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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/01/08/sun-in-capricorn-iii-the-throne/

The warren of tiny offices and cubicles of Buckingham Palace, or the rows of desks stuffed into unadorned corridors in the Kremlin, or similar set-ups behind the Press Room at the White House or in the Party Congress building in Beijing... These are places where the plans of the powerful often get turned into written policy memos by fresh-faced interns and the nieces and nephews of oligarchs, and the up-and-coming party apparatchiks who launched the first Youth Party program at their high school when they were only twelve.  True believers all, they think that doing the will of the seniors will guarantee their career trajectory forever. Sometimes they're right.

Most of the time, they're under the tired old gaze of a party line bureaucrat, a deputy chief of staff who's been a career workhorse for forty-seven years. Some people think he retired years ago; others are surprised he's not dead.  Like Saturn whom he resembles, he wields the sharp scythe against any staffer who gets out of line, and for him the hourglass is always dropping sand. THere's never enough time, and yet — with youth and vigor to spend as he wishes, it all gets done.

Sometimes, though, at least once a year, the Sun waltzes in like he owns the place (hint: he does) — and sets everyone to bowing, curtseying, and kowtowing to his magnificence.  He sets new plans in motion, regardless of what his usual deputy wants. And things change, not because anyone in the room wants things to change — but how do you say NO to Dearest Leader? 

 The Sun enters Capricorn III tomorrow morning, at 7:52 am EST on 10 January 2023; the conditions of this forecast last until 20 January 2023 when Aquarius I begins. Capricorn III, called the Throne, is administered by the Sun and functions as the heart of the Sun-King's bureaucracy, where his officials and ministers of his chancery and secretariat form their own cabals and make their own plans, but must always defer to the sovereign's arrival, else their goals be exposed.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2021/01/08/sun-in-capricorn-iii/

January’s first decan-change is the movement from Capricorn II to Capricorn III, at 8:07 pm on January 9, 2021. The moment finds impending squares between Mercury and Mars, Saturn and Mars, and Jupiter and Uranus; an impending conjunction between the Sun and Pluto, and the moon preparing to run the gauntlet of Sagittarius-Capricorn-Aquarius-Pisces, pinging off all of those negative placements. For the ten days that will include most of the drama in American politics up to the afternoon before Inauguration Day (3:47 pm EST on 19 January 2020) — it’s a lot of worrisome and reactionary placements. The initiating or Oriental/eastern side of the chart is nearly empty, while the western/Occidental or reactive side of the chart is quite full. Some challenging forces are in play these next ten days.

The Hellenized Egyptians (or Egyptianized Hellenes? It’s hard to tell) of Alexandria in the first century BC gave the ten days when the Sun was in the third decan of Capricorn to Tolma — a spirit, perhaps, or maybe a concept, which shares kinship with the idea of audacity or daring: risk-taking, or bravery, or perhaps a certain amount of recklessness. For the Neoplatonists of the city, Tolma was the entity or characteristic responsible for the apparent ruction in the cosmos between flesh and spirit, between body and soul, between materia and anima. Was it our audacity, our bravery, in daring to enter the created universe and enmesh ourselves with it? Are humans, or humanity, the source of tolma? Was it our audacity, our daring, to hop into Creation like it was some sort of video game, or were we more like teenagers who obsess over the same skateboard trick until we get it right? Did we take up “enfleshment” like it was some sort of a game or pastime? Was it some outside entity named Tolma that pushed us into the cosmos and made us take up residence in the prison on matter? Whichever it was — and Neoplatonists seem divided on this score — the result is the apparent dichotomy between mind and matter, between meat and consciousness. Early Christians blamed that division on ‘sin’, but the Alexandrians and the followers of Hermes Trismegistus appear to have explained it as a kind of adventuresome, madcap rush of excitement.