Your read on the strong Eris component is interesting, and consistent with what I think I know about it. I'm holding back on being too "this is it" on analyzing Eris - mostly ignoring it in comments - but, as you say, what we now know about advanced intelligence does match the basic themes. Eris has very precise contacts for this event!
When I've finished CSA Volumes I and II, and start working on Vol III - mundane astrology, basically a selective compression of the
SMA book - I'll stop first and write
SMA ver. 18. This will incorporate more events (those major events since Ver. 17 was written) and redo most of the thousands of charts from scratch. TMSA is
so much more accurate, I want to rerun everything from there. We can already do the solar and lunar ingresses. I've been hoping that TMSA by that time would have (1) Meridian Longitude, which MikeN said he was adding as a new data column (2) PVP aspects as an option, which would save me dozens of hours of manually redoing all the PVPs for the thousands of charts, and (3) SQ and PSSR calculations (otherwise I have to recalculate the charts in TMSA, manually set them up in Solar Fire to run the SQ, and ignore investigating PSSIs altogether). Anyway (back to the present topic), I probably would include Eris in the re-do which would allow me to tally statistical results of Eris in mundane astrology as with all the other planets. My hope would be to discover specific categories of events for which Eris angularity, Moon-Eris aspects, and perhaps other Eris aspects show in order to start singling it out from the other heavy, disruptive planets.
Mike wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:42 pm
I am a newbie at interpreting ingresses, but I feel like that Cansolar is meh for this event; Eris is great, Sun is possibly accurate for huge surge of government action, but Jupiter seems more protective than is warranted. If that was someone's SSR, I wouldn't interpret it as overwhelmingly dangerous. I'm curious what you think, Jim... In all fairness to Venus and Jupiter, much of the world rallied around Israel after that happened, particularly the US (although I know much of the world has rallied around Palestine and demanded various things of Israel as well).
The 0°03' Eris angularity you have addressed above pretty well. Ignoring Eris (as an "ultimately unknown and we're only intelligently guessing at the moment), the chart has strong Sun and Jupiter angularities that, as you say, would be generally protective, and wider Moon, Uranus, and Pluto angularities. I rated it {?} because this could go either way and I thought we'd learn more in time. I think you are partly right that it shows the strong support... but I don't think that's all.
Some thoughts: Sun and Jupiter are tricky here. There were also a couple of charts that strongly influenced the Sun-Jupiter aspect for Washington, DC for the attack on Pearl Harbor. If there were an actual Sun-Jupiter aspect (here it would be a 4° mundane square, which isn't horribly wide, but wider than usually shows) I would interpret it primarily as the big
win for those who already have great money and great power. Sun-Jupiter isn't always all that positive for ordinary people in mundane astrology: Set up a chart for the capital of a country and partly it is the "ego center" of the whole country that is affected, but also it's especially those in political power
acting as that ego center. The most common meaning of a Sun-Jupiter foreground aspect in mundane astrology is "usually positive events with protection against deeper harm," but the second most common theme is: "Politics egg on current circumstances, motivated by a non-philanthropic tendency of people with money and power wanting more." In short, it means
events happen so that people with great money and power get to have even greater money and power. This shows as the most likely reading in so many major events that I've lost track.
In the Cansolar, something to keep in mind is that aspects tend (not invariably) to speak louder than angularities (although super-tight angularities have their own power - sometimes its best to collate the angularity and aspect orbs together and see what's stronger). In this case, once we are past Moon's aspects reinforcing the Sun and Jupiter, and the Moon-Pluto aspect affecting the entire world, we see that the strongest single voice in the Cansolar is the 0°37' Mercury-Jupiter square - I'll have a lot to say about that below. The other foreground aspect is Uranus square Pluto (2°16' M), which has obvious meaning.
So, about the Mercury-Jupiter square, the one strongest non-Eris factor in the whole Cansolar: In collating events for this aspect in
SMA I was surprised how unlucky it often is. It's notably good for business and communication in the sense of diplomatic success especially plus commercial alliances, trade negotiations, and other "successful conversations." But so often there is a loud question of, "Is this really a positive aspect?" Other astrologers over the years have made a point of stopping just short of calling it a malefic aspect in the sense that Mercury and Jupiter are polar opposites with some sort of innate disagreement. I haven't been willing to go that far, but I did start a couple of threads on the site seeking people's thoughts about Mercury-Jupiter polarization.
The one finding that spun my head around was when I found Mercury-Jupiter to be one of the most common foreground non-lunar aspects for massacres! The other lead aspects were obvious - Mercury aspecting Mars and Saturn, Venus aspecting Saturn or Pluto, and Saturn-Neptune aspects - but Mercury-Jupiter was right there with them.
Along with this was the finding that, for massacres, Jupiter was the most commonly angular planet for massacres!! By
massacre I mean "intentional slaughter of huge numbers of people (sometimes of a genocidal scope) by a government’s forces or other institution." This is precisely what has been happening! Why Jupiter? Because the negative side of Jupiter is bigotry and cultural chauvinism. Usually Jupiter was NOT (as here) on the solar ingress angles, but totally owned the daily timing - not what we see here. I wrote a long analysis of Jupiter and massacres on page 798 of ver. 17 of
SMA. In part, regading massacres:
Jupiter contributes two themes to many of these events. The first is simple military victory. Just as an angular Jupiter marked the day of VJ Day for the English, Pearl Harbor for the Japanese, Hiroshima’s bombing for Americans, and the Benghazi attack for the Libyans, so are some of the events following (even when as horrible as Hiroshima) major military victories in the spirit of “home team” triumphs...
More pointedly for these events, though, Jupiter has emerged, in its shadow expression, as planet of ethnic divisiveness. This is simply another expression of Jupiter’s hierarchical nature, one group being deemed better, worthier, and more entitled than another. We have seen this in countless other events as ideological divisions, differences in value systems, and, especially, events (sometimes inspiring and sometimes horrifying) fueled by powerful religious or other belief-driven motives. Many of the massacres described below were religious suppressions. At root, the suppression or eradication of any group culturally or ethnically different from one’s own is part of Jupiter’s most primitive impulses to protect one’s own kind, clan, and community against outsiders...
Jupiter is commonly considered a planet of community. Digging into the psychological mechanics of this, we must admit that this means Jupiter is the principle in us that regulates the perimeter of community and inclusiveness. It should come as no surprise that Jupiter also expresses the exclusive.
In an astrological environment already dominated by Mars, Neptune, and Saturn through the solar and lunar ingresses, Jupiter then appears for daily timing and motivates these vast assaults on ethnic, religious, and political grounds.
I'm not at all ready to say Israel is undertaking genocide, or that the same aspects foreground in nearby Gaza had the same goal, but we do see these themes. This conflict, like the Israel-vs.-neighbors wars for most of a century, have been ethnic, religious, and cultural polarizations with what usually has looked like a sincere intention to completely obliterate - remove at least from the region (if not from the Earth) once and for all, the "opposing team."
I've always been uncomfortable with these findings, but they do seem to describe the current situation exactly. Besides the specific divisions, think of this from a business point of view and from the perspective of playing exactly into Netanyahu's hands: He has wanted for years to have the opportunity to say Israel is committed to obliterating its enemies permanently. These attacks gave him the opportunity and, in fact, he made that his primarily declaration on the first day of the attacks.
These findings about massacres including genocide led me to examine the other places Mercury-Jupiter aspects appeared in the foreground. I found a highly specific characteristic that matched both the positive and negative expressions but even stronger in the negative ones, a detail I haven't seen written anywhere else: These events are nearly always one party’s “win-lose” victory at the cost of another’s loss. (Even the successful diplomacy is driven by the win-lose mentality). It has also occurred for numerous well-planned, well-executed terrorist attacks. Part of its meaning is simply
well-executed logistics.
This is my current thinking on what has to be the case for this specific attack, from the perspective both of Israel's government and the Gaza-based terrorists who inaugurated the attack.
I think the Caplunar and the rest are pretty good too.
The Caplunar was fine IMO as an "umbrella" sort of thing. Excluding Eris for the moment (Moon-Eris was 0°08' worldwide), it is a Neptune chart - Neptune within 1° of an angle and a 2° foreground Sun-Neptune aspect. Neptune is good for emotional turmoil and confusion. Sun-Neptune is specifically maelstrom-like (center of the hurricane) chaotic, disorienting events, often ferocious - which I think describes the first day's attacks in particular.
As is usually the case, though, the Week chart is the most descriptive ingress. I gave it an "outstanding" +3. The main thing is Pluto a quarter degree from MC and the foreground Jupiter-Pluto square, with Moon aspecting Mars and Pluto. (The whole world got Moon-Pluto and, of course, the 0°12' Moon-Eris. The Israel larger region got Moon-Mars with it.)