Full Harvest Moon of Sep 15, 2008

Having just updated the Page concerning the Full Harvest Moon of Sep 15 by adding details on Pluto as apex planet in a *Mutable T-square (created by the Full Moon), plus, Adriano Carelli's symbol info for the Moon (23Pisces), I thought you might want a peek.

Carelli's book, The 360 Degrees of the Zodiac, contains ancient references often of a political nature, although not every degree has a word symbol.

Follow the link for the Moon's symbol (23Pis), but perhaps I should give Carelli's symbol for the Sun, '23Virgo'...

"A man on a sailing ship in the middle of the ocean."

"There is an irrepressible need of evasion in time and space. A nature ablaze with enthusiasm and fantasy, which will chafe if fenced in its birthplace and the mentality prevailing there.

By itself this influence will not supply the energy needed to prevail on such mentality and reform it; hence the need of escape. Disregarding the other astrological factors, it can be safely said that...success depends on real journey and migration. Any evasion into daydreaming will result in failure, since thirst for new experience is the only real thing life can offer but may lead (one) dangerously astray.

Passion for the sea is a natural consequence."

Carelli goes on to note that '23Vir' is the degree of Thomas Campanella's natal Sun. He continues:

"While a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition in 1602, Campanella (1568-1639) wrote a book entitled The City of the Sun, wherein he advocates ideal social and political conditions on a utopian background. It is interesting to note that Campanella based his description of the legendary city on an imaginary skipper's tale."

The City of the Sun tells of a wanderer who comes to 'Taprobane' "under the equator."

This 17th century, 32-page book has this as a subtitle:

"A Poetical Dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea Captain, his guest." ~

Interesting. Utopians, following such idealists as Thomas More and Francis Bacon, have bedeviled society for centuries as their intellectualisms fueled political activists toward revolution and encouraged tinkerings with society's natural inclinations toward peace.

Will September 15's Full Moon bring enlightenment concerning their well-practiced string-pulling or some sort of culmination of their plans? World domination is on their list and is nearer the top than ever before.

Now to close, September 15's Full Moon T-square pattern with Pluto creates a *midpoint picture:

Sun/Moon = Pluto: biased attitudes or changed circumstances lead to critical phases of development in life or to separation from others in order to start anew; potential new perspectives in relationships. (Tyl; Ebertin.)