Tuesday/Wednesday
June 29/ 30 Venus goes Direct again (at
23:16 pm GMT time June 29) The Sun-Venus
conjunction is now passed us and we already started a
new cycle in our relational life, or with things to do
with our selfworth. Maybe that whish is new, will come
out once Venus is D. Venus will go D at 9.38
Gemini and will pass the degree on which it went
retrograde in the first place a early
August. So we have over a month of Venus-in-Gemini to go
still! And maybe now in a more extraverted manner.
Friday
July 2 it is Full Moon, at 10.54 Capricorn, at
11.10 am GMT time with a small orb trine/sextile Jupiter.
The Sun however will also move towards a conjunction
with Saturn (taking place July 8), and the sextile
between the Sun and Jupiter will take place July 5. Both
energies might already be part of the Full Moon, meaning
full of epxansive ideas on the one hand, and reality of
our daily private lives coming up next (Saturn in Cancer)
Tuesday
July 6 the Sun makes a conjunction with the fixed
star
SIRIUS, which Saturn conjuncted the last weeks of
June. At this time Sirius is situated on approximately
14.25 Cancer. Sirius is the largest and most brilliant
star in the evening skies, and called the dogstar as
well, as it partakes of the constellation Canis Major.
(The Big Dog) According to a site on fixed stars where
delineations from Vivian Robson onwards are collected (see
under resources at my
linkspage, and under fixed stars) in ancient
times the dog was not a very favoured animal, unlike the
West these days where dogs are part of the Cancerian
family. But folkore of ancient times since Ptolemy is
consequently not too favourable on the influence of this
star either. Sirius was thought to be responsible for
plagues and droughts, the things we blame the emission
of gasses into the atmosphere for these days. In this
"new age" Sirius has regained a lot of its
regal influence again though as if many secrets come
from Sirius. Sirius is being regarded as the Sun itself
of the Sun, shining 23 times as bright as well. In this
respect Sirius is regarded as the Higher Self
astrologically. In the texts on fixed stars Sirius is
also being regarded as the star for honour, fame and
glory, it having the effect of Mars/Jupiter. If Sirius
is conjunct the Ascendant with Mars, it can give some
danger upon one's life (apparently) as well as
recklessness, but with Sirius in one's 8th house (as I
have, grin) fame comes after one's death:-) A good
aspect with Jupiter or with the MC can give riches and
succes in trade.
Not
a lot of people work with fixed stars in astrology. A
quick look in my database of charts does not
really reveal anything much, but admittedly, it was just
a quick look.
The
Dogon (an ancient African tribe) think that all of their
vast and extensive knowledge of the starsystem of Sirius
(which they possess) came from beings who came down in
their spaceships ages ago from Sirius. Where the Dogon
knew about Sirius B for ages, the western academic world
did not discover it until 1862 (as can be gleaned from
the site of NASA on Sirius even)
In
the chart of the US of A, the most 'famous' country in
the world, Sirius is conjunct the Sun (at 13+ Cancer).
Sirius moves forward very slowly (so slow that it is a 'fixed'
star on the firmament), but this year, the Sun-Sirius
conjunction is on July 6, 2 days after the Celebration
of Independence in America.
January
1 the Sun each year is roughly at 10 degrees of
Capricorn. In the past Sirius was on 10 Cancer (it now
moved forward to over 14 degrees) and when at midnight
Sirius culminated in the past, and provided a new surge
of enormous vitality to the world, this was the ritual
of the New Year. From that ancient ritual our new year's
day on January 1 came. On July 23 each year Sirius
will rise heliacally just before the Sun that is in the
East on the Ascendant, and this is the start of the New
Year of the Dogon. For the Dogon, the number 23 is
a magic number. July 23 has a 23 in it, Sirius B
revolves 23 times per minute.... and Sirius A shines 23
times more brilliantly than the Sun.
At
any rate, Saturn conjuncted Sirius over the past few
weeks, and does so each time he is at 14 Cancer of
course. 1974 was quite a disastrous year, and so was
1944/1945 in Europe, when Saturn also conjuncted Sirius.
But personally I have felt an enormous peace of mind
especially during the last two weeks, blessed with much
inspiration, so it seems Saturn-Sirius has changed
it tune. I hope for many of you who read this column as
well!
Robert
K. Temple,
The Sirius Mystery from Amazon at $13,97