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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1-5 ZODIAC SIGNS 5-41 q Aries 8 w Taurus 12 e Gemini 13 r Cancer 15 r Leo 18 y Virgo 19 u Libra 21 i Scorpio 22-27 o Sagittarius 28-30 p Capricorn 30-32 [ Aquarius 33-40 Age of Aquarius 38-40 ] Pisces 40-41 PLANETS 41-56 a Sun 41 s Moon 41 d Mercury 42 f Venus 43 g Mars 43-44 GFHJ Asteroids 45-51 G Pallas Athena 45-47 J Vesta / Hestia 47 H Juno / Hera 47 F Ceres / Demeter 48 Aegis –Gorgoneion 48-50 h Jupiter 51 j Saturn 52-53 k Uranus 53 l Neptune 54-55 ; Pluto 56-57 Pluto’s downgrade 56-57 POLITICAL (MUNDANE) ASTROLOGY Outer-Planet Discovery 57-60 kl; Uranus-Neptune-Pluto conjunction timeline charts 62-64 kl; Uranus-Neptune-Pluto conjunctions 61-72 l; Neptune-Pluto conjunctions 75-84 k; Uranus-Pluto conjunction 85-86 kl; conjunctions ephemeris 86-87 Astro-geographic overlay pictures 88-90 Hellenistic Greece 66-76 Glyph development 75-84 Regiomontanus 82-83 Incunabula -84 Antikythera mechanism 70-71 POST-SOVIET REGIME CHARTS 90-105 EU 90-91, 103-104 Russia 105-119 Ukraine 120-131 Aspect meanings 114-115 OTHER REGIMES USA 132-157 Conservative group 134 Liberal group 137 Pluto transit timeline 140-154 President timeline table 154-156 Precession 138-139 Bolevarian Venzuela 157-165 China 165-170 United Nations 171 Israel 172-174 Modern Greece 174-176 Hellenistic Greece 68-76 BIOLOGY of AGING 176-201 References: 201-210 Index 210-211 The Astrology of Western Imperialism and its resolution with longevity Van K. Golay Golden Gate station, Kyiv Metro Figure 1Madonna01.jpg Abstract: Every 248 years Pluto, the most powerful planet by transit in astrology, crosses over the top of the natural zodiac and through the sign Capricorn. The importance of 0}p is that it is the upper point on the natural zodiac wheel between the two opposing primary hemispheres. These hemispheres represent the two halves of a collective (World) mind, that is connected to the population pattern of the World and rooted in the geography of the continents that produced that population pattern. The Pluto transit brings to the fore issues of East –West conflict, and also puts the spotlight on the long-lived character that Capricorn symbolizes. The astrological Capricorn characteristics of dominance, ambition, authority, and longevity are embodied in human figures like the father, executive, boss, monarch, and the long-lived messiah or redeemer figures. As Pluto transits Capricorn (2008-2024) it is a good time to evaluate the progress of Western Imperialism and also the progress of engineering the long-lived Capricorn character (phenotype). Eastern Imperialism is primarily defensive because the East is already the dominant half of the collective mind due to a 2 to 1 demographic dominance. See statistics p. 11 and online supplement. In religious mythology the two phenomena are related in that the inborn hemispheric competition for World dominance is resolved by birth of the long-lived or everlasting messiah-redeemer character. As Pluto now transits the apex of the wheel, Western Imperialism seems in decline but is not dead and longevity science is red-hot but only longlived lower animals (yeast through rodents) are currently being produced. The scientific revolution of the last two centuries produced dramatic gains in average human lifespan (life expectancy) but not maximum lifespan. The new discoveries in the biology of aging, signal gains in maximum human lifespan may be achievable if not imminent. This article also presents an original theory about the meaning of the Zodiac sign and planet glyphs (symbols). Individually and in composite, the glyphs describe key philosophical concepts (not scientifically verified yet) like reincarnating souls, collective minds, and the basis of opposing antagonistic hemispheres responsible for Western Imperialism. It presents a symbol based rational for choosing a particular astrological time for birthing children. It also suggest that the author of these symbols (the majority spirit of the collective mind) is a scientist as well as philosopher. Several symbols imply a central strategy for longevityextension based on arresting reproductive development at puberty in order to delay/arrest senescence (aging). That idea gets considerable agreement from current longevity research, and that research on development control will be discussed in the last chapter. Introduction: Here a new interpretation of the the zodiac glyph symbols is presented. The zodiac glyph symbols were evolved anonymously during late Greek Byzantium, and early renaissance, (circa 1400). At the core of the zodiac glyph symbols are sub-symbols for body = t, soul = q, heaven = ], earth = , reproduction by natural selection = , and reproduction by planned birth = . Together as a system or in composite they explain the most important philosophical ideas on earth. Those ideas are important to the collective mind that inspired them and to us humans who are the cells of that mind. In a general way, the natural zodiac is the horoscope of the World which describes the structure of the spirit world (collective mind) and basic philosophical concepts held by that mind. They can serve as a guide of life at the personal and social-psychological level. Figure 2 world4kc.jpg Other representational uses of the Zodiac: The tropical zodiac is also used to represent a diagram of the seasons. Starting with the spring (Vernal) Equinox = 0}Aries, Summer Solstice = 0} Cancer, Fall Equinox = 0} Libra, and the Winter Solstice = 0} Capricorn. The zodiac probably evolved as a calendric tool to predict the seasons. The twelve part division of the year being further partitioned by 12 yearly lunar cycles that fit within that 265 day period. Figure 3 seasone.jpg, diurnale.jpg In Astrology horoscopy the House system of 12 houses and 4 cardinal angles remain in the background with their meaning based on the meaning of the signs of the natural zodiac starting with Aries in the 1st house on the left side and Capricorn at the top. For any particular horoscope the ascendant or rising degree will be determined by the earth’s rotation relative to the local horizon for that exact time. So you get two meanings for the planets position in the horoscope; one based on their house location at the exact time of day at birth and one based on its sign location (longitude degree) in the tropical zodiac. Choosing People: In a new theory about the glyph symbols (circa 1976) I will show how the wiggly lines in the symbols of the Zodiac direct us in timing (birthing) the psychologically superior child. Superior by virtue of aligning the most associative astrological factor in an individual’s horoscope (the south and north lunar nodes) with the q-u (Aries-Libra) axis. Conception is timed to put the South Node and North Node of the Moon at 0}Aries and 0} Libra respectively at birth. This links the Childs Moon Node associations in the world at the broadest and most balanced position relative to the primary zodiac hemispheres. According to astrologers the 0} Aries – Libra axis is the most important associative axis for relationships both public and private. The purpose for aligning these associative factors is to neutralize and balance the child’s connections to a polarized and historically antagonistic collective mind. The assumption here is that the East-West geographic divide at the middle East ( 30ºE) has a psychic dimension in a polarized organismal consciousness. This will make the child an attractive neutral vessel in which the confluence of psychic vectors from both halves of the collective mind can converge harmoniously. You are producing the neutral human element of a potential temporary psychic-trinity, composed of the two halves of the collective mind (majority spirit, minority spirit, and human). See Aquarius p.36. The timing of the birth does not give him/her attributes of longevity but only psychological neutrality/balance in relation to the two arch-spirits of the collective mind. His or her longevity and moral strength will come by controlling environmental and behavioral factors that affect the biology of aging. The biology of aging is at a revolutionary stage of understanding at the end of the 20th century and can stand on its own merit to produce longevity gains in the future. On the other hand, while astrology timing may seem nonessential from a scientific standpoint, the timing is implied in the symbols to be important for the social organism’s goal of political unity. Astrological understanding of the structure and nature of the collective mind (social psychology) and its relationship to personal psychology is unknown, and unstudied by academia. Its taboo. Here we look at astrology’s glyphs as a map of the astronomic-inputs that define social psychology, and the politics of Western Imperialism, a denied phenomena in the West, that may benefit from Astrology’s repression. The assumed problem of Western Imperialism and the problem of longevity, are intertwined and both are the subject of this book. The next dates for birthing these special children are shown below. BIRTHDAY - North node at 0}u (true node) CONCEPTION DATE (9 months earlier) November 11, 2015 February 11, 2015 June 3, 2034 September 3, 2033 December 23, 2052 March 23, 2051 Alternatively one could adopt a needy child with the approximate birth date and raise them as chosen children, by educating them in the biological sciences of aging, and strategies designed to silence reproductive development at puberty. Those strategies include activating the longevity/survival genes Sirtuin Sirt1-7 and FOXO genes 1,3 hereafter abreviated as sirtuin-foxo genes, which are master transcriptional regulator genes that control a cascade of downstream genes, that affect organismal physiological and psychological function. Discussed in last section. Out of that group and the others that follow every 18 years will come children born with a putative psychological blessing. The other more overt part of the longevity program is for the child and its parents to be educated in the biological sciences with special attention to the biology of aging, development, genetics, molecular biology, evolution and nutrition, because lasting changes in behavior or environment require scientific understanding as well as demonstrations of principle, involving the longevity genes. The glyphs imply a particular strategy to achieve longevity involving reproductive development arrest at maturity, and considerable recent science supports that notion. That knowledge should grow in the coming years because of the conjunction of kl in Capricorn in 1993, that, builds on the 1821 kl conjunction in Capricorn. That conjunction combination stimulates the psychology that is best for pursuing the individual longevity goal. The timing of this conjunction fits well with the developmental need of the collective organism for a solution to over-population. Socialorganismal need drives history, while astrology (astronomic inputs) organizes the timing and characterization of resolution of the need. Pacifying the inherent antagonism between the hemispheres is implied in the symbols to be important both for the individual and the collective mind. Over time, the populations of longer-lived people should get larger and participants live longer, especially in those countries at the middle ground (30} E.), which divides the primary hemispheres. The glyph system is the collective mind’s master-plan to perfect the individual and social organism over time. That increasing longevity phenotype eventually changes population genetics. As might be expected from the conjunction of kl in Capricorn in 1993 and Pluto’s transit through Capricorn (2008-2024) our knowledge of the biology of aging is undergoing a transformation leading to extended lifespan in lower animals in laboratories, and the prospect of mimicking that phenomena in humans. Here I describe how the astrological symbols directly speak to the longevity project from the individual and social psychological perspective. Figure 4 neurcon.jpg According to modern astrological reference books the origin of the glyphs and the meaning of the wiggly lines that compose them is obscure. Some of the glyphs have been interpreted as abbreviations of the earlier zodiac (animal) signs, for example Aries would be the horns of the ram, and with Sagittarius the arrow is just part of the full archer, but many of the glyphs appear related to the earlier constellation based pictograms, but with added meaning not obvious in the constellation pictograms. There is little consensus among astrologers about sub-symbol interpretation of the glyphs or overall Figure 5 mutecr2.jpg systemic structure, although parts of the system have been organized into related groups of signs by element quality, (Fire, Earth, Air and Water), oppositional relatedness of signs and the quadruplicity scheme that relates three separate modes of expression (cardinal, fixed and mutable) in the 4 quadrants of the 12 part zodiac. Figure 6 worldsej.jpg How lower signs underpin the social signs of the upper hemisphere. In the glyph system, the 6 upper hemisphere social signs are more complex social-expressions of individual or family orientated signs in the lower hemisphere, with opposite pairs dealing with similar themes. The developmentally more complex social expression builds on the opposite lower subordinate signs, which are developmentally limited to early stages of individual growth and reproduction, with the family/clan being the highest level of social organization in the first six signs. q The isolated developing soul of Aries becomes the socially supported incarnation in Libra, u. w Individual, family, and corporate wealth contrast with collectively controlled resources of the macro social-organism in Scorpio, i. e The local information of Gemini is organized as systematic science in Sagittarius. The local neighborhood vision expands to the global/universal, in Sagittarius o. r Quiescent germline stem cells of Cancer support the long-lived somatic body (nongermline) in Capricorn p. t One leading individual as leader of the local family unit (pride) becomes a cell in the collective consciousness of many individuals in Aquarius, [. y The matrix of natural-selected reproducive life becomes a communion of mature souls in heaven (]). The cardinal cross +, (Aries-Libra and Cancer-Capricorn axis) is the most important organizing structural element. The cardinal cross of signs relates to the tropical zodiac solstice points that establish 0} Aries for the horoscope, and diurnal rotation position, which gives the Ascendant-Descendant, Midheaven- Nadir degrees of an individual horoscope. This new glyph interpretation is probably discovery of meaning originally inspired by the collective mind, which is only now comprehensible to us humans, due to the developmental maturity of the social organism in recent times and the current relative maturity of the sciences. Much of the glyph-system narrative is about developmental stage of individual and social organisms. Until the social-organism reached the current stage of developmentalmaturity, parts of the narrative, like the meaning of Scorpio, which describes world political mass-population dynamics (socialism, and Western Imperialism) were incomprehensible. Likewise recent biological-science discoveries are making glyph-statements about extended longevity intelligible. The earliest use of the glyphs, except for the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and Midheaven do not show up in horoscopes until about 1400-1474 (see p. 75-84 for timeline). Before that time the Zodiac signs and planets were just written out or abbreviated, in literal horoscopes. In the present interpretation, the glyph system is based on two core subsymbols, that combine in many symbolic statements about individual and collective developmental processes, psychological principles, and philosophical goals, linked to evolutionary cosmology and biology. An over-arching intelligence is implied in Aquarius symbolism, a sentient intelligence that learns and evolves as part of the social organism. The collective mind may have conceived the basic symbolic glyph system as a master plan that actualizes depending on our stage of developmental maturity, with developmental needsresolution timed by astronomic (psychological) factors, like planet transits and conjunctions among the outer planets. Basic meaning of zodiac sign and planet glyphs: Figure 7aries1.jpg The lines in the glyphs ( astrological symbols) are actually composites of two basic subsymbols for the body and soul. Aries is the symbol for the soul and Leo is the symbol for the body. Figure 8 aries.jpg Aries, the first sign of the zodiac is the symbol of the soul at the beginning of its evolution and also the start stage of each new reincarnation. Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac, represents a pause stage between incarnations, and also eventual soul maturity after countless incarnations. The Aries symbol suggest something that is unitary in the stem but has duality or polarity in development. The Aries symbol splits into two separate branches perhaps reflecting the adaptation of this non-dividing psychic component to the polar nature of dividing, biological life forms including the polarized collective organism. The physical nature of the soul is unknown, however the reincarnation cycle, implied in the zodiac symbols, point to a soul that has structure, but is able to transmigrate in the atmosphere separated from a physical body. The atmosphere we live in is perhaps the heaven (pause stage) of existence for less evolved animal life and the surfaces of waters is perhaps the heaven stage for even less evolved aquatic animals. In this scheme the gradations of pressure and types of oxygen lure the evolving soul progressively upward. The philosopher Renee Descartes speculated that the seat or home of the soul was the pineal gland between the two lobes of the brain. The layout of the natural zodiac, with Aries on the left and the animal-way progressing counterclockwise around the bottom of the wheel from Aries, may be related to the Southwestern quadrant of the geographic-overlay occupying tropical geography that generated a vast diversity lower animal species, which predominate in the tropical forest. This may have been even more a factor in prehistoric times when the proposed Pangeaen supercontinent favored that quadrant, perhaps establishing a circular pattern of soul transspecies migrational-flow that continues to the present. The easy geographical availability of the Eurasian land mass may have channeled the dispersal of large mammals and later human-kind out of Africa to go to the East, thus establishing the basis of Eastern demographic and resultant psychic dominance. The Sun rising in the East every day may also have been an influence on the circular pattern of the Zodiac wherein the body hemisphere (the East) was the first to get sunlight in the daily light/dark circadian cycle, thus orientating vegetation growth and life in general to the East. PANGAEA SUPERCONTINENT "The way the Cookie crumbled" 225 Million Years Ago Current Era 10 Million Years in the future. Figure 9 pangaea.jpg 60º N 30º N 0º N Figure 10 World46.jpg, WorldCo.tif The idea that the collective mind should have a face or plane of focus with 30} East as the center of that plane is explained by the theory that the continents were formed from a single land mass originally, and over the course of the last 225 million years drifted apart but still maintains a central planar focus that is polarized into primary distinct hemispheres, organized by the biology of the developing social organism. While the astro-geographic overlay theory is seemingly new, the concept of World geography being partitioned under the dominion of the Greek Gods (Zeus, Apollo, Aries, Athena etc.) was first proposed by Plato. In his work Critias. He suggest a natural systemic order exist, established by chance in antiquity. The social-psychological structure (collective mind) can be understood as having its roots in the Worlds demographic pattern and the geography that determined that pattern. The total of all species in descending order from human may make up a demographic anchor, with the human species dominating the conscious (thinking) part of the collective mind. That structure is critical to understanding political structures and history, but perhaps equally important is the philosophical story the symbols tell about individual and social development processes like reincarnation, collective minds, longevity and future goals. DIVIDING THE WORLD AT 30} EAST Country or area Population (2009) World totals 6,790,062,216 = West of 30}E 2,124,942,917 4,567,648,620 East of 30}E North of 2,774,144,963 30}N South of 3,937,486,910 30}N See country statistics at website Area (sq.km.) 130,702,918 Km2 65,867,201 64,548,105 59,447,628 70,983,300 Arable and permanent cropland (Thousand hectares) 2003 1,540,572 757,168 758,874 777,686 757,853 Figure 11 Worldm.jpg, 30E.jpg, 30x30R.jpg Border countries like Egypt, Turkey, and Ukraine were divided proportionally by rough estimate. All of Hawaii and ⅔ of Alaska was counted as Eastern land area because it lies west of 150} W., the proposed boundary on the opposite side of the globe from 30} East. While this division of the world is geographically central, the East dominates in population by over 2 to 1. As people are the presumed cells of the collective mind, the East is the dominant hemisphere. The West hopes to rearrange the world population equation through warfare, which is the base motive for Western Imperialism. The Aries (soul) symbol is found exclusively in the left hemisphere while the Leo (body) symbol dominates the right hemisphere. Capricorn - at the top of the wheel - is the only sign where the two symbols join, as an Aries symbol connected to a south node leg of a south node symbol. It is appropriate that body and soul should come together in the sign associated with longevity and the second half of life. Part of the theory presented here is that human generation and the collective mind is astrologically polarized down the center of the zodiac and down the center of the world at the Middle East. By superimposing the zodiac on the world using 30} east longitude, then the surrounding geographic sections take on psychological traits associated with the overlaying signs. For example Russia takes on the signs in the trans-famial quadrant, Libra through Sagittarius, as post-Soviet Russia shed most of its former Capricorn geography. Africa is mostly Cancer and Gemini. China is VirgoScorpio. The USA is Piscean. Great Britain is Aquarian, etc. These boundaries are not exact and could change with geographic or demographic shifts. The circle of signs is largely a social psychological diagram of the collective mind, authored (inspired) by the majority spirit of the collective mind to explain its own nature, structure, and what it considers the most important philosophical concepts. More precise maps on p. 8789 Fixed cross signs Figure 12Tauruse.jpg, mutefx.jpg Taurus is the symbol of the world with the moon on it. It represents geography as shaped over the eons by tides and seasons both of which are results of the moon's and the earth's cyclic motions. Taurus is part of the fixed cross of signs involving the sign opposite to it (i) and the two signs at 90 degree angles to it (t,[). It is called the fixed cross because it relates to factors that cannot be changed easily. The basis of this is that geography is cosmologically determined and that geography in turn determines the demographic pattern of populations around the globe, which in turn fixes the pattern of the collective mind. An alternative interpretation would have the symbol of the World with an Aries symbol on top showing where (geographically) that soul incarnated and represents the material circumstances surrounding the new incarnation. Base of mutable signs. Figure 13 Geminie.jpg, mute.jpg, Gemdiae.jpg Gemini is traditionally ruled by the planet Mercury and is associated with all types of communication like talking and writing. It is the base sign, the lowest on the natural zodiac wheel of the mutable cross of signs involving Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. It is mutable because the issues involved are variable and open to change based on ones store of information. They are issues like ones reproductive decisions in y, ones philosophy in o, and ones reincarnation schedule in ], all decisions that result from ones store of information. The symbol rightly indicates that the base factor in mutations of fate to be information, which one usually gets from the local environment. Gemini is in the initial build stage quadrant of the natural zodiac which is developmentally immature (non-social) where the soul begins to relate to what is outside their immediate geographic environment they incarnated into w) and has been traditionally associated with the local environment of early life, siblings and neighbors, but the concept can be logically applied to the dualistic bi-polar World where East and West arch-spirits are evolving siblings/neighbors. Gemini comes from the Latin word geminus that means twin, dual, or to double or pair. An example of the occasional hidden meaning of words may be seen here. In English, Gemini phonetically sounds like (Gem-in-I). The Gem refers to the diamond pattern formed by the natural cardinal cross (+) of signs, in the old-style horoscopes shown below, and the effect of Gemini's information in making that diamond pattern perfectly balanced and fulfilled. The diamond pattern is perfected by using the two techniques described in this book to produce a long-lived and psychologically more fit human. The last step is done in order to make the person an independent agent in relation to an inherently-contentious collective mind and takes care of the horizontal (Aries - Libra) axis of the cardinal cross, while the first step of maximum growth and longevity are the ideal qualities of the vertical Cancer - Capricorn axis. The astronomical version of Uranus k shows the two sides of a Gemini symbol supporting an inverted Venus symbol, symbolizing the importance of scientific information in mutating the natural order of naturally-selected, normal-longevity. By overthrowing the Venus symbol of reproduction, the individuals cardinal cross (destiny symbol), is now on top of the World symbol, making the individual potentially independent of the World through longevity. Figure 14 athena5.jpg Furthermore it is proposed here that the asteroid goddess Pallas Athena is a co-ruler of Gemini because its glyph, recapitulates the symbolism of the diamond. G, see Athena, p 4546. The horoscopes forms shown here were first used around 1400-1474 CE, with the diamond pattern most common. Figure 15 Figure 16 Kepler.gif, oldest3.jpg Glyph development:. Symbolic horoscopes formed exclusively from glyphs were a huge advance in chart diagramming. The exact timeline of early-glyph formation remains buried in European library archives, but a few pre-printing press manuscripts are now available online from the national libraries of European countries (see references for links). There are many literary horoscopes in European libraries but very few diagrams with glyphs before 1400 CE. The best example is the chart from Book Pluti.28.34, acquired by the private library of Cosimo dei Medici (1389-1464), which is the foundation collection of the Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy. (see on p. 81) The author and date of writing is unknown. Acquisition was synchronous with the final fall of the Greek Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, but the date of writing could be anytime in the preceding several decades or after, as Greek and Eastern philosophical ideas worked their way into a fast evolving glyph system, spurred on by the invention of the printing press around 1440 CE. The Gutenberg Bible was printed in 1453. See glyph development timeline p. 75. An important astrological correlation with the renaissance of science in general and birth of the new glyph system was the conjunction of l; in 1398 CE in Gemini, at the midpoint of the much larger kl; conjunction cycle that started in 577 BCE. (Graph on p 62). The l; conjunction at 4} Gemini was the first of the Gemini series of l; conjunctions that will continue for the next 3800 years. That repeated emphasis on Gemini puts Gemini in a special category, that modifies the upcoming Age of Aquarius and beyond. Interestingly the new glyph system that quickly coalesced to its present form by 1474 in the first printed Regiomontanus calendars and ephemerides, defines the World as a Gemini-like bipolar, local, social-organism. Local is here defined as geocentric. If you call the collective-mind a God, then it is probably a local God, not universal, however a Galactic or universal organization is probably in our future. We may be exaggerating our earth-centric God’s attributes and powers. The supposition, argued here, is that the glyph system was inspired by an overriding intelligence (collective mind, symbolized in Aquarius), in guiding the construction of this symbol system. Who better to tell the story of the social psychological organism than the only constant sentient witness, and main subject of the drama. This conclusion is bolstered by the absence of any single human to claim authorship, or understanding of the whole scheme, even as late as today. It is primarily a social-psychological system that integrates personal psychology in a complimentary role. It also relates to physiological development of organisms and collective organisms, and non-biotic cosmic development. Like ourselves, the collective thinks as a scientist as well as philosopher, and the symbols seem to reflect both. 1478 Fsiigure 17 Can.jpg, Cancere.jpg Cancer is composed of two horizontal north node leg symbols, one on top of the other in a compact and insular pattern. If the complete nodal symbols are drawn, it shows equal orientation to the North and South Nodes ideal positions on the Aries-Libra axis, with the top North Node symbol orientated toward (u). Traditionally cancer is the sign of the mother, home, food and nurturing. Cancerian maternal love is East-West neutral and unconditional; focused first on itself and by extension of self to include offspring. In viewing the Cancer symbol as quiescent (silent) germline cells with the power to perpetually feed the organism at large with biomolecules required for longevity, it is a suitable symbol for the base of the r,p growth/longevity axis. Those molecules may be those involved in maintaining the capacity for self-renewal of stem-cell pools throughout the body but symbolized most potently in the male germline stem-cells of the testes, due to germline progenitor cells capacity to be harnessed for energy production (ATP) and their ability to differentiate into all cell lines of the body, besides sperm generation. Perhaps the most important survival/longevity factor discovered in the last 15 years are the sirtuin genes (Sirt1-7) that are regulated in part by metabolism of food, giving us a way to manipulate them through diet. Sirt1 has recently been found to be a regulator of stem cell differentiation. With that in mind a diet proposed by the author to activate Sirt1 is discussed in the last chapter. Cancer is the first sign of the Leo (body) series of signs stretching around the right side of the natural zodiac circle. Together in a series they represent the body symbol signs starting with Cancer, with its emphasis on silent north node symbols through Capricorn with its emphasis on the south node leg of a south node symbol (end of growth). Other non-astrological symbols related to the nodal symbols as development markers, are the numbers 6 and 9 corresponding symbolically to the 6th and 9th houses. 6 is the north node leg of a north node symbol symbolizing maximum growth seen in the natal-adolescent stage), and 9 is a north node leg of a south node symbol, symbolizing the slow growth seen in adulthood. They each represent one of the stages of organism development as symbolized by the different legs of the north and south lunar nodal symbols. You see a progression as you go around the right side of the wheel from Cancer to Capricorn. Cancer’s two horizontal north node legs are growth neutral as cells, but may be contributory to organismal growth and long-term stability of cellular self-renewal capacity if not allowed to jump to the next growth stage symbolized by Virgo (reproduction). In this new theory, Africa falls in the Aries-Cancer sectors of the astro-geographic overlay. Feminine maternality is by tradition Cancerian, and indeed Mother Africa was the cradle of human evolution. The psychological qualities of Cancer seem strong in the African race, perhaps derived from a hyper-competitive animal environment throughout evolution in Africa and pre-African Pangaea, that may have selected genes for body fitness and longevity including size, strength and increased physical activity, demanded by the hyper-competitive African environment. That selection pressure for physical fitness and longevity may repress or delay reproduction by naturally selecting genes for non-sexually attractive traits and instead express genes for somatic (non- reproductive) fitness and survival. Call it the primeval-ugliness blessing that selected for fitness and survival genes at the expense of reproductive development schedules. If asexual traits have fitness/survival benefits then they would have been selected for in that hyper-competitive large-mammal environment of Africa. Maybe it is a type of inter-species peer pressure in a crowded environment that demanded the (increased activity phenotype) and other survival gene attributes for success. See Aegis/Gorgoneion p. 48 for related Greek mythology. Figure 18Lunnae.jpg, lunna.jpg Cancer’s r primal position at the bottom of the wheel and first of the body series of signs may encourage an asexual insular psychology that would ingather, mother and protect all resources, (endogenous and exogenous) for its own somatic, (non-sexual) growth and development. Motherhood may simply be the extension of an essentially selfish psychology to include extensions of her/himself to her/his baby(s) and a limited insular social circle (family/clan/tribe). The Cancer psychology may underlie the historical tribal-character of African social/political organization and the resistance to aggregate into larger national structures. By favoring that r psychology, by supporting small communitarian units as a model for social/economic organization, instead of isolated single family units in modern urban cities, may solve many of Africa’s dysfunctions, and indeed should be considered with respect to USA, Brazil and other countries with large African populations. That strategy would feed inherent psychological strengths and preferences that are now repressed in the African Diasporas and urban Africa. The family/clan quadrant (rty) is the base (local) social structure that underpins the larger trans-familial (uio) social structures in the following quadrant. Figure 19 Mutevi.jpg The individuals somatic body (non-germline) develops in Cancer, reaches maximum reproductive fitness in Leo, and then normally culminates in reproductive pairing with another reproductively fit Leo in Virgo. The proposed alternative strategy, symbolized in Uranus is to maintain Leo’s maximum reproductive fitness by sequestering all somatic and reproductive resources for the individual. Theoretically that could be accomplished by silencing reproductive development, while simultaneously preserving stem cell pools in a quiescent state. Figure 20 Leo.jpg, Leoe.jpg, leoaq.jpg Leo is the symbol of a body or individual incarnation. It symbolizes the person’s birth, death, and what comes in between. The right leg of the symbol is the first half of the person’s life and is associated with the north node of the moon. It has an expanding Jupitarian quality. The left leg is associated with the second half of the person’s life, the south node of the moon, and has a Saturn-like constricting quality. In it’s most ideal position (explanation to follow) the north node is placed - in planning a child's birth - at 0 degrees Libra which automatically puts the south node directly opposite at 0 degrees Aries. This puts the top of the arch at 0 degrees Capricorn. Thus the top of the arch takes on Midheaven characteristics, showing the apex of that incarnations endeavors and where the person stands out in public. Traditionally, the nodes of the moon are points of association that show where the individuals ties into the whole matrix of life; psychologically as well as on a mundane level. They reflect the person's ties to family, country, and other group. At the local level Leo represents the central leading individual of the family, clan or larger social unit. The Lion is king of the pride and is selected as most fit to rule and reproduce in the following sign of Virgo, where two Leo’s unite for reproduction. That sequence suggest that Leo’s famous pride and deserved-agrandisement may be advantageous for reproductive sucess. Beyond the local level, Leo’s centrality can be in relation to the larger World, as symbolized by Aquarius, the opposite sign. The selective positioning of the lunar nodes, in order to facilitate ideal collective-mind relations to the individual, may be important mostly for long-lived characters, destined to serve collective roles on the larger World stage. The planet ruler of the sign Leo similarly points to the relationship of a central figure to the larger macro (social) Figure 21 LeoAq.jpg organism, Sun, a. Here the dot is is the (individual) as center of his/her social world, be it local or global. Figure 22 nodes1e.jpg The nodes of the moon are not planets but intersections of orbital planes. In this case the planes are the ecliptic and the moon’s orbit. They are opposite points on the ecliptic where the moon crosses it at a slight angle of 5 degrees. The ecliptic is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun, extended into space. The north node of the moon is the point on the ecliptic where the moon crosses it, going from south to north. The south node is the point where the moon crosses the ecliptic going from north to south in its monthly orbit. The lunar nodes are always opposite to each other by zodiacal degree and move backwards through the signs along the equator every 18 years +11.3 days. The pattern of solar and lunar eclipses is tied to this cycle. Amazingly, the whole 18 year cycle of eclipses repeats in a three cycle set, so that every third cycle occurs at nearly the exact time and place only 54 years and 34 days later. They are points of association, connections and relationships, with the North node associated with forming relationships and the south node associated with ending relationships. Figure 23 virgoe.jpg Virgo is the sign of childbirth as the symbol shows three Leo's or individuals side by side representing father, mother and child. An x at their north node legs connects the mother and child. The x is a reproduction symbol, which is seen again in the sign of Sagittarius. The x's can be different. A simple x emphasizes the fixed cross of signs and indicates birth by natural selection, while a variant x seen in Sagittarius (o) or the cardinal cross + that emphasizes the Aries-Libra axis indicates a chosen birth. Many signs have been associated with different aspects of reproduction, including, Cancer with home and motherhood, Libra with partners, marriage and love, Scorpio with sex, Leo with children and romance, and Virgo with both virginity and fertility. Overall it is not a well-understood or settled issue. In this interpretation, Virgo symbolizes reproduction, with Cancer and Leo having preparatory functions that nurture and raise the growing child in the maternal home in Cancer, then on to maximal reproductive-fitness and attractiveness in Leo, at which point the person can reproduce or not in Virgo. There are at least eight places in the symbols that indicate that the Lunar Nodes should be placed on the Aries-Libra axis at birth. 1) First in Gemini where the diamond pattern emphasizes the cardinal cross of signs and the two main axis that have to be fulfilled for individual and social developmental perfection. 2.) The asteroid Pallas Athena, concentrates on the same Gemini diamond symbolism, which in total is the universe of scientific knowledge that supports the longevity project. 3.) In Virgo where the mother and child's North Nodes are joined at the end of the symbol. The end of the sign of Virgo is 0 degrees Libra. It suggest that in each new generation, both mother and child would share that common placement for the North Node in their natal horoscopes. 4.) In the symbol of Libra where the Nodal symbol straddles a horizontal line (representing the Aries-Libra axis). 5.) The variant x in the symbol for Sagittarius o, again emphasizes the horizontal Aries-Libra axis. The Renaissance version more pointedly emphasized the cardinal cross and the po cusp point, which is the proposed rulership point for Uranus, k, which, similarly emphasizes the cardinal cross at the top of the natural zodiac wheel. 6.) In the Capricorn symbol where the Aries symbol is connected to the South Node leg of a South Node Symbol. If you position the North Node at 0}u, then the South Node will automatically be connected to 0}Aries. 7.) The Saturn symbol also seems to imply that positioning the lunar nodes on q-u axis would be beneficial by aligning the body symbols weakest point (where the Saturn glyph breaks) with the collective organisms strongest point, 0º[, that is where both halves of the collective mind have a tendency to find common advantage, cooperate, and act as one. Like Jupiter, the ruler of Aquarius, it is a lucky spot, based on synergy between potentially antagonistic forces. 8.) The Jupiter symbol joins 1+2 at a cardinal cross (individual longevity symbol), showing hemispheric unity resolved by individual perfection, not political constructions, which are usually the goal. In summary, children would be born only every 18 years; a class at a time, with similar horoscopes regarding the Lunar Nodes position. Below are the most common of the astrological sub-symbols, found in part or whole in the glyphs. +, a longevity symbol, a chosen birth, 12 times x naturally selected birth 2 times A lunar nodal symbol, a incarnate body symbol, 9 times q soul symbol, 6 times O earth symbol, 6 times s Moon symbol, 5 times Figure 24 virgo8.jpg Figure 25 matryo.jpg Figure 26 Librae.jpg Libra is the sign of peace and social stability as it is a Leo (individual body) symbol underlined, representing an environment of social support and political stability. The ends of the nodal legs are equilibrium symbols showing the proper position for the lunar nodes to be exactly on the Aries-Libra axis. The reason is that there is a basic psychological division that splits the twelve signs at the Cancer-Capricorn axis. The left half is orientated toward the soul and heaven while the right half is orientated toward the body and its natural environment, the earth. The bottom line symbolizes the social infrastructures both familial and public, that support the individual’s physical wellbeing. A Libran psychological attachment to personal and collective safety (peace) may derive from its position on the defensive end of the Imperialism equation, opposite to the center point of the West, 0º Aries. The planetary ruler (most affinity with the sign) of Libra is Venus which is similarly characterized by attributes of attraction, like beauty, love, accommodation, diplomacy and justice. They are refined traits that need protection, defense and support to flourish in a dangerous world/universe. So by placing the factor (the nodes of the moon) that has the most to do with our associations at 0} Aries and Libra you are astrologically bridging the collective mind and human associations in the world at their most balanced position. It is an attempt to astrologically balance in the individual his or her connection to a bipolar collective mind and real world associations. Figure 27 Scorpe.jpg, Scorp8 Scorpio is two Leo's or individuals pushing a goal or arrow. It represents group movements of all sizes. At the global level it represents world socialism and a unified World. Scorpio and its opposite sign Taurus form the economic axis of the horoscope with Taurus indicating individual, family or corporate resources and Scorpio indicating public resources and infrastructure that also materially supports the individual as well as the social organism. When the Scorpionic psychology (socialism, group welfare, public infrastructure) is repressed by the state then the psychology surfaces as smaller closed groups like mafias, crime families, youth gangs, motorcycle gangs and ethnic religious or political separatist groups whose main themes are power, control, shared welfare and goals. When further persecuted as groups they can turn nihilistic, terroristic, and suicidal. The idea of the segmented scorpion in Scorpio is that if the first Leo or individual doesn't push the arrow in the same direction as the second one, then he may get the stinger. It is nihilistic justice with self-sacrifice. The Scorpio says you are either for me or you're against me, and if you're against me then we are going to fight. It's the sign of warfare and politics. Scorpios are the ultimate team players and on the grandest scale their team is the peoples march towards fulfillment of the Worlds goals. The wellspring of Scorpionic emotion, which they are noted for, is the subterranean desire of the masses for social justice, usually interpreted as economic democracy, however the symbol implies a more transcendent concern for future survival of the Earth in a worldthreatening cosmos. When expressed properly it represents collective goal and collective idealism not individual perfection, which is the focus of the following signs of Sagittarius and Capricorn. Russia is the dominant country in the Scorpio sector of the astro-geographic overlay and its territory lies in the geographic corridor through which Western armies have attacked the East in modern times. That is the physical (geographic) basis for the development of Scorpio’s martial characteristics of strategic thinking, secrecy, and concern with physical power. The Scorpio psychology developed in response to innate Western Imperialism, which is an organismal stage of global social evolution. The astro-geographic overlay theory seems to imply that the structure of the reincarnational soul development cycle, (the swirl of the zodiac) out of the tropics is based first on geologic evolution of a centralized continental system centered on Africa that forced demographic patterns which in turn determined the psychic (collective mind) power balance. See Aries p.8. It turns out that psychic power is real power in a unified mind and can only be changed by altering the biologic base that generates the mind, presumably by changing the population ratio of the two hemispheres. The Scorpio sector of the astro-geographic overlay evolved the military attitudes and resultant power necessary to defend the Eastern hemisphere from usurpation of the power balance by the Western hemisphere. It evolved in response to social-development dynamics of a contentious bi-polar organism that is pre-destined by necessity for political unity. Scorpio symbolizes group efforts and social movements. In history these movements have mostly been associated with wars and revolutions, all of which have been hard on the individuals whose lives were subordinated to that historic process. Nuclear war would have been the ultimate subordination of the individual to that collective process because nuclear war may involve soul death (not just regular death), for billions of souls because of the disruption of the biosphere reincarnation environment. Fortunately we have been spared that unspeakable sacrifice for now, with the peaceful ending of the Cold War, but the threat remains as intolerable as when pointed out by President Kennedy in (09-25-1961) in a address before the General Assembly of the United Nations. "Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness." i As philosophers Scorpio’s are concerned with real-politics; politics based on practical and material factors. If you are looking for a more complete philosophy, you will have to go to the sign above it, Sagittarius, which ends at the top of the wheel and includes the goal of individual perfection (maximum growth and longevity). When Stalin was asked if he wanted the Pope as an ally he asked in reply, "How many divisions does the Pope have?" If you want to find out if a person has socialist sympathies then examine the Pluto/Scorpio/8th house factors in the horoscope. Does the person have a lot of planets in Scorpio or the 8th house, Scorpio's natural house position? Are there conjunctions or other aspects to Pluto or from the other planets? When Scorpio/Pluto factors are strong these people will be interested in politics, social justice issues, and have socialistic sympathies. Scorpio types understand and value physical power or force in personal and social relationships. They will likely be secretive, and strategic thinkers, analyzing people and situations for ulterior motives. If they live in the USA or a Western country that is not friendly to Scorpio psychology (antisocialistic) the person may have feelings of persecution, paranoia and depression, but not know the social-psychological context of their alienation. Scorpio's geographic location (NE quadrant) in the astrogeographic overlay diagram is geostrategically important. Scorpio is the sign, psychology, and people the majority spirit has used to counter the primary military aggressions of Western Imperialism during the hyperactive last two centuries that includes French, German and American led Western Imperialism. Before that period the Scorpionic Tartar-Mongol Empire (1206-1480) that sprang out of the Scorpio sector in the Siberian steppes was used to conquer and militarize the Eastern Hemisphere. The conquered states evolved into much stronger centralized regimes (Ottoman-Turkey, and Moscovy Russia) that were able to stop the European crusades and control of the middle ground until the 20th century. Before that the Hun invasion, (originating from the Scorpio sector) had a large part in the downfall of Imperial Rome and the shift of the Roman Empire capitol to Byzantine Constantinople. When World political unity is finally resolved, Scorpio will continue to be the core sign of physical social power for the collective mind, but perhaps with an added orientation of goals to include generation of a long-lived political class, as symbolized by the alternate Scorpio and Pluto glyphs where the arrow points up and not out. See Pluto p.56. Popularizing longevity would be a more sophisticated method of politically uniting the hemispheres than one based on physical power. Power would then concentrate in the virtuous (through democracy) who would govern from the top of the wheel (0}p), the symbolic resolution point of hemispheric unity. Pluto transits of 0}p -450 -205 -39 287 532 778 1024 Greece conceived a liberal trans-hemispheric empire and world-view; rationalistic, scientific, with cosmologic pantheism. Rome conquers the Hellenistic Greek Empire, represses Hellenistic science. Roman Imperialism replaces Roman Republicanism. End of Hellenistic Empire. Christianity replaces Roman/Greek cosmologic pantheism. Hun invasion from the East and related invasions of Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, led to collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and rise of the Greek orientated Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Golden age of Greek Byzantium, but under assault and schism from both sides. Islam consolidates Eastern political powers as religiously distinct from Christianity. (632-present) Beginning of the (failed) European eastern expansion. (Moslem expulsions from Europe 1031) (Crusades 1096-1291) 1270 Mongol Empire and Muslims consolidate Eastern Power. (Mongol rule in Russia 1240-1480), fall of Constantinople in 1453, and Ottoman Turk expansion into Western territory of 1300 - 1571 1515 Western Powers Conquer New World and make colonial inroads into Asia, Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Western Imperialism continued with birth of the last power center (U.S.A.) in the far -West. Western Imperialism was frustrated by military defeats in Russia (French 1812, German 1945, and the “Cold War” Stalemate 1990). The Easter powers appear poised to dominate economically in the coming cycle, but military readiness for instant nuclear war, makes Western Imperialism success a continuing possibility. 1762 2008 Figure 28 imper.bmp The early Greek Hellenistic zodiac featured Libra as the claws portion of great Scorpio (a duel sign). See Antikythera dial p. 70-71. Libra, as the scales, was a Babylonian constellation, reintroduced in post Hellenistic times.(Thompson 2001) The Scorpion is reaching for the scales. It points to the close psychological connection between justice issues, political power and international stability (peace). A difference between the two signs, is that Libra is orientated to familial and individual justice issues, coming as it does after the familial quadrant and the (Aries-Libra axis) that signifies Figure 29 scorplib.jpg partnerships of any variety. On the other hand, Scorpio is focused on macro-justice issues at the trans-familial, state and international level. Scorpio versus Taurus resource control, Capitalism versus Socialism: In the glyph system the 6 upper hemisphere social signs are more complex socialexpressions of individual or family orientated signs in the lower hemisphere, with opposite pairs dealing with similar themes. (see p. 6) The developmentally more complex social expression incorporates the subordinate lower sign. It is illogical to make the upper social sign subordinate to the less-developmentally advanced lower sign, because the individuals survival is dependent on survival of the macrooganism. Similarly the collective organism is the dominant subject of the glyph system, not the individual. Power of action, based on resource control is symbolized in the glyph system to belong predominantly to Scorpio, the anchor of the trans-famial, social-organization quadrant; not Taurus and individual/familial/corporate interest, which by nature has a local, factional bias. Collective resource control, (national and global) became an important issue since the rise of mass populations following the l; conjunction of 1891, when PlutoScorpio psychology went from idle to active social manifestations, in response to developmental needs of the growing social organism. Figure 30.Econaxe.jpg, mutefx.1.jpg Astrologic Arguments for Socialism: Capitalism subverts the natural economic relationship, proposed in the glyph system, by shifting economic power to the upper class, which in turn uses that economic power to plutocratically control government policy. Land ownership (the unmovable base of fixed Taurian-wealth) needs to remain under final control of the state in order to insure its power of action is not subservient to plutocratic control of state resources and political bodies that decide collective policies. It is a justice issue because plutocracy subverts the natural democracy inherent in the collective mind and biologic natural selection dynamics in general. It is a power issue because plutocratic control inhibits the ability of the state to organize the welfare and survival of the social organism. The West may be attached to capitalism because it is an indirect way to achieve control of political destiny through plutocracy, despite its demographic deficit. 1482 Н.Э.(Hyginus) 32 Centuarus Lupus Crux offering a lioness and foliage. 15th century interpretation of al-Sufi, a 10th century Persian astronomer. See (Stall 1996) for variants. Figure 31 CentuarA.jpg, al sufi.jpg Scorpio’s Space Role: If Alpha Centuari is the best destination for relocating the Earth, because of its proximity to our solar system, then it may be instructive to examine the evolved symbolism for the constellation Southern Centuarus, which contains Alpha Centuari, part of a binary-star in a three star system. Scorpio/Pluto and Mars glyphs, i;g indicate relocation of the mother-planet may be a recurring dilemma, common to all planetary civilizations. One strategy may be relocation of the planet only after the relocation by spaceship of all humans and selected animals in the long gradual run-up to the Sun’s extinction. Overall constellation = Centuarus Lupus Crux, longitude 29}i, declination 60} South. Alpha Centuari άβ, = Toliman, Bungula, Hadar – left foreleg, knee, or left hoof. The symbolism evolved from a Taurian bull-centaur, (minotaur) that emphasizes attachment to carnivorous based diets, with Lupus and Lepus (cow and rabbit) as symbols of attachment to animal husbandry and animal based diets. Later the centaur became a true horse-centaur (like Sagittarius) and Lupus became a wolf being killed by the centaur or an even more benign centaur (Chiron) offering a lioness and plants. It may symbolize the crux transition (x to +) from short-lived humans, to Sagittarian- extended longevity necessary for human space engineering, whether it be by spaceship or by planetary relocation involving whole, hunkered-down biospheres. Carnovory inhibits longevity by turning off survival genes related to dietary-restriction methods of activating survival/longevity genes. Fat and protein abundance in the body turns off survival/longevity genes that may be used to regulate reproductive quiescence and longevity. The transformation of Centuarus Lupus Crux suggest that longevity knowledge, coming from Sagittarian science, will compel society to eat vegan based, symbiotically-created foods that generate the longevity phenotype. Plant-animal symbiosity produce food compositions that maximize specific longevity genes. See example last chapter. The symbolism in the Persian Centuarus (above) suggest exploitation of that strategy. Perhaps reestablishing natural habitats for large herbivore, plant-animal symbiosity, destroyed in the mega-faunal extinctions 10,000 years ago, could revive nature’s best laboratories for selecting beneficial food- compositions aimed at human-like mammals. ca. 1690 CE Centuarus Lupus Crux Sagittarius centaur Center of galaxy Ca. 1575 CE (Palazzo Farnesse) Figure 32 Centa1.jpg, Zodiac1.jpg, sagite.jpg Sagittarius is the combination of astrologically planned birth and space travel. The two together will mark the boundaries of philosophy, that is to say, what is scientifically possible in terms of individual and collective survival within the solar systems of the Galaxy and larger Universe. The x on the arrow, like the x in the Virgo symbol represents reproduction. Sagittarius's x o can emphasizes the Aries-Libra axis indicating a chosen (planned) birth, or a standard fixed cross x representing birth by natural selection. It probably indicates a two track approach to space colonization and survival schemes. The first involving long-lived astronauts, and the later a strategy of seeding strategic planets suitable for human life with starter organisms designed to boost hyper-evolution in those potential destinations for colonization. That long term strategy would fit the symbolism the centaur shooting an arrow with a flaming arrow head into space. The center of the Galaxy lies in the direction of Sagittarius’s arrow head or alternately, the spout of the teapot within that same constellation pattern. Perhaps we can control the movement of the galaxy, by cosmic engineering from the center axis, like a gyroscope. It is also in the direction of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, (the next closest galaxy) on the outer rim of the Milky Way galaxy, but in the same direction as the galactic center. Sagittarius is the sign of philosophy (the big picture) but all philosophy depends on science. The arrows of Scorpio and Sagittarius indicate both signs interest in outer space however the arrow of Sagittarius is larger than Scorpio's suggesting a larger part in space projects for Sagittarius, perhaps due to its orientation to science and the ultimate procreation of longestlived people that will be required for deep space-work, while Scorpio’s space-work is orientated toward survival of the Earth as biosphere in the local Galaxy. Centaur and Centauri both come from the Latin word for 100 suggesting long-lived people may be necessary for space travel outside of the Earth biosphere. The main danger of space travel is that it removes one from the earth’s biosphere which is assumed necessary for reincarnation. Figure 33 urancan.jpg Theoretically to die in outer space threatens the person with soul loss (terminal annihilation) as further reincarnation would be blocked. The astrological symbols suggest reincarnation is a reality and that it would be prudent to avoid manned space travel until the science of the reincarnating soul is better understood. Another time that we are theoretically threatened with soul loss is during k ! global nuclear war, because the huge numbers involved in the destruction would make it difficult for the remaining copulating species of life to reabsorb all the returning souls upon their descent from heaven. The majority of these souls may come to rest on the surface of the earth and would end their existence in that environment, which is as non-intellectually uncomfortable as heaven was pleasurable. If the ground is radioactively hot then it would be a true hell, but either way there would be no further progress for those souls. SIGN RULERSHIP ARIES - MARS LEO - SUN SAGITTARIUS - URANUS TAURUS - VENUS VIRGO – MERCURY CAPRICORN - SATURN GEMINI - MERCURY LIBRA - VENUS AQUARIUS - JUPITER CANCER – MOON SCORPIO - PLUTO PISCES - NEPTUNE Since the discovery of the outer planets (Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1929) they have been slowly integrated into the previous astrological model. Uranus became the ruler of Aquarius and Jupiter became the ruler of Sagittarius. I would switch those two. The symbolism in this present interpretation suggest Jupiter and Aquarius both describe the collective mind. Uranus would become the ruler of philosophical Sagittarius, because you cannot properly answer questions about philosophy, theology, psychology, social psychology and history without astrology, and Uranus is the planet of Astrology. Furthermore the function of Uranus as mediator of hemispheric antagonism, through individual longevity, symbolically operates best from the top of the wheel but coming from the Sagittarian side. The Uranus symbols also emphasize the apex of the natural zodiac wheel That switch is the only change recommended. The planets are associated with particular signs based on similar psychological meaning, traditionally called rulership. Figure 34 mutecar.jpg Figure 35 cape.jpg Capricorn is the sign of long life as it is the combination of an Aries (soul) symbol connected to the south node leg of a south node symbol. The south node symbolizes the second half of life. The symbolism is that of a mature soul (one capable of long-term existence in heaven) connected to a mature body type (human). This combination puts the emphasis on the second half of life, making for a strong finish or old age. Traditionally Capricorn is the sign of authority figures such as the father, boss, chief executive, or king. Capricorn introduces the quadrant of the Zodiac (p [ ]) of developmental completion and body/soul maturity. That developmental association with the completed product, naturally confers attitudes of exceptionalism, superiority, and the ideal, plus the desire and expectation to rule. While the molecular biology of human longevity is unknown, intense aging research is now focused on resolving those questions. The current intensification on longevity research may be associated with the current and recent transits of the outer three planets in Sagittarius and Capricorn, the signs most associated with longevity. Those are Pluto’s transit over the vertical Cancer-Capricorn, growth-longevity axis, and the top of the Zodiac hemisphericdivide. Pluto transits o-p from 1995-2024, with the midpoint at 0ºp transited in 2008. The other pertinent outer planet configuration is the 1993 conjunction of Neptune and Uranus in Capricorn that also signals a new spike of interest in the longevity project, that will unfold during the following 172 year period. The astrological symbols of r and k seem to suggest that arrest of reproductive development at puberty, is a necessary component of extreme longevity. That condition may involve perpetual maintenance of germline and non-germline stem cell pools throughout the body through maintenance of a optimized redox environment (low oxidation rate) consequent to sirtuin survival gene activation which may suppress stem cell differentiation into new tissue, thus perpetually preserving the capacity of self-renewal of damaged tissue. Reproductive-development and its arrest/delay are the issues symbolized at both ends of the vertical, growth-longevity axis in the symbols r and k. suggesting this to be the central mechanism in the longevity riddle. See last chapter for discussion. One degree Capricorn (December 22-23) is a suitable degree to celebrate the birth of an everlasting Messiah character. Even if the Bible is non-historical and only symbolically telling a story with collective mind inspiration, there may be wisdom from that sentient intelligence observing life histories uninterrupted for millenniums. The Old Testament records 26 long lived people, all but one (Sarah), are males (Genesis, 5:3-Job, 42:16). They ranged in age from 110 years for Joseph to 969 years for Methuselah. Seven of the first ten had over 900 years but as time passed the ages decreased and when Jacob (also called Israel) was asked by the pharaoh of Egypt how old he was he answered that he was 130 years old but that his days had been "short and full of sin" and that he would not obtain the age of his famous ancestors (Genesis 47:9). Notable, is the correlation of early reproductive activity with shorter life spans as extreme life-spans decreased over time. All of the early long-lived patriarchs recorded in Genesis had their children after they were at least 65 years old. (see table) Lifetimes decreased from 900 years to 120 years because "The way of the flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth." Genesis 6:11,13. Long lived patriarchs in the Old Testament Name Adam Seth Enosh Kenan Mahlalel Jared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah Shem Arphaxad Shelah Eber Peleg Age at first reproduction 110 105 90 70 65 162 65 187 182 500 100 35 30 34 30 Lifespan 930 912 905 910 895 962 365 969 777 950 600 438 433 464 239 Reu Serug Nahor Terah Abram Sarah Ishmael Isaac Jacob Joseph Job Moses David Solomon Average for first 10 32 30 29 70 86 90 ? 60 150 yrs. 239 230 148 205 175 127 137 180 147 110 140 120 90 39 858 yrs References in the Old and New Testament to a relationship between sex and death: 1. The last book of the Bible mentions 144,000 virgins who are without guile (deceit), who follow the Lamb of God upon his return and sing a song that the rest of the people can't learn because they have been defiled by women. (Revelations, 14:1,5). 2. "It is good for man not to touch woman. Yet for fear of fornication let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.... But this I say by way of concession, not by way of commandment. For I would that you all were as myself; but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way another in that." 1 Corinthians 7:1,7 3. "I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they so remain, even as I, but if they do not have self control, let them marry, for it is better it is better to marry than to burn." Corinthians 7:8,9 4. "The wisdom that descends from above is first of all chaste." St. James 3:18 "But everyone is tempted by being drawn away and enticed by his own passion. Then when passion has conceived, it brings forth sin; but when sin has matured, it begets death." St. James 1:14,16 5. "Thou didst bow thyself to women, and by thy body thou wast brought under subjugation." Thou hast stained thy glory and defiled thy seed, so as to bring wrath upon thy children, and to have thy folly kindled." Ecclesiastes 47:21,22 6. "O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory, for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both to God and to man." Wisdom 4:1 7. "What, O beloved of my womb, O beloved of my vows. Give not thy substance to women..." Proverbs 31:2,3 8. "If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of camp, and shall not return before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return to the camp." Deuteronomy 23:10,11 The Bible seems to correlate (early in life) increased reproductive activity, with short lifespan. It also correlates (late in life/delayed) reproductive activity, with the longest-lived and most ancient ancestors. Noah and the Flood story, may allegorically mark a turning point in life-span histories that mirror the real-world migration of homo sapiens out of Africa and into all continents with very different environmental pressures, such as lower temperatures, sunlight, and less competition from large mammals that were finally killed-off in the mega-faunal extinctions of most large mammal species, in all continents but Africa around 10,000 years ago. Africa’s large mammals may have survived because they had more time to learn fear and adapt as humans evolved into capable hunters. African pathogenic insects and microbes that humans had coevolved with in Africa, were left behind. The megafaunal extinctions forced the cultures of hunter/gatherers to develop agriculture and animal domestication. Leaving Africa gradually relaxed environmental pressure for sirtuin survival genes and simultaneously increased reproductive gene activity and behavior that is now culminating in World mass populations of a single homogenous species. The longevity mechanism implied by the zodiac symbols and the Biblical extreme longevity pattern seems to focus on reproductive development arrest/delay as the main mechanism for longevity control. The biology of aging is now advancing rapidly toward final theories, and the time is ripe for those theories to be applied to human behavior, with the expected philosophical results predicted in the astrological symbols. Need drives history, and the need of mankind now is to resolve the unsustainable mass population growth in a way that satisfies our personal and collective goals. Figure 36 aquare.jpg Aquarius is the sign of the collective mind. The waves in the symbol suggest two series of Leo's or individuals connected to each other at their nodes. These two groups of individuals form the demographic base of the majority and minority halves of the collective mind. You can think of the collective mind as a huge brain covering the whole world where the cells of the brain are people, animals, and the souls in heaven (an unknown quantity). The psychic interconnection (from soul to soul) of all these units forms a bipolar mind wherein both lobes generate thought and are able to stimulate individual members thereby influencing their thinking and behavior. This mind is divided geographically at the Middle East with the dominant half of the mind drawing its constituents from the more populated eastern half of the world. The Aquarius symbol’s placement in the upper Western quadrant may indicate that quality (complexity and knowledge depth) are important in where the collective minds attention normally resides. Gross psychic power may be important in a confrontation between the hemispheres but the normal focus and attraction of the collective mind may reside geographically where the ideation is most complex, and advanced in knowledge. That would be the quadrant of the zodiac p-] associated with developmental maturity and the advanced cultures of the upper West quadrant; Europe through North America. That bias may change with the internet distribution of knowledge, education access, and economic development in the East but the inherent advantage of the upper West quadrant in producing developmentally more complete individuals will remain, at least in terms of soul development stage. Figure 37 onetwo.jpg WEST – EAST Heaven Earth Soul = q Body = u Aries (hemispheric midpoint) Libra (hemispheric midpoint) South Node, Dragons tail North Node, Dragons head Developmental soul maturity in p-] yields Demographic dominance yields individual genius, talent and focus on the political dominance in a democratic ideal or finished product. Most complete, system and psychical dominance in a World collective mind that functions inclusive, complex ideation. democratically. Imperialism/desire to rule/pride anti-imperialism / inclusion Separation / factionalism / libertarianism political and economic union / socialism individualism / capitalism / isolation Community / state infrastructure/ focus on development and life support systems. Aristocracy, oligarchy, plutocracy democracy Minority Spirit, Neptune, Pisces Demiurge, (public worker), Pluto, Scorpio 1 The function of the collective mind is symbolized by the glyph (symbol) for Jupiter, wherein the number (1), representing the western half of the mind is superimposed on the number (2), representing the demographically-dominate eastern half, forming in the process a cardinal cross with the ascendant (left) side emphasized. Number one (1) represents the western hemisphere in general, and in particular those people in the Capricorn through Pisces sectors of the astro-geographic overlay (corresponding geographically to Eastern Europe through the United States). Those signs (Capricorn through Pisces) are the last leg of the soul’s reincarnational journey through the Zodiac “Animal Way”. They are no longer concerned primarily with earthly (body) existence, which is the theme of the Eastern hemisphere but are now re-orientated toward soul centered themes characterized by individual developmental completeness. They are traits like the long-lived master in Capricorn, the master of group dynamics in Aquarius, and the idealized bliss of the soul, sought by Pisces. They emphasize a psychology of completion, the final product and the ideal. This geographically favored position, relative to both (individual and social developmental cycles, is the justification of Western civilization’s pride and claimed right to World dominance. Their historical lead in the sciences and high culture may justify their pride but not their Imperialism, at least not in the majority spirit’s (Eastern half of the collective mind) view. The number 1 puts the emphasis on the Cancer/Capricorn axis, Ф which refers to individual developmental-perfection (maximum growth and longevity). The number two emphasizes the horizontal Aries/Libra axis, Ө that refers to social developmental perfection, that is to say the goals of the macro (World) organism (sustainable growth and cosmic survival). Both axes ideally combine in the cardinal-cross destiny symbol + that perfectly satisfies both organismic pathways (individual and social). Jupiter symbolizes how the collective mind is hemispherically polarized with the demographically dominant Eastern half more powerful. Jupiter is not so much an independent entity as it is a symbol of the democratic nature of combinatory mass psychology. 2 Number two (2) represents the Eastern hemisphere, which is the body side of the collective mind. Here lie the majority of humans and animals whose evolutionary station is concerned with physical existence on earth, but that is not to say, that the Eastern hemisphere is not interested in the highest realms of intellectual knowledge or human developmental perfection. Sagittarius and its ruler Uranus fully compete with any aspect of proposed NW quadrant developmental superiority. Capricorn and Sagittarius are symbolically at equal height. Sagittarius starts low and reaches the high point, while developmentally more advanced Capricorn, starts high and at best maintains its position. Two (2) dominates the collective mind because the minds power is in numbers. It is a type of neurological democracy and number two simply has more votes, although complexity of thought in the Northwest quadrant, may chronically draw the collective mind’s attention to that sector, as symbolized by the emphasis of the Capricorn/Aquarius cusp. Jupiter is the principle of bringing two things together and getting more than the sum of the parts. 1+2 = 4 with Jupiter. It is the addition of the psychic network itself formed by the expanded psychic network from soul to soul among the individuals. Seen on a small scale it is a psychic field formed by the group, for example with a school of fish or flock of birds moving in unison. Many sensitive people think they feel a step-up of energy when one joins a group at a party, a meeting of even a market place with a lot of people present. The energy may seem higher because of the density of the psychic field. The increased energy in the individual is immediately increased and typically causes one to be more anxious, nervous, and muscularly more tense. If a person is in good health this step up of energy is experienced as pleasurable and exciting but if the person is in poor health the experience is uncomfortable. It is like pressurizing a garden hose with water; all systems get a check and the weak or damaged areas draw ones attention. Also the group itself and individual members may feel/sense your condition on a certain level of consciousness and are either attracted to you or repulsed by you depending on your state of health and comfort. The group will eventually expel members who are chronically ill at ease with the group's higher level of energy. Perhaps it is a characteristic of group peer pressure dynamics that have not yet been physiologically described. The Aquarian personality is particularly drawn to and adept at handling group energy. If their health is good, then they are universal in accepting people to their group and need to have a good reason to reject anyone (even animals). With them it is more the merrier and all are accepted. It is not a matter of ideology, but an intuitive affinity for [ group psychodynamics. Satisfying the full mind is the dominant urge. This desire to maintain and extend the group regardless of ideological boundaries and allegiances makes the Aquarian psychology antithetical to hemispheric competition because division or factionalism destroys the power of a collective mind (either small or large). Aquarian psychology may be a major impediment to Western Imperialist unity, especially in Europe. Figure 38 gem1.jpg The [ cusp zone seems prone to balkanization where Western Imperial solidarity is more vulnerable to intellectual heresy, protest, and counter interpretation. Historically it was the zone of intrusion from the East, from Hunic, Mongol, and Ottoman Turkey invasions, that directly or indirectly countered early expressions of Western Imperialism, as Imperial Roman and Catholic-crusader Imperialism. If there is dissonance in the European Aquarius zone it is probably the result of Eastern hemisphere attributes being repressed in the Macro-European body politic for the sake of Western Imperial goals. These are the half/happy cultures, like the UK, Greece and the six Balkan states not members of the EU. That dissonance will probably go away when the harmony and universal inclusion Jupiter/Aquarius symbolizes is implemented locally and more importantly at the world level. See table above for Eastern hemisphere attributes like socialism and democracy. Aquarians have an attitude that seems to recognize and respect the inherent democratic nature of the collective mind, which leads them to be broad minded, inclusive, and democratic in their approach to the world's problems. Great Britain, situated in the middle of the Aquarius sector of the astro-geographic overlay, seems particularly Aquarian. Perhaps being a large island aided its ability to act and think independently of European Imperialist movements. They have played a central part in resisting the great Western Imperialistic thrust of the last 200 years. You can see this in their opposition to French and German Imperialism and invasions of the East. Although they had their own imperialistic period with global colonization, their colonialism was perhaps more benign than other colonizers. They left behind a legacy of civil law, human rights, democracy, and most of all a world language tied to the vocabulary of science and philosophy which has its roots in Greek and Roman language. A World language was inevitable but significant in that a very Aquarian nation was the agent of its spread and that it spread from the Aquarian sector of the overlay. The British flag is a symbol of the collective mind, in that it is the confluence of vectors at a central point (cardinal cross superimposed on a fixed cross). The X represents birth by natural selection while the + cross represents a planned birth. The two together may symbolize the coevolution of an aristocratic and a common social tradition in British history. The cosmic order of the solar system is responsible for evolution, and the day-to-day events of nature. What is being described in the symbols of Aquarius and Jupiter is over and above the level of inanimate causation. The collective mind represents a potential second level of causation (collective mind/will) just as the human mind represents a third level of causation (human mind/will). Astrology, cosmologically differentiates the planetary inputs to those minds process. In the scheme presented here Pluto/Scorpio psychology is the lead planet/sign motivating number 2 coming as it does from the trans-familial social quadrant of the Eastern hemisphere. That reasoning is in line with the Platonic concept of the demiurge (public worker) god component being the dominant fraction that molds matter first at the level of mind. It is also in agreement with the description of Ptah, the demiurge of Egypt who also created first as a mind who brings it’s plans to reality through the word/ logos. See Ptah p. 66 Temporary Trinity: The symbolism of Jupiter and Aquarius can help explain the trinity mystery of Christian religion, wherein the two halves of the collective mind focus at the soul and consciousness of an especially attractive individual. Here the Father, is the majority spirit; and the Holy Ghost is the minority spirit and the Son is the human component that serves to physically mediate the confluence of psychic energy. One function of the long-lived phenotype may be to fill that role of host, compeer, or master of ceremonies at mass convocations (political or religious). This most fit and favored leader would be attractive to both hemispheric spirits and the individuals who compose those spirits. The increased psychic energy temporarily generated at such events may be associated with the religious concepts of beatific visions in the human host and miracles. Figure 39.flage.jpg The Monstrance, used in Catholic ceremony to display the host to the congregation on special occasions is a good symbol of the individual psychic vectors that converge at the soul and consciousness of the host, compeer, or master of ceremonies in group or mass gatherings where the group energy can converge at one human soul. With the monstrance, a consecrated host (bread) is put in a glass case in the center of the Monstrance symbolizing the Son or Christ. The symbols of Jupiter and Aquarius do not seem to imply that the halves of the collective mind can merge into an independent new consciousness, but can perhaps simultaneously merge at the consciousness of an especially fit individual person due to the normal connection of collective minds with individual minds. It seems to imply that the collective mind senses the physical world indirectly through human and other animal's senses like eyes and ears. The Age of Aquarius The relative importance of tropical zodiac misalignment with the larger sidereal background is unknown. The local earth–centered tropical zodiac and planetary transit system seems perfectly adequate for tracking the primary vectors of individual and social developmental history. The tropical system is a self-contained “solar system” describing a local planetaryorganism called Earth. The planetary and sign inputs of astrology logically end at the boundary of our solar system and projecting that model onto the larger galaxy and universe may have little significance other than to philosophically orientate our future galactic destiny. The triple conjunction of kl; in 577 BCE and subsequent conjunctions of kl in 403 BCE and 232 BCE in Gemini seem fully adequate to explain the revolutionary organization of astronomy and astrology from 700-30 BCE in Mesopotamia and Hellenistic Greece. On the other hand, the newly created Mesopotamian twelve equal sign sidereal zodiac that arose around 700-600 BCE18 and the discovery of precession by Hipparchus around 150 BCE paralleled the rare alignment of the two zodiac systems at that time. The names of some of the new tropical zodiac signs derived directly from sidereal constellations found in the earlier Mesopotamian 18 constellation catalog (mul.apin, circa1000 BCE), but naming and characterization of the cosmos was in its infancy in 577 BCE, and the concept of separate zodiacs did not exist. One important fact that was probably known to the collective mind was the approximate location of the Galactic center thus giving a purposeful organizing point for the larger Galaxy and Universe, relative to 0} Sagittarius, now associated with space exploration destiny. Whether the celestial circle has psychological inputs separate from the local Tropical system remains unanswered. The exact timing of the beginning of the age of Aquarius is imprecise and controversial however if one does a chart in the tropical zodiac on the first day of spring, you will see that the sun's position is not far from an overlapping and diffused Pisces/Aquarius border. In some pictures the water bearer is pouring water into the mouth of Pisces Austrinus “Southern Pisces” and into a region of the sky called a sea because of the many water related constellations there, including Cetus the whale, Eridanus the river, Pisces and Southern Pisces. Even Capricorn has a fish tail. Perhaps global warming and a parched earth will be symbolically rescued by the water-bearer. Aquarius is the sign of the collective mind, which is now contentious, and will remain so until the minority spirits ambitions of regime change are permanently checked. That condition may require long-lived leaders as Western Imperialism appears to be a very powerful and persistent force rooted in developmental social biology that is subject to dualistic polarity. In any event reversing global warming may be a barometer of the arrival of the Age of Aquarius, although nuclear disarmament under United Nations control would be a more sure indicator. 2150 is a popular date for the beginning of the Age of Aquarius among Western Astrologers. Uranus/Neptune conjunctions begin to occur in Aquarius then so maybe the science of human longevity will have made demonstrable progress by then. If spiritual regime-change does take place then the East/West population ratios would have to be reversed. Initially the Eastern hemisphere’s population would be reduced by the nuclear war itself and subsequently through population repression in the East, not unlike Nazi Germany’s plans for its post-conquest master race. How that spiritual regime-change would affect the natural democratic nature of the collective mind and its subsequent evolution in the Aquarian Age is unknown, but an enforced World plutocracy or some form of controlled demographics would be a radically different reality than a World democracy with naturally evolved demographics. One consequence of a repressed Eastern hemisphere (body side) might be reduced total power of the collective mind. Such a crisis phase in socialpsychological development may be normal in planetary organisms, and we may encounter both types of outcome in the Galaxy and beyond. Sun's longitude on the first day of spring (Vernal Equinox). Figure 40 piaq.jpg, piaque.jpg Figure 41 pisces.jpg Figure 42 pisces.jpg The horizontal line in the symbol suggest heaven. The Aries symbol on the top of the line is a mature soul that has developed through air breathing animal species. The mature soul can stay in heaven indefinitely but the Aries symbol on the bottom that is upside down represents a soul that is still developing and after a time will drop back down to Earth and reincarnate in a body. Perhaps the psychic interconnection between all souls is what guides the soul to its new body at conception. Sometimes the Pisces symbol is written with its sides further apart (figure b.), symbolizing the balsamic lunar phase between the waning and waxing phases of the moon. It is the ending of one lunar cycle and the beginning of another representing the afterlife between death and rebirth, with the horizontal line again representing heaven. Pisces is the sign of heaven which is here conjectured to be the tropopause boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere layer of the upper atmosphere, just below the ozone layer. Perhaps when the body dies, the soul is attracted to and drawn up to this layer where it experiences states of non-intellectual bliss caused by differences in air density, atmospheric pressure or oxygen composition at that altitude. Figure 43 atmose.jpg Meaning of the planet symbols The horizontal line in the symbol suggest heaven. The Aries symbol on the top of the line is a mature soul that has developed through air breathing animal species. The mature soul can stay in heaven indefinitely but the Aries symbol on the bottom that is upside down represents a soul that is still developing and after a time will drop back down to Earth and reincarnate in a body. Perhaps the psychic interconnection between all souls is what guides the soul to its new body at conception. Sometimes the Pisces symbol is written with its sides further apart (figure b.), symbolizing the balsamic lunar phase between the waning and waxing phases of the moon. It is the ending of one lunar cycle and the beginning of another representing the afterlife between death and rebirth, with the horizontal line again representing heaven. Pisces is the sign of heaven which is here conjectured to be the tropopause boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere layer of the upper atmosphere, just below the ozone layer. Perhaps when the body dies, the soul is attracted to and drawn up to this layer where it experiences states of non-intellectual bliss caused by differences in air density, atmospheric pressure or oxygen composition at that altitude. The Moon is concerned with the function of growth, in the Leo (body) series of signs stretching around the right side of the wheel. These are the signs Figure 44 moone.jpg concerned with the development of a mature body type. The soul reincarnates through a hierarchy of animal species and the dominant species on Earth is the human. The lunar symbol is often compared with the symbol of a cup, containing, protecting, and nurturing something. In this case it is protecting and nurturing all the living organisms on the zodiac animal way. The lunar symbol is found as a component of w ] d k l ;. The cardinal cross of signs is a destiny symbol, in that the Cancer/Capricorn, growth/longevity axis intersects the collective organism’s relationship axis. Both axis can be optimized; the growth/longevity axis by scientific methods, (behavioral and environmental (ie. dietary) and the horizontal social relationship axis by astrologic timing methods. The first is biological, the second is Figure 45 merc123.jpg, cross1.jpg psychological. The symbol for Mercury d contains the sub -symbols for Taurus w, on top of a cardinal cross +, a symbol of individual destiny as shown by the natal horoscope. It is a symbol of personal destiny (fate plus free will). Having the cardinal cross symbol under the symbol for the world indicates that the individuals destiny is subordinated to higher collective destinies (local, state, national, hemispheric, and World), all based on Taurus, as symbolizing geography. Taurus is a Moon symbol over the World symbol, symbolizing geography as shaped over the eons by ocean tides and currents both of which are dependent on the Earth's and Moons motions. The Mercury symbol, d, implies that geography is a factor in what gets said or communicated by Mercury. Mercury was the messenger of the Gods in Greek mythology, a kind of a neutral postman. So Mercury delivers the psychologically prejudiced messages of the local geography starting with your family, then your neighbors, community, region, and country that you incarnated into. Traditionally, Mercury in your horoscope symbolizes your mind, how you think, and communicate. It is the ruler of Gemini the sign most associated with communications of all kinds and Virgo, a sign noted for analytical and critical thinking. The sign it is in tells what the person likes to think and talk about. Its function is the communication of ideas and information and when strong in the horoscope gives a good communicator and teacher. They hunger for mental stimulation in books, conversation, internet, etc. however the depth of their ideas is sometimes shallow, with a lot of local data but little scientific or philosophical integration. Traditionally the integration of the gross information of Gemini was the function of the opposite sign of Sagittarius, the sign of philosophy and higher learning. Figure 46 venus1.jpg The symbol for Venus, f, is composed of a cardinal cross surmounted by the symbol for the world. The world dominates the individuals destiny in the Venus symbol as he or she is made to serve in a Venus-like, loving way, the geography of their birth by satisfying the needs of the higher collective groups he or she is a born into. It is their part in the reproductive biology of the social organism that is demanded by Venus. The individual's cardinal cross (individual destiny) is subordinated to that collectively necessary biological function. The Venus symbol is seen as a sub-symbol in the symbol for Mercury, d and Uranus, k. The inverted Venus in the symbol of Uranus implies that reproduction is biologically harmful for the individual (in terms of lifespan) and needs to be harnessed for extended longevity and independence from that collective influence on their fate. See Uranus below and last chapter. Venus in the horoscope shows what you are attracted to, what gives you pleasure, and your own powers of attraction. Therefore it often indicates your mate or partner. When analyzing a horoscope for romance or resources, Venus is always considered a primary indicator, because of its rulership of the signs Taurus (the local resource environment one is born into) and Libra, the traditionally sign of (one to one) relationships of all kinds, like partnerships and mates. The house, sign and aspects of Venus are looked at. Venus’s primary function is attraction to bring the sexes together to have progeny. The end result is the maintenance of the body of the social organism, with specific individuals. g Mars is the symbol of the world connected to an arrow pointing out into space, in the same direction as the arrows of Sagittarius and Scorpio, symbolizing the eventual forced relocation of the earth itself or selected life forms on the earth to other planets, when the Sun is exhausted. Mars symbolizes cosmic engineering but more generally it symbolizes one World acting in unison. That is in agreement with the symbolism of Scorpio i, wherein two or more individuals push a goal in unison. The number 8 (for the 8th house) may be symbolic of interplanetary associations or actual physical linkage in planetary engineering schemes. It is two planets connected together. The unequal size of the worlds may also symbolize future philosophical issues surrounding allocation (apportioning) of votes in multiplanet political associations, composed of diverse planetary civilizations. All travel outside the biosphere is of course extremely dangerous, because of the threat of soul loss in that non-reincarnating environment. These symbols are proof of collective consciousness and plan, long before we humans deciphered their meaning. Figure 47 Worlds.jpg Before the discovery of Pluto, Mars was the ruler of Aries and Scorpio but that changed with the discovery of Pluto in 1930, coincident with the rise of mass populations and socialistic governments. The great conjunction of Pluto and Neptune in the 1890’s coincided with the rise of mass populations world-wide, that will define the challenge of this l; cycle. That conjunction coincided with many technological discoveries and inventions that facilitated mass population growth. Pluto came to be recognized as having more psychological affinity with Scorpio, based on its association with power, politics and mass movements. Pluto became the ruler of Scorpio and Mars remained the ruler of Aries. The Aries interpretation of Mars energy is very different than Scorpio, in that it is about individual energy expression acting solitarily and often independent of the group’s direction. Aries symbolizes the new or reincarnating soul starting out on a solitary journey that developmentally does not become fully social until the opposite sign of Libra. The competition inherent in the East-West rivalry that motivates Western Imperialism may be accentuated in the Aries character because of its central location on the East-West, AriesLibra axis associated with antagonistic hemispheric polarity, however the symbol for Aries, q, implies growth, (like a plant) developing into a balanced neutral polarity, suggesting independence rather than a directed antagonism. Traditionally Mars indicates ones personal energy or drive which fits well with the assertive and aggressive nature of Aries. There is a big difference between the group orientated psychology of Scorpio and the "me alone, distinct from the world" attitude of Aries. Mars is usually not seen as a group or collective energy, but the symbol itself, g, suggest collective World action; specifically translocation of the planet, so the expression of the Aries psychology may depend on the local environment it reincarnates into, including the state of collective mind relative to its birth location. The Mars symbol is telling us to align our goals with the goals of the World. The arrow of Sagittarius is pointing to the galactic center, and beyond, while Mars and Scorpio's arrow may signify space activity directly concerned in relocating planet Earth, as a perishable biospheric organism, to a more local part of the galaxy, for instance to our nearest neighboring star, Alpha Centuari at 29} Scorpio, but with a 50} Southern latitude. The collective mind obviously has a vital interest in the health and survival of the planet that harbors its physical body. Asteroids: In Greek mythology, the feminine goddesses that were later associated with asteroids in the early 19th century, were virgins or had variable virgin epithets. The asteroid glyphs as interpreted here seem to define feminine aspects of sexuality as it relates to the proposed longevity axis that divides the hemispheres at the Cancer/Capricorn axis. G PALLAS ATHENA was a life-long dedicated virgin, where her virginity was in part the source of her androgynous powers. The symbol G exalts the diamond pattern of an idealized Gemini expression, wherein what is communicated, is the collective minds recipe for developmental perfection (individual and collective). Athena was born from the forehead of Jupiter, a symbol of the collective mind in agreement. She was the virgin goddess of wisdom, and creative intelligence, born fully formed, armed and shouting “victory”. As Plato explained in his Cratylus. Athena means God’s mind (theos + nous). Athena, and Jupiter (Zeus) were the two main Gods of ancient Greece, with Zeus’s temple on Mt. Olympus, home of the Olympian Gods and Athena’s temple (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis in Athens, the intellectual and political capitol of Greece. Significantly both sites lie on the Aquarius cusp line in the Astro-geographic overlay of the natural zodiac, using the proposed center point of 30Nx30E (one degree South of Alexandria Egypt), which incidentally is near Naucratis, the ancient Greek/Egyptian colony that melded Greek/Egyptian culture, trade, and military alliance on the Nile above Memphis. Aquarius symbolism, like Jupiter, describes the collective mind and the Aquarian line is here proposed to be an auspicious zone where the most complex thought occurs due to its location in the “developmental maturity quadrant” of the overlay, being directly associated with North-West quadrant geography/demography. See p. 36. Figure 48 gem4.jpg, gem5.jpg, gem3.jpg Athena can be seen as the feminine expression of Jupitarian nous (mind) or master-plan. Part of that plan (the glyph system) involves the androgenation of femininity away from Venusian sexual attraction toward a sex-neutral, or androgenic phenotype more fit for longevity. The feminine asteroids all operate from the lower hemisphere signs that are developmentally orientated to early stages of individual development and sexual reproduction. They are associated with femininity, with 0} Cancer as the lower-hemispheric mid- point and feminine base of the individual r-p longevity axis. Although Cancer is considered feminine the glyph for Cancer as interpreted here is two quiescent male germ cells. The implication is that there are special longevity benefits in the male reproductive system. The upper hemisphere of social signs midpoint is at 0}p on the masculine end of the longevity axis, a point associated with Uranus and reproductive development silencing and the long-lived Capricorn leader figure. Pallas Athena’s diamond, encapsulates the collective-minds plan for personal longevity and hemispheric peace. The mythic personality of Athena describes the effect on femininity, of that plans transformation of the feminine individual. On the surface it may seem like capitulation to masculinity, with loss of intimacy and femininity, but in reality, activation of the biologic laws governing longevity and reproductive development will transform subservient motherhood into a new non-sexual woman, with more powerful and pleasurable attributes, due in part to activation of ancient longevity/survival genes, (specifically the sirtuin family of genes SIRT1-7 and Daf16-FOXO genes. They may positively alters psychologic as well as physiologic effects, including longevity and euphoria. Babies will still get born and be raised but on a different schedule and curriculum, shared by child and mother, as wise educator of the young, a traditional Gemini function. Pallas Athena would rule Gemini from the base of the wheel at the Gemini/Cancer cusp, showing Athena as the guide and anchor of her child, coming from the base of the longevity axis, 0}r. Athena is the feminine counterpart to masculine Uranus at the opposite pole of the r-p longevity axis. Here, Uranus rules Sagittarius from the top of the wheel coming from the Sagittarian side of the cusp. Both Uranus and Athena share dedication to sexual silencing/quiescence for the sake of maximum growth and longevity. The scientific/philosophical master-plan described in the astrology glyph system, is repeated and minimalized in the Athena and Uranus symbols which can be further minimized to the cardinal cross symbol, +, the most common sub symbol in the glyph system. Pallas’s babies are not her own. Like the mythic baby (Erichthonius), she adopted and raised, and her role in guiding the ancient heroes Hercules, Odysseus, Perseus and Jason, her motherhood is functional rather than genetic. J VESTA was a conditional virgin dedicated to maintaining the temple from the age of 6 until the age of 36. In the present interpretation if she had not arrested her ovulation cycle by then, she could opt-out of her virginity, marry and have a child. The symbol shows stacked Aries (soul symbols) indicating special benefits from repeated incarnations, dedicated to the goal of longevity, even in the absence of longevity success. Many techniques borrowed from sacramental religion, like bar mitzvah, communion as a special life-giving diet, dedication to physical culture seen in the Greek Olympic tradition, communal social structure, development of aegis culture, where-in the individual is exposed to elemental nature occasionally through travel, camping and pilgrimage activity. All would be combined with higher education orientated to understand the biology of aging. Vesta wins regardless of failure to arrest ovulation, by (growing?) the soul within an ideal social structure, like the structure of a college or university, where Vesta matriculates to faculty status. Vesta would be a co-ruler of Virgo, positioned at the Virgo-Libra cusp. H JUNO symbolizes childbirth either chosen or naturally selected. The reproductive symbols, x and + combine here. Rulership would seem to be Virgo, at the Virgo-Libra cusp. As a chosen-birth mother, she could practice abstinence between births. She was one of the three main Gods of Rome and the Roman empire. She was honored as the vital, fertile queen who populated the polis and ruling patrician class alike, insuring the power of the army and state, not unlike Ceres/Demeter below whose feminine fertility served the underworld and goals of the demiurge Pluto. Figure 49 athen4.jpg F DEMETER/CERES was Goddess of agriculture, especially cereal grains. The scythe symbol covers the body (t) series of signs Cancer through Aquarius. Ceres and her daughter Persephone were supportive of the power of the underworld by producing the grain basis of (Pluto’s, wealth) and the successful agricultural base of the East that generated its demographic dominance. Persephone was originally a virgin but was abducted from her circle of virgins and forced into service of the underworld as queen mother by Pluto. Perhaps in a post–imperialist world with longevity, they will liberated from the heavy-handed service demanded by Pluto. When Western Imperialism is resolved Ceres and her daughter may recapture their virginity, sequestering their sexual essence (eggs) for her own longevity at the Cancer/Gemini cusp, thus allowing a superior destiny that extends to the Aquarius/Capricorn cusp, where individual human destinies play social roles, and share collective mind attributes like omniscience, conferred by longevity. Figure 50 athen3.jpg The Aegis and Gorgoneion are symbols of protection and power, worn as a goat-skin breast plate or shield, with a scary gorgon face on it, worn by Jupiter and Athena but was portable and could be used by any entity. In this interpretation, the aegis/gorgoneiom, is the sum of a complex of environmental and behavioral antecedents that can activate the primitive longevity/survival genes, (summarized as Sirt1-7 and Daf-16 FOXO gene overexpression). When activated they turn on alternative gene-sets, that qualitatively make the organism more fit and active, both physiologically and psychologically, thus conferring protection by transforming the being into a more-fit leader/competitor in all endeavors, mental and physical. Etymologically, the word Aegis in Greek means “violent windstorm”, “I rush or move violently” akin to hurricane. Significantly, one of the most observed characteristics of sirtuin SIRT1 gene over-activation at the organismal level, is the Increased Physical Activity, (IPA) phenotype, seen in calorie restricted animals, sometimes interpreted as a foraging instinct, but may be associated with hyper-kinetic states in general, for example, sperm hyper-motility, or the increased kinetics of metastasizing cancer cells. The organismal range of downstream genes controlled by Sirt1-7 overexpression is among the largest of all the recently identified survival-genes and the target of much current drug development. The growing list of downstream genes, includes genes controlling metabolism, cellular stress resistance, control of cellular apoptosis, autophagy, inflammation, cell proliferation, genomic stability and many more that affect most diseases and longevity. The goat of Capricorn that morphs into a fish tail is emblematic of loss of that epigenetic (added) protection into weakness and death symbolized by Pisces. The scary gorgon face is perhaps the ugliness/horror-factor used by species in stressful environmental niches to repress/delay reproduction and thus increase the above longevity/survival genes by the route of sexual development delay, repression. The molecular mechanisms involved in the survival genes, were poorly described before the 1990’s longevity research revolution, associated with the kl conjunction in Capricorn. When the Greek hero Perseus cut off the head of the gorgon Medusa that later became the emblem of the gorgon on Athena and Jupiters shield, it represented the sequestering of a perceived gross but useful technique of sex repression, utilized in competitive environments, by many species. Species in competitive environments like Africa may select genetic traits that fashion into the face, sex-averting, warding-off signs of danger, threat, horror and repulsion, that stop the male in its tracks, as if “turning them to stone” or warding them away. Just think of the baboon, boar, or hyena, that primitive man and monkeys competed with, in a struggle that depended on “rushing like the wind” through the treetops and savanna. Perseus isolated the symbol of that ancient pathway of survival/longevity gene activation, by sex repression/delay and gave it to Jupiter, Athena, in a Greek/Roman world that had increasingly decided beauty (sexual attraction) was absolutely beneficial. When humans became the dominant species and pacified the non-African world around 10,000 BCE, beauty, and sexual attraction characteristics became the morphology gorgon Figure 51 gorgon.jpg best suited for rapid reproduction in a wider, less competitive environment. The advantage of population density in warfare added selection pressure for reproductive-genes and resultant sexual-attraction morphology. The gorgon had to go, because the race was on in the growing, bi-polar, social organism for increased reproduction and population density. The aegis/gorgoneion protection seems associated with the chthonic (earthy) groups of the north-east quadrant that includes the severe -weather steppes, Siberia, Mongolia and Eastern Russia. That Scorpio/Pluto section in the astro-geographic overlay is home to the Huns, Tartars, Mongols, and Russians that adapted to the severe cold and elemental rawness of the terrain, which carries several other stresses known to activate sirtuin genes, like food scarcity stress. Significantly, cold temperature has recently been found to activate sirtuin Sirt1 gene function by forming smaller molecular products of the gene thus increasing the Sirt1 activity by a novel low temperature dependent mechanism.(Guo 2012) Cold stress is also a feature of environment of the mountain goat, which also adapts to food scarcity, and hypoxia (low oxygen) that are known sirtuin activators. That complex of Sirt1 activators may be the molecular biology behind the goat/aegis symbolism. The goat probably evolved these sirtuin activating qualities in response to competitive pressure from carnivore predators like mountain lions, wolves and coyote that demanded the Increased Physical Activity phenotype, as the goats and sheep were chased higher up the mountains. Chronic activation of the longevity/survival genes that stand behind the aegis/gorgoneiom symbolism, will over time selectively change species genetics to favor those genes crucial for their survival, and the IPA phenotype which also carries attributed like balance on a spinning rotorod, agility, and ability to jump made it the premier survival gene in physically competitive environments. We can mimic those molecular mechanisms dietarily, in some cases and temporily induce the final result of the protection symbolized by the aegis/gorgoneiom. In Greek myth “wide tartarus” was the underworld, associated with Pluto. The inhabitants were prisoners in a type of purgatory, under dominion of Pluto. The glyph system (circa 1400 CE) introduced a radical change with new symbolism for a reincarnating soul cycle, which presents Pisces as heaven, the destination of the soul after death, not Pluto’s Scorpionic realm in Tartarus. The inhabitants of the Scorpio sector of the astro-geographic overlay were peoples used to counter early Western Imperialism movements in Roman Imperial and Catholic European crusader times. It was the hyper-active Huns, Mongols, Tartars, and Russians (considered ugly and barely human in some Western opinion), that the demiurge called upon. The sirtuin attributes of the tartarus environment may be a unrecognized factor in the famous fighting qualities of Huns, Mongols, Tartars and Russians that terrorized the Europeans but effectively countered early waves of Western Imperialism. Later the Russians may have benefitted from the same stressful effects of the cold environment, and food scarcity frequent in Soviet and Tsarist times. Regulating population growth: QUEEN POST = the work of the practicing demi-godesses, G F H J Figure 52 A4.jpg Queen-post in architecture are structural elements in a roof truss; half-way distant from the base (tie-beam) to the top, cf. king post. The Virgin Queens, GFHJ role in a sex-repressed World, supports and regulates the steady growth of the longevity-phenotype by choosing births, timed by the 18 year lunar node cycle (Soros cycle). The lower hemisphere of signs in the family/clan SE quadrant, is the domain of reproduction, that the asteroid goddesses are concerned with and potentially control, thus giving the liberated woman a powerful social role by her conscious directing of the reproduction, and education of the longer-lived political class members. They are the nexus Figure 53 mutefam.jpg of a new familial aristocracy, defined by obvious virtues associated with longevity control. Crowding: When some organisms like the soil-worm nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans are grown in a laboratory glass petri–dish, they reproduce to fill the surface of the dish and then stop normal reproduction. They switch to an alternative phenotype call a dauer, which is a semi-dormant, quiescent long-lived animal characterized by activation of longevity-survival genes, slow growth and low reproduction rates. We humans have almost filled our petri-dish (the World) and are beginning to produce the counterpart to the nematode dauer, only at a more sophisticated level. The woman liberation movement and homosexuality in general may be expressions of a switch to a non-reproductive phenotype in response to crowding of the World, while the need for humanistic solutions to population build-out is prompting rational approaches to growth control that may include longevity, as suggested in the glyph symbolism. The male-like Athena may be the new model of womanhood as women gain control of their reproductive destiny, in a world where Venus is increasingly inverted ›, thus liberating a more fit, self-orientated woman. The andro-like face of Athena may be a moderate reversion to the gorgon principle that results in sex-repression and activation of survival/longevity genes, only without the more severe terror and fear attributes found in competitive natural environments like the African jungle. h The Jupiter symbol, like Aquarius is a symbol of the democratic function of the collective mind, where the psychic inputs from all incarnate souls potentially find common ideational agreement. It is the number one (1) superimposed on the number (2), producing a cardinal cross with the ascendant emphasized (manifesting something). Jupiter shows both halves of the collective mind ideally agreeing in the formation of the long-lived individual. That becomes symbolic of maximum agreement of otherwise separable and contentious mindsets. The ascendant can be seen as a point of manifestation, on virtually any level (person, place, thing, idea). Collective mental synergism potentially manifest materially as luck, fortune and increase that Jupiter is noted for. 1+2 = 4 with Jupiter and not 3. The added bonus is the network formed as a larger system. Jupiter functions like a supervisor of elections and does not intervene one way or the other, however the number two represents the Eastern demographic majority, coming from the body-side of the astro-geographic overlay giving ideational bias toward t, body-centric goals. The demiurge (public-worker) psychology of Pluto/Scorpio encapsulates that ideational bias, backed by the psychic votingpower of the eastern masses. Jupiter/Zeus, in Greek mythology was given credit as the planning mind (nous) that is always stronger than that of man. That plan is often concealed but Zeus has his goal and will achieve it. In the present interpretation Pluto is given credit for being the dominant (urge) directing the democratic collective-mind symbolized by Jupiter. The Jupiter symbol, forms a cardinal cross that both hemispheres can get together on. In theory mass-longevity may eventually lead to a more balanced E/W demographic. j Traditionally, Saturn shows where you are ambitious, and where you will want to make something solid in the world. Whereas Jupiter is the planet of expansion and increase, Saturn is the planet of contraction and limitations, obstacles, frustrations but also of discipline, concentration and order. The symbol is of a cardinal cross on top of a broken Leo (body symbol) symbolizing the limitation of normal lifespan (death). The Leo or body symbol is cut on the South Node leg of a general nodal symbol. Saturn, j, like Uranus, k, has a cardinalcross, destiny-symbol that is on the top and not subordinate to other sub-symbols, showing an independent leading destiny, but in Saturn’s symbol the body below the cross appears vulnerable to normal lifespan. Figure 54 sat.jpg, satjup.jpg, satjup1.jpg, satjup2.jpg The cross is cutting down on the general nodal symbol at about 120 degrees from 0º Libra, when the lunar nodes are positioned on the Aries –Libra axis at birth. That positioning would align the weakest area of the general nodal symbol, (where the cardinal cross cuts the nodal/body symbol) with the most fortunate degree of the Zodiac, 0º [, a degree where the two halves of the collective mind have the greatest tendency to interact, harmonize and agree at the level of thought. That ideational agreement translates into physical reality as luck, fortune, increase and inclusiveness that jovial Jupiter is noted for. Both Jupiter and Saturn symbolism focus on the Capricorn/Aquarius border and suggest a critical juncture where the public-person’s destiny potentially merges with the collective social destiny either optimally (a chosen planned birth) or a naturally selected birth, subject to the cross-currents of an unsettled collective consciousness that is as yet unresolved. Interestingly, the two symbols (h,j) are interchangeable when rotated 90} and mirrored, suggesting the possible redemption of a limiting death symbol, j to one of harmony and increase, h. For the individual it is the point where the mortal-human begins to take on collective-mind attributes, like omniscience, conferred by longevity. In that sense Jupiter and Saturn are intermediate social planets, linking individual destiny with collective destiny. Figure 55 uran1e.jpg The symbol of Uranus is an upside down or inverted Venus symbol between the two sides of a Pisces symbol showing the overthrow and supression of the Venus principle of reproduction in favor of the individuals destiny, whose Cardinal cross (destiny symbol) is now on top of the World symbol. It is the only symbol where the cardinal cross symbol () is on top of the world symbol (). Interestingly the inverted Venus is the same as the Christian redeemer/monarchy symbol, ›. Figure 56 urancan.jpg It may seem like a radical idea that reproductive development regulates the rate of senescence (death) but among scientist studying the causes of aging, the connections between the two have been proposed since the mid-19th century, and evidence has multiplied in recent decades. This interpretation of Uranus is in agreement with that of Cancer, r where the symbol is of quiescent (silent and non-growing) germ-line and somatic stem cell pools, after maturity/puberty, symbolizing arrested sexual development with resultant longevity. The k,r symbols are located at the top and bottom of the growth/longevity axis that divides the two hemispheres of the natural zodiac, indicating the importance of the long-lived human in the resolution of East-West antagonism. The present interpretation of Uranus and its rulership of Sagittarius, from the top of the wheel, from the Sagittarian side are new ideas, but logical and agree with the Greek mythology of a contest for rulership of the planetary World between Saturn and Uranus, with Uranus being the original father and ruler of all the Gods. It was only when he was castrated by Saturn that he lost his rulership. He will regain his former rulership when he learns to harness his sexual potential for himself or herself. Uranus is rescued by a scientific understanding of longevity which is the domain of Sagittarius (knowledge system synthesis and higher education). People with Uranus strong in their charts are noted for their eccentricity, and independence. That may derive from its symbolic ideal position between the antagonistic hemispheres. A neutral top-down psychology may produce eccentricity and independence, relative to the local prejudiced geography they are born into. Figure 57 neptune.jpg In the trident symbol for Neptune, the three arrows of the trident are pointing up to heaven symbolizing the inherent dangers and difficulties involved in the reincarnation process. The bottom of the arrows are connected to a South node symbol which is associated with the second half and end of an individual lifespan. That symbolism is similar to Pluto, ;, only with Pluto it is the physical World that is being nurtured and protected by the Moon. With Neptune, the emotional tie is with the bliss of Heaven, and the developmental stage of soul maturity. The cardinal cross (destiny symbol) is here subordinated to the many trials of the repetitive life/death, reincarnation cycle, that make it a tough old life. Alternatively, in a planned birth, the Lunar South Node is positioned at the end of the sign Pisces, on the Aries/Libra axis, thus associating the vanishing point of an incarnate body (Q) with the last degree before a new reincarnational cycle begins (the Pisces/Aries border), suggesting a mature soul living its maximum lifespan, while minimizing reincarnation cycles. That would be the ideal situation for the developmentally mature soul trying to avoid the pitfalls of reincarnation. The arrow points of Neptune l, Mars g, Scorpio i, and Sagittarius o are squares (90º) or semi-squares (45º) and are directional symbols, but also symbols of danger. Aspects are angles between planets or other astrological factors. Squares and semi squares are member of the hard, octave (8th harmonic) aspects (the circle, 360º) divided by 8 = 45º (m) or multiples of 45º. For example 0 º (z), 90º (c), 135 º (<), 180 º (x) considered by astrologers to be the most difficult aspects, where the factors are sometimes at cross-purposes, in opposition, or incongruent in psychology. They are the foundational aspects in horoscopes that impel action and resolution of the factors involved. The best thing that can be said about Neptune is that because heaven is an ideal, pleasurable, even blissful place for the soul, the psychology encouraged by Neptune also tries to imitate, or simulate the ideal in the areas of life indicated by its house position, sign, and aspects. When Neptune is strong in the horoscope the person will try to create the ideal in their lives, in their relationships, and in their environment. The person will have talent in those things that are ideal or fanciful by nature like music, art, films, photography, dance, and be attracted to Neptunian environments (places with lots of water, or natural beauty). They may also be attracted to idealized utopian social arrangements like communes, religious groups, and cults. There is a danger in that some of these groups may have an excessive proheaven psychology that manifest in self-destructive, suicidal behavior when the group is under stress. Examples are the Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide, and mass suicides in Waco, Texas and Los Angeles, California by Christian cult groups. This points to the need for understanding this intuitive, non-intellectual sign/planet ]/l intellectually with Astrology. The USA is situated in the Pisces sector of the astro-geographic overlay, which ads a scary dimension to their Imperialism, in that an astrological understanding of their situation remains suppressed, thus setting themselves up for a Piscean style tragedy at the end of the Piscean age. They may end up being the cosmic poster-child for how not to do Pisces at the end of polarity-resolution, in a nuclear-armed world. Individually, the worst thing that can be said about ]/l psychology is that the person will be so overcome by the pro-heaven psychology, that there life will be ruined by a subconscious death wish that manifest in self destructive behaviors like alcoholism or drug addiction. It is behavior that tries to simulate the altered state of consciousness, bliss, and isolation of heaven. They can also be susceptible to escapism and isolation where the person becomes a street person, vagabond or recluse, thus imitating the isolating and non-social pattern of heaven. In heaven ever soul is part of a host of souls but there is no social structure or intellectual communication, like on earth. Aries (the beginning of the evolutionary trail) and Pisces (the end of the evolutionary trail) share some characteristics. The social anarchism that the lower animal species have to live with, is still present in Pisces but because the souls in heaven have no bodies, there is no violent struggle for survival, like there is in nature. The combination of factors; no social intercourse, no intellectual life, and no bodies combine to make the Pisces/Neptune psychology unsuitable and frequently at odds with the needs of earth based incarnated souls. Life on earth functions best with strong personal support, social structure, intellectual development and communication. Neptune is not a bad planetary influence but it must be understood intellectually, and controlled. We want bliss, but on earth and in a body please. Heaven can be a trap for the mature soul and should be avoided, as you don’t want to be there during eventual, dangerous, planetary-engineering involving the Earth. You don’t want to be behind the 8-ball, as they say in the game of pool, see picture p. 44. The collective mind needs long-lived leaders to manage the Earth, so it becomes personally advantageous to make ourselves part of the forefront and not the rear of collective destiny. In the symbol of the planet Pluto you find the symbol for the world in a cup-like Moon symbol over a Cardinal cross , symbolizing the primacy of society or the world at large over the individual’s destiny. The Moon symbol is protecting and nurturing the material world and the individual's destiny is subordinate to that goal, but ideally as a chosen birth, also maximally supportive of that goal. Figure 58 globe4.jpg This is Mother Earth protecting her offspring's material world. It is an appropriate socialistic symbol, wherein the goals of the social organism are primary. The requirement for World unity ( political and material) for survival in a threatening Universe, seems obvious. Pluto has been likened to Kali, The Hindu God of War, and it’s Buddhist counterpart, Yama, God of death and the underworld. The terrifying Kali, who has skulls and body parts attached to his-her belt and wrist, dances on the unregenerate body of mankind through warfare, indicating that “fear of the Lord” is about awareness of underlying political and socialpsychological forces that drive international war, and the wisdom to fear/respect that collective process, especially in the nuclear period when nuclear war can mean soulannihilation and mass damnation. Multi-national organizations with similar symbolism: Figure 59 un.jpg United Nations symbol Figure 60 cis1.jpg CIS symbol, Confederation of Independent States Figure 61SovUn.jpg Soviet Union symbol Pluto downgrade: Many Astronomers and astrologers do not share the rational for the International Astronomical Union demoting Pluto to non- planet status. Pluto is still regarded as the most important planet in political astrology charts because of its affinity with Scorpio, and by transit in all charts. Dr Alan Stern, who leads the USA NASA space agency's New Horizons mission to Pluto called the action sloppy science and wrote the following in rebuttal to the decision: "One of the three new criteria for planethood states that a planet must have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Pluto was disqualified because its highly elliptical orbit overlaps with that of Neptune.” Dr. Stern pointed out that “Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have also not fully cleared their orbital zones. Earth orbits with 10,000 near-Earth asteroids. Jupiter, meanwhile, is accompanied by 100,000 Trojan asteroids on its orbital path. And If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn't be there," Furthermore the discovery of Eris in 2005, a small planet on the edge of the solar system that is more than twice the distance from the Sun as Pluto at aphelion, was at first thought to be larger than Pluto and its discovery started the drive to redefine a planet and demote Pluto as a planet. It has, since 2010, been found to be the same size or smaller than Pluto, which has 5 satellite moons including a very large one named Charon. It is interesting that Eris was named for the Greek goddess who was the personification of chaos, strife and discord. Eris caused a quarrel among the goddesses that led to the Trojan Wars, in Greek mythology. Astrology is necessary to understand social psychology and Western Imperialism, which may be why Pluto is being demoted now. The downgrading of this key astrological factor may be just another kick in the long-running Astrology repression in the West running through the whole 2000 year period of Western Imperialism, starting with the Roman Empire. The historically powerful Roman Catholic church repressed astronomy and astrology and science in general, rightly seeing them as threats to their non-evolutionary theology. The academic community, influenced by the churches that supported them, took up the baton and forbid astrology study in the cannon of subjects allowed to be studied in universities, claiming it to be divinatory pseudoscience, when in fact it was neither intrinsically divinatory (seeking knowledge from the spirit world), or unscientific. Horoscopy has always tried to be scientifically exact, and included many famous scientists at every stage of development. The real problem is the conspiracy of Western Imperialism, with an agenda incompatible with astrologic knowledge, that when interpreted correctly, reveals the mechanics of hemispheric antagonism and reveals a strategy for its peaceful resolution, without the spiritual regime-change sought by Western Imperialism. The discovery of the outer planets seem to correlate with the historical periods surrounding their discovery. The discovery of k in 1781, l in 1846, and ; in 1930 correlates with the beginning of the maturity stage of social development wherein the World (structured on the nation-state model) struggled through increasingly violent global wars as military technology matured. That violent period was checked at its potentially destructive peak in 1990 with the voluntary, peaceful dismemberment of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact military alliance, with Russia retreating to its historic boundaries, roughly along the East West divide, 30} E. All surrounding nations were allowed independence and the nuclear arsenal was brought within Russian borders. Those maneuvers halted the Cold War at nuclear parity between the most lethal super-power states, Russia and the United States, but the threat of instant annihilation for most of the World was apparently not resolvable. The discovery of the outer planets correlated with the advent of superlative archetypical ideas that can only fully manifest at the social level, when the World organism reaches developmental maturity. k The discovery of Uranus in 1781 correlated with creation of the USA federal democracy. It was the first multi-state democratic constitution with bill of human rights. It was an amendable document with three independent branches of government, legislative judicial and executive. The previously planned, loose confederation of independent states had proved anarchic and unworkable. A centralized federal system with sovereignty over the states replaced it in the final constitution. It has endured the test of civil war and a long and continuing struggle to expand the vote to all citizens including slaves and women. It became a model for modified democratic constitutions for 230 years. Democracy has proved to be the saving principal for peaceful political change. The challenge for the nation (USA) that introduced perfectible democracy is to make their democratic federal model work at the World level. While democracy has no apparent basis in nature it agrees with the astrological symbolism of Aquarius that describes a functionally-democratic collective mind. l The second outer planet to be discovered was Neptune in 1846, synchronous with its entry into its home sign of Pisces (5-1847 to 2-1862). As Neptune and Pisces both symbolize heaven and the last stage of soul development, they generate a psychology of completion, the finished product, the superlative and ideal in all things. The urge to purify the social organism of contradictions and error is brought to the fore. Demands for redemption of recognized goals and aspirations become insistent. In 1848 the other two outer- planets, Uranus and Pluto were conjunct in Aries, (exact in 1850-51) thus adding revolutionary fire to the idealistic urge for reform. Uranus and Pluto were conjunct next in 1965-66, which should give most readers who lived through the early sixties a feel for the political mood and turmoil that combination (k;) can produce. In 1848 the USA constitution talked freedom, and political equality but the reality was expanding slavery and women without rights. The resolution of slavery and serfdom was a world-wide movement at this time, but was especially cathartic in the USA which had over 4 million slaves, with the lower South’s population nearly half slave, and a quater of all families owning slaves. The insistence for containment of the slavery institution by abolitionist in the North, brought on the civil war and ended with the South’s defeat. Slaves were freed in the South in 1-1863, and slavery outlawed in 3-1865 thus partially redeeming the USA constitution’s lofty mandate for freedom and equality under the law for all citizens. 1848 was a period of revolts throughout Europe wherein monarchies were overthrown and forced to accept liberal constitutions, labor, and other reforms. These reforms were only partially successful, with a subsequent reactionary backlash. For example the ex-slaves in America were oppressed and politically disempowered by reactionary state laws for another hundred years. Similarly the Great Reforms initiated by Czar Alexander I designed to emancipate the serfs and empower local governments was complicated, conditional, and underfunded. Individual serfs could not own land, except as members of peasant communes and villages, which bought land from the previous owners (gentry) that had to be paid over many decades leaving the serfs as dependent and impoverished as before. Separately, Marx and Engles published the Communist Manifesto in 1848 beginning the debate on capitalism vs. socialism in a world with increasing populations, urbanization and industrialization. The dynamics of economic evolution from capitalism to idealistic socialism were postulated with a proposed plan to achieve the end goal of non-militant communism, through organization and empowerment of the proletariat (workers) class. The same spirit of 1848 is now returning, with Neptune again in Pisces from 2-2011 through 2-2026. The Neptune in Pisces desire for the finished ideal in the social organism will again motivate reform, spurred on by its position between k and ;. The biggest issues now seem more international. They are issues like nuclear security, global warming and sustainable development. Like before in 1848, Neptune’s transit of its home sign will strongly affect the USA because it is the most Piscean nation (see astro-geographic overlay diagram p.118, and because the USA is currently the most powerful and probably the last leader of Western Imperialism. Whether Americans are conscious enough to own their imperialism is in doubt. They beat slavery in the last Neptune in Pisces transit, but Western Imperialism is a much bigger foe than slavery. The power of Western Imperialism may be too strong and too pervasive a multi-nation psychological phenomena, for any one nation to buck. In the authors opinion, the intolerable level of nuclear first-strike readiness will be confronted in a crisis, during the current Neptune in Pisces transit, ending in 2024 but not lead to final resolution of Western Imperialism. Every major outer planet cycle or conjunction between the outer three planets, brings progressive changes that reflect the stage of social and scientific development. Arch concepts and core psychology of the outer planets are relatively simple but also manifest in a myriad of lesser expressions. For instance Neptune’s discovery in 1846 and entry into its home sign in 1848, saw increased interest in psychic phenomena, hypnotism, séances, spiritualism, mysticism, spiritual philosophies, and discovery of anesthetic drugs that allowed painless surgery like nitrous oxide (1844), ether (1846), and chloroform in 1848. The first scientific efforts to study those elusive soul-centered subjects symbolized by Pisces and Neptune were initiated.(Moore 1971) ; Pluto’s discovery in 1930 correlated with the USA stock market crash and beginning of the Great Depression in the USA and world-wide. The severity of the depression in the USA led to socialistic solutions like Social Security and public works programs. WWII finally ended the depression. In the Soviet Union, the only socialist state, centralized planning, through cyclic ―Five year plans started in 1928, was making progress transforming the backward agricultural economy and society into one educated, industrialized, and urbanized. Unfortunately civil war, foreign intervention, WWII and the Cold War dictated the constant distortion of planning to military ends. Pluto’s discovery in 1930 coincided with the huge rise in World population in the 20th century and the popularity of socialism to deal with mass population needs, development and economic depressions. Importantly the conjunction of Neptune and Pluto in 1891-92 (a once every 500 year cycle) coincided with an explosion of inventions that made mass urbanization and industrial production possible. Those were inventions like electricity, combustion engines, and steel production. The l; conjunction in 1891-92 occurred between the discovery of l in 1846 and ; in 1930. It started a new 500 year cycle of social development characterized by mass populations and technological/scientific maturity. The 500 year conjunction cycle of l; is the longest and arguably the most important in terms of punctuating World political developments. The effect of that historic 1891 conjunction relate strongly to idealistic socialism, and other Scorpio/Pluto aspects of dealing with mass population dynamics. The timing of the l; conjunction was synchronous with the rise of mass populations, large scale industrialization and socialism. Vladimir Ilyich Ulinov (Lenin), leader of the Russian Bolshevik party was a Marxist who formulated his vision of Russian and World communism during the 1890’s. His ideas and the world-wide socialist movement was probably strongly influences by that historic conjunction of ;l that can symbolize ideal socialism, when viewed in the context of mass population economics. His writings during the 1890’s and after reflect that faith in socialist idealism but the historical reality of the 20th century was two world wars and the cold war, which necessitated the adoption of strict communist forms of government by Russia, China and other Eastern hemisphere states as the most efficient form of government, from a military perspective, while the lofty ideology of an egalitarian just World inspired the emotional heart of the communist and socialist movements. The previous monarchies and their backward agricultural societies were no longer capable to counter the new waves of a hyperactive Western Imperialism, which was supported by Western industrial/military superiority that developed in the 19th century. The situation was dire by 1917 when the Tsar abdicated and Russia searched for a solution to their military decline, first noticed with defeats in the Crimean War of 1854, the short disastrous war with Japan in 1905 and finally the near-defeat in World War I by the Germans. Most Russian socialist wanted a liberal parliamentary democracy but it was almost inevitable that a single-minded Scorpionic military regime capable of marshalling the entire population on a military model would prevail due to the enormity of the threat, the size of the task and duration of the struggle that was coming. The military attributes of the Scorpio/Pluto psychology (cohesion of group effort, focus on power, unitary structure and secrecy) is what Soviet Power brought to the struggle to confront a resurgent Western Imperialism. While often raw and brutal in execution, the success of that strategy seems to validate its correctness for the situation. Western Imperialism was checked by the end of the 20th century, and the next phase of resolving Wewstern Imperialism, was transitioned into peacefully, with the ending of the Cold War. However the question of the relative desirability of socialism as an economic principal for mass populations has yet to be resolved, or given a proper test free of Western Imperialism interference. Political (mundane) Astrology The outer three planets k,l, and ; affect group psychology much more than the fast moving inner planets (asdfg), which are considered the personal planets. Similarly the upper half of the natural zodiac (Libra through Pisces) is considered the public or social half of the zodiac, while the signs in the lower half are personal or familial in orientation. So the outer three social planets and last six signs are the most pertinent signs and planets in political horoscopes and by Figure 62 transit in political horoscopes. In agreement with that idea, the outer planets muteup.jpg rule only signs in the upper half of the natural zodiac (;/i, k/o, l/]). In between the inner and outer planets are Saturn and Jupiter whose symbolism describes socially-orientated individuals who interact with the collective-organism in leadership roles, which makes them social when acting correctly (in-character). They rule Capricorn and Aquarius respectively. Outer Planet Conjunctions: The interplay of the outer planets by conjunction (0º), among themselves, time maximum increased social development progress, by exagerating psychological arch-concepts symbolized by the pairs involved. The particular psychology comes to the fore of social consciousness for relatively long periods of time. These slow moving outer-planet conjunctions can be in orb (an arbitrary range of effect and influence surrounding exactness, 0 º) for decades. Less than 10º is considered moderate for conjunction aspects while greater than10º apart is considered wide. While only conjunctions are discussed here, the other octave aspects (those based on 45}) are considered as similar but less powerful unfoldment stages between the conjunctions which start new cycles. See USA chart p. 89 for example, and Jenkins9 for extensive historical examples. Physical needs of the developing organism, within the framework of extant physical conditions drives history. The inter-planetary patterns only organize the timing of resolution of those emerging needs. Timing is accomplished by temporarily exaggerating the particular psychology associated with the planets in the aspect pattern. kl; Uranus Neptune and Pluto conjunctions: This is arguably, the most important planetary configuration that can form in our solar system, as it brings together a complete psychological trinity of the three social (outer) planets, prompting over-arching philosophical ideas that integrate the two main tracks of developmental perfection. 1. Social developmental perfection as symbolized by Neptune/Pluto conjunctions and 2. Individual developmental perfection as symbolized by Neptune /Uranus conjunctions. Corrections to philosophical systems that appear realizable to the collective mind are made at that time. Countries and peoples in a psychological position (astro-geographically speaking), to actualize the newly conceived goals, self organize under the conscious prompting of the bi-polar collective mind. Figure 63 chartC5.gif Longevity science matures. Renaissance inconabula “cradle period” of first printed scientific books. Glyph system appears. Hellenistic science revolution. Tropical zodiac astrology conceived. Individual goals (maximum growth and longevity) kl, and social goals (unity and World survival) l;, converge at start and end points of the kl; conjunction cycles, thus periodically synchronizing the main complimentary, but separable developmental pathways of individual and collective perfection. Figure 64 chartC4.gif Figure 65 chartC1.gif The earliest kl; conjunction cycle considered here, occurred about 9500 BCE-5036 BCE in Scorpio with the following l; conjunction series, (every 500 years) covering iop and correlates with the last period of hunter/gathering cultures that had migrated out of Africa to all continents, reaching South America around 10,000 BCE . Current ephemerides are limited to about five thousand years plus/minus 0 CE. They hunted to extinction scores of the largest species on the earth, mostly mammal herbivores like giant ground sloths, glyptodonts, wooly mammoth, wooly rhino, giant elk, moa, kangaroo, camels, horses and elephant-like proboscideans, thus negatively altering the vegetative and faunal ecology worldwide, leaving degraded biomes like tundra and deserts, that resulted from destroyed complex symbiotic plant-animal relationships, now missing their large animal herbivore anchoring-partners. That whole historic period largely agrees with the psychology of iop, in that (i = tribe/clan as goal-orientated social units, o = extreme foreign exploration, p = domination of environment). The next kl; conjunction occurred in 5036 BCE -575 BCE. Starting in early Aquarius, sign of the bi-polar collective mind. Within that cycle, l; conjunctions were in []qw, It contained the first expressions of humans as trans-famial nations centered mostly on river systems in Mesopotamia, China and Egypt. The rise of Egyptian civilization grew out of one of the most auspicious of the settled agricultural cultures that succeeded the hunter-gathering domination of the animal world around 10,000 BCE. The immensely fertile Nile river valley and delta was geographically well positioned at the juncture of ancient African migration routes into Asia and Europe. The fertility of the delta and defense attributes of surrounding deserts made Egypt an ideal spot for trans-famial social-development. Egyptian Pharaonic civilization began about the midpoint of the 4500 year l; conjunction series (at about 2806 BCE). That date is between the founding of the first Egyptian Pharaonic dynasty (Menes I) around 3000 BC, at Memphis, Egypt and the construction of the great pyramid at Giza around 2561 BC. Those events are close to l; conjunctions (see p. 62) at those dates in late Pisces (sign of the afterlife), and early Aries, sign of the reincarnating soul. This was a spiritually orientated cycle, influenced by an afterlife/soul orientation indicated by the sign background of the l; conjunctions during the long and stable Pharaonic era. It produced stable dynastic regimes, philosophically dedicated to the afterlife of deified pharaohs, animals, and other gods. Memphis and Giza are located close to 30}Nx30}E the proposed geographic center point of the astro-geographic overlay. That latitude was also used to determine the start of the Egyptian calendar year timed with the annual Nile flood and heliacal rising of the brightest star, Sirius, at that latitude. Memphis, located at the start of the Nile delta united a mildly-contentious upper and lower Egypt. One of its names was kingdom of the two lands. Its first name was “fortress of the white walls” suggesting a race divide between delta and southern Egypt, however domination by northern Egypt, from that time forward was overwhelming and N/S hemispheric antagonism was not a strong factor. The Egyptian pharaohs had no competitive East/West neighbors until the end of the 4500 year cycle (around1650 BCE) when foreign regimes from Mesopotamia, including Assyria and Persia repeatedly invaded, and were repeatedly expelled; such was the strength of the Pharaonic culture and delta economy. It finally succumbed to Persian domination in525 BCE, about the end of the kl; period that had begun in 5036 BCE. That period was largely devoid of hemispheric antagonism due to poor nation development, although consolidation of power in Mesopotamia and China was culminating in larger multi-region states. The kl; 5036 BCE conjunction in 9} Aquarius focused the collective mind on trans-famial social creations. The social developmental stage in 5036 BCE relative to Western Imperialism was benign with no E/W nationalistic competition. The kl; triple conjunction in Aquarius psychologically stimulated the collective mind to conceive social structures beyond the tribe level. Ptah, The Gods of Pharaonic Egypt may give us rudimentary insight into how the collective mind works. Ptah wa a principal god of Egypt that has been described as the demiurge of Egypt, a public-worker God who conceives as an architect or planner, but a planner who is limited by extant knowledge. Ptah was described as “the God who listens to men” and ears were sometimes carved into stella and temple walls. It suggest that the collective-mind learns from new data and increasingly depends on human discovery to extend its knowledge base, similar to individuals. In other words the collective mind is not omniscient; it learns. The difference is that the collective mind doesn’t forget everything through reincarnating, so it knows much more than any individual. The large-scale social-creations of Pharaonic Egypt may be the earliest expression of collective mind social planning and pre–cosmologic selfdescription. Systematic astronomy was unknown until the Babylonians initiated record keeping of astronomical phenomena at the end of this kl; 4500 year period, that was initiated in 9} Aquarius and mostly covered a l; series of conjunctions in soul orientated signs Pisces and Aries, plus 10} into Taurus. Ptah, was worshiped in the main temple at the center of Memphis and many other cities and shrines. Ptah was the demiurge, who molded the world through thought and by means of the word/logos, brings his thought into reality, in this case through the agency of the priesthood class and craftsmen who designed and built the huge public projects that collectively made a highly functional culture, but one limited philosophically by social developmental immaturity and the orientation of the period toward the most difficult to understand aspects of reality; the structure of the spirit-world and the souls life. The very name Egypt derives from the name of Ptah’s temple in Memphis as the home of the soul of Ptah, implying that the location or geography of the temple in Memphis was considered important. That is similar to the astrogeographic overlay diagram, proposed here, where the same approximate geographical location is considered the center point of the collective mind. The next (current) kl; conjunction cycle occurred in 575 BCE to 3733 CE. That (current) kl; triple conjunction period began at the dawn of written history in 575 BCE in the sign Taurus, the sign of local geography and material circumstances, making the astrogeographical overlay useful in understanding why, very different philosophies were chosen in China (the East), the Hellenistic Middle East and the Roman West). The history of that early time period was characterized by formation of the major (religious and secular) philosophical systems that came to underpin Eastern and Western political regimes. Broadly speaking there were three distinct philosophical trends that developed in the East, Middle East (30ºE), and West in the 500 or so years that followed the 577 BCE kl; conjunction. Figure 66 cosmo.gif China was the largest civilization in the East and was entering a period of consolidation of large warring kingdoms into a unitary empire that would endure through successive dynasties until 1911. If we accept that China falls under the yui sectors of the overlay, (see China p.165) then it is easy to reconcile the acceptance of Legalism + Confucianism’s as the basic philosophy that China accepted. Together they reflect the humanistic governments that Figure 67 libra.jpg promoted Libran values like public safety, law and order, while maintaining militarily powerful centralized dynasties whose posture was usually defensive. Libra symbolizes the individual supported by social structures. Libra follows the family quadrant (rty) and the Libra psychology is what a society organized around the family unit needs to prosper at the trans-famial level of social organization. Scorpio on the other hand is focused less on justice among families and individuals and more on inter-state relationships, however Scorpio’s goal of political unity seems to require the perception of justice, while Libra’s goal of social stability seems to require a strong state infrastructure, thus binding Libra and Scorpio psychology. At the domestic level Taoism and Buddhism flourished, again emphasizing Libran values of harmony with nature, harmlessness and ethical behavior. Eastern, Central and Western philosophical beginnings. China The Hundred schools of thought Confucius (551-479 BCE) -0577 BCE, kl; “Period of wandering scholars” Guatama Buddha (563- 480 BCE) Lao-tzu (Taoism) (575-485 BCE) Spring and Autumn Period (770- 480 Unified China 221 BCE) BCE) Warring States Period (481-221 BCE) The Warring states period was followed by consolidation of a political philosophy that combined Confucianism with legalism. Legalism is a more severe state orientated philosophy, with Scorpionic characteristics, that ranked state power and material production as primary goals. After initial unification legalism became secondary, to a more humanistic Confucianism that would last for 2000 years, through successive dynasties. China’s geographic isolation from the West allowed it to express its astrogeographic preferences (dominantly Libra) until Western Imperialism became technologically able to intrude in the 19th century. Confucianism is an ethical code of relationship behaviors designed to peacefully regulate a just hierarchy of governance and personal relationships. Knowledge of the written Confucian code was tested for in competitive exams for public-service positions. Central philosophy at 30} East The necessary goal of World political-unification makes the collective-mind the beneficiary and motivator of the middle-ground philosophy and the few trans-hemispheric states that have arisen there. Those states like the collective mind itself are an abstract abridgement, and summary of real-politic forces rooted in polarized geography. There is no inherent middle ground. It is either East or West when filtered through bi-polar hemispheric-antagonism, so a middle ground philosophy as suggested in the glyph system is a construction of the collective-mind. Those few trans-hemispheric states that arose in Hellenistic and Byzantium Greece were failed experiments in hemispheric polarity-resolution, by political means. The Greeks were most important as the culture that developed a cosmologically-associated pantheistic-religion and the astronomical science that became tropical zodiac astrology. Later Greeks had a leading role in originating the glyph system which describes the astrology behind World politics. Their dire position at the fault line of E/W political contact from 3301453 as Greek Byzantium forced them again and again to meditate on why Ottoman Muslims and Catholic Romans could not coexist. As Greek Byzantium was pinched to nothingness in 1453, a minimalist symbol system was born in Greek minds that described their predicament astrologically. Unfortunately for the Greeks, Istanbul and the Ionian coast of Turkey is by geography 1} (53 miles/85 km.) within their natural domain (using 30} E as divider) but part of the Anatolian peninsula. That juxtaposition was a problem for Greek efforts to mediate boundaries with Turkey and formerly with Persia. Regardless of that problem, their long roles as trans-hemispheric regimes centered first at Hellenistic Alexandria and later Byzantine Constantinople gave their intelligencia unique insight into trans-hemispheric political relationships. 577 BCE was a special time astronomically, in that the sidereal and tropical zodiacs became aligned (a once every 25,920 year occurrence). That alignment in addition to the triple conjunction of kl; seems to have spurred the development of astronomy and astrology at that time. That alignment may have contributed something special when the sages of Archaic Greece (800-500 BCE) stood before their audiences throughout the Greek world and channeled the wisdom of the collective mind in unwritten oral presentations, entertainments and competitions. The creation of a cosmological philosophy built on myths and epic oralstory telling may have been aided also by the desire of the Greeks to understand the complex political tensions the seemed to flow across the Bosporus and Eastern end of the Mediterranean, which was the constant object of their attention and eastward colonizations. The Greek colonization’s around the Mediterranean, Black sea and Anatolia had already made Greece in part (trans-hemispheric) in attitude and philosophy before the -577 grand conjunction of kl; and sidereal/tropical zodiac alignment. It is significant that the founding document of Western literature and philosophy (Homer’s epic Trojan War) was a tale of East /West struggle between men and Gods that became associated with a cosmologic Olympian pantheism. Greece, 2014 Archaic Greek colonies 800 – 480 BCE Figure 68 world44.jpg, greece1.jpg In 577 BCE, the discovery of the outer planets k,l,; was 24 centuries in the future. None the less the collective mind, under the influence of this most philosophical of conjunctions began the cosmological definition of itself as a spiritual being rooted in a physical, and increasingly political World. Hesiod’s Theogony (origin of the Gods) written in poetic verse similar to the Homer’s epic, appeared in written form most definitively around this time as Greek written language consolidated and replaced oral expressions of history, philosophy and science. Written prose became the new medium, more suited for rational science, exact communication and knowledge storage. After 577 BCE, the Greek Olympian Gods became increasingly associated with the then known planets. Amazingly, the myths and life histories of the Olympian family of Gods is supportive of the psychological types attributed by later astrologers to the various planets and signs. That body of knowledge preceded the astronomical scientific revolution of the Hellenistic period (post Alexander the Great, to the fall of Ptolemaic Egypt to the Romans, (323BCE to 30BCE). The Hellenistic scientist thought most intently about rationalizing astronomy, geography and the physical world by scientific means, with astronomy receiving special focus and success. By the time that scientific revolution ended, pockets of the Greek intelligencia were well on their way to making Greek cosmologic theology a science based system, complete with tropical zodiac, heliocentric solar system understanding, and physical apparatus like planetarium, and armillary spheres. Scientific literature accumulated in libraries in Alexandria and the other major city-states. Had Hellenistic Greece been allowed to proceed on its scientific astronomical path of development, they would have developed a more robust science based system than what survived into pre-scientific Imperial Roman times. (Russo 1996) The astrology associated with Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 CE), was a remnant of the science based system that was under development before the Roman repression, as evidenced by the existence of the Antikythera mechanism, created several centuries before Claudius Ptolemy wrote. Post-Hellenistic astrologers had no glyph system to represent its core ideas as interpreted here, until the renaissance, probably because it took several waves of Western imperialism to transpire before the collective mind could fully grasp the structure of its own nature and synthesize a glyph (symbol) system capable of describing the core cosmologic inputs and processes involved. Western imperialism is a developmental stage of social-evolution of our polarized world, that is still being resolved, but the master plan of polarity antagonism resolution was arrived at in the early renaissance, circa 1400-1474 CE, synchronous with the fall of Byzantium (1453) and the relative stabilization of East/West military polarity for the next 350 years. That is until the hyperactive imperialist 19th and 20th century. Antikythera Mechanism: Hellenistic Tropical Zodiac astronomy relied heavily on soli-lunar eclipse and planetary records in the Babylonian astronomical diaries (747- 61 BCE). That information previously led to discovery of the Soros and Metonic eclipse cycles. That astronomic data was combined with Greek astronomical science and technical engineering capability to produce the Antikythera (crank-operated) analog computer around 100 BCE. It was accurate enough to satisfy most demands of an astronomer/astrologer for calculating eclipses and other astronomical data used to predict the outcome of political and military questions, not to mention non-military horoscopy. Such was the level of astrological belief among the Greek intelligencia, that it prompted the construction of the Antikythera mechanism and the science/technology that surrounded its development. The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in a Roman shipwreck in 1902, and gradually revealed it’s secretes, as scientist used x-ray and other imaging techniques to peer into the corroded devise and piece together the complex gearing mechanisms and inscriptions. It is now thought to have mechanically displayed Soros and Metonic eclipse dates and times on two dials, and lunar, solar and planetary positions on the front dial. Importantly from an astrological standpoint, the tropical zodiac, (12 equal signs) dial was used, indicating awareness of precession of the equinoxes, which was discovered by Hipparchus of Rhodes around the time of the devices construction 150-120 BCE. It is the only surviving example of the high-point of Greek astronomic technology, which disappeared in the hands of the Roman conquerors starting in 221 BCE with the plunder of Syracuse and killing of Archimedes. In the long wars that followed between Rome and the Hellenistic states whole populations were reduced to slavery in some cities, while much of the intelligencia and their books ended up in Roman villas. The decisive stage was in 146 BCE when Carthage and Corinth were razed to the ground. In the following year the Greek community of Alexandria was decimated by an indigenous revolt led by Roman sympathizer Ptolemy (Euergetes II), who persecuted and purged the Greek ruling class causing an exodus of the Greeks, and largely ended scientific activity in Alexandria. The subsequent destruction of the library at Alexandria and its larger parent institution The Musaeum, which functioned like a university, is symbolic of the overall force of Roman Imperialism and its successor, in culturally cleansing the empire of Hellenistic science and philosophy, a process that became more severe and complete under Christian Rome. The Antikythera mechanism Zodiac is believed to be tropical as opposed to sidereal. It also had a mechanism to calculate the rising degree based on fixed star risings, marked on the main dial. ΚΡIOΣ (Aries) ΤΑΥΡΟΣ (Taurus) ΔIΔΥΜΟΙ (Gemini) ΚΑΡΚIΝΟΣ (Cancer) ΛEΩΝ (Leo) ΠΑΡΘEΝΟN (Virgo) ΧΗΛΑΙ (Scorpio's Claws, i.e., Libra) ΣΚΟΡΠΙΟΣ (Scorpio) ΤΟΕΩΤΗΣ (Sagittarius) ΑIΓOΚΕΡΩΣ (Capricorn) YΔΡΟΧOΟΣ (Aquarius) IΧΘΕIΣ (Pisces) signs on inner dial rim Figure 69 antiky.jpg, antikyt.png Hellenistic Greece, a trans-hemispheric hybrid: Brief history: In 575-332 BCE the Greeks were often allies of Egypt against the Persians and long-time trading partners. The Persians occupied Egypt at the beginning of Alexander the Greats conquest. Alexander conquered much of Persia and liberated Egypt in 332 BCE. Alexander and the succeeding Greek Ptolemy dynasty were accepted as pharaohs by the Egyptians. Coastal Alexandria became the capitol of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the largest trade and culture center of the loose community of Greek dominated successor kingdoms that arose in the wake of Alexander the Greats death in 323 BCE in Babylon. The huge transhemispheric region Alexander had conquered subsequently fractured into four main subkingdoms, (Ptolemaic Egypt - dark blue, Seleucid Empire-yellow, Pergamum Kingdomorange, Greece/Macedonia green. Hellenistic kingdoms Figure 70 greece5.jpg Alexander’s body was carried from Babylon and enshrined in Alexandria. The Ptolemaic dynasty, fused with Pharaonic infrastructures and culture, through intermarriage with the priestly hierarchy. This Hellenistic regime was the last of the separate Hellenistic states to fall to the Romans in 31 BCE, although the decline covered the two centuries of the Roman intermittent conquest previous to that point. The cultural and scientific zenith that had flourish in Alexandrian Egypt and the sympathetic network of sister states and special science-orientated cities like Rhodes, Syracuse, Athens and Corinth, made the Hellenistic period, (sometimes called the Hellenistic civilization) a unique achievement in antiquity. The hard sciences like astronomy, mathematics, geography, medicine, and engineering technology made tremendous discoveries and inventions then. Cultural advances were made in city planning and higher education as demonstrated by the Alexandrian library. Those science subjects are the main ones associated with kl, that symbolizes the track of individual developmental perfection. See timeline chart p. 63. Map of the World according to Eratosthenes (circa 276-194 BCE), Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer. Both Erastothenes, and Hipparchus, the periods greatest astronomer, chose Alexandria for defining 0} longitude in their World maps.(Russo 1996) Eratosthene’s Hellenistic World centered on Alexandria 6 7 5 4 2 12 3 Lighthouse at Alexandria, 203 BCE, 31ºN12 x 29ºE53 Great Pyramid at Giza, 2560 BCE, 29ºN58' x 31ºE08' Hanging Gardens at Babylon, 580 BCE, 32ºN30' x 44ºE20' Colossus of .Rhodes, 292 BCE, 33ºN40' x 27ºE42' Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, 353 BCE, 37ºN02' x 27ºE25' Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, 550 BCE, 37ºN57' x 27ºE22' Temple of Zeus at Olympia, 472 BCE, 37ºN40' x 21ºE42' Figure 71 eristos1.jpg The Hellenistic zenith in the sciences at this time may be connected with the first entry of kl conjunctions into Gemini, (2}e in 401 BCE and 18}e in 231 BCE). Gemini is the sign of local information or knowledge. The sign e is opposite to Sagittarius (the sign of science, philosophy and higher education, the muses of ancient Greek myth. Gemini, like Sagittarius is intellectually orientated, only less universal in its access to information and therefore less complete in its conclusions. The distinction between Gemini and Sagittarius is ultimately between Earth based and outer-Earth knowledge not accessible yet. Hellenistic civilization absorbed all available local science like Babylonian astronomy records. It was an extraordinary productive and intellectually creative period perhaps aided by the synergistic trans-hemispheric network of Greek run kingdoms and cities. Pharaonic Egypt also had straddled the East/West divide but in a more restricted space, at a more primitive socialdevelopment stage. It is argued here that cooperative trans-hemispheric political and cultural entities confer on any regime a higher level of creative intelligence, produced by physical and intellectual E/W syncretism. Nowhere was that more demonstrated than at Alexandria, considered the greatest city of the known world at the time. Ptolemy I was one of the “companions of Alexander” who like Alexander had been tutored by Aristotle and shared a progressive Athenian education that was rationalistic, and scientific on many subjects. The early Ptolemy’s built and supported the first and largest public/private library, not matched until the renaissance. The dynasty supported public infrastructure projects, bathes, gymnasia, research centers, schools, collection and translation of foreign books, including the translation of the Jewish old testament into the Greek (Septuagent), by 70 Jewish scholars brought from Israel, in cooperation with the high priest of Jerusealem. (Castello 1994) The Jewish population in Alexandria was the largest outside of Israel and Greek culture was readily assimilated by the Jewish intelligencia. The many progressive innovations made Alexandria the richest scientific repository of extant knowledge and an intellectual powerhouse that unified likeminded scientist like Archimedes, Euclid, Eudoxus, Eratosthenes, Aristarchus, and Hipparchus, throughout the network of Greek ruled cities, connected by strong trade links.(Russo 1996) Interestingly the revival of that Hellenistic science, in the 15th century European renaissance coincided with the first entry of the l; series of conjunctions into the sign Gemini (2}e in 1398 CE and 9}e in 1891 CE). The l; conjunction series (associated with social development perfection) will continue in Gemini for the next 3800 years (until 5340), so understanding what Gemini relates to at the social development level is a basic theme to understand for the next 4 millenniums. The glyph master-plan, reduces symbolically in a Gemini-like structure, to the cardinal cross symbol, +, showing a central goal shared by both hemispheres, the vertical line (individual developmental perfection) plus the horizontal line, an astrological technique designed to pacify hemispheric competition, a goal incompatible with Western Imperialism, and therefore currently valued most by the Eastern hemisphere. The 1398 renaissance introduced the master plan as an intellectual tool to understand the macro reality by symbolizing as glyphs, the planetary-psychological-inputs that time developmental need fulfillment, where each glyph relates to specific aspects of a unified system. The renaissance revived the hard sciences from Hellenistic Greece and began anew to build the vocabulary of science that define local World knowledge. That will not let up until the l; series exits Gemini in 5340, but hemispheric antagonism should be resolved within the current 575 BCE-3370 CE kl; cycle, probably by the mechanism symbolized in the glyph system, individual longevity. See timeline chart p. 62. Our Geministic-world is polarized, but destined to function politically as one World. There may be addendums to our knowledge base when we meet or create other galactic neighbors, but for now, Gemini is about the intellectual understanding of our local Geministic World. The Hellenistic period was when the collective mind began to scientifically understand itself in astronomic and other rational scientific terms. The collective mind may sense the world indirectly through animal senses so its conceptual base is not infinite but tied to human investigation. Its advantage is that it doesn’t forget everything like reincarnating humans. Starting intently with the 577 BCE kl; conjunction, it planed and urged the antecedents of culture that would make the mythic muses of archaic Greece, scientifically comprehensible. The science centers and library at Alexandria plus the trans-hemispheric science network allowed the creation of the Antikythera astronomical computer, and scientific understanding of the solar system. That trajectory of a cosmologic, trans-hemispheric philosophy and science to back it up, was halted by the advent and success of Roman Imperialism, which destroyed what the collective had conceived and was attempting to actualize in the real world. Trans-hemispheric hybrids may be fragile because they have no inherent land base. Hellenistic civilization was a trans-hemispheric hybrid creation that mirrored the psychological proportionality of the extant world mind, but was perhaps naive to the astrogeographic structure and social psychological dynamics that motivated Western Imperialism. It took several waves of Western Imperialism over the following 1600 years for the collective mind to understand and work out the abbreviated glyph system which symbolically minimalizes the arch concepts of our polarized World and suggest a plan for resolution of antagonistic polarity. Roman and European Catholic crusader Imperialism set the action/reaction pattern of Western Imperialism which remains today a catastrophic threat to the naturally evolved order of Eastern hemisphere psychic dominance. What is different now in 2014 CE is that we have developed the scientific vocabulary necessary to begin to actualize the key element of the master plan, human longevity, the game-changer revolution symbolized by Uranus at the top of the wheel. l; conjunctions: When you look at the current kl; 577 BCE conjunction cycle, marked off in 500 year segments punctuated by l; conjunctions, you notice that they start in Taurus in 575 BCE and move into Gemini in 1398 CE. By that time the World had experienced two waves of Western Imperialism. Coincident with the entry of l; conjunctions into Gemini, the glyph system appeared, intellectually describing organismal development, and the problem of antagonist polarity. Subsequently three more waves of western Imperialism were experienced, with a final event still possible. Glyph Development Timeline: Post Hellenistic astrologers operated under duress. Astrology was illegal after Christianity became the Roman state religion in 380 CE (Edict of Thessalonica). Astrology progress depends largely on astronomy and when pre-scientific Imperial Rome destroyed the network of Greek science centers scattered around the Eastern Mediterranean, (centered in Alexandria) science stopped progressing. It destroyed much of what had been created by the Hellenistic civilization and postponed astronomic/astrological development until the Renaissance, when astronomy and science resumed. The resultant lack of technical proficiency in chart making was a big problem for nascent astrologers but more important was poor understanding of the meaning of the planets and zodiac signs which had not yet been reduced to glyph symbols of consensual psychological meaning, or recognized as part of a unified system. As interpreted here, the meaning of individual glyphs is largely dependent on their relationship to the overall system that firstly describes the social organism, which in Imperial Roman and Catholic European Crusader times was still a problematic riddle for the collective mind. The l;-1398 CE conjunction in Gemini (midpoint in the whole 4000 year kl;- 577 BCE cycle) brought the renaissance (rebirth) of science and importantly for the collective mind a understanding of the intractability of Western Imperialism and a strategy for its resolution over time. The overall glyph system has a central dualistic structure that defines the problem and the solution to antagonistic hemispheric polarity. Personal astrology interpretation of individual horoscopes is half-done if not understood in relation to the social-psychological structure of the collective organism. Early glyph timeline: 1150 CE, John X Kamateros, Compendium of Astrology ( Maunder 1934, George 2001, Boll 1903) Sun Venus Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn Jupiter/Zeus – small or large letter z, Z for Zeus Late Byzantine glyphs from book” Greek Horoscopes”, (Neugebauer 1959) It includes Pluti.28.34 manuscript, and chart shown below.(Laurentian Library pluti.28.34 text) See Laurentian library in index for navigation instructions. Figure 72 kama1gif, kama.gif, glyph5a.jpg Late Byzantine Glyphs, circa 1400-1453, from Pluti.28.34. Exact date of composition, and authorship is unknown. The book was acquired by Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464), and is now in The Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy, which was founded by him and holds his library. Ascendant Midheaven Descendant Imum Coelibottom of sky Figure 73 glyph 4.jpg Pre-1474 transition glyphs. Traité d'astrologie, précédé de tableaux cabalistiques, 1401-1500, anonymous, National Library of France link Grey glyphs are margin edits by a post-original owner of the book. Figure 74 cabala1.jpg, cabala4.jpg The post-original editor, also corrected the mis-orientated Lunar Node symbols. That misorientation of north and south Lunar Node symbols also occurs in the Pluti.28.34 chart on page 69. They are mis-orientated relative to what survived in the final 1474 glyph set. That correction of orientation was necessary for the Lunar nodes to make sense in the whole system as interpreted here, as organismal-development symbols, and sub-symbol parts of glyphs. The sign Leo, t, as a general nodal body symbol of a developing organism needs orientation to the top of the wheel as the apex of developmental growth and longevity, as applied to individual organisms. Pre-1474 transitional glyphs. Nomina instrumentorum astrolabii, cum ejusdem usu et practica (1401-1500), anonymous, National Library of France link The Final 1474 CE glyph set below, first appears in Regiomontanus calendar books, and ephemerides, published first in Nuremberg, Germany and shortly afterwards in Venice, Italy in 1474.(Miiler 1474, Miiler 1474a, Miiler 1474b, Miller 1476) By 1492 the Regiomontanus (Johannes Miiller) ephemerides looked modern and were accurate (Miiler 1492). These works were the apex of astronomical science at that time. Other astrological text became rich in astrologic artwork.(Albumasar 1488, Albumasar 1506) The square horoscope with the diamond in it became the standard chart form. Figure 75 alchi.jpg, alchi1.jpg alci.jpg The glyph system coalesced in post-Byzantium, 1453 CE, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks and solidification of Moscovy, Russia in the north, as bulwarks against European Eastern expansion by land, across the 30} divide. The new glyph Gemini picture system recognized East/West from Biet Alpha antagonistic polarity as a problem. The synagogue, ca. 5th symbolism of the outer planets kl;, century, Israel.(castello 1994) and asteroids, GFHJ discovered later, 1781-1930, repeated the plans central Figure 76 zodHeb1.jpg ideas and found rulership in logically probable signs. The glyphs also introduced the body/soul sub-symbol system that could be used describe developmental stages. The body symbol (t), in particular was sub-dividable into 4 node-based parts that could be used to describe organismal life-span, making statements on developmental biology possible. The cardinal cross destiny symbol became the unifying symbol of both East/West polarity-resolution and also individual biological perfection (maximum growth and longevity), thus marrying the two main goals (social and individual) in the simplest dualistic symbol possible, a cardinal cross, +. The cardinal cross, upright Gemini glyph, and Geministic polarity characterize the final 1474 glyph set, while those features are missing in the Pluti.28.34 set. It should be noted that the new glyph system introduced philosophical concepts that did not exist before the 1398 l; conjunction in e. Reincarnation and transmigration of the soul through heaven was new and radically different from the previous Greek concept of Hades and the underground ruled by Pluto. One was a place of bliss, the other a place of bondage. Also the introduction of the body symbol t, based on parts of the Lunar Node symbol, introduced the concept of developmental evolution, as opposed to static special creation by a God, as previously assumed. Amazingly the new glyph concepts do not contradict the symbolic pictographs of the zodiac constellations. They only interpret them in a new schema that recognizes developmental aspects of the evolving social and individual organism and orientates the whole scheme geographically as proposed here. New knowledge learned in the intervening two millenniums allowed a more scientific symbol system, that incorporated accumulated knowledge and the experience of a manifesting Western Imperialism. Perhaps the disappearance of (middle-ground) Byzantium in 1453 crystalized a more stark East-West conception of the World in the minds of the intelligencia of Western Europe that expressed by producing the final Regiomontanus glyph set that reflected that polarity but also interjected their core religious symbol where crosses were present in the extant Greek glyphs they inherited from Byzantium astronomer-astrologers. Oldest horoscope with glyphs, late Byzantine, circa 1400-1453 CE First symbolic horoscope, of a (literal horoscope). Photo from Pluti.28.34 (Laurentian Library pluti.28.34 text page 143, see also Houlding 2007) Figure 77 pluti.jpg Gods and demi-Gods. Using the first symbolic (glyph) horoscope, the 3rd house is labeled house of the Goddess, while the opposite house was house of the God, as transliterated below. The God and Goddess referred to by this anonymous Greek author of Pluti.28.34 is probably best interpreted as demi-gods or semi-gods, in the manner of humans that approach god-like status because of similar attributes like longevity, omniscience and obvious outstanding physical qualities. Houses 11 and 12 are labeled as good and evil-spirit houses, suggesting polarized arch-spirits, as in Persian Zoroastrianism. The chart and immature glyphs shown in Pluti 28.34 show a struggling transition from earlier, indistinct Greek pantheistic concepts to a radical new set of distinct concepts and structural organization principles, like transmigrating souls, a bipolar collective mind, and symbolic description of developmental stages. (Houlding 2007) The concept of the 3rd - 9th house demi-god formation remained valid in the final glyph system only the axis of demi-god formation shifted slightly to accentuate the vertical longevity-axis shared by both hemispheres, the er-op cusp. Figure 78Houlding.jpg, cross1.jpg The concepts shown in Pluti.28.34 are much like the astrology of Gemistus Pletho the leading Byzantine secular philosopher, who taught at Mistra in the Greek Peloponnesus. He tried to integrate Greek Olympian (pagan) religious ideas with astrology that had been rediscovered from Arabian sources like Albumasar. Zoroastrian ideas like a polarized antagonistic spiritworld and Eastern beliefs like reincarnation were also parts of the framework of Pletho’s indistinct philosophy. His summation manuscript “Book of Laws” was burned by the religious authorities after his death, although other source material from his collaborators survived. The political situation at the time of the fall of Byzantium in 1453, the year after he died, made his groups astrological output difficult to trace. Pluti.28.34 may be a remnant of that school, as Pletho was a likely conduit for Greek works being collected by Cosimo Dei Medici. Gemistus Pletho was instrumental in reviving neo-Platonianism, and pagan ideas in the renaissance at Florence, Italy. The trail of the Greek author of Pluti.28.34 disappears only to be succeeded by the sudden full glyph system in Regiomontanus printed books around 1474. Regiomontanus: There is good evidence that Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller of Konigsberg, Germany) had extensive acquaintance with most of the Greek source material of which Pluti.28.34 was a significant but by no means only part. Whether he actually read the Pluti document is unknown. Like his teacher George von Peuerbach of Austria he was a leading astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, and compiler of astronomical tables. If anyone was capable of pulling together all the disparate parts that went into constructing the new glyph system it was probably Regiomontanus. Unfortunately both men died around 40 years old; Peuerbach in 1461 and Regiomontanus in 1476 so the final sequence of glyph creation is obscure, however we know that Regiomontanus spent 4 years (after 1461) in Rome and Northern Italy renaissance centers under the guidance and patronage of Greek Catholic cardinal Basilios Bessarion, where he searched for and translated Greek astronomical and mathetical manuscripts for Bessarion, and completed the abridgement of Ptolemy’s Almagest, started by von Peurbach before his death. Cardinal Bessarion had the largest collection of Greek manuscripts in Europe (over 500), and access to libraries in Rome, Florence, Ferrara, and Venice, with extensive contacts with the brightest Greek-orientated minds in the Italian renaissance. Bessarion, like Gemestos Plethon was a neo-Platonist humanist philosopher and unionist-statesman involved in mediating the rapprochement of East and West Christianity at the council of Florence in 1438. The attempt to resolve that dilemma and create a common defense to the Ottoman Turk take-over of Byzantium failed, but Bessarion was more successful in supplying the Greek manuscripts used by Regiomontanus to synthesize the final glyph system. When the time came to start printing his astronomical calendars, ephemerides, and theoretical works on trigonometry, algebra, etc. (1472 in Nurenberg) Regiomontanus was prepared to make those simple glyph design decisions. The invention of the glyphs was demanded by his need for simple printing symbols for printing and instrument making. His whole short life seems to have prepared him to make those decisions, including the following. While in Italy he reconnected with prominent Italian mathematicians and astronomers that Puerbach had collaborated with twenty years earlier. He made a portable sundial for Pope Paul II in1465. Next he traveled to Esztergom, Hungary where he worked for archbishop Janos Vitez, calculating extensive astronomical tables and building astronomical instruments. Later he went to Buda, Hungary to the court of Matthias Corvinus where he built an astrolabe and collated Greek manuscripts. In 1471 he moved to Nuremberg, and partnered with his student and wealthy merchant Bernhard Walther to publish scientific literature starting in 1472 with Theoricae novae Planetarum by his teacher George von Peurbach. It was the first printed astronomical textbook. He was summoned to Rome in 1475 by Pope Sixtus IV to work on calendar reform, and was made titular bishop of Regensberg, Germany. He died in Rome in 1476, probably from a plague. Whether Regiomontanus had a systemic conception of the overall glyph system or a sub-symbol conception involving the Lunar Node and Aries is unknown, but may be discoverable, with complete research. His work set a new standard for accurate ephemerides, and horoscopy, including a popular house system. His books on astronomy, and trigonometry were used to determine latitude for navigation by Columbus and other New World mariners, while Nicolas Corpernicus (1473-1543) built on his work in constructing his revolutionary heliocentric theory On the Revolutions of the Celestial Sphere (1543). See Wikipedia and references there-in for the above people. INCUNABULA “cradle” period of first printed books. Mature glyph system appears in 1474, followed by many astrology/astronomy/science books. Incunabula “cradle” period of first printed books 1453-1501.Link Figure 79 icunr.jpg There appears to be parallels between the way l; conjunctions are followed-up by kl conjunctions. The l; conjunction concerns the macro socio-political changes of the social organism, while the immediately following kl conjunction shifts the focus to the sciences associated with Uranus and the vertical longevity axis. Neptune’s function is to focus Pluto and Uranus energy to their finished idealized endpoints. Gemini conjunctions shown below, brought dramatic technological changes in the way scientific knowledge was organized, communicated and distributed. It appears that the demiurgic strategy is to hyper-activate the antecedents of science that underpin the longevity phenotype, but firstly it counters ongoing military threats from the West. For the demiurge Pluto, real-politic success is job-one, which precedes the more refined long-term solution (longevity) symbolized by kl. kl;- 577 BCE l;- 1398 1891 l; kl- 403 BCE, kl- 232 kl- 1478 1993 kl Greek Ionic writing system, libraries Printing technology Internet, computers Hellenistic East-West neutrality East-West parity East-West parity Post Crusades Post Cold War Bold type = conjunctions in Gemini kl Uranus Neptune conjunctions: Neptune acts in conjunctions mostly to modify the other planet to a more idealized, developmentally-finished product. Uranus rules Sagittarius from the top of the wheel. Uranus symbolizes a capstone of all knowledge, focused on human longevity. The sign Sagittarius is associated with philosophy and synthesis of all scientific systems that underpin philosophical inferences. So Neptune idealizes and maximizes the k/o core functions like scientific investigation, knowledge accumulation and higher education. The kl conjunction is specifically about Uranus which is ultimately about longevity, the endmost goal of science at the individual level. The background sign also modifies the meaning of the conjunction. Significantly the 1821 and 1993 conjunctions occurred in Capricorn thus repeating the symbolic focus on the longevity goal. Those two conjunction periods are flanked by conjunctions in Sagittarius in 1650 (Age of Enlightenment) and Aquarius coming up in 2165, showing a sweep of time that centers on the top of the wheel and longevity based on science. kl psychology is focused on the vertical axis of individual developmental perfection, as different from l; focus on the social organism’s development in total. Examples: 1650 kl conjunction in Sagittarius: Founding of Royal Philosophical Societies first in England and subsequently throughout Europe. The Enlightenment period. 1821 kl conjunction. All sciences were in increased development stage. The biology of disease and medicine made gains that lead to extended average lifespan. Germ and evolution theory change basic concepts of life’s origins. Large increases in median lifespan. 1993 kl conjunction: Biology of aging matures, with genetic and molecular causes of aging mapped. Proof of concept for extended maximum human longevity, using laboratory animals is accomplished. See Jenkins for an extensive astro-historical correlation timeline of history, which is in a nascent stage of organization.(Jenkins 1993) k; Uranus Pluto conjunctions occurs every 115 years and alternately bounces like a pingpong ball from one side of the zodiac to the other in an otherwise steady progression that may cause its manifestations to surprise the public. See timeline chart p. 64. This is the conjunction of the hero, where the individual will unites with the will of the demiurge (public-worker) planet Pluto. They are both planets ruling the uppermost sectors of the Eastern hemisphere, Scorpio and Sagittarius, so their union in a personality or political movement is a formidable force for social change. Ideally Uranus’s cardinal cross + destinysymbol is balanced on top of the World symbol, O, independent and neutral of E/W political struggle. The philosopher-king would rather mediate through creative intelligence than the force of political revolution or reform. His heart is in individual perfection and the Sagittarian realms of the intellect. Unfortunately, at the developmental stage of hemispheric powerresolution the normally self-centered Uranus is logically compelled to fight the just-war or support the emergent reform demanded by the politics of E/W struggle, often expressing as war, revolution, or contentious social/political reform. The generation whose horoscope the conjunction appears is often considered revolutionary, with a destiny to overthrow outmoded institutions that need transformation. The preferred expression of k; is that of the scientist adding socially revolutionizing inventions or information that skip steps of violent revolution or contentious reform. Uranus/Sagittarius symbolizes new science that has the power to better the human condition. Uranus is said to be exalted in Scorpio because of the ability of scientific knowledge to quicken social transformation toward the social ideal. As interpreted here Uranus symbolizes the resolution factor of human-longevity, that overcomes East/West antagonism. The last two conjunctions of k; in 1850 and 1965 are illustrative of the transformative force of this Figure 80 worldsek.jpg conjunction. Those who lived in the 1960’s remember those politically contentious times, when the “Cold War” took us to the brink of WWIII. Socialist heroes fought the Cold War in the Soviet Union and hot wars in Viet Nam and other countries to establish their right of socialist self-determination. Likewise 1850 saw the anti-slavery movement force the extinction of slavery in the USA’s bloodiest war. Abolitionist heroes like John Brown and later legions of Union soldiers fought the just necessary war, while the Southern heroes sacrificed themselves for a futile cause on the wrong side of history. OUTER PLANET CONJUNCTIONS URANUS z NEPTUNE z PLUTO 3940 -4463 year cycle Oct 23, -5036 10º [ May 1, -577 09º w01' Apr 1, -575 10º w15' Jul 1, 3369 18º e09' Jun 1, 3371 19º e18' Circa 7310 11º r NEPTUNE z PLUTO 494 year cycle Apr, -5041 6º [ Nov, -4545 17º [ Nov, -4049 28º [ Dec, -3553 8º ] Dec, -3057 19º ] Dec, -2561 0º q Apr 24,-2065 11º q59' Jun 06,-1569 22º q29' Dec 22,-1073 00º w42' Apr 23, -577 08º w42' Jun 19, -83 16º w46' Mar 20, -82 15º w49' Jun 23, 411 23º w12' Mar 24, 412 22º w15' May 21, 905 28º w27' Jun 24, 1398 03ºe51' Nov 27, 1398 03ºe20' Mar 25, 1399 02ºe55' Aug 2, 1891 08ºe38' April 30, 1892 07ºe42' Sept 02, 2384 12ºe51' May 17, 2385 11ºe59' Jul 01, 2877 15ºe00' Jun 01, 2878 16ºe00' Jun 01, 3371 19ºe18' Dec 10, 3863 22ºe26' Jan 01, 435633 24ºe23' Jun 01, 4848 27ºe03' Jun 01, 5340 29ºe11' URANUS z NEPTUNE 172 year cycle Jul 03, -575 15º w49' Mar 31, -574 14º w23' Jun 1, -403 02ºe18' Jul 09, -232 19ºe18' Mar 21, -231 18ºe11' Aug 04, -61 05ºr49 Apr 23, -60 04ºr38' Aug 28, 110 22ººr16' May 02, 111 21ºr02 Sep 14, 281 08ºt25' Jun 06, 282 07ºt11' Sep 16, 452 24ºt08' Jun 03, 453 22ºt55' Sep 21, 623 9ºy48' May 20, 624 8ºy40' Oct 02, 794 25ºy41' Oct 10, 965 11ºu26' Oct 17, 1136 27ºu07' Nov 07,1307 13ºi14' Dec 06, 1478 29ºi40' Aug 20, 1479 28ºi33' Jan 18, 1650 16ºo11' Oct 16,1650 15ºo03' Mar 22, 1821 03º p01' Dec 03, 1821 01º p59' Feb 02, 1993 19ºp34' Oct 25, 1993 18º p33' Jan 17, 2165 6º[ Apr 11, 2336 24º[ Jan 11, 2337 24º[ URANUS z NEPTUNE Continued. Apr 15, 2508 Jan 16, 2509 May 2, 2680 Feb , 2681 May 20, 2852 Feb 21, 2853 Jun 7, 3024 Mar 10, 3025 Jun 20, 3196 Mar 20, 3197 Jun 29, 3368 Jan 25, 3369 12º] 12º] 1ºq 1ºq 19ºq 18ºq 6ºw 6ºw 26ºw 25ºw 14ºe 13ºe URANUS z PLUTO 115-142 year cycle Mar 14, -5035 12º [ Sep 22, -4908 29º t Mar 11, -4781 22º [ Sep 27, -4650 4º u May 16, -4529 4º ] Dec 4, -4393 0º i May 12, -4275 16º ] Nov 13, -4136 21º i May 14, -4021 27º ] Feb 9, -3880 9º o Jun 5, -3767 9º q Dec 17, -3625 25º o Jun 28, -3513 21º q Dec 23, -3370 9º p Apr 26, -3258 4º w Mar 5, -3115 23º p Jun 17, -3004 18º w Jan 19, 2860 5º [ Jun 10, -2749 4º e Feb 20, -2606 17º [ URANUS z PLUTO Continued. Apr 7, -2493 21º e Mar 1, -2352 Jul 30, -2238 Mar 6, -2098 Sep 17, -1981 Jun 3, -1845 Sep 15, -1722 Apr 29, -1591 Oct 30, -1463 Mar 29, -1337 Nov 13, -1205 May 28, -1084 Feb 3, -948 Apr 24, -803 Feb 2, -692 Jul 03, -576 Mar 31, -575 Mar 21, -436 Dec 17, -436 Jun 01, -322 Mar 17,-181 Dec 17,-181 Aug 26, -69 May 05, -68 Feb 9, 74 Jul 19, 185 Apr 15, 186 28º [ 14º r 9º ] 12º t 21º ] 17º y 1º q 23º u 10º q 21º i 21º q 15º o 0º w 4º p 11º w10' 10º w10' 20º p16' 19º p17' 20º w54' 04º[38' 03º[39' 01ºe46' 00º e47' 17º[08' 12ºe05' 11ºe02' Mar 16, 328 Dec 13, 328 Jul 02, 439 Mar 03, 440 Apr 02, 582 Jan 02, 583 Jul 1, 693 Apr 04, 836 Dec 31, 836 Jul 12, 947 Mar 23, 1090 Jul 29, 1201 Jun 11, 1343 Mar 02, 1344 Sep 23, 1455 Jun 15, 1456 May 02, 1597 Jan 22, 1598 Sep 10, 1710 Jun 26, 1850 Mar 23, 1851 Oct 09, 1965 Jun 30, 1966 Apr 24, 2104 Sep 26, 2221 May 20, 2357 29º[31' 28º[34' 22ºe41' 21ºe43' 10º]48' 09º]50' 03ºr47' 21º]22' 20º]25' 15ºr50' 01ºq11' 28ºr55' 11ºq29' 10ºq33' 13ºt35' 12ºt27' 20ºq17' 19ºq22' 28ºt53' 29ºq40' 28ºq43' 17ºy10' 16ºy06' 07ºw35' 07ºu38' 16ºw12' Nov 19, 2477 Jun 7, 2610 Nov 26, 2734 Jun 19, 2863 Feb. 3, 2991 Jun 27, 3116 Mar 14, 3247 Jul 3, 3369 Jan 29, 3503 Jul 15, 3622 Feb 24, 3758 Jul 25, 3875 Feb 10, 4013 Aug 15, 4128 Apr 7, 4267 Sep 8, 4381 May 13, 4521 Oct 18, 4634 Jun 4, 4775 Jul 23, 4888 Jun 2, 5029 May 1, 5142 May21, 5283 Jun 21, 5395 2ºi 24ºw 27ºi 3ºe 22ºo 10ºe 10º p 18ºe 2º[ 26ºe 18º[ 4ºr 2º] 12ºr 16º] 20ºr 28º] 28ºr 10ºq 6ºt 20ºq 14ºt 0ºw 22ºt Figure 81 world44a.jpg Equidistant conic projection Figure 82 conic.jpg Figure 83 world45a.jpg The main vertical dividing axis of these maps does not change in either Mercator or satelliteview. but sign boundaries diverge considerably the further one gets east or west of 30º East longitude, in the two views, due to the inherent problem of superimposing a two dimensional plane on a three dimensional globe, not centered at the equator. There is good geographic confidence in the vertical hemispheric dividing-axis (30º E), and in the areas close to that axis, which is the historical zone of definitive East-West conflict. On the other hand there is considerable uncertainty about the exact boundaries, that are far distant from 30ºE. New mapping technology may improve on these maps. The satellite view seems the better fit. Figure 84 world44e.jpg EU and Post-Soviet horoscopes: There were at least 22 new regimes formed because of the break-up of the Soviet Union. The long-term stability of all these regimes may be greatly improved by the long-term goal orientation of the outer-planet aspects discussed in the “Russia Day” chart below. The placement of Pluto in mid- Scorpio puts power where it will be maximal for the long-term survival challenges that are inevitable for the planet, while Uranus conjunct Neptune in Capricorn puts the target on individual human longevity. Saturn (ruler of Capricorn) and the North Node is also conjunct or close-by the kl conjunction in all these charts, reinforcing the longevity goal as one of two core themes, for all these regimes. The timing of these placements was probably influenced by the collective mind because they are timely, but also timeless World goals, and involve the geography of the astro-geographic overlay covering Scorpio through Capricorn, the signs whose business is these very goals. These countries horoscopes now speak to goals inherent in their geography. Furthermore, the founding of the European Union with the Maastricht Treaty, exactly aligned in time with the founding of the Confederation of Independent States (12-1991 through 21992). In fact, in the few days (December 8- 9, 1991) when the final draft of the Maastricht treaty was being completed in Brussels, Belgium, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were busy in a forest location in Belarus, dismantling the Soviet Union and replacing it with the loose Confederation of Independent States, the Belavezha Accords. The CIS and EU seem destined to become multi-state political/economic/social structures that together straddle the East-West hemispheric divide, 30E. The CIS and EU charts are practically the same, in emphasizing the grand themes discussed above, involving the outer three planets. It points to a mutual interest in the longevity project, and the socialistic development program symbolized by a powerful Pluto in mid-Scorpio. That similarity will allow eventual integration, however Western Imperialism is still the most powerful organizing force in international politics and will remain a constraint until recognition and resolution of that problem. That reality will probably continue to repress the strong Pluto component of all these charts, including the EU, until the long-lived human phenotype is created that can unite the hemispheric halves. At least both halves of the hemispheric divide now have similar multi-state structures (CIS and the EU), with similar horoscopes, that have the long-term potential to resolve the conundrum of World disunity. The A symbol shows structurally supportive connections if not unity, except for the top and the rail. The two legs represent unified east-west social infrastructure, while the rail represents long-lived mass populations with a shared psychological attachment to hemispheric equanimity. The Maastricht treaty horoscope was finally ratified and went into force on November 1, 1993. It is a powerful chart with a strong Scorpio socialistic-sector ( including Mars conjunct Pluto in Scorpio). The chart also contains the last exact conjunction of Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn, indicating maximal concentration of the psychology that will produce the longlive phenotype. Economic necessity will probably force Scorpionic (socialistic) solutions for Europe in the coming decades but not reach the level of resolving Western Imperialism, through trans-hemispheric integration. The EU is approaching half a billion people, and has immense pressures to utilize the efficiencies of socialism that is here proposed to be inherent in its founding horoscopes. 22 Figure 85 a2,jpg, a.jpg Regimes: Webster’s dictionary defines a regime as 1a. regimen, b. a regular pattern of occurrence or action (as of seasonal rainfall) c. the characteristic behavior or orderly procedure of a natural phenomena or process 2a. mode of rule or management b. a form of government < a socialist ~ > c. a government in power d. a period of rule. Political horoscopes may work, because they represent a new group of leaders of a society that feel strongly about the issues that prompted the regime change to happen. They coalesce as a new dominant power matrix in the local body politic that guides the regimes inception and thereafter. The planetary patterns in the political horoscope symbolize the goals, characteristics and timing of cycles determined by the astrological patterns. Presumably the larger the mass of people (popular) or proportion of the society that has a psychological stake in the new regime, the more powerful and enduring the regime will be. These post- Soviet charts possess focused symbolism on our most long-standing goals (human longevity), and perhaps equally important to the majority half of the collective mind is the ideal Pluto in Scorpio position, symbolizing political organization of the World. It is a simple combination that may give these horoscopes very long endurance. Soviet and Warsaw Pact disintegration timeline. EU timelinegrey Date Single Europe Act – in effect Jul. 1, 1987 1 Poland holiday ; Pluto l k Neptune Uranus j A Saturn N. Node Position position position Position Position 7ºi14' 6ºp34' 24ºo09' 16ºo20' 06ºq27' Aug. 24, 1989 no 12ºi40' 9ºp49' 1ºp27' 7ºp33' 25º[48' Sept. 10,1989 no 13ºi02' 9ºp38' 1ºp20' 7ºp18' 25º[39' Oct. 23, 1989 yes 14ºi30' 9ºp54' 2ºp07' 8ºp43' 23º[35' Neptune Uranus Saturn N. Node (democratic) 2 Bulgaria (democratic) 3 Hungary (democratic) Pluto 4 Romania (democratic) Dec. 22, 1989 no 16ºi48' 11ºp40' 5ºp11' Czechoslovakia Dec. 29, 1989 no 17ºi01' 11ºp55' 5ºp36' (democratic) 14ºp29' 17º[44' 15ºp17' 16º[55' 5 Lithuania (independent) Mar. 11, 1990 yes 17ºi40' 14ºp14' 09ºp07' 23ºp03' 16º[10' 6 Latvia Ind. May 04, 1990 yes 16ºi28' 14ºp29' 09ºp25' 25ºp20' 11º[58' 7 Russia Day (sovereign) June 12, 1990 yes 15ºi28' 13ºp48' 08ºp17' 24ºp12' 8º[04' 8 Germany (united) Oct. 3, 1990 9 Macedonia (sovereign) Jan. 25, 1991 no 20ºi09' 15ºp02' 11ºp10' 28ºp33' 28ºp01' 10 Georgia (Ind.) April 9, 1991 yes 19ºi48' 16ºp44' 13ºp47' 5º[42' 24ºp06' 11 Croatia (state) June 25, 1991 yes 17ºi52' 15ºp43' 12ºp10' 5º[39' 18ºp56' 12 Slovenia (state) June 25, 1991 yes 19ºi48' 17ºp52' 12ºp10' 5º[39' 18ºp56' 13 Estonia Ind. Aug. 20, 1991 yes 17ºi43' 14ºp20' 10ºp12' 1º[46' 18ºp28' 14 Ukraine Ind. Aug. 24, 1991 yes 17ºi24' 14ºp16' 10ºp06' 1º[31' 18ºp22' yes 16ºi14' 11ºp49' 05ºp45' 18ºp47' 5º[17' 15 Belarus Ind. Aug. 25, 1991 no 17ºi47' 14ºp15' 10ºp05' 1º[27' 18ºp15' 16 Moldova Ind. Aug. 27, 1991 yes 17ºi48' 14ºp13' 10ºp03' 1º[22' 18ºp03' 17 Azerbaijan Ind. Aug. 30, 1991 no 17ºi52' 14ºp11' 10ºp00' 1º[12' 17ºp42' 18 Uzbekistan Ind. Sept. 1, 1991 yes 17ºi53' 14ºp10' 9ºp59' 1º[09' 17ºp39' 19 Kyrgyzstan Ind. Aug. 31, 1991 yes 17ºi53' 14ºp10' 9ºp59' 1º[09' 17ºp39' 20 Tajikistan Ind. Sept. 9, 1991 yes 18ºi04' 14ºp10' 9ºp59' 1º[53' 17ºp14' 21 Armenia Ind. Sept 21, 1991 yes 17ºi53' 14ºp10' 9ºp59' 1º[53' 16ºp25' 22 Turkmenistan Ind. Oct. 27, 1991 yes 19ºi37' 14ºp15' 10ºp26' 00º[36' 12ºp16' CIS creation Dec. 08, 1991 21ºi17' 15ºp22' 12ºp19' 03º[26' 9ºp52' Maastricht Treaty (Draft) Dec. 09, 1991 21ºi20' 15ºp24' 12ºp22' 03º[31' 09ºp53' 23 Kazakhstan Ind. Dec. 16, 1991 yes 21ºi35' 15ºp39' 12ºp47' 4º[13' 9ºp57' CIS Alma-Ata Dec. 21, 1991 21ºi45' 15ºp49' 13ºp03' 04º[42' 9ºp50' Maastricht Treaty signed Feb. 07, 1991 22ºi52' 17ºp36' 15ºp50' 10º[16' 9ºp09' 24 Czech Republic Jan. 1, 1993 25 Slovakia yes 24ºi36' 18ºp21' 17ºp40' 16º[21' 21ºo19' Jan. 01, 1993 yes 24ºi36' 18ºp21' 17ºp40' 16º[21' 21ºo19' Maastricht Nov. 01, 1993 Treaty (in force) 24ºi46' 18ºp39' 18ºp44' 23º[39' 03ºo03' 25 countries (composite) 18ºi04' 14ºp09' 09ºp42' 28ºp21' 24ºp39' Pluto Neptune Uranus Saturn N. Node Figure 86 PoBulHun.jpg Figure 87 rolilae.jpg Figure 88rugema.jpg Figure 89 gecrsl.jpg Figure 90 esukbel.jpg Figure 91 MolAzUz.jpg Figure 92 KyTaAr.jpg Figure 93 TukazCz.jpg Figure 94 slcima.jpg Figure 95 simama.jpg The EU Maastricht Chart for November 1, 1993 is very attractive as a political union chart. It has many close conjunctions and aspect patterns involving the outer planets in the social signs, u-], in tight integrated patterns. The recurrence of the kl conjunction and Pluto in Scorpio themes in the precursor EU founding charts (above), and the Post Soviet group in general, shows the paired themes of social and individual developmental perfection, may be the social-psychological motivating force behind these charts coming into existence in the short period of years around 1990 when both themes were just right for synchronous balanced expression. EU Maastricht November 1, 1993 12:00 AM, Brussels Individual affluence supported by abundant socialistic infrastructure. Peace orientated jG, creative, well-integrated political class Individual perfection goal Socialistic solutions Figure 96 EuMastr.jpg,Eusymbol.jpg Who are the Russians? Figure 97 worldrus.jpg,World4kc1.jpg Russia, covers four sections of the astro-geographic overlay diagram ( p o i u ), and depending on the period of history under consideration, different sections were emphasized. Currently in the post-Soviet era, Russian territory is covered by the signs Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn and a partial, poorly-defined area under Libra influence. (see maps above.) In Czarist times the Capricorn sector was much more geographically represented than now, with all or parts of Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states included at different periods. Indeed the political foundations of Russia came from the region of Ukraine, with the ruling Rurik dynasty originating in Scandinavia. Russia is predominantly under the Sagittarius and Scorpio sectors with both signs well represented in the national “Russia Day” regime chart. Charts 1 is for the Romanov (1613) dynasty. The nature of monarchy in general is Capricornian (authoritarian and autocratic). In general 862-1917 was characterized by Capricornian authoritarian monarchy without a constitution or democracy. Those dynasty charts may reflect different aspects of the two dynasty periods 862-1598 and 1613-1917 that share the long Capricorn-like monarchy period, where over a millennium, autocratic monarchs consolidated power and grew the geographically successful Russian empire. The monarchy period ended in 1917 with the abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II, and the start of “The Great October Socialist Revolution”, also called “Soviet Power”. Power and authority are the same word in Russian, and “Soviet Power” was a title used by Lenin and others to describe the regime started on November 7, 1917 The word Slav is very close to the word slave and I think the Slavic peoples, because of their geographic location are fated to serve indispensible functions associated primarily with Sagittarius and Scorpio, and to a less degree Capricorn and Libra sectors of the astrogeographic overlay. Those functions are required for insuring the existing power balance of the collective mind, political unification of the World through longevity, and long-term survival of the planet as biosphere. The symbolism of Sagittarius, Uranus, Scorpio, and Pluto make plain the core psychology and arch principles involved. The Majority half of the collective mind, encapsulated in the Pluto/Scorpio psychology, is championed by Pluto (the demiurge of the East) who insures those specific functions, as demanded by the Eastern majority-fraction of the collective mind. Russia’s strategic location has made their destiny more critical than other nations, and presumable under more strict control by the Majority Spirit. In the Greek myths of Tartarus, as the underworld, the inhabitants were servitors of the demiurgic Pluto, which made their fate a serious burden; however Russia is more than Scorpionic duty, as its territory is covered by more signs than any other state. The Sagittarius sector shares the top of the hemispheric divide with Capricorn. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Turkey. All fall partly under the Sagittarius sector. They all have a role in producing the long-lived human phenotype that may be necessary for achieving hemispheric unification and survival of the current power equation. The role of Sagittarius and Uranus may be greater than that of Capricorn and Saturn in motivating the quest for individual longevity, because the science symbolized by Sagittarius is sufficient and necessary for a successful longevity program, but more to the point, the Eastern hemisphere has a much greater strategic interest in resolving Figure 98 the existential threat of Western Imperialism, hopefully by urancan.jpg,urancan2.jpg peaceful means, and sooner the better. Tartar/Mongol influence: Previous to the rise of a unified Russian monarchy, with the consolidation of Moscovy Russia under Ivan the Great, III (1462-1505), the Scorpionic Tartar/Mongol Empire, began in the Siberian steppes (Scorpio sector) and launched one of the most successful empires ever in terms of territory and military success. Those highly disciplined nomadic tribes (Mongol and Tartar tribes) were unified under Genghis Khan and began their conquest in 1206. Figure 99 Tartar2e.jpg By 1260 they had conquered a majority of the countries in the Eastern Hemisphere including most of China, Korea, Central Asia, Iraq, Persia, part of Turkey, Russia and parts of the Balkans. Their military/political attitude was simple and Scorpionic; submit and cooperate or be liquidated. The Mongol Empire may be considered as the Majority Spirits response to Catholic European Crusader -imperialism. Relative to Western Imperialism, the long lasting effect of Mongol domination was to concentrate power in larger successor empires that followed, especially those that front the East/West divide. Russian and the Ottoman Turk empires gradually coalesced over the following 200 years into consolidated centralized empires that presented an effective military barrier to Western European land invasion along the East/West divide. That land barrier held until the 20th century, but the scientific and industrial revolution, that was centered in Western Europe gave Western countries a technologic advantage in colonization of the New World and the East by sea, with the help of the ever increasing military superiority that culminated in the 19th and 20th century. The Mongol empire was relatively short-lived (1206-1480) but seems to have had a long lasting militarizing (Scorpionic) influence on the structure and character of the successor states, Russia and the Ottoman Turk empires, making them larger, centralized, and power orientated. As Russia conquered the remnants of the Mongol Khanates, it was drawn east into Siberia and eventually extended to the Pacific Ocean. By 1689, it bordered the Turk Ottoman empire, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, thus adding the Scorpio astro-geographic component to the Russian national psyche. That Scorpio geography added to and solidified the Scorpionic influence of two hundred years of Mongol domination, (1240-1480) that had already help mold Moscovy Russia into a powerful centralized monarchy and service state, very different from the previous disunited federation of city-states of Kievan, Novgorod, or Vladimir Rus.(Milner-Gulland 1998) Short history: Alexander Nevsky, the sainted Russian Prince of Novgorod, defeated the Swedes in 1240 and later in 1243, he defeated the German Teutonic Knights, and local Estonians at battles near present day Saint Petersburg. Those battles were in part, part of the Northern Crusades sanctioned by the Popes against pagan and Orthodox Christian territories. Alexander Nevsky subsequently submitted to Batu the Mongol leader of the Golden Horde, who had recently sacked Kiev and Chernigov as part of a much larger Mongol conquest that temporarily extended into Central Europe and the Balkans. Nevsky’s submission to the Mongols saved Novgorod and Northern Russia from destruction, and he was made Grand Prince of Vladimir by the Mongols, with the yarlyk authority to rule and collect taxes for the new Mongol Khanate of the Golden Horde, whose capitol was at Saray on the lower Volga river. The Rurik dynasty, that had ruled Kievan/Novgorod Rus since 862, continued to prosper in Vladimir and the nearby Principality of Moscovy, as servitors of the Khanate. A Rurik prince of Moscow had married a sister of the ruling Khan of the Khanate of the Golden Horde. Thereafter the small but growing Moscovy principality usually held the Mongol Yarlyk mandate to rule. Moscovy had a long stable period of six long-lived Rurik monarchs over 225 years, from 1359-1584 that developed a unique unitary power structure, that determinedly extended its authority, and (gathered-in) the surrounding principalities into a unified Russian monarchy. That unitary power structure was based on a subservient aristocracy and servitor class. That structure allowed steady accretion of military power and territory expansion relative to rival principalities, whose power was more fragmented into local aristocratic power centers. Significantly Moscovy instituted a policy of land ownership (pomestye) wherein the monarch held dominium, (unfettered right of disposal) over all land and the state granted the aristocracy (servitors and gentry) land tenure conditional on continued service to the state, that could be withdrawn at the monarchs whim. That practice began in 1480, under Ivan III, with the subjugation of the Principality of Novgorod, the largest principality. Thereafter, the aristocratic class became dependent on loyalty to the monarch, which greatly increased the monarch’s power. Under Tartar/Mongol domination taxes, etcetera, were channeled to the Khan in Saray, but as Mongol rule loosened, those taxes continued to be collected, only now they were used exclusively by the Moscovy monarch. Novgorod was emblematic of an alternative (Sagittarian) Russia that in theory might have been. Novgorod was liberal, democratic and commercially powerful. It was the largest commercial center, and the easternmost terminal of the European Hansiatic trade- league. It traded the products of Northern Russia into Western Europe. It was a window on, and conduit to the West on many levels, and its long tradition of democracy included the institution of the veche bell, by which any citizen could ring the large bell and convene a council to resolve political issues. Governments were oligarchic but democratic, where the grand prince, Mayor, and archbishop were less powerful. The Pskov, Tver and other principalities also had veche bell institutions. Novgorods ruling aristocracy was commercially rich but politically fragmented and militarily weak. Novgorods problem/ mistake was negotiating with Lithuania, Muscovy’s deadly arch-rival to the West. Moscovy was determined to reestablish its perceived patrimony of a united Russia, and when Novgorod continually procrastinated, Ivan III defeated them and hauled away the veche bell to Moscow. He ended their independent state structures, replaced the church leadership and confiscated their lands. Some thousands of better-off Novgorod citizens were forcibly relocated to other parts of Russia in the following years, while 1.2 million hectares of land was reallocated under the new (pomestye) land tenure system to a new servitor class that was quickly extended. The Hansiatic league merchants were ejected in the 1490’s, and Novgorod no longer permitted to independently deal with foreign states. The repression of the Sagittarian component of The Russian character seems to be reflected in the folk legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh that sank beneath the waters of its lake, in response to the Tartar invasion, in order to reemerge in better times. Those times may be now, when Western Imperialism is in check, countries are free, and the sciences are blooming. The rise of Moscovy was not accomplished in a vacuum. To the West, Poland/Lithuania, Sweden and German states remained growing rivals ready to expand East if given the opportunity. The Tartar/Mongol influence encouraged Moscovy to evolve a more centralized, power orientated monarchy than her rivals to the West, which facilitated Russia’s territorial expansion in the coming centuries. The Rurik dynasty died out in 1598, instigating a succession struggle that lasted over a decade (the time of troubles). It was characterized by intervention (invasions) from the Poland/Lithuania and Sweden, showing the readiness of those Western states to exploit Russian weakness. The Poles and Swedes were driven out and a Russian elected Tsar, starting a new dynasty that would last until 1917. The founding date of the Rurik dynasty (862) is historically vague and will not be discussed, but the Romanov dynasty chart shown below, for election of Mikhail Romanov, by the Zemsky Sobor (oligarchic council) is reliable, except for the time of day. Romanov Dynasty Chart March 3, 1613 Moskva, Russia service-state aristocracy idealistic autocratic monarchy land based power Figure 100 Rom.jpg united multi- region Slavic aristocracy The Sun is conjunct Saturn, (natural ruler of Capricorn) and would be a good aspect for any monarch or authority figure. The conjunction is in mid-Pisces, and in octave (red lines) aspects to the outer social planets. In many ways the chart reflects the long succession of ideal conservative monarchs, who guided the territorial expansion of Russia, following the period of Rurik dynasty consolidation of centralized power into the Moscovy service state. The result was the most geographically successful contiguous monarchical empire in the World, but one that by 1917 had lost its ability to counter Western Imperialism due in part to isolation from the European science revolution, initiated in the Renaissance coincident with the beginning of l; conjunctions in e 1398 and 1893. The same problem was overcome by Ottoman Turkey and China, by switching from aristocratic autocracy to Scorpionic regimes that maximally concentrated military power and state control. The active policy of sequestering Western technology from Russia and the East remains a potent tool of Western Imperialism which sees their technology as the final decider of polarity resolution. The Soviet Power chart is Scorpionic, with aspects for idealistic leadership. The need for this regime can best be explained in the context of 20th century Western Imperialism, and the 1891 l; conjunction that preceded the “Soviet Power” Bolshevik revolution of 1917. Fortunately, Western Imperialism was checked by this regime and now Russia can move on to a less bitter destiny, as promised in the Russia Day and similar post-Soviet charts. The founding document for the “Soviet Power” regime was composed by Lenin, as decree #1. It was dated with exact time of day, thus giving confidence to the ascendant and planet house positions. The Ascendant, a, and d are in Scorpio, plus Pluto and j/l in the 8th house make it Scorpionic, especially because of the numerous 8th harmonic aspects that link those Scorpionic factors to factors associated with an ideological and idealistic leadership. The strict totalitarian nature of the regimes communism may reflect the historical need of Russia and the Eastern hemisphere in general for effective military and industrial power to match the emergent threat from the West. Russia had a history of yielding destiny to Scorpionic power to meet its geographic based strategic needs. The best example being the period under Tartar/Mongol domination that fostered the militarily successful autocratic service state. One of the myths associated with Scorpio, is the phoenix bird that crashes to earth and rises again from its ashes in a new incarnation. The myth seems to fit the destruction of the Soviet Union where the new post-Soviet regimes have a powerful astrologic connection with the parent regime, because the breakup of the Soviet Union came in 1989 when transiting Pluto was at 15}i which was the “Soviet Power” Sun/Mercury degree, thus linking the post-Soviet regimes with the “Soviet Power” chart Figure 101 phoenix.jpg at a special point (mid-Scorpio) where Pluto is ideally placed for Scorpio attributes like political, military and economic power. The Sun was the traditional planet involved with the myth. Scorpio and Pluto are in general astrologic factors associated with transformation, as metaphoric death and rebirth. Soviet Power November 7, 1917 10:00 AM, DST Saint Petersburg, Russia Figure 102 Sovsm.jpg The chart reflects the very difficult mission that regime had to accomplish, which was to counter the most powerful thrust of Western Imperialism in all history coming first from the German center and then the American. That mission was accomplished 100% and Russia stands today with nuclear parity with the Western countries. Western Imperialism is in check, but not checkmate. The Russia Day chart shown below may represent a new era in Russian history, where the Sagittarian sector of the Russian character gets to shine, coequal with the more familiar Scorpio sector that dominated the 72 year “Soviet Power” regime period. The Scorpio sector of the Russian character is fully satisfied in the “Russia Day” chart by the ideal placement of Pluto in Scorpio. That position insures a powerful State sector. What is new in the new regimes is the kl stellium in Capricorn with its focus on the personal revolution of individual longevity and all the sciences associated with Sagittaius, that support that ultimate personal goal. While essentially a personal goal, longevity may also have an important political function in resolving hemispheric antagonism, by creating a long-lived political class, psychologically connected to both hemispheres. The 60º aspect between the Pluto and the Neptune/Uranus/Saturn conjunction forms part of a so-called “mystic rectangle” (green lines below) that connects virtually all the other planets in close cofigurations indicating a close relationship between the state and the personal longevity project. Similar close aspects between Uranus, Neptune and Saturn are also present in the Romanov dynasty chart, symbolizing the many outstanding monarchs in the Romanov dynasty. The kl psychology is the same but development stage of the sciences and the social organism, limit how it can express. Russia’s current regime and the other post-Soviet nations all share these two themes which now will get fully expressed as the World social organism deals with the problem of over- population in a way that achieves our deepest personal and collective goals. These are themes that have no end point other than perpetual improvement of individual lifespan and development of the social organism to meet survival needs. The Russia Day chart in particular is outstanding for having 5 planets in the signs they rule, including ;jgfd, with Jupiter in r, the sign of its exaltation. Exaltation, like rulership is part of a system of clasifying planets based on degree of similarity, afinity or compatability in the various zodiac signs. The order of description is rulership, exaltation, detriment, and fall. The asteroids Pallas Athena, G and Ceres, F are also in the signs they co-rule in the interpretation presented here. Sun, Athena, Mercury and Midheaven in Gemini indicate education will be a specialty of the Russia Day regime, with Athena and Mercury well positioned as co-rulers of Gemini and the whole group in the 9th house of higher education, and foreign associations. agricultural based sustainable development. hs; (blue/green lines) plus FQ. Ceres (grain agriculture) International education institutions y Ascendant overall theme = service. Figure 103 RusDay.gif Asteroid Juno (marriage/union) + Pluto/Scorpio = association with socialist countries. Ideal Pluto/Venus positions for wealth/resources Core longevity stellium, leadership. Grass roots talent and affinity for the public life. ` Figure 104 RuDayAsp.tif In the Russia Day horoscope the planetary patterns associated with the two themes described above are harmoniously connected to each other in two integrated patterns. Pluto opposite Venus and the other Uranus conjunct Neptune opposite Jupiter form a relatively rare pattern called a mystic rectangle where the two oppositions are joined by harmonious aspects (60} and 120}) so that activation of either opposition by a transiting planet simultaneously makes harmonious aspects to the other opposition line planets. The pattern may reduce oppositional factionalism in the political body, by synergetic integration of separable goals. Harmonic Aspect theory: The red line are octave harmonic aspects (the circle divided by 45} or multiples of 45} (0},45}, 90}, 135}, 180}). Some astrologers include 22½} - dotted red lines. They form a family of aspects with a similar meaning and are the most important aspects in astrology charts and also by transit. “Octave aspects (red lines) are “the driving force, the fundamental motivation and energetic structure of the chart. They are a kind of skeleton on which the other aspects hang. They provide the basic psychological motive that moves the person or regime to action”(Cochrane 2002) When Pluto makes an octave aspect to either group it activates the psychology inherent in the particular combination. The other harmonic aspect groups, modern astrologers usually consider, are those produced by the circle, (360}), divided by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 with the lower numbers the most basic. Fortunately the computer has greatly increased the ability to examine pattern relationships, and chart construction efficiency in general. Longer empherides have also help organize the study of historical periods presented here. harmonic aspect groups combined name base aspect meaning circle divided by 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 8th harmonic 45} energetic structure circle divided by 3, 6, 12 6th harmonic 30} harmonious expression circle divided by 5, 10 5th harmonic 36} play, creativity, culture circle divided by 7 7th harmonic 51.4} discipline, goal circle divided by 9 9th harmonic 40} community color of lines in charts Russia Day aspects, fraction, approaching or separating exactness, relative strength between .00 and 1. Figure 105 ruhar.jpg The integration of the two developmental pathways, symbolized by the X in the mystic rectangle, may functionally homogenize the effects of outer planet transits, to a integrated complex. That in effect, takes the bounce out an alternating cycle, as if turning a 2-cylinder engine into a 4 cylinder engine. Figure 106 Ruspat3E.bmp The glyph system puts the social organism as the primary subject of the system. An individual’s horoscope can only be understood properly as a subordinate cell in the macro organism, but a cell with potential to one day migrate out of the parent organism to another planetary environment. The Russia Day chart is full of promise, but like its predecessor regime “Soviet Power”, its options of action are restricted by a still–active Western Imperialism which restricts any lofty ideas promised in the Russia Day chart. The demiurgic majority spirit, symbolized by Pluto/Scorpio psychology still has its hands full in dealing with an active Western Imperialism; especially the constant threat of instant first-strike annihilation. With that in mind Russia should pay attention to the USA imperialist cycle, as the USA deals with a truly challenging Pluto return and period of potentially bellicose Western Imperialism. See USA timeline chart p.140 and text. The USA Pluto return to its 1776 location has its last transit in 2-2024 and internal political issues of conservative or liberal control of the government will come to a head and be resolved by then but if the conservatives are in control, there will be no safety till the whole conservative/imperialist cycle ends in 9-2030, (last transit of Pluto over USA Mars degree), at which time the alternating liberal/conservative cycle switches to the liberal part of the cycle. “Russia Day” Sovereignty chart June 12, 1990 Moscow, Russia Transiting Pluto 45º to natal Uranus/Neptune/Saturn, from 01-2038 to 12-2051 forecast: build stage for cultural superstructure. Transiting Pluto 90º to natal Pluto from 05-2032 to 11-2035 forecast: expansion of CIS and socialist infrastructure. ; 23 º[ ; 15º[х х ; ; ; 0}p 8ºp Transiting Pluto 45º to natal Pluto from 01-2008 to 11-2009 forecast: Plans for socialistic solutions for Russia and the CIS. Figure 107 rusday.jpg Transiting Pluto 0º to natal Uranus/Neptune/Saturn, from 02-2012 to 11-2021 Forecast: Renaissance period of Russian culture, limited by imperialist threat from USA/NATO In the “Russia Day” chart Pluto is exactly opposite Venus. Both planets are in the middle of the signs they rule. This is the economic axis of the signs and corresponds with the 2nd and 8th houses in the natural zodiac (Aries on the left). They are the signs, houses and planets where an astrologer looks for the money or resource situation. Having this placement of Venus and Pluto is rare statistically and symbolically exactly what you would want in terms of wealth both for the State and the individual, however Pluto is not in the 8th house, which is its natural house position, but in the 2nd house of personal Figure 108 Ruspat5E.jpg resources, perhaps indicating a close relationship of the state and personal resources. The f; opposition in the signs they rule is a strong indicator of wealth both personal and public. This opposition is connected to Sun Mars and Saturn by what some astrologers consider the fun or play aspects. They are aspects based on the circle divided by 5 or 10 which is 72} (quintile) and 36}( decile). This shows that in addition to wealth there will also be much fun and enjoyment for those who work in and manage the projects the Russians vote for. The citizens will be individually wealthy and enjoy building the socialist infrastructure of the state, which in Pluto/Scorpio psychology, always wants to expand to the global model. While the core of this configuration is solidly economic (f x ;) positioned perfectly in the primary economic signs w and i the abundance of decile and quintile aspects the final state structure will be as much about entertainment, sport, higher education and cultural activities as material production. This is not the slave of just-War seen in Soviet times, but the slave of science and peaceful socialist development. Russia is particularly strong in the Scorpio/Pluto psychology for several reasons besides the national chart. One is historical and geographical. It is the geographic situation of Russia in the main geographic corridor of Western Imperialism. When the West has sent her armies against the Eastern Hemisphere in modern times they have mainly come through Slavic lands and have been defeated by Russia and her near allies. That historic pattern has an astrological correlation as seen in the astro-geographic overlay which proposes that a country takes on the psychology of the overlaying sign or in Russia’s case 4 signs - Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, and Libra, in the overlay diagram. Astrology is sometimes called the divine science, and is necessary to understand the motive of Western Imperialism, because it is at base a spiritual problem, (social psychology). Astrology is taboo in the West because Western Imperialism is still the dominant factor in world politics and it does not serve Western Imperialism to have itself explained. Now that the Great Patriotic War and the Cold War are over, the broad pattern of Western Imperialism is much clearer now than say in the times of Stalin, Lenin or Marx. By using national charts and the glyph system as it relates to geography one can understand the historical phenomena astrologically. UKRAINE Figure 109 W44ua.jpg, trizbfac.jpg Ukraine is special, in that it straddles the East-West divide at 30º E., split between the two signs that have the most to do with longevity, o and p. In agreement with that pro-longevity psychology, the Ukrainian national symbol, resembles two individuals inwardly facing each other in a Uranus–like symbol, as if to say “we are concentrating on our own special goal and have what we need to achieve it”. The two people are joined at the heart in a symbol that has elements of the various Uranus symbols. 1. Directional orientation of the Sun symbol up past the top of the wheel !, indication a long-lived Capricorn type. 2. k with Gemini sides ( e ) symbolizing comunication of the science necessary to invert the Venus principle of reproduction and make it quiescent and inwardly productive for the child alone, at puberty. Taken together the symbol represents a familial longevity strategy, involving parental knowledge, planning, and guidance. By exclusively combining both hemispheric longevity sectors p+o in the national psyche, Ukraine may have the right psychology for motivating a practical longevity program, based on science. The Ukraine Independence chart for Aug. 24, 1991 substantially supports that astrogeographical orientation to p and o. Pluto’s mid-Scorpio position in between the main planetary groupings indicate a robust state infrastructure and education system may underlay the longevity goal by supporting a highly educated and economically free population. The abundance of Capricorn positions including the Ascendant closely conjunct factors of union, (the North Node and asteroid Juno) AH, one could expect a high level of public and governmental activity and association with wider international entities like the EU and CIS. That nexus of political leadership includes the kl longevity conjunction and a more distant but well placed Saturn at 1ºAquarius, indicating a leading political role for Ukrainian political elites, especially when longevity becomes a political multiplier. It is inportant for Ukainians to understand the astrology behind the overt politics of East–West antagonistic-polarity, because their national political-body (East-West Ukraine) is a miniture version of the larger world organism. Ukraine Independence, Aug. 24, 1991, 6:01 PM, Kyiv H A S, Juno/ North Node/ Ascendant = A center of political unions. Extended-longevity, symbolized by kl eventually becomes a factor in the governmental leadership complex. ; in i conjunct Midheaven = robust state infrastructure. ; F, Pluto plus Ceres = agriculture based sustainable development. G, Athena in Libra diplomatic skills, See Athena below. Medical services involving reproduction and family planning. Much creativity involving childhood development. JGFH asteroids below) Leo stellium (see Figure 110 ukr11.jpg The problems of the larger organism may be more manageable in the smaller raciallyhomogenous national model, especially if the problems are understood astrologically by the intelligencia. The Ukraine chart and all the post-Soviet charts are relatively simple and easy to interpret because of distinct patterns built around two core goals associated with the kl conjunction and the ideal position of Pluto in mid Scorpio. The Ukrainian chart has good aspects for applying astrology to political analysis, as indicated by the close aspect pattern connecting Athena, G to Uranus k, (the planet of astrology) and to the exact conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter dh in Leo. See pattern below. Also, a social and politically active asteroid group + virgin culture (delayed, or silenced reproduction schedules, within creative social environments), may produce the liberated woman. The Mother Motherland statue resembles Pallas Athena, the warrior goddess of creative intelligence, born fully armed from the mind of Jupiter. Kiev’s Athena has discarded her warrior helmet but still retains her shield, as protector of G the state (polis), and her sword as symbol of individual developmental perfection (maximum growth and longevity), which restates the goal of the Ukraine national symbol. In Greek mythology, Athena’s preferred role was teacher and guide of the Greek heroes and protector of the state. See. Athena p.46-47 four major asteroids. keywords G Athena - creative intelligence F Ceres - agriculture H Juno marriage, union J Vesta - reciprocal service Ceres Athena Juno Figure 111 Ukr.gif, Mother.jpg WEST EAST kl= shared goal, ; in i = East goal 30º E Figure 113 Ukr2.jpg, 30E.jpg Ukraine population West of 30º Lutsk 1161 Lviv 2626 Uzhgorod Rivne Ternopil Ivano-Franko Chernivtsi Zhytomyr Khmelnytsky Vinnytsia Total 48,457 (thousands), 45,660 (in country), 2001 GovernmentCensus Middle East of 30º 1161 Kyiv (region) 1827 Chernihiv 1245 2626 Cherkassy 1403 Poltava 1630 1258 Kirovohrad 1133 Dnipropetrovsk 3568 1173 Odesa 2469 Kherson 1175 1142 Total 6832 Crimea 2034 1410 Sumy 1300 923 Kharkiv 2914 1390 Donetetsk 4841 1431 Zaporizhzhia 1929 1764 Luhansk 2546 14278 Kyiv (city) 2611 Total 24548 Totals from below 2488 Totals from below 4344 Grand total 16770 Grand Total 28890 West of 30} 365 281 113 1729 2488 Middle regions division Kyiv region less Kyiv city (1827) Cherkassy (1403) Kirovohrad (1133) Odesa (2469) Total (6832) Ratio split 20/80 20/80 10/90 70/30 East of 30} 1462 1122 1020 740 4344 The demographic imbalance, even without Crimea, like the World at large, predicts a Eastern bias in political ideology, when functioning in a pure democratic background. The fragility of trans –hemispheric composites like post-Soviet Ukraine, may be overcome by strictly respecting democratic processes, and the use of astrology to understand Ukraine’s connections to the larger organism’s ongoing antagonistic-polarity. Of which Ukraine’s body politic is a miniature version. Transiting Pluto regulates political expression in the Ukraine chart. ; ; Ukraine Independence 8, 24, 1991 transiting Pluto conjunct k, Uranus 3- 2013 through 12-2013. Euro union discussions fail, protest began Nov. 21, 2013. transiting Pluto conjunct k/l midpoint at 12}p 2, 25, 2014 = Euromaidan opposition takeover. Pluto conjunct North Node/Juno/ Ascendant midpoint (; z H,S, A) 2016-2017 prediction = EU membership. ;xj Pluto conjunct Saturn in Aquarius 3-2024 to 9-2025. Prediction = leadership shift to Aquarian 1+2, East plus West inclusiveness. ; ;xs Pluto conjunct Moon in Aquarius 4-2037 to 12-2038 Eastern demographic bias re-assert Eastern values, through elections. Figure 114 ukr10.jpg The Pluto cycle last 248 years. It appears that the first quarter of that cycle since independence involves establishing the political structures that underlay the kl conjunction complex in Capricorn which also includes the Ascendant. It is a very politically orientated complex that is obviously orientated to the Western half of the country and has a strong affinity with Capricornian Europe due to the background sign of the conjunction, and West Ukraine’s Capricorn astro-geographic location. With Pluto transits in political charts, you have to consider the whole 248 year cycle. The Maidan revolutionaries are expressing a core component of the 1991 Independence regime, (kl) and the need to link to the EU may be necessary for lasting trans-hemispheric stability but they need to understand and respect the long–term Eastern bias built into the geography of the Ukrainian body politic. Pluto in Scorpio only expresses the violent incarnation of Kali when it perceives part of the political body is against its goals. If democracy is allowed to function it will achieve its will peacefully; if not the Pluto/Scorpio psychology may turn to real-politic power to defend its strategic interest. The Ukrainian intelligencia needs to upgrade their political tools by considering the planetary inputs that organize the timing of the Independence regime, and appreciate the psychological needs of the whole Ukrainian organism and its relationships to global hemispheric-antagonism, which is a higher order of social-psychological priority. Russia’s annexation of Crimea demonstrated the strategic geopolitical importance of E-W geography, of which Ukraine is central in current military calculations. Unlike the Russian chart, built around a harmonious rectangle (4 points) the Ukraine is a polarized 2 point system mediated by a commanding Pluto in Scorpio at the top of the wheel, with the overall cycle timed by long duration Pluto transits. Political timeline: Pluto transit to natal Event Aug 24, 1991 11-1991 to 9-1992 1-2003 to 11-2003 2-2013 to 12-2013 2-2014 to 12-2014 ; ; ; ; ; z z z z z ; D S~D midpoint k k~l midpoint Independence 2-2015 to 12-2015 3-2016 to 11-2017 4-2024 to 12-2025 3-2038 to 1-2039 Aug 4, 2174 Sep 14, 2202 Jul 23, 2203 Aug 4, 2204 Nov 23, 2216 Nov 6, 2223 Dec 17, 2233 Feb 2, 2238 Jun 26, 2240 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; z z z z z z z z z z z z z l SA j in [ s in [ Q h d f a g G ; D DATE Orange revolution ferment Failed CIS + EU compatability Euromaidan takeover Predictions: new elected government. Time of confusion, disunity. EU membership Government leadership shifts to East – West inclusiveness. Eastern majority exerts its dominance through elections. Goals include those of the West, minus Western Imperialism. Ukraine-Russia composite chart (mid-point chart): Basic themes involving the outer planets are not substantially altered in the composite (compatibility) chart with Russia. Core themes and goals are indicated to be mutually reinforced by cooperative agreements. Both countries, like most of the post- Soviet charts share the outer planet configurations that unite them all as a unique group. Russia’s geography is overlayed in part by Scorpio, while Ukraine is not, but they both, like all the post-soviet regime charts have the powerful Pluto in Scorpio position in their regime charts, so Russian economic unions will always robustly feed that Pluto/Scorpio socialistic factor with material and psychological support. To minimized it or demonize Pluto/Scorpio psychology is probably a mistake, but a common theme in Western Imperialist ideology that exalts capitalist individualism as the economic ideal. Ukraine-Russia composite chart (mid-points chart) Large creative projects. Traditional,historical, family ties, agriculture and housing industry. Socialistic compatibility in government projects. State, collective resource factors (Scorpio, Pluto, 8th house) See Scorpio p. 22-27 Figure 115 UkrRuCom.jpg nd th Economic axis – 2 to 8 house (shown within yellow arcs. Strong state infrastructure and governing bodies, eventually reinforced by the longevity phenotype. Both Russia and Ukraine share completely the Sagittarian sector and part of the Capricorn sector so they are both wedded to the goals symbolized by the kl conjunction. There is really no psychological conflict or difference in goal orientation between the two countries, however Russia is geographically dedicated to the fixed responsibilities of Scorpio. Russia will always be the slave of the demiurge Pluto, and defender of the majority spirits interest, coming from the Eastern hemisphere, but that does not prevent Russia in any way, from expressing the Sagittarian, Capricorn, and Libran parts of its psychological personality. The Pluto/Scorpio Ascendant aspecting Venus and Mars in the packed 8th house in the composite chart shows that Russia reinforces the Eastern bias in the Ukrainian chart for Eastern hemisphere goals and psychology. That bias will always express at the government level if democracy is allowed to operate. The Maidan takeover of the government leadership by proWestern factions subverted that Eastern bias by removing the previous pro-Eastern leadership. In the long run nation–wide democracy will be restored and the pro-Eastern bias built into the geography and demography of a united Ukraine will reassert its natural proEastern affinity through elections. In the meantime the political crisis in Ukraine is forcing a resolution of the problem of NATO encirclement of Russia. The larger dynamic of WesternImperialism overlays the Ukrainian/Russia relationship, and cannot be understood intellectually without astrology. The Jupiter/Athena conjunction in the 9th house shows the intelligencia of both countries will eventually employ that tool for political analysis and understanding of foreign affairs problems. Final thoughts on resolving the conflict between Ukraine and Russia: West/East demographic ratio using 30 degrees E. longitude Whole country (pre-crisis) 16,770,000 / 28,890,000 Without Crimea 16,770,000 / 26,856,000 Without Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk 16,770,000 / 19,469,000 Astrologic analysis using the above demarcation of hemispheric-polarity describes Ukraine as a rare and fragile bi-hemispheric state, of which there have been only a few in World history, including Hellenistic Greece centered on Alexandria, Egypt and Byzantium Greece, centered on. Constantinople, both destroyed by the forces and counter-forces of Western Imperialism. Ukraine, like the World at large, had a large Eastern demographic bias that expresses in psychic power in a collective mind, and in political power in democratic elections. It is in Russia’s interest to restore that Eastern bias to the political process in Ukraine, sooner rather than later, before hard-to-reverse decisions are made in the near future, as Pluto transits the Neptune position in the respective horoscopes (2-2015 to 12-2015) which will predictably, take several decades to reset to pre-crisis ratios. See timeline. Precession corrected exact dates below. Russia’s Neptune 14}p08 Pluto exact conjunct on Jan 29, Jul 11, Dec 4 Composite (midpoint) Neptune 14}p22 Pluto conjunct on Feb 5, Jul 2, Dec 11 Pluto conjunct on Feb 13, Jun 22, Dec 19 Ukraine’s Neptune 14}p36 Concerning the 2015 (; to l) transits, the overall psychology of Neptune l is to modify the other planet (in this case Pluto ;, the planet of real-politic power) to a more complete and ideal expression. At the macro-political level, dissonance in conflicting goals of East and West antagonistic polarity can express as mis-understanding, conflict and war but ideally when all factors are known including astrological inputs a more benign pathway to resolution may be achievable. It is plain from the heavily planet-populated economic-axis (2nd-8th houses) with the involved planets of the Ukraine/Russia composite chart, that this crisis and the relationship in general is very-strongly economic in nature. The problem of NATO encirclement of Russia and Western Imperialism in general may be better countered with the former intact-Ukraine demographic. Giving up Crimea and restoring Donetsk, and Luhansk should restore completely the political Eastern-bias built into the Ukraine body-politic, affecting votes on all issues important to Russia, like attitudes of elected officials, economic relations and joining NATO. The author recommends adding astro-logic calculations to foreign relations analysis especially in this case, where the E/W factors are so dominant. It could save a lot of pain, aggravation and economic loss in the coming decades, for both countries. Ukraine- EU (Maastricht Treaty activated) composite chart q-u, East-West mediator role for Ukraine/EU union. Socialistic (i;), accommodations eventually facilitated by Ukraines transhemispheric links to the East. Higher education associations. kl goal augmented by minorharmonic aspects, (person to person) state and non-state interactions; commercial, educational, and familial. Increased agricultural development. Figure 116 ukrEU.jpg Ukraine-EU composite chart: The shared octave harmonic (red line) aspects to jkl; that represent dynamic interaction in the socio-political sphere, between the Ukraine and the EU are not as plentiful as in the Russian composite chart. The composite ascendant is Scorpio, between Mars Pluto, perhaps indicating a tendency of Ukraine to draw the EU closer to the socialistic model in the future. The economic benefits of EU membership may be more passive and slow to materialize than promoted, because of shortcomings of the capitalist system revealed in recent years in satisfying less-developed member states economic needs. The biggest benefit may be from tapping into the Western educational system, and the culture of the NW quadrant in general, which is currently the most scientifically advanced. That conduit may feed the kl longevity goal, which is arguably the dominant theme in the Ukraine and the post- Soviet regimes in general. That theme/goal is heavily dependent on science education, which is strong in the NE quadrant; however, the kl conjunction is only half of the two outer planet configurations. The problem may come, if joining the EU prevents the satisfaction of the PlutoScorpio (socialistic) component of the Ukraine horoscope, and alienating the Eastern half of the Ukraine political-body. The EU is presently stifled in solving their economic problems precisely because of limitations imposed by the strict capitalist model of passive government intervention in the economy. The same problem limits the USA economy which currently carries a 17,000,000,000 dollar debt, with no plan to adequately fund future social needs. The capitalist model has yet to prove itself capable of reversing the ongoing economic downturn, now entering its 6th year. The USA forecast (below) predicts the situation to worsen around 2018, and come to a crisis point of resolution around 2-2024. All of the post-Soviet regimes have a major socialist component in their horoscopes, indicated by the Pluto in Scorpio position. That socialist factor should eventually stronglyexpress itself, but for now (early 2014) capitalism is the only option in Western Europe. EU association may benefit the EU by forcing it to accommodate socialistic methods and historic attitudes that Ukraine brings to the arguments in the EU parliament, while Ukraine gets to pacify the demands of Eastern Ukraine populations for unfettered access to Western culture and markets. See Scorpio p. 25, for discussion of capitalism versus socialism control of land resources. Fortunately there is a high level of political expertise indicated in the Ukraine, Russian and EU charts that may facilitate socialist and capitalist solutions to coevolve. Ukraine is like the previous middle-ground political hybrids, Hellenist Greece, centered in Alexandria, Egypt ca. 332 BCE-33 BCE, and the later Greek Byzantine Empire centered in Constantinople, 330-1204, 1261-1453. It is somewhat artificial and fragile because of its situation between antagonistic entities mirrored in its own composition. Modern Astrology can help ferret out relationship dynamics of the social organisms components, and there are good aspects in these charts, involving G and k that suggest that astrology will become a tool in political analysis for EU, Ukraine, and Russia. The inverted Venus symbol is the same as the monarchy and Christian redeemer symbol. Monarchy was not a chosen birth and the X symbol of naturally selected birth shows up in these pictures, perhaps symbolizing the coevolution of the ideal within the confines of social evolution. Figure 117 queen.jpg, cris.jpg Queen Catherine the Great and St. Christopher Russian Federation and UK royal symbols Figure 118 Eagle.jpg, crown.jpg Novgorod Millinnium statue 1868 Figure 119 crosor.jpg, Novgorod.jpg Pysanka (Easter Egg) tree by Ukrainian folk artist Ivan Skolozdra (2005) link Ukraine National Academy of Sciences, Lviv Figure 120 skolozdra.jpg U.S.A. The United States falls under the Pisces section of the Astro-geographic overlay. Their flag has a upper field of stars against a blue background perhaps symbolizing heaven, Pisces, and the large number of extraordanary individuals that the land normally produces in all fields. The Piscean stage of soul development induces a psychology of completion, the ideal, or the finished product. The stars symbolize our best, whether as movie stars, sports heroes, or prize winning research scientist. That corner of the flag is Figure 121 World4kd.jpg surrounded by the the orderly red and white stripes symbolizing the alternating liberal/conservative pattern of their democracy, proposed here. The astro-geographic overlay theory suggest that the reincarnational development highway (zodiac) mirrors soul flow direction and development stage caused first by geography, which sets continental species demographics and general progression stage of the souls passing through those species, with Pisces being the last stage of soul development, associated with the NW quadrant of the overlay. The problem with the USA is not their Piscean exceptionalism, but their (end of the line) position as last leader of Western Imperialism. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, 5:14 P.M. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania event: Signing by John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress. Figure 122declar.jpg USA Independence Declaration, 1776 Figure 123 USAnew.jpg Figure 124 chart10.jpg Conservative group (dx;), Plutocratic distortion of information. Monitarization of knowledge and education. Plutocratically influenced underfunding of public infrastructure, except for the military. (Sagittarius Ascendant opposite k/g = Philosophy, religion potentially connected to science. Sagittarius Ascendant semisquare Pluto in 2nd house = Philosophy influenced by Plutocratic concentration of wealth in the upper class, influenced by the local Piscean astro-geography. (gxoS), proactive philosophical zeal involving foreigners plus gcl, Mars square Neptune = ideological and religious idealism, fanaticism, illusion. Figure 125 char10Ajpg Most of the conservative group is composed of mutable signs and the planets that rule mutable Figure 126 mute1.jpg signs. Mutability is based on the changeable nature of knowledge and ones store of extant knowledge in determining ones beliefs and decissions. If Western Imperialism is a predetermined stage of World social development between competing hemispheres, then American Imperialism can be seen as fullfilling a need of the Western half of the collective mind, and not some aberant logic or evilness. It is more about biology than ideology, however as mental beings we can choose a different destiny if we have all the facts. Fortunately mutability allows great flexability in interpreting reality, as American history has shown repeatedly, in ridding itself of social ills like slavery and gender inequality, thus perfecting its democracy, yet American Imperialism remains, unacknowledged and viable, a threat to itself, and the Eastern half of the World. The Ascendant is in Sagittarius, the sign of science and philosophy. It is opposite Uranus, the planet that rules Sagittarius. The two together in a non-imperialist environment should produce a rich astrology and science based rational philosophy. Instead the influence of Western Imperialism necessitates its repression. The study and work of science, in the USA is superior among the educated elites, but not difused in the general population; the majority of which do not believe in evolution and have little understanding of astrology. The majority believe in pre-scientific religious concepts like a universe creating man-God, and special creation of humans, separate from evolution. The point is that there is a disconnect between the science orientation of the Sagittarius ascendant and the anti-science attachment to ideology and religious beliefs of the general population, that support Western Imperialism. Like the1776 era song-verse ”Yankee doodle went to town riding on a poney, he stuck a feather in his cap, and called it macaroni”. Piscean psychology has a tendency to illusion and gulibility, which may make their fate less rational and amenable. The anchor of the conservative pattern may be Pluto’s position in a Piscean orientated Capricorn in the 2nd house, symbolizing the monetarization of power in the hands of the upper class. That Pluto position is the economic base planet of the consevative-imperialist pattern. Normally in the natural zodiac, Pluto rules Scorpio from the 8th house where natural resources (land and minerals) of the state are the presumed foundation of the states economic power and stability, but in the USA horoscope Pluto is in Capricorn in the second house, of personal,family and corporate wealth. Taken to extreme in the capitalist model, what was state collectively-owned wealth becomes the near exclusive domain of personal and corporate wealth accumulation. That concentration of wealth in the upper class subsequently becomes political power in a plutocratically-tilted democratic system. The chronic tendency for plutocratic corruption of the democratic system is the major flaw in the USA chart, because it perpetuates the conservative/imperialist cause regardless of the liberal /conservative cycle. The military/industrial complex always gets funded; currently at the rate of 50 billion dollars a month. As the current Pluto transit returns to its 1776 position (exact in 2-2024) the core conservative-group psychology of 1776 is returning. Already by 2010, a conservative supreme court has changed election laws, that increase the power of money in elections, while weakened voting rights protections. Citizens United case, 1-2010 and Voting Rights Act, 6-2013). Furthermore, gun laws have been liberalized to permit military style weapons availability and legal protections for their use. While the similar conservative period during the Great Depression saw liberal democrats voted in and socialistic solutions imposed, the 2024 Pluto return to its natal position is a much stronger aspect, (comjunction versus opposition), and is coming from a more conservative position (2nd house natal Pluto position versus the 1930’s, socialistic, 8th house opposition to its natal position). The reaction to the coming depression, may have more in common with the 1776 period psychology, which in 1776 was violently revolutionary and installed a regime that was in part imperialistic. In 2024, the socialistic programs, seen in the 1930’s, that were needed to correct mass unemployment, may again be necessary, and put liberals in power, but that is not assured. The desire of Western Imperialism to persist through this upcoming Pluto return period appears strong and explains the extreme attitudes and actions of the conserative group, encapsulated in the reborn Tea party movement, whose main goals are preserving the plutocratic upper class base and continuing their imperialistic military policy. Mercury is closly bound by aspect to the Conservative pattern, however the planet Mercury d in the horoscope at 24}r is potentially a shared planet by both groups. Mercury’s is weakly conjunct the large Liberal group stellium of ahf in r, It has a natural affinity with the Liberal group, coming as it does from the 8th socialistic house in Cancer. Removing Plutocratic distortion of elections may allow that association to express freely, but for now Mercury is repressed by plutocratic interference in what get said, seen, taught and thought in the multifacited media. All three of the outer social planets kl; are in the conservative group but not connected by significant aspects to each other, suggesting an absence of social goal. The goal of Western Imperialism is silent and unacknoledged. Keywords like American exceptionalism, freedom, free enterprise, and capitalism glorify the individual or family over collective social goals. Liberal group Saturn and Midheaven in Libra = government bureaucracy and infrastructure orientated toward Libran values of socialistic support, law and order. Peace orientated. Core stellium in Cancer containing both benefic planets Jupiter and Venus plus Sun in the 7th house. Cancer themes like family support, home ownership, child education, employment security, community development, and health insurance. = key components of the liberal Democratic platform. szG, Moon, ruler of Cancer conjunct Pallas Athena = Womans liberation movement, including political, educational, sports and economic equality achieved in the 20th century. Figure 127 char10b.jpg The sG Moon/Athena conjunction is also part of a 7th harmonic triangle involving k and l planets in the conservative group pattern. That may be a bridging pattern that unites women of both the liberal and conservative persuasions in a surperlative gender – specific conjunction (sG). See below. Figure 128 chart10c.jpg Saving factors: The USA chart and the liberal group in particular has a large Cancer representation (fhad), connected with a potentially enlightend Moon/Athena conjunction. See asteroids p. 45-50. This feminine-orientated complex is being accentuated now by several factors. 1. The Moon/Athena conjunction is now precessing into the next sign of Pisces, (with the Moons entry in 1977, and Athena following in 2026) That long-lasting shift (2160 years) may inspire this politically-orientated conjunction to seek the Piscean ideal in the political realm, and in general. 2. The current transit of Neptune through its ruling sign of Pisces, (2011-2026) will temporarily stimulate sG political activism, to reform the social organism through Athenian creative-intelligence. There is a genie in the American femine personality that is only now coming into expression. The virgin goddess Athena in Greek mythology was largely political, as protector of the polis (state) through action as a warrior if necessary but usually as a creative diplomat. The femine component of the American psyche is destined to increase in power also because of the current World-need to downgrade reproduction in the face of over-population, and resurect the classic sex-neutral femine phenotype, best characterized by the powerful Athena, and her sister conditional-virgin queens. Overpopulation dictates a social-need to downgrade reproduction, while the majority spirit has a need to manage that downgrade in a way that pacifies antagonistic polarity. It is the educated women, who will consciously regulate that transition, liberating them from sexual determinism in the process. Precession shift is the slow misalignment of tropical zodiac positions relative to the siderial (star) constellations in the universal backgroung. The effect of precession-shift on horoscopes (1} per 72 years) is unknown and seldom considered by astrologers because most human and political charts are not old enough to study the effect. The USA chart is 238 years old in 2014. The shift now equals 3}18'. Besides sG shifting into ], Pluto is shifting into Aquarius in the USA chart (entry in 2024) synchronous with the USA Pluto return to its the natal position of 27}p. That shift seems a potential bonus and wild–card in the whole tramatic and dangerous Pluto return period, in that 0}Aquarius is the lucky-spot of the zodiac where the halves of the collective mind tend to mentally agree, producing apparent luck, increase and synergy in the physical world. It is a far better psychology for peace than the more partisan Capricorn, as Aquarius is by nature a combinatory process, tending to be universal, inclusive, democratic, and progressive. If ever America needed some luck, 2024 would be that time. Precession shift may indicate a slow rare change in psychology of the planets involved, but how precession shift could physically change psychology of a future generation is not clear. Only the sign backgroung changes; the house position and aspects to the other planets remain the same. The Pluto precessional shift into Aquarius is arguably a big change for the better, because of the central role of Pluto in the USA conservative group and the chart in genreal. America has often elected Aquarians, who had broad appeal and likability, durring times of crisis. For example Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, during the Civil War, Great Depression, and peaceful ending of the Cold War respectively. The Aquarian switch of Pluto psychology is of very long duration and especially affects the leadership of the conservative group, in the USA political body. The Aquarian personality, like Jupiter, channels the collective thinking of the group he or she is the leader of, but in the backgroung the Aquarian always has a bias for the global collective/belief. That makes for an ideal leader because they make decisions that deviate the least from the World collective mind. The Aquarianization of the conservative group, could bring a revolutionary change to conservative American politics, but probably not reach the level necessary to abandon their imperialism. The whole precessional question is a wild card because it is really not a settled issue, even though astrologers factor it into transit work. It is new territory for astrologers and will take many centuries to verify. Precession Correction for imperialist periods 1776-2022 1776 = 0} 1898 = 1° 53' for 126 years 1982 = 2° 51' for 206 years 1810 = 30' for 36 years 1934 = 2° 12' for 158 years 2000 = 3° 8' for 226 years 1846 = 59' for 70 years 1964 = 2°° 37' for 190 years 2022 = 3° 27' for 246 years Pluto in Taurus when farthest from the Sun.(aphelion), resulting in long Pluto transit periods. Pluto is in Scorpio when closest to the Sun. (perihelion), resulting in short Pluto transit periods. ; mid-Scorpio 1989 Pluto inclination to the ecliptic = 17.1} ; mid-Taurus 1868 Imperialist periods length in years 2-1774 thru 11-1782 = 8 yrs. 10 mo. 10-1962 thru 8-1969 = 7 yrs. 4 mo. 5-1804 to 2-1816 = 12 yrs. 6 mo. 1-1982 thru 10-1987 = 6 yrs. 7 mo. 7-1845 to 3-1861 = 15 yrs. 6 mo. 1-2000 to 10-2006 = 6 yrs. 9 mo. 9-1893 to 4-1908 = 14 yrs. 5 mo. 2-2022 to 9-2030 = 8 yrs. 7 mo. 10-1934 thru 6-1945 = 10 yrs. 8 mo. Figure 129 Plorbit.jpg U.S.A. imperialist cycle shown here. (precession corrected) It is regulated by octave aspects (0º, 45º, 90º, 135º, 180º) of transiting Pluto (;) to the core group of red (conservative) planets (Uranus, Ascendant, Pluto, Mars and Mercury). Cold War, Regan military buildup, Star Wars period = 1-1982 to 10-1987 Cold War, Viet Nam War Period = 10-1962 to 8-1969 Economic depression, repressed Imperialism, Pluto 180º to natal Pluto (1937-39) period = 8-1935 to 6-1945 Iraq War, War on Terror, NATO expansion Period = 1-2000 to 10-2006 Economic 8th house public resources D Pluto at second house border , 19ºp24' 2-2018 (forecast) Economic downturn. Eighth house border 19ºr24' Stock Market crash 10-1929 Pluto here c x x x 13}oS m m ; G ; Economic 2nd house Individual resources 1-2022 to 9-2030 Conservative cycle Pluto Return 2-2024 (forecast) economic catastrophe, repressed imperialism SpanishAmerican War Period = 9-1893 to 4-1908 Mexican –American War period = 7-1845 to 3-1861 War of 1812, Indian Wars Period = 5-1804 to 2-1816 A Liberal/Conservative cycle in USA history appears to be regulated by transiting Pluto. Octave Pluto transits alternately seem to change the group psychology of the country to favor the conservative imperialist faction in the body politic or a liberal, domestically orientated and peace orientated group. The liberal (Sun, Venus, Jupiter) stellium is in Cancer, a domestically orientated sign that is in the Libran 7th house. That core stellium is closely tied by octave aspects to Moon/Athena, Saturn and the Midheaven. (see patterns above) Saturn and the Midheaven are both in Libra, the peace sign. In contrast, the conservative/ imperialist group is an octave harmonic aspect pattern, with no close conjunctions. The USA was born (July 4, 1776) with Pluto in the 2nd house in Capricorn economically anchoring the conservative imperialist group in the upper class. Because Pluto is the dominant planet in political horoscopes and by transit to positions in horoscopes, it is logical that it can serve here to characterize the USA imperialist group and time the subsequent alternating Liberal/Conservative cycle. The historical evidence seems to agree with those ideas. Octave (45}or multiples of 45}) aspects of transiting ; to natal planets in the conservative group k,S,;,g,d and the liberal stellium f,h,a from 1774 to 2064 (Precession corrected at 1º per 72 years, added to natal positions). Grey = conservative imperialist periods. Yellow = liberal, pacific periods. White = shift periods. Transiting aspect Exact time range 2-1774 thru 12 1774 ; 135}k 4-1775 thru 10- 1777 ; at natal ; 2-1776 thru 1-1777 ; 45}S 3-1781 thru 11-1782 ; 135}g Revolutionary War period (2-1774 thru 11-1782) Historic Events: Defiant Continental Congress meets 10-1774. Declaration of Independence declared July 4, 1776. End of Revolutionary war 10-1781 Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 11-1782 Shift to liberal 11-1782 thru 3-1789 Paris Treaty 11, 1782 Constitution convention begins 7-1787 US Constitution approved 09-1787 3-1789 thru 1-1790 ; 135}f 3-1791 thru 2-1792 Bill of Rights approved 12, 1891 ; 135}h 4-1796 thru 12-1797 ; 135}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 12-1797 Shift to conservative 12-1797 thru 5-1804 5-1804 thru 1-1806 ; 90}k 4-1807 thru 1-1809 ; 45º natal ; 8-1808 thru 9-1809 ; 90}S 6-1814 thru 11-1816 ; 90}g 5-1804 to 2-1816 Indian Wars, War of 1812 Historical Events: U.S. buys Louisiana from France, doubling its size, 12-1803. Spain looses west Florida 10-1810. Spain looses east Florida, 5-1812. Defeat of the Indian Confederation at the battle of Tippecanoe, 11-1811. Creek Indian War ends 8-1814 with Creek Indians loosing half their lands. U.S. declares war on British, 6-1812. British repulse second invasion of Canada, 12-1813. British burn Washington, 8-1814. Battle of New Orleans, 1-1815. Treaty of Ghent ends war. 12-1814. Barbary Coast pirates defeated, 8-1815 War of 1812 This war was not declared until 1812. However economic sanctions and trade blockades had been imposed since December 1807 precipitated by a naval incident at sea and the issue of impressments of former British seamen from American ships. A diplomatic war over free trade with the two warring superpowers in Europe (England and France) had preceded the military war. In the proceeding 15-years before the War of 1812 American exports had increased 400 %, shipping capacity by 800%. Sailor's wages had tripled. The threat to that economic expansion and the desire for land both Indian and Canadian motivated the war. Also the Louisiana Purchase stimulated westward expansion and confrontation with the British over the fur trade, Indian relations, and trade with France. Defeat of the Indian Confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe, in Indiana, in November 1811. This defeat and many others facilitated westward expansion into all Indian territories. During the peace treaty of Ghent the British demanded that the Indians be given their own country or autonomous region between the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. would have none of it. On the contrary some of the American negotiators wanted the British to succeed all of Canada to the U.S. U.S. Territory after the Treaty of Paris, 1784 Louisiana Purchase 1803 Territory claimed by USA Figure 130 Lou03.jpg, 1784map.jpg Death of Tecumseh, Leader of the Indian Confederacy, Thames River, Canada, October 1813 Figure 131 TipCanoe.gif Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 11-1816 Shift to liberal 11-1816 thru 5-1825 Era of Good feelings 1817 5-1825 thru 2-1827 ; 90}f 4-1828 thru 1-1830 ; 90}h 5-1835 thru 1-1837 ; 90}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 11837 Shift to 1-1837 thru 7-1845 conservative 7-1845 thru 1-1847 ; 45}k 6-1849 thru3-1851 ; 90º natal ; 5-1850 thru 3-1852 ; 135}S 6-1859 thru 3-1861 ; 45}g Mexican American War period. (7-1845 to 3-1861) Historical Events: Texas annexed to U.S., 12-1845. USA declares War on Mexico, 5-1846. U.S. takes California, 7-1846. Mexico City captured, 10-1847. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo makes the U.S. 1/3 larger, with all Mexican land from the Rio Grande river to Canada,. 81848. British give up Oregon under threat of war. 6-1846. U.S. granted transit rights at Panama isthmus from New Grenada (Columbia). 12-1846. Railroad completed 3-1855. Rebel groups called filibusters, from U.S., executed in Cuban revolts. 9-1851. Spain refuses offer of U.S. to buy Cuba 1848, and again in 6-1854. Annexation of Cuba threatened by the U.S. congress in the Ostend Manifesto. 3-1855. Filibuster William Walker declares himself Nicaragua’s leader, and promotes the Americanization of Central America. 12-1855. U.S. investigates annexation of Hawaii 41854. Figure 132 Leuntz.jpg “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” by Emanuel Leuntz Mexico City 1848 Mexican War battles 1846-1848 Figure 133 mex48.jpg, mex46.jpg Mexican Eagle Before the War, Mexican Eagle After the War Figure 134,mex47.jpg, mex49.jpg Early War Photo Saltillo, Mexico 1846 Shift to a liberal pacific, psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars, 3-1861 Shift to liberal 3-1861 thru 6-1871 Lincoln’s 1st Inauguration, 3-1861. South surrenders, 04-1865. Slaves freed 12-1865. 6-1871 thru 3-1873 ; 45}f 6-1874 thru 4-1876 ; 45}h 8-1881 thru 3-1884 ; 45}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 03-1884 Shift to 03-1884 thru 9-1893 conservative 9-1893 thru 2-1896 ; 0}k 7-1897 thru 4-1899 ; 135º natal ; 7-1898 thru 5-1900 ; 180}S ; 0}g 8-1906 thru 4-1908 Spanish-American War period (9-1893 to 4-1908) Historical Events: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Government by American settlers and U.S. Marines. 1-1893. Suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China. 6-1900. Spanish American War declared 4-1898. Spain looses Philippines Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam to USA. US gains Guantanamo Bay and partial control of Cuba codified in the Platt amendment 6-1901. Hawaiian Islands annexed. 7-1898. Samoa Islands annexed by U.S. and Germany. 12-1899. Philippine independence movement suppressed 1900-1902. Panama Canal authorized by the U.S. congress. 6-1902. “Great White Fleet” of 16 battleships sent around the World. 12-1907 1900 cartoon illustrating Theodore Roosevelt's adage "Speak softly but carry a big stick". The second cartoon is titled "Peace" It appeared in 1905 when his big-stick policy was being widely applauded. Figure 135 Sa1898a.jpg, SA1898b.jpg Santiago Bay, Cuba 1898 1898 Manila Bay, Philippines 1898 Figure 136 santi.jpg, manila.jpg The Spanish American War of 1898 pointed out the need to rapidly move ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific and made an isthmus canal a priority. After 3 study commissions (1897-1901) the U.S. congress approved plans to build the canal. (Spooner Act - June, 1902). When the Columbian government would not cooperate, the U.S. recognized the rebellious state of Panama and built the canal anyway. Much of the planning of the expansionist of this era (Roosevelt above all) was based on the book "The Influence of Sea Power upon History" by Alfred Mahan published in 1890. He compared the Caribbean to the Mediterranean Sea with its Suez Canal and argued for a strong two-ocean navy joined at an isthmus canal. The goal was to establish U.S. hegemony with sea power. By controlling the sea-lanes at the Isthmus of Panama and establishing a string of bases and coal fueling stations in the Pacific and Caribbean. Then America would become the commanding world power on those oceans. The plan succeeded, but the arrival of dieselpowered battleships, greatly reduced the need for coal fueling-stations like Guantanamo. 1899 cartoon showing three countries already in the United States tent but not Aguinaldo. Emilio Aguinaldo helped Americans defeat Spain in the Philippines but afterwards he led his native Filipinos in a twoyear war against Yankee Imperialism. Not until the spring of 1901 was he captured. Figure 137 SA1898c.jpg, Peking, China, 1900 Boxer intervention. Figure 138 sa1898d.jpg Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 04-1908 Shift to liberal 04-1908 thru 8-1917 8-1917 thru 5-1919 ; 0}f 10-1919 thru 6-1921 ; 0}h 7-1926 thru 6-1928 ; 0}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 06-1928 Shift to 6-1928 thru 10-1934 conservative 10-1934 thru 6-1936 ; 45}k 9-1937 thru 6-1939 ; 180º natal ; 10-1937 thru 6-1939 ; 135}S 12-1943 thru 6-1945 ; 45}g Great Depression period, repressed imperialism (10-1934 thru 6-1945) Historical Events: Socialistic programs put in place to counter the economic depression. Social Security passes 8-1935. War production and aid to Great Britain increases as WWII begins in Europe. 10-1940. Lend Lease programs aid allies, 3-1941. Pearl Harbor Attacked. 12-1941. Germans surrender. 5-1945. Japan surrenders. 8-1945. The severity of the economic depression led to the election of democrats willing to try socialist solutions. Along with their socialist economic policies came anti- imperialist, antiNazi policies. The imperialism of this period was also muted by the action of Pluto coming from the 8th house (its natural house rulership) and in opposition to Pluto’s natal position in the 2nd house. That activated a Scorpio/Pluto psychology that facilitated socialist programs at home in the thirties, and alliances with England and Russia (anti-German Imperialist forces). Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 06-1945 Shift to liberal 6-1945 thru 09-1952 9-1951 thru 7-1952 ; 45}f 11-1952 thru 7-1954 ; 45}h 9-1957 thru 7-1958 ; 45}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 07-1958 Shift to 7-1958 thru 10-1962 conservative 10-1962 thru 5-1964 ; 90}k ; 135º natal ; 10-1964 thru 8-1965 11-1964 thru 5-1966 ; 90}S 10-1968 thru 8-1969 U.S. begins withdrawal from Vietnam ; 90}g Viet Nam period, Cold War (10-1962 thru 8-1969) Historic events: “Cuban Missile Crisis” 10-1962. Kennedy assassination 11-1963. “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” authorizing Viet Nam War 8-1964. First U.S. ground combat forces in Viet Nam. 3-1965. My lai massacre 3-1968 U.S. Moon landing 7-1969. Viet Nam sorties = 5.24 million Figure 139 Viet64a.jpg, Viet64b.jpg Figure 140 atombomb.gif, silo.gif Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 08-1969 Shift to liberal 08-1969 thru 11-1973 11-1973 thru 7-1974 ; 90}f 11-1974 thru 7-1975 ; 90}h 12-1977 thru 9-1978 ; 90}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 09-1978 Shift to 09-1978 thru 1-1982 conservative 1-1982 thru 8-1983 ; 135}k 11-1983 thru 9-1984 ; 90º natal ; 1-1984 thru -1985 ; 45}S 2-1987 thru 10-1987 ; 135}g Cold War, Reagan Military buildup (1-1982 thru 10-1987) Historical Events: Large increase in Defense spending for MX missiles, B-1 stealth bombers, and ABM Anti-ballistic Missile shield, 3-1983. Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO), was established 1-1984. U.S. aids Contras fighting in Nicaragua 1-1983. U.S. lays mines in Nicaraguan harbors, 4-1984. U.S. invades Grenada, 10-1983. U.S. aids Mujahedeen fighting the Russians in Afghanistan 1982-1988. Most of the military actions in this period were proxy wars where the USA supported third party anti-communist movements in Central America and Afghanistan. Fortunately, the Soviet’s implemented proactive peace program, involving pullout from Afghanistan, economic and political liberalization, and arms reduction offers, that the USA could not refuse. The first nuclear arms reduction treaty was signed in 12-1987, with the Soviets destroying four times as many warheads as the USA. 1500 versus 350, which was 4% of the combined inventory. Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 09-1988 Shift to liberal 10-1987 thru 12-1991 Superpowers sign first missile reduction treaty. 12-1987 12-1991 thru 9-1992 William J. Clinton elected 11-1992 ; 135}f 12-1992 thru 11-1993 ; 135}h 12-1995 thru 11-1996 William J. Clinton 2nd election 11-1996 ; 135}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 11-1996 Shift to conservative 11-1996 thru 1-2000 1-2000 thru 11-2000 ; 180}k 12-2001 thru 10-2002 ; 45º natal ; 1-2002 thru 11-2002 ; 0}S 3-2005 thru10-2006 ; 180}g Iraq War, War on Terror, NATO expansion, (1-2000 thru 10-2006) Historical Events: Attack on USS Cole, 10-2000. U.S. spy plane incident along China coast, 42001. Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, 9-11-2001 Large increase in Military spending and on Anti Ballistic Missile program, 11-2001. Military invasion Afghanistan, 10- 2001. U.S. withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in 6-2002. U.S. announces the right of preemptive attack and intention to assert military dominance, 9-2002. F35A nuclear bomber. Nuclear bomb delivery systems proliferated in Europe (180 Abombs) in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Turkey (socalled non-nuclear states), as NATO’s Nuclear-Sharing policy circumvented the Non- Proliferation Treaty rules and spirit, which prohibits the transfer and acceptance, respectively, of direct or indirect control over nuclear weapons. American Air Force personnel supplied the nuclear bombs, retrofitting of planes and training for those air-forces as part of a nuclearwar readiness scheme using formerly non-nuclear air commands. Figure 141 bomber.jpg, sub.jpg The expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe led by the USA was one of many acts that violated the spirit of informal agreements between Soviet leaders and the H.W. Bush administration52 when the Warsaw pact was unilaterally dismantled, with the belief that former Soviet nations would not become NATO members. Getting Moscow to agree to German reunification within NATO was considered by all in the West to be a near miracle and among the greatest policy accomplishments of the Bush administrations. Many considered it mission impossible when the Berlin Wall came down in 1990. Below is a much quoted negotion between USA secretary of State James Baker and President Gorbachev three months later. 52 Baker: “As the two victorious powers over Germany in WWII, the USSR and US had a legal voice in determining the country’s foreign policy orientation. The president and I have made clear that we seek no unilateral advantage in this process. If we maintain a presence in a Germany that is a part of NATO there would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the East. If at the end of the day it is acceptable to everyone, we could have discussion in a two plus four contex that might achieve this kind of outcome. Maybe there is a better way to deal with the external consequences of German unification. If there is I am not aware of it.” Baker: “Let’s assume for a moment that unification is going to take place. Assuming that, would you prefer a united Germany outside of NATO that is independent and has no US forces, or would you prefer a united Germany with ties to NATO and assurances that there would be no extension of NATO’s current jurisdiction eastward?” Gorbachev responded that Soviet political leadership would be holding a seminar on matter shortly and went on to say. Gorbachev: “Certainly any extension of the zone of NATO is unacceptable”. Baker “I agree.” In the mid 1990’s Russian would refer to this and other pledges from NATO allies, that were subsequently ignored at every step of NATO’s eastward growth and increase in threat to Russia. It seems clear that NATO, under USA leadership, and European cooperation has morphed into a hybrid Western Imperialism tool, preparing step-by-step for a final war against Russia and the East when the proper occasion arrives. The inability of the liberal Obama administration to substantially change the massive funding or upgrade of preparations for nuclear war, or even acknowledge the problem, indicates the 2024 conservative cycle and Pluto return may be an astrological anchoring transit for a potential final wave of Western Imperialism, with NATO as a essential component in tactical terms. They should realize the majority spirit knows the minority spirits plans and has always won out in the past, after such imperialist waves have spent their effort and sacrifice. The historical odds are not promising and the sacrifice appears existential this time. Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 10-2006 Shift to liberal 10-2006 to 1-2011 Democrats win congress 11-2006, Barak H. Obama elected 11-2008 1-2011 thru 12-2011 ; 180}f 3-2012 thru 10-2013 Barak H.Obama 2nd election 11-2012 ; 180}h 2-2016 thru 12-2016 ; 180}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 12-2016 Shift to 12-2016 thru 2-2022 conservative 2-2022 thru 12-2022 ; 135}k 1-2024 thru 12-2024 ; º natal ; 3-2024 thru 9-2025 ; 45}S 3-2029 thru 9-2030 ; 135}g Forecast; depression, repressed imperialism, Mass population needsdriven economic revolution. Figure 142 mute360.jpg Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 09-2030 Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 10-2045 PRESIDENTIAL CORRELATIONS WITH THE LIBERAL - CONSERATIVE CYCLE. President dates are for election date to inauguration of the next administration. Transiting Exact time range of aspect aspect aspects to conservative imperialist group 2-1774 thru 12 1774 ; 135}k 2-1776 thru 1-1777 ; 45}S 4-1775 thru 10- 1777 ; at natal ; 3-1781 thru 11-1782 ; 135}g Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 11-1782 Shift to liberal 11-1782 thru 3-1789 3-1789 thru 1-1790 ; 135}f George Washington 3-1789 thru 4-1797 3-1791 thru 2-1792 ; 135}h 4-1796 thru 12-1797 John Adams 12-1796 thru 3-1801 ; 135}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 12-1797 Shift to 12-1797 thru 5-1804 Thomas Jefferson 3-1801 thru 3-1809 conservative 5-1804 thru 1-1806 ; 90}k Thomas Jefferson 2nd term 8-1808 thru 9-1809 ; 90}S James Madison 12-1808 thru 3-1817 6-1814 thru 11-1816 ; 90}g Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 11-1816 Shift to liberal 11-1816 thru 5-1825 James Monroe 12-1816 thru 3-1825 5-1825 thru 2-1827 ; 90}f John Quincy Adams 2-1825 thru 3-1829 4-1828 thru 1-1830 ; 90}h Andrew Jackson 12-1828 thru 3-1837 5-1835 thru 1-1837 ; 90}a Martin Van Buren 12-1836 thru 3-1841 Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 1-1837 Shift to 1-1837 thru 7-1845 W. H. Harrison 4-1841thru 4-1841 conservative John Tyler 4-1841thru 3-1845 ; 45}k 7-1845 thru 1-1847 James Knox Polk 12-1844 thru 3-1849 ; 135}S 5-1850 thru 3-1852 ; 45}g 6-1859 thru 3-1861 Zachary Taylor 11-1848 thru 7-1850 Millard Fillmore 7-1850 thru 3-1853 Franklin Pierce 11-1852 thru 3-1857 James Buchanan 11-1856 thru 3-1861 Abraham Lincoln 11-1860 thru 4-1865 Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 3-1861 Shift to liberal 3-1861 thru 6-1871 Abraham Lincoln (1st inauguration 3; 45}f ; 45}h ; 45}a 6-1871 thru 3-1873 6-1874 thru 4-1876 8-1881 thru 3-1884 1861) Andrew Johnson 4-1865 thru 3-1869 Ulysses S. Grant 11-1868 thru 3-1877 Rutherford B. Hayes 12-1876 thru 3-1881 James A. Garfield 11-1880 thru 9-1881 Chester A. Authur 7-1881 thru 3-1885 Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 03-1884 Shift to 03-1884 thru 9-1893 Grover Cleveland 11-1884 thru 3-1889 conservative Benjamin Harrison 11-1888 thru 3-1893 Grover Cleveland 11-1892 thru 3-1897 William McKinley 11-1896 thru 9-1901 Theodor Roosevelt 9-1901 thru 3-1909 Theodor Roosevelt 2nd term 11-1904 9-1893 thru 2-1896 ; 0}k 7-1898 thru 5-1900 ; 180}S 8-1906 thru 4-1908 ; 0}g Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 04-1908 Shift to liberal 04-1908 thru 8-1917 William H. Taft 11-1908 thru 3-1913 Woodrow Wilson 11-1912 thru 3-1921 8-1917 thru 5-1919 ; 0}f Woodrow Wilson 11-1916 2nd term 10-1919 thru 6-1921 Warren G. Harding 11-1920 thru 8-1923 ; 0}h 7-1926 thru 6-1928 ; 0}a Calvin Coolidge 8-1923 thru 3-1929 Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 06-1928 Shift to 6-1928 thru 10-1934 Herbert C. Hoover 11-1928 thru 3-1933 conservative 10-1934 thru 6-1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 11-1932 thru 4; 45}k ; 135}S ; 45}g 10-1937 thru 6-1939 12-1943 thru 6-1945 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt 11-1936 2nd term Franklin D. Roosevelt 11-1940 3rd term Harry S. Truman 4-1945 thru 1-1953 Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 06-1945 Shift to liberal 6-1945 thru 9-1951 Harry S. Truman 11-1948 election 9-1951 thru 7-1952 ; 45}f 11-1952 thru 7-1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower 11-1952 thru 1; 45}h 1961 9-1957 thru 7-1958 ; 45}a Dwight D. Eisenhower 11-1956 2nd term Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 07-1958 Shift to 7-1958 thru 10-1962 John F. Kennedy 11-1960 thru 11-1963 conservative 10-1962 thru 5-1964 ; 90}k Lyndon B. Johnson 11-1963 thru 1-1969 11-1964 thru 5-1966 ; 90}S Lyndon B. Johnson 11-1964 1st election 10-1968 thru 8-1969 ; 90}g Richard M. Nixon 11-1968 to 8-1974 Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 08-1969 Shift to liberal 8-1969 thru 11-1973 Richard M. Nixon 2nd term 11-1972 11-1973 thru 7-1974 ; 90}f Gerald R. Ford 8-1974 thru 3-1977 11-1974 thru 7-1975 ; 90}h James E. Carter Jr. 11-1976 thru 1-1981 12-1977 thru 9-1978 ; 90}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 09-1978 Shift to 09-1978 thru 1-1992 Ronald W. Reagan 11-1980 thru 1-1989 conservative 1-1982 thru 8-1983 ; 135}k 1-1984 thru -1985 ; 45}S Ronald W. Reagan 2nd term 11-1984 2-1987 thru 10-1987 ; 135}g Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 09-1988 Shift to liberal 10-1987 thru 12-1991 George H.W. Bush 11-1988 thru 3-1993 12-1991 thru 9-1992 ; 135}f William J. Clinton 11-1992 thru 3-2001 12-1992 thru 11-1993 ; 135}h 12-1995 thru 11-1996 William J. Clinton 2nd term 11-1996 ; 135}a Shift to conservative imperialist psychology begins with the last pass of Pluto to natal Sun 11-1996 Shift to 11-1996 thru 1-2000 conservative 1-2000 thru 11-2000 ; 180}k George W. Bush 11-2000 thru 3-2009 1-2002 thru 11-2002 ; 0}S 3-2005 thru10-2006 ; 180}g George W. Bush 2nd term 11-2004 Shift to liberal pacific psychology begins with the last pass of transiting Pluto to natal Mars 10-2006 Shift to liberal 10-2006 thru 1-2011 Barak H. Obama 11-2008 thru 3-2016 1-2011 thru 12-2011 ; 180}f 3-2012 thru 10-2013 ; 180}h Barak H. Obama 2nd term 11-2012 2-2016 thru 12-2016 ; 180}a One might logically think that the shift between liberal and conservative periods would be at the midpoint between Mars and Venus and the midpoint between Sun and Mercury. But the evidence above suggest an abrupt change in political psychology immediately after the last pass of aspecting Pluto to the last planet in the respective groups (Mars in the conservative group and Sun in the liberal group. That shift is strong enough to affect elections. It is easy for the press and public to get blindsided by that astrological change in the USA body politic psychology. Republic of Venezuela: Uranus-Neptune conjunctions Uranus-Neptune conjunctions and Pluto positions, 1821 blue and 1993 red. Figure 143 neurcon.jpg, Urne2.jpg Both Hugo Chavez and Simon Bolivar were central figures in Venzuela regimes (3rd and 5th Republics) associated with the two conjunctions of Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn in 1821 and172 years later in 1993. The kl conjunction cycle progresses through the zodiac at the rate of 16º-17º every 172 years. The symbolism of that conjunction proposed here is ultimately associated with the revolution of individual longevity but more generally is associated with all the sciences that support that scientific achievement. On the other hand the Pluto position in Scorpio in 1993 was a strongly-positive socialistic factor of the 1993 Bolevarian Revolutionary movement charts, whereas the Pluto position in Pisces or Aries in 1821, was not, especially after the 1822 when Pluto had moved from idealistic Pisces into less receptive Aries. Likewise Uranus and Neptune moved from Sagitttarius into Capricorn making the political environment less receptive to populus, progressive or socialistic ideas adopted in Gran Columbia’s constitution and founding charts. It is probably a mistake to ascribe the socialistic character of the Bolivarian Revolutionary movement of 1993 to Bolivar’s vision of a unified, progressive South America he championed in the 1821 klconjunction period. In any event, Chavez’s Bolivarianian Revolution9 is astrologically connected to Bolivars period but with a significant positive socialist component added. Astrology does not drive history. Needs of the evolving, growing, social organism drives history. The psychologies associated with the various planets, signs and aspects determine timing. That happens when significant configurations form among the planets that directly channel the need being resolved by a historical crisis, or necessary change. The outer planet conjunctions and less powerful aspects chang mass psychology, by temporarily exegerating the relativly few arch-concepts described by our relatively simple solar system. Brief history: After the fall of the Spainish monarchy to Napoleonic France, in 1807, the Spanish colonial empire became politically unstable and disintegrated in South America into independent countries over the next 17 years. Most of those countries had the NeptuneUranus conjunction in Carpicorn or late Sagittarius in their independence charts but did not have a strong socialistic aspect like the Pluto in Scorpio position that was present in the 1993 kl-conjunction period. Bolivar unsucessfully tried to unite South America after the final defeat of the Spainish Royalist forces at the battle of Ayacucho in Peru on December 9, 1824. Bolivar secured the liberation of most of South America but his plan for a progressive United South America was rejected at the Congress of Panama in June, 1826. Subsequently Great Columbia (1819-1830), composed of Venezuela, Columbia, and Equador disintegrated after 10 years into independent states. The United provinces of Central America also disintegrated. The failure of Bolivars crowning political achievment (Gran Columbia) showed that his plans, inspired by the kl-conjunction, and a idealistic populism, were too far ahead of the historical conditions of the time. Slavery and endemic raceism were the norm in a landed oligarchy that saw little advantage in political unification or Bolivars progressive ideas, like ending slavery and political integration. The South American regimes subsequently developed into isolated countries with strong oligarchic regimes. The dominant kl conjunction mostly expressed through development of a ruling class of superlative landowning families that flourished in a relatively undeveloped social environment. The liberation of the remainder of the Spanish Colonial empire in Cuba and Puerto Rico was stopped and the USA began to exert its dominance with exercise of the Monroe Doctrine, which excluded future European intervention in South America and the Caribbean. Small French, Brittish and Dutch colonies remained intact. The tendency of South America to fractionate into isolated States may be related to its geographic location in the astro-geographic overlay that puts it in the starting quadrant of soul development, where the psychology is insular and local in contrast to the opposite quadrant that is social and organized. That psychology derives from the characteristics of the souls developmental pathway and the evolved structure of a bipolar World organism. A major distinction between the two periods (Bolivars Great Golumbia, and Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution) was the rise of mass populations in the 20th Century that fueled the need for socialistic solutions, championed by Cuba, Bolivarian Venezuela and other socialistic-minded regimes. Another important difference was the maturation of the sciences and technology in the interveneing 172 years that made mass population development doable and acquisition of a modern lifestyle the envy of the masses. Need drives history, and mass populations need infrastructure support optimized by Scorpio/Pluto socialistic psychology. It was not necessary before the 20th caentury, but by the 21th century it could no longer be repressed, as it had been in the West for ideological reasons that supported capitalism and ultimately Western Imperialism. The Post-Soviet regimes and EU are set to satisfy those mass-population driven needs with their Pluto in Scorpio position. The Bolevarian Revolutionary movement led by Hugo Chavez synchronized in time with the Post-Soviet period, but was not sucessful in Figure 144 mutear.jpg alligning his institional victories with the most favorable period, 1989-1993, when all three outer planets were in extraordanary configurations, described in the EU and Russian Day chart. Hugo Chaves initially tried to impliment the “Bolevarian Revolutionary Movement” by force but failed as did another coup attempt led by Admiral Gruber, eight months later. The violent Caracazo Revolt in Caracas three years earlier had convinced the coup plotters that the time was ripe for their populist revolutions. Chavez was of course unaware of the astrology of the cyclic return of the kl cojunction or the ideal position of Pluto in Scorpio for socialism, at the time of his coup, but his timing instincts were right. The Caracazo revolt and coup attempts of the years 1989-1992 shared the outer planet configurations of the post- Soviet and EU founding charts that symbolize primary long term personal and collective goals. The Caracazo spontaneous Revolt in Caracas, and the two failed coups by socialistic military groups led seperately by Colonel Chavez and Admiral Gruber, repete the kl conjunction of 1821 (see yellow below) that tie the Bolevarian Revolutionary Movement led by Chavez to Bolivars Great Columbia Union and his vision of a united South America. After the period of failed takeover attempts, 1989-1992 The Bolivarian revolutionary movement was still intact and popular. Chavez was in prison during Grubers coup but released in 2-1994. Subsequently extensive academic polling convinced Chavez that a democratic path to socialism was feasable in Venezuala. Chavez came to the conclusion that the Bolivarian movement required democracy as an organizing and legitimizing principle. After being elected as President in December 1998 he systematically held a series of elections and referendum in order to get a new Constitution with the broadest popular support. Seperately he democratically organized and unified many socialist parties into the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)7. The founding of the United Socialist Party of Venzuela, The Bolevarian Republic of Venzuela constitution of 1999, and the ALBA-TCP, (Boliverian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples Trade Treaty) are the main legacy of the Bolevarian Revolutionary Movement led by Hugo Chavez. Their founding horoscopes do not not share the dramatic aspects made by the outer planet positions of the Post- Soviet regime charts of 1989-1993, but they are still fine horoscopes with many aspects that connect them to the main outer planet configurations of 1989-1993. It appears the legacy of the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement may be the institutionalization of Democratic Socialism in Venezuela, through dominance in future elections, by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the largest Socialist party in South America, with 8 million members. A. ; l k Pluto Neptune Uranus position position position Bolevarian revolution timeline. Date French conquest of Spain 1807 Venezuela Independence Declared Jul. 5, 1811 18º]15' 08ºo59' 14ºi56' Great Columbia Dec. 17, 1819 25º]30' 28ºo16' 24ºo43' k / l exact conjunctions Mar., May, 1821 (2-3ºp) Great Columbia Constitution Aug. 30, 1821 29º]14' 00ºp16' Congress of Panama (failed) June 22, 1826 05ºq20' 12ºp57' 23ºp00' Great Columbia Union disintegrates with Sep. 22, 1830 Venezuelan Independence. 08ºq46' 20ºp02' 06º[46' 29o10' 172 YEARS LATER (one kl conjunction cycle) B. Small (MBR200) Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement group started. Dec. 17, 1982 28ºu55' 26ºo42' Caracazo spontaneous revolt Feb. 27, 1989 15ºi09' 11ºp49' 04ºp37' Chavez Coup d'Etat Feb. 04, 1992 22ºi50' 17ºp29' 15ºp41' Gruber Coup d'Etat Nov. 27, 1992 23ºi22' 17ºp09' 15ºp46' k / l exact conjunctions Feb., Aug., Oct., 1993 (17-18ºp) Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela inception chart and 1999 Constitution Dec. 15, 1999 10ºo50' 02º[38' 14º[02' ALBA-TCP Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas –Peoples Trade Treaty8 Dec. 14, 2004 22ºo05' 13º[20' 03º]20' United Socialist Party of Venezuela9 Mar. 14, 2008 01ºp03' 22º[54' 18º]59' 06ºo06' Great Columbia December 17, 1819 Cuidad Bolivar, Venzuela Individual perfection goal, science Idealistic socialistic leadership The outer planets are in progressive aspects that temporarily inspired the revolutions leadership, but far ahead of social development stage in South America. Figure 145 Grcol.jpg Caracazo Spontaneous Revolt Feb. 26, 1989, Caracas, Venzuela 6:00:00 AM Standard time Colonel Chavez 1992 failed Coup d’Etat February 4, 1992 Caracas, Venezuela 5:00:00 AM Standard time Figure 146 Carac1.jpg Chavez92.jpg Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Constitution December 15, 1999 Caracas, Venzeula Higher education, science, emphasis on internet learning. State sector supported by natural resources, (oil and land). Figure 147 VenzCon.jpg United Socialist Party of Venezuela: PSUV March 14, 2008 Caracas,,Venezuela Party and serving Government leadership. Four corners of a mystic rectangle. Broad based kl Bolivarian configuration centered around the (dfA) conjunction, perhaps symbolizing community organizations and development goals. An idealistic group with much ]/l influence. Local chavista social projects, and community organizations Figure 148 UnSoV2.jpg Admiral Gruber’s failed Coup d’Etat on Nov. 27, 1992 was similar to Colonel Chavez’s with allied participants. Gruber’s coup chart was also similar to the Caracazo Revolt. The outer Planet aspects show the astrological timing for a socialistic revolution was perfect (; in mid-i), but the forceful method of accomplishing it, did not fit the post-cold war situation. Chavez proved himself leader enough to correct the course of the Bolivarian Revolution to include abundant democracy. Hugo Chaves became the first President of the United Figure 149 unsova.jpg Socialist Party at the above founding congress. It is an execellent chart for a socialist political party with a well aspected Pluto, strategically located at 1º Capricorn in the sign associated with leadership. The dynamic “mystic rectangle” seen in the “Russia Day” chart (p. 114) is seen here, but not the dramatic outer-planet configurations. It is dynamic in the sense that when transiting planets activate one corner of the rectangle pattern it simultaneously activates the other corner groups, via less powerful but still solid aspects 60º,120º and 180º. That creates a frequent and integrated activation pattern, different than if the planetary groups were isolated and not connected by one of the main harmonic aspect families considered important by astrologers. Hugo Chavez was brilliant in building as much paticipatory-democracy as possible into the 1999 constitution, and the United Socialist Party’s organization. He believed that democracy had many advantages for government and party organization. In particular it legitimized the parties policies and insured that policy had popular support. Mass population needs + democracy = socialism. Like the champion baseball player that Chavez was, he systimatically covered the bases in connecting the body politic to political structures through paticipatory democracy. A third institution co-founded by Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, that may be long-lasting is the ALBA confederation of like-minded socialist-leaning countries. It is a trade treaty designed to take the profit motive out of trade arrangements and substitute mutual development schemes that promote socialistic goals like sustainable local agriculture, health care and education. While small with only eight countries it has been ative, creative and popular since its inception. The chart has many idealistic and harmonious aspects (green and blue lines) (6th ,9th, and 10th harmonic aspects). It is an idealistic organization that takes advantage of the emotional zeal and altruism inherent in Scorpio/Plutonian psychology. The idealism of socialistic ideology inspires dedication among the significant portion of the population that have i/; prominent in their horoscopes. What people fail to understand is that socialism is not only an political/economic idea but an expression of a major psychological component of our social nature, that arose because cooperation in social organisms like bee and ant colonies, has selective advantages for survival. They take their discounts and maximixe organizational efficientcies. The sign Scorpio is central to the transfamial social quadrant of the natural zodiac. If given an outlet for expression, those people are political workhorses who emotionally enjoy their work. (See Scorpio p. 22) These are fragile regimes inspired by social needs of growing mass populations, but they are operating under the duress of still-active Western Imperialism that vilifies their motives. The SW quadrant is tough geography to plant nascent socialist regimes at this time. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples Trade Treaty December 14, 2004 Havana, Cuba ALBA-TCP countries: Venezuela Cuba Bolivia Nicaragua Dominica Antigua and Barbuda St. Vincent and the Grenadines Figure 150 alba.jpg, alba2.jpg, mutens.jpg North-South divide of the Americas It appears that the rise of socialistic movements in the SW quadrant of the astro-geographic overlay in the second half of the 20th century may relate to a natural psychological divide at the ]/q border that seperates North America from Latin America. The difference between developmental maturity in the upper NW quadrant, and developmentally still-evolving souls in the SW quadrant, that has a natural attraction to the opposite (body-centric) hemisphere, based on physical needs required for early-stage development. The sign Aries is associated with independence of thought and action and a pioneering spirit that operates well in isolation. The Aries glyph, q suggest a East/ West ambivalence. Aries traditionally rules the head and typically, they like to form their Figure 151 mutens.jpg own opinions and chart an independent destiny. Overall, the Western hemispher may be still caught up in Western Imperialism, dependent in part on socialistic repression, but in the SW quadrant, special conditions developed in the 20th century, that permitted isolated movements to express independently in special cases like Cuban communism that got started with the help of Soviet aid and protection, and later in Venezuela, Equador and Bolivia, where oil resources supplied a means of financing nascent socialistic regimes derived from majority populations with unmet needs. The lower half of South America falls under the Taurus sector of the astrogeographic-overlay and the Taurus attitude toward resources is orientated toward individual, family, or corporate wealth in contrast to a collective wealth accumulation model favored by the opposite sign, i, so it is a less friendly psychology for generating ;/i socialistic regimes but the increasing needs of mass population growth may trump that aversion over time. Social and geographical isolation from the competitive 30} East divide, may have also contributed to a lack of developmental pressure to consolidate into larger social groups in pre-Columbian North and South America. Note that these sector boundaries are not as precise, far from the 30º East divide, as in this case. Whether the Pisces/Aries (North/South) divide affected the USA’s ability or desire to expand South of continental USA is unknown, but the idelogical aversion of the USA to integrate as equals with Southern territory is a persistant historical phenomena. There were however preCivil War groups that wanted to extend USA territoy into the central America as slave states. The independent, and pioneering Aries psychology generated in the Caribbean and Norther South America may have supplied the right psychological environment for counterimperialist, socialistic and communistic movements to florish in the later 20th century as the need for socialist solutions driven by mass population growth became insistent. There seems to be a tendency of ;/i psychology to self-organize into smaller social units when repressed within the macro social environment, which accounts for much of the gang activity current in Central and South America. CHINA Satellite view (cylindrical azimuth projection) Figure 152 World4C.jpg, World45c.jpg Mercator projection Peoples Republic of China Oct. 1, 1949, Peking, China 03:07:00 PM Standard Time Zone 8 East Creative, fun-loving Venus at Midheaven – gold, green blue pattern. Abundance of idealist Libra in socialistic 8th house. Individual -family supported by state infrastructure. GjH creative labor and manufacturing partnerships. Strong gl peace orientated military. Pro-active socialism. Lucky Moon in Aquarius with Jupiter close. = Collective mind linked to the majority people. Home of the Dragons head. Figure 153 PRC22.jpg Republic of China “double ten day” October 10, 1911 Wuchang, China 7:05:00 PM, Land based oligarchy connected to military – red lines to h in i Upper class elites – kxl Neo-confucian-aristocratic, scholar-official tradition. Obligately attached to Western science and culture. (Taiwan = tied to 1), (Double 10 = doubling k x 10th house Aquarius. Background yui Libradominant values. Figure 154 PRC24..jpg Composite Chart: Peoples Republic of China and Republic of China Idealistic populace – blue, green, gold aspect patterns. Social support abundance. Idealized work and agriculture situations. Large integrated 8th harmonic patterns (red) = ability to make the symbolized ideas concrete. kcj + ;zG = astrology awareness in intelligencia. Domestically orientated government. Figure 155 prcroc.jpg Both national horoscopes of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of China (ROC) and the composite compatibility-chart are strong in Libra and Scorpio aspects. That emphasis on ui is in agreement with the astro-geographic-overlay, showing the psychological influence of those two signs on the national character and destiny. Interestingly, a very close and well–aspected Moon remains on the ascendant in both national horoscopes and the composite. It is of course easy to see the Venus/Libra part of the Chinese character in their beautiful arts, architecture, and fine manufactures that have always been a constant feature in Chinese culture. Government administrations were often determined by knowledge of the Confucian classic books, based on competitive exams. Confucianism became the guiding philosophy of the long series of dynasties that ruled until the 20th century. Libra symbolizes the individual supported by social structure. Libra follows the family quadrant (rty) and the Libra psychology is what a society organized around the family unit needs to prosper; public safety, law and order. The Scorpio sector may have come to the fore in the 20th century in order to maximally counter Western Imperialism, which came on strong for China in the mid 19th century. The timeline of the rise and fall of the Romanov dynasty 1613-1917, and the Qing dynasty in China (1644-1911) roughly parallel each countries crisis in countering invasion by Western powers. Monarchy was discarded and militant Scorpionic regimes installed. The Republic of China (1911) was an attempt at reforms designed to take back control from the West. The chart seems to reflect orientation to the oligarchic upper class, still dominant in 1911. The Composite chart shows reunification would reinforce the core Libran orientation toward peace and social stability, perhaps in part by reducing the chance for nuclear war with the USA. The wide gj; conjunction, (symbolizing government leadership) in the separate national charts becomes more compact in the composite. The gj;G conjunction centered in Cancer and the 4th house may reflect the local/domestic orientation of the huge Peoples Congress of representatives in guiding the state in a reunited China. It shows an internal preoccupation with the domestic issues like housing, family security, and all the concerns that the Libra-Scorpio state supports. Numerous close integrated aspect patterns show the union to be beneficial. The Virgo portion of the astro-geographic overlay, is associated with childbirth and servile work. It fits well with the densely populated section covering Southern China, most of India, and SE Asia, increasingly becoming the manufacturing center of the World. Virgo is accounted for in these China charts also. The Dragon has long been a symbol of China, with the emperor having exclusive right to wear the dragon symbol. In Western astrology The North node is associated with the Dragons head, while the South node is associated with the Dragons tail. In the present interpretation the lunar nodes natural location is on the Aries-Libra axis, with the dragons head in Libra, geographically associated with China in the overlay. That appropriately links the head with the most populous hemisphere. The dragon is symbolic of antagonistic polarity inherent in the collective mind. Russia’s implacable European dragon. Saint George dealing with his dragon. Figure 156 dragon3.jpg, StGeo.jpg Figure 157 dragon.jpg, drago8.jpg The United Nations chart is very similar to the Chinese regeme charts, showing a similar psychology orientated toward Libra and Scorpio. It is an execellent horoscope for international conflict resolution and social development. Born at the end of end of WWII, at a time of yearning for peace and international order. United Nations October 24, 1945, 4:45 PM, Washington, D.C. Health services, Health education . Education services. Housing. services Figure 158 UN.jpg The traditional greater and lesser benefice planets Jupiter and Venus are cunjunct Neptune and Juno in Libra = (idealized relationships & social support services. Israel: By astro-geographic position and by her current national chart is Libra/Scorpio with the Scorpio cusp line hitting the coast above Tel Aviv and exiting below the Golan Heights. Cities close to the Scoroio cusp line. Tel Aviv Jerusalem Amman Damascus Mosul Tehran Ashgabat Tashkent Bishkek Alma-ata i u Figure 159 Israel1.jpg Israel independence May 14, 1948, 4:32 pm Tel Aviv, Israel Figure 160 Israel2.jpg The Independence chart ascendant is at the border of Libra/Scorpio, perhaps indicating a narrow focus of the current regime on security and military power. The broad stellium in Leo (gj;s) built around Pluto is indicative of that focus on power. The 7th and 8th houses, which are Libra and Scorpio’s natural house positions are well populated with planets in Taurus and Gemini indicating that the local neighborhood is the realm of its power and extensive relationships that have deep roots in antiquity both Libran and Scorpionic in character. The consolidation of power in pre-imperialist antiquity, before Roman imperialism (-221 BCE) in the Near-East and levant region was very competivive among large states, (Syria, Persia, Babylon) with a similar astro-geographic psychological background as Israel. Israel though small and under-resourced, was like Greece, a competitor disproportionate to its size and population. The state was organized in a Scorpionic manner that marshalled maximum military efficiency out of its homogenous population, unified by its monotheistic religion. When the Jews talk of one God they could be refering to the dominant majority-fraction of the collective mind coming from the more populous East, associated with Pluto/Scorpio psychology that has the most urgent power over and interest in material destiny, coming as it does from the body-half of the collective mind. Perhaps the majorityspirit did foster a special relationship with the Hebrew prophets with the aim to innitiate a state with a concentrated allegiance to its Scorpionic interest, close to the center-point of the E/W divide. That attachment of Israel with the majority-spirit, the demiurge of the East has a astro-geographic basis. Israel had rejected the man-Gods of Egypt and a religion orientated toward the spiritual life of the soul after death, signified in signs (]q) central to the Western half of the Zodiac, and prominate in Phaoronic Egypt (-5036 to -575) outer-planet transit cycles. The Jews unsucessfully, fought to the death against Roman Imperialism, while, larger more distant regimes, (Parthia and Sasanid Persia) also on the Scorpio line halted Romes imperial ambitions in the East. The connection with Scorpio may explain anti-semitism in the West, and the disproportionate role of Jews in socialist movements in the 20th century. Star of David = the relationship of the social organism to individual organismal perfection. The fixed cross midpoints of wti[ sybolize how Taurus geography becomes Leo individual biology, which produce Scorpio social demography which produces Aquarian social psychology (collective mind). The diamond symbol within the fixed signs = the longevity phenotype/genotype that eventually rules and unifies the naturally-selected World. Israel’s rail satisfies the demiurge Pluto’s need for a unified World through chosen births, by he-brewing the hero or heroin, human semigods. Figure 161 Israel5.jpg, Israel4.jpg Idealistic 9th harmonic (blue) patterns involved with planned reproduction involving the feminine asteroids GFHJ, the controllers of reproduction and child raising in the future. Kibbutzim culture for raising and educating of chosen children. S Aliya birthing journeys involving planned births timed with the Lunar Node soros-cycle, every 18 years, that emphasizes the q-u axis. A harmonious (green) hkG 6th harmonic pattern emphasizes the longevity axis, integrated with transhemispheric antagonistic-polarity resolution. Israel’s rail. gj;s and Midheaven in Leo = the product of chosen births = most reproductively fit leaders of the family/ clan /tribe. Emblem of Jerusalem, Lion of Juda. Figure 162 Isr3.jpg, lion.jpg Modern Greece: Greece has always been fractionated by rough terrain, many islands and distant colonies on both sides of 30} East. It has a close astro-geographic connection to the Aquarius cusp and Jupiter as symbol of the collective mind and Pallas Athena as expressing the core theme of that mind. The Greeks, above all cultures, have striven to intellectually understand the spirit world cosmologically, first developing a system of planetary associated gods, described in Homer’s mythic epics histories and consolidated in Hesiod’s Theogony, (7th century BCE). Later they championed rational science-based astronomy (4th century BCE) that made horoscopic astrology possible. Witness the Antikythera mechanism (1st century BCE) p. 70 Later still (15th century CE) Byzantine Greeks under severe pressure from the Roman West and Ottoman East, initiated the astrology glyph system, interpreted here, which at the social/political level is largely a self-description of a contentious polarized world and collective-mind, integrated with the individuals (body/soul) development pathway. The role of the late Byzantine Greeks in integrating Eastern hemisphere concepts, like Zoroastrian antagonistic spirit-polarity and reincarnation into the new glyph system, remains a historic mystery, but the Pluti.28.34 manuscript (discussed on p.75-84) indicates a Greek Byzantine role may have been seminal in glyph development. In the astro-geographic overlay its present territory is under the Capricorn sector, except for part of Cypress, but historically it was a trans-hemispheric entity in Hellenistic and Byzantine times. The desire to reestablish that ideal trans-hemispheric condition seems strong in the Greek national consciousness. kl conjunctions were a major astrological factor in the timing of Hellenistic Greece and the renaissance advent of the glyph system (post-Byzantium) so it should not surprise anyone that kl in Capricorn is exact in the Greek national horoscope in a chart that seems too lofty and ahead of its time in 1821. Greek Revolution, March 25, 1821, Agia Lavra, Greece Figure 163 Grk1821.jpg, Greek8.jpg It seems more a statement of intent than actionable plan. The second kl conjunction in Capricorn in 1993 reinforces and furthers the Greek Independence charts goal of individual developmental perfection with the new science of aging coming on strong now. Progress lies in rediscovering the cosmological relationships that underpin the cardinal cross, and the science behind longevity. When Zeus and Athena reoccupy the Greek mind, new dimensions of Athenian “creative intelligence” may open up in the political realm as well. In the national chart the large politically-orientated Sun-Pluto conjunction at the Pisces/Aries cusp may represent the socialistic parties, that have little support in the current EU economic environment. That large socialistic part of the Greek body-politic may require a transhemispheric dimension not supported now by the current E-W stage of polarity resolution. While not discussed here there is much synergism between the socialistic Turkey national horoscope and the Greek one, that suggest that the day may come when a hybrid trans- hemispheric union between them and perhaps other states in the area could be achieved. Such thinking is not new to Greek and Turkey politicians, but the use of astrology to understand the relationship in the larger E-W context may be helpful. THE BIOLOGY OF AGING: A good example of the correlation of the kl conjunctions of 1993 with the current revolution of the biology of aging was the discovery of the lifespan gene mutations that increased lifespan. (Kenyon 1993) There were earlier precursor reports of long-lived mutants along the same genetic pathway, but they did not stimulate the explosion of aging research that started around 1990-93 .(Klass 1983, Friedman 1988) The discovery of the insulin/ IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor) signaling pathway (also called the IIS) pathway was the entry point for the discovery of many interacting gene groups that regulate aging through classical signaling pathways. Those genetic pathways are stress and metabolic sensors such as insulin and IGF-1 hormones, TOR (target of rapamycin) kinase, AMP (adenosine mono phosphate) kinase, and sirtuin genes, whose up or down regulation can trigger cell protective mechanisms that extend lifespan. Kinases are phosphate transfer enzymes that alter gene and protein expression. What is presented here could not have been discussed before that time, and represents a turning point in how biologist understand aging and its potential control. As Cynthia Kenyon stated in a retrospective article (Kenyon 2011) “In general this was the time of a great paradigm shift in biology, when we all began to realize that organisms from yeast to humans used highly similar molecular mechanisms, albeit with variation, to carry out the fundamental processes of life…. At that time aging was thought to be a hopelessly intractable, even futile problem to study. We just wear out; that’s it…. Not only was aging thought to be merely an entropic passive process, evolutionary biologist had argued forcefully that ageing could not be regulated. For example, they felt the mechanisms for regulating aging would have no way to evolve, as aging takes place after reproduction. The aging field at the time was considered a backwater by many molecular biologist, and graduate students, who rotated through the Kenyon laboratory, were not interested, or were even repelled by the idea.” “many of my faculty colleagues felt the same way. One told me that I would fall off the edge of the Earth if I studied aging. However at last in the spring quarter of 1992, a wonderful , risk-taking rotation student, Ramon Tabtiang, agreed to come and study aging. Months later after experiments with insulin-gene daf-2 mutant Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worms, Raymon came into my office one day and said, guess what, they’re not dying. And we had our first long-lived mutant.” (Kenyon 2011) With that new and rapidly expanding knowledge the glyph symbolism that pertains to extended longevity is becoming more and more believable. Some highlights of that rapidly developing research are discussed below. Besides presenting a new interpretation of the astrology glyphs, the author has been fortunate to have been forced by poor health at an early age, to become an authority in a little-researched metabolic (dietary) method of activating key genes (the sirtuin genes) that are a principle-focus of the current bio-gerontology aging-research. It may be helpful that the interpreter of the glyph system’s biological symbolism also had first-hand knowledge of a particular method that may satisfy the glyph's longevity symbolism that suggest longevity, dependent on repressed reproduction (see r p. 15-18, p 31-32, k 53). In 2010-12 the author presented his personal research and rational for why the tropical tuber cassava, had the correct food-composition for organismal SIRT1 sirtuin-gene activation in mammals.(Golay 2010, 2012) Sirtuin gene activation is believed critical for organismal longevity by many researchers who study sirtuin biology. That method is also summarized below. Introduction: Proximal causes of aging. 1. The Oxidative free-radical damage-theory of aging was the first modern theory (proposed about 1954) to explain aging (Harmon 1981) and remains the most probable cause among researchers. (Balaban 2005) Oxidative free-radical damage increasingly accumulates in cells throughout the lifespan, synchronous with declining Mitochondrial oxidative-phosphorylation generates repair mechanisms in aging ATP (high-energy) adenosine tri-phosphates. animals. Mitochondria are the ROS (reactive oxygen species) main sites of ROS main ATP energy producing generation are at protein complexes I and III. Entry organelles in cells which site of least ROS generation, II Q. consume over 90% of the oxygen used in the body and generate most free radicals, ROS (reactive oxygen species) I as a damaging byproduct of the 7 molecular processes in the ETC Ii (electron transport chain) that 0. oxidize carbon metabolites in food to carbon dioxide and water. That situation arose during evolution after the earth’s atmosphere became oxygenated as a result of oxygen producing bacteria. Life found a way to utilize the oxygen in metabolism that produced much more energy per fuel than anaerobic (non-oxygen) metabolism but had damaging toxic side-effects. Organisms evolved many ways to avoid or reduce Figure 164 oxphoe.jpg oxidative damage, at least long enough to reproduce. The big advantage of oxidative metabolism is it allows creation of a much larger and more complex organism. Animals have evolved internal anti-oxidant enzymes and metabolic pathways that reduce ROS production, or repair its damage. ROS damage accumulates in aging synchronous with decline in ROS defenses and repair mechanisms, which is the main problem according to this theory. 2. Age-linked cellular senescence is associated with the Hayflick-limit of cellular replication. Hayflict and colleagues (circa 1964) found that somatic cells have a finite number of mitoticdoubling times before the ability to replicate slows and finally ceases, typically between 5070 times in humans. That replicative exhaustion is linked to shortening of telomeres with each passing cell division. Telomeres are specialized capping structures at the ends of linear chromosome strands of DNA sequences. Telomeres are long series of repetitive non-coding DNA sequences that shield the last sequences of coding DNA from strand breaks, inappropriate fusions and mismatched replication sequences that produce mutations. Telomeres preserve DNA integrity and stability. Short telomeres correlate with aging, and accumulation of dysfunctional but living senescent cells, cell death, and diseases like premature aging syndromes, cancer, dyskeratosis congenita, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and aplastic anemia.(Zhao 2014) Telomere shortening promotes these phenotypes in part by inducing apoptosis, cell loss and tissue dysfunction. A critical point of short telomere length is reached where DNA segments near the telomeres are exposed and lost, causing the cell to stop dividing. (Kim 2002) The accumulation of senescent non-functional cells is thought important if autophagic mechanisms for absorbing damaged cells and organelles is seldom activated, (Lee 2008) or if apoptosis genes like p53 are inactive. Non-dividing cells have low SIRT1 protein levels and are more vulnerable to genomic instability, cancer and dysfunctional organs where they accumulate. SIRT1 protein levels were found to be tied to cell replication exhaustion stage, progressively decreasing as the cell stops replicating. (Sasaki 2006) Using a mouse model researchers found SIRT1 was a positive regulator of telomere length in vivo and attenuates telomere shortening in aging mice dependent on level of SIRT1 expression. Deficiency of SIRT1 produced significant telemere dysfunction.(Palacios 2010) The correlation of telomere shortening with loss of SIRT1 in old age was also confirmed in Yeast. (Dang 2009) See figure below for effect of sirtuin deacetylation of histones (core proteins of nucleosomes around which sequenced DNA strands are wrapped) on gene silencing. In contrast to most somatic (non-germline) cells, (stem cells, germ cells, most cancer cells, and iPSC’s (induced pluripotent stem cells derived from somatic cells) produce telomerase enzymes that extend telomeres, thus conferring theoretical -immortality on those cells. Telomere Nucleosomes, DNA spooled around 8 histone proteins. chromosomes chromatin DNA helix Histone tails Compact deacetylated Histones, maintain DNA inaccessible to transcription, producing inactive genes. Heterochrmatin – inactive genes. A c A c A c A c A c AFigure 165 cchromasome1r.jpg Unpacked acetylated (Ac) histones are DNA accessible and gene active. Euchromatin - activated protein expressing genes. Stem cell pools in theory could replace all senescent cells indefinitely but unfortunately they also deteriorate and loose function in aging due to ROS damage accumulation in the supporting niche somatic cells. Somatic cells are more prone to age-related loss of NAD, SIRT1, and consequent short telomeres. Somatic cells are more aerobic in their metabolism which produce ROS, and lack telomerase elongation enzymes like the stem cells do. As the stem cells supportive micro-environment is degraded, ROS accumulates which affects telomere length, telomerase and the ability to maintain stemness and pluripotency. That has brought attention to the differential role of metabolism (anaerobic and aerobic) observed in somatic cells versus stem cells. Stem cell quiescence, pluripontency, self- renewal and telomere elongation was found to be associated with anaerobic metabolism that avoids mitochondrial generation and utilization in the stem cell. Stem cells convert pyruvate (the end product of anaerobic glycolysis) to lactate, instead of Acteyl CoA, the main entry-fuel for the TCA cycle in mitochondria.(Folmes 2011, Prigione 2010, Cai 2012) The benefit for the stem cell is minimal reactive oxygen species (ROS) exposure, while still producing the required ATP and biomolecules for quiescent existence or self-renewal. The lactate produced by this specialized anaerobic pathway is not wasted but is exported for use by aerobic differentiating progeny cells or other cells where it is oxidized in mitochondrial (oxphos) oxidative phosphorylation. While the down side may seem to be low ATP production, (2 versus 38 ATP units) stem cell quiescence and self–renewal do not need ATP at the level of differentiated growing or mature somatic cells. That is a big difference between stem cells and differentiated growing or mature somatic cells. Stem cells (including spermatagonia and early-embryonic cells) minimize oxidative metabolism. They often reside in low oxygen niches like ovary, testis, and bone marrow that induce HIF (Hypoxia Inducing Factors) that up-regulate transcription of anaerobic metabolic components. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC): It has recently been discovered that it is possible to induce the stem cell phenotype in mice and humans from adult somatic cells, like fibroblast skin-cells by over-expressing exogenous transcription factors related to pluripotency, OCT4, KLF4, SOX2, and c-MYC. During induced pluripotent stem cell generation, telomeres are also reprogrammed to adopt features similar to classic early-embryonic cells including telomerase- dependent progressive telomere elongation. Sirtuin genes and especially SIRT1 was found to play a major role in producing the iPSC phenotype from somatic cells by directly interacting with necessary components of pluripotency and telomere elongation cMYC, OCT4, and SOX2. (De Bonis 2014, Yoon 2014, Zhang 2014) SIRT1was found highly expressed in embryonic and other stem cells,(Matsui 2012) but down-regulated in differentiating progeny cells lines. The implication is that maintenance of SIRT1 levels in aging is a necessary factor for optimized cell longevity, through maintenance of telomere length. Sirtuin genes were first described in yeast as Sir2 (silent information regulator) genes that express enzymes that utilize NAD in deacetylation (removal of acetyl residues) and ADP ribosylation transfer reactions that change gene and protein expression. They are ancient survival/longevity genes conserved in most life forms, going back at least a billion years to yeast. (Guarente 2005) They react mainly to nutrition/energy status to protect the cell/organism when starvation or other stresses threaten survival. Sirtuin activation is largely dependent on the redox environment of the organism, a measure of energy/nutrition status. Redox status is usually measured by the ratio between [coupled metabolic (fuel substrate) intermediates] and cofactors, with the NAD/NADH ratio (oxidized and reduced form of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) reflecting the aggregate of all the other couples in any particular metabolic compartment in the cell (cytosol, nucleus or mitochondria). The lactate/pyruvate ratio is used to estimate the NAD/NADH ratio in the cells cytosol. A different couple of metabolic intermediates are used to measure the NAD/NADH redox ratio in mitochondria, and there are another 16 or so metabolic couples in electron transport systems. Redox is a shorthand term used to describe the NAD/NADH ratio generally, however more recently the term has often been used to indicate the balance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) and anti-oxidants. Here the former definition is used, although the two are related. Redox = oxidation/reduction of electron transfer in chemical reactions leading to high-energy complex formation as ATP or its breakdown and use as ADP and AMP (tri, di and mono phosphates). The redox couples are said to transfer reducing-equivalents (the H Hydrogen with its electron and proton), in the main pathways that generate ATP (photosynthesis, fermentation-glycolysis, and the mitochondrial electron transport system). Redox is important in sirtuin biology because NAD (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) is used in the two main sirtuin enzymatic-reactions, (deacetylation of histones in nucleosomes, and non-genetic proteins) and (ADP ribose transfer) which uses NAD to repair damaged DNA strand breaks and other functions. Therefore NAD’s availability for sirtuinization reactions determines a cell’s sirtuin activation potential. In that way sirtuins automatically react to low cellular nutrition and energy states by initiating an adaptive, alternative genetic program designed to protect the cell and organism from the stresses repeatedly encountered in life situations, like starvation, ROS stress, ultra-violet radiation, low oxygen, and extreme temperature change. Those saving alternative gene programs are in our genome but are only activated by real stress or when the stress is mimicked as with dietary restriction. Gene expression is altered by environmental manipulations like temperature and diet. Diet changes gene expression by what are called post –translational alterations, or epigenetic (abovegenetics) changes to gene components like DNA, histone proteins of nucleosomes in the nucleus and other non-genetic molecules that affect gene expression. Transcription translates the DNA sequence to produce the basic protein product, that is soon modified by posttranscriptional, enzymatic chemical reactions of fuel substrate metabolism that phosphorylate, methylate, acetylate, ubiquinate, etcetera, specific amino acid residues of proteins that regulate how the basic gene expresses or is silenced. Differences in calories or composition of the fuel-substrate gives us a dietary means of regulating gene expression, but human diets are so varied in composition that it is virtually impossible to design one that will activate specific genes. The closest proof of concept are dietary restriction of calories, protein, or specific amino acids like methionine or tryptophan that have substantial effects on lifespan, healthspan, and reproductive schedules. NAD and Sirtuin gene expression decline with age: Activation of the sirtuin genes by any means possible is currently the object of much longevity-research world-wide. Success by supplementation with pharmaceutical small molecules involved in the NAD generation/regeneration pathways like NR, Nicotinamide Riboside, and NMN, Nicotinamide Mono-Nucleoside has been reported.(Imai 2014) NAD levels decline substantially in old age. That decline is thought to be the dominant problem, because NAD is a required cofactor in all sirtuin enzymatic reactions, plus many non-sirtuin metabolic reactions that consume NAD.(Guarente 2008, Yang 2007) The proximal cause of cellular damage is ROS (reactive oxygen species) like super oxide O2, hydrogen peroxide H2O2, the hydroxyl radical •HO, Nitric Oxide NO and others. Figure 166 nadying.jpg Diagram from (Ying 2013) ROS damage to DNA and cell biomolecules prompts repair involving ( poly-ADP polymerase) that increasingly exhaust NAD to a critical low level in aging due to the increasing damage.(Ying 2006, 2013) NAD depletion causes sirtuin genes to stop functioning at the regulatory level needed to prevent cellular apoptosis and the resultant cell loss in organs like muscle, bone, etc. that lead to sarcopenia (muscle degeneration) osteoporosis, organ failure and frailty. Without sirtuin activation, unrepaired DNA and increased ROS lead to increased cancer. It becomes a downward spiral, that, as we saw above, can also involve sirtuin dependant telomere maintenance and replicative exhaustion. Maintaining NAD levels sufficient to activate sirtuin genes that protect cells in old age appears necessary for increased longevity, but how. Some simple strategies include regular exercise which increases NAD, its regeneration and mitochondrial biosynthesis significantly. (Costford 2010, Hashimoto 2007) Fasting and calorie restriction dramatically increase NMN, Nicotinamide Mono-Nucleoside mentioned above, NAD and sirtuin expression.(Baur 2014, Guarente 2005) Lowering ambient body temperature, by living in a cold climate and habitually working or exercising outdoors can increase sirtuin activation by several pathways.(Gua 2012, Shi 2005) By faithfully adhering to the circadian light/dark sleep cycle one can increase NAD regeneration that occurs at increased efficiency in the six or so hours of sleep after sunset. (Nakahata 2009, Imai 2010) So there are strategies to increase NAD levels but the steady rise in ROS damage in aerobic somatic cells also needs to be addressed. Mitochondria dictate cell survival. It was discovered in 2007, that among the three cell compartments (nucleus, cytosol, and mitochondria) that contain separate redox environments, that it was the mitochondria that control cell-death (apoptosis). The cytosol and nucleus can be depleted of NAD that predicts cell death but as long as the mitochondria is redox-correct, then the cell survives, characterized as “the mitochondrial oasis effect”.(Yang 2007) Because the redox-ratio is dependent on variable nutrient metabolism, it pays to feed the mitochondria their preferred fuels that minimize free-radical oxidant formation in the electron transport chain while producing fast processing of oxidative fuels.(Guarente 2008) The mitochondria evolved from endosymbiont bacteria that became specialized organelles to process dangerous oxidative phosphorylation of ATP. It may be helpful to view them as guest endosymbionts with special metabolic needs. Their functional health in old age may be necessary to maintain the proper redox-state for sirtuin activation in aerobic somatic-cells, that dominate the human body, relative to stem cells. While managing the effects of ROS generation from mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation may be the only option in pre-adult growing bodies, in post–pubertal, non-growing individuals an alternative strategy to repress ROS formation at its source may be available to humans. An alternative direct strategy to reduce ROS formation in mature non-growing postpubertal individuals may be to temporarily mimic pluripotent cell-type metabolism in much of the somatic body at large through temporary (dietary) metabolic reprogramming. ( Embryonic, Spermatogonia, Cancer cells, Somatic stem cells, and adult somatic cell iPSC’s induced pluripotent stem cells) all optimize non-oxidative anaerobic metabolism for survival and self-renewal. Induced pluripotent stem cells are instructive of the required transition from the somatic-cell mitochondria-rich cell-type to a pluripotent cell-type with regressed, circular, cristae-poor mitochondria that are small and few in number. In the pluripotent cell-type electron-transport complex I subunit genes are down-regulated while anaerobic genes that facilitate the PPP (Pentose Phosphate Pathway) and anaerobic metabolism are up-regulated. Sirtuin gene expression increases. SIRT1 deacetylation was shown to be a positive regulator of the PPP pathway. (Wang Y. 2014, Wu 2014) The net effect of pluripotent cell-type induction is to eliminate ROS generation centers and upregulate benign non-oxidative pathways of carbon metabolism, in particular the PPP pathway that generates glutathione, the cells most abundant antioxidant. Induced pluripotent somatic cells, iPSC’s (even using old somatic cells) benefit from the reprogrammed regression to stem-cell anaerobic metabolism that includes conversion of pyruvate to lactate with extracellular lactate export. That reprogramming results in rejuvenation of their telomeres and other pluripotent survival attributes involving sirtuin gene activation.(Palacios 2010) Importantly some somatic tissue is more capable of reprogramming than others depending on the cells tissue location and normal functional preference of that tissue for aerobic or anaerobic metabolism. Some tissue is more oxidative and/or replicative than others. Also the relative hypoxic state (oxygen pressure/content) of the tissue environment affects the readiness of a somatic cell to reprogram to an anaerobic pluripotent-type metabolism. The exported lactate will always be consumed by oxidative somatic cells, especially in SIRT1 upregulated animals. See lactate utilization below. CASSAVA DIET: It is argued here that exclusive cyanogenic-carbohydrate is metabolized in the cell in the least aerobic pathway possible, and over a short time in a restricted cassava diet accumulates to an organismal sirtuin active phenotype that mimics the anaerobic (antiROS) strategy of stem cells. The cassava diet in its strongest routine is a (one week long +) mono-food diet that utilizes the cyanogenic-carbohydrate tropical-tuber cassava in several forms, fresh boiled tubers and gari, which is a pure processed dry form of cassava. (see diet protocol at cassava.info) How long one stays on the diet depends largely on one’s body mass, because there is always some demand on adipose tissue fat and protein autophagy-attrition during organismal sirtuin activation, although it is not as severe as a fast because of the substantial nutrition in cassava. CYANO-CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM Pi (free phosphate) and NAD are necessary for the first step of glycolysis from G3P (glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate. TPI (triose phosphate isomerase) decides which pathway is taken. DHAP (dihydroxyacetone) in the presence of cyanide and low free phosphate is converted to methylglyoxal and dismutated to Pi, NAD, and lactate that can then be used to rescue stalled glycolysis, thus clearing toxic methylglyoxal and trios phosphate build-up. Pi, NAD Lactate Proposed scheme of carbohydrate metabolism in the presence of cyanide. Broken lines represent metabolic pathways activated or increased in utilization by cyanide. Lower diagram from Isom et al. (Isom 1975) Figure 167 Isom.jpg Tpi3.jpg Cyanocarbohydrate metabolism may obligatly utilize the methylglyloxal pathway due to its food composition, which is a non-fat, high cyanogenic-glucoside carbohydrate (97-98%). At 1-2% protein, it is lowest in protein of all the common carbohydrate foods. In the presence of cyanide the cyanogenic-carbohydrate may be non-enzymatically converted to methylglyoxal (a dephosphorylation step, yielding Pi) and dismutated to pyruvate and then to lactate, (Baxter 1968, Isom 1972, Ariyama 1928, Benov 1998) which is then put into general blood circulation and taken up in lactate-utilizing cells in brain, heart, muscle, liver, central nervous system and testis.(Bergersen 2006, Hashimoto 2006, Gladden 2004) In addition to those adaptive inter-cellular shuttles, aerobic disposal of D and L lactate in the cell of its anaerobic generation has also been described.(de Bari 2013) However in multicellular animals where anaerobic or aerobic dominant cellular metabolism regulate a functional divide between quiescent state and growth/differientation/reproduction mode the ability to transfer oxidative fuels like lactate would have cell/organism survival advantage by segregating oxidative processing to somatic highly-oxidative tissue. So two cells are consuming the cyano- carbohydrate or its product; the first anaerobically, under the influence of cyanide, the second aerobically without cyanide. In the first cell cyano-carbohydrate shifts metabolism away from gycolysis and aerobic oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria to the methylglyoxal and PPP (pentose phosphate pathway) in the cytosol. In the second cell the metabolic fate of D or L lactate is less well understood, but always aerobically.(Ewaschuk 2005) The methylglyoxal and PPP (pentose phosphate pathway) in the cytosol are more primitive anaerobic pathways, more utilized by archeaen prokaryotes, bacteria and yeast. They have the benefit of producing energy with little oxidation, from the least nutritional factors, in nutrient-scarce environments, but can be overwhelmed by high –nutrition states of excess trios-phosphates and glycerol, (sugars and fats) that exaust toxic-mthylglyoxal enzymatic detoxification systems. (Totemeyer 1998, Ferguson 1998) Cyano-carbohydrate may solve that problem in mammals by obligately clearing trios-phosphate and methylglyoxal build-up non-ezymatically. Cyanide had a central part in pre-biotic chemical evolution(Oro 1990, 1981) being a component of earliest amino-acids, purines, pryimidines and other basic bio-molecule synthesis, for example condensation of 5 HCN molecules can condense to adenine, but the metabolic evolution of cyanide metabolites has not been well described. In pre or neo-oxygenic atmospheric-times cyano-metabolites may have served the same function of clearing toxic methylglyoxal and excess trios-phosphates from an otherwise benign metabolism. The presence of sub-lethal doses of cyanide promotes glycogen breakdown to glucose and use in the PPP. Free cyanide and various cyanide derived molecules directly repress the electron transport chain through inhibition of cytochrome oxidase enzyme, the terminal electron acceptor in that mitochondrial pathway (Solomonson 1981) but like most biologic toxins there are many exceptions and beneficial evolutionary adaptations to cyanide. It seems likely that the cassava tuber’s food-composition was selectively-evolved symbiotically, to be utilized as a monofood-mechanism to hyper-activate sirtuin genes, in particular the SIRT1 characteristic of the IPA (increased-physical-activity) phenotype.(Chen 2005) Unfortunately for gourmands, maximum therapeutic benefit of the cyano-carbohydrate may be spoiled by dilution of that precise food-composition with richer food components. Fats, protein and non- cyanogenic carbon sources shift metabolism back to regular glycolysis and pyruvate entry into mitochondrial oxidative pathways. Exit from the pluripotent cell-state in iPSC’s (induced somatic pluripotent stem cells) also involves reprogramming of anaerobic to aerobic metabolic functions and associated cell morphology, for example regeneration of plentiful mitochondria during lineage differentiation.(Folmes 2011) Cyanide’s effect on converting pyruvate to lactate which yields NAD produces a large increase in the NAD/NADH ratio (greater than two-fold in rats supplemented with sub-lethal doses of cyanide. (Baxter 1968,) Another laboratory using mice, reported a 50% reduction in glycolysis and a 100% increase in utilization of the PPP (Isom 1972) See diagram above. That steady high production of NAD would activate sirtuin genes, especially if the need for NAD in normal glycolysis is curtailed by the metabolic shift to the methylglyoxal pathway as reported. On the cassava diet, as the cells of the alimentary canal organs are overtaken by the cyanocarbohydrate food stream, that temporary metabolically-driven reprogramming of cells and would accumulate and reach a organismal phenotype when the large intestine is cleared of previous carbon sources. Lactate consuming cells would find a steady supply from its export to the circulation by the anaerobic cell’s cyanocarbohydrate metabolism. Other monocarboxylates like acetate, and ketone bodies that are normally rejected or inhibited in replete nutrition are utilized in sirtuin activated cells. Sirtuins alter cell metabolic genes, through deacetylation which allows acetate conversion to Acetyl-CoA in mitochondria and cytosol.(North 2006) Lactate utilization: Pyruvate is a competitive inhibitor of LDH (lactate dehydrogenase) which is required for lactate utilization. Such inhibition is common between oxidized and reduced metabolic redox couples, and concentration levels of either metabolite in the local environment is regulatory of which is utilized. (Mita 1982, Kaplin 1968, Blanco 1976) Cyanocarbohydrate metabolism and the pluripotent cell type (including cancer cells) convert pyruvate to lactate and export it to the extracellar space. Pyruvate scarcity in the extra-cellular circulation makes lactate more usable, but in replete nutrition high pyruvate levels repress lactate utilization, except during high energy demand by oxidative tissue like heart, muscle, and brain. diagram adapted from (Mita Figure 168 ldh.jpg 1982) Cassava cyanocarbohydrate composition may be unique in the World’s foods due to complex plant/animal symbiocity that targeted sirtuin gene SIRT1 over-expression in one of two symbionts, in a metabolic pathway that leads, over a short time ( about 7 days) not only to a Sirt1 organismal (body-wide) phenotype, but also activates the other known survival/longevity pathways as a consequences of the foods composition and the fact that the food stream reaches the main centers of organismal longevity control (the large intestine as terminal sensor of organismal nutritional state, and the gonad which has its own contributions to organismal survival when reproduction is stalled due to low nutrition signaling. The special anaerobic metabolism of potentially immortal stem cells and in induced somatic or cancer forms, point to the correctness of the cassava plants food composition, especially if a background selection-pressure of complex-symbiocity is to extend the longevity of the symbiont partner(s). A metabolic pathway to reproductive repression and longevity: The cassava food-composition may have been in-part selected for the high-lactate consuming male testis destination, where generation of sperm stalls at the spermatid-cell stage of spermiation (sperm creation) in response to low–nutrition, in times of food scarcity.(Rehm 2008) Low protein at 1-2% and virtually no fat or vitamin A in cassava food composition may signal low-nutrition enough to stall sperm production, but the adaptive spermatids may continue to survive and utilize the lactate supplied by the exclusive cassava food stream, to continue to produce ATP in cells specially adapted for lactate-oxidative metabolism and other monocarboxylates in sperm-type mitochondria. Vitamin A is a regulator of spermatogenisis, embryonic and stem cell differientation.(Sugimoto 2012) Spermatogenic cells, centered on the spermatid type have (LDHC Lactate Dehydrogenase C) genes, not found elsewhere in the body, except in cancer cells and in small amounts in the female reproductive system. The sperm- type mitochondria, so-called heavy or condensed-mitochondria have expanded cristae that preferentially metabolize lactate in the sequestered environment of the testis seminiferous tubules where sperm is generated. (Burgos 1995, Blanco 1976) If there is a physiological (functional) advantage to maleness in longevity it may in-part be the adaptability of these high-energy producing cells at the turn-around point of spermatid progression to differentiated-elongating sperm or an alternative-function of high energy production of ATP and perhaps other unknown vital metabolites, flowing back to the somatic body for survival, in times of nutritional stress. Once the large intestine is overtaken by the exclusive cyano-carbohydrate food-stream the large intestine microflora are reduced to cyanide-tolerant bacteria. At that point the full effects of the diet may include inputs from organismal sirtuin activation, germline stalling in the gonad and FOXO gene up-regulation in the large intestine and beyond. The malegermline environment, even in replete nutrition, is a lactate privileged environment where it is the preferred fuel in the sequestered seminiferous tubule environment that feeds the germline cells (spermatocytes through maturing sperm), however that preference is most pointedly centered on the spermatid cell type. It is a sequestered environment controlled by the sirtoli nurse-cells (yellow in diagrams) that in non-cassava replete-nutrition supplies lactate as the dominant fuel-substrate, which the sirtoli cell produces from fuel substrates, like glucose, amino acids and lipids from blood circulation. Sirtoli cells do not normally utilize lactate, nor do they contain testis LDHC lactate dehydrogenase, but rather LDHA, a Lactate Dehydrogenase variant that preferentially converts pyruvate to lactate after which it is passed on to the germline environment. Sirtoli cells and spermatagonia stem cells are connected to the blood circulation while the seminiferous tubule beyond the blood-testis barrier is not, which give Sirtoli cells control of nutrition in the germinal epithelium.(Boussouar 2004) Spermatogonia stem-cells also export lactate that may feed the differentiating germline cells including spermatids, the largest consumer of lactate in the germline cell types, with that reliance on lactate as fuel substrate diminishing in both directions from there, from spermatogonia stem cells to mature sperm. Sirtuin genes are more abundant in the male testis than any other organ in mammals, probably because of the importance of reproduction in the genome. See figure below. Sirtuin activation is a prominant characteristic of the pluripotent cell type, including early embryonic cells to inplantation. WAT - white adiopose tissue BAT - brown adipose tissue Sirtuins are highly expressed in the testis relative to other tissues. See reference (Michishita 2005) for graph that also shows values for uterus, ovaries, fetus and other organs. graph from (Shi 2005) Figure 169 sirtuin.jpg The qualities of sirtuin gene activation, like oxidative stress resistance, apoptosis supression, and cell damage repair protect genomic integrity in the all-important transfer of undamaged DNA accomplished at sexual reproduction. Preferential lactate oxidative -metabolism coupled with repressed glucose and pyruvate metabolism in a very hypoxic niche may constitutively produce the correct NAD/NADH redox-ratio in the testis environment for sirtuin gene activation. The ratio is optimizes when lactate is high and pyruvate is low. In normal replete nutrition lactate dominated nutrition in the testis environment supplies spermatids the substrate to generate the continuous army of sperm (180 million + strong on average ejaculation) that struggle in a hyper-energetic triathlon where the winner is selected by the contest, as the most fit champion that penetrates the egg’s resistant zona pellucida, made weak by the energetically most-fit surviving sperm that reach the ovum. Testis specific LDHC lactate dehydrogenase is abundant in the testis germline and spermatazoa and is required for male fertility. (Odet 2008) However glucose metabolism is also necessary for fertility, especially after spermatid elongation and maturation. Sperm hyperactivity of flagella after ejaculation into the vagina, is driven primarily by rapid glucose glycolysis, but includes virtually every pathway of energy generation.(Miki 2004) The high concentration of LDHC lactate dehydrogenase in spermatids may relate equally to its proposed role in alternative low-nutrition states that stalls sperm production, but still provides ATP production if lactate and other substrates are available, from body-mass and exogenous nutrition remaining in the stressed environment. Sirtuin genes control autophagic mechanisms that harvest endogenous fats and degradable damaged molecules and organelles like old mitochondria, while utilizing low-energy substrates, not favored in replete nutrition, like acetate, lactate, valerate and ketone bodies; all consumed oxidatively in mitochondria. LDHC processes a greater variety of fuel substrates than somatic cell LDH variant isoforms.(Blanco 1976) Lactate was found to be utilized at a greater rate than glucose, fructose or pyruvate in spermatids. When saturating concentrations of lactate are provided, spermatids produce more ATP than with saturating concentrations of other common substrates.(Mita 1982) Lactate utilization in the testis was found to be a pro-survival fuel that prevents apoptosis (cell-death) in the germline cells.( Erkkilä 2002) In theory the cassava diet gives one a doable method to chronically arrest spermiation progression and activate somatic-body survival mechanisms conferred by organismal sirtuin activation. Under selective-pressure for the SIRT1-dependent increased physical activity phenotype the cassava’s cyano-carbohydrate food composition may have adapted to a previously evolved spermatid-cell centered, alternative-function of energy generation for cell somatic-body survival. Perhaps by starting a serial cassava-diet program at the top of one’s physiological (reproductive) fitness at puberty, one could insure maximum body-mass that can support longer time-frames that the person can maintain a healthy cassava-diet routine on. Ideally one would master the diet early in life, at puberty and maintain a serial routine into extended old age. CAPRICORN (cap-pri-corn) Cap the corn early. Figure 170 cap1.jpg, corn7.jpg The object is to preserve the organisms stem-cell capacity for self-renewal, with minimum differentiation into germline sperm production, or ovary exhaustion in the female. By dietarily repressing reproduction in the germline and by extension, minimizing all somatic-body stem-cell pool activity captured by the organismal sirtuin phenotype, then maximum physiological youngness may be preserved. The cassava diet may borrow a powerful deacetylation strategy that the cassava plant and a pair of prehistoric symbionts evolved (naturally selected by circumstantial need), over several million years of a close three-part symbiotic relationship. Triadic symbiosity = Cassava, Manihot escuentla, giant ground sloth, Eremotherium Laurillardi and Pampatheres giant (armored) armadillo. Animal drawings with permission. (Vizciano and Loughry 2008) Figure 171 cas.jpg, cas5.jpg The need for speed in a spatially contiguous area (the sunny side of the forest edge and outbeyond from there) may have naturally selected the best food composition for sirtuin gene activation in one of the two symbionts, the pampatheries giant armadillo. Producing the SIRT1-dependent (IPA) Increaded Physical Activity phenotype, may have conferred a survival advantage by making the pampatheres hyper-active, relative to the slow-moving giant ground sloth, that often competed for the same plant but at different food parts on the plant and at different stages of the plants maturity. Cassava plant Competitive large-mammal symbionts giant ground sloth pampatheres Separate plant food parts leaf root Selection pressure for: territorial dominance, size, power, immobility selection for speed, and defense from blows from above. orientation Upper story plant (foliage) ground (mature tubers) Shared function Symbiont-enabled vegetative-reproduction from stem nodes The high-protein (6-7%) leaves supported maximal growth for the ground sloth, while the low-protein cyanogenic-tuber carbohydrate selected for pampatheres hyper-activity during the rooting season. At plant maturity (9-12 months) foliage decreases, but tubers mature and often become exposed around the base of the stalk, signaling the stage when the nowactive rooting pampatheres would dig up and eat the mature roots, which simultaneously scatters the stem nodes on the brittle stalk over a wider area for the next cycle of vegetative reproduction. That is the time when there was most selection pressure for differential speed for the pampatheres. It took several million years, over a huge expanse of environment in tropical South and Central America for this SIRT1 selection process to produce the ideal food composition that fulfills the molecular requirements for SIRT1 activation in that particular mammal. The stable-anchor of this proposed triadic-symbiosity was provided by the powerful, slow-moving giant ground sloth, while the development of a (SIRT1-dependant IPA phenotype) producing food was the result a secondary symbiont partner that increased the plants range but also increased the ground-sloths food-security in doing so. The morphological-plasticity and molecular flexibility of the animals and plant parts in this relationship is perhaps the most complex proposed for any large-mammal symbiosity, which flourished before the megafaunal extinctions of 10,000 BCE, and has no match in extant symbiotic plant/mammal relationships, and probably in all Earth evolution. Selection pressure for SIRT1 dependant increased physical activity, inadvertently secures the other deacetylation-dependant sirtuin genes, SIRT1,2,3,6 and 7 (Canto 2012) which makes it a very special food for humans because it may provide the only naturally-selected food-route to organismal (body-wide) sirtuin-activation. Personal history: The author first started experimenting with cassava diets while working in construction, in South America in 1981-83. He had been experimenting with diets and foods for about 5 years to control schizophrenia which had plagued him since 1976 when he was hospitalized for it. Upon returning to work he found diet and food composition could modestly affect the disease. While working in Suriname, South America he began experimenting with tropical foods and found the most popular carbohydrate among the Amerindians and others groups was cassava. It had a profound effect against schizophrenia when eaten exclusively for 1-7 days, to the point of being asymptomatic and seemingly panacean against other diseases as well. For instance the diet was effective in controlling a duodenal ulcer but not eradicate the cause. The bacteria Heliocobacter pylori was discovered as the main cause of stomach ulcers in 1982, but it took a decade or more for that knowledge to work its way into clinical practice as a cure of the disease with antibiotics. I was using a strict cassava diet to control my H. Pylori infection for those 10 years. The diet would stop the ulcer from bleeding and become asymptomatic on the diet but was not strong enough to completely kill the root bacterial colony. If I went off the diet for 4-5 days the ulcer would return with blood and acid in the stomach. In response, I would vomit the stomach contents and start the diet. The bleeding and acid would stop right away and the stomach would be normal (asymptomatic) within a few days. It taught me the bacteriostatic value of the food. While that bacteriocidal characteristic may have more to do with free cyanide in the food’s composition, than with sirtuin gene activation, the experience motivated my study of cyanogenic-carbohydrate metabolism, which is at the core of cassava’s unique food composition. The science of how it might work only became comprehensible with the scientific discoveries in bio-gerontology aging-research, which really took off around the time of the 1993 kl conjunction, and is ongoing. The cassava generated (organismal) SIRT1 phenotype may involve SIRT1 activation in the large intestine including low energy signaling that activates FOXO (pro-survival genes) in the large intestine, and germline stalling. SIRT1 organismal phenotype. Quiescent-germline signaling from gonad to intestine may further activate FOXO gene expression in the large intestine, and by extension in the peripheral organs via feedback regulation involving ins-7 insulin gene (so-called tissue entrainment). Discussed below in nematode worm research. gonad Proposed secondary reproductive-organ survival pathway. Low-energy signaling, generated by the cassava food composition, may stall germline sperm production in the testes, while continuous lactate supply from cyano-carbohydrate metabolism in the alimentary canal may simultaneously feed the preferred fuel for spermatids, in the now growtharrested germline, allowing a gradual transition to an alternative somaticbody survival role for the germline cells centered on the round spermatids. It is a mechanism partially independent of FOXO upregulation in the large Figure 172 intestine and beyond. li7.jpg Spermeogenisis under normal replete nutrition. Basement membrane lumin Single seminiferous tubule. Figure 173 li3a.jpg, li6r.jpg,li4.jpg 1. Lumen, 2. Elongating spermatids, 3. Round spermatids, 4. Secondary diplotene spermatocytes, 5. Secondary pachytene spermatocytes, 6. Primary leptotene spermatocytes, 7. Spermatogonia (germline stem cells) 8. Sirtoli nurse cells (yellow). 9. Sirtoli cell nucleus, 10. Basement membrane, 11. Blood –teste barrier (tight junctions) Spermatogenesis progresses from the basement membrane to the lumen of the seminiferous tubule with structurally and functionally essential nurse cells, called Sertoli cells. Spermatogonia (germinal stem cells) reside in the basal compartment and proliferate. Primary spermatocytes (leptotene) differentiate from spermatogonia and transverse the blood-testis barrier formed by tight junction of adjacent Sertoli cells. Secondary spermatocytes (pachytene and diplotene) are formed by the first meiosis and are converted into round spermatids by the second meiosis. Elongating spermatids are cells in the process of spermiation. They undergo the remarkable morphological transformation of the nucleus and cell body into a cell that resembles an organism. In the final process of spermiation, most of the cytoplasm will be removed (phagocytized by Sertoli cells) to form fully-developed spermatozoa that mature in the epididymis. Newly formed spermatozoa migrate toward the epididymis through the lumen tubule, and later through the vas deferens tube to storage in seminal vesicles near the prostate. 36% dietary restriction for 6 weeks in (12-18 week old rats) produced degeneration of sperm and spermocytes, but with spermatid retention. (Rehm 2008) Figure 174 spermatids2.jpg, li6.jpg Other longevity background ideas that connect reproduction to aging: Among vertebrates. there is great diversity in lifespan and life-history events, timed at different rates, but there is a common phenotype across the different species, which is the exponential increase in mortality and the functional decline that characterize aging, only begins after reproductive maturity, whether this occurs at age 13, as in the human, or age 2 months in mice, thus linking the maturation of reproduction to senescence. Semelparity is the rapid death that follows reproduction in many species. It is common in plants, insects, nematodes, rotifers, arachnids, mollusks, lampreys, salmon, eels and other teliost, marsupial rodents, algae, yeast, cnidaria, flatworms, crustacea, and colonial ascidians. The mechanisms of the process are extremely varied, ranging from anatomical deficits in the mouth and gut organs, leading to aphagy (starvation), lack of cell replacement, neuroendocrine and hormonal triggered changes, finite budding capacity, birth-related sudden maternal death, among others. (Finch 1990) Life-history traits like, reproductive development schedules, age at maturity, and lifespan are associated with one another. Accelerated growth negatively affects longevity and adult-onset of disease pathologies of mammals, but the underlying mechanistic causes are unclear. The evolutionary theory of aging posits that the genome is optimized for reproduction, not post-reproductive survival. The reproductive development program can be described as a genetically determined sequence of cellular and molecular events designed to produce a given adult phenotype most fit for reproduction. The theory holds that the force of natural selection declines after reproduction, so there are few genes that support extended longevity, and may even suffer from antagonistic-pleiotropy which are genes which optimize reproductive fitness but whose continued function are harmful to post- reproduction survival. There may also be species-selection pressure for post-reproduction death, to facilitate the next generations resource availability. On the other hand there may have been selection pressure for longevity, driven by the need for time to accumulate memory to aid decisions in dangerous stochastic encounters in the environment. As higher organisms became more social, collective memory of the group and personal intellectual development yielded survival benefits. Knowledge accumulation and intellectual development became the distinguishing characteristic of humans, (species homo sapiens = man+wise). Philosophically, as the true dimensions of our universal environment becomes clearer, the need for individual longevity, that also supports the social organism’s survival in the galactic environment converges with the local biology of earth-centric naturally selected longevity. Intellectually based selection pressure for longevity based on knowledge accumulation is probably an increasing factor in genetic evolution and points to the need for maximizing public education in this long Geministic period (about four millinium) of discovery of the local environment, which arguably includes the local galaxy relative to the greater universe. See l; timeline chart p.62 Research with the soil nematode worm Caenorhabdites elegans discovered fascinating links between the worm’s reproductive system, metabolism, longevity and size (growth) in that animal. In C.elegans the insulin/IGF (insulin/insulin-like growth factor)/Daf-16 FOXO pathway of nutrition and stress control mainly involves two counter-balancing genes, which are conserved (shared) in worms, flies and mammals. Daf-2 is the nematode’s only insulin/IGF-1 receptor and Daf-16 is the sole ortholog of the mammalian FOXO (Forkhead Box O) family of transcription factors (1,3,4 and 6). A negative-longevity signal is produced by Daf-2 insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling, that represses Daf-16.(Landis 2010) Daf-2 is necessary for normal growth, development and reproductive development. Mutational repression of Daf-2 insulin signaling allows overactivation of Daf-16 transcription regulation of many downstream survival/longevity genes (about 200). In normal replete nutrition daf-2 represses daf-16, and normal growth, development and normal longevity occur, but in harsh conditions, the Daf-16 gene is upregulated and Daf-2 is Figure 175 repressed. Daf-16 is overduar.jpg activated under low-nutrition, harsh environmental conditions, duar formation, and germline reproductive ablation or stalling. (Angelo 2009, Arantes-Oliviera 2002, Mair 2010) Daf-16 over-activation involves relocation from the cytosol to the nucleus, where it up-regulates downstream survival genes, like anti-oxidant gene SOD-3 [mitochondrial superoxide dismutase](Honda 1999), DNA repair mechanisms, anti-microbial defenses and other pro-survival mechanisms.(McElwee 2003) Sirtuin gane proteins interact with daf-16 by deacetylating several transcription components, causing a shift to cell cycle arrest, anti-apoptosis gene expression and increased stress resistance. (Wang 2006, Landis 2010) Effect of germline ablation on size and longevity. C. elegans have two sexes; self – fertilizing female hermaphrodites or males. A male can mate with a hermaphrodite and produce half males and half hermaphrodites, but males are very rare, (1/1000). The nematode C elegans are model organisms for longevity study because they develop a transparent body of 959 mostly post- mitotic (non-dividing) cells. The position of the cells is as constant as the cell number. It has a short lifespan (2-3 weeks), and the reproductive system comprises only 4 precursor cells, 2 germline cells in the middle, and 2 smaller somatic precursor cells on either side. Those precursor cells can be ablated (killed) with a laser microbeam. When the two germline cells are killed at hatching, the somatic gonad develops but without germ cells, which normally develop into oocytes, and sperm. Ablating the somatic gonad kills all four precursor cell lines because the somatic gonad is required for germ cell development. Killing the two germline-cells only, was found to increase lifespan and also increase body size up to twice normal size in some species.(Patel 2002) Some but not all nematode species tested increased longevity, others only increased growth, and some neither one, so these mechanisms are variable among species. The role of these germline signals is thought to be to regulate growth and longevity in response to environmental variation, and to coordinate the rate of aging with the timing of reproduction. The longevity effect of germline ablation normally requires an intact somatic gonad, and Daf-16 over-expression in the intestine, while the effect on growth (gigantism) does not require an intact somatic gonad or daf-16 upregulation. It only requires germline ablation, with or without a functional somatic gonad. Castration of male animals and humans as juveniles produces the gigantism part of the germline ablation’s effects. Gonadectomized (castrated) juveniles grow unusually tall, the socalled eunuchoid phenotype, shown in antiquity by Chinese and Ottoman court eunuchs, 18th century Italian castrati, and in modern hypogonadal patients. Such men have unusually long limbs caused by failure of long-bone growth plates to fuse in late adolescence. The finding implies that the testis is the source of a signal necessary for bone plate fusion. The signaling molecule is thought to be estrogen because the testis is the major source of serum estrogen and estrogen deficiency in men causes the eunuchoid phenotype, although other unknow systemic signaling molecule are also involved because germline ablation growth is not indefinite.(Patel 2002) Regarding the longevity-extending aspect of germline ablation, upregulation of daf-16 overexpression in the intestine doesn’t occure until early adulthood, suggesting the somatic gonad signal depends in part on a mature gonad. Surgical germline ablation is analogous to stalled reproduction in the wild, due to low-nutrition. Signals from reproductive tissue upregulate Daf-16 localization to the nucleus, first in the intestine in young adults and secondarily through Daf-16 up-regulation in peripheral organs through tissue-entraimment involving insulin-like gene Ins-7.(Murphy 2007, Murphy 2003, Lee 2009) Daf-16 nuclear relocation and up-regulation does not occur in the testis cells but through lipophilic-hormone signaling to the intestine which accounts for all of the longevity gain caused by germline ablation, which activates a distinct pattern of Daf-16 transcription.(Berman 2006) Interestingly, the fraction of the ablated germline that controls the longevity signal was found to be the proliferating germline stem-cells and not sperm, oocytes or differentiating precursor cells, and the longevity effect does not begin till early adulthood, despite ablation being initiated at hatching.(Arantes-Oliviera 2002) Germline stem-cells in C. Elegans appear to preside over two fundamental Linking the germline to longevity and growth processes; reproduction and longevity. Stem cell proliferation and differentiation initiates the germline cascade that results in sperm production and also simultaneously generates Figure 176 duar1.jpg steroid-based signals that decrease longevity. Germline precursor cell ablation of (Z2-Z3) silences the longevity-suppressing signal of a active differentiating germline centered on the stem cell, causing increased longevity. In contrast, (non-germline) longevity caused by daf-2 insulin-signaling repression, upregulates daf-16 nuclear localization body-wide including gonad tissue, for a stronger global effect on longevity. Daf-2 mutants more than double normal lifespan. If germline ablation is also present, then the increase is more than doubled again.(Kenyon 2010) The phenotype is synergistic, with the animals remaining active much longer than intact (non-ablated) Daf-2 mutants, with some living up to four months. (Hsin 1999) Ciliated sensory-neurons located in the head, tail and alimentary canal of the worm that sense food and chemical agents in the worms alimentary canal and in the exterior environment near the lips and anus also regulate Daf-16. Twelve bilateral amphid neurons in the head predominate, sensing temperature, volatile and soluable ordorants, and mechanical stimuli. Mutating genes of neurons in those environmental signaling organs increase lifespan in a Daf-16 dependent signaling pathway. (Apfeld 1999) In the wild, negative sensory signaling reflects real stresses in the environment (no-food) that threaten survival and reproductive success. That stress generates a distinct and overlapping Daf-16 upregulation patterns. Extreme longevity (about 10-fold) in the C. Elegans has been achieved by mutating PI3K (phosphatidylininositol-3-kinase), a central component in the Daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 pathway that binds to and activates diverse downstream kinases (genes involved with phosphate transfer reactions).(Ayyadevara 2008, Tazearslan 2009) That mutational genotype is almost completely dependent on DAF-16/FOXO hyper-activation, for instance a 9-fold increase in SOD-3 (superoxide dismutase) the primary anti-oxidant in ROS elimination. Insulin/IGF receptor at plasma membrane The kinase phosphorylation cascade is under control of PI3K which converts PIP2 to PIP3 (phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5, tri-phosphate). The result of the phosphorylation cascade is to potentiate conditions for reproduction, cellular differentiation and growth. DAF16/FOXO longevity/survival gene expression is phosphorylated and repressed by kinase expression. Mutating PI3K interrupts all downstream phosphorylation signaling in the pathway, allowing irreversible hyper-activation of DAF-16/FOXO survival/longevity genes in a sterile animal. Diagram altered from (Tazearslan 2009) In C. Elegans, reproduction and longevity have mutually repressive signaling mechanisms. The PI3K dependent, kinase signaling cascade versus DAF16/FOXO gene activation which silences the kinase cascade, demonstrates counter-repression between reproduction and longevity pathways. Size of lines and type size show relative activity. = inhibition = activation Diagram unaltered from (Tazearslan 2009 ) Abbreviations: PI3K gene (protein-coding), phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3kinase, SGK1 gene (protein-coding), serum/glucocorticoid regulated kinase 1, PDK1Phosphoinositide-dependent_kinase-1, DAF-18 PTEN Phosphatase and tensin gene, AKT-1,2 RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein kinase, PIP3 (phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5, triphosphate), P phosphorylation, PPP tri-phosphates INS-R insulin receptor gene, IIS insulin/insulin like growth factor signaling. FOXO mammal (forkhead box-O) transcription regulator family, DAF-16 is the sole nematode ortholog of mammalian FOXO. In normal life-histories the various downstream kinases contribute separately to total kinase activity depending largely on nutritional/energy factors they respond to, and can only be manipulated imperfectly by dietary/metabolic means that can upregulate DAF-16/ FOXO or down-regulate IIS insulin/insulin-like growth factor inputs that regulate kinase phosphorylation progression. This genetic manipulation is proof of concept that there are regulatory genetic-pathways to extreme longevity, albiet very difficult to manipulate in reallife human dietary conditions. Kinases regulate the construction of the protein body and inhibiting components of that protein building program can regulate longevity. Interestingly the cassava diet is very low in protein in general (1-2%) and specific amino acids known as key regulators of growth, methione (Miller 2005, Zimmerman 2003, Gallinetti 2013) and tryptophan.(Ooka 1988) See cassava amino table at.(Golay 2012) That composition may give one a symbiotically preselected food-composition optimized for temporary-inhibition of kinase signaling. Apparently the post-maturity pivot point between quiescence and germline-initiated reproduction requires kinase-signaling inhibition strong enough to stall germline activation. Glucose and glycerol suppress longevity of C. elegans worms: ( Lee SJ 2009) The longevity increases that manipulating components of the insulin Daf-2 / Daf-16 longevity pathway discussed above, were completely negated or substantially altered by adding as little as 2% glucose to the normal bacteria-based C. elegans diet. Adding an equivalent percent of glycerol( simple fat), or downregulating the AQP-1 (aquaporin glycerol-pore) gene, which allows glycerol transport through cell membranes also regulates the lifespan of C.elegans. By adding glucose, glycerol or negating the glycerol-transporter, Daf-2 insulin signaling was up-regulated and Daf-16 survival/longevity gene transcriptionregulator was down-regulated accounting for the loss of longevity by the insulin Daf-2 /Daf16 system. To understand what actually kills the worms one has to look to the downstream effectors of Daf-16 longevity/survival gene activation, and why removing those protections leads to short or normal lifespan, and health-span. The effect of adding Glucose/glycerol to the normal bacterial diet or mutating glycerol transport genes was not tested in the extreme-longevity experiments above, involving PI3K kinase cascade mutants. A distinction can be made between the two main sources of toxicity flowing from aerobic metabolism which is reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated in mitochondria, and anaerobic metabolism, which produces methylglyoxal both of which are targets of Daf16FOXO downstream effecter genes. ROS, generated in mitochondria are detoxified mainly by sod-3 (superoxide dismutase) which is greatly increased by Daf-16 up-regulation.(Honda 1999, Lee SJ 2009 Tazearslan 2009) Another of those Daf-16 downstream effectors genes was recently found to be DJ-1gene which up-regulates a glyloxalase detoxification system which converts toxic methylglyoxal to D-lactate and glycolate. DJ-1 gene expression is highly-induced by Daf-16 in the duar survival state, starvation, and dessication (drying) in C. Elegans. Importantly, DJ-1 products of detoxification (D-lactate and glycolate) were recently found necessary to maintain and optimize mitochondrial membrane potential, thus protecting the neuron cells from methylglyoxal or glyoxal-induced death. (Lee J-y 2012 & 2013, Toyoda 2014, De Bari 2013) Glyoxalases are enzymes that can transform toxic 2-oxoaldehydes, glyoxal and methylglyoxal to corresponding 2-hydroxyacids, glycolate and D-lactate respectively. D-lactate may be a special survival-fuel for mitochondria. It is produced in relatively low quantities in humans, mostly through methylglyoxal enzymatic-detoxification by cells and extensive intestinalbacteria methylglyoxal metabolism.(Ewaschuk 2005) The methylglyoxal metabolic pathway has mostly been seen as a detoxification system that targets the extremely reactive metabolic intermediates methylglyoxal and glyoxal, which are natural but toxic aggressive aldehydes generated in anaerobic metabolism. Another explanation for existence of the methylglyoxal metabolic pathway, which includes enzymatic detoxification systems and putative non-enzymatic cyanide-induced dismutation are remnants of pre-aerobic early evolution. In primitive organisms like worms, bacteria and plants the toxic methylglyoxal and its associated detoxifying enzymes (glyloxalases) are believed to serve as a ancient metabolic means to survive in environments of low carbon sources, but have to quickly adapt to surges to high carbon fuels like sugar-phosphates (trios phosphates) and glycerol (simple fat) that greatly increase the flux of carbon through the methylglyoxal pathway, and are toxic or lethal when the detoxification enzymes are inadequate for the increased flux of high-energy fuels. (Totemeyer 1998, Ferguson 1998, Schlotterer 2009) The methylglyoxal bypass or shunt, exist in all organisms, yeast to mammals and when disregulated by high-glycemic and high-fat diets in humans that overwhelm detoxification systems, is associated with complications of diabetes, neurodegeration, nephropathy, uremia, and many other diseases due to its systemic distribution. Excess methylglyoxal causes depletion of glutathione, the formation of AGES (advanced glycation endproducts) that bind and alter proteins and lipid membranes. (Rosca 2005, Beisswenger 2005, Thornalley 1990, Hipkiss 2010) They are non-oxidative reactive molecules that, like ROS (reactive oxygen species) degrade mitochondria components. If detoxified, methylglyoxal is transformed into mitochondrial survival products like glycolate and D-lactate or L-lactate. Perhaps in early non-oxidative evolution, cyanogenic carbon -metabolites served to protect organisms against methylglyoxal toxicity by non-enzyamatic dismutation, but receeded in importance when metabolism became increasingly aerobic and carbon fuel substrates became less-cyanogenic, due to cyanide’s inherent antagonism to oxygen metabolism. Both cell toxins, (ROS and methylglyoxal) form the main toxic-systems inherent in anaerobic and aerobic metabolism which eventually interact in the spiral of senescence, with the mitochondria serving as the final arbiter of somatic cell survival.(Kalapos 2008) METHYLGLYOXAL formation, detoxification and generation of mitochondria survival products. Figure 177 tpi4.jpg The fountain of youth: It was recently discovered that circulating factors in young blood can rejuvenate damaged tissue in old animals.(Sinha 2014, Katsimpardi 2014, Villeda 2014, Leinwand 2013) The systemic circulating factor GDF11 (growth differentiating factor 11) is greatly reduced in old animals but when restored in old mice, the treatment stimulates vasculature remodeling in the niches that surround stem-cells and rejuvenates damaged tissue in heart, neurons, muscle and other tissues tested. Parabiosis experiments, wherein old and young mice are surgically joined at back-skin that allows shared blood circulation, indicate that impaired regeneration of tissue in aged mice is reversible by exposure to young systemic factors in blood/plasma circulation. Similar in concept, are reports since 2003 that transplanting young ovaries into aged overiectomized mice increases their lifespan (Cargill 2003, Mason 2009) and cardiac healthspan.(Mason 2011) The ovary transplant experiments did not test for that treatment’s effect on circulating systemic factor GDF11, nor is the tissue source of circulating GDF11 known at this early stage of investigation. GDF11 is a member of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family and the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) super-family of signaling/coding proteins that play important roles in regulating embryonic development and adult tissue homeostasis. Functionally it is a secreted signal/coding protein that acts globally to specify positional identity along the anterior/posterior axis during development. It plays critical roles in patterning of both mesodermal and neural tissues and in establishing the global skeletal pattern and anterior-posterior orientation. Deletions or mutations of GDF11 cause anterior/posterior and positional defects in the skeletal pattern and connected organs in early embryonic development. A lot will depend on GDF11 tissue origin and regulation. In conclusion the author finds the vocabulary of biology as important as the vocabulary of astrology. Both need to be studied for a rational understanding and discussion of our individual and collective situation. On the physical side the author recommends experimentation with the cassava diet as it may allow the unique advantage of a symbiotically-selected sirtuin-activating food that has therapeutic value against disease states we all eventually encounter, regardless of whether it can be used as the main metabolic dietary for extend ed longevity. It may facilitate both goals. On the psychological side, Astrology needs to be mastered in order to understand and peacefully resolve Western Imperialism as discussed earlier. 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