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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:33:36 -0600 To: crp@egroups.com From: jar@expreso.co.cr (Juan Revilla) Subject: [crp] The siege of Leningrad I have always felt that centaurs can be very aggressive and war-like, especially those with orbits like Pholus, which I believe is related to invasion and usurpation. Pholus' orbit from perihelion to aphelion describes the dynamics between a metropolis and its colony, which is of exploitation and abuse. Both aspects of Pholus I think are present in the War of Las Malvinas of 1982 (The Falklands War). My comments and data on this can be read at http://www.expreso.co.cr/centaurs/essays/warpholus as well as in the collected posts on "political predators". It is only natural to try this hypothesis in <<one of the most grueling and memorable sieges in history>> (Britanica), the "900-day" siege of Leningrad in WWII, where an estimated 800,000 died of starvation and only about 17,000 died from the German shelling. A typical centaurean and trans-Neptunian scenario? According to the Encyclopedia, the siege started Sept. 8, 1941, when the German troops had completely encircled the city, and ended January 27, 1944, when <<a completely successful Soviet offensive drove the Germans westward from the city's outskirts>>. The encirclement had been broken in early 1943, allowing better supplies to the city from Lake Ladoga. But in the winter 1941-42, with temperatures of -40 C (-40 F), an estimated 650,000 died. For the musically inclined: the composer Dimitri Shostakoch wrote a good part his 7th Symphony there, which he later called "Leningrad" and was an instant success. But to me, it is in the 1st movement of his 8th Symphony where all the horror is released in the most terrible and magnificently appalling symphonic music ever written. That music describes very well the hunger, the horror, and the merciless destruction of war where there is no hope: as the music progresses, it gets worse and worse. Astrologically we have some sources to check: the day the siege started, the day it ended, the chart of Shostakovich, and the day of the foundation of the city by Peter the Great in 1703: <<On May 16 (May 27, new style), 1703... Peter himself laid the foundation stones for the Peter-Paul fortress on Zayachy Island. This date is taken as the foundation date of St. Petesburg.>> (Britannica). I will assume noon GMT (2 p.m. in St. Petesburg). Dimitri Shostakovich was born September 12 [Sept. 25 new style] 1906 in St. Petesburg (59n55/30e15) at 5 p.m. This time is stated in page 37 of Victor Ilych Seroff & Nadejda Galli-Shohat "Dimitri Shostakovich. The Life and Background of a Soviet Composer" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943). (I no longer have the book, but I recall that the source of this time was his aunt). And we already have the dates of starting and ending: Sept. 8, 1941 and January 27, 1944 (a total of 872 days). The day the siege started (Sept 8), when the city was finally encircled, Mars was stationary retrograde in 23,42 Aries. The actual mathematical station was Sept. 6 at 18h30m GMT). This is an excellent description. Now let's see where this falls in the city's chart: radical Saturn = 22,12
Ari
This is a little over 1 degree, but it is interesting, especially considering that Mars is going retrograde and about to "enter" into the Asbolus/Saturn region of the city. Venus is clearly besieged and in danger! When the Germans left, we find: Hylonome= 22,09 Ari
We know the Mars/Saturn combination can be destructive and "miserable", but it seems that Asbolus in the equation is the atmosphere of hunger and death, the "suffocation", the survival and below-survival level of the inhabitants... or perhaps more accurate, the insurmountable defensive line that the Germans were never able to break. Perhaps it is both things. TF35 in exact opposition to Mars is probably describing the Soviet offensive that broke the Mars/German siege, while Hylonome's presence is the heroic sacrifice and final redemption of the inhabitants and soldiers who died. There is a very interesting dynamics between Pholus and Chiron (in this and in all other comparisons I am using precession): City's Pholus = 15,42 Pis
The siege was clearly activating
--challenging-- the radical Pholus (exact opposition by the transiting
Sun). In other words, it was making the City's Pholus "shine", apparently
confirming the Pholusian nature of a siege. Chiron coming in the end to
"heal" and redeem --or to expose the measure of the horror and the destruction.
Juan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:51:13
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At the time the siege started, there was a conjunction of the 2 most prominent trans-neptunians in square to TF35: Pholus = 16,25 Cap
I would normally not use the square here, but it may be useful in this case when we note that the radical (foundation) Neptune (precession-corrected) is in 17,08 Aries, and the transiting Moon at noon GMT when the siege was total was 17,10 Aries. I have the feeling that TF35 is very heavy and "shielded", like the more aggressive and martial passages of Anton Bruckner's music, so here the opposition to the city's Neptune, aided by the "underworld" or remote transneptunians, and triggered by the Moon, could be a sign of one of the most extreme tests of massive human solidarity in recent history: the city was literally becoming "otherworldly" and "ghostly", while at the same time the human individual ability to completely surrender to the welfare of the collective (Neptune) became critical. The day the siege ended, the comet-like earth-approacher XS35 was in 17,02 Libra, perhaps "dissolving" the original siege TF35, while transiting TF35 was in 23,44 Libra --as we have seen-- crushing the German army (siege Mars at 23,42 Aries) and forcing it to retreat and abandon the city's periphery. Transiting Asbolus and Saturn were in conjunction the day the siege ended, repeating the aspect they had when the city was founded: Asbolus = 19,57 Gem r
I already suggested that this conjunction could be related to the city's resilience on the one hand, and the extreme sufferings of its people on the other. This transiting conjunction is in opposition to the city's TF35 in 19,04 Sag, which adds to the apparent weight of TF35 in the whole ordeal. It is still pending the examination of Shostakovich's chart, and an analysis of another important event in St. Petesburg's life in relationship to the centaurs: the massacre of January 9 (Jan. 22 n.s.), 1905, the "Bloody Sunday", which erupted in a revolution later crushed by the Czar. That will give us the opportunity to see the action of 1994TA=Pylenor. Before that we must check a striking axis present the day the German siege finally ended completely: Sun = 6,25 Aquarius
This was obviously an important day (Jan 27 1944). The node involvement looks like the opening of a door. BU48 is more Plutonian than TF35. It is like a "deep" Pluto entering the realm of Uranus. It is establishing a sensitive axis that is not immediately apparent in the data I have. More research is needed. Anyway, Soviet strength in the war is the most obvious interpretation, since the decisive victory had been won in Stalingrad one year before, in what was the greatest battle of the war. Any suggestions about this aspects? Juan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:16:15
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We saw how the date when the siege began (i.e., when the city was completely encircled), Sept 8 1941, the transiting Sun was in exact opposition with the radical Pholus of the city of Leningrad, making it "shine". siege Sun (12h GMT) = 15,26
Virgo
This suggests that the siege has something to do with Pholus. Now I would like to mention some other "coincidences" when one examines the chart of composer Dimitri Shostakovich (25 Sept.1906, 5 p.m. St. Petesburg). Dates are taken from http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/RobdeRonde/Leven3645.html. Shostakovich was forced to evacuate the city and was taken to Moscow with his family October 2, 1941, from where he went to live in Kuibyshev: Sun day of evacuation = 8,54
Libra (12h GMT)
He finished his 7th Symphony December 27, 1943, dedicated "To the City of Leningrad": city's Mars = 6,12 Cancer
and the premiere was given in Kuibyshev March 29, 1942: Sun = 8,34 Aries
Which was making Pholus "shine" again, completing the circuit from the time he was forced by the government to leave the besieged city. The symphony was first performed in the besieged Leningrad August 9, 1942: he died on August 9... (1975)! The 7th is one of his "war" symphonies, but although it is called "Leningrad", as I mentioned earlier is no match for his hair-raising 8th Symphony, composed during 1943, when Leningrad was still under siege and when the greatest battle of WWII, the Batle of Stalingrad which changed the course of the war had been won by the Soviets. begins 8th Symphony, July
1, 1943:
finishes 8th Symphony, Sept
9, 1943:
premiere of the 8th in Moscow,
Nov 4th, 1943:
NOTE: all positions are precessed to the day of the siege. Juan
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