Astrology Meets History-You Are Here

How to (Re)Tell History

Measur­ing His­tory is brand new. I made it up. Don’ t worry, all the work here is backed by years of research. It agrees with and bor­rows from other astrologers and philoso­phers. Many of the ideas appear in places all over the Inter­net. The big dif­fer­ence is Mea­sur­ing His­tory is about, well, His­tory. And the future, but we’ll go there later.[ad]

The sim­plest way to think of Mea­sur­ing His­tory (or mea­sur­ing his­tory, I haven’t decided whether lower or upper caps are appro­pri­ate) is his­tory that adds a layer of outer planet mea­sure­ments; the his­tory or posi­tions of the outer plan­ets help guide the nar­ra­tive. Really, that’s what happens.

But, to my amaze­ment, this sim­ple addi­tion feels infi­nite. My major chal­lenge comes in keep­ing expla­na­tions short and sim­ple. I’ve worked on this project for ten years and still lie awake, bristling with ideas, insights and plans of attacks. I tell you this because while this whole seems new to you, it still seems knew to me! I’m mak­ing this up as I go along. No, not the facts, but how to relay them. Each of those who pre­ceded me, Rich Levine, Richard Tar­nas,Gerry God­dard, Palden Jenk­ins and Nick Cam­pion all attempt the same thing to var­i­ous audi­ences, but in com­par­i­son to the task and the body of work, all of his­tory, we have barely reached the out­skirts of town on a long jour­ney. Mea­sur­ing His­tory, a sub­set of mun­dane astrol­ogy, is a new way of see­ing his­tory and there are few rules if any.

Where Are You?

I tell you all this because I’m about to make a major depar­ture (or grand entrance) from my pre­de­ces­sors and sug­gest some heresy. Neptune-Pluto waves could serve as his­tor­i­cal ages. Now, I don’t want to abol­ish the Bronze or Iron Age, ban the Dark Ages or oth­er­wise elim­i­nate these main­stream stan­dards. Instead, I present a case for how Neptune-Pluto waves pro­vide and objec­tive, but use­ful means to orga­nize or divide his­tory into man­age­able pieces. The Bronze Age etal stay. Divi­sion by Neptune-Wave of 495 years mir­rors main­stream prac­tice but pro­vides addi­tional check­points, the quad­ra­ture align­ments. These pro­vide a stan­dard means of mea­sure­ment; as the dia­gram demon­strates, every wave, mea­sur­ing either lunar cycles or the period between Uranus to Nep­tune con­junc­tions, dis­plays the same pro­por­tions. Now, if only Neptune-Pluto waves could tell us some­thing about history.

The­ory and Practice

Not only do Neptune-Pluto waves fit nicely into his­tor­i­cal time­lines, they pro­vide a per­spec­tive main­stream prac­tice can­not. His­tory becomes holis­tic, cir­cu­lar ver­sus lin­ear. We get a matrix that his­tory, and the future mir­rors. The dia­gram here shows all six Neptune-Pluto waves since 577bc (and 576bc) when all three most outer plan­ets, Uranus, Nep­tune and Pluto aligned in Tau­rus. This appeared in the midst of the Axial Age, when cul­tures world­wide made a dra­matic shift from poly­the­ism to monothe­ism, a shift away from the ancient world shaped in Sumer and exe­cuted by Egyp­tians and Assyr­i­ans. Here lay the foun­da­tion of sci­ence and cul­ture fol­lowed across Eura­sia. Look at the mid­point of this wave near 334bc–the mid­point assessed with the con­junc­tion reveals the theme–and you will notice it as the time when Alexan­der began his con­quer­ing of vast regions. His quests fol­lowed on his Philip’s, his father, suc­cess in as king of Mace­do­nia over the once mighty Athens and Sparta. How they fought them­selves into weak­ness, and pro­duced Socrates, Plato and Aris­to­tle, is not only the theme, but the para­dox of 576bcNeptune-Pluto85bc. Hel­l­eniza­tion, which spread far­ther and endured longer than any Clas­sic Greek cit­i­zen ever imag­ined. It could not have hap­pened with­out the self-destruction of the once mighty Greek Empire. So in all 576bcNeptune-Pluto85bc  stands for the Rise and Fall of Greece on which Rome flour­ished. 84bcNeptune-Pluto409 essen­tially cov­ers the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, etc., lead­ing to:

• 576bcNeptune-Pluto85bc: Hel­l­eniza­tion
• 84bcNeptune-Pluto409: Rise & Fall of Roman Empire
• 410Neptune-Pluto905: De-Romanization/Tribilization of Eurasia
• 906Neptune-Pluto1398: Rise and Fall of Medievalism
• 1399Neptune-Pluto1892: Sec­u­lar­iza­tion
• 1893Neptune-Pluto2384: Age of Progress

Wait! There’s More!

This wheel shows the Neptune-Pluto wave in wheel form, with the “We Are Here” point­ing to 2010. The con­nected pop up dia­grams  show our place using dif­fer­ent meth­ods to depict the same wave.

Seen this way, we find our­selves at the begin­ning of the episode described by 1893Neptune-Pluto2384. Since every phase dur­ing each outer planet wave acts the same, com­par­i­son against pre­vi­ous ones comes easy. For instance, 85bc to 110AD of 1893Neptune-Pluto2384 fea­tured the tran­si­tion of Rome from repub­lic to empire. In essence, Rome in the years sur­round­ing 85bc had become an empire in many ways, except in name. The Social War and Gen­eral Sulla’s inva­sion of Rome with his army informed later emper­ors and spoke to Rome’s need to bal­ance alle­giance against Roman iden­tity. Both inci­dents point to the Roman para­dox of 85bcNeptune-Pluto409: the army that made it strong. also made it weak. [Author’s note: the equiv­a­lent You Are Here is ~44bc, very near Caesar’s assas­si­na­tion!].

By the end of 85bcNeptune-Pluto409, Rome rose, then crum­bled, after split­ting into East and West. In the interim, a new reli­gion grew that ulti­mately would out­live its birth­place and cre­ate the foun­da­tion for mod­ern cul­ture. So in the equiv­a­lent of now to then in terms of that Neptune-Pluto wave, much hap­pened; we have a long way to go before the change related to Paradox2140:Progress will manifest.

So, You Are Here. Are you sure you want me to give you directions?!?