December 19, 2008

TIME FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT - Electric Universe

So, as of writing, none of the geophysical events forecast to occur around the time of the mutable cross Full Moon came to pass. However don't be too quick to dismiss the power of astrology to correctly pinpoint the timing of major events because a few days ago a story came to light which is fast gaining 'legs'.

The Full Moon occurred in the signs of Gemini/Sagittarius which correlates (amongst other things) to communications (Gemini) and Space (Sagittarius) and had a Mars/Uranus square which I mentioned in previous posts as being linked to recent power outages. Now we hear of a huge hole appearing in the Earth's magnetic shield, which is so large that it threatens to wipe out all communications, such as Television, GPS, the Internet, in 2012. This is the year when the present Sunspot cycle reaches its peak.

So, whilst we were all looking at the portents of the full Moon and focusing on an event occurring on Earth, the main event was actually occurring to Earth.

Since 1997, there has been a growing trend (I'm a master of understatement!) towards moving all types of businesses, business records and transactions online. Just stop and think for one moment about how reliant we have become, in such a short space of time, on our little boxes - whether that be our mobile phone, our Blackberry, our Television, or our laptop. Think about how many people use Internet Banking; Internet shopping; store their photos online; fill in their tax return online etc., etc. Think of the billions of pounds, dollars and other currencies being moved about wirelessly each day.

Most people feel comfortable enough with the reliability of the technology to have almost entirely dispensed with keeping hard copies of anything important, believing that the Internet is the future and entirely safe. Hmmm, well all I can say is that the phrase 'safe as houses' springs to mind.

People have seen their investments in the property market wiped out overnight. Many homeowners will never recoup the money they paid for their house. Can you imagine if the Internet was wiped out just what would occur if adequate hard copy back ups of important documents had not been retained by you - or by some companies you deal with. How would you prove that you had money in an Internet bank? Who would you call - how would you find out who to call and how would you make that call if all systems were down?

Forget incoming asteroids, the panic from a complete wipe out of all satellite, navigation and Internet facilities would be 'the end times' and here's a guy, not just any guy but a Professor of Physics, forecasting exactly that........



I'm no doomsday merchant but this resonates strongly with me. We (and by that I mean astrologers and metaphysicans in particular) have known for years that we are building up to something cataclysmic in 2012, we are just not quite sure what. With Uranus in Aries, the symbolism points to power shortages, blackouts etc as almost inevitable, but an entire wipe out of communications systems and power grids? Yes it has to be a possibility. Something huge has to occur to shake us all awake and bring us back to a realisation of how far away from nature we have strayed and how little respect we have for our planet and nature's forces. The one thing that has died a death between 1997 and now, is the personal touch. Everything is done or managed by computers and we are losing our ability to be truly connected at the physical level. Something like a crash of technological systems would ensure we had to physically reconnect and come out of our heads. Many people can go for days without shaking hands or touching anyone,we don't even put money in people's hands anymore we just put a plastic card into a receptacle or tap in some numbers online.

Interestingly the planet Uranus correlates to all forms of electricity and the magnetosphere and the sign Aries corresponds to the symbolism of power and attacks. Uranus moves into Aries for good, finally moving forward from 0 Aries in ....2012!

Furthermore, until that date, whilst Uranus completes its sojourn in the sign of Pisces we have been hearing (or I have) more and more about the work of Nikola Tesla and investigations into plasma fields - plasma correlates to Pisces.

Nikola Tesla was the 'Father' of electricity and was the first to postulate that we live in an 'Electric environment or Universe'. Continuing with the theme of Saturn in opposition to Uranus it is interesting to see that a certain sector of the scientific community (Sa) are suddenly getting more support to advance this theory, which is threatening a paradigm shift (Ur) in the world of physics.

As I said, Uranus in the sign of Pisces links electricity with plasma - and plasma, as anyone with an interest in esoteric matters will know, is really just the technical name for the ethers - that substance through which we transmit and receive all thought impressions and which links us all as 'one'.

I first heard about Nikola Tesla not at school but from astrologer, Linda Goodman. In her book Star Signs I was riveted when she wrote that she thought Tesla was an extraordinary man and went on to explain that he had experimented with harnessing the Earth's magnetic field, to provide fuel and energy in a safe and efficient way. His experiments had taken place in Colorado Springs near to where Linda was living at that time.

In her book Linda recounts the story she was told about how industrialist and financier J.P. Morgan suddenly withdrew his backing after it emerged that Tesla had found a way in which, with just a small antennae in their garden, people would be able to pull in all the power, and all the electrical energy they would ever need for anything - for free. Morgan with an eye for profits, didn't want anyone to get anything free and is quoted a saying:
"If anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?"!

Linda also wrote about how far ahead of his time this man Tesla was. So much so that others regarded him as slightly mad and 'not of this earth'. He wasn't just a pioneer, he was a visionary and changed the face of life on Earth.
"Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the result of Mr. Tesla's work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be dark and our mills would be idle and dead" - Vice President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers

There were also (according to Linda) rumours that the Tesla Coil, used in Kirlian Photography to capture the human aura, also has properties which can prolong life and heal bones and regenerate bone marrow but many of the papers of Tesla's inventions, and their uses, were seized immediately after his death as he was considered to be dabbling in things so far outside of people's comprehension that it was not safe to make them public. Well that's one theory, others lean more to a conspiracy but, whatever the truth his findings are making their way back into our consciousness now.

You can read about Tesla here and this video explains more about The Electric Universe. You can also visit this site to find out more about plasma cosmology.


It's certainly all food for thought and fascinating stuff. To some this post may seem slightly disjointed but I sense a big connection between what Physicists are discovering about the magnetosphere and the sudden influx of information I have been receiving about Tesla. I'm not quite sure where all this is leading but with Pluto in Capricorn and the upcoming cycles of Uranus it sure looks like we are going to have to rethink our views about the way we have perceived our reality to date.

Capricorn is also about tradition and physical and practical things, so it may be good advice to revert to backing up all your data with hard, physical copy between now and 2012!


Happy Christmas to you all, love Kathryn



December 14, 2008

LISTEN!

There are just no words to describe this incredible moment. This clip touches everyone so deeply because of the lyrics, the raw emotion and stellar talent on display. I had to post it here just to remind everyone that, despite all the gloom and doom in the world, it's still possible to realise a dream. This is nothing short of magical......... Here is X Factor winner Alex with Beyonce singing Listen, from Dreamgirls, the movie.


In my forthcoming newsletter I will be looking at Alex's birthchart and noting 'why her time for recognition and fame has come' You can sign up in the sidebar or on my site www.kathryncassidy.com
Meanwhile, go get the tissues, listening to this clip you are going to need them!

December 12, 2008

FULL MOON, WASHINGTON D.C. and 2012


I just got an e-mail from one of my readers ( sorry to sound formal, I don't like to mention names without asking first, so we'll keep them anonymous) saying something to the effect of 'And so it begins'... The Full Moon is exact right now and here's what we are looking at:

Italy Hit by Torrential Rain; Rome Declares Emergency

By Alessandra Migliaccio and Flavia Krause-Jackson

Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Italy is being hit by extreme weather, as the heaviest rains in more than a century flood cities up and down the peninsula, drowning Venice’s St. Mark’s Square and Rome’s cobbled medieval streets.

The city of Rome declared a state of emergency today after a woman died while trapped in a car in a flooded underpass. Almost a quarter of Venice is under water amid the highest tides in 22 years. Record snowfall on Sicily’s Mount Etna, Europe’s highest active volcano, has left eight Boy Scouts stranded on the mountain.

Italy’s civil protection agency predicts another 36 hours of hail, heavy rain and snowfall after two weeks of storms.... continue reading here


Meanwhile Athens has been enduring its seventh day of riots and trouble has been spreading across Europe:

Suspected anarchist protests which have dogged Greece for the last week spread outside the country today, with mobs causing violent scenes in Italy, Spain, Russia, Denmark and Turkey.

Greek diplomatic missions were vandalised in the attacks, while police, local authority and media representatives were also targeted in what appeared a co-ordinated escalation. Continue reading here


Rome and Greece were not highlighted by the Sun or Moon on the Full Moon ACG but Saturn IC is angular through Greece triggering the SA/UR opp and Pluto comes to the Desc through Italy. However the Eastern seaboard USA and Venezuela does have the Full Moon angular and news from there reads:

CARACAS -- Caracas was hit by yet another citywide black-out shortly before 4:00 in the afternoon on Thursday. It was the fourth major power cut this year so far, in a country with massive energy resources.

The power outage was caused by a "section gap" in the Santa Teresa circuit, in Miranda state, east of Caracas, said the state-owned company Electricidad de Caracas.

It also knocked out some telephone and internet service, including the office and industrial size servers of the internet edition of this paper.
If you go to this link you'll read about the massive amount of power cuts affecting East coast America at this time. 230,000 New Hampshire residents alone are without power right now.

National Grid Plc had about 470,000 customers in New York and New England out of service, a spokesman said, adding it could take several days to restore power to all in both regions.


That's the Mars/Saturn/Uranus factor in the cross that I was speaking of in previous posts.

To other news, Casey Anthony who has her natal Uranus triggered by today's cross has finally been rumbled as the skull of her poor little daughter, Caylee appears to have been located. One should be innocent until proven otherwise but her searching the Internet for subjects such as 'neck breaking' and trying to shift the blame to everyone else points rather heavily to one mightily sick young woman in Florida. Were her family involved? We're about to find out.

Watch this space, this Full Moon is humdinger

Whilst I am here I was mentioning that I was compiling a post about Chicago. What's going on in Chicago everyone is asking me? We have had the names of all these (powerful) figures hitting the headlines over recent months:

Hillary Clinton
Ernest Hemingway
Barack Obama
Michael Crichton
Edna Ferber
Hugh Hefner
Oprah Winfrey
Rahm Emanuel
Frank Lloyd Wright

What do they all have in common - Illinois. And now we have the Rod Blagojevich story and the repeated use of the word 'corruption', so what's the trigger for all this? In one word, Pluto.

In everyday use Astrocartographers look at the celestial positions of the planets and where they come to angularity on Earth. The other way that we can use ACG however is symbolically. So, if we take the Greenwich Meridian as being 0 Aries and divide the face of the planet up into 12 equal divisions of 30 degrees, we find that 0 Capricorn falls.......... right through Illinois (and all points South and North of there)Look for the bright red line. What's at 0 degrees Capricorn now? Answer:Pluto. Pluto will move slowly Eastwards over the course of the next 17 years only leaving America's shores for good by 2024.

So Illinois and all points (States) east, that Pluto will transit over, are due for some big shifts and transformations in their power base and in' Capricornian' events, such as physical 'earth/weather' related events too. The key time to watch will be when it gets within orb of Washington DC around 2012- 2014!

At the moment we should look out to the right of the map, locate the violet line which is Uranus and note that it is now going direct so about to close in on the coast of Portugal. This will undoubtedly up-end or revolutionise the Lisbon Treaty and may yet bring news and even a sudden breakthrough (and eventually, hopefully, justice) for the other poor little missing child, Madeleine McCann. Uranus reaches Portugal in the next few months. Meanwhile Saturn goes Rx on 31st Dec so backtracks through Portugal (Sa/Ur opposition) and Texas.

See the white line through Houston? Follow it up through Middle America. Those are the locations that will be most affected by the economic downturn in the USA. Jan/Feb 2009 looks like a flashpoint for Houston and where that 'line' covers, sadly the effect will last ( for Portugal and Houston etc) into 2010, as Saturn and Uranus face off a few times in a relatively small sector of the sky.

I'll keep you posted.

December 7, 2008

FULL MOON DEC 12th 2008 - more

I only just posted on the significance of this Full Moon (scroll down for next post if you missed it) but this is so intriguing that I have to write again.

In my previous post I put out a request for a list of past New Moon's at 21 Sag - the reason being that both the Full Moon and New Moon 21 Sag positions of yesteryear will inform us about the nature of events likely to occur with this one - that's the beauty of a cyclical universe!

Julian and Claire both kindly sent me details, of not only the previous ones, (which I briefly covered in my previous post - but add Dec 13 1993 to that list) they also mentioned that the next one will be on Dec 13th 2012. That made my eyes widen a little and I began to write back to Julian to thank him. I wrote:

13 Dec 2012 is intriguing. If we do have a big earth event now around the Full Moon (like a tremor etc) then that will point to what may happen just before the big 21/12/2012* date.

*This 21/12/2012 date is the solstice 'Doomsday' of the Mayan Calendar for anyone who is as yet unaware.

Before sending this e-mail though I decided to just look and see what news was out there overnight, as I had also received an e-mail from Tom alerting me to the huge increase in earthquakes around the Pacific Rim this week.

What I immediately discovered was this newsflash, from Spaceweather.com..........(my bolding)

COLORADO SUPERBOLIDE: Last night, Dec. 6th at 1:28 a.m. MST, a stunning meteor lit up the sky near Colorado Springs, CO. Astronomer Chris Peterson photographed the event using an all-sky video camera dedicated to meteor studies: movie. "In seven years of operation, this is the brightest fireball I've ever recorded. I estimate the terminal explosion at magnitude -18, more than 100 times brighter than a full Moon." Meteors this bright are called superbolides; they are caused by small (meter-class) asteroids and are likely to pepper the ground with meteorites when they explode.
MONSTER PROMINENCE: Readers, if you have a solar telescope, train it on the edge of the sun. An enormous filament of plasma is swirling over the eastern limb. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) took this picture just hours ago:(see above) This plasma-filled filament of magnetism popped up yesterday and it could collapse again just as rapidly. When a filament abruptly collapses and hits the sun's surface, it can produce a rare type of explosion called a "Hyder flare." Could one be in the offing? Stay tuned!

I hadn't really expected to find something so specatcular, especially as the 'Full Moon' week has barely begun. To my mind this has to be pointing to the likelihood that December 2012 could indeed be accompanied by a meteor/comet strike. I had already concluded that this was the most plausible possibility after many lengthy conversations with Ron Bonewitz, a geologist and an expert on the Maya, on this subject earlier in the year.

Infact I wrote about Ron and this subject of the 2012 Prophecy in my newsletter here. In case you don't get to read that though I should just reiterate that a comet/meteor close pass or strike doesn't necessarily mean annihilation. I'm not into this 'Doomsday' theory myself, but I can go along with the idea that something could come along to shake us all awake in the next few years!

Now the other reason for writing, which I feel is worth a mention, is that when compiling the previous Full Moon post I noticed that Chrysler Corporation had come close to bankruptcy at the time of the previous movement of the US Uranus in 1979. Now although this doesn't relate directly to the Full Moon, I had thought this was very interesting in view of the present problems in the car industry and particularly with the Chrysler Corporation.

However, as the ACG lines were close to New York, after writing that post it popped into my mind that there is also a Chrysler Building. Although it is now owned by investors in Abu Dhabi, the laws of correlation are such that if a company is in trouble, other things bearing their name can also be affected. So I found the chart and discovered that the progressed chart of the birthdate of the building Sep 19th 1928 ( first construction work began ) has a Sun/Saturn conjunction at 21 mutables. That's intriguing too as it means that something may be afoot with the building.

Now I must just say here that it can mean anything - from the smallest most insignificant thing like the building is in need of a repaint or needs a new electricity generator, to a need to turn off some of the lights due to energy conservation. However this afternoon, whilst putting up some Xmas decorations something fell out of a box. It was a calendar of Art Deco buildings around the world and The Chrysler Building was on the front cover! This could just be one of life's little synchronicities or it could be a prompt of some kind. I just thought I would mention it.

Perhaps my readers in NY could keep an eye out in the papers for any news on the building.

Finally, here from Terry Lamb's site is a list of this months incredible celestial alignments:

December 1 Venus conjoins Jupiter 22°15' Capricorn
December 1 Mars sextiles Lunar North Node 12°28' Sagittarius/Aquarius
December 3 Mercury sextiles Chiron 16°53' Sagittarius/Aquarius
December 3 Mercury squares Uranus 18°46' Sagittarius/Pisces
December 5 Sun conjoins Mars 14°10' Sagittarius
December 5 Mercury squares Saturn 21°11' Sagittarius/Virgo
December 6 Mercury sextiles Neptune 21°49' Sagittarius/Aquarius
December 6 Venus enters Aquarius 0°00' Aquarius
December 7 Sun sextiles Chiron 17°06' Sagittarius/Aquarius
December 8 Mars sextiles Chiron 17°09' Sagittarius/Aquarius
December 9 Sun squares Uranus 18°49' Sagittarius/Pisces
December 10 Mars squares Uranus 18°50' Sagittarius/Pisces
December 12 Mercury enters Capricorn 0°00' Capricorn
December 12 Full Moon 21°02' Gemini/Sagittarius
December 12 Mercury conjoins Pluto 0°33' Capricorn
December 12 Sun squares Saturn 21°26' Sagittarius/Virgo
December 12 Sun sextiles Neptune 21°57' Sagittarius/Aquarius
December 13 Mars squares Saturn 21°32' Sagittarius/Virgo
December 15 Mars sextiles Neptune 22°01' Sagittarius/Aquarius
December 16 Venus conjoins Lunar North Node 11°42' Aquarius
December17 Sun enters Capricorn (Yule/Winter Solstice) 0°00' Capricorn
December 21 Sun conjoins Pluto 0°54' Capricorn
December 22 Venus conjoins Chiron 17°51' Aquarius
December 23 Mercury sextiles Uranus 17°51' Capricorn/Aquarius
December 23 Mercury trines Saturn 21°44' Capricorn/Virgo
December 26 Venus quincunxes Saturn 21°44' Scorpio/Aquarius
December 26 Mars enters Capricorn (exaltation) 0°00' Capricorn
December 27 New Moon 6°08' Capricorn
December 27 Venus conjoins Neptune 22°18' Aquarius
December 27 Mars conjoins Pluto 1°08' Capricorn
December 28 Mercury conjoins Jupiter 28°49' Capricorn
December 31 Saturn begins retrograde motion (stationary retrograde) 21°46' Virgo
All dates are based on Pacific Time.

Check out this fabulous Saturn /Uranus inspired site UrbanSurvival
Astrologers and cycle trackers everywhere will love this.

December 5, 2008

MUTABLE CROSS FULL MOON ON USA MARS

I was half way through a post I have been meaning to do for some while about India, Chicago and some other things but the chatter into my inbox about this upcoming Mutable Cross is now too great to ignore, so here's my two penneth worth.

Mutable crosses occurs when 4 or more planets occupy the 4 mutable signs and form a cross by 2 oppositions (180 degrees), which means squares, 90 degree angles, also occur. Mutability signifies restlessness , vacillation, fluidity, an inability to stay still and all states of flux and changeability.

So why are we all hopping up and down about this? Well because Full Moons are notoriously volatile at the best of times, so too are Sun/Mars conjunctions and Saturn/Uranus oppositions are rebellious and revolutionary. Mars/Uranus squares however are downright worrying. It has a reputation as the accident aspect, or at very least one of sudden and shocking surprises. It's also linked to power (energy) crises and events involving the Internet and telecoms. Airlines in particular tend to suffer around these aspects.

In my, as yet, incomplete post I am also writing about terrorism at sea which would be Saturn in Virgo (service industry) opposite Uranus in Pisces (event at or involving sea or liquids or gas). The Virgo component is undoubtedly why a hotel was targeted in Mumbai and tensions will once again be at breaking point in India.

When Sun and Mars occupy Sagittarius the news is usually about antagonistic (Mars) foreign relations or Jupiterian places, people or events. Jupiter includes religious fanatics, foreign travel and legalities with distant countries. This cross however is making my fellow astrologers in the USA particularly concerned as the Full Moon falls with the Mars of the 1776 USA chart. This usually gives a warmongering effect.

All the factors mentioned above come into alignment triggering Mars AND this is just as Mercury moves to the exact degree of Pluto which recently moved into Capricorn. Additionally Neptune (gas, oil, collapse, virus) is also at 21 degrees and, although not in a mutable sign, due to the law of harmonics we have Sun, Moon, Mars, Saturn and Neptune triggered at 21 degrees with Uranus just 3 degrees away.

This sounds to me like extreme destabilisation, even collapse particularly in and around the period of at least 8 days around 9th thru 17th December 2008 and the breakdown of some system that moves either people or information around. As Gemini is the sign ruled by the winged messenger Mercury though, I'd be looking to mercurial related events and as mentioned airlines, computers plus markets, trade and the car industry fall into this category. Mass transit is also coming to mind. Gemini is the sign of bridges, tracks and anything twin or dual. It's also connected to children and the Virgo /Gemini involvement points to the 2 test match cricket series.

As the Full Moon directly impacts the USA Mars we have to see what that Mars represents and what aspects it makes in the natal chart and where it has progressed to as well.

USA Mars is square USA Neptune
Progressed Mars is opposite Pr Venus and pr Chiron on the mundane level this points to the problems with finances.
Directed Mars is in Aquarius ruled by Uranus which is about to change signs in the next few months for the first time since summer/autumn 1979. This date coincides with Chrysler asking for 1 billion from the US Government to avoid bankruptcy and the start of Iran hostage crisis but if you are interested to know more then researching what else was happening in the US then could be enlightening as to what is coming up again for change.

In order to research this properly we also have to look at where the USA Mars becomes angular, which is nigh on impossible without an accurate birthtime and we just don't have one for the USA (infact we have several but none can be verified beyond doubt). What we can do is look and see where Mars becomes angular on the day of the Full Moon and to do this we use ACG maps.

The answer is India and East Coast USA down through Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Colombia.

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zaire, Congo ( this is where there is currently a cholera outbreak)
China, Vietnam and Indonesia and Hawaii.

Middle America,( Texas and up to N.D and all states in between). Mexico City, West Coast Australia, Sri Lanka up through Delhi also have geodetic markers

We also need to look at what happened when the Sun was at 21 Gemini, which was on 12 June 2008

June 10 - Fire engulfs Sudan Airways Flight 109 after landing in Khartoum, killing 44.
June 11 - The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is launched.
June 11 - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to Canada's First Nations for the Canadian residential school system.
June 12 - Ireland votes to reject the Treaty of Lisbon, in the only referendum to be held by a European Union member state on the treaty.
June 14 - A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, kills 12 and injures more than 400.

and we should look at when the Sun and Moon last came together at 21 Sag as that was the start of this cycle. I can't find this information - does anyone have it on when we last had a New Moon at 21.02 Sag?? Dec 14th 2001 is close at 22 degrees. On this date The Parliament of India is attacked, killing 14. This brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.

I can find eclipses and the date for 21 Sag is December 13th, 1974 ( closest) with Dec 14 1955 following a close 2nd. On the second date the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opened and Bulgaria joined the UN.

I have just read that US job losses are the worst since 1974, so in this respect the inclusion of Neptune in this Full Moon line up is further evidence of the collapse/destabilisation of the US economy.

Finally countries who have birthcharts (proclamations, constitutions, independence etc) with planets at 21 mutables are:
Norway
Russia
Maldives
USA
Albania
Venezuela
France
Sri Lanka
Mauritius
Zimbabwe
Costa Rica
Egypt

So where a name is repeated in this list and the text above that means there is a dual stress or likelihood of that country being affected by this lunation. Let's wait and see what the Full Moon period brings.

Update 6 Dec I just noticed that I didn't mention the exact date of the Full Moon. It is in the chart above but for those who need it it is 12th Dec at 16.37 GMT. Also I notice that Singapore and Hong Kong get strong hits from the ACG lines. This may refer to the Stock Market volatility there. Bangkok is close to the lines but not exact. I believe they continue to have trouble at the airport - which, along with airlines, correlates to the Uranus aspects.

December 1, 2008

THE ALL BLACKS, THE HAKA & MY PEA!

Perpetual Existential Angst (PEA) is a constant companion of mine.

The seat of the frustration for myself and, I believe, for anyone who walks in the world of the 'metaphysical', is that we see and hear almost everything on two levels; that of the face value but also in terms of the deeper meaning - the hidden psychology. The conflict arises in trying to distinguish when it is appropriate to inform people about what you are registering, and indeed if one ever should. The 'path' may be to know, but to retain, the information until people are led to it themselves. The angst arises from the constant desire to gently shake people awake to a realisation of their indivisibility between what is above, below, within and without.

There's a whole sub culture of us out there leading this dualistic life. Coincidences and synchronicities speak volumes to us. Additionally we hear intonations within the spoken words of others, we notice metaphor and symbolism in one's choice of words - whether it be from overheard conversations in the local shops or in the latest news bulletin on TV. Body language is revealing too, as is the choice of clothes, the colour of those clothes etc. Even age makes a difference. Who out there with a grounding in astrological symbolism/planetary cycles doesn't prick up their ears when someone says they are 28 or 41! To the average Joe on the street age is a number, to the astrologer though it's a Saturn return or a Uranus opposition.

Here's an everyday example of what I mean.

In England this weekend rugby fans were gripped by the match between England and the New Zealand team, the All Blacks. To many the 'All Blacks' are known as a formidable side of dedicated, focused men who happen to play their sport with exceptional skill. How though, one may ponder, have they managed to build up such a solid reputation and incredible track record despite changes of players, coaches, managers and the natural passage of time. Why hasn't the Argentinean or indeed any other of the international teams achieved such a degree of respect and consistency?

Now, beyond the NZ team being the best in the world, I know zilch about rugby but I do know a lot about symbolism and the symbolism for the New Zealand side is noteworthy and I believe that their ongoing success has to be due in some part to metaphysical factors.

Firstly the strip and the name of the team ALL BLACKS shows correspondence to a Saturn/Pluto vibration. Their strip is 'all' black (Saturn) and there is an emblem of the silver fern in their logo. Silver equates to the Moon and her lunar influences whilst the Fern is a Scorpio (Pluto) plant as it grows in shady, moist areas in dense undergrowth. All students of astrological symbolism know that Saturn/Pluto energies are those of spectacular endurance. Astrologer Sue Tompkins talks about it being the aspect of controlled use of power and of demolition. The All Blacks certainly seem to demolish their opponents time after time. This weekend they won the Grand Slam beating England 32- 6 at Twickenham.

The second reason I know this team will forever be one step ahead of their opponents, lies in the way they start their matches. The All Blacks are famous for doing The Haka. They are not the only team to perform this ancient Maori posture dance, it's part of New Zealand's ceremonial culture, but the reason The Haka gives the All Blacks the edge could well be down to what they are wearing (black) plus this dance invoking something known as entrainment.


I wrote about entrainment here but basically the phenomena was first recognised by Christian Huygens, a physicist and clock maker. Huygens happened to notice that when pendulum clocks were marking a different beat, then before too long, when they were in close proximity, their beat became entrained i.e. the swing of their pendulums would have synchronized. Nowadays entrainment is recognised as a universally occurring phenomenon in Physics and Quantum Physics and is linked to brainwaves and soundwaves and, some say waves of any description* For example the sacred ' AUM' sound is a humming sound of a particular wavelength that affects the entire being and brings it to a state of harmony otherwise known as resonance.

So, watching The Haka, I believe that the All Blacks are (either knowingly or unwittingly) tapping into a an ancient Maori technique that brings the team into a state of entrainment and therefore gives them an edge over the competition. It quite literally synchronises the willpower of the team. The definition of the word Team being 'the cooperation of a unit' - and that means physically and mentally.

There's far more about symbolism in the sporting arena's that I could mention, including the symbolism of the starting time of matches and the numbers which players wear on their backs, but that's for another time. I just wanted to demonstrate how easy it is for someone to think they are just watching a straightforward match, while I sit there thinking 'England are stuffed 'coz they don't do The Haka'!

Ah well this dualism in my mind, and the resulting P.E.A., is the curse that may one day turn into a blessing, but for now though I guess it is something I will just have to live with!

* * * * *

Now would you look at that. I just googled 'Entrainment + Haka' and it seems I am onto something. In the book Deleuze and Music it says: Rhythmic syntheses bring bodies together under relations of movement and rest and also individuate a Haka as an event......... read about this here. So, it is indeed all about Rhythm and Synthesis of the team and this confirms the value of The Haka.

* Furthermore distance may not be a factor. Entrainment may take place between the brains of people when separated, and be a factor in telepathy and synchronistic events like continually bumping into someone or having them call you when you have just thought about them.