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Sun in Capricorn III (Milestone)
Jan. 9th, 2021 09:18 amhttps://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.
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.
