Have a read of the Night Shining Cloud page and WOW!  What was even more amazing than the ghostly apparitions was that fact that we discussed them in the Friday morning group just 7 days before this happened!! Just what are the chances of that?  We only did this because I happened to stumble across a picture whilst looking for something else and thought it was so pretty, I did some research.  Ha....we are obviously just the hottest astrology group in the U.K......

Anyway, back to these beautiful structures....any comments?

Since the Midlands School of Astrology started in April 2006, 58 students have studied astrology on the Basic course and another 61 have attended one day seminars or specific groups. Some of thse students still meet on monthly Saturdays and weekly Fridays. Each has contributed a rich and fascinating narrative and the standard of astrology at group level and individually, has become equal to that available anywhere in London.  Whether or not you have been part of this, please feel free to use this space to make any astological comment available for discussion with others.

I am interested in the current U.K. headlines, since they beautifully express Eris's arrival on the World stage.  (For some serious research and background on Eris and her discovery, please go to the Eris web page of this site.)  There are those who limit the meaning of Eris to a leather clad thugette intent on causing WW3, but she is oh-so-much more complex than that, and I recommend those commentators settle down and have a good read of Hesiod's "Works and Days". 

Her essential meaning is about envy and recriminations from "those-who-have-not" to "those-who-have".  And in this way she brings about a fair and ordered society, since it controls the excesses of the group who have taken more than their fair share.  If we are all going to be completely honest, we know that whether British Members of Parliament put the money back or not, or even if they never get to claim their mortgages again......Joe Public is never going to feel the benefit, or have the money refunded to him.  So why are we so worked up about It?  Because WE couldn't do it.  And if we can't do it, we don't want anyone else to be able to do it. Not not M.P.'s, not fat-cat, slobbering bank managers - No one!

The type of recrimination we see from the press/media to the M.P.'s is not a new thing, Hesiod ascribed this type of psychological motivation to Eris in the 6th century, however, we may be entering a phase in collective behaviour when it is far more pronounced, since Eris is now on the rise in the collective un-conscious.  Her rise is timely since we have just been through a decade of extreme Capitalist growth, when even the Left became Right, and there is a bigger gap between "Capitalist Pigs" and the common public than we knew about.

Eris was known to the Greeks as being able to stir even "dullards to exertion" so this type of event should get ever more interesting.  Hopefully football players now???

The recent Time Team Stonehenge programme was interesting in itself, but more so when one looks at the history of the Easter Islanders. They too dragged massive single blocks (monoliths) of stone many miles and erected them.

On Easter Island, each was erected in memory of an ancestor and their bones were buried beneath. Time Team believes that Stonehenge monoliths represented the ancestors and their bones were buried within the circle. Each culture believed that the spirit of the ancestor could be represented by the stone. (Spirit can reside in matter - in fact it forms matter, just as energy or force forms particles and then atoms in quantum physics.)

On Easter Island they picked a natural feature which highlighted the Sun's rays on the Winter Solstice. This feature became the central focus of a yearly festival. At Stonehenge they picked a natural feature left by melting glacier water which allowed them to pin point the exact day of Winter Solstice.

The distance between these 2 places is over 9,000 miles, and any scientist would scoff at suggestions that they could converse or swop ideas of what to do with Grandma's bones as easily as we do now. But in the same way that similar myths occur in separate cultures all over the world, how strange that both cultures believed the same thing without reference to each other. Perhaps this is because, spiritually they are actually right. So just as 4 plus 4 makes 8 in Wiltshire, so it did on Easter Island? What do you think?