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2013 AND SYMBOLS OF THE NEW YEAR(2)

We ought to keep celebrating the New Year, no matter what tradition or system we choose; ours is associated to the winter solstice; after the longest night of the year, the day will become longer, the Sun has reached the lowest point in the zodiac and starts its ascent to the Mid Heaven; the 1 (or first days) of January makes sense because it corresponds to the well organised Roman tradition, the name of the month comes from Janus, the two faced god, keeper of the doors. Our astrological Saturn is a cluster of different aspects of Roman Janus and Saturn gods associated to the Greek god Cronus. 



One of the Janus/Saturn's faces looks to the past, the other to the future; the common image of the old man and the baby (the Old and the New Year) obviously represents Saturn and the Sun. But at the esoteric level we know that the Sun at the summit of the Tree, or at the summit of the mountain, or on the Mid Heaven, is actually Saturn itself. Saturn stands for the hard task of accomplishing the whole cycle, hence the tired old man (or the old ego we have to leave behind), but once the threshold is crossed, he is reborn and then he reveals immortality to us. In Alchemical terms: Saturn is lead transformed into gold; at the highest level, Saturn and the Sun represent the same principle.

We have mentioned in other comments how yoga can be a very physical and tangible experience of this alchemical process; but there is also the way of the gnosis, the kind of wisdom that some people can attain only by direct knowledge; those who put all their heart in a ritual experience a total alchemical process; the outside ritual, or celebration, is meant to happen at the essential level of the soul. Seriously enough, a proper celebration of the New Year is the equivalent of an initiation.

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Japan New Year 2013
Jan/1/2013
at 0:00am
in Tokyo, Japan

The chart of this 2013 New Year (0:00 am in Tokyo) cast for Japan shows an emphasis of the above mentioned alchemical process; it looks like an esoteric treatise on Alchemy. Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, is in Scorpio; but Pluto, ruler of Scorpio is in Capricorn, a beautiful and extremely powerful reciprocity; both planets are working together to transform deep structures into new ones. It is not a work of demolishing new structures and building up new ones, this would be too mechanical and even scary. It is all about liberating the real potential; we can use the symbol of the seed that starts the process of life, or the tree growing new branches and leaves.
 The reciprocity in this chart is actually under the protection of Venus and Mercury; the Ascendant is Libra (ruled by Venus), and the conjunction of Pluto, Sun and Mercury is in the Third House (ruled by Mercury). So harmony and intelligence are clearly supporting the transformation Japan has to accomplish.

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Japan Country Natal
Feb/11/1889
at 10:30am
in Tokyo, Japan

The Libra Ascendant of the New Year's chart for Japan talks about negotiations, new deals, a more balance mentality to go on this new step for Japanese society; in Japan's natal chart (taken for Feb/11/1889, in Tokyo, at 10:30am), Saturn is going to transit the 7th House, there will be an emphasis in relationships within Japan's different circles of society and politics, and of Japan with foreign countries at the international level. There might be tough moments with China and the USA; all will be settled down but the relation with these two countries will never be the same in the future. 

On the other hand, Japan's economy will start boosting up gradually but clearly; Mars in the IV House in trine with Jupiter shows a powerful discharge of energy coming from the deep roots of the Japanese psyche; the ancestors will pump up new sap to the top of the tree. (the end)

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2013 AND SYMBOLS OF THE NEW YEAR(1)

by xavier_astro | 2013-02-15 00:00 | 占星術  

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