Lilith who leads astray the hearts of human beings." You can see the fear that this will have installed in people about Lilith and that the natural meaning of Lilith and what she represented has been lost. Linda once explained in this thread the role of Lilith beautifully and I quote:
"The true and NATURAL expression of Lilith is that of pure, raw, feminine beauty. A woman that would choose freedom over just about anything."
I guess this shows just how the patriarchal world suppressed the natural feminine energies.
Feminine power today was the last section where there was a large screen with the question: what does feminine power mean to you? You get to see many comments from the public, with both men and women commenting. The one comment that stood out for myself was from the British author Elizabeth Day:
"It's not so much that the concept or the construct of what's feminine has changed, it's that we, as women are able more to fully inhabit our complex, multifaceted real selves and society is a little bit more accepting of that."
I personally find that it is quite timely that this exhibition is running until the end of 2025, when Pluto will have entered Aquarius. We find ourselves at a point in time where the opportunity to break down old structures and systems (Pluto in Capricorn) and to liberate ourselves from past Soul traumas (Pluto in Aquarius) is heightened. This exhibition is highlighting the repression of the feminine but at the same time the immense power there is in the feminine form. Maybe it's actually all about re-awakening the matriarchal energies which have long been repressed.
Namaste,
Rav
Hi Rav,
Thank you so much for your preview on this beautiful exhibition. I agree it's so timely and for those of us who are in Europe and study and care for this things, a go see for sure if we can.
The Lilith portrait of instigation of fear is such an interesting thing because it goes down to the point, as you mention. I see it as what Mary explained here previously about the demonic origins and further with time belonging to the patriarchal way of dominating by creating fear. If women are made to fear their primal natures, they are easily controlled and made in the image that is "expected" of them.
Then, objects are created to symbolise that imagined danger as in that bowl.
For me this has a special appeal because some years ago I changed fields and slowly became a ceramicist, which is now my work, and that developed at the same span of time that my consciousness relative to all these themes deepened (much instigated because of this beautiful thread Linda created and to all the contributions), which is to say that this objects, so many made with clay, with the earth, have also a Capricorn essence to them as a revisit to the very essence of the matriarchal structure, what was never lost no matter what, of what belongs to the Mother and Mother Earth, and also which contains the story of the very distortions of its values. Powerful objects like this, contain collective memories that we recognise as whole without knowing why, I would say. It is such a joy. Very interesting indeed that is coming now.
Thank you again Rav,
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the story Sandra Eira from Norway who went to Ukraine to fight. This is a noon chart.
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Norwegian volunteer reveals her reasons for joining the fight against Russian aggression
26 May, 2022
NV: New Voice Of Ukraine
Sandra Andersen Eira, 35, has left behind a political career in Norway for military medicine. Hundreds of foreign volunteers have come to Ukraine to help the country defend itself from a full-scale Russian invasion.
Most are driven by a desire to contribute to the defense of Ukraine's democracy, and the preservation of life. NV interviewed Sandra Andersen Eira from Norway, who left her previous life as a legislator and fisherman to fight for Ukraine.
The following interview has been lightly edited for grammar.
Why did you decide to support Ukraine?
I have never been to Ukraine before, but I was living in the north of Norway near the Russian border. We all knew the war was coming and most of us, probably, have been preparing for years. For us it was a moral obligation to help because the last time there was a big war on our continent – it was a war in my country (Norway was occupied by Germany from 1940-1945) and many countries stepped up to help us. Today we are doing the same for Ukraine.
We all have individual reasons to join this war. Most fighters choose to return to combat because it's what they know and what they are trained to do. For me it's different. Until last year, I was a local parliamentary representative in Norway, and also worked as a fisherman and had my own business. I had a very safe, comfortable, and good life at home, but felt that all my life has been leading up to this decision. All my friends are military, so being a combat medic – it's all I wanted to do.
I arrived in Ukraine at the beginning of March. My combat unit was the first one to be deployed by the International Legion up to the northern area of Kyiv and helped to liberate it. We were in Bucha and Irpin and after that we went down to the southern front of the country.
Was it a hard decision to come and fight for Ukraine? What does your family at home think about it?
I did not need any thinking: I saw what was going on and 24 hours later I was at a military base in Ukraine. It was a very rapid decision, but I was never in doubt - it was right for me to do. Nevertheless, at the start I didn't tell almost anybody: I didn't want anyone to have unnecessary worries, as they may disturb me and I can lose focus on my job. So most found out where I am from the media, when the month passed. However, nobody was surprised. They are just hoping and praying that I will come home safe.
I got used to it during my life as a fisherman in Norway. It is the same - all boys and me. I like it and have no issues with that, as long as I can do what I need to do.
The Ukrainian troops I met are really amazing and they have treated me like a queen. I heard before that Eastern European boys treat girls with a lot of respect and here I had a chance to testify to that: I was stuck with Ukrainian troops for days under bomb fire and I was never treated better in my entire life.
Also, I remember, when it was cold they gave me my first cup of tea. I never had it before Ukraine, because thought I did not like it. But I surprisingly found that I do.
Even under the bombs, Ukrainian troops gave me chocolates, candies and roses on International Women's Day. For sure, they also taught me the main Ukrainian phrases like «Slava Ukraini! Heroyam slava!». It's the most important one, because people we meet need to know that we are friendly.
What did you know about Ukraine before and what impressed you here the most?
In my profession up in Norway, I met many Eastern European people – from Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. Therefore, the culture is not new to me, but coming to Ukraine during wartime is definitely very special to me. The civilians are amazing here because they have to step up and do a lot to help us. Even though they don't have anything - they give us everything. I am very impressed by how they are handling this, how they are thanking us, how they trying to show how they much appreciate our help.
And what is the hardest part of your experience in Ukraine?
That is a lot of negatives in war, for sure: war crimes, deaths, targeting of civilians, hard combat and people who are taking advantage of war. Sometimes it is easy to lose motivation and it becomes hard to remember why you are fighting, and why you keep doing it for free.
We have to pay from our own pockets to be here - for equipment, food, fuel and whatever else. If we run out of money - we can't keep fighting.
So sometimes, you can be frustrated and tired because of all that is going on on the political level. But, I hope it will change and Westerners will help better in the future.
So what are your personal plans for the future?
We will stay here for as long as we can and as long as we are needed. We see how the war goes: hopefully, it will finish soon, but realistically we know that whenever politics are involved - there is no quick quit. Therefore, we are seeing day-by-day and week-by-week how it goes – no long-term plans.
Still, I haven't been home since the end of February, so maybe I will leave Ukraine for a couple of weeks – to take a breath, resupply, and then go back to the front.
On other hand, I made a lot of friends among Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. That is why I definitely plan to come back also in peaceful times, just to celebrate life, eat good food and enjoy the sights, which, as I heard, are beautiful here in the summer.
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Her natal Lilith is 16 Pices, N.Node 17 Sagittarius, S.Node 23 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 27 Gemini, N.Node is 1 Gemini, and the S.Node is 9 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Greetings to Rav, Helena and all,
Thank you Rav for attending that compelling and inspiring exhibit on this group's behalf and providing such valuable feedback. What a perfect venue for Lilith in Gemini to stir things up, and while her South Node returned to the galactic center during last week's opening.
That sculpture of Lilith is something, for sure. She seems to project a raw feminine power with such wildness that fear and trepidation naturally answer in response. As you say Helena, because women have been made to fear their primal nature. I would add a fear mainlined into consciousness perpetuated by lifetimes of trauma; wherever defiance arose, inhuman cruelty promptly answered.
It's no wonder collectively we all have the South Node of Uranus in Sag, reflecting (among other things that JWG described) collective PTSD from being denied the freedom to live a natural way of life in harmony with Natural Laws.
The fear IS primal and revolves around recovering and owning a female psychology of authority, responsibility and leadership (SN Pluto in Capricorn) based upon the yin principle of nurturance (NN Cancer) that once existed before thousands of years of being brutalized into submission, impotence and conformity.
I feel Lilith's glare is meant to awaken/shake women up and also meant to put the patriarchy on notice. Nothing the patriarchal world has created comes remotely close to fulfilling the TRUE needs of humans compared to the depth and breadth of Lilith's wisdom way. They and Lilith both know this.
They also know that Lilith, fierce protectress that she is, will challenge them with every fiber and faculty of her being to set things straight again. And it is That unbridled power with its potential to convert the bewildered masse they fear the most.
Thanks again Rav for taking the time to go to that show and share what you discovered.
Goddess Blessings,
Mary
Hi All,
Here is the story of Iryna Venediktova who is going after Pig Putin. This is a noon chart.
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War Crimes Watch: The Woman Who Would Make Pig Putin Pay
April 15, 2022
Frontline
Erika Kinetz
LVIV, Ukraine — The messages, reports from across Ukraine, scroll in real time:
One civilian dead.
Thirteen military casualties.
Five civilians injured.
Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova glances at her cell phone. The stark numbers and bare-bones accounts that unreel in her hand are just the start; her staff will catalog them, investigate them — and try to bring the Russian perpetrators of war crimes to justice.
This is her purpose: To make Vladimir Putin and his forces pay for what they have done. While courts around the world are working to hold Russia accountable, the bulk of the investigation — and the largest number of prosecutions — will likely be done by Ukraine itself.
For Venediktova, this is personal.
"I protect the public interest of Ukrainian citizens. And now I see that I can't protect these dead kids," she says. "And for me it's pain."
Venediktova, a 43-year-old former law professor, is on the move every few days, the jackets and dresses of her old life increasingly replaced by olive fatigues and a bulletproof vest. She takes meals hurriedly in the car or skips them entirely.
There are no office hours anymore. There are only war hours, which start early and end late, as Associated Press reporters who spent a day with her would learn.
Her office has already opened over 8,000 criminal investigations related to the war and identified over 500 suspects, including Russian ministers, military commanders and propagandists — even as an array of international war crimes investigations pick up steam.
"The main functions of the law are to protect and to compensate. I hope that we can do it, because now it's just beautiful words, no more rule of law," Venediktova says. "It's very beautiful words. I want them to work."
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On a Tuesday morning, Venediktova marches up to a thick line of refugees waiting in the chill sun to register at a district administration building in Lviv. Her security detail, armed and dressed in black, hovers as she stepped into the crowd of women and children.
Venediktova has stationed prosecutors at refugee centers across the country and at border crossings, trying to collect the shards of suffering of millions of Ukrainians and transform them into fact and evidence before they vanish.
Venediktova sweeps upstairs, down a narrow hallway to a bare room with two large black desks that she calls "the heart of the war crimes office" in Lviv. Her war crimes unit has around 50 dedicated prosecutors, but she's repurposed all her staff to focus on that mission.
Many don't want to show their faces publicly. There are grave questions of security, both for her people and the information they collect. Prosecutors here tend to speak of the future with grim pragmatism. It's not just the unpredictability of war; it's a tacit acknowledgement that they themselves might not be around tomorrow to finish what they've started.
Prosecutors ply the line of refugees at Lviv's center each day, looking for witnesses and victims willing to submit a statement. Some stories are not told. People have come too far, they're too tired. Or scared. Their infants are fussing. They have places to go.
Interviews can take hours. Bent over laptops, prosecutors wait out people's tears to ask what the shelling sounded like, what kind of spray munitions made on impact. They ask what uniforms, what insignia soldiers wore. This is the raw material of accountability, the first link in a chain of responsibility Venediktova hopes to connect all the way to Russia's leadership.
Ala, 34, sits with prosecutors and explains how she'd lost her home. She doesn't want her last name published because her 8-year-old daughter remains trapped in Russian-held territory.
Ala promises to return with a fragment from a mortar that destroyed her apartment in Vorzel, a town a few kilometers west of Bucha. She'd collected the metal, dense and grey in her hands, as a memento of what she'd survived. And as evidence.
"We need proof for them to be punished," she says. "I am lucky. I am still here to talk about what happened to me."
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Shortly before noon, Venediktova leaves the refugee center and climbs into a black SUV headed to the Polish border, an hour or so north. A police escort speeds her through a landscape of rough houses and the wintery bones of trees, past old cemeteries, rusted children's swings, the shining domes of churches. The only signs of war are defiant billboards proclaiming victory for Ukraine and death to the enemy, and checkpoints with sandbags and hedgehog barricades to stop tanks that have not yet come.
Venediktova knows these roads well. She rides them endlessly back and forth to meet foreign officials who don't dare venture into a country at war.
"I live in a car actually," she says. "I need help, support, advisers. I need people who understand what will be next."
Her office cooperates closely with prosecutors from the International Criminal Court and nearly a dozen countries, including Poland, Germany, France and Lithuania, all of which have opened criminal investigations into atrocities in Ukraine.
She has taken on high-level legal advisers from the U.K. and is working with the United States and the European Union to build mobile investigative teams with international expertise. Clint Williamson, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues, helps oversee that effort, which is funded by the U.S. State Department.
"We have to confront this," Williamson says. "There's a need to show that countries are determined to stand up for international humanitarian law and hold people so flagrantly violating it accountable."
Part of their task now is to make sure that the evidence being collected is up to international standards, so the testimony of people like Liudmila Verstiouk, a 58-year-old woman who survived the siege of Mariupol, won't be thrown out of court.
Venediktova meets Verstiouk in a makeshift office at the Krakivets crossing on the border with Poland. She arrived from Mariupol with her papers, her phone and the clothes on her back – a velour dress, black stockings, white winter boots. Her apartment was bombed on March 8, and she told prosecutors that when she fled, she left her 86-year-old father behind in the burning building. He has Alzheimer's and cannot walk.
Verstiouk says she spent a week sheltering at Mariupol's drama theater. She left the day before bombs killed an estimated 300 people there.
She has not been able to reach anyone who was inside by phone. Or her father.
"Why did Russia attack me?" she says. "It destroyed my city — for what? For what? Who will give me an answer to that, and how do I go on living?"
In the course of a five-hour interview, prosecutor Stanislav Bronevytskyy takes Verstiouk's statement. "She can remember every detail, each minute and second," he says.
He types out Verstiouk's story and uploads it to a central database.
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Vast swaths of Ukraine have been transformed into potential crime scenes. Each day, the tragedies multiply, creating an insurmountable pile of facts that must be established and saved.
There is far too much work even for the more than 8,000 staffers who work for Venediktova. Back from the border by midafternoon, Venediktova continues her campaign for support, on Zoom calls with Amal Clooney and a group of international donors.
When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Venediktova, in March 2020, she inherited an office plagued by allegations of corruption and inefficiency and a legal code outside experts have said is badly in need of reform.
She has pitched herself as a reformer. Thousands of prosecutors have been fired for failing to meet standards of integrity and professionalism, and so she's got an office that is not fully staffed, preparing war crimes cases against what she predicts will be 1,000 defendants.
Venediktova has been building alliances with human rights groups — some of which have a history of antagonism with Ukrainian authorities — and an often-distrustful public.
In March, a group of 16 Ukrainian civil society groups formed the 5AM Coalition to document potential war crimes. In addition to analyzing open-source material, they manage networks of trained monitors who gather evidence across the country to share with prosecutors.
They're joined by researchers around the world, at places like the Centre for Information Resilience, Bellingcat and the International Partnership for Human Rights, who have been scouring the flood of social media postings to verify what happened and who is responsible.
Venediktova also has encouraged ordinary citizens to help by collecting information with their smartphones and submitting it online to warcrimes.gov.ua. Five weeks into the war there were over 6,000 submissions.
Artem Donets, a criminal lawyer who joined the territorial defense forces in Kharkiv, says he is part of a Telegram group of 78 lawyers who are all pitching in on evidence-gathering, picking up incidents that prosecutors and police may not have time to get to.
"We are a law battalion," he says.
On the day he spoke with the AP, Donets had gone out to document the latest attack on civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv. He found himself in front of his own home.
As usual, he pulled out his mobile phone. He took GPS coordinates and trained his camera on a crater in the asphalt, tracing its shape with his finger. "Damage to the facade of the building," he said in a flat, professional voice. "Destruction of glass, windows, doors."
Donets reported finding a rocket from a cluster munition sticking out of the ground 100 meters (328 feet) away. Cluster munitions split open and drop bomblets over a wide area and have been banned by over 100 countries. Using such indiscriminate weapons in what was a residential area with no Ukrainian military presence could count as a war crime.
He sends his incident report to the International Criminal Court and uploads it to Venediktova's database.
"It was quite a strike for me," Donets says. "I hope when this war ends to build a better house for me and my family. I hope. We have no options. Either we win this war, or we will be occupied and swept from history."
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The horrors Venediktova and her networks of allies are documenting — mass graves, apparent assassinations of civilians, indiscriminate shelling, repeated attacks on hospitals, forced disappearances, torture, sexual violence, cities under siege, denied food, water and humanitarian aid — are not new.
Putin's military and his proxies have used similar tactics in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Crimea and the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Despite years of copious documentation, Western powers never really pushed back.
That changed at 5 a.m. on Feb. 24, when Russia started dropping bombs on its neighbor. Those years of unanswered atrocities now weigh on Venediktova.
"I was a university professor, and for me rule of law wasn't just a song. When I spoke with my students about rule of law, about human rights, I actually trust in this. And now I feel that what I trust, it does not work," Venediktova says. "Maybe we should take the best minds in the legal system, in jurisprudence of the world and create something new."
In the meantime, she has a more concrete objective: money.
As evening falls, she sits with her deputies in a darkening room and asks for another espresso. The jarring notes of an inexperienced clarinetist waft in from a music school next door.
Venediktova's team reports on progress in their ongoing search for the overseas assets of war crimes suspects. One of her priorities is to seize the money of war criminals and give it to victims. She will need cooperation from countries around the world where Russian suspects have stashed their wealth. Many countries can't legally seize assets for a foreign court.
Ukraine is also crowdsourcing this global treasure hunt, with a portal in English, Russian and Ukrainian, where anyone can upload tips about assets.
There is, of course, an even bigger prize that lies just out of reach: Hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets frozen by the U.S., E.U., U.K., Switzerland and others. Maybe one day that too could be used to fund reconstruction and reparations in Ukraine.
Shortly before 9 p.m., Venediktova appears on national television, as she does most evenings. She reassures her people that guilt will be punished and suffering compensated.
"My first joy will be victory when we sell someone's villa, yacht, and our ordinary Ukrainians, who were forced to flee their homes, will physically receive this compensation," she says. "Thank you, good evening, see you soon."
Video watch: https://youtu.be/t3OL0dsrmSw
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Ukraine reports 15,000 suspected war crimes
BBC
6/5/2022
Around 15,000 suspected war crimes have been reported in Ukraine since the war began, with 200 to 300 more reported daily, its chief prosecutor said.
Some 600 suspects have been identified and 80 prosecutions have begun, Iryna Venediktova told reporters in The Hague.
The list of suspects includes "top military, politicians and propaganda agents of Russia", she added.
Russia has denied targeting civilians or involvement in war crimes.
Of the 15,000 alleged war crimes, Ms Veneditkova said several thousand had been identified in the eastern Donbas region - the scene of fierce fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops.
Alleged war crimes in the region include the possible forcible transfer of people - including cases of adults and children - to different parts of Russia, Ms Venediktova said. Torture, the killing of civilians and the destruction of civilian infrastructure are also suspected war crimes, she added.
Though investigations relating to the eastern region have started, Ukrainian authorities do not have access to Russian-held areas, AFP news agency reports Ms Venediktova as saying. They were, however, interviewing evacuees and prisoners-of-war, she added.
"Investigations are very difficult when fighting is going on at the same time," she is quoted as saying by German news agency DPA.
Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia have also joined the investigation efforts, Ms Venediktova said. Poland and Lithuania were already helping.
The International Criminal Court described Ukraine as a "crime scene" and has despatched its largest team of investigators ever to Ukraine to assist in the investigations. It said it was also hoping to open an office in Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
The announcements came as two Russian soldiers were jailed for 11 and a half years in Ukraine on Tuesday for shelling civilian areas. The first Russian soldier to be put on trial in Ukraine, Sgt Vadim Shishimarin, was sentenced to life in prison for killing a civilian last week.
Ukraine's ombudsman for human rights, Lyudmila Denisova, was also sacked by Ukraine's parliament. She was criticised for not organising humanitarian corridors and facilitating prisoner exchanges, as well as her handling of alleged rape cases against Russian soldiers, according to local media reports. Ms Denisova said she would appeal the decision.
On the ground, Ukrainian and Russian forces battled for control of the eastern city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region.
The city is said to be divided between the two sides - but not equally. Regional governor Serhiy Haidai said "70%-80% of the city is controlled by the Russian army".
An explosion also reportedly hit a nitric acid container in the city, which is thought to have been caused by an airstrike, Mr Haidai said. He told the BBC toxic fumes were released into the air following the explosion, but only in a small area.
Russia now occupies almost all of Luhansk, as it focuses on seizing it and neighbouring Donetsk.
Away from the fighting, European Union leaders reached political agreement to ban 90% of oil imports from Russia, excluding pipeline oil, which Hungary had opposed. But EU members remain split over Russian gas exports.
Russian oil giant Gazprom also announced it would be cutting gas supplies to Denmark's Orsted, as well as Shell Europe for its supplies to Germany, after both companies failed to make payments in roubles - something Russia has demanded.
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Her natal Lilith is 6 Cancer, N.Node 3 Sagittarius, S.Node 16 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 16 Cancer, N.Node 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is 10 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi all,
Helena & Mary - you are both welcome!
I plan on visiting again before the exhibition finishes in London. I found on bookshelf, the book "Lilith: Keepers Of The Flame" by Mary Blue, which I never got around to reading, so I will be reading this before visiting the exhibition again. The timing is perfect for me. :)
Also - for those of you interested, there is a book about the exhibition on amazon - "Feminine power: the divine to the demonic" Paperback – 19 May 2022. I have provided the link below:
https://www.amazon.com/Feminine-power-demonic-Belinda-Crerar/dp/0714151300/ref=sr_1_1?crid=22XFWTJTW20KQ&keywords=Feminine+Power%3A+the+Divine+to+the+Demonic&qid=1654504685&sprefix=feminine+power+the+divine+to+the+demonic+%2Caps%2C59&sr=8-1
Namaste,
Rav.
Hi All,
I am posting the chart of Liz Cheney because of her political courage to stand for the truth relative to Donald Trump and the coup, insurrection, that he created against the government of the United States. She is standing almost as a person of one relative to Republican party itself that has not only drawn the wagons around Trump in order to defend him, but has been attacking Cheney in every way they can. She is up for re-election in November yet virtually has no chance because the Republican people of the state she represents, Wyoming, are also in a state of total denial of actual reality and choosing to live in a self-created delusional reality in order to protect themselves from being exposed for the types of human beings they actually are: bigots, hypocritical, and white supremacists who try to hide behind God so as to add yet another layer of delusion, 'religious' delusion, that reinforces, to them, how righteous and superior they actually are according to themselves.
Cheney has chosen to stand with the actual truth of what happened in America on January 6th
because her commitment is the constitution of the United States itself AT ALL COSTS to herself relative to the racist Republican party who is persecuting her in every way they can including Satan's agent Donald Trump himself.
The birth chart below is based on her actual time of birth. I have included the transiting chart to her natal chart so that you can see, from an EA point of view, just how dramatic the timing of all this is.
The below article is from the New York Times that was written on the day following the first day of the Jan 6th hearings taking place in America now.
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Liz Cheney Takes On Trump, and Her Own Party
NYT
6/10/2022
WASHINGTON — Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, had just matter-of-factly rattled off a string of damning revelations illustrating how former President Trump had stoked the mob who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when she paused to address the members of her own party who she said were "defending the indefensible."
"There will come a day when President Trump is gone," Ms. Cheney said. "But your dishonor will remain."
Her rebuke, part of the searing opening remarks she delivered at the first prime-time hearing to lay out the Jan. 6 committee's findings, marked the culmination of a remarkable arc for Ms. Cheney, the daughter of a prominent conservative family, from one of the most powerful leaders in her party to one of its most vocal critics, and a reviled foe of its de facto leader.
She has been unrepentant in continuing to blame Mr. Trump for stoking the attack, and her Republican colleagues for following his lead by spreading the lie of a stolen presidential election. That stance has left her marginalized by her party, with her colleagues ousting her from her leadership position and seeking to purge her from the House by boosting a MAGA-styled primary challenger to her at home in Wyoming.
Now, from her perch as the vice chairwoman of the committee investigating the attack, Ms. Cheney is leading the charge to hold Mr. Trump to account for his efforts to overturn the election.
On Thursday night, Ms. Cheney illustrated in remarks studded with new details how, "over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power."
Unfurling new testimony, she illustrated how Mr. Trump had persisted in pushing the fiction of a stolen election even as his top officials told him his claims of election fraud were false. And she emphasized how Mr. Trump had responded blithely when told that the rioters storming the Capitol threatened his vice president, chanting, "Hang Mike Pence."
"The president responded with this sentiment: 'Maybe our supporters have the right idea.' Mike Pence 'deserves it,'" Ms. Cheney said, quoting from testimony collected by committee investigators.
Mr. Trump, she argued, had thrown the republic into "a moment of maximum danger" not seen before.
"The sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president — except one," Ms. Cheney said.
They were striking words coming from Ms. Cheney, who had been one of the most powerful Republicans in the House when she was ejected from her leadership post last year for bluntly and repeatedly condemning Mr. Trump's false election claims and blaming him for the riot.
But Ms. Cheney did not back down, and in taking a leadership role on the Jan. 6 panel, she has elevated herself as perhaps the foremost critic of Mr. Trump in today's Republican Party. She has said she views the assignment as the most important of her political career, and she often uses language borrowed from the criminal code — delivered in a characteristically blunt tone — to make clear that she believes the former president faces criminal exposure.
"Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them: that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful president," Ms. Cheney said. "President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack."
Behind the scenes, Ms. Cheney is known to be one of the more engaged and aggressive questioners on the panel. Video shared during the hearing on Thursday showed Ms. Cheney personally pressing Jared Kushner, the former president's son-in-law and adviser, about whether Mr. Trump's lawyer threatened to resign over his false election claims. And it was she who pressed to assemble a bipartisan team of former intelligence analysts and law enforcement specialists on the committee's staff.
Before the hearing, Ms. Cheney spent much of the day polishing her opening remarks, tapping away on her laptop in her suite in the Cannon House Office Building, a floor above the sprawling, chandelier-topped hearing room where she was to speak before a nationally televised audience. The lawmaker wrote her own speech, aides said, in consultation with a small inner circle of advisers in her office and lawyers on the panel.
Her husband, Philip Perry, and one of her five children attended the evening hearing, but former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, remained in their suburban Virginia home. Ms. Cheney, however, speaks to her father every day, on the phone or in person, and discussed her remarks with him in the hours before Thursday's hearing.
Ms. Cheney is one of just two Republicans to serve on the committee, alongside Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who has also openly condemned Mr. Trump. Both were selected by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, after Republicans boycotted the committee in protest of her decision to bar two of their members from serving on it.
At nearly every turn since the riot, Mr. Trump and House G.O.P. leaders have sought to drive her out of the party, including by backing her Trump-endorsed primary challenger, Harriet Hageman. There are few Republicans the former president is more determined to beat than the Wyoming's at-large House member, and polling shows that Ms. Cheney faces an uphill battle to keep her seat in a ruby-red state that still favors the former president.
"Nancy Pelosi loves her hand-picked minion," Ms. Hageman wrote on Twitter, sharing a news article about Ms. Cheney's work on the committee. "Wyoming? Not so much."
The congresswoman finds herself in political jeopardy because, unlike some Republicans who have found themselves in Mr. Trump's cross hairs, she has neither sought to repair her relationship with him nor ignored his criticism.
In seemingly embracing political martyrdom, Ms. Cheney had invited speculation that she might not seek re-election — up until the moment last month when she filed to do just that, shortly before the deadline.
Her broadsides against Mr. Trump have fueled speculation that, win or lose this summer in Wyoming, she will mount a long-shot campaign against the former president should he seek to reclaim the presidency.
In a video she posted as she filed for re-election last month, Ms. Cheney used the sort of lofty language to which she has often turned since breaking with her party last year, invoking her state's distinctive sense of western honor — and perhaps previewing what she may offer voters in 2024.
"In Wyoming, we know what it means to ride for the brand," Ms. Cheney said. "We live in the greatest nation God has ever created, and our brand is the United States Constitution."
Ms. Cheney has made little secret of the fact that she considers her work on the Jan. 6 panel — and the political price she has paid for it — historic.
"As you're listening to some of my colleagues and others who think that the way to respond to this investigation is with politics and partisanship — those people are not acting in a way that is healthy for the country," she said in an interview with The Dispatch this week. "And if we really want to understand why Jan. 6 is a line that can never be crossed again, then we really do have to put the politics and the partisanship aside and say what happened."
On Thursday, she was accompanied throughout the day by one of Mr. Cheney's old friends, David Hume Kennerly, the famed photographer who forged a relationship with the future vice president when both served in President Gerald R. Ford's White House, Mr. Cheney as chief of staff and Mr. Kennerly as official photographer.
Mr. Kennerly, who remains close with the family, has shown up, camera in hand, on other momentous days for Ms. Cheney, including last year when she was ousted from her leadership post by her Republican colleagues.
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Her natal Lilith is 1 Virgo, N.Node 4 Sagittarius, the S.Node 4 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 7 Sagittarius, N.Node 8 Gemini, and the S.Node is 4 Scorpio.
Here is a link to her opening and devastating statement at the Jan 6th hearings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbt1LDQOOY
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess bless, Rad
Dear Rad
Thank you so much for sharing this chart, it is so edifying. Her nodal return, at the same time as her Saturn return, while Neptune sits on her Saturn Chiron certainly paint a picture of a woman on a mission.
Could we say that her Neptune transits is working to expose the deceit of her political colleagues fueled by a Natal new phase Uranus to Pluto opposition and a concurrent nodal return in Scorpio, supporting that Pluto Uranus?
When the Summer Solstice opposes her Moon on the Galactic Center I am interested to see if the power ( mutual reception) of her Jupiter ruler of the Moon on the Nodes of Jup/Venus/Mercury/Pluto/Amor/Saturn kick up some real cardinal movement in the Law.
Can she bring him to justice?
Always grateful to EA
Tashi
Hi Tashi,
Could we say that her Neptune transits is working to expose the deceit of her political colleagues fueled by a Natal new phase Uranus to Pluto opposition and a concurrent nodal return in Scorpio, supporting that Pluto Uranus?
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Yes ............
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Can she bring him to justice?
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She is doing all she can, and that certainly is her intent. Others as in the Attorney General of the U.S. are all involved in terms of he gets indited/ prosecuted or not.
God Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the story of Nadya Karpova a Russian football striker. This is a noon chart.
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Nadya Karpova: The Russia striker speaking out against war in Ukraine
By Alexandra Vladimirova
BBC Sport
6/16/2022
Karpova has played 24 times for Russia and has relatives in UkraineNadya Karpova's full first name - Nadezhda - means 'hope' in Russian. She has a small tattoo with the word in English on the front of her neck. She had it done when she was 21, but doesn't even remember what hopes she had at that time. Now it has real significance.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in the early hours of 24 February, only a small number of Russian sportspeople have spoken out against it.
Among the country's current international footballers, just three have done so.
From the Russian men's team, Dynamo Moscow's Fedor Smolov posted a 'No war!' message on Instagram in February. He has been silent since. Aleksandr Sobolev from Spartak Moscow also posted a message on the day the war started but deleted it a few hours later.
Karpova, who plays club football for Espanyol in Spain, is the third. She is the only member of the Russian women's team to have voiced her opposition, and she does so almost every day. Since the war started, more than three months ago, she has been posting anti-war messages on Instagram, where she has 143,000 followers.
"I can't just look at this inhumanity and stay silent," she says. "I don't know what would happen if I was in Russia, not in Spain, but I feel a special responsibility to speak out."
Our interview takes place in Barcelona, where the 27-year-old lives, having moved to Spain in 2017. She has played 24 times for Russia, including at the last European Championship, five years ago. The next are just around the corner - in England from 6-31 July - but the Russian team won't be there. They are banned - a result of the country's invasion of Ukraine.
Meeting at a Chinese restaurant, she doesn't touch her food once we start talking about Ukraine. She'd arrived early, hungry, and ordered hotpot; a broth that's placed on to a small stove burner built into the table. Diners finish the dish themselves - adding vegetables, meat and noodles.
While we are talking, the broth starts to bubble, then boil away. Karpova doesn't even look at it.
She is careful with her words. But it is not that she is trying to censor herself - even though a new Russian law can lead to up to 15 years in jail for spreading anything the authorities consider to be 'fake news' about the military.
She isn't afraid to say something wrong, as is common among Russian athletes. Instead she is afraid of forgetting something important. And she is also trying hard not to speak only in swear words. The longer the interview goes on, the less careful she becomes.
"Russian propaganda is trying to persuade Russians that we are a very special nation and the whole world is against us and our 'unique mission'," she says.
"What unique mission are you talking about? I don't think that Russians are special. At the same time, I am not ashamed to be Russian, as Russia doesn't mean the government and Vladimir Putin.
"Putin took everything from us, he took our future. At the same time, he did it with our tacit consent. They [the government], didn't witness strong resistance. Most people were just closing their eyes to injustice, thinking it's not their business.
"I took part in two opposition rallies, the last one in support of [the main Russian opposition figure Alexei] Navalny when he was poisoned and imprisoned, but still, I don't think that I've done enough.
"These people who justify the war, they are hostages to propaganda. I feel sorry for them, and I believe we need to do everything to release them from it."
Russia are banned from Euro 2022, being held in England from 6-31 JulyKarpova was 22 when she arrived in Spain. Valencia had seen enough to offer her a contract after Euro 2017, even though she only made three substitute appearances as Russia failed to reach the knockout stage in the Netherlands.
A year earlier she'd been 'Backed by Lionel Messi' - the only female among nine young footballers from all over the world chosen to feature alongside the Argentine in an Adidas advertisement campaign.
Karpova's main motivation for relocation was mainly the level of women's football. The weather was a factor too - it is not much fun to play football in winter in Russia. But after moving to Spain, something fundamental changed within her.
"I stopped being afraid of certain things, for instance to speak out," she says. "I also understood that no one would blame me for living with a girl and that there is no stigma here for being a lesbian.
"Your coach can ask you here: 'Will your girlfriend come to a game?' I just thought wow. In Russia, people only ask if you have a boyfriend, here they say 'partner' - 'pareja'.
Since childhood, Karpova had been trying to hide her homosexuality, or least not to talk about it publicly. She tells a story about talks over her first professional contract.
The owner of the club, Rossiyanka, was trying to persuade her father to sign, promising that they would "look after your daughter, a lesbian".
Karpova says: "According to these people, lesbians needed special treatment. I was 18 then. My dad told this guy to... go away. He said that he was ready to discuss only football, not my sexual orientation.
"The difference between here and Russia, as an LGBT person, was huge."
In 2013, the 'promotion of homosexuality' among minors was made illegal in Russia under a new law supporters said was designed to protect so-called "traditional Russian values". There are no openly gay national team athletes in Russia. Karpova has never spoken publicly about her sexuality before. She even only told her mother a year ago.
"It's not a secret to anybody that the main problem of gay kids is that you are always in the closet," she says. "You are afraid to be judged by society. And when your state becomes the one who bullies you, it's just absurd.
"Now Russian propaganda is trying to discredit people who speak out against the war, by outing them.
"For instance, when Margarita Simonyan [editor-in-chief of state media outlet RT], was talking about [comedian and presenter] Maxim Galkin's anti-war position, she said: 'He is actually gay!' Like being gay means that you are a bad, disgusting person with no moral values."
Karpova has also played for Sevilla and Valencia in Spain, moving to Espanyol in 2020In March, Karpova was joined at Espanyol by fellow striker Tamila Khimych, who is Ukrainian. "When I first met with her, she looked at me cautiously," Karpova says. "Like she was not sure if I was pro-war and considered Ukrainians enemies.
"I wanted to cry. I was thinking about her family and friends, and if they are OK. It was such a horrible feeling to understand that she could lose loved ones.
"I'm just overwhelmed with emotions. I still can't believe sometimes that it is real, and it is happening."
Karpova was very glad to learn that her new team-mate's relatives are safe. But thousands have been killed, a lot of Ukrainians are still in danger as the war continues, and no one knows when it will end.
She admits that she is very glad that her current job is not connected to the Russian state in any way - in contrast to most professional Russian athletes. She thinks that it will probably be wise to skip a trip to Russia to visit her parents and friends this summer. But still, she hopes for change.
"I wish more and more Russians - Russian athletes too - would speak out so other people who are against the war know that they are not a minority," she says.
"You can't just pretend that nothing is happening, not any more. The time of silence should be over.
"They [this government] will go away one day, they are all old. When this happens, we will still be alive, and we should be ready to sort everything out.
"I hope it will happen very soon."
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Her natal Lilith is 1 Pisces, N.Node 8 Capricorn, S.Node 25 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 22 Sagittarius, N.Node 8 Taurus, and the S.Node is 9 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the story of Sasha Skochilenko. This is a noon chart.
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'The rules don't require it' Jailed protester Sasha Skochilenko has an autoimmune disease. Prison officials are ignoring her needs.
Meduza
Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant
In mid-April, Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko was charged with spreading "knowingly false information" about the Russian military's invasion of Ukraine after she replaced the price tags in a St. Petersburg grocery store with anti-war messages. She now faces up to 10 years in prison.
Skochilenko has now been in custody for over two weeks, or since April 11, when she was arrested at a friend's house after police reportedly forced the friend to trick her into coming over. Since the prosecution began, Skochilenko's relatives, supporters, and friends have been warning officials that she needs to stay on a gluten-free diet because she has celiac disease. The court ignored the warnings when choosing her pre-trial restrictions. Two weeks later, the fears have been confirmed: Skochilenko has been largely unable to obtain safe food, and, according to her lawyers, her health is deteriorating.
Until this past weekend, Skochilenko was being held in a temporary detention facility (IVS), despite the fact that the court decided to arrest her (and move her to a pre-trial detention center, or SIZO) on April 13. In the days immediately after the trial, the IVS staff cited the supposedly quick transfer to the pre-trial detention center as the reason they could not take any of the gluten-free food Skochilenko's supporters tried to send her; "during the transfer to the pre-trial detention center," they said, "most of a detainees' items get destroyed." Over the following week, reports that Skochilenko was slated to be transferred to SIZO No. 5 appeared on Telegram channels created by Skochilenko supporters, but the transfer still didn't happen. On April 19, supporters attempted to send Skochilenko some food, but a prison employee said she was not at SIZO No. 5. The IVS where Skochilenko was supposed to be transferred also refused to take the food.
On April 20 lawyer Yana Nepovinnova met with Skochilenko; afterwards, she reported that Skochilenko was "very sick," having being unable to maintain her gluten-free diet. By April 25 (by which time Skochilenko was transferred to the SIZO), according to Nepovinnova, Skochilenko's health had further deteriorated. "She met me with tears just now. It is clear that this person is very emotionally unstable," said Nepovinnova.
As far as her diet is concerned, nothing has changed; nobody has provided her with a gluten-free diet, and as a result, Sasha is experiencing major difficulties with nutrition. [...] She's not eating the food they give her in the SIZO, she doesn't even touch that food. Instead, she tries to get a little bit of food from her fellow inmates or eats from the small amount [of gluten-free food] that she has left.
Her well-being has absolutely not improved. She continues to experience pain, she feels very sick, and she's very afraid of having a nervous breakdown; it seems to me that her psychoemotional well-being is on the verge. She's trying hard to avoid this and to not give in to the circumstances surrounding her.
According to Nepovinnova, "she hadn't received a single package in the SIZO," and the food that was sent to her in the IVC "didn't make it" to the SIZO. On the following day, April 21, Skochilenko's partner, Sonya, managed to deliver her a package, but she says the prison's employees refused to deliver many of the foods she brought, including dates, protein bars, and protein mix. "So Sasha will now effectively only be eating instant food," said Sonya.
On April 25, the local division of Russia's Federal Prison Service (FSIN) told Interfax that the current rules "don't require the provision of separate or individual meals for people who need gluten-free food," but that deliveries of gluten-free food to inmates "are not prohibited" and will be accepted. The FSIN also claimed that no packages had arrived at SIZO No. 5 for Skochilenko, despite the fact that she had already received one package of food.
A petition in support of Sasha Skochilenko has received over 100 thousand signatures on Changes.org. Both Amnesty International and PEN America have criticized the Russian authorities' treatment of her. Costume designer Ksenia Sorokina, who recently won Russia's Golden Mask award, donated her award to Skochilenko "in appreciation for all that she's doing." A charity music festival was held in St. Petersburg to support Skochilenko. Local deputy Boris Vishnevsky has called on the St. Petersburg Prosecutor to intervene and alleviate Skochilenko's pre-trial restrictions.
Mental health activists and journalists have started a separate petition in Skochilenko's support. "Alexandra has made a huge contribution to the fight against prejudice against people with mental health disorders. In her "Book about Depression," she explained in simple terms what causes depression, which millions of Russians suffer from, and how it can be treated. The book was one of the first Russian language resources to draw attention to depression, which affects over 300 million people worldwide," said their statement.
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Her natal Lilith is 26 Capricorn, N.Node 3 Sagittarius, S.Node 15 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 2 Pisces, N.Node 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is 9 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the story of Brittney Griner who is a basketball star in America that was arrested in Russia on trumped up drug charges because Russia/Pig Putin is using her as a political pawn because of war in Ukraine that the Pig started in the first place. This is a noon chart.
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Brittney Griner appears in Russian court over drug charges
WNBA star could face 10 years in jail if convicted for possessing a "significant amount" of cannabis oil
WA Post
7/1/2022
RIGA, Latvia — A Russian prosecutor on Friday accused WNBA star Brittney Griner of transporting a "significant amount" of cannabis oil, according to Russian media reports on her trial, where she faces 10 years in prison if convicted.
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Griner, seated in a cage in the courtroom with a bottle of water and a bag of cookies, said she understood the charges. She did not enter a plea. Court officials initially barred media and cameras from the court, according to Russian media, but two journalists were later admitted.
Griner arrived at the courtroom in the Moscow suburb of Khimki wearing handcuffs and a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt to face charges that she was carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her baggage at a Moscow airport in February, a week before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"According to the expert's conclusion, the detected substance is cannabis oil, which is subject to control on the territory of the Russian Federation and is classified as a narcotic drug," the prosecutor told the court, according to Russian BFM radio.
Griner's lawyer Alexander Boikov, who spoke briefly to reporters after the case adjourned, said a customs official who searched Griner's bag gave evidence to the court Friday.
He said Griner did not make any comment on the charges, reserving the right to do so later. Another of her lawyers, Maria Blagovolina, said Griner had "no complaints over the conditions of her detention."
The court adjourned until July 7 to hear more evidence from witnesses.
Everything you need to know about Brittney Griner in Russia
Griner has been in custody since February and will remain there until December, pending the outcome of her trial. U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Elizabeth Rood and other U.S. diplomats attended her hearing.
Rood said that the United States was working "at the highest levels" to bring home Griner and all other Americans wrongfully detained around the globe.
"We care deeply about this case and about Ms. Griner's welfare, as do so many Americans, and as we do with all U.S. citizen prisoners overseas. We were able to speak to Ms. Griner in the courtroom today. She is doing as well as can be expected in these difficult circumstances," Rood said in an emailed statement.
Griner's case has been complicated by the severe downturn in relations between Washington and Moscow, and her supporters say she is a hostage and political pawn.
"The Russian Federation has wrongfully detained Brittney Griner," Rood's statement added. "The practice of wrongful detention is unacceptable wherever it occurs and is a threat to the safety of everyone traveling, working, and living abroad."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied there were any political motives behind the trial.
"I can only operate with facts. The facts show that the eminent athlete was detained with illegal drugs that contained narcotic substances. Russian legislation does have laws that provide for punishments for such crimes," Peskov said.
Peskov last week dismissed claims Griner was a hostage, saying that drug offenses are treated seriously in Russia and many other countries. "We cannot call her a hostage. Why should we call her a hostage?" he said.
Griner's supporters in the United States have called on President Biden to negotiate a prisoner swap like one in April, when Russia exchanged former Marine Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year prison sentence in Connecticut for drug trafficking. Reed had been jailed for nine years after being convicted of assault endangering the lives of police officers.
Brittney Griner's trial in Russia is set to start. Here's what to expect.
Griner is one of two Americans that the State Department says are being wrongfully held by Russia. Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan has been in jail since December 2018, when he traveled to Moscow for a friend's wedding and was arrested in his hotel room. He was sentenced to 16 years after being convicted of spying in a closed trial. He denies the charges and calls the case political.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that freeing wrongfully held Americans such as Whelan and Griner was his highest priority.
"I've got no higher priority than making sure that Americans who are being illegally detained in one way or another around the world come home, and that includes Paul Whelan and that includes Brittney Griner," he said in an interview with CNN, declining to comment on whether the U.S. government was seeking a prisoner exchange involving Whelan and Griner.
Russian media have speculated that Washington could exchange Griner for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is serving 25 years in the United States for conspiring to sell surface-to-air missiles to a foreign terrorist group and conspiring to kill U.S. citizens. Bout, the inspiration for the Nicholas Cage film "Lord of War," allegedly smuggled arms to warlords in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia for years — sometimes arming both sides in a conflict — until his 2008 arrest in Thailand and 2010 extradition to the United States. Russia calls Bout's arrest and conviction "unlawful and political" and has been demanding his release since 2008.
According to Russian customs officials, Griner was stopped at Sheremetyevo International Airport when a sniffer dog "indicated that drugs may be in the carry-on luggage of a United States citizen," a reference to Griner.
Customs officials said they found vapes in her luggage, which were later analyzed and found to contain cannabis oil. The customs agency posted video of the airport search apparently taken from surveillance cameras.
In early May, the State Department determined that Griner was being wrongfully held and shifted supervision of her case to Roger Carstens, presidential envoy for hostage affairs. The department has not elaborated on the basis for the judgment.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said at the time that the department weighed the circumstances in each case, "whether it's the case of Brittney Griner, whether it's the case of Paul Whelan, whether it's the case of Americans in Iran. There are going to be unique factors in each and every one of those cases."
Price said Griner was "fortunate to have a network who has supported her from day one," adding that the department had worked closely with her backers.
About a month before the invasion of Ukraine, the State Department issued a Level 4 security warning to Americans, stipulating "do not travel" to Russia because of the risk of arbitrary enforcement of the law and harassment by Russian officials, as well as tensions over Ukraine. It warned that State Department officials had a limited ability to help U.S. citizens in Russia.
"Russian officials have unreasonably delayed U.S. consular assistance to detained U.S. citizens and have arrested U.S. citizens on spurious charges, denied them fair and transparent treatment, and have convicted them in secret trials and/or without presenting evidence," the warning read.
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Trial of US basketball star Brittney Griner opens in Russia
Agence France-Presse
July 01, 2022
The trial of US basketball star Brittney Griner, detained in Russia since February, opened on Friday as tensions rage over Moscow's offensive in Ukraine.
"The trial has started," Polina Vdovtsova, the spokeswoman for the court in the town of Khimki outside Moscow, told reporters.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and WNBA champion, faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of drug smuggling.
The trial was partially closed, with a limited media presence, which Vdovtsova said was "on the request of the defence, the request of Griner herself".
The six-foot-nine star was brought into court in handcuffs. She wore a white T-shirt with US music icon Jimi Hendrix on it.
The 31-year-old came to Russia in February to play there during the US off-season, and was detained at a Moscow airport after she was found carrying vape cartridges with cannabis oil in her luggage.
Griner was detained days before Russian President Vladimir Putin defied US warnings and sent troops into Ukraine, prompting Western powers to impose sweeping sanctions on Moscow.
US authorities initially kept a low profile on the case, which was not made known to the general public until March 5.
But against the backdrop of sinking relations, Washington now says that Russia "wrongfully detained" the basketball star and put its special envoy in charge of hostages on the case.
The WNBA has also said it is working to bring Griner home.
She was due to play club basketball in Russia before the resumption of the US season, a common practice for American stars seeking additional income.
Tough sentences
Russian law is strict in such cases and other foreigners have recently been handed heavy sentences on drug-related charges.
Last month a Moscow court sentenced a former US diplomat, Marc Fogel, to 14 years in prison for "large-scale" cannabis smuggling.
Russia and the United States regularly clash over the detention of each other's citizens and sometimes exchange them in scenes reminiscent of the Cold War.
In April, former US Marine Trevor Reed, serving a nine-year sentence in Russia for violence, was exchanged for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, imprisoned in the US since 2010 for drug trafficking.
Other exchanges of this type could be the subject of possible talks, observers say.
Among the names most mentioned is that of Paul Whelan, an American sentenced to 16 years in prison for espionage, and the Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, nicknamed "The Merchant of Death", who is serving a 25-year sentence in the US.
In January 2020, Putin pardoned a young Israeli-American woman, Naama Issachar, imprisoned in Russia for "drug trafficking" after then-Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu met with him in Moscow, and brought her home.
She was stopped in April 209 during a transit at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport while flying between India and Israel via the Russian capital.
Authorities said they found nine grams of cannabis in her luggage.
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Russia Hints at Linking Griner's Case to Fate of 'Merchant of Death'
Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer, is serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States.
Click here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/us/politics/brittney-griner-trial-russia.html
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Her natal Lilith is 29 Capricorn, N.Node 8 Sagittarius, S.Node 18 cancer. Her natal Amazon is 29 Aquarius, N.Node 4 Gemini, and the S.Node is 16 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Yulia Tymoshenko is the former prime minister of Ukraine. This is a noon chart.
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Yulia Tymoshenko on war in Ukraine: 'It's a chance for the free world to kill this evil'
Luke Harding and Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv
Exclusive: Former PM discusses 'cold, cruel' Vladimir Putin and the west's response to the Russian invasion
Guardian
Wed 8 Jun 2022
Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has described Vladimir Putin as "absolutely rational, cold, cruel, black evil" and claimed he is determined to go down in Russian history alongside Stalin and Peter the Great.
In an exclusive interview, Tymoshenko dismissed the suggestion that the Russian president was "crazy". "He acts according to his own dark logic," she said. "He's driven by this idea of historic mission and wants to create an empire. That's his hyper-goal. It comes from a deep inner desire and belief."
Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 Orange revolution and twice prime minister, had several one-on-one meetings with Putin. They held negotiations in 2009 after Putin, then prime minister, turned off the gas supply to Ukraine. Tymoshenko stood for president in 2010, 2014 and 2019, finishing second twice and then third.
Close up, Putin was "always cautious" in what he said and always suspicious that he might be being taped, she said. "He is from a KGB school," she said. Before Russia's full-scale invasion in February, he made no secret of his belief that there was "no such nation as Ukraine, and no such people as Ukrainians", she said.
His ambitions went beyond seizing Ukrainian territory and toppling its pro-western, pro-Nato government, Tymoshenko suggested. His geopolitical aim was to take over Belarus, Georgia and Moldova as well, and to control central and eastern Europe including the Baltic states, just as Moscow did in Soviet times, she said.
Tymoshenko was in Kyiv on 24 February when Russia launched a multi-pronged attack in the early hours. She said peacetime political rivalries and grudges immediately vanished. That morning she went to the presidential administration together with other senior opposition figures and met Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whom she ran against in 2019.
"We hugged each other and shook hands. Everyone was shocked, pale and afraid. None of us planned to leave Kyiv," she said. "Everyone knew we should stand until the last. We agreed to support our president and our army and to work for victory." Zelenskiy's decision to remain in the capital and to "overcome his fear" was important, she said.
As Russian bombs fell, Tymoshenko took refuge in the basement of the modern office building belonging to her Batkivshchyna political party in Kyiv's Podil district, which was hit several times by missiles. Asked if she was ready to shoot Russian soldiers, she said: "Yes. I have legal weapons. The Kremlin put me on a kill list, according to sources. We were prepared."
The Russian government had always considered her an enemy, Tymoshenko said. She pointed to her support for Ukraine's membership of the EU and Nato. In the 2010 presidential election she stood against Viktor Yanukovych, who was backed by Moscow. She blamed her defeat on the outgoing president at the time, Viktor Yushchenko, a one-time Orange revolution ally.
The following year Yanukovych had Tymoshenko jailed in a case widely seen as politically motivated. "Putin and Yanukovych imprisoned me. Yanukovych was never an independent player. He was always Putin's puppet," she said. She got out of prison in 2014 when Yanukovych fled to Moscow after the Maidan anti-corruption protests. Weeks later Putin annexed Crimea and instigated a separatist uprising in the east of Ukraine.
Tymoshenko spoke in her downtown office decorated with the Ukrainian flag and photos showing her with western leaders including Margaret Thatcher. She praised the "unbelievable unity" of the "anti-Putin coalition" and singled out the UK and Boris Johnson for special mention, as well as the US, Canada and Poland. "We see Britain as a part of the broader Ukrainian family," she said.
Last weekend France's president, Emmanuel Macron, said it was important not to "humiliate" Putin – a phrase interpreted as meaning Ukraine should sacrifice some of its territory in exchange for a realpolitik deal with Moscow. Tymoshenko said France and Germany – criticised for slow-pedalling on arms deliveries – should not be ostracised as Europe grappled with its worst security crisis in decades.
But she said Ukraine's international partners had to understand that the only way to end the war was to crush Russian forces on the battlefield. Without naming anybody, she said they should not become "co-conspirators with evil". She added: "There is no such thing as a peace agreement with Putin because it doesn't lead to peace. It would lead to a new war several years later."
The stakes for her country were existential, she said. The Kremlin's objective was to "depersonify" Ukraine, stripping it of its language and culture, and leaving it weak and "atomised". The civilised world had a unique opportunity to stop Russia and to prevent it from spreading "war, corruption, blackmail, disinformation and unfreedom," she said.
Russia had largely given up on the pretence that it was only targeting Ukrainian military infrastructure, Tymoshenko said. The murder of civilians – in cities in the Kyiv region such as Bucha and Irpin, as well as in other areas – was cruel and deliberate, she said, with Russian soldiers following Moscow's instructions.
"It's an inseparable part of their genocide against the Ukrainian nation," she said. "What happened in Mariupol was even worse than in Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel. I'm convinced we will be able to take back Mariupol and to uncover the scale of the horrible killings there. It was a tragedy, a human catastrophe of an unthinkable scale."
Considering her words, the veteran politician concluded: "This is a great battle for our territory and our freedom. It's a historic chance for the free world to kill this evil."
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko
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Her natal Lilith is 21 Pisces, N.Node 17 Sagittarius, S.Node 3 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 23 Sagittarius, N.Node 16 Taurus, and the S.Node is 25 Scorpio.
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Hi Rad and All,
I would like to share something I was just noticing relative to the astonishing beauty of the universe that came with new satellite images from NASA, that it was not only with the full moon in Pluto's nodes (and Pluto) but also when Ceres was also at Pluto's NNm with all trining Neptune retrograde... Remembering Ceres is about recovering something from the past and cycles of becoming, how cool is it that we got this incredible beautiful images from the past of the Universe! Wow... And venus, the ruler of the current moon's node, was in gemini conjunct ceres NN. Just amazing.
Wish blessings to all,
Helena
P.S. Lilith is also conjunct full moon axis, Pluto's NN, and Ceres
Hi Helena,
Just incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is an interview of Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot. This is a noon chart.
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Interview: Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova: 'You cannot play nice with Putin. He is insane. He might open fire on his own people'
The Russian artist – who spent two years in a Siberian jail for singing an anti-Putin 'punk prayer' – is using NFTs to fight the dictator, raising $7m in five days. At a time like this, she says, only activism will keep you sane
'I'm in a panic, I'm crying every day'
Zoe Williams
Guardian
Nadya Tolokonnikova is in a geographically undisclosed location, speaking to me on Zoom, in a Pussy Riot T-shirt, looking purposeful, driven and singleminded. Her feminist protest art has been deadly serious since its inception, when she founded Pussy Riot in 2011. The watching world may have been entertained by its playful notes, the guerrilla gigs in unauthorised places, culminating in the event for which she was prosecuted, in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, when she sang Punk Prayer: Mother of God, Drive Putin Away.
But the consequences have always been seismic and severe. Tolokonnikova, along with two other members of Pussy Riot, were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism in 2012, separated from their very young children, went on hunger strike, endured unimaginably harsh conditions and were named prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International.
Tolokonnikova is "nomadic by nature", she says. "This planet is my home. I've always been an anarchist. I'm not really a big fan of borders or nation states." But beneath those abstracts there are concrete dangers. She was declared a "foreign agent" by the Kremlin in December, as was the independent news outlet she founded upon her release from prison, Mediazone.
"Putin just signed a law that said you're going to get 15 years in jail for even discussing the war in Ukraine," she says matter-of-factly. "You cannot even call it a war, you have to call it a special military operation." The jeopardy of being a known Russian dissident is greater now than it has been in decades, and nobody understands that more keenly than Tolokonnikova, who was born in 1989, too young to remember Perestroika.
Yet her focus is anything but self-protective. When Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February, she and various collaborators from the world of cryptocurrency launched the Ukraine DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation). It was a 1/1 non-fungible token (NFT) of the Ukrainian flag, and the group invited people to bid for collective ownership of the image, raising $7.1m in five days.
"We felt, me and my friends in crypto, that we had to react somehow. I'm personally convinced that in situations like this, activism is the only thing that can keep you sane. Just looking at disasters and tragedies and not doing anything about it is really detrimental for the world, but also it slowly destroys you and makes you feel helpless." The money has already been distributed to the organisation Come Back Alive, which has been mobilising support for the Ukrainian army since 2014 with medical care, ammunition, training and defence analytics.
If you fight with a dictator like Putin, you have to show them that you are ready to die – and I was
Tolokonnikova is devastated by the invasion of Ukraine. "I'm in a panic, I'm crying every day. I don't think it was in any sense necessary, I don't think it was in any sense logical. It wasn't something that had to happen, it's a disaster that will end thousands of people's lives. I'm freaking out." Yet she never had the luxury of complacency about what Putin was capable of. "The global community was extremely complacent, and I see two reasons: hypocrisy, based on greed. People would make statements that they did not support Putin's politics, and his oppression of the political opposition, and the wars that he started – this isn't the first war by any means. But at the same time they would continue doing business with him." Nobody was interested in following the money; asking how the oligarchs coming out of Russia, fetching up in Europe and Miami, had come upon their vast wealth.
"Stupidity," she continues, bluntly. "This is the second reason. People underestimate how dangerous dictators are. In 2014, we spoke to the UK parliament, we spoke at the Senate in the US, we were asked by a lot of people how they should talk to Putin, how they should frame the conversation, and I always advised that they should be as strict as they could. You cannot play nice with Putin." This wisdom was won, not so much by her arrest for offending the thin-skinned leader but during her time in prison. "Dictators act a lot like prison wardens. They treat kindness as weakness."
During her sentence and following her release in 2014, Tolokonnikova campaigned in ways that political prisoners throughout history would recognise. First, with a hunger strike. "Starting that, I was pretty much ready to die. If you fight with a dictator, you have to show them that you are ready to fight to the end. I think this is why Ukraine is actually winning: they might lose some cities but they are willing to fight to the end, and that is not the case for the Russian army."
She gained support worldwide, and from figures such as Madonna and Hillary Clinton. She began to exchange letters with the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek which were subsequently turned into a book, Comradely Greetings. What she remembers now, though, was the concrete impact on prison conditions. A week into her hunger strike, Putin's right-hand man on human rights called her personally, in prison, to discuss the brutal conditions she was protesting against: 18-hour days of labour with only one day off every six weeks; very little sleep; horrific violence at the hands of guards and other inmates.
"This was fairly insane. I was the lowest person on the social ladder and he had to call me." Later, the prison director and architect of this slave labour system, Yury Kupriyanov, was convicted for it and served a suspended two-year sentence, and the Russian correctional headquarters "had to make a statement. They named me and said I was right."
Everything I'm doing is to be a greater pain in the arse to Putin
Tolokonnikova's sentence left its mark: "I was traumatised by prison. I was barely functional when I got released. I suffered from a really severe depression in 2014. I'm still on medication for depression caused by PTSD." The daughter from whom she was separated while she was imprisoned is now 14. "She's a social democrat," Tolokonnikova says approvingly, if wryly. "She says that in her generation, people want greater equality."
Her experience hasn't blunted her activism, which is now concentrated at the frontier of technological possibility. She originally thought cryptocurrencies were just a toy for rich techies but their potential for activists – being independent of central banks and governments, immune to corporate takeover – dawned on her in early 2021, and since then she has raised: "Quite substantial sums for different charitable causes. We raised money for a shelter for victims of domestic violence. We were able to move dozens of women from a really dangerous place in Russia, outside of Russia. We raised money in August of last year for political prisoners in Russia."
Besides that, today she is helping to launch the UnicornDAO, a crypto fund whose mission is to buy artworks from female and LGBTQ+ artists. "It's not going to be just buying up their works of art; we're going to be working with them, helping them in various ways to have stable and sustainable careers." Unicorn's first purchase was by the Russian-born, New York-based artist Olive Allen.
"I feel like the NFT world is a great way to redistribute money," Tolokonnikova says, "but we see these old patterns being repeated. Misogyny doesn't go anywhere, it just migrates over to digital artwork. Women account for only 5% of all NFT sales. It's so much more difficult to prove there is value in your words if you happen to be a woman."
These explorations in crypto can sound mercurial, one minute driving cultural change, the next raising money, the next trying to create democratic agency independent of nation states – and it's by no means clear what that would look like – but Tolokonnikova's reading of Russian politics, and what it would take to force change, is entirely practical. It would take "a mass uprising, millions of people coming to the streets and refusing to leave until Putin is gone. That is obviously incredibly dangerous. Putin is insane, so he might open fire at his own people. I definitely understand why everybody is not already on the streets."
Alongside that, "another force of change may come from Putin's closet circle. I honestly think Putin is digging his own grave now. The number of oligarchs who are close to him, who have publicly supported Ukraine and are standing against the wa is significant, and that hasn't happened in 20 years."
She sees a worthy successor to Putin in opposition leader Alexei Navalny. "Better social programmes, and redistribution, that's all part of his programme. I've known him since 2007 – it has been really interesting to witness his platform become more and more social democratic, even though he doesn't describe himself as that. He doesn't use labels. I think it's smart. He doesn't want to divide people." And as she recalls her own time in prison, Tolokonnikova urges the world not to forget that Navalny still languishes in jail. Her own work, specifically the UnicornDAO, "is not connected to Putin directly anyhow. But everything I'm doing is to be a greater pain in the arse to Putin because it's so personal to me."
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Her natal Lilith is 9 Sagittarius, N.Node 12 Sagittarius, S.Node 14 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 22 Sagittarius, N.Node 26 Taurus, and the S.Node is 20 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
This is the story of Maria Ressais a Filipino-American journalist and author, the co-founder and CEO of Rappler, and the first Filipino recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. This is a noon chart.
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Defiant Philippine Nobel laureate Ressa fights for her freedom
Agence France-Presse
July 14, 2022
Less than a year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to protect free speech, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa is fighting to stay out of jail while her news site Rappler faces possible closure.
But the spirited veteran reporter -- a vocal critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte and his deadly drug war -- refuses to be cowed into silence.
"This is a newsroom that's been under attack for six years and we've prepared ourselves," Ressa, 58, told AFP this week at Rappler's office in suburban Manila.
"We will not voluntarily give up our rights."
Rappler, which Ressa co-founded a decade ago, had to battle for survival under Duterte as his government accused it of violating a constitutional ban on foreign ownership, as well as tax evasion.
Days before Duterte's term ended on June 30, the company received a shutdown order from the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Less than two weeks later, Ressa lost an appeal against a 2020 conviction for cyber libel, putting her one step closer to serving up to nearly seven years behind bars.
Drawing on decades of experience working as a journalist across Asia, including in conflict zones, Ressa said she had to be "ready for anything".
"This is something I do as a person, whatever it is I'm most afraid of, I think about the worst-case scenario and then I plan it out," said the former CNN correspondent, who is on bail.
Ressa is facing seven court cases, including the cyber libel conviction, while Rappler faces eight.
Their lawyers describe the cases as "state-sponsored legal harassment".
Trouble for Ressa and Rappler started in 2016 when Duterte came to power and launched a drug war in which more than 6,200 people died in police anti-narcotics operations, official data show.
Rights groups estimate tens of thousands were killed.
Rappler was among the domestic and foreign media outlets that published shocking images of the killings and questioned the crackdown's legal basis.
Local broadcaster ABS-CBN -- also critical of Duterte -- lost its free-to-air license, while Ressa and Rappler endured what press freedom advocates say was a grinding series of criminal charges, probes and online attacks.
Duterte's government said previously it had nothing to do with any of the cases against Ressa.
After the SEC shutdown order, Ressa said the online harassment increased "exponentially" and has continued since the son and namesake of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos succeeded Duterte.
"This was the largest spike for sure. It hasn't stopped, it's been pretty much non-stop," said Ressa.
"The attacks are always connected to a defense of the Marcos administration."
- 'Make or break' -
Ressa became a journalist in 1986, the same year that the elder Marcos was ousted in a popular revolt and his family chased into exile in the United States.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr won the May 9 presidential polls by a landslide, completing a remarkable comeback for the clan, helped by relentless online whitewashing of their past and powerful alliances with rival elite families.
Ressa said she was hopeful Marcos Jr would rule differently to his father, who presided over human rights abuses, corruption and the shuttering of independent media.
But the pattern in the past three weeks, including the social media attacks, "bodes ill for press freedom and for Filipino journalists", she said.
"It hasn't been magnanimity in victory," said Ressa.
"This is not one or two people not being nice -- these are concerted information operations."
Some of her colleagues at Rappler, where the average age of staff, including reporters, is about 25, have also been targeted.
As Ressa and the company fight to have the SEC and cyber libel decisions overturned, their future is uncertain.
She had hoped that winning the Nobel Peace Prize in October, which she shared with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, would shield her and other journalists in the Philippines.
While Marcos Jr has given few clues about his views on Rappler and the broader issue of freedom of speech, activists fear he could make the situation worse.
Ressa said the outcome of the cases against her and Rappler could have broader implications for Filipinos and their rights.
She points to the controversial cyber libel law, which she has been accused of violating. It was introduced in 2012 and applied to an article published by Rappler months before the law took effect.
"This is make or break," Ressa said.
"What's at stake goes beyond my freedom or Rappler. It really will determine where this country will go."
© 2022 AFP
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More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ressa
Her natal Lilith is 1 Sagittarius, N.Node 5 Sagittarius, S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 7 Leo, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node 12 Scorpio.
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Goddess Bless, Rad
HI All,
I am posting a short documentary on various women in Russia who are trying to oppose Pig Putin's war on Ukraine in the best and only ways they can. To me these women are true Goddesses.
Please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHzPrayS8dU
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart of Joni Mitchell who is true goddess in our times. The chart is accurate relative to her time of birth
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'She Schooled Us All': Inside Joni Mitchell's Stunning Return to Newport Folk Festival
Festival organizers and performers share the joyful, surprising story behind Mitchell's first full set in 20 years
Rolling Stone
7/29/2022
Last July, Brandi Carlile had a provocation for her friend Jay Sweet, the head of Newport Folk Festival. "One year from now," Sweet remembers her telling him. "I bet you we can bring Joni Mitchell to this stage."
The festival head was skeptical. A few years back, he had witnessed a magical moment at a show in Los Angeles when Mitchell was reunited with her old friend Mavis Staples, whom she hadn't seen in many years. When the two singers met, they butterfly-kissed, nose to nose, for a full 30 seconds without speaking. It was an unforgettable moment, but that evening had also left Sweet with the impression that Mitchell was not in any physical condition to perform for a live festival audience. "I gotta be honest with you," Sweet remembers telling Carlile when she proposed her idea. "You are the manifester of miracles, but you may have overshot on this one."
One year later to the day, Joni Mitchell made a triumphant, emotional return to the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, where she had performed multiple times in the Sixties, and where she now gave her first full set in over 20 years. Mitchell's performance was the culmination of the singer's strength, determination, and resilience after spending years teaching herself how to walk, sing, and play guitar again in the years following her 2015 aneurysm. "I'm learning," the 78-year-old songwriter told CBS before her Sunday evening performance. "It's amazing what an aneurysm knocks out — how to get out of a chair....You have to relearn everything."
By the time she left the stage on Sunday, Mitchell had relearned all of those things and more. She thrilled and devastated the crowd with a 13-song set in which she reinterpreted her older material, told stories, sang cover songs from her childhood, and even stood up for a thrilling electric guitar solo on "Just Like This Train."
"She schooled us all in real time," says Celisse, the singer-guitarist who performed a reimagined "Help Me" as part of the all-star cast of musicians (also including Blake Mills, Lucius, Taylor Goldsmith, Marcus Mumford, Allison Russell, and more) accompanying Mitchell on stage. "Joni did this brilliant thing where would be singing these lyrics you've heard a million times, but all of a sudden, she would beat you to the punch and phrase the line in a new, even more musical way. And you'd think, 'Fuck, what a new, interesting way to think about it.'"
Celisse continues: "She's not the soprano she used to be, but my god, her alto is so rich and deep and wise, and her sense of how to interpret her music today, in her seventies, is even more profound than it was when she wrote the music."
She singles out Mitchell's performance of songs like "Come In From the Cold" and "Both Sides Now" as radically vital present-day artistic regimaginations. "The way she was using rhythm as a storytelling device was really profound," Celisse says. (In the former song, Mitchell sang the song's chorus early, ahead of the beat, as if to exaggerate the respite and longing expressed in the song's refrain.) Over the years, Celisse has taken part in many tribute concerts to aging legends before, but if one thing was clear to her, it's that Mitchell's performance was no ordinary case of honoring someone who's past their artistic prime. "This was not a situation in which we were pulling her along," she says. "She was pulling us along. We were the dead weights, quite frankly."
Mitchell put it more simply just days before she took the stage: "I've never been nervous about being in front of an audience," she told CBS. "But I wanted it to be good."
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiluPSmAF8
And although she's received a lot of attention and credit for helping coordinate this historic performance, in the days after the performance, Carlile has made it clear that this moment is ultimately about only one person. "Watching [Joni] get herself to this point has changed my whole outlook on life," Carlile tweeted. "What she's accomplished with her body belongs to Joni Mitchell and Joni alone."
The first time Celisse played her version of "Help Me" for her hero, it was at one of Mitchell's now-legendary "Joni Jams" at her Los Angeles home this past October. Mitchell loved her interpretation, so much so that, as Celisse remembers, she asked Celisse to promise she'd return for another jam. When Celisse joked to Mitchell that she'd be happy to move in and start sleeping under the pool table, Mitchell replied, "Sarah Vaughan slept right under that pool table many times."
Several months after that unforgettable October evening, Celisse says she received a request to play at Newport as part of a set billed as "Brandi Carlile and Friends." She was aware of the rumblings about what such a set could end up becoming, but says she didn't know of any definite plans for Mitchell to return to the folk festival of her youth until a few months ago.
A few weeks before the show, a potential set list circulated, and Celisse learned that she would be playing "Help Me." The musicians involved all hopped on a Zoom call to discuss keys and musical specifics a week before Mitchell took the stage; two days before the performance, Mitchell rehearsed with the band in Rhode Island. But according to Sweet, no one was absolutely certain Mitchell would take the stage on Sunday night until the moment the show began. There were times, the festival organizer says, where it seemed like she might not perform. Then, four hours or so before the set on Sunday, Carlile called Sweet: "I think it's gonna happen," he remembers Carlile telling him.
Mitchell has a strong personal connection to the folk festival. She met Leonard Cohen and James Taylor on its grounds ("Good friends for my life," she told CBS). Singers of Mitchell's generation still hold a special reverence for Newport, so much so that when Paul Simon surprised the festival by making his debut there the day before Mitchell's set, Sweet recalls him being amazed by photos in his dressing room of artists like Big Mama Thornton and Sister Rosetta Tharpe at the festival. "He was bragging, like, 'I'm playing Newport,'" says Sweet.
Pulling off the logistics of Mitchell's return to the stage wasn't easy. The festival operates on a small non-profit budget, and none of the artists who appeared onstage with Mitchell received any fee for their performance. The entire performance would not have been able to happen had George Wein, the festival's late founder, not left money when he died last year specifically to help Sweet book his most sought-after artists.
In the days since her performance with Mitchell, Celisse has hardly been able to contain her own joy and amazement. "I'm calling you from the clouds," she says when she speaks with Rolling Stone two days after the show. But more than anything, she's astounded by what she witnessed on Sunday evening: the artistic, physical, and musical triumph of a legend who's overcome as much as Mitchell has.
"All of us have been witness to this progression, but I don't think anybody, quite honestly, other than Joni, understood what she was capable of," she says. "Watching her on stage, it was like, 'Oh my god, there's even more in there than any of us even expected. There's more."
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Here is the story of Droupadi Murmu the first tribal person to have power in India. This is noon chart.
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Droupadi Murmu sworn in as India's first tribal president in 'watershed' moment
Agence France-Presse
July 25, 2022
Droupadi Murmu was sworn in as India's president on Monday, making her the first person from one of the country's marginalized tribal communities to serve as head of state.
The former school teacher and state governor was elected to the largely ceremonial position last week with 64 percent of the vote by members of India's parliament and state assemblies.
Murmu, who is from the Santhal tribe and was born in eastern Odisha state, paid her respects before her inauguration at a memorial dedicated to India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi.
"I started my life journey from a small tribal village," Murmu, 64, said after taking the oath of office in parliament.
"From the background I come from, it was like a dream for me to even get elementary education," she added.
"But despite many obstacles, my resolve remained strong and I became the first daughter from my village to go to college."
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Murmu's win was considered a certainty because of the strength of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies in the parliament and state assemblies.
Analysts said the move will likely help Prime Minister Narendra Modi extend his base among the poor tribal communities ahead of his re-election bid in 2024.
"Her assuming the Presidency is a watershed moment for India especially for the poor, marginalized and downtrodden," Modi said on Twitter after Murmu's address.
Murmu said her election would give hope to those left behind by India's recent economic growth.
"It is a matter of great satisfaction to me that those who have been deprived for centuries, who have been away from the benefits of development... are seeing their reflection in me," she said.
India's prime minister wields executive power, but the president can send back some parliamentary bills for reconsideration and also plays a guiding role in the process of forming governments.
Murmu is the country's second woman president after Pratibha Patil, who held the position for five years from 2007.
She succeeds Ram Nath Kovind, the second president from the Dalit community, the bottom of the Hindu caste system.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droupadi_Murmu
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Her natal Lilith is 2 Libra, N.Node 17 Sagittarius, N.Node 23 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 7 Leo, N.Node 1 Gemini, and the S.Node 9 Scorpio.
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Linda Jean Burney (born 25 April 1957) is an Australian politician and is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing Barton since the 2016 federal election. She is Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Albanese ministry, and the first Aboriginal woman to serve in that position.
Burney was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Canterbury for Labor from 2003 to 2016. She was the New South Wales Deputy Leader of the Opposition and was also Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. In the Keneally ministry, she was the Minister for the State Plan and Minister for Community Services. During 2008 and 2009, Burney was National President of the Labor Party.
Burney was the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament in 2003, and also the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 2016.
After the election of a federal Labor government in the 2022 election on 21 May 2022, Burney was appointed Minister for Indigenous Australians.
Early life and education
Burney was born on 25 April 1957 in Whitton, a small town in south-west New South Wales near Leeton, and grew up there. She is of Wiradjuri and Scottish descent. She said in her inaugural speech to NSW Parliament that she did not grow up knowing her Aboriginal family, and only met her father, Nonny Ingram, in 1984. She subsequently met ten brothers and sisters. She was raised by her elderly aunt and uncle, siblings Nina and Billy Laing, who "gave [her] the ground on which [she] stood" and taught her "the values of honesty, loyalty and respect".
Burney attended the local primary school in Whitton. She did her first four years of secondary school at Leeton High School and final two at Penrith High School.
She was the first Aboriginal graduate[citation needed] from the Mitchell College of Advanced Education, where she obtained a Diploma of Teaching and a PhD.
Career in education
She began her career teaching at Lethbridge Park public school in western Sydney from 1979[6] to 1981, after which she worked at the Aboriginal Education Unit (Policy) of the NSW Department of Education from 1981 to 1983.
She was involved in the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (NSW AEGG) from the 1983 to 1998,[2] participating in the development and implementation of the first Aboriginal education policy in Australia.[6] She became president of AEGG in 1988.
Aboriginal Affairs
In 1998 Burney was appointed deputy director general of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (NSW), and assumed the role of director general from 2000 to 2003.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Burney and https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/16/linda-burney-launches-campaign-to-raise-support-for-referendum-on-first-nations-voice-to-parliament
Her natal Lilith is 28 Gemini, N.Node 7 Capricorn, S.Node 6 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 3 Gemini, N.Node 18 Taurus, and the S.Node is 00/08 Sagittarius.
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Here is the story of Sacheen Littlefeather. This is a noon chart.
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Academy Awards apologises to Sacheen Littlefeather for Oscars speech abuse
Nearly 50 years after her speech on behalf of Marlon Brando about depiction of Native Americans, academy apologises for 'unwarranted and unjustified' response
Andrew Pulver
Guardian
Tue 16 Aug 2022 01.14 BST
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), the body that oversees the Oscars, has issued a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist who appeared at the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony as part of Marlon Brando's refusal to accept his award.
Brando was awarded the best actor Oscar for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather, but did not attend as a protest in support of Native American rights, in part inspired by the ongoing two-month occupation of the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre by the American Indian Movement (AIM). Instead, Littlefeather declined to accept the statuette from presenters Roger Moore and Liv Ullmann, and made a short speech, in which she said that Brando's stance was due to "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry ... and on television, in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee."
'I promised Brando I would not touch his Oscar': the secret life of Sacheen Littlefeather ..Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/i-promised-brando-i-would-not-touch-his-oscar-secret-life-sacheen-littlefeather
The speech was greeted with jeers from the audience, and Littlefeather, then 26, later reported that actor John Wayne had to be restrained by security guards backstage from assaulting her, while other individuals backstage made offensive gestures.
Ampas has issued a statement of reconciliation signed by its former president David Rubin that described her appearance as "a powerful statement that continues to remind us of the necessity of respect and the importance of human dignity".
"The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified. The emotional burden you have lived through and the cost to your own career in our industry are irreparable. For too long the courage you showed has been unacknowledged. For this, we offer both our deepest apologies and our sincere admiration." The organisation has also planned an evening of "conversation, reflection, healing, and celebration", including an appearance by Littlefeather with Bird Runningwater, co-chair of the Academy's Indigenous Alliance.
Littlefeather, now 75, responded by saying: "Regarding the Academy's apology to me, we Indians are very patient people – it's only been 50 years! We need to keep our sense of humour about this at all times. It's our method of survival."
Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Oscars.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day," she added. This is a dream come true. It is profoundly heartening to see how much has changed since I did not accept the Academy Award 50 years ago."
Watch: https://youtu.be/2QUacU0I4yU
The Wounded Knee occupation started in February 1973, and was a highly publicised protest by a 200-strong group of Oglala Lakota and members of AIM on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, on the same site where some 290 Lakota were killed by the US army in 1890. The Oscars took place in March, and the occupation ended in May after agreement with federal authorities to disarm.
In 2021, Littlefeather told the Guardian that she arrived at the ceremony only a few minutes before Brando's award was announced, and had been given an eight-page speech by Brando to read if he won. However, the show's director Howard Koch told her she could only have 60 seconds and so she improvised a speech instead. She also said she promised Brando that she would not touch the statuette. "I went up there like a warrior woman. I went up there with the grace and the beauty and the courage and the humility of my people. I spoke from my heart."
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacheen_Littlefeather
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Here is the story of Glennon Doyle. This is a noon chart.
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Glennon Doyle chose honesty. Now fans are following her lead
Doyle, the parenting writer turned feminist icon, bares even more of herself on her podcast — inspiring listeners to do the same
By Ellen McCarthy
August 27, 2022
WA Post
Monica Huckabay, who works at an emergency response company in Texas, stopped straightening her natural hair day after day. And she stopped letting bigoted comments slide at the office.
Abby Mercer, a nonprofit executive in Indiana, stopped hanging out with friends who weren't supportive. She rethought everything she had learned growing up in a culture that prized "purity" in girls. And she started dating women.
Rachel Zentner, a therapist in Wisconsin, started being more honest with the people in her life — about her own eating disorder, her alcoholism, her relationship problems.
The women don't know each other, but they share something in common: The changes they made in their lives were inspired, at least in part, by Glennon Doyle, the former Christian parenting blogger turned feminist icon. They are part of the latest chapter of the Doyle story, the one where women who watched with fascination as she hit the eject button on her old life start questioning the confines of their own.
You remember Doyle's story, right? Her viral blog posts about parenting young children and finding her place within Christianity were turned into a best-selling essay collection. Which was followed up by another bestseller about how she learned that her husband had been cheating on her and how they struggled to save the marriage. Which was published just as Doyle was separating from the aforementioned husband after falling madly in love with soccer legend Abby Wambach, to whom she is now married.
Doyle regrets none of it. She opened her most recent book, "Untamed," with an essay about a conversation she imagines having with a cheetah named Tabitha she encounters at a zoo. "Something's off about my life," Doyle imagines the cheetah saying, lamenting her cage and fantasizing about "fence-less, wide-open savannas" — then chiding herself for doing so, saying: "I should be grateful. I have a good enough life here. It's crazy to long for what doesn't even exist."
"Tabitha, you are not crazy," Doyle imagines herself responding. "You are a goddamn cheetah."
Doyle thought the book was doomed when it published in March 2020, as the pandemic was changing people's lives in all the wrong ways. As it turned out, a period of interminable lockdowns — which proved uniquely disruptive and burdensome for women — had plenty of people in the mood to imagine themselves as cheetahs accelerating across a distant plain. Doyle's book sold more than 2 million copies. (Actress Sarah Paulson is slated to play Doyle in a television adaptation, which is being developed by J.J. Abrams's production company.)
Then, in May 2021, Doyle launched a podcast, "We Can Do Hard Things," featuring conversations with her sister, Amanda Doyle — a quick-witted former lawyer with two little kids and a degree in gender studies. "Since everyone has their own podcast, I felt, like, embarrassed to even entertain the idea of starting a podcast," Glennon Doyle told The Washington Post in a Zoom interview from the home she and Wambach share outside of Los Angeles.
Still, she was eager to continue the conversations "Untamed" had started and was increasingly convinced that social media is a toxic, polarizing environment in which to do that. So she went ahead with it.
"Our hypothesis here is that we can make life for ourselves and you just a teeny smidge easier by talking about hard things," Doyle said on a recent episode. She has talked about her own depression and alcoholism, her control issues, her eating disorder and her trouble forming close friendships. About her fury at patriarchal norms. About how enraged she is at the industrial complex that keeps women laser-focused and ever insecure about their physical appearance — and how, despite that awareness, she is still terrified to appear on television without makeup.
Wambach sat in as a guest for an early episode and then kept coming back, offering optimism and stories of her own struggles with addiction and self-acceptance. Together they talked about orgasms (real and fake), fun (or their lack of it), how to know when it's time to quit something and the pressure of modern parenthood. In one episode Amanda Doyle unpacked a simmering resentment familiar to most moms who find themselves in a position of carrying an outsize share of domestic and emotional labor. Women responded in droves, most of them saying "same here."
By the end of the year, "We Can Do Hard Things," which is produced by Audacy's Cadence13, had been named Apple's most popular new podcast. It routinely shows up among the top 20 podcasts on the Apple charts.
"Where we live we have a little walking path, and women will be walking past us and they'll go, 'We're listening to you right now.' It's just so unbelievable," says Wambach, who has joined the podcast as a third host, to The Post. "I don't think people even remember I played soccer."
Fans have gotten together on text message chains and in WhatsApp communities and Facebook groups, where they compare photos of their cheetah tattoos and tell each other hard things about their own lives.
After reading Glennon Doyle, country singer Brooke Eden decided to stop keeping her relationship with Hilary Hoover a secret.
"I have so many life regrets," one woman wrote to members of a Facebook group inspired by Doyle. "I did what 'the Good girl' should do, and didn't think for myself. ... I find myself almost 50, incredibly sorrowful for the life I never lived, yet terrified to make decisions for a future because I don't even know who I am to myself."
"Babies are a gift," wrote another. "I am mad at myself for getting pregnant [and] I am mad for not wanting to be pregnant."
"My skin crawls when he touches me, date night was SO awkward, and romantically/emotionally/physically, it's just not there for me anymore," wrote a third. "How do you know when to leave?!?"
Alyson Weaver, a 37-year-old who works in college administration, formed a "pod squad" of fellow Austin residents as devoted to Doyle's podcast as she was. The goal was to replicate what the three podcast hosts seem to have with each other: "fellow human women discussing things you don't feel comfortable talking to your own friends about, or even your own family." Weaver's pod squad, which meets twice a month, is now 14 members strong, including a handful of men.
"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?" poet Muriel Rukeyser once asked in a poem. In the next line, she answered: "The world would split open."
We know what happened when Glennon Doyle told the truth about her life. What happens as the women who follow her do the same?
"I struggle with people-pleasing and perfectionism and wanting to fit in," says Monica Huckabay, the wavy-haired Texas woman.
She started listening to "We Can Do Hard Things" and was impressed by the bravery of the hosts. The 54-year-old started to feel a little braver herself. When a colleague said something hurtful or racist, she spoke up — something she never would have done in the past "because it makes them uncomfortable," says Huckabay, who is Hispanic. "And women always try to make people feel comfortable, even at their own expense."
Those colleagues don't ask Huckabay to join them for lunch anymore, she says, but "it's so worth it. I feel more myself than I ever have in my life."
Abby Mercer, the 39-year-old Indiana nonprofit executive, came to Doyle's work by way of "Untamed," which she read on a plane when she was newly divorced.
"I was a different Abby before getting on the plane than I was getting off it," she says. "It gave me permission to do what I want to do."
She let go of friendships that "had substantially more withdrawals then deposits." She stopped trying to fit into a conservative brand of Christianity that didn't seem to want her. She decorated her house with rainbows and sometimes jokingly refers to herself as a "baby gay" or a "late bloomer."
These days, Mercer listens to Doyle's twice-weekly podcast religiously. "I can recall so many times on my commute home bawling my eyes out and screaming, 'Yes, that's exactly what's happening,' " she says. "It's exactly what I've always wanted to talk about and no one ever talks about."
This is, of course, the whole idea. "Sometimes the most idiosyncratic, personal and individual things turned out to be the thing that makes people take a deep breath and be like, 'Oh, my God, yes. Why aren't we talking about that?' " Amanda Doyle told The Post from a coffee shop near her home in Falls Church. "What is the thing that you're actually thinking about as you're going about your day? We're saying all the things out loud that you feel like you're not allowed to say."
Rachel Zentner, the Wisconsin therapist, struggled with that, at first. The podcast cut too close to home. The hosts are always inviting listeners to call and email them, so Zentner left a few voice mails expressing her discomfort hearing them talk openly about subjects she had long kept hidden. "I felt a weird betrayal," she says. "I'll say, 'Hey, you weren't supposed to talk about the eating disorder stuff because that was going to be a secret for us forever.'
Attempts to speak her own truth would often make Zentner's body physically shake. But she's trying, in conversations with her friends and clients and, especially, her daughters. She doesn't want them to internalize the same message she did. "That I was supposed to make my body small," she says. "I was supposed to make my opinions small."
Because Doyle started out writing largely about parenting, she was pigeonholed for years as a "mommy blogger." But Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, a sociology professor at Valencia College who studies gender and media, says Doyle has long since ascended to more rarefied heights.
"If we're going to put her in the lineup of books that have changed women's lives — Betty Friedan, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem — she fits there," Trier-Bieniek says. "But she's learned from where their misses were. She's figured out that you can't tell your story without also talking about your flaws, or where you don't know something, or where you've made your epic failures." Doyle is conscious of her privilege as a cisgender White woman, for example, and "does a great job at saying 'I have a seat at the table, and I'm going to bring up as many diverse voices as I can, and I'm going to let them speak, and I'm going to listen.' "
Trier-Bieniek thinks of Doyle's podcast as akin to the sewing circles women held at the turn of the 20th century, where women who had gathered ostensibly to do their stitching would trade stories and scheme about getting the right to vote. Doyle's gift is her ability to articulate women's internal experiences. She and her co-hosts talk about menopause and self-care and knowing when it's time to quit a job or a relationship, but Trier-Bieniek sees something deeper happening: "What she's doing," says the professor, "is saying, 'Guess what? You don't have to sit in that seat just because that's where someone says you should go. You can step outside.' "
So, if an acutely personal conversation on the podcast about female sexual function leaves listeners fired up about science's lack of attention to the matter, that's very much by design.
"Truth-telling, for me, is always tied to making women feel less alone, making women understand there's not anything wrong with them," Doyle says.
"If 98 percent of the women just realize there's nothing wrong with them and take a deep breath, that's enough for me. But if a few of them are also like, 'Wait a minute' — and start to go to the polls and start to march, start to organize — that's one of the end goals."
Zentner, the therapist, is down for revolution. But for her the impact of Doyle's work is more immediate, more intimate.
"These days," she says, "I shake a little bit less. I get a little bit less sick when I tell the truth."
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glennon_Doyle
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Her natal Lilith is 29 Scorpio, N.Node 9 Capricorn, S.Node 28 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 4 Virgo, N.Node 10 Taurus, and the S.Node is 8 Sagittarius.
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Here is the story of Emmy Noether. This is a noon chart.
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Emmy Noether: the woman who developed one of the most beautiful theorems in physics
It's one of the most beautiful ideas in physics.
Paula Ferreira
July 8, 2022
Conservation laws are very useful for physics. Basically, when a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change in time (and it is conserved), that is described by a conservation law.
Conservation laws are useful in a number of different fields of physics, but sometimes, they can become very complex. That's where a 1910s theorem developed by a German mathematician comes in handy. Emmy Noether's theorem connects symmetry and conservation laws, and its simplicity and elegance can be easily described as one of the most beautiful theorems in physics.
Symmetry
Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician whose work focused especially on algebra. Her work was also extremely influential in a branch called mathematical physics — which deals with (you've guessed it) the development of mathematical methods in physics.
The development of many physics laws relies on something very abstract, the concept of symmetries. Symmetry can mean different things in different fields; in geometry, geometric shapes can be symmetrical, in chemistry, molecules can be symmetrical, but symmetry means something different in physics.
If you throw a ball upwards with an initial velocity, the kinetic energy turns into potential energy. Think of it this way: kinetic energy depends on motion, potential energy depends on position; when you throw the ball up, it starts by having a lot of motion energy — it's going up. Then, when it reaches the maximum height, it has no motion energy, because it stops (and then goes down) — at that moment, it only has potential energy.
In other words, potential energy transforms into kinetic energy, and kinetic energy converts into potential energy, and then back again.
If you were to set up a kinetic energy-potential energy experiment, the experiment would work the same if you try it again under the same conditions. Tomorrow, the day after, and so on, you'd get the same thing — this means that the energy conservation is the same regardless of the time. In other words, the time transformation doesn't change the system at all. This circumstance in which nothing changes in a law of physics/ feature of a system even with the action of a transformation is called symmetry.
The two theorems
In 1918, Emmy Noether published a seminal article connecting symmetries and conservation laws.
The German mathematician's career was already showing signs of brilliance. Her interest in mathematics came from her father who was a mathematics professor at the University of Erlangen. Later on, Noether would go on to become a student and also a professor — but without a salary. Little had she known her most famous contribution, the Noether Theorem, would unify ideas that developed slowly century by century by René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
Noether published a key mathematical paper discussing transformation groups, but without discussing a direct relation to physics. Her work was divided into two theorems, the first of which gave a global relationship between continuous symmetries and conservation laws, and the second applied to systems with local symmetries.
The ball experiment regarding the conservation law is the simplest example. The energy is conserved because there is symmetry under time translation. Now consider a more sophisticated idea about the conservation of angular momentum (momentum of a rotating object). Ice skaters are the masters of this conservation: they know that if they spin with their arms tucked in, this makes them rotate faster — and if they open their arms, their rotation speed decreases.
Think of it this way: angular momentum is mass times velocity times radius (L = m*v*r). The mass of a skater remains constant, so if the radius increases, the speed must decrease to compensate for that, and vice versa.
So what is the symmetry in this case? If momentum is conserved, then space has to be isotropic. That means if there is no extra torque (angular force), the angular momentum does not change. In simple words, isotropy means things are the same even if you rotate them. For example, a perfect sphere, without any marks, is invariant under rotation, no matter which way you turn it, it looks the same.
This, believe it or not, relates to one of the most important theories in physics: general relativity.
Matter bends space-time
General relativity (GR) is the theory that describes gravity with a lot of precision. During its development, Emmy Noether gave contributions to interpreting the theory.
Between 1915 and 1918, she got involved in debates with David Hilbert, Felix Klein, and Einstein himself about conservation equations in GR. Einstein had arrived at an expression that was quite similar to the energy conservation we are more familiar with. However, one component of the equation was invariant under a specific transformation called affine transformation. Affine transformations preserve parallel structures like a symmetric leaf. This is not expected from a general equation which is supposed to incorporate the big picture of energy conservation.
In 1918, Klein pointed out the difference between Einstein's field equations and the usual conservation of energy. Einstein didn't agree, he believed the conservation was analogous to the classical mechanics at least in part of his equations.
For Hilbert, a leading mathematician of his time, the fact that GR didn't show a similar type of energy conservation was simply because ...it is what is. Noether, and later Klein, agreed that there was no conservation law in General Relativity, and that conclusion came from her famous theorem.
From Noether's second theorem, the matter in GR shows a conservation similar to energy and momentum conservation, but without equations of motion. As a matter of fact, any theory that is the same for any coordinate system shows a weird conservation law, one that does not give solutions with direct physical interpretations.
Supersymmetry
Noether's symmetry theorem spills into several other fields of physics.
The Standard Model of particle physics divides particles into two categories: fermions and bosons. All known fermions (the particles that make up ordinary matter) have half-integer spin. The spin number describes how many symmetrical facets a particle has in one full rotation; a spin of 1/2 means that the particle must be rotated by two full turns (through 720°) before it has the same configuration as when it started. Meanwhile, bosons, which are not matter particles, have integer spin (0, 1, 2, etc). Spin is a property in particles that indicates where they would point if immersed in a magnetic field. A proposed theory called Supersymmetry (SUSY) suggests that for every discovered fermion there would be a superpartner boson with similar property.
Why would that be good? It makes things elegant for sure, but it also makes things much simpler. SUSY's lightest particle would make an excellent dark matter particle. Moreover, other particles can be predicted from SUSY, not of them were observed experimentally though.
According to Noether's theorem, it is possible to find conservation if it is connected to symmetry. SUSY's conserved quantity is the supercharge, some sort of general idea of charge as we understand it.
Recognition
Noether struggled in a sexist society like most other female science figures. For her to study, she couldn't officially be a student. To give lectures, she couldn't be an official professor. After finally being recognized as a mathematician, she became a professor, but without a salary.
As one of the most brilliant scientists, her talent was fundamental in convincing her peers to be respected. But that wasn't enough. Unfortunately, she needed the support — or maybe we should call it approval –of important mathematicians to be taken seriously by universities. Hilbert took part in that, he convinced others to accept her at Göttingen, saying "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as privatdozent. After all, we are a university, not a bathhouse.".
Noether's theorem has been called "one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the development of modern physics". Her contributions to mathematics were immense, especially relative to her short life. She discovered one of the most elegant, and quite possibly the most profound ideas in modern physics, often facing great adversity from male-dominated fields. It's one of those that are absolutely worth knowing if you're interested in science.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
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Her natal Lilith is 12 Pisces, N.Node 9 Capricorn, S.Node 28 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 12 Taurus, N.Node 10 Taurus, and the S.Node 7 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi Rad and All,
I was observing the chart for the next upcoming mercury retrograde and think is interesting to share a mention to the asteroid Goddesses in this upcoming period as They are very much linked to all of it. So the Mother, can indeed help us uncover the deeper meanings of this times, in my view.
Mercury retrograde conjunct asteroid Psyche which is then opposing Jupiter in aries and square Pallas in cancer. Both Mercury and Jupiter are trine and sextile Mars, which is then in exact opposition (mars) to the asteroid lucifer. Sun,Amazon and Eros are trine Moon's north node and Uranus, and Moon is conjunct Juno. Lilith conjunct Ceres in Leo is opposed Vesta rx conjunct Saturn rx in Aquarius, which are then both square moon's nodes.
Wow... this a lot going on. Rad, would this be right? That relative to the potential time for creating or maintaining skipped steps, the time is also right , with the sun and Uranus in trine (rulers of the planets creation the skipped stes) and the trines to mars from Jupiter and Mercury, that an exceptional opportunity is here for the recovery of true soul desires in a conscious way, seeing Phsyhe and mercury conjunct trine mars in gemini (it's interesting for example how this is present in the context of the United States and Biden's speech for the recovery of the soul of the nation...) with the "trick" in noticing old instinctual messages and patterns of thinking that are limited or false and can keep the soul in old secure patterns, seeing the t-square between mercury/pshyce, Jupiter and Pallas, and the grand square of mars, lucifer, venus/eros/amazon, and moon/juno.
The message Jesus said in the desert, If I recall correctly, "Satan get behind me" really comes to mind with the mars Lucifer exact opposition as a theme of the retrograde, as also an unwavering faith in the path ahead and the immense progress in the long term of taking one step at a time, throwing off limited patterns of thinking, which then leads to an actualisation of the true nature/rebirth -the sun in virgo ruling lilith ceres square the nodes.
One other question I would have is, the chain of "pointers" in retrograde and how to correctly see it from an evolutionary point of view, because mercury retrograde leads to Jupiter, which is then retrograde, which would leads to all the outer planets in retrograde with the exception of venus, mars (which will follow retrograde soon), ceres and lilith. In my view, we would probably be given the time to actualise more precisely all that comes up now in the next months mars is retrograde, so taking a long, calm step by step process would be the way to move, which would then be so beautifully illustrated with Psyche's path along the way... But wonder what could be added more to that.
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Helena,
Rad, would this be right? That relative to the potential time for creating or maintaining skipped steps, the time is also right , with the sun and Uranus in trine (rulers of the planets creation the skipped stes) and the trines to mars from Jupiter and Mercury, that an exceptional opportunity is here for the recovery of true soul desires in a conscious way, seeing Phsyhe and mercury conjunct trine mars in gemini (it's interesting for example how this is present in the context of the United States and Biden's speech for the recovery of the soul of the nation...) with the "trick" in noticing old instinctual messages and patterns of thinking that are limited or false and can keep the soul in old secure patterns, seeing the t-square between mercury/pshyce, Jupiter and Pallas, and the grand square of mars, lucifer, venus/eros/amazon, and moon/juno.
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Yes, this is right. The underlying key with Uranus on the N.Node in the context of this whole signature is for all of us, as Souls, to inwardly monitor the repetition is the 'messages' from the Soul to itself wherein the repetition directly correlates with the immediate and long terms evolutionary intentions and NEEDS for the Soul to liberate itself from it's binding past: a past defined and determined by inner dynamics that need to be jettisoned in order for the core evolutionary needs/ desires to evolve in an accelerated way.
I have asked Mary Blue to read what you wrote as well and have her respond to these important dynamics that you are asking about.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
it is already very helpful.
Many thanks,
Helena
Dear Mary,
Thank you so much for having the time to share your wisdom with us here.
It's a joy to, through EA, have a perspective that is helping us center in what is truly needed.
Seeing times with this notion in fact opens a door to a new consciousness (that we might hopefully star keeping opened instead of closing :) )
Many blessings,
Helena
Hi All,
Here is the birth chart for Queen Elizabeth the 2nd who just passed away. The inner wheel on the chart is her natal chart with accurate birth time, and the outer wheel the transits at the moment of her passing.
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Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, dies aged 96
Death draws to a close Britain's second Elizabethan era and heralds the reign of her son, King Charles III
Caroline Davies
Guardian
9 Sep 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history, has died aged 96, drawing to a close the country's second Elizabethan era, and heralding the reign of her son, King Charles III.
The monarch, for whom abdication was never an option, died peacefully at Balmoral on Thursday afternoon two days after undertaking her final public constitutional duty, with the appointment of the 15th prime minister of her 70-year reign.
Her death means Charles now becomes king, and the Duchess of Cornwall the Queen Consort.
In a statement on Thursday evening, the King said: "The death of my beloved mother, Her Majesty the Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family.
"We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much-loved mother. I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.
"During this period of mourning and change, my family and I will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the Queen was so widely held."
All four of her children had rushed to Balmoral after Buckingham Palace announced in a statement at 12.32pm that she was under medical supervision at Balmoral after her doctors said they were "concerned for her health".
Charles was the first to arrive. As the nation awaited anxiously for news, the Duke of Cambridge, Duke of York, and Earl and Countess of Wessex flew from RAF Northolt arriving at Balmoral at around 5pm. The Duke of Sussex also travelled separately to Scotland, arriving after the other members of the family.
At 6.30pm, Buckingham Palace announced: "The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."
The Buckingham Palace flag was lowered to half mast.
Addressing the nation from outside Downing Street, the prime minister, Liz Truss, who was told of the Queen's death at 4.30pm, spoke of "the passing of the second Elizabethan age".
She praised the monarch's "dignity and grace", and a "life of service [that] stretched beyond most of our living memories". She concluded with the words: "God save the King."
The US President, Joe Biden, was one of several world leaders to pay tribute. A statement issued jointly with the first lady, Jill Biden, said: "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was more than a monarch. She defined an era."
In a world of constant change, they added, she had been "a steadying presence and a source of comfort and pride for generations of Britons, including many who have never known their country without her".
As tributes flow in from across the globe, the nation now enters a period of official mourning, which begins on Friday and will last for 10 days. As is traditional, officials brought a notice confirming the Queen's death to the gates of Buckingham Palace. Crowds gathered outside royal residences, many in tears.
Elizabeth II will be accorded a state funeral at Westminster Abbey, expected to be held on Monday 19 September, though that has not yet been confirmed. She is expected in coming days to lie in rest for 24 hours at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, with members of the public able to file past the coffin before it is flown to London for her official lying-in-state.
As Queen of the UK and 14 other realms, and head of the 54-nation Commonwealth, Elizabeth II was easily the world's most recognisable head of state during an extraordinarily long reign.
Coming to the throne at the age of 25, she successfully steered the monarchy through decades of turbulent change, with her personal popularity providing ballast during the institution's more difficult times.
At her side for most of it, the Duke of Edinburgh remained her "strength and stay" during a marriage that withstood many strains imposed by her unique position.
Despite a family life lived under the often challenging glare of publicity, Elizabeth remained a calm and steadfast figure, weathering the divorces of three of her children, and the crisis precipitated by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
There were undoubted low points, but the mass outpourings of affection on her silver, golden and diamond jubilees testified to the special place she held for millions.
Rarely did she publicly reveal private anguish. Her plea for a fair understanding towards the end of 1992 – her "annus horribilis", a year rocked by royal scandal and a row over finances – was unprecedented.
A devout, churchgoing Christian, the Queen's annual Christmas broadcast, which she scripted herself, revealed a woman of unshakable faith.
She was left bereft at the loss of her lifelong companion, Philip, who died in his sleep at the age of 99 in April 2021 during the Covid pandemic. She sat alone and bereaved in St George's chapel, Windsor Castle, during the poignant funeral, hugely scaled down because of coronavirus restrictions.
The duke's death came during one of the most turbulent times for the Queen and her family, when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit as senior working royals and decamped to the US to seek freedom and the ability to earn their own money.
At the same time, the Duke of York was in a storm that also threatened the institution, facing allegations from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which he strenuously denied, that he had had sex with her when she was 17 and had been trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre filed a civil suit against the duke seeking unspecified damages at a federal court in New York, which was settled out of court in February 2022, with the duke paying an undisclosed sum.
To cap this turbulent time for the monarchy, the Queen then contracted Covid, suffering mild cold-like symptoms, shortly before she marked her platinum jubilee.
As age gradually caught up with her, and she had mobility issues, she was seen less often at public events. In April 2022 she did not attend the state opening of parliament, instead issuing letters patent, authorising the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge, as counsellors of state, to deputise for her. It was only the third time in her reign that she had missed a state opening, the other two being when she was pregnant in 1959 and 1963.
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on 21 April 1926 at her maternal grandparents' home at 17 Bruton Street, in London's Mayfair district, and was not expected to accede to the throne.
But at the age of 10, the abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, over his love for the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and her father's rushed coronation as substitute king, changed the path her aristocratic life could have been expected to take.
The world witnessed her transformation from shy princess to young Queen, attracting the same global fascination as Diana, Princess of Wales would 30 years later.
But she seemed most content in a thick jacket and headscarf, walking her corgis or tramping Balmoral's highland moors. "You can go for miles and never see anybody; you can walk or ride, it has endless possibilities," she once said.
Watching her thoroughbreds pass the post was another great pleasure, and her love of horse racing once subconsciously manifested itself during the 2003 state opening of parliament when she announced details of a national hunt service bill, rather than "health service".
The image of a queen who kept cereal in plastic boxes and fed toast to her corgis while a gruff Philip breakfasted next to her listening to a battered old transistor radio did much to endear. So, too, did the two-bar electric fire she used in 2013 and beyond to heat her palace audience room, and "revelations" that her favourite TV programmes included Last of the Summer Wine and The Bill.
Illnesses were rare as she enjoyed robust health. At 85, she was still carrying out 325 engagements a year. Long-haul travel was only curtailed when she reached 87, and Philip 92.
She was the most widely travelled of any world head of state. She visited every Commonwealth country bar Cameroon, which joined in 1995, and Rwanda (2009). She visited Canada more than 20 times, Australia 16, New Zealand 10 and Jamaica six.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arriving in Sydney, Australia, in June 1970 for the bicentenary celebrations of Captain Cook's first landing in Australia.
In 2011, Elizabeth became the first British monarch in a century to visit the Republic of Ireland. The following year, she shook hands in Belfast with the Sinn Féin politician Martin McGuinness, putting aside the personal tragedy of the IRA assassination of "Uncle Dickie", Lord Mountbatten, her distant cousin and Philip's uncle.
In 2002, her golden jubilee, her sister, Margaret, and mother, Queen Elizabeth, died within eight weeks of each other. Her relationship to both had been close, as they were among the few individuals in whom she could confide the pressures and frustrations of her position.
As many nations today mourn a queen, one family is mourning a mother of four, a grandmother of eight, and a great-grandmother of 12.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II
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Her natal Lilith is 6 Taurus, N.Node 8 Capricorn, S.Node 5 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 10 Capricorn, N.Node 17 Taurus, and the S.Node is 1 Sagittarius.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Rad,
What evolutionary state would you put Queen Elizabeth in?
She was of the 'greatest generation' - she was a mechanic & drove ambulances.
She went well beyond the 'confines' of the institution she was born into, which necessitated it's survival.
She was instrumental in butting heads with Thatcher (unprecedented in the role of Monarch) & helped abolish apartheid.
She was very good friends with Nelson Mandela - who a bit famously got away with calling her plain 'Elizabeth'.
She created the commonweatlh - making reparations for colonization & giving a voice & place in the world for countries otherwise without a face on the world stage.
She was a devout Christian, though any personal quirks or questions she had or struggled with we won't know - but she was well ahead of her time in many ways, especially considering the cultural context she was born into.
All I can say is thank God that Edward abdicated - he was a Nazi sympathizer - can you imagine how different WWII would be with that traitor to all that is good at the helm of what would become one of the great Allies to fight the Nazi's - ?
I am thinking the cusp on 3rd consensus to 1st individuated but sometimes she just seems like some kinda cosmic God- send ;)
Thanks!
Hi Rad and Nerissa,
this is an amazing soul to study from, from the point of view of EA.
Apart from the fact that the monarchy is in so many ways an institution of supremacy, there are sometimes Kings and Queens that serve at the same time they rule, that seems to be certainly the case for this Queen (or her father), just looking at the Pluto in the 6th can speak to that. And what you mention Nerissa, of preventing the nazi king to rule, it is remarkable.
Rad, i have the same question of Nerissa I think, that is, not all soul's journey to the 3rd state consensus made them royalty, is this a soul type, i imagine 1st chakra, or simply soul desire? Also I wonder if it is appropriate and we can talk about the Queen's previous lives because I would have an hint (after some time wondering about it) she was a past time royal with a tragic ending that makes her story quite something looking at the chart, also relative to princess Diana. But have no way to say it is true or not.
As for the death chart, the Saturn moon on the mars Jupiter is really incredible and the natal moon's nodes being conjunct/mirroring Pluto's nodes relative to a transit Pluto in the first, could we say this marks a utterly new life chapter for her next time? Probably no longer a queen?
Thank you,
Helena
Thanks Rad for clearing up the evolutionary state - I was wavering on putting her more firmly in the individuated, however, I am not sure she'd have actually manifested as much change as she did if further in the individuated - she had that conviction of the consensus plus the urge to forward thinking that is very much the cusp as you confirmed.
The opposition in her chart Neptune/Moon 7th/Leo - to Mars/Jupiter 1st/Aquarius is very striking - that entire balance between self, others, personal drive & the needs of the collective - & that Saturn conjunct the MC squaring it all!! Wow.
I'm thinking though, Saturn in Scorpio is that need for keeping her own sense of self & the struggle she may have had, that none of us will know, & rightly so - & that's her Soul - Scorpio, there's much deeper lessons, & they are her own, not meant for public consumption.
I'm wondering what you think of the Sun - it's zero Taurus & that node is 20 Cancer - within orb for a skipped step, but out of sign - I'm figuring that she is firmly moving away from those evolutionary requirements - that this life was one big push-off from the past - would you consider it square?
Is it a culmination?
& yes - I was up in the mountains & I had this very strong feeling of her being in nature - & the only time you'd see her lose her cool was with her beloved horses & watching races - there is footage of her pretty much yelling her head off & running around trying to get the best view, lol.
She passed at Balmoral - her country get-away - I'm so glad for that, she loved Scotland & nature.....she was/is a remarkable soul.
Thank you Helena for your questions - I was thinking much along the same lines as you were - & it is interesting to think of the past lives of such a public figure - especially with that Pluto/NN 6th/Cancer.
I get literal chills thinking of Edward becoming King - there had to be divine intervention there - I've no doubt at all the world would be a very different, and not in a good way, place.
It's also bizarre how Prince Harry seems to be recreating much of that trauma - but, no surprise I suppose that the British Royal family would continue to have epic drama.
Had to Edit - put Aries instead of Aquarius - guess the 'A' threw me ;)
Hi Rad and Nerissa,
Rad, thank you for your clarifications and my apologies for bringing up past life matters. I think it's so interesting to see it that way, karma yoga, because it would mean a soul that is much in alignment with her soul design, so to be within the "royal team" of the Goddess :-) would really mean to serve and that could be seen here so clearly.
I was thinking royalty in general more 1st chakra soul types but is a good understanding that it really is case to case, no rule at all?
Nerissa, I agree really interesting questions... It's consensual that the Queen is respected and admired for people who question the monarchy in the same way as those who support monarchy, which is quite something indeed.
Also Nerissa I was seeing prince Charles, now the new king as the moon at the exact 0 taurus degree, his mother to the degree, wow. The upcoming transit of Pluto will challenge that exact moon.
Thank you,
Helena
Hi Nerissa,
I'm wondering what you think of the Sun - it's zero Taurus & that node is 20 Cancer - within orb for a skipped step, but out of sign - I'm figuring that she is firmly moving away from those evolutionary requirements - that this life was one big push-off from the past - would you consider it square?
Is it a culmination?
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It is a square. It is a symbol for the culmination of previous lives in this life. She fulfilled all of her karmic and evolutionary intentions by assuming the role of Queen in this life. If she had made choices not to do this then that Sun squaring the Nodes would correlate to 'skipped steps' created in the life as the Queen. In so doing this would have led to yet another life wherein her Soul would create the conditions and circumstances in which the nature of those skipped steps would be recreated.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Helena,
I was thinking royalty in general more 1st chakra soul types but is a good understanding that it really is case to case, no rule at all?
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It is on a case by case basis.
I was reading the Guardian today and ran into a story about the Queen that really touched me. It's the story in which she decided to act within the context of a comedy sketch with the Paddington Bear. Here is a link to that article if you would like to read it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/11/when-we-asked-queen-to-tea-with-paddington-something-magic-happened-most-lovely-goodbye
Here is a link to the video of it: https://youtu.be/ZZRP70zMHgo. And this one where The Queen's sense of humour is remembered: from off-mic quips to tea with Paddington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mO7rbYtgk
You can see her Soul too in these images.
God Bless, Rad
Hi Rad,
That story is delicious ;D
Thanks Rad, I remembered that rule about the sun squares nodes after posted, once again incredibly graphic symbolism.
And thank you sharing those stories about the Queen & Paddington Bear :)
Helena - when I started studying astrology I used charts of the Royal Family, there are excellent birth data going back centuries - it's fascinating to study.
I'm American - it seems very popular to target the British Monarchy for past sins, but I think that's essentially due to the fact the monarchy still exists.
By that logic though, considering the past sins of the USA I suppose we should torch the constitution, shrug & call it a day. Of course, we won't do that.
Queen Elizabeth was well ahead of her time in creating the common wealth in terms of reparations before it was even a whisper in the US. They also abolished slavery decades before the US.
I also don't think most Americans have educated themselves on the role of the monarchy - as head of state the Queen or King are a check/balance against the powers of parliament.
I have great respect for Queen Elizabeth, & King Charles & Prince William are both very proactive in fighting climate change - so, I have some hope for increasingly progressive stances in future from the monarchy.
It's interesting to note, as of right now, as the procession of the Queen is occurring - the Moon is aligning with the North Node and Uranus - in her sun sign - and the clear symbolism of this momentous collective moment, unity, plus the feminine nature of the moon - amazing!
HI All,
Here is the story of Vanessa Nakate. This is a noon chart.
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'Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages': Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight
The new Unicef goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for climate crisis
by Nina Lakhani
Guardian
Sat 17 Sep 2022
Vanessa Nakate knows what it's like to be Black and overlooked. In January 2020, an Associated Press photographer cropped Nakate from a picture of youth climate activists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, leaving her friend Greta Thunberg and three other white young women in the shot.
It triggered widespread outrage, rightly so, but Nakate regards that very personal experience as a symbol of how the voices and experiences of Black – and Brown and Indigenous – communities are routinely erased.
"Africa is on the frontlines of the climate crisis but it's not on the front pages of the world's newspapers. Every activist who speaks out is telling a story about themselves and their community, but if they are ignored, the world will not know what's really happening, what solutions are working. The erasure of our voices is literally the erasure of our histories and what people hold dear to their lives," said Nakate.
Nakate is a 25-year-old, thoughtful, smart and quietly spoken climate activist from Kampala, the capital of Uganda – one of the countries most at risk from climate disasters caused by global heating.
Two climate disasters have struck Uganda this year so far: at least 29 people died and thousands were displaced in the city of Mbale in eastern Uganda after heavy rainfall caused two rivers to burst their banks, submerging homes, shops and roads, and uprooting water pipes. And in the north-east about half a million people are facing starvation due to drought in Karamoja, where hundreds of people – mostly women and children – have already died.
Nakate recently travelled to neighbouring Kenya with Unicef, the UN aid and development agency for children, as its new goodwill ambassador, a role also held by household names like Serena Williams, Amitabh Bachchan, David Beckham and Katy Perry.
The experience in Turkana, one of the areas in north-west Kenya most affected by a prolonged drought that has left more than 37 million people in the greater Horn of Africa on the brink of starvation, was life changing. "It hasn't rained for two years. To experience what that means in a community, to see how much people are suffering and how much help they need, I really got to see how the climate crisis is affecting so many lives and destroying so many livelihoods, and that it's mostly women and children who are suffering the most."
It was Nakate's first time experiencing such extreme climate suffering first-hand. At one hospital treating children with severe malnutrition, she met an emaciated little boy who died the following day. According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 7 million children under the age of five are acutely malnourished in the region, which is experiencing the worst hunger crisis in over 70 years. "I've always said that climate change is more than statistics, it's more than weather, but in Turkana I really got to understand those words."
Of course most people will never witness such catastrophe first-hand, which is why it's crucial that the voices and experiences of those most affected are amplified on the international stage – through the media and at decision making events like the UN climate talks.
Last year in Glasgow at Cop26, very few African activists were able to attend due to challenges with accreditation, funding and Covid vaccinations, which at the time were available to less than 5% of people across the continent. Pledges on loss and damage for developing nations most harmed by global heating were once again shelved at the behest of rich polluting nations.
Cop27 takes place in November this year in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, which will be Nakate's third climate talk, but getting access for most activists is proving to be just as difficult this year. "Many people are calling it an African Cop but it won't be an African Cop if the communities, the activists are not there."
Countries from across Africa – and the wider global south – will be looking to secure billions of dollars of climate financing for adaptation and the green energy transition, as well as separate funds for loss and damage and reparations.
On the recent Kenya trip, Nakate met a young man who asked her why countries in the global north contribute the most emissions but places like Turkana suffer the most. "He thought they must have done something wrong ... it was really hard to explain to him why those being impacted the most are the least responsible, and that's one of the horrible realities of the climate crisis.
"There are people who are looking for answers to a question that needs to be answered through much needed reparations and responsibility from the global north."
The 54 countries in Africa combined account for 15% of the world's population but contribute less than 4% of global greenhouse emissions – in contrast to 23% by China, 19% by the US, and 13% from the European Union.
Nakate, a born-again Christian, said: "Having dominion over the Earth is about responsibility and service to the planet and its people, because God is not a God of waste and exploitation."
Nakate was drawn to climate activism in 2018 after learning about the erratic rainfall and extreme heat affecting Ugandan farmers and food production – including members of her family. Agriculture is the backbone of the country's economy, accounting for a quarter of its GDP. About 70% of people rely on farming and raising livestock.
Inspired by Thunberg's school strikes in Sweden, Nakate launched her own climate movement and for several months in 2019 protested outside the gates of parliament against the government's inaction on the climate crisis. She then founded the Youth for Future Africa and the Africa-based Rise Up Movement, and is now one of the world's most celebrated youth activists.
But her celebrity means that some organisations and journalists regard her as the go-to African voice, which she finds problematic.
"Across the continent many activists are doing incredible work, and there were many before us and the climate strikes in 2018. When the focus is just on one person it erases other experiences and stories. The solution is not to put faces on the climate movement, it has millions of people who are doing incredible work and organising in their communities."
In Nairobi recently, Nakate met young people making briquettes – a cheap, alternative cooking fuel made from waste taken out of rivers – for a grassroots green energy company called Motobrix, creating sustainable local jobs. "It's people and stories like this we really need to listen to," she added.
Making sure activists and impact communities from across Africa can attend – and meaningfully participate – in Egypt is crucial for negotiations on loss and damage – and solutions. If these stories aren't heard, the solutions that are being financed risk being unacceptable or even harmful to affected communities.
"NGOs and governments need to listen and engage with communities about what they want, what works for them, and not dump solutions on them ... We need to have communities at the negotiating tables in Egypt."
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nakate
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Her natal Lilith is 19 Virgo, N.Node 14 Sagittarius, S.Node 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 19 Pisces. N.Node 22 Taurus, and the S.Node 22 Scorpio.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the story of Robina Courtin a Buddhist nun. This is a noon chart.
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'Honey-child, listen to me': a radical Buddhist nun on how to be happy in a crazy world
Robina Courtin is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 1996 she founded the Liberation Prison Project, which she ran until 2009.
'Our problem is we think the outside world is the main cause of our suffering – and our happiness,' says Buddhist nun Robina Courtin.
From a Catholic convent school in Melbourne to death row in America, Robina Courtin has learned a few things about happiness, suffering ... and Donald Trump
Bronwyn Adcock
Guardian
It's a Tuesday evening in the small country town of Milton on the south coast of New South Wales, and the scent of the freshly brewed chai and homemade soup about to be served is wafting through the draughts in the Country Women's Association hall as discussion veers between death, killing, war, abortion, prison and suffering.
Around 50 people, some longtime members of the local Buddhist group, others curious newcomers, are seated cross-legged on the wooden floor or on plastic chairs, a portrait of a young Queen Elizabeth II looking down, listening to a Buddhist nun. The topic for the night: "How to stay positive in a negative environment."
"Our problem is we think the outside world is the main cause of our suffering – and our happiness," says Venerable Robina Courtin, an Australian, now 77, who was ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition in the late 1970s.
"We understand that when it comes to becoming a musician, that you program yourself and that you are the main cause of becoming a musician – the work is in your mind, you need precision and clarity and perfect theories and then you practise and practise. We know we create our own selves in that sense," she says.
"But when it comes to turning ourselves into a happy person we do not believe we have this capacity. But the Buddhist approach is that we produce ourselves, whether it's a musician or a happy person. We're the boss."
But what about all the extra suffering of the past few years, asks a woman, citing Covid, floods and war in Ukraine. Courtin relays the story of two imprisoned Tibetan women who were tortured and sexually assaulted, yet were able to "interpret this experience" in a way that "allowed them to bear it".
The questioning woman looks dissatisfied. "What is it?" Courtin asks. "Come on, say it, it's important." Courtin can be at once warm and piercingly direct – when a questioner interrupted her mid-sentence at the previous evening's event she responded, "Can't you hear I'm trying to answer your question!" – and it takes a moment for the woman to reveal what she's thinking. "It just doesn't seem practical," she finally says.
"It is practical when you are being sexually abused in a prison," Courtin says. "We have the power to change the way we interpret our lives, and they were able to do that. And they were even able to have compassion for their torturers. The result of this? They didn't lose their minds. It's not moralistic; it really is practical."
"Honey-child, listen to me," says Courtin, softening. "Our trouble is we can't cope with our own suffering or the suffering out there, so we just want to make it all go away. We can't. All we can do is do our best in this crazy insane asylum called planet Earth."
From convent school to death row
Earlier that day, over lunch, Courtin explains: "I've always been involved in the world. I like the world and I like crazy humans." She's a "newspaper and news junkie"; her favourite publications include the Financial Times, the Economist and the Washington Post.
I think I'd exhausted all options for who to blame for the suffering of the world
Robina Courtin
Courtin grew up in Melbourne, one of seven children in a rambunctious, poor, Catholic household. The "naughtiest kid in the family", at 12 she was sent to board in a convent school. "I was in heaven, it was bliss," she says. Not only did she finally have her own bed, but "there was no chaos around me, I had discipline. I went to mass every day. I was in love with God and Our Lady and the saints. It was perfect for me."
In her late teens, she discovered boys. Realising she "couldn't have God and boys at the same time", she "very consciously" decided "goodbye God, hello boys". A secondhand record, picked up for sixpence, led her to jazz. "I got this seven-inch LP that said 'Billie Holiday'. I had no idea, I wondered who he was! That opened me up. Just blew my mind because it opened me up to this Black American experience, of suffering human beings."
In the late 1960s, Courtin made her way to London, "rough and ready for revolution". There she joined "radical left" demonstrations and supported the Black Panther movement. In 1971, she started working full-time for "Friends of Soledad", a British political activist group supporting three Black American prisoners charged with the murder of a white prison guard. Then, she moved on to the radical feminist movement. Shedding her taste for men, she became a "radical lesbian feminist", learned martial arts and moved to the US into a lesbian-run dojo in New York City.
In 1976, back in Australia, in Queensland, with a broken foot that stopped her martial arts practice, 31-year old Courtin spotted a poster advertising a talk by two Tibetan Buddhists – Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche – and decided to go along. "That's when I found my path," she says. "I was always looking for a way to see the world, why there is suffering, what are the causes of it? And I think I'd exhausted all options for who to blame for the suffering of the world."
Since she was ordained, 44 years ago, Courtin has worked as an editor of Buddhist magazines and books. In 1996, after receiving a letter from a young Mexican American former gangster serving three life sentences in a maximum security prison in California, she founded the Liberation Prison Project, a nonprofit that offers Buddhist teachings and support to people in prison.
Courtin ran the program for 14 years, assisting thousands of inmates, and still stays in touch with her "prison friends". Recently, she visited one who has been on death row in Kentucky since 1983. "He lives in this garbage dump of a prison, no sensory pleasure whatsoever, the food is just horrible, no freedom to do much at all, he's seen as a monster, and he's this happy guy," she says. A practising Buddhist, "he's fulfilled and content. He's worked on his mind, accepted responsibility for his actions, and although he would love to be released from prison, he accepts his reality. 'I'm ready for that electric jolt,' he told me."
I ask Courtin if she feels any sense of anger about this man's plight. "No, I don't. I try to help him where he's at. That's it," she says. "I remember when I was a radical political activist in London in the early 1970s, that was when I was angry. That was when I was in a rage. Racism, sexism, injustice are just as bad now, if not worse – the prison system in America's fucking outrageous – but I work differently now.
"The trouble is, we conflate seeing a bad thing with being angry. We feel if we give up anger, we chuck the baby out with the bathwater." Courtin says she's "still an activist", but maintaining anger is like stabbing ourselves with a knife – "it just paralyses you". Instead, she practises what she calls courageous compassion. "There's a saying in Buddhism, a bird needs two wings, wisdom and compassion. Wisdom is the internal, putting yourself together. Compassion is when you put your money where your mouth is and help the world."
Living in this world without losing your mind
Since the late 2000s, Courtin's lived out of a suitcase, teaching in Buddhist centres around the globe, only coming to a halt in March 2020 in Sante Fe when the pandemic hit. She started teaching over Zoom – "I adore Zoom" – and a friend set up and runs her social media. Her TikTok account, which has 85,600 followers, has short videos, sometimes responding to current events, with titles such as "How to live in this world without losing your mind".
There's not a single damn delusion Mr Trump has that I don't have as well
Robina Courtin
"There's a way of using the world to develop your practice," she says. Take former US president Donald Trump, for example. "I'd watch Mr Trump and, instead of ranting and raving about how bad he is, I'd go, 'Well, that's lies, I recognise that. That's anger, I recognise that. That's vanity, I recognise that. That's arrogance, I recognise that'. There's not a single damn delusion Mr Trump has that I don't have as well. The Buddhist view is that we all have these states of mind; we're all in the same boat. So then I go, 'Thank you for showing me how not to be.'"
Recently, Courtin shared on social media that her sister, Jan, had died after an accident at home. She says the huge response to her post "touched me deeply, because people were so kind". She got on a flight from the US as soon as she heard about the accident. Alongside her siblings in a hospital room in Melbourne as Jan's life support was withdrawn, Courtin whispered the Buddhist mantras that accompany death while the rest of the family boisterously sang the Sydney Swans team song.
Robina Courtin is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Once Courtin finishes this current Australian teaching tour, she's moving to New York City, where she plans to settle "for the last years of my life". She plans to write and edit, continue her personal study and Buddhist practice, and teach via Zoom. Maybe "I'll go out to a jazz club in the evening," she says, before adding, "I'm just joking, I probably won't go to the jazz club.
"I'm going to try and not waste my life. Try and stay useful. Be useful before I drop dead."
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robina_Courtin
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Her natal Lilith is 11 Libra, N.Node 22 Sagittarius, S.Node 15 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 27 Pisces, N.Node 8 Taurus, and the S.Node is 0026Sagittarius.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the story of Mahsa Amini. This is a noon chart.
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Iranian woman dies 'after being beaten by morality police' over hijab law
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after 'violent arrest' for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women's dress
Weronika Strzyżyńska
Guardian
A 22-year-old woman has died in an Iranian hospital days after being detained by the regime's morality police for allegedly not complying with the country's hijab regulations.
Mahsa Amini was travelling with her family from Iran's western province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, to visit relatives when she was reportedly arrested for failing to meet the country's strict rules on women's dress.
Witnesses reported that Amini was beaten in the police van, an allegation the police deny.
The news comes weeks after Iran's hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi, ordered a crackdown on women's rights and called for stricter enforcement of the country's mandatory dress code, which has required all women to wear the hijab head-covering since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Amini's family were notified that she had been taken to hospital hours after her arrest. She was transferred to an intensive-care unit at Kasra hospital.
According to Hrana, an Iranian human rights organisation, Amini's family were told during her arrest that she would be released after a "re-education session".
The police later said that Amini had suffered a heart attack. Amini's family disputed this, however, and said she was healthy and had not been experiencing any health problems.
Amini was in a coma after arriving at the hospital, her family said, adding that they were told by hospital staff that she was brain dead.
Photographs of Amini lying in the hospital bed in a coma with bandages around her head and breathing tubes have circulated on social media.
Her hospitalisation and death drew condemnation from Iranian celebrities and politicians. Mahmoud Sadeghi, a reformist politician and former MP, called on the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to speak out over Amini's case.
"What does the supreme leader, who rightfully denounced US police over the death of George Floyd, say about the Iranian police's treatment of Mahsa Amini?" Sadeghi tweeted on Friday.
The interior ministry and Tehran's prosecutor launched inquiries into the case after an order from Raisi, state media reported.
Raisi signed a decree on 15 August clamping down on women's dress and stipulating harsher punishments for violating the strict code, both in public and online.
Women have been arrested across the country after the national "hijab and chastity day" declared on 12 July. One of the women was Sepideh Rashno, a writer and artist who was reportedly beaten and tortured in custody before making a forced apology on television.
Human rights groups have reported that extra security forces have been deployed outside Kasra hospital.
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Analysis: Mahsa Amini's brutal death may be moment of reckoning for Iran
Martin Chulov
Signs of groundswell taking shape against state that routinely commits extreme acts of violence against men and women
Mahsa Amini's death in custody is fast becoming another moment of reckoning for the Iranian regime that fears a popular revolt more than it fears staring down the rest of the world.
Four days after Amini died in a Tehran hospital, protests in the Iranian capital show little sign of slowing. Most protests appear peaceful, but some in Kurdish areas of Iran have turned violent.
There are some signs that a groundswell could be taking shape: the first of its kind since 2009, when the death of another young woman sparked days of widespread unrest not seen since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Even now, Neda Agha Soltan's slow demise from a gunshot to the chest remains a testament to how Iran deals with dissent, and with women. Soltan was shot by a sniper as she attended an anti-government protest in June 2009, in a moment that galvanized a revolt and, for a time, exposed the fragility of one of the region's staunchest police states.
Images of Amini being dragged last Thursday into a van by morality police – reportedly for a perceived breach of the hijab head-covering rules – have stirred memories of Soltan's death, and once again raised the spectre of a state that routinely commits extreme acts of violence against women and men who defy it.
The decade plus between both events has been an era of increasing oppression in Iran, where activists have been confined to the shadows and the state itself has crushed all trace of the Green Revolution that followed the disputed 2009 presidential elections.
The the state's henchmen, known as basiji, whose members were responsible for killing Soltan, and the Revolutionary Guards, who enforce the values of the Islamic Revolution, have had the run of the streets, especially since the election of Ebrahim Raisi as president.
A hardliner with deeply conservative views, Raisi has further narrowed the margin for dissent, empowering the morality police and entrenching an inflexible interpretation of Shia Islam across all corners of the country.
Iran's leaders have so far blamed "conspirators" for Amini's death even thought it took place in one of the regime's own cells, and also claimed that riots and protests were the work of foes, such as Saudi Arabia. The playbook is familiar, and so too are platitudes.
At the same time, semi-official state media has flagged an inquiry and claimed that senior officials, such as Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, were likely to have felt sympathy for Amini's death, which had been earlier blamed on a heart condition, or epilepsy, neither of which the 22-year-old Kurd suffered from, according to her parents.
Iran's hardliners have learned lessons from 2009, when a broad uprising nearly escaped the state's control. The country now has some of the best and most pervasive digital security in the region and a firm hold over communities it has terrified into silence.
But it also finds itself up against a formidable expatriate network who want different things for the country and its people, and a strong homegrown activist push that knows how to organise. Whether Amini's death will become another seminal moment in the pursuit of self determination by so many Iranians, or an ember that eventually cools, remains to be seen.
However, Iranian leaders fear a street they can no longer contain. The brutal death of another young woman is the recipe for more unrest. The regime has found itself in tricky waters.
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Her natal Lilith is 1 Pisces, N.Node 4 Sagittarius, S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 28 Virgo, N.Node 10 Gemini, S.Node 11 Scorpio.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the chart for Mallory McMorrow who is a American state Senator from Michigan. This is a noon chart.
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Mallory McMorrow, rising Democratic star, says it's time to answer conservative culture war attacks
Alexander Nazaryan
Alexander Nazaryan·Senior White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON — It is fair to say that until last month, Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow was not a figure of national political prominence. That changed on April 19, when she delivered an impassioned speech countering Republican accusations that Democrats like she were "groomers" for supporting the rights of gay and trans students.
The four-minute broadside immediately roused Democrats who had been huddled in a defensive crouch for months; one circulating version has been viewed more than 15 million times
"I'm going to start talking that way," Democratic consultant James Carville told the Washington Post.
"A role model for the midterms," read a headline in the New Yorker.
The speech came after months of charges from politicians like Ron DeSantis, the ambitious Republican Florida governor, that teachers who wanted to discuss sexuality and gender were, in fact, trying to indoctrinate children. The charges were baseless but effective, and books like "Gender Queer" suddenly became the targets of national bans.
"There was a hesitancy to want to talk about things, at least for me," McMorrow told Yahoo News during a recent visit to Washington, D.C.
That changed on April 13, when Republican state Sen. Lana Theis gave an arresting invocation to open the Michigan State Senate session. "Dear Lord, across the country we're seeing in the news that our children are under attack," Theis said. "That there are forces that desire things for them other than what their parents would have them see and hear and know. Dear Lord, I pray for Your guidance in this chamber to protect the most vulnerable among us."
McMorrow walked out of the legislative chamber along with two other Democrats, seeing Theis's concern as a thinly disguised reference to the "grooming" line of attack. She did not think much of her response to what had seemed like intentional political provocation, a local Republican trying to replicate the rhetoric of Fox News.
"I guess she took offense to that," McMorrow said of Theis.
Five days later, Theis sent out a fundraising email that seemed to confirm as much. "These are the people we are up against," the email said. "Progressive social media trolls like Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Snowflake) who are outraged they ... can't groom and sexualize kindergarteners or that 8-year-olds are responsible for slavery."
McMorrow said she was stunned to find herself a target of such attacks. "She's a mom, I'm a mom, and being accused of, let's be honest, befriending children for the purpose of molesting them, is horrific," McMorrow recalled.
She and Theis were not exactly friends, but they had been friendly. "I have gone out for coffee in her district. We talked about our families, and she asks about my baby all the time," McMorrow told Yahoo News.
"She likes my truck," adds her husband Ray Wert, who accompanied McMorrow to Washington and is the former editor of automotive website Jalopnik. (Theis did not answer a request for comment from Yahoo News.)
The fundraising email had gone out on a Monday. On Tuesday came McMorrow's response.
"I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme," McMorrow said from the statehouse floor.
Describing herself as "a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom," the 35-year-old New Jersey native and Notre Dame graduate positioned herself as precisely the kind of suburban voter whom the GOP "grooming" attacks were trying to court.
She addressed not only Republican attacks on gay and trans kids but also charges that schools were imposing divisive racial justice ideas that are broadly (and often inaccurately) deemed Critical Race Theory.
"No child alive today is responsible for slavery," McMorrow said in her viral speech. "No one in this room is responsible for slavery. But each and every single one of us bears responsibility for writing the next chapter of history."
Dismaying as it had been to be labeled a pedophile, McMorrow says she tried to imagine what it was like to be gay or Black in a climate she described as relentless "fearmongering" by Republicans. "You are targeted and marginalized," she said. "Just for existing."
Coming amid increasingly downbeat predictions for Democrats in next fall's congressional midterms, McMorrow's rebuttal proved a welcome surprise at a time when Democrats were still reeling from discontent over pandemic-related school closures, not to mention the gender- and race-related attacks that followed.
In Virginia, suburban frustrations helped power the Republican business executive Glenn Youngkin to an upset victory over Democratic candidate and former governor Terry McAuliffe in that state's gubernatorial race last fall. The suburbs hugging the Potomac — the same ones that had voted for Biden only months before — provided the crucial difference.
"Suburban moms who have left the Republican Party in big numbers came back," a jubilant Bob McDonnell — Virginia's last Republican governor before Youngkin — told the Washington Post after the latter's unlikely win over McAuliffe.
In McMorrow's Michigan and across the Midwest, Republicans now control nearly all of the state legislatures. Democrats in Washington have found their messages about a post-pandemic economic renewal unconvincing to a suburban and rural electorate uneasy about social issues like education and crime.
Democrats need to reawaken those voters' sense of moral responsibility, McMorrow believes, while acknowledging the challenges they face. "Moms are tired after the past few years with COVID, with school closures, trying to balance work and school, and I've seen attempts to take advantage of that exhaustion," she told Yahoo News. "What I try to say, specifically to other white suburban moms, is this is a moment to decide to take our own identity and back fight for the types of communities we want."
Perhaps precisely because she is herself a straight, white suburbanite, McMorrow has served to remind Democrats of what they stood for when they marched in the summer of 2020 for social justice, what they hoped for when they voted for Biden that fall. "I think I felt the same way a lot of people did on Inauguration Day, which was, we all worked so hard in 2020 to help President Biden get elected," she says. "And it felt like we could breathe a sigh of relief. And I don't think that was naive."
Despite a promising start, new variants of the coronavirus spoiled Biden's promised "summer of freedom," and a sort of pandemic malaise has settled in. A messy withdrawal from Afghanistan added foreign policy woes to domestic ones. Biden's infrastructure plan passed, but his more ambitious raft of social spending programs, known as Build Back Better, didn't. Inflation climbed ever higher, making it increasingly difficult for many people to afford groceries and gas.
McMorrow saw some of her conservative constituents give over to Trump's false claims that the election had been stolen from him. That conspiracy theory has melded with a resistance to coronavirus safety measures and fears of demographic change to fuel a pervasive feeling of grievance and threat.
She describes herself as wanting to speak for other suburban moms: perhaps the ones who put up Black Lives Matter and Hate Has No Home Here signs in their yards, but have, in the last two years, grown successively more exhausted with school closures, reports of rising crime and inflation.
"The signs are a wonderful signal and reminder of who we are and what kind of community and country we want our kids to grow up in," McMorrow told Yahoo News of front yard progressivism. "But the devastating reality is that Republicans are actively trying to dismantle that vision, and a sign isn't enough without action. Because they'll win unless we stop them."
Almost exactly two years before she gave her now-famous speech, McMorrow watched as heavily armed anti-lockdown protesters invaded the Michigan statehouse.
"When you saw the photo of the four men and guns, what you don't see is I'm right below them. Like literally," she says of that day's iconic image. "They were above our heads, taunting us. You know, fingers on triggers."
"There's ordinary Republican voters who see it as bulls***," she says, even as she worries that many of them have bought into a strident and often false narrative about the country. "I've got a woman in my district who calls our office fairly regularly and leaves voicemails, and you can hear her voice like she's genuinely upset. She believes the election was stolen," she recalled. "She asks how I, as a woman, could support 'biological men' playing in women's sports. When you know in Michigan, there's two kids per year who apply for the waiver for getting to play on a team to match their gender."
After the massacre of 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, last week, Republicans in the Michigan State Senate ended sessions early, in order, state Democrats said, to prevent a genuine discussion of gun policy.
In response, McMorrow recorded a video from her office. She asked parents to dispense with the notion of a school shooting as "unimaginable" and to instead imagine the horror of their own children caught in the terrifying chaos
"Your phone rings. It's the school," They need you to come down to give a DNA sample," a tearful McMorrow says into the camera. "The bodies are too mutilated to identify. So mutilated that they don't even know how many kids there are."
The video garnered hundreds of thousands of views, more evidence that McMorrow was hitting raw political nerves. Even before the new message, liberal commentator Keith Olbermann was touting her as a presidential candidate in 2024, positing a run with Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke. It was less a realistic ticket than a recognition that many Democrats feel that they need new people to say new things — and to say them more bluntly than their party elders have.
For the record, McMorrow said she isn't going to seek the White House — at least not in 2024. "We're in this mess because Republicans have known for decades to work from the bottom up," she told Yahoo News. "What happens in the states is the most consequential thing on the ballot."
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLWo8B1R0MY
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallory_McMorrow
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Her natal Lilith is 16 Pices, N.Node 2 Sagittarius, S.Node 11 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 18 Cancer, N.Node 11 Gemini, and the S.Node is 6 Scorpio.
Goddess Bless, Rad
Hi All,
Here is the story of Kira Yarmysh's. This is a noon chart.
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Kira Yarmysh's new novel, 'Harassment' Alexey Navalny's press secretary discusses books and personal responsibility in times of war and emigration
Source: Meduza
In the novel "Harassment," the protagonist navigates unwanted attention from her boss. The story's author, Kira Yarmysh (the longtime press secretary of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny), wrote most of the book in Moscow while under house arrest as a "restraining measure" for violating Russia's draconian pandemic lockdown restrictions. Last summer, Yarmysh left Russia; she now lives and works abroad. Meduza literary critic Galina Yuzefovich spoke with Yarmysh about her new book, Navalny's role in her literary career, and what she believes opponents of the Kremlin's policies should do now.
I started reading your novel on the first day of the war and realized sadly that I'd have come away with a completely different impression, if I'd picked it up literally one week earlier. Are you worried about the book's fate?
On February 24, everything changed so much that of course the attributes of our former lives seem totally irrelevant. But life goes on, no matter how it sounds. You can't just up and pretend that some aspects no longer exist. It's true that the novel's release didn't come at the most fortunate moment, but the book itself was written in a completely different time. That alone, I think, doesn't make it useless or uninteresting to everyone. Harassment hasn't gone anywhere — and it's not likely to go anywhere, so this book will still be important to some right now.
All violence is interconnected. Do you feel that when we're talking about one type, we're in fact talking about violence in general?
I have thought about this a lot, of course. It seems to me, in principle, that violence is a general concept for a certain type of evil, and that it's not particularly important to divide it into specific types and subtypes. With violence, there is no clear gradation, degree, or level. Any violence or illegitimate use of your power is always immoral and criminal. So, yes, the violence that I write about in my novel is private and narrow, but also a very representative example of violence as a global category.
In your novel, you deliberately avoid ethical certainty: there is not one situation in which the heroine finds herself, where we can say with a clear conscience that she is completely blameless, that she's just an unfortunate victim. Do you have any fear that some will think you're taking the position that "not everything is so clear" or even "both sides are to blame"?
No, not at all. I consciously tried to avoid situations which would produce in the reader an unambiguous relationship with the main characters. From the very beginning, I wanted to create a situation that was as realistic as possible and also as contradictory as possible, so that readers' sympathies would always rotate between different characters. In no way did I try to portray the heroine as a victim, some poor little lamb. So, I hope readers will understand me correctly.
It was much more interesting to me to show the contradiction, the complexity, and therefore also the danger of the entire process of harassment than to take one side firmly and dogmatically. Harassment is always a use of one's position and one's power against a weaker person who cannot answer in kind. That is unambiguously bad, but writing such obvious things openly seems trivial and useless to me. I'm really not writing agitprop or a feminist manifesto.
When and under what conditions was the idea for Harassment born?
I discussed the plot of the novel with Alexey [Navalny] on the way to Novosibirsk in August 2020. On that flight, we talked over the whole story and discussed details, but then after a few days the Novichok [poisoning] happened and everything, of course, changed completely. It wasn't until a month after that fateful flight — when it became clear that Alexey was coming out of the coma, and everything would be relatively okay — that I started to write the novel itself. At least then, imminent disaster had been averted.
The book was necessary for me; it helped me somehow to reconcile with what was happening, but there wasn't enough time for it. With my house arrest, I suddenly had all the time in the world. I was writing a lot then.
What was it like to write under house arrest? Did it feel like speaking into the void?
In that respect, the book was an excellent anchor. I wrote under house arrest precisely so it would be easier to survive what was happening. Obviously, I had a lot of free time. No Internet, no nothing — no one could visit, only a lawyer. So, you sit alone in your apartment for 24 hours a day. What do you do with yourself?
My colleagues offered to pass me a gaming console through my lawyer. Everyone was worried that I was bored and probably going nuts, climbing the walls. But I was writing, that whole time, so the first five months I didn't even understand where I would find the time to get bored. And that cured me of any suffering, any depression, and any fretting about the future. Because I was immersed in a world that I'd created. In that moment, nothing more existed for me. Who needs a gaming console!
You mentioned that you discussed your books with Alexey Navalny, and I remember that he actively supported your first novel when he was still free. What, generally, is Navalny's role in your writing career?
Huge, if I'm being honest. He's the person who made me believe in myself and in the fact that I could write at all. For many years, I told everyone that I wanted to write, but I worried that I lacked the perseverance, mainly. So, credit for my first novel is due, undoubtedly, to Alexey. He believed in me so much that he simply overwhelmed me with that belief, until I wrote the book.
Of course, I couldn't discuss the second novel with him because I was under house arrest, and he was in prison. So, except for that conversation on the plane, we discussed practically nothing more about the plot, its twists and turns, or its subtleties. I couldn't consult with him about whether what I was writing was realistic or not. But he became my first reader anyway, because I sent him the whole book, literally page by page, in letters over the course of several months. He read it and liked it. This naturally lifted my spirits and gave me confidence. So, like before, Alexey is actively involved in my writing life, he inspires me, and he supports me.
Do you ever get the feeling that Navalny's participation, his presence in your life in general, not only helps but also hinders your writing career? I remember very well the controversy around your first book, when many colleagues said it was of interest only because it was written by Alexey Navalny's press secretary.
I've thought about this a fair amount, and it would be strange to deny it. I'm certainly indebted to Alexey for the fact that Varya Gornostaeva [a senior editor at CORPUS, Kira Yarmysh's Russian publisher] even agreed to read my novel. But I was only hoping for an expert's assessment and maybe some advice — Varya herself offered to publish it. I honestly was not counting on that. It came as a huge shock and a great joy.
I'd like to believe that the book wouldn't have sustained three reprints in Russia if it were bad, if the only reason it appeared on the market was that I'm Navalny's press secretary. I'd like to believe it wouldn't have been translated into 10 languages.
On the whole, writing is very important to me. I view it as at least half of my work and self-actualization. I have politics and the work that's connected to it, and then I have my creativity. I really want to bear the proud name of a writer, to have the right to speak of myself that way. So, I plan to continue writing, and I hope that simply by releasing novels time and again that are interesting (or necessary) to people, I can win over even those who think my only secret to success (if I can put it that way) is that I'm someone's press secretary.
What was it like watching Navalny's new sentencing?
It was hard. It's difficult to answer this question because, on the one hand, no one had any illusions. It was pretty clear in advance that they'd sentence Alexey to some unthinkable term, probably at a maximum-security facility. That everything would be very long and very painful. You get used to this thought, you don't expect surprises. From the very beginning, it was clear to everybody that Alexey would not be released from the [prison] colony in [his original sentence of] two and a half years. This will happen only after sweeping changes in the country. When Putin dies.
You think you're ready for anything. But the moment when I heard "nine years, maximum security" (and I was live on the air then), everything suddenly turned out to be inadequate. All of my self-control skills went down the drain because I was filled with rage that had nowhere to go. Because, of course, Alexey shouldn't be in prison for one minute. Though the nine years in his sentence are just an abstract figure (he could be released later, or possibly much sooner), the injustice itself is such an outrage that it's like having a nuclear reactor inside me. And that reactor actually helps fuel my work, in fact.
For the foreseeable months or possibly years, it's clear that you'll not likely be able to return to Russia, meaning that you're now an émigré writer. Given this, do you worry that you'll become foreign to Russian readers, to the very people to whom your books are addressed?
I'd say no, and this "no" has both subjective and objective sides. The objective side is that the Internet exists, which makes an enormous difference for people today who've left Russia (compared to what first-wave emigrants experienced). So, of course, I'm much more in touch with Russian reality than my predecessors in emigration were.
And the subjective reason is that I just love Russia so much that I can't imagine that I would suddenly break away from it. Where I live is irrelevant — all my life goals and all my thoughts are concentrated there. I just don't feel any distance between myself and Russia. So, I think I'll continue to write about Russia, all the same, and I'll find themes and words that are important to people living there.
There is a lot of talk now about the "cancellation" of Russian culture. I wanted to ask, first, what you think about this, and how great is the danger of a ban on Russian authors? And second, do you have any sense that something similar could happen to you? Or does your status as an opponent of the Putin regime who is persecuted in your native land protect you?
I myself have felt nothing like this in any capacity. Neither as a regular person on the street, nor as a writer. I hope that will continue. I don't know whether the fact of my persecution plays a significant role here, but my activism is probably important. I don't hide my convictions, and I think everyone knows that they were formed long before it became necessary for me to leave Russia. And that I'm against Putin and that it's been this way with me for many years.
Concerning cancel culture generally, it's a really complex issue. With anything connected to the war, there are no longer simple questions. I believe that Russian culture is a great culture. Undoubtedly, one specific person and several of his closest accomplices bear responsibility for the war. It would be strange to cancel Pushkin because Putin started a war against Ukraine. So, I hope that global ties will remain intact. Many creative people do not support anything that is currently going on in Russia, they don't support Putin, they don't support the war. So, I hope this will outweigh [the bad], and Russian culture won't be cancelled on some large-scale, ultimatum scale without regard for who actually spoke out about what, who defends which interests, and so on.
When Alexey had the chance to speak out, he called on all Russians to protest the Putin regime openly. How does the Anti-Corruption Foundation view this now? And how do you personally see it?
Rallies were never the main point or some kind of magic button that you can push to collapse the Putin regime. None of us, including Alexey, ever thought that rallying was the silver bullet that would kill Putin. Rallies are undoubtedly an important form of protest, but protests can take any form, and any kind of protest is important.
I understand that far from everyone can join a picket line. It is really, really scary. Everyone decides only for themselves what to do here, and I can't force anyone (or condemn anyone, for that matter). If you're prepared to risk everything, go to a rally. If not, then at least try to talk to your neighbors. Share someone's post online. There's always something that you personally can do. If you grasp that what is happening is monstrous and criminal, you just have to use any means to find the chance to express your feelings, whether that's a rally, a picket, a leaflet, a conversation, or some other form of struggle.
And what do you think about emigration? Everyone is ashamed of each other, whether it's someone who stayed in Russia and now Ukrainians are being killed with his tax money, or it's someone who left and isn't fighting Putin.
I really don't get this. I absolutely do not believe that people who remain in Russia are more wrong than people who left. In all my life, that thought has never crossed my mind. Anyway, everyone pays taxes. It's very easy here to blame 146 million people for supporting the war in Ukraine. But in fact, again, it's important to understand clearly who has to answer for the fact — and that's Vladimir Putin. Some old woman in Siberia or a journalist in St. Petersburg is not at fault at all for what's happening — unless, of course, they actively support it.
So, of course, people who remain in Russia and continue to work there are uncommonly brave. And those who leave because they couldn't do otherwise are also brave. The decision to leave or to stay shouldn't be the criterion for evaluating people's political positions, much less for condemning or vindicating anyone.
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Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh sentenced to restricted freedom in the 'Sanitary Case'
Source: Meduza
In its latest "Sanitary Case" verdict, Moscow's Preobrazhensky District Court handed down a parole-like sentence to Alexey Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh. On Monday, August 16, the court's press service told Meduza that Yarmysh was sentenced to one and a half years of "restrictions on freedom."
The court prohibited her from changing her place of residency without permission, attending mass gatherings, and traveling outside of Moscow and the Moscow region. Yarmysh is also obliged to report to a probation office once a month.
The Preobrazhensky Court has already handed down sentences in the "Sanitary Case" to opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, Navalny staffer Nikolai Lyaskin, and Navalny's brother Oleg. Sobol was sentenced to one and a half years of restrictions on freedom, Lyaskin was sentenced to one year of restrictions on freedom, and Oleg Navalny received a one year suspended sentence with a one-year probationary period.
The remaining defendants in the case are Navalny staffer Oleg Stepanov, Doctors' Alliance director Anastasia Vasilieva, Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina, and municipal deputies Dmitry Baranovsky and Lyusya Shtein (the latter is also a member of Pussy Riot). They have yet to receive their sentences.
State investigators launched the "Sanitary Case" in January 2021, accusing ten of Alexey Navalny's associates of inciting violations of pandemic restrictions in connection with a pro-Navalny rally that took place in Moscow on January 23. According to the investigation, the defendants in the case called for people to attend rally, thereby provoking violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules.
In June, the Russian Investigative Committee dropped the "Sanitary Case" charges against municipal deputy Konstantin Yankauskas; this came shortly after the politician announced that he wouldn't be running in the upcoming State Duma elections.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Yarmysh
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Here is the story of Taraneh Alidoosti. This is a noon chart.
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Prominent Iranian actor removes mandatory headscarf in defiant protest
Agence France-Presse
Wed 9 Nov 2022 22.07 GMT
One of Iran's most prominent actors posted an image of herself on social media on Wednesday without the headscarf mandatory for women in the Islamic republic.
Taraneh Alidoosti's apparent act of defiance comes as weeks of protests have rocked the country since the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman died in mid-September after being arrested by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly flouting the country's strict dress rules for women.
Alidoosti, one of the best-known actors remaining in Iran, who has publicly backed the protest movement, posted the image of herself with her head uncovered on her official Instagram account.
She held a Kurdish-language slogan of the protest movement reading "Jin. Jiyan. Azadi." (Woman. Life. Freedom.)
Alidoosti is a regular star in films by award-winning director Asghar Farhadi, including The Salesman, which took the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2017.
Days ago on Instagram, the actor vowed to remain in her homeland at "any price", saying she planned to stop working and instead support the families of those killed or arrested in the protest crackdown.
"I am the one who stays here and I have no intention of leaving," said the 38-year-old, denying having any foreign passport or residence.
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"I will stay, I will halt working. I will stand by the families of prisoners and those killed. I will be their advocate," she said.
"I will fight for my home. I will pay any price to stand up for my rights, and most importantly, I believe in what we are building together today," she added.
Alidoosti has been a prominent presence on the Iranian cinema scene since her teens, and also starred in the recent movie by acclaimed director Saeed Roustayi, Leila's Brothers, which was shown at this year's Cannes festival.
She is known as a forthright defender of women's rights and wider human rights in Iran.
Iranian cinema figures were under pressure even before the start of the protest movement sparked by Amini's death. The award-winning directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi remain in detention after they were arrested earlier this year.
When major protests rocked the country in November 2019, Alidoosti declared that Iranians were "millions of captives" rather than citizens.
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'We are captives': Iranian actor criticises Tehran government
Taraneh Alidoosti criticises government in Instagram post as anti-regime protests continue
One of Iran's most popular female actors has bluntly criticised the government in Tehran in a post on Instagram, telling her almost 6 million followers that "we are not citizens" but "captives".
Taraneh Alidoosti – who has appeared in an Oscar-nominated film and acclaimed TV dramas – made her comments on Sunday, as Iranians took to the streets in a series of anti-regime protests.
"I fought this dream for a long time and didn't want to accept it. We are not citizens. We never were. We are captives," she wrote.
Alidoosti said that she had replaced her profile picture with the colour black in mourning for demonstrators shot dead by security forces last November. The colour had nothing to do with official "mourning" following the assassination on 3 January of Iran's top general Qassem Suleimani by a US drone, she added.
The actor's intervention comes amid reports that Iranian authorities have fired live ammunition to disperse protesters in Tehran, wounding several people. The protests broke out after the government admitted on Friday its military had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing 176 people.
Alidoosti has previously spoken out against Donald Trump's decision to impose visa bans on Iranians. In 2017 she boycotted the Oscar awards ceremony after The Salesman in which she starred was nominated in the best foreign language film category. The blanket ban was racist, she said.
She played the lead role in the film, directed by Asghar Farhadi. It is about a couple whose relationship is thrown into disarray after an intruder surprises her in the shower. Hardliners criticised Alidoosti after she returned from promoting the film at the Cannes film festival with a feminist tattoo on her arm.
Alidoosti also starred in a popular Iranian online TV series set in the 1950s, which has echoes in politics today. Shahrzad, the most expensive production of its kind in Iran, brought Iranian lifestyle under the late Shah to the screen, depicting snooker clubs, women and men partying together, cabarets and drinking alcohol.
She describes herself on her Twitter profile as an "actor, feminist, translator, mom".
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraneh_Alidoosti
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Here is the story of Camille Herron world best distance runner. This is a noon chart.
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Camille Herron: the Queen of Ultrarunning who ran 270km in a single day
Camille Herron has truly made her mark in the world of endurance sports. In the latest episode of How to be Superhuman, the ultrarunner shares her remarkable story of training, tacos and triumph.
Written by Gershon Portnoi
Picture the scene. It's 2am. You've been running for 18 hours, and covered a distance of around 217km, when you start to feel a little peckish, but you still have six hours to run. What do you do?
While most of us couldn't run for that long – or far – those that can probably wouldn't choose to eat tacos while they did it. But that's exactly what Camille Herron did when she was breaking all manner of records in the Desert Solstice 24-hour run in Phoenix, Arizona in 2018. And that's because the Oklahoma-born ultrarunner is not like the rest of us. In fact, she's not like anyone at all.
Describing how she started to up her training mileage to Rob Pope in the latest episode of the How to be Superhuman podcast, Camille says: "Once I got over 100 miles [160km] per week, it started to come alive. I was born for it. The more I ran, the more I felt like myself."
Eventually, she was covering 225km each week (for context, that's more than the average weekly load of Eliud Kipchoge or Mo Farah), highlighting her body's incredible ability to endure.
Overcoming adversity
Like so many of the very best athletes, Camille's thirst for running was born out of adversity when, aged 17, her family home in Oklahoma was destroyed by a tornado in 1999. After the alert came through, Camille and her family had 15 minutes to pack up their most prized possessions in a crate, before escaping to her grandparents' house.
Apart from her running shoes, Camille also packed her favourite book Lore of Running, a bible of inspirational stories about runners, focusing on ultrarunners. "My first running heroes were ultrarunners," she says. "It was hard for me to imagine running that far – what do they eat, how do they keep running?"
I started running long to celebrate my life and the talents that I was born with
Camille Herron
They certainly weren't eating tacos, but all that was to come. Camille's running journey had started at school: "When I went to cross country in the eighth grade and all the other girls looked like me, I knew I'd found my sport."
But it was after the devastating twister that she began to run longer on weekends – although at that stage 'long' meant six miles [10km]. "I just felt so grateful for my life and this running ability," she reflects. "I started running long on Sundays to celebrate my life and the talents that I was born with."
Unfortunately, she suffered seven stress fractures while she was at university, forcing her to stop running, although she was unaware of the severity of her injuries, saying: "I didn't know my bones were broken. I didn't think the pain was that bad."
The enforced absence from her sport saw her take up the French horn and led her to a jazz festival where she met her future husband Conor Holt, an elite runner. After the couple moved to Boulder, Colorado, it was always Camille who was running longer than Conor, despite him being the athlete, so he began coaching her.
I felt like Billy Elliot doing ballet for the first time. It was an amazing feeling – the longer I went, the better I felt
Camille Herron
But, at that stage, Camille was only focusing on marathons. In 2011, she finished ninth in the Pan American Games, then, just 13 days later, she came home as the third American and 18th overall in the New York City marathon. Noting the incredible back-to-back performances, the New York race co-ordinator remarked that Camille should try ultra-running – she never looked back.
After taking on her first 100km race, she knew she'd found her niche. "I felt like Billy Elliot doing ballet for the first time. It was an amazing feeling, the longer I went, the better I felt."
Not that Camille didn't experience pain from running those distances. The problem for her competitors, was that she loved it: "I'm the type of person who likes to push my limits," she says. "I just had to go longer to find out 'this is hard, and I love it'."
Throwing punches
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Camille was that she was now winning races outright, even defeating the male runners. "It was strange for me to catch the men, I was like 'what's going on here?'"
In my mind, I'm Rocky Balboa going into this race, and I'm ready to throw 12 rounds of punches at these people
Camille Herron
And so to Phoenix and The Desert Solstice, where Camille made ultrarunning history. Unlike a normal ultramarathon with its predetermined distance, the race requires participants to run for 24 hours around a 400m track, which Camille describes as: "mind boggling, super mental, like death by a thousand paper cuts."
Pre-race, not a great deal was expected from her, with a Facebook group predicting she might place fifth. But that merely served to motivate her even more: "If you want to light a fire under me, start doubting me," she says. "In my mind, I'm Rocky Balboa going into this race, and I'm ready to throw 12 rounds of punches at these people."
Held in December, the days are reasonably warm, but the nights bring a serious desert chill, which is roughly when Camille became hungry. "I hit about 135 miles [217km] and I was wanting a taco," she recalls. "I had a crew of three, and one of them drove to Taco Bell and got me tacos!"
My body went into this rigor mortis state. I died a death out there
Camille Herron
Dying on the track
Once she'd finished, her pace slowed down and, without any serious competitors as she'd already taken care of her rivals, she found it hard to keep going. "My body went into this rigor mortis state. I died a death out there. Once the competition had gone, I didn't have as much motivation and my legs just felt like lead weights. 'Ok, brain, tell my legs to keep moving!'"
With a world record on the line, Camille knew that even with her slower pace, she was still on track, so she ground out painful lap-after-lap, keeping her eyes on the clock as it eventually ticked to 24 hours.
Not only did she complete 262.16km in that time, but she also ran her first 160km (100 miles) in 13 hours and 25 minutes, another world best.
"It really felt like my legs were like rocks," she remembers, and such was the state of her body, she had to leave the track in a wheelchair.
Of course, like every superhuman, that wasn't enough. A year later, Camille went to France to compete in the 24-hour World Championships where she obliterated her own world record in the process, running 270km, although she did throw up twice during the race. Clearly, with no Taco Bells in France, she had to do it the hard way.
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She ran a 100-mile world record. A course error means it won't count
Distance runner Camille Herron said she questions the finding. This is not the first time a racecourse measurement error has voided records.
By Kelyn Soong
Updated November 17, 2022
Imagine running for 100 miles, setting a world record, and then finding out it doesn't count.
That is the situation professional ultrarunner Camille Herron faces. Herron, known as one of the most accomplished ultrarunners in the world, won the Jackpot Ultra Running Festival 100-miler in Henderson, Nev., in February in what was believed to be a world-record-setting time.
The 40-year-old finished the race in 12 hours 41 minutes 11 seconds — a 7:37-per-mile pace — and beat the second-place finisher and first male athlete, Arlen Glick, by nearly 30 minutes. The race served as the USA Track & Field 100 Mile Road Championships, and Herron garnered international acclaim for her world record victory.
In doing so, Herron also beat her own world record of 12:42:40, which she set in 2017, by more than a minute.
Or at least that's what she thought.
After the course was remeasured, in February and again in October, it was determined that the course had been slightly altered and was short by 716 feet. As a result, a USA Track & Field committee decided not to ratify the record.
Herron and her husband and coach, Conor Holt, have questioned the findings and expressed frustration at what they say has been a lack of transparency and communication from USATF. In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, the race director, Ken Rubeli, argued to a USATF official that the findings were "open to subjectivity" and questioned the accuracy of measurements made eight months after a race.
Herron said the situation has been "very stressful" for her. "I set a world record in that race, and now they're telling us that we don't know whether the course was 100 miles or not," she said. "So it's been very upsetting to me the past several months. I've had races since then, and this has weighed heavy on me and impacted my performances."
David Katz, chair of the USATF Road Running Technical Council, wrote in a statement to The Post that the measurements taken on the day of the Jackpot 100-mile race and after the event "produced a course less than the 100 miles."
A USATF council "decided not to ratify the record because the course was changed from what was certified," Katz wrote. In a phone interview, Katz said that the organization has been careful to gather all the facts and that the "ratification process takes a long time."
Katz said in his statement that the course was measured four times by two top A-level measurers — twice in February and twice in October — and it came up short. The Post obtained a measuring report that indicates the course was measured on Oct. 25 by Brandon Wilson, a World Athletics measurer with an A rating, the highest distinction for racecourse measurers. Wilson's report concluded that the 100-mile course's actual length was 99.864336 miles, or 716 feet short.
"Due to overwhelming documentation, photos, first-hand accounts, and live video coverage of the race this fact is not in dispute, no runners in any contest ran certified courses on race-day," Wilson said in the report.
Rubeli, who has since sold the Jackpot event, wrote in a three-page letter sent to Nancy Hobbs, the chair of the USATF Mountain, Ultra and Trail Sport Council, that he takes issue with the measurements and being excluded from the process.
"Trying to measure a course's shortest possible route 8 months after a race, is challenging at best and open to subjectivity, especially if the measurement individuals don't know the relevance of the green course paint marks relative to cone placement," Rubeli wrote. "Inches matter in a short loop course with over nearly 90 laps."
Rubeli states in the letter that he changed one turn on the course for safety reasons, "due to a near collision between a runner and a baby stroller," adding, "I compensated for this turn change with precise cone placements on the course."
In a phone interview, Rubeli said he made the change before the 2020 Jackpot Ultra race but that he did not know the altered course needed to be re-certified and USATF officials never brought it to his attention.
On Feb. 27, about a week after the race, Rubeli hired Paul Fritz, a World Athletics level B measurer, to measure the course, and Fritz came up with 100.00396 miles based on the shortest possible route on the altered course.
Herron said she believes that she ran 100 miles that day in February.
"I hope I get another opportunity at the record, but I may not — you don't know what the future holds," she said. "So this is highly impactful on me and my career. I mean, I'm 40 years old, you know. My time is now that I'm in the best shape of my life. And, I mean, these moments can be fleeting. I put my heart and soul into that performance, and it was such a big deal for the sport and the history of the sport that it needs to count."
Course errors have happened before
This is not the first time a racecourse error has voided records. Whenever a runner sets a record, whether it is a world record, American record or age group record, the course must be verified by an official measurer before the record can be ratified.
Although it's not common, runners have lost out on records in the past because of a course error, some occurring in high-profile events. And when a racecourse error occurs, it's not just the elites who are affected. Amateur runners who thought they had run a personal best in a race distance can no longer officially claim the time.
In 2019, the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in D.C. was short by 240 feet — 0.04 of a mile — because of misplaced cones at a turnaround point, meaning that Stanley Kebenei's time of 46 minutes did not count as an American men's 10-mile road record and Rosemary Wanjiru's time of 50:42 also did not count as the official women's event record. All runners who finished the race have a note next to their results indicating that the course was short.
In early October, Scottish Olympic runner Eilish McColgan's European and British 10,000-meter road race record of 30:18 was wiped out because the course at the Great Scottish Run 10K in Glasgow was discovered to be 150 meters short. The Great Scottish Run half marathon was also roughly 150 meters short in 2016, meaning that Callum Hawkins's time of 1 hour 24 seconds did not count as a Scottish national record.
Discovering a flaw in the course
Herron's 100-mile record at the Jackpot race, which featured a 1.17-mile loop held on "95 percent asphalt and/or concrete surfaces" and 5 percent crushed gravel paths, was called into question after Wilson, the measurer, happened to attend the event because his wife was running in the 100-mile race.
Wilson downloaded the certified course map from the USATF website and noticed that the course being run was not the same as the one certified by USATF or World Athletics. Wilson then performed a measurement on the second day of the race, Feb. 19 and another measurement of the course a few days later, and found the course to be short. Eight months later, when the course was remeasured in October by Wilson and another top-level measurer, the results all came up short, Katz said.
Rubeli said his concern is that some of the measurements being considered by USATF were taken during the race, a chaotic time that he said would produce unreliable results. He asked Fritz, the level B measurer, to measure when the race was over, and Fritz found the course was above the 100-mile mark.
But Katz said only a level A measurer can verify a world record, according to USATF rules.
"The bottom line here is that the course was not certified before the race," Katz said. "Everything else after that, we did for the benefit of the athlete to try to save the record."
In September, Beyond Limits Running, which Rubeli co-founded, announced it had sold the Jackpot Running Festival to privately owned Aravaipa Running. On the current Jackpot race website, organizers tout the 100-mile course for its fast times. "The course is specifically designed to give runners a chance to set records, achieve optimal results, etc.," the website reads.
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Here is the story of Cristina Scuccia. This is a noon chart.
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Nun who wowed The Voice of Italy becomes waitress in Spain
Cristina Scuccia, who stunned judges in 2014 contest, explains decision to leave nunhood on talkshow
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Guardian
A nun who became a singing sensation after winning Italy's version of The Voice has stunned TV viewers again after announcing that she has kicked the habit and is now a waitress in Spain.
Sister Cristina Scuccia, from Sicily, shocked judges, including the late Raffaella Carrà, during her blind audition for the show in 2014, giving a rapturous performance of the Alicia Keys' hit song No One. After realising the incredible voice belonged to a nun, Carrà, who died last year, said: "I couldn't speak for several minutes."
Scuccia, who at the time was among the nuns at the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family convent in Milan, went on to win the show that summer with her performance of What a Feeling, the theme song from the film Flashdance. She later produced an album, which she gave to Pope Francis, that included a cover version of Madonna's Like a Virgin.
Her talent even attracted praise from some Italian cardinals, but eight years on Scuccia, 34, announced on an Italian talkshow on Sunday night that she has abandoned the nunhood.
Dressed in high heels and a red trouser suit, with a pierced nose and long dark hair flowing freely, she told the Verissimo programme: "I believe that you need to listen to your heart with courage. Change is a sign of evolution, but it is always scary because it is easier to anchor oneself to one's certainties rather than questioning oneself. Is there a right or wrong?"
Scuccia said that leaving the nunhood – a decision a psychologist helped her to process – did not mean she had renounced her faith, and that she was still chasing her dream of a career in music.
"I chose to follow my heart without thinking about what people would say about me," she added. "I took a leap of faith and was worried about ending up under a bridge, I always repeated this to my psychologist."
Scuccia said she now lived "with a smile" in Spain, where she works as a waitress.
A group of cheerleading nuns were backstage during Scuccia's audition for The Voice of Italy, and while her participation in the contest was supported by her mother superior, she faced harsh criticism from more traditional factions of the Italian Catholic church, especially when she released Like a Virgin, which was described by Italy's Religious Information Service as "a reckless and calculated commercial operation".
"Cristina reached such high levels of fame – she was getting calls from around the world – and also some criticism, which probably left her in a state of confusion," said a church source.
"Leaving was her own decision, after appearing on TV so much you perhaps lose the compass a little. She was young and under a lot of pressure.
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Singing nun Cristina Scuccia becomes internet star after The Voice audition
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Nun's performance on Italian version of The Voice has been viewed more than 3m times on YouTube
Lizzy Davies in Rome
Fri 21 Mar 2014
The singing nun is not a new phenomenon. The Belgian Jeanine Deckers, aka Soeur Sourire, shot to fame in 1963 with the tune Dominique, while Julie Andrews and Whoopi Goldberg have done their bit for fictional sisters with heavenly voices.
But in Italy this week there's only one nun worth tuning in for, and she thinks Pope Francis will be proud. Sister Cristina Scuccia, a 25-year-old Sicilian who appeared, habit-clad, on the Italian version of TV show The Voice on Wednesday, has become an instant star, with her audition racking up more than 3m views on YouTube.
Asked what she thought the Vatican would make of her punchy rendition of Alicia Keys' No One, the Ursuline sister said: "I don't know. I'm expecting a telephone call from Pope Francis, certainly. Because he exhorts us to go out, to evangelise, to say that God does not take from us but rather gives us more."
It did not appear that she had anything to worry about. In a post on Twitter, the Vatican's so-called culture minister, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, wrote: "Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others (1 Peter 4:10)".
The judges on the show praised Scuccia's "crazy energy" and "incredible" performance. Alessandro Aleotti, a rapper known as J-Ax, asked her if she sang in church on Sundays. Wearing flat black shoes, glasses and a simple crucifix round her neck, Scuccia was obliged to assure the judges that she had not come in fancy dress but was, in fact, "a very real nun".
This was not Scuccia's first time in the limelight. Last year she won a Christian music competition as part of the Good News Festival, in which she explained that she had found her vocation while playing a nun in a musical.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Scuccia
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oyAuockfZQ
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Her natal Lilith is 24 Virgo, N.Node 2 Sagittarius, S.Node 10 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 12 Libra, N.Node 11 Gemini, S.Node 6 Scorpio.
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Here is the story of Stephanie Frappart. This is a noon chart.
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Frenchwoman to become first female to referee men's World Cup football match
Agence France-Presse
December 01, 2022
Stephanie Frappart's appointment as match referee for Thursday's crunch World Cup clash between Germany and Costa Rica is a step forward for women in a "sexist sport", according to Costa Rica manager Luis Fernando Suarez.
Frenchwoman Frappart will make history as she leads the first all-female refereeing team at a men's World Cup in the Group E match which Germany must win to keep alive their hopes of progressing to the last 16.
Suarez said it "spoke volumes" for Frappart's commitment to reach the top level in a profession dominated by men.
"I am a great admirer of everything women have conquered and I like the fact they want to keep on conquering things," the 62-year-old Colombian told reporters.
"This is another step forward. This speaks volumes for this woman, of her commitment, especially in this sport which is a very sexist one. It's very difficult to reach the point that she has reached, I think it's good for football and a positive step for football, to show that it's opening up for everyone."
The 38-year-old Frappart will be joined by Brazil's Neuza Back and Mexico's Karen Diaz as she puts down another marker for female officials having also been the first woman to referee a men's World Cup qualifier in March.
Last week, she became the first female official at a men's World Cup when she was fourth official for the Poland v Mexico Group C tie, but on Thursday she will be more in the spotlight.
Costa Rica's midfielder Celso Borges also welcomed her appointment for such a high-profile game.
"I think it's great and it's a huge achievement for women globally," Borges, who is playing in his third World Cup for the Costa Ricans, told reporters.
"If she is there it's because she has all the capabilities to perform on this stage. She has done it before in big matches so I don't see why tomorrow should be an exception.
"I just hope she has a good match and that we can help her make it an easy match."
Her appointment was also backed by Germany manager Hansi Flick who said he had "100% confidence" in Frappart.
"She deserves to be here based on her performance. I hope she is equally looking forward to the game just like we are, and I hope she can deliver a good performance," he said.
Germany defender Lukas Klostermann also welcomed the move, which he described as "the most normal thing in the game."
"I have never looked prior to the game if it is a man or a woman that will be with the whistle, and I hope it will remain a normality," he said.
(REUTERS)
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%c3%a9phanie_Frappart
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Her natal Lilith is 1 Libra, N.Node 21 Sagittarius, S.Node 20 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 25 Sagittarius, N.Node 10 Taurus, S.Node 29 Scorpio.
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