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The Mun­dane Astrol­ogy Clue

[ad][ad] Let us begin by stat­ing that no two times will ever be equal in com­par­i­son. Too many fac­tors vary, pop­u­la­tion size, tech­nol­ogy and loca­tion, to name a few, to eval­u­ate sep­a­rate episodes equally. Mun­dane astrol­ogy tech­niques reflect this obser­va­tion. The French event began in the 1780s, dur­ing the third phase of 1399Neptune-Pluto1892. The first result of the rev­o­lu­tion came into being Sep­tem­ber 21, 1792, con­spic­u­ously close to a Uranus-Pluto oppo­si­tion: 1710Uranus-180°-Pluto1850. Though both the events of then and now with the Arab upris­ings appear under a Uranus-Pluto quad­ra­ture align­ment, cir­cum­stances prove quite dif­fer­ent. We cur­rently live through 1965Uranus-90°-Pluto2104 under the first phase of 1893Neptune-Pluto2384. When we look at sub­se­quent Uranus-Pluto quad­ra­ture align­ments, 1821, 1850. 1875, 1902, 1932 and 1966 how­ever, a trend of unrest and inven­tion becomes obvi­ous [ad]

Par­al­lels in History

In terms of his­tory, com­par­i­son makes sense, espe­cially with the advan­tage of hind­sight. In total, the French Rev­o­lu­tion failed, when we limit the effects to those who exe­cuted the upris­ing. Beyond the bloody Reign of Ter­ror, and the large num­ber of par­tic­i­pants the rev­o­lu­tion con­sumed, other cre­ations like the French Repub­li­can Cal­en­dar, Assig­nats and Com­mit­tee of Pub­lic Safety came and went quickly. But in terms of over­all affect, the French Rev­o­lu­tion remains with us. The big pic­ture reports a com­plete depar­ture from gov­er­nance and cul­ture in exis­tence up until that point. Hardly imme­di­ately, but the change started with the French Rev­o­lu­tion. Pre­vi­ous to that upris­ing, Euro­pean, and to some extent ones all across Asia, fol­lowed the same basic struc­ture: dynasty cen­tered on pri­mo­gen­i­ture. Remem­ber, Henry VIII started his series of divorces based on the need to pro­duce the first-born male. Essen­tially, gov­ern­ment and cul­ture was a fam­ily run enter­prise. Through­out 1399Neptune-Pluto1892, inklings of a nation-state began to emerge, but pri­mary forms of power rested on the idea of dynasty and inher­i­tance. In fact, wars France fought in the 18^th Cen­tury that pro­duced the debt car­ried the names War of the Span­ish and Aus­trian Suc­ces­sion: they were about who ascended to the throne upon com­ple­tion of a mar­riage con­tract. The French Rev­o­lu­tion helped erase this form of choos­ing a gov­ern­ment. This con­nec­tion ties us to the present, because the Arab upris­ings con­tain the same cen­tral ques­tion: how do nations pick their gov­ern­ments? The peo­ple in the Arab street are in the process of choos­ing theirs. Other par­al­lels of note: like in France, because large por­tions of the pop­u­la­tion remained out­side of the process, new ways of choos­ing require learn­ing in real-time. The many failed attempts in France indi­cates the dif­fi­culty of the task.

New Gov­ern­ment Overnight

New gov­ern­ments that arise from this ongo­ing sit­u­a­tion will take time. The imper­fect forms on other parts of the planet took decades, if not cen­turies to develop. The Arab world also must con­tend with the Mus­lim majori­ties that dom­i­nate their nations. Plus, the process, good idea or not, will entan­gle most, if not all, the com­plex alliances found through­out the region. The lead­ing recip­i­ents of US for­eign aid are Israel and Egypt; oil, of course, plays its role. From here, we see how the ulti­mate effect of the Ara­bian and French Rev­o­lu­tions: the changes rever­ber­ate far and wide from their orig­i­nal source.

Tags: Arab world, Egypt