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While writing "The Dark Side of Eclipses: Do the Heavens Still Issue Warnings of Things to Come?" I encountered several instances where the 5th house was involved. Typically, the matters assigned to this house include children, the Senate, House of Lords, entertainment industry and figures, sports, recreation, stock speculation, and gambling. Based on the natal view of this house including creativity and a person's ego or how they see themselves, I extended it to include how citizens perceive their country and their place in it. Since then, I've refined that to something more specific: The cultural icons that surround us and contribute to a place's character or identity that give it emotional meaning. Have you ever looked at a picture of a city skyline and known immediately which one it is? Do you recognize the Empire State Building? The Golden Gate Bridge? Statue of Liberty? Hollywood sign? The U.S. Capitol building? Washington D.C. in general? Without a doubt, these belong in the mundane 5th house. Now it's obvious, yet this specific interpretation eluded me while I was writing the book. Clearly they relate to creativity on a mundane scale a city or country's self-identity. These are what inevitably show up in travel literature, luring tourists to come see what a place has to offer. They're a source of local pride, often with sentimental value. Duh! This finally dawned on me while examining the astrology related to the demise of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024. (See the separate blog for that event for details.) It was one of those "Aha!" moments, a head-slapper if you will, wondering how I'd managed to miss that. The tragic context here is if an enemy is trying to destroy a culture from within, these are going to be targets. Seeing their destruction is depressing, demoralizing, and erases a part of history. Part of you goes with them. How much are the evil forces out there trying to do just that? Buildings and bridges can be considered infrastructure, but that lacks the emotional component of a true icon. How many have fond memories of traveling Route 66? The demolition of a building is going to have meaning to those who were connected to it in some way. A part of their personal history, if you will, whether they lived there, worked there, met their partner there, etc. Some have meaning to a few hundred, others to thousands or millions. Believe me, if someone wrote a song about it, it's an icon! ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco" comes to mind.) What about people's attachment to sports teams? That's about far more than just the game. Going back to the demise of the Francis Scott Key bridge, consider the fact that it not only had a name, but an important one--that of the man who penned our National Anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." A song about the American flag, a sacred icon to millions.
Conversely, if what
was previously a beloved icon for whatever reason is no
longer meaningful, it could actually be painful. For
example, say you met your spouse at the Statue of Liberty,
but sometime later the marriage ends up on the rocks. It
could be that seeing Lady Liberty would be upsetting and if
someone zapped her you'd find it satisfying. Thus, you can see
why our enemies target such symbols. They hate America and
everything she represents, or at least used to. I'm not so
sure anymore. Whether the container ship, Dali, destroyed it purposely or by accident, the elements of fate present in the charts say something in and of themselves. As astrologers, we known we exist in a world with a plethora of symbols. If this bridge was destined to come down, taking six lives with it, what is it telling us? What does it represent? It was not some nameless, faceless bridge that earned no other distinction than being an extension of a roadway over a body of water. Rather, it not only bears the name of an important historical figure, but its location marks where the poem that became our National Anthem was inspired by the sight of the American flag. Is it possible that this, coupled with the recent eclipse paths that slash ominous X's across the face of the land are telling us something? The moment I recognized the 5th house as where icons belong occurred when I viewed the transit chart (above) for when the bridge was destroyed. A glaring yod with meaning that brought tears to my eyes. Its base comprises exalted Venus in the 3rd house of infrastructure, suggesting "beloved bridge," sextile Jupiter in the 5th of icons, suggesting its importance, not only to the city of Baltimore but the U.S. as a whole. Jupiter rules the chart as well as the 3rd house. The Moon at the eye rules the 8th of death, located at the top of the chart in the 10th house, indicating the emotional element of its loss affects the public at large. The Moon conjunct the South Node shows it left behind. Pluto in the 2nd shows its loss as an asset and financial impact, the semisextile to Mars in a water sign that its demise resulted from an act of aggression by a ship. Chiron and Mercury in the 4th show a painful ending that will affect traffic while Uranus in the 5th shows its sudden and unexpected demise. Astrology invites us to see things from
different angles and even dimensions. Those with deeper
meaning. The complex world of
symbols. To those of us who understand such things this
wasn't just any bridge. It was the
essence of the USA, its destruction perhaps more fated
than we want to believe. |
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