By now you’ll have heard about the attacks in Paris.
The home-owners for whom he are currently house-sitting have an apartment in Paris and so we were a little concerned.
Thankfully, they were in Switzerland at the time.
Sadly, a lot of other people were present and there was the greatest loss of life, in an event of this nature, since World War 2.
The French President, Francois Hollande, has called this “an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army”
In international diplomacy that’s a huge statement – possibly the first time that any of these attacks have been referred to as “acts of war” rather than terrorism.
Taking a step back let’s look at this from an astrological perspective.
In 1914 Pluto moved into the astrological sign of Cancer.
In 1939 it moved into the next sign of Leo.
In 2008, Pluto moved into Capricorn and the day it did was the beginning of the Mumbai Massacres.
Clearly between 1939 and 2008 Pluto had moved through a number of other signs and looking at historical timelines shows interesting synergies between the sign Pluto was in and the nature of conflicts around the world – the Cold War, Vietnam etc, but it’s not my purpose here to carry out a detailed analysis of Pluto’s transits.
What I’m trying to draw your attention to is that we are now, and have been for a number of years, in a time of significant global transition (oh derrr! I hear you exclaim) and it’s important to understand how these current situations fit into the BIG picture.
In simple terms we are in the dying days of the Age of Pisces.
The current Islamic upheaval is part of that process.
The Christian Church had a similar period with the Inquisition and it managed to overcome the thinking which resulted in that horror (well mostly, there are still elements of it around).
In 2024 Pluto moves into Aquarius.
As we are in the early days of the Age of Aquarius, I believe that will be an important time with some very different thinking dominating the world by then.
It sounds like a long time but it’s only 9 years away (I remember the time when we thought George Orwell’s book “1984” was the remote future – now it’s the “olden days”.)
So, there is hope, we just need to hang on and “keep the dream alive”.
In the meantime, just as occurred in the previous world wars, life went on as normal.
People lived their lives reading about terrible things in the newspapers and hearing about them on the radio (or “wireless” as it was then) and still went to work, fell in and out of love, had children and so on.
And so it is for us – we live in dramatic times and yet we still attempt to carry out our personal missions and life purposes in the best way we can.
As Billy Joel sings – “We didn’t start the fire, it’s been burning since the world was turning“.
One example is Danita’s school reunion.
This weekend nearly 80 women got together to reconnect at their 40th anniversary of finishing school.
While I wasn’t at the event, I had a tenuous connection through sharing in the work that Danita and the other members of the organising committee did and seeing how much fun was had by all on the day.
As part of it, there was a table and time set aside to reflect on the 10 members of their year who had passed away – obviously a bitter-sweet segment.
So, while we recoil in horror at some of the things being done these days, it’s important to remember that, sadly, this is nothing new and life does go on and there is still joy and fun and beauty in the world.
It’s up to each and every one of us to tilt the balance of the global energy to that of sharing, celebrating and bringing joy and beauty by bringing those characteristics into our personal lives.
What are you going to do today to shift the balance?