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A number of notable events occurred on the day (Wednesday
January 16, 2013; 8.43 pm EST) Venus and Pluto conjoined. The conjunction
brought the rulers of the lunar nodes together and marked the beginning of a
year-long cycle (ending November 16, 2013). The themes that appeared this day,
should arise with regularity whenever the two planets aspect each other in the
coming year. What were these events?
Although
quickly passed over by the mainstream news, I was excited to see the
resurrection of the proposal for single payer health insurance in the form of a
bill Democratic House members are planning to introduce in attempt to lower
health care costs. Given Venus is the planet of money and Pluto the planet of death
and transformation, it is an auspicious time to start talking about a
reasonable cost necessary to protect health.
On this
day, a number of expatriates working in a B.P. oilfield in Algeria were
kidnapped, suggesting that next year the procurement of oil from undemocratic
countries may be a problem. The kidnapping itself evokes images of Persephone
(Venus) being kidnapped by Hades (Pluto) as she innocently collected flowers
(oil) and was transported to the underworld. True to form, the personal
accounts of those who lived to tell the tale of terror, sound harrowing.
The third
thing that happened and which received much attention, was President Obama’s
twenty-three point plan to enact sensible gun regulation in the wake of the
Newtown massacre. The conjunction reflects the murder of innocents, with the
mutual reception between Pluto and Saturn suggesting legal regulation becoming
a reality. However, with Saturn set to station and move retrograde away from
Pluto back in the direction from whence it came, the moment of opportunity may
pass without much transformative change.
The
following day, three additional events occurred, with two coming from the
sports field. Lance Armstrong, America’s premier cyclist came clean after years
of denial to using banned drugs. In his confession to Oprah he appeared
uncontrite and unapologetic: he did what he had to do to win. This
un-repentance seems reflective of Venus with Pluto in the sense that although
he cheated, deceived and played dirty (Pluto), he did so for the best of
reasons – he wanted to win and feel good about himself (Venus). It will be
interesting to see what the legal response to his confession will be.
Notre Dame
linebacker Manti Te-O also made news, when it came to light that his long-time
girlfriend who died from leukemia in September and was such a source of
inspiration to him, was not real. He either made her up, or was the victim of a
hoax. Venus with Pluto tells the tale of corrupt love, a dead woman and
romance, and relational deceit. The
legal fallout from this should also be interesting, although it is unclear to
me, why this is such a scandal. Perhaps at any other time, it might not have
been.
Lastly, the
stock market rallied on Thursday with the news that Republicans would not hold
the debt ceiling hostage and would agree to raise it without a fight in order
to pay the bills the country has accrued, thus temporarily protecting the
currency from further downgrade and the country’s fledgling recovery. In
essence, Congress was going to play nice (Venus) in order to protect the profit
of big business (Pluto) who stood to lose the most in another currency
downgrade. However, the problem wasn’t put to rest forever, but for three
months, when Venus and Pluto will make their first square. Expect more action
on this front at that time.
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