The main structural work was completed at the end of March 1889 and, on 31 March, Eiffel celebrated by leading a group of government officials, accompanied by representatives of the press, to the top of the tower. Because the lifts were not yet in operation, the ascent was made by foot, and took over an hour, with Eiffel stopping frequently to explain various features. Most of the party chose to stop at the lower levels, but a few, including the structural engineer, Émile Nouguier, the head of construction, Jean Compagnon, the President of the City Council, and reporters from Le Figaro and Le Monde Illustré, completed the ascent. At 2:35 pm, Eiffel hoisted a large Tricolour to the accompaniment of a 25-gun salute fired at the first level.
Interesting: the Yod pointing at Uranus, is formed by inconjuncts of Mercury, Venus and the Midheaven. Notice how the Sun and Moon are conjunct and widely in opposition to Uranus. These days the Tower is lit at night with the colours of the French flag.
I’ve been there and seen it during the day and during the night in the late 1980’s. It’s impressive.
It is also worth the trip, should you be so inclined.
In the middle of the period between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I watched a Facebook video of Ellie Collins’ new radio broadcast (Human Ascension) on KGRA Digital. Her search for the meaning of ‘amen’ led her to the conclusion that, at its base, it is a combination of Amun and Ra. Hmm.
So, not to put too fine a point on it, the entity Ahtun-Re is the source of many of the links connecting individuals in the present with their past lives. Is his name the same as Atum and Ra, as seen above?
The British are more open about masculine intimate details than Americans or Canadians. I’m not sure why, but I suspect it has to do with their actors being more in touch with their feminine side.
Take an episode from The Graham Norton Show, featuring Alan Cumming, for example: Alan discussed scrotox. It’s a real thing, you can Google it, here. Unfortunately, the episode contains way too many other people, but I’ll share it starting at the 9 minute mark:
This put me in mind of a talk show I saw years ago, featuring Kenneth Williams. In it, he scandalously discussed the fact that aging has its own detriment: a saggy bottom. He said that no one warned him about that. (We can guess why, can’t we?) Here’s a rather long interview with Parkinson, from 1981:
Are we entertained? You bet we are.
But my point for even going here is the fact that being hyper-masculine is dying out. We can see the death throes, everywhere. Even men’s sperm count is declining at a faster rate than the experts predicted.
So, what is really going on? Some studies have suggested that plastics production is to blame.
A view of the Dali cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, March 26. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson
Baltimore Bridge Collapse (March 26, 2024)
These things seem to come out of the blue, but there are always reasons, just ones we don’t understand at first glance.
Watching the video evidence, there must have been ‘something’ that happened to the container ship to cause it to lose power and control. (The black smoke was suspicious.) So far, this is being treated as an ‘accident’ only, although there is a whiff of suspicion that this could be a terrorist event. The resulting collision is dramatic and spectacular. In a matter of seconds, the whole structure of the bridge collapsed.
This time is as exact as one can get. I’ve used the midpoint between the first contact and the total structure coming down. There are four inconjuncts, two of which form a Yod pointing at the Moon.
Moon Inconjunct Venus
If you are loved totally for yourself as you are, you will develop confidence in that love. Then you will be able to love others, and the more love you give to others, the more love you will get in return. However, there is a catch. You cannot give love solely because you expect to get it back, for people sense this and are put off by it.
Moon Inconjunct Jupiter
If you feel emotionally secure and accepted, then you will be able to give others the support that you would otherwise have been seeking for yourself. You will help others in their times of need, share what you have with those who have less, and find great satisfaction in taking care of people and animals.
President Biden’s pledge for the US government to fund the whole rebuild of the bridge seems to fit this Yod.
Saturn Inconjunct Midheaven
You like structured situations in which you must do certain things at certain times, with your duties and time limits clearly spelled out for you. Later in life you are likely to adopt a rather strict structure of daily living, because the structure itself gives you confidence.
Uranus Inconjunct Ascendant
The restless energies of this aspect should be given some kind of release, because otherwise they can turn inward to create the kind of rash and compulsive actions that lead to accidents. If you have accidents, it is not because you are unlucky, but because you are not careful at critical times.
Except, of course, those who wish to view a total eclipse with their own two eyes (through protective eyewear).
But, in the course of human events, signals from the Universe were something to pay attention to in history. I don’t know about you, but the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8th should be a sight to behold.
Where we live in Midland, Ontario, the likelihood of viewing 90% of the eclipse is good, except for the weather. But I can keep my fingers crossed that I won’t get a repeat of the cloud cover that I experienced in Torquay UK in 1999.
But the Courts Seem to be Bending Over Backwards for Trump
Are they afraid of looking prejudiced against him? Or are they trying to keep his appeal options few and far between? One last thought: are they afraid of his MAGA crew? Something is going on, for sure.
Today, the New York Appellate Court reduced the amount Trump needs to stump up to a paltry $175M. And they gave him an extra 10 days to find the funds. Admittedly, his fine hasn’t been reduced, and the interest is still accruing, for now. But the appeals process will drag this review until the early fall season.
And if he fails to get the judgment overturned, he’ll keep on appealing the case until it finally gets to the US Supreme Court, where he has a conservative majority, with some of them owing their positions to him. Gee whiz.
If it takes too long, Trump will have a chance(?) to become President again. Then he can make a lot of stuff go away, but not everything, which is why he is creating as many barriers to judgment as possible.
Sometimes, when I’m going through my daily ‘processes’, especially first thing in the morning, I have to remind myself to pay attention to what I’m doing. Literally, it is very easy to be absentminded. But if I forget whether I’ve taken my insulin or other diabetes medications, I might take them again and cause myself a medical problem, hypoglycemia. That can be deadly.
It’s a bit like the instruction given by Mr. Miyagi to Daniel laRusso in “The Karate Kid“:
Wax on, wax off.
The idea is to make the mundane and routine work part of your mindfulness, and thereby to bring your consciousness to bear in everything you do, until it becomes part of you.
What was this deep, dark secret that Jack Lemmon had? Oh, surprise, surprise! A drinking problem.
This birth chart is unreliable due to the time not being necessarily exact. Whoever decided it was 2:00 pm may have been hoping that Pluto on a Cancer Ascendant gave a correct spin on his dynamic (and troubled) personality.
There are two inconjuncts.
Moon Inconjunct Uranus
Your relationship with your mother may be rather unstable. She may be very involved in her own interests, which prevent her from being as close to you as she would be otherwise. She may be an unconventional person, a real free spirit. The problem is that your feelings about her are mixed, both loving and unloving. You may secretly resent her. Probably you don’t feel that you can express this consciously, but it could come out when you are angry or upset. Certainly this will result in not wanting to form close relationships with other people, especially women. And the people you do choose as close friends are likely to be exciting and different from anyone you have known in the past. However, they may also be rather upsetting.
Neptune Inconjunct Midheaven
With this aspect you may have to build up your self-confidence considerably while you are young and learn that you are as worthy as anyone else. Even though these are your learning years, when you must develop a great deal of discipline, you still deserve as much consideration as anyone else. Your natural tendency is to yield to authority, so that those people who are most influential in your life, including your parents, should be very careful about how they exercise their authority over you. If they try to control you too much, or if they make you feel that you aren’t able to manage your own affairs, it will be difficult to correct the effects of this negative influence later in life.
Again, the Sun and the Moon are in Opposition
Do you wonder how Lemmon was able to effectively cross-dress in “Some Like It Hot”? This aspect…
In more recent times, he would have become a trans person, as we have seen with others who have this configuration. But in those days, the best you could have been was homosexual. I’m not sure if Lemmon ever crossed the line, but the impulse would have been there, for sure. Maybe that’s why he drank so much. He was dampening down his ’emotional’ urges.
So, the question is: when does fantasy imitate life? Answer: when you act so fully that the lines blur.
Before a solar eclipse arrives (as one will cross the US on April 8th), a lunar eclipse acts as a herald.
As things come to a head for Donald Trump when the civil fraud trial in New York 30 day limit expires, this celestial event does not bode well for him. Here’s Ellie Adams’ take on the overall happening:
Now, I’ve done a chart for the ‘exact’ astrological point of the opposition between the Sun and Moon in Palm Beach, Florida, just to bring the idea home to #45.
There is one inconjunct for that moment.
Neptune Inconjunct Midheaven
While you are young, you won’t have a clear idea of what you want to do in life. In fact you may never orient your life around a single idea or purpose. But don’t worry. Your purpose in life may not be one that is readily defined in terms of a career or profession. More important may be your style of living or your experience of life. Simply learn to always be aware and to learn whatever there is to be learned. With your sensitivity and intuition you can understand much more than other people, especially those who have wrapped their lives around their career or profession.
(Does this sound like he has to start over again?)
Sun Opposition Moon
You will learn to understand yourself through opposition to the world and other people, perhaps in good-hearted competition with friends, perhaps through fighting. The form of your opposition is up to you. You are likely to ask friends what they think of you or of something you have done, because you want to get outside your own personal point of view and see what others see. This does not mean, however, that you are always willing to make your ideas agree with other people’s. On the contrary, you usually fight for what you believe to be right. But you want to know what others feel, because it gives you a necessary perspective.
As you get older, you will respect people who make solid worldly achievements that have concrete, observable results, such as successful businessmen or builders, people who complete large-scale projects that everyone can point to.
(Again, this last point is ironic, don’t you think?)
Post Script
And, just to show how the Universe lines things up, here’s Trump birth chart in comparison to the lunar eclipse.
Firstly, Trump’s natal Neptune is inconjunct to his natal Midheaven (which is echoed in the lunar eclipse chart). But, even more impressively, the event’s Moon is conjunct Trump’s natal Neptune (and both are opposite the event’s Sun). Now do you see why this is personal to him?
