Luna-Tick Fringe Finds 
11/8/2003 Highly Significant
Dale O'Brien
(Doc Chiron)

To most people, November 8, 2003 will be no more special than any other time. Even though our days of the week were named for the Sun, the Moon and planets, even though every significant culture until contemporary times had taken astrology seriously, most modern people do not care about this sort of thing at all.  Even those that do value astrology in our era do not agree on what celestial occurrences are the most relevant.

Consider the Moon.  Many contemporary astrological minds cannot imagine any significant collective significance to a floating rock that has been reduced to little more than a big PMS meter in the sky.  No matter that the Buddha was said to have reached en-Lighten-ment at a full moon.

For these people, lunar activity is relegated entirely to the mood alteration at personal level, with animals, children and women being most susceptible.  Anyone, particularly an adult male, who gets worked up over the Moon is considered “loony,” unstable, irrational --- a lunatic.

An alternative perspective (not just mine) on the Moon as relevant to collective events is to see the Moon as what I call the “luna-tick.”  If other celestial movement is seen as analogous to the movement of the Hour and minute hands of a clock, the movement of the Moon is like a second hand on a watch, ticking away. At a lunar eclipse, the Moon visibly appears to be going through Her changes very rapidly, therefore being more relevant than an ordinary Full Moon. However, even lunar eclipses are not that infrequent.

What might make this particular eclipse more significant than others?  Some of us who see the Moon as related to fairly precise timing are very excited about the astrological timing of what is called “The Harmonic Concordance” (the lunar eclipse of November 2003).  John Mirehiel and others have their own persuasive reasons to consider this to be a very special time.  I have my own observations to add to the discussion.  Although the eclipse is visible, at least partially, in different places, the location of greatest significance is Washington, DC, the capital city of the world’s only super power nation.

Saturn rises in the East as Chiron sets, in opposition, in the West, both square Pallas Athena in the tenth house. There are images for each of the 360 degrees of the Zodiac, psychically derived in 1925, and much respected within astrology.  The image of Pallas Athena in this chart is: “A bomb which failed to explode is now safely hidden from discovery.”  This large asteroid appears to be moving backwards in the sky.  She is in the house of government, and is associated with a woman in a man’s realm, particularly defense.  National Security advisor, Condolesa Rice, fits this image well, as does the controversial issue of the undiscovered “weapons of mass destruction” used for the justification of the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

Governing Saturn is retrograde in Cancer, on the U.S.’ and the President’s Sun.  Lynda Hill interprets this degree with a caution: “Seeing nothing.  A lack of purpose.  A feeling of abandonment.  Loss and darkness.  The exploitation and abandonment of native people.”

Chiron, the underdog minority outsider(s), mythically totally unwanted by Saturn, in the house of one’s opponent(s), is putting pressure on this internal tension within the administration.  The government spokesperson(s) look to be on the defensive (Cancer), lacking decisiveness (Saturn retrograde) about what to say about a topic that they had hoped would have been forgotten by then (Athena retrograde). Chiron, like a little guy with a fulcrum, could rock the tentative balance if “he” doesn’t get crushed in the process. (Saturn, fearing his overthrow from power, ate every one of his children that he could, and Chiron was his mutant bastard son….) (N.B.: Underdog representatives JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, Carnahan, Wellstone, etc. all died unnatural deaths at the time that they threatened the conservative Saturnine status quo….)

As regards hour/minute hand cycles, the 1965 Uranus – Pluto conjunction epitomizing the spirit of profound irresistible change, the revolutionary, subversive “spirit of the sixties,” occurred on 16+ Virgo: “A volcanic eruption bringing dust clouds, flowing lava, earth rumblings.”  Mass demonstrations erupted, demonstrators flowing like molten lava, tear gas clouds, and rumbling sounds were heard.  The restless discontent, the longing to change things dramatically, did not die.  Periodically that spirit is born anew.

The Uranus – Pluto conjunction is analogous to our time’s “hour hand.”  Harmonic Concordance (HC) Pluto squares that original place, our “minute hand.” (The image says, in part, “…disturbed by the garbage of people…”)

Facilitating the process, HC Jupiter is closely conjunct the volcano degree, but on the refined “Fine lace ornamental handkerchief’ (not exactly the scruffy anarchist!)  Further, HC Sun at 16+ Scorpio sextiles the volcano degree exactly.  Our Luna-ticking “second hand” is the eclipsed Moon at 16+ Taurus.  She is trine, that is “in flow with,” this degree on: “A symbolic battle between “swords,’ the disciples of might, and ‘torches,’ the disciples of enlightenment.”

What else is happening?  The eclipsed Moon rules the ascendant and the chart itself for a chart based in Washington, DC.  The Part of Fortune is conjunct the descendant: “An angel comes carrying a harp.”  Divine intervention?  The underdog(s) continually “harping” on something---where are the WMDs?  One who/those who plays stringed instrument(s) HC for DC Midheaven: “A master instructing his disciple”---is this not a special time, when our purpose is to learn something, and/or teach someone a lesson?  There is much more to this chart, but I will leave further comment to others, or for another time.

I would like to join the chorus of those who encourage us to converge the evening (EST) of 11/8/2003, wherever they will happen to be, or at least join us via mindful attunement.  I particularly encourage activity and awareness in Washington, DC and vicinity at this very special time.  Renewed activism could make a difference now.

Peace.

 It’s better to be part of a beautiful luna-tick fringe on the social fabric than to remain a doormat to those who would oppress us.  Or, as Martin Luther King said in Strength to Love: “I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.  Behind the harsh appearance of the world, there is a benign power.”

Dale O'Brien
docchiron@yahoo.com