Disclaimer: This was a total spur-of-the-moment idea executed within 24 hours, and it is nothing more than tossing around some thoughts and examples. There are no detailed explanations, so is is most certainly not for my ideal audience, those curious and open-minded person wanting to look closer at what astrology can be at its most wild moments.
I have been very intrigued by the Galactic Centre, the mysterious centre of gravity in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. As we look in that direction, we enter an entirely different realm of time and space. The core is located some 26,000 light-years from planet Earth and when look at a stunning image like the one below we also look 26,000 years backwards in time, so to say. Anyway, I couldn’t resist adding this beauty here.
The United States of America might be a nation bestowed with a Manifest Destiny or given any other sort of elevated position, but I have had problems with connection going hundreds of years before the birth of the USA. As you will see below, there are some amazing co-incidences.
Today there is mismatch between US Mars at 21° Gemini and GC at roughly 27° in Sagittarius and with an object like this, I simply think it is too much. It was not until yesterday I got the obvious idea to check where GC was in 1776, and voilà: It creates an almost perfect T-Square (two 90° and one 180° aspects) with Neptune as the apex (top).
Robin Armstrong’s Personal Website
I found this page and it was done.
This is actually an excellent illustration of the process to root out witches, as far as I know. The first step was the religious inquisition to find and interrogate — spelled torture — the alleged allies of the Devil. Then the mundane authorities put them at the stake and burn them. I can very well be wrong here, though. Nevertheless, the two church symbols, i.e. Jupiter, creating an aspect pattern called Yod with the mundane society as represented by Saturn as the apex.
What I have problems accepting here, are the overly explicit correlations between the exact times and the events. The chart for the discovery of Neptune offers another one of these Yod combinations, but in the case with Mars as the apex, and to make things even worse the three involved Neptune, Pluto and Mars positions are perfectly exact. I don’t have a clue when the Yod got the God’s Finger label.
If we also add the Galactic Centre to the mix, we get another combination — a T-Square — with the apex at poor Neptune. As this remains a work in progress, I can today 4 April 2023 say that more and more points at Neptune as the most important planet in the US chart.
Even if Neptune doesn’t signify traditional religions, it is connected to concepts like sacred and holy, even plain and simple. I would say that There is no other planetary combination than the of the warrior Mars and Neptune able to fully describe something like the Crusades following an imagined divine mission, to free the holy land from Muslim heathen. A present-day variety is the suicide bomber. Yes. “Kill to get to heaven” seems to be a drive in both of these “movements”. The more conventionally religious Jupiter could be a substitute for Neptune, but I think we miss the fully delusional and fanatic motivation we find in crusaders and suicide bombers. Really uplifting this, isn’t it?
So what could this possibly mean, if it means anything at all? What I find intriguing is that two of the transcendental planets, Uranus and Neptune, appear on the horizon of mankind’s awareness at degrees very close to the Galactic Center (GC). As Neptune and, to a lesser degree, Uranus are connected with Cosmic Consciousness, the addition of the GC is fascinating.
Cosmic consciousness experience
In 1872, after an evening of stimulating conversation with his friend Walt Whitman in the countryside, Richard M Bucke was traveling back to London in a buggy.
It is obviously wrong to add Walt Whitman as present above since the book states: “It was in the early spring, at the beginning of his thirty-sixth year. He and two friends had spent the evening reading Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Browning, and especially Whitman.”
I was in a state of quiet, almost passive enjoyment. All at once, without warning of any kind, I found myself wrapped around as it were by a flame-coloured cloud. For an instant I thought of fire, some sudden conflagration in the great city; the next, I knew that the light was within me.
Directly afterward came upon me a sense of exultation, of immense joyousness accompanied by an intellectual illumination [me: Uranus] quite impossible to describe. Into my brain streamed one momentary lightning—flash of the Divine Splendor which has ever since lightened my life; upon my heart fell one drop of Divine Bliss [me: Neptune], leaving thenceforward for always an aftertaste of heaven.
Among other things, I did not come to believe: I saw and knew that the Cosmos is not dead matter but a living Presence, that the soul of man is immortal, that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all, that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of everyone in the long run is absolutely certain.
I learned more within the few seconds that illumination lasted than in all my previous years of study and I learned much that no study could ever have taught.
Wikipedia: Maurice Bucke (18 March 1837 – 19 February 1902)
What an amazing focus on Uranus and Neptune! When things like this happens time after time, the question of belief is not on the map at all. The next time I return to this topic, you will see how the charts for persons Bucke uses to illustrate cosmic consciousness are highly supportive.
He and two friends had spent the evening reading Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Browning, and especially Whitman.
This is from my most interesting years with nothing but Neptune on the radar. The charts above show that these individual together have twice as many aspects between Neptune and Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars than the average random collection of 6 charts will have, i.e. 6 aspect vs. 3 random aspects. Don’t worry! You will get more material about this huge material as soon as the Mars material has enough ground to be able to stand on its legs without crutches.
My most important site Scribd.com once again comes to the rescue and offers Cosmic Consciousness, a Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind for free one month. It’s like a Spotify for books with unlimited access o probably millions of books for a monthly fee, USD9. This project wouldn’t really exist in this shape without my online library on Scribd.
The chart for the Holy Roman Empire is another most remarkable chart showing a national, mundane horoscope stretching from 800 to 1806. What is even more remarkable is the fact that this chart has the same focus on Neptune, Mars at MC/Midheaven and Uranus as we find in the US chart. This is a unique chart with very few matches in a randomized mater. There is full transparency here and you can search all 2130 random charts here.
