West Fork, Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona, Arizona Part 3

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As we continue to move deeper into the Temple of Mother Earth, we find some amazing things that one can only see in the winter time.


This was a group of icicles hanging on each of the different terraces near the top of the thousand foot wall in the Temple. In the sunlight, they glittered like diamonds.


And here's a close up of some of the icicle necklaces strung across the terraces.


Here is a photo looking up at another bunch of yellow icicles and you can see the marvelous greenery and sky above.


Here Charley and Robin are in the middle of the area we call Mother Earth's temple. I think you can feel the sacredness of this incredible place.


As I was walking a bit ahead of Charley and Robin, I spied this piece of pine tree bough that had probably been ripped off by a falling ice hazzard and was now stuck in ice at the edge of Oak Creek.


Here is a long shot of the Temple with Robin and Charley. Just an incredible, healing place.


We all had to cross icy Oak Creek in order to move on down the West Fork Trail. Robin figured out real quick how to get across, clever one that she is. I went next and then, Charley. None of us fell in and none of us got our boots wet.


And here was where we were headed to: The Womb of Mother Earth. This is a photo looking back toward the Temple of Mother Earth. I'll leave you with this beautiful photo until next time.

In Spirit...Eileen

West Fork Trail, Sedona, Arizona Part 2

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As Robin and Charley Myers and myself continue into West Fork Trail, up in Oak Creek Canyon just above Sedona, Arizona, you are getting to see it in the winter time. And how spectacular it is! Please join us on part two as we continue to move into the canyon.



As we went deeper into the first area off the trail into the Temple of Mother Earth, Oak Creek was frozen over here and there. I thought this was a beautiful photo of water with ice and the movement.


Here Charley and Robin Myers are easing their way along Oak Creek. A lot of it was icy and treacherous--but isn't the area beautiful? Wow.


Here is another 'arty' shot of the Oak Creek water flowing across the larger boulders and the build up of ice on them--the rocks look like they have an 'ice cap' on :-)


Here Robin is giving Charley a hand as he has traversed the icy and slippery Oak Creek to get to the island in the center.


I was entranced with the beauty of the ice whether clear or frosted, and the water playing in Oak Creek.


And here are some of the one thousand foot tall sandstone and dolomite walls that comprise the Temple of Mother Earth. You can see the wonderful tapestry of colors, the water running down from far above and then being caught 'in time' and freezing


And here is another ice waterfall on the walls


I think this is one of my favorite photos because I got it right. Might even try entering it in a photo contest. What do you think?


Looking up in the temple, you can see YELLOW icicles hanging over the edges! This yellow color has to do with the tannic acid dropped by the pine needles. Very pretty necklace of icicles, don't you think? Nature jewelry at its finest!


And here is a close up of the yellow/tannic acid icicles at the top of the thousand foot cliff. Reminds me of yellow topaz!


As ice forms around the yellowed grass, it captures it inside like a glass time capsule of sorts. This chunk of ice fell from the top of the cliff at some earlier time and crashed down below where this photo was taken along Oak Creek. This rectangle of ice was about four feet long and about two and a half feet long and you can see how thick it is--at least 3 inches. And this was a huge piece of ice. I stood there photographing it and thinking that if someone had been down below when this piece hurtled off the top of a thousand foot cliff would have been killed or badly injured by it if they had been struck. Luckily, no one was and I can have a pretty photo showing the yellowed grass in it.


Here is where Oak Creek and the ice met and formed. I liked the variations in colors, the frosted ice and the clearness of the water where ice had not yet formed.

I hope you enjoyed our trek into the Temple of Mother Earth--more to come!

In spirit, Eileen

West Fork in Winter Part 1

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One of the most wonderful things in the world is FRIENDS. I count myself soooo fortunate to have so many that I consider my 'cosmic family.' And, Robin and Charley Meyers from Louisiana visited for two days. They both play flute (awesome!) and they wanted to do some hiking. I took them up into Oak Creek Canyon, to West Fork Trail at 6,000 feet. In the winter, it is quite spectacular and mystical--unlike what it looks like in spring, summer or autumn. I hope you enjoy these photos of three friends having a wonderful afternoon with Mom Earth in one of the most sacred areas of Arizona.





This is a photo of Oak creek in the winter from the bridge you must cross to get into Fern Meadow.


This is a closer look at that gorgeous sapphire pool with all the naked, shadowy trees spreading across it in the mid-afternoon winter sunshine.


Here is Robin in the background of the bridge and Charley on the right--both are taking photos. I was taking a photo of Robin at the same time she was taking one of me, haha. It was like: who's the fastest camera in the West? sort of thing.


Here is Robin and Charley in Fern Meadow (they are brown, dried up and dead but on this flat there are everywhere in the Spring). You can see how gorgeous the mountains are behind them: white dolomite and red sandstone.

I ambled over to Oak Creek and I thought it was so beautiful and clear--you could see the mossy green, the rounded stones glowing gold in the winter sunlight. Gemstones comes to life: emerald and sapphire.


Here is an apple tree--local legend says that Johnny Appleseed came through and planted the apple trees here--and they are close to 100 years old. Probably closer to the truth was they were planted in the 1920's when Hollywood came here to this very spot, and the caretakers planted them. Here is Robin and Charley posing with these crusty old tough apple trees.


Here is Robin standing on West Fork Trail between two old apple tree guardians. You can see from Fern Meadow how beautiful this area is. You are small; embraced in the arms of Mother Earth and feeling very nurtured by simply being here.


As Robin went into a cellar that was carved out of red sandstone, an interesting cloud formation occurred above us. Robin felt it looked like a hawk's face and eye. As she went into the cellar and played her flute, the cloud became even more well formed; as if in resonance with her beautiful flute music.


Here is Robin at the entrance to the manmade hole which was a cellar back in the 1920's-1940's. It has wonderful resonance in there and as Robin played the flute people who were on the trail stopped and simply listened. Cool.


Looking back into Fern meadow, I love the winter snow on the ground. You're in Arizona and there's snow! Many people think Arizona is 'only' desert, but it is not.

Looking to the southwest, you can see an old chicken coop that was once used--now in a state of disrepair and the mighty white dolomite mountains rising behind it that comprise West Fork.


Just above the cellar where Robin was playing her flute was a dead Century Plant. It blooms only once, sending a 'spike' about 20 to 30 feet high and it blooms with brilliant yellow flowers that the bees just love. Once it blooms, the entire plant dies. And this one had bloomed last year and now is a gaunt, white skeleton thrusting up toward the blue winter sky.


Charley is making his way through the snow to come and meet us. Robin has just got finished playing her flute for all the sacred spirits of this area. Now, we're ready to enter the Temple of Mother Earth....

Join us as we continue our hike and journey into this sacred area. When the Tibetan lamas come to Sedona (which is often), they always come here, to West Fork. And on a secret place within the canyon, they go to pray and perform their ceremonies.

In Spirit...Eileen

Blue Birds at the Watering Hole

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It seems we have a flock of Blue Birds who have decided to make our back yard THE place to get water and bathe. Please enjoy these.


Here is a female Blue Bird, one of the first to come in, on our back yard fence. They are very cautious birds. And she was checking out the bird bath. I fill it each morning with fresh water because to leave it out over night, it freezes. I know they really appreciate the fresh, warm water in the freezing morning hours.


The female on the fence flew to the water bowl first--then her male companion did. He then turned and started chirping at the others waiting up in the Arizona Sycamore tree NOT to come--as if he were claiming sole right to the water, haha.


The female said 'to heck with this' and went on to drink. Meanwhile, our territorial male Blue Bird was watching the rest of flock up in the tree. Did his 'bluffing' work?


Then, the Male Blue Bird turned around with this 'pissed off look' on his face! I couldn't believe it, haha. I guess it was another 'expression' that he was giving the awaiting flock in the tree to bug off!


Well, it didn't work!! Another male flew down and promptly started bathing himself and a Purple Finch flew in to add insult to injury to the scowling Blue Bird who thought this watering trough was his turf!


The male who was cleaning himself off took off and so did the territorial Blue Bird male. The female Blue Bird and Purple Finch remained to continue drinking


I wanted to leave you with some gorgeous flowers from a bouquet that Dave got me the other day....we've been married 34 years and he never fails to bring me flowers weekly--because before we got married I told him I would love to have real flowers every week in my kitchen. He remembered. Whatta hero!!


And here is a close up of the glorious sunflower--these MUST lift your spirit in the middle of winter!

May the Blue Birds of happiness make your day positive despite any and all obsticals you may face or have to jump over.

In Spirit...Eileen

Winter Birds visiting my Bird Feeder Part 2

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Here's a few more pictures. There is such peace that I find in just standing at the kitchen window and watching these marvelous birds. I hope you enjoy these latest photos.


My watering fountain is made of plastic and I try to remember to empty it out each night and then fill it with a couple of pitchers of warm water in the morning for the birds. Here you have a Purple Finch on the left, a sparrow in the middle and a tiny Goldfinch on the right.


Here is Albert's Towhee. At first, I didn't know what this plain brown bird with the black mask across its eyes was. We have a Brown Towhee who visits us every winter, and he's a spectacular white, brown, black and orange color pattern. This year, we have several pairs of these plain brown birds. I finally decided to photograph them and look them up in The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley (best bird book around in my opinion) and sure enough, I found out that they are cousins! This is the first year we've had Albert's Towhees here. I think the Brown Towhee told them where the buffet in Arizona was at, haha.

In Spirit...Eileen

Winter Birds feeding in our back y ard

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I've got a few minutes on my hands--how NICE that feels! I have a bird feeder and two watering areas for the winter birds that come into our area of Arizona. I'd like to share some of my latest photos--from looking out my kitchen window and into the back yard


Here are Goldfinches, Purple finches, Juncos (snowbirds) and even some Sparrows. I put out a banquet for them every day of cut-up sunflower seeds, black thistle, sunflowers with nuts and the white flax chopped up. By far, the sunflower chips and thistle are the favorite. We have two Flicker and one Red Headed Woodpecker who love the nuts in the sunflowers. We also get a Cardinal and his wife in, as well.


The red bricks with the white were put in place by Dave. Every night I put out any left overs we don't eat or have stayed too long in the refrigerator for a local mama raccoon and her three babies. They always come to the bird seed table here, about 9 p.m. at night. On some nights, when I have nothing, I'll cut up an apple into quarters and leave it out there for them so they at least have some food in their bellies. With all these beautiful winter birds, doesn't it look like a banquet is underway? :-)))


About December, the Robins come in and stay long enough to eat the red berries from our bushes. And then, about Mid-January to early February, the blue birds come in. They are my favorite! I was so jazzed to see them at the copper water feeder in the back yard today! What a treat! Blue birds fly in flocks and usually, they are gun shy of bird feeders like this. They did not partake of the feast on the ground, but they did come in for water. I got so lucky on this one and caught one Blue Bird coming in for a landing! Wow!


And here the Blue Bird has landed on the copper water dish. They are sapphire gems that just brighten a cold winter day among the bare, gray branches of the trees and bushes. So startling blue that it takes your breath away when they fly!


Now, they are going to get down to the business of drinking water. Every evening, after the birds have left, I empty the water which is freezing over. In the morning, I take out two pitchers of water and put into each one. That way, they have water in the morning. It is cold in the canyon and the sun doesn't come over the wall until about 11 a. m. The birds are so happy in the morning to be able to find water to drink. It's a little, thoughtful gesture, but one that I'd sure like if I were a bird!


The last photo of my beloved, dramatically colored Blue Birds. They are so shy and very hard to catch anywhere. I felt especially fortunate today when they came in for water. I wonder, in coming days if the flock will hang around and eventually chow down with the rest of the winter birds on Dave's wonderful tile banquet table in the back yard?

If you can, buy a little bird seed and spread it out near trees or bushes where you live--for the winter birds in your area--they have little to eat and will be so grateful for your generosity.

In Spirit...Eileen

Photos of Sedona, Arizona with snow on Channel 15

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I took a day off, so to speak (not from my writing--a chapter a day right now on my Time Raider's series book for Silhouette Nocturne). I went to the Los Abrigados Spa in Sedona. I screwed up days of when the yoga teacher would be there -- she wasn't. Oh well....I had my yoga teaching book, so I opened it up and did "Monday" and was sweating plenty in that thirty minute workout.

Then, off to walk 1.75 miles on the treadmill with a fairly steep incline--my cardio workout. I love the locker system at this spa. The women have a huge locker room, showers, a hot tub, dry and steam steam room as well as a bathroom and place to put on your make up and dry your hair. I truly enjoy coming here.

After I got done, about 2:00 p.m.,I decided to take some snow photos and send them to Bill Bellis, the weather guy at Channel 15 in Phoenix,Arizona, and see if he would choose any of them to put on the TV tonight. I'm showing you highlights of my shots, plus the ones he chose. I went over to a shopping complex on top of a hill where I could get some good photos. There's a Sunflower Bakery up there, so I treated myself to a mocha latte and a huge, wonderful cranberry/orange scone....yum.

Of course, I left lots of crumbs from my scone for the resident ravens, which I just love (and I have a wonderful photo of one down below).

So, amble along with me after the snow storm left Sedona and enjoy my work:


Here is a long shot of beautiful Sedona area with the frosting on the cake--the Mogollon Rim at 7,000 feet.


This is a view of Sedona with Coffee Pot butte--one of the most recognizable red rocks in the city.


I love this photo because of the dead brush on the right. This is a different view of Sedona.


There were lots of ravens around this shopping center on top of a hill where I parked the car and took a number of Sedona snow photos. Isn't this a cool photo?


And here is a shot of East Sedona area with sunlight bathing the white limestone and red sandstone


Do you see Snoopy, the Beagle in the center of the picture? It is a red rock butte and it looks like the cartoon character is laying on his back starting up at the sky. You can see his Beagle muzzle and even the round rock on top of it to make his 'nose.' There's also a wonderful trail that goes up to this butte, as well--but it's a long, hard climb.


This is my'arty' photo. At the hilltop shopping mall where I was at in Sedona, there was this gorgeous and huge bald eagle sculpture. I decided to use it as a 'frame' to set up the center area where there is snow. I sent it down to Bill Bellis at Channel 15 weather in Phoenix,AZ but he didn't choose it--and I didn't figure he would. But, I like it :-))))


Here is my second 'arty' shot. I saw this bough leaning in a curve and used it as a frame of sorts to show the snow. I didn't send this one down to Bill Bellis, but I had fun framing it.


This is the same photo without the arching branch over it.


You can see the dotted greenery of the Juinper that live on the red, sand slopes of these buttes.


Here is that gorgeous eagle sculpture. I decided to take advantage of the roiling sky and the light. It's a wonderful sculpture!


This was a fun sculpture in the shopping complex. I loved the colors. Whoever fashioned this creation knew that little fillies or colts have huge curiosity and that little turtle is priceless.


This was one of the photos selected by Bill Bellis for his weather portion on Channel 15 tonight. It's a nice shot with good color and exposure of the Red Rocks that comprise Sedona. Truly, a picture postcard.


Another view of Sedona surrounded by buttes and then the snowy Mogollon rim in the distance.


This was the other photo that Bill Bellis chose to show on Channel 15 tonight. It's a good wide shot of the general Red Rock area. The play of clouds, of dark and light, make it pretty.


I really like this shot because it's the Mogollon Rim. It's actually an upflit that went to 7,000 feet millions of years ago. Sedona sits at 4,000 feet, and the Rim rises above it to the north, east and west.


This particular storm was 'high' in that it was dumping snow at 7,000 feet--Rim country--but rain below that altitude.


I took a photo of the television as Bill flashed on this photo of mine. Looks really nice in a flat screen!



And,I have photos on their slide show at their website should you be interested:
http://www.abc15.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=795ec45e-20d7-4b08-b1e3-6c68526d0daa

On left hand side point/click on MOST POPULAR and it will take you to the slide show. My photo is #4 of 16



This was the second photo chosen to be shown on Channel 15. My 3 seconds of fame, haha

A lovely day to walk around Sedona and enjoy its innate beauty...

In Spirit...Eileen

Peccary on Oak Creek

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What a nice way to start out the New Year! A flood on Oak Creek where we live. Of course, when we have rain years, it's supposed to give us liquid moisture December through March. And we've been in such drought for nearly fifteen years that it seems that 2008 and Mom Nature are going to relent. We've been having some good rain--enough to raise Oak Creek out of its banks and on the first two steps of our concrete that leads down to the sandy shores.

This morning, Dave woke me up at 7:30 am saying there was a herd of Peccary--wild pigs--Javalina--down below our sundeck. He said at first, he didn't realize he was seeing anything down below because we have such black, smooth boulders (basalt from the dormant volcano--House Mountain--one canyon over from where we live). But, they moved! And then, in the dawn, he realized that boulders along the flood water edges do not move! And then, he realized it was a herd of Peccary! So, he came and shook me out of a deep, wonderful sleep and wanted the 300mm Nikon D-80 camera to take shots.

Now, as groggy as I was--and without coffee--and in the half light conditions, I knew he wouldn't get any photos. So, I groaned and moaned and moaned and got out of bed. I set it on "Auto" but with an ISO of 640 to accound for the lousy dark lighting conditions.

Then, I slipped on my sandals and bathrobe and hurried out to the sundeck. I finally saw them and they were all gone except one--a large 120 pound boar. The first shot was free hand and was badly blurred--but at least on Auto the D-70 was taking a slow photo. And then, I set the lens down on the rail of our sundeck and took a second shot.

The boar's head shot up--look directly at me--and I was amazed he heard that soft 'click' of my camera with the roar of the flooding creek right next to him. Talk about good hearing! I started to take a third shot but he took off at a gallop and disappeared.

Here's the second shot of him before he scurried away! Happy New Year!





In Spirit...Eileen

Pluto in Capricorn--Major Shift in the World

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Pluto, the transformer,is at 29 Sagittarius right now--and already, we're seeing assassinations (Bhutto) by fanatics/terrorists, which is ruled by this sign. Further, 29 degrees is always a highly emotional sign. And we're in this "between a rock and a hard place" emotionally speaking until January 25, 2008, when Pluto finally leaves Sagittarius and moves into the more stable, earthy sign of Capricorn.

What does all this mean? I've tried to go back in history when Pluto was in Capricorn to see what we can learn by looking back. There's an old and true saying: "What we fail to learn from history will be repeated." And that is sooooo true!

You don't have to believe in astrology to use it. Just check out the history when this mighty transformer was in the sign of Capricorn and then read further as to my forecasting of what it might mean for us now and the next sixteen years as Pluto transits in this sign.

Pluto in Capricorn by Eileen Nauman


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2012, the Mayan legend says, “Time will cease as we know it...” will get support as Pluto, the god of Transformation, moves into Capricorn on January 26, 2008. This is a major step toward that transitional point. The world is about to change remarkably--and so will we, as a result. Pluto, the god of Transformation, will make sure it happens.

Pluto has a 248 year transit and we, as human beings, never have a Pluto Return as a result. Pluto rules over transformation, change and destruction/renewal phase of our lives. It is a slow but sure mover and changer in our every day life. It asks us again and again to change; but because we are fearful and don’t want change, it will nudge us repeatedly, off and on throughout our lives, to help us break the fixed habit or conditional patterns we grew up with, so that we can evolve and transform in ways that make us one with the Universe.

Transiting Pluto squares its natal position in each of our lives around age 62; and this is a time of wonderful, flowing change if we’re up to it. If we have been constantly renewing ourselves, changing our attitudes and working to heal our emotional wounds, this is a gift of freedom and very positive. If not, then many older people’s lives change at this point and they don’t do it willingly. Massive change and transformation will take place. It will be monumental in scope; not something little. Pluto gives plenty of warning, decades beforehand, so that when we hit age 62, it doesn’t have to be something to be afraid of if we have been maturing, becoming broader and deeper as a human being. If we have been growing and changing all along, the gifts of Pluto at this age are incalculable. They can be worldly gifts of fame, fortune, success, or more inner gifts of knowing one’s self or going through initiations and making that Phoenix-like transformation so that your oneness with Spirit is a living, daily joy.

If we want an example of what Pluto can do, let’s look back when it entered the sign of Sagittarius January 17, 1994 and remained there until January 24, 2007. This was a thirteen year transit through the sign of religion. Does “religion” issues ring a bell? You have all seen the rise of the religious fanatic across the globe and it isn’t just the terrorists using Islam to batter the world with their distorted beliefs. Religion has suddenly surged into every day life and has threatened to deluge the state, which is to be separated from religions, in the USA. It used to be that religion and state were completely separate. We now have a president who has more religious more than statesman abilities and his views have clouded and thwarted the ship of state vs. religious freedom until it’s a muddy mess.

The religious right has taken over the Republican party, too. We saw the rise of dictators (Pluto) as a president, the slaughter of millions in genocide across our globe, dictators rising and falling and saw the rise of religious zealots who are but a handful, into positions of power. And most recently, B. Bhutto, of Pakistan, was assassinated. And we’ve seen them abuse and misuse their power over and over again. This is the ugly side of Pluto when it is allowed to manifest and thrive.

Pluto is not at fault--we are. Pluto only exerts an energy and it is we who choose what to do with it and how to express it not only internally within ourselves, but externally upon the world as we see it.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF PLUTO IN CAPRICORN

Looking at history from 456 BC to the present, Pluto has (roughly speaking) spent sixteen (roughly because it can be 12 years sometimes) years in Capricorn every 248 years of one orbit about the sun. For you history buffs, here are the dates that Pluto was in Capricorn and you can do a little historical sniffing around to see what was going on in that time frame and see how it may reflect on us today. Remember the old saying: what we don’t learn from history, we are bound to repeat. And that is so true. As we look back in history, see if you note the parallels to our own society today to get a ‘feel’ for where Pluto is going to be working energetically in our lives.
I culled the internet for information on each of these periods. And, of course, the BC time frame is not going to have the wealth of information that our AD time frame does for obvious reasons. Still, there are people and events in BC that we see mirroring in our AD period. It is a fascinating journey and I invite you to read through these gleanings (sources are noted) and see how they might be repeating themselves in the near future, but on another level because we have grown and evolved since the BC era in some ways.






BC

472-456 BC

224-230 BC

AD

24-40 AD

272-298 AD

520-536 AD

768-784 AD

1016-1032 AD

1264 - 1280 AD

1512 - 1528 AD

1760 - 1776 AD

2008 - 2024 AD

A twelve to sixteen year period in Pluto’s cycle embraces all levels and elements of our life. (The reason for the years of difference is the oblong elliptical orbit of Pluto. For example, the shortest amount of time is spent in Scorpio and Taurus because they are at the ‘ends’ of the oblong orbit). Pluto will be in Capricorn for sixteen years. There is a historical perspective. There is a philosophical one. A personal one, and so on. Pluto touches us on all levels and in all ways: spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. The globe, too, responds, only it would be more to weather, the elements, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and epidemics.

And into every cycle of each planet, but especially Pluto, there are great thinkers and philosophers, men and women, who help shape what our reality and spirituality are to become. An example of this is Buddha spreading his philosophy of Buddhism around the Far East. Or, Jesus Christ, to the Christians. And on the other end is Hitler and his Aryan Nation concept that threw us into World War 2. Pluto can show us freedom through thought and brainwashing in human beings. We want to pay attention to who these people are and see if we resonate with them or not.

Historical resources:
http://www3.telus.net/public/dgarneau/euro.htm

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/timeline/timeline-b.html

472-456 BC

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn.

Socrates was born in 469 BC with his Pluto in Capricorn. He was a Greek philosopher who got us to question our ethics and virtue. He was not a scientist but his use of questioning has helped lay the foundation of science even as we utilize it today. And he had a famous student, Plato, who went on to blaze his own trail in the world of philosophy.

Euripides, a famous Greek writer lived from 485-406 BC.

Democritus (470-380 BC) was another Greek philosopher and he expanded the concept of atoms as being the base of all form of matter. Through his observation, Democritius also said the Moon was like Earth in many ways and that the Milky Way really consisted of stars.

History:

470 BC the Carthaginians launched an expedition under Hanno to sail to the West in order to found new trading colonies. He took 60 ships and 30,000 men and women and sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar and sailed down the African coast. When you stop and think about this amazing feat so long ago--to sail out of the Mediterranean sea and go beyond into the ‘unknown’, Hanno was truly a brave explorer of his time.

Earth Changes:

in 464 BC the Greek city of Sparta was leveled by an earthquake that killed at least twenty thousand people. When the trembling was over, only five houses remained standing. And, interestingly, slaves revolted at that time and ran into the countryside where they resisted recapture for three years.




224-230 BC

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn.

Archimedes, the Greek mathematician and engineer lived from 287-212 BC. He’s well known in Geometry and developing machines of war. He is very well known for “Eureka, eureka!” (I have found it!) and this was in his finding the theory of buoyancy while taking a bath.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-200 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. He is responsible for calculating the circumference of the Earth and developed a method for calculating all prime numbers known as “the sieve of Eratosthenes.”

History:


Earth Changes:

224 BC A earthquake toppled the one hundred foot high bronze statue of Apollo, the Greek sun god, as it stood at the entrance to Rhodes. There was no way to re-erect this historical statute.

217 BC North African earthquake destroyed one hundred cities and killed an estimated fifty-thousand people with that tremblor.

AD

24-40 AD

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn.

140-37 AD Roman emperor Tiberius and Rome prospered and enlarged her ownership of other countries by defeating them and absorbing them into Roman culture.

37-41 AD Roman emperor Caligula also known as the ‘mad emperor’ and was called ‘little boots’ derisively by the Roman army. This man was a dictator of chilling proportions to Rome.

History: none recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some

Earth Changes: none recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some

272-298 AD

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn.

275 St. Eutychian (275-283) a native of Tuscany is elected Papa of Rome. Some suggest he decreed that only beans and grapes could be blessed at mass.

276 Probus (276-282) is Caesar of the Roman Empire.

283 St. Gaius alias Caius (283-296) a Dalmatian possible relative of Emperor Diocletian (284-305) resulting in a peaceful reign. Carinus and Numerian held co-rule of the Roman Empire.

284 Diocletian (284-305) is Caesar of the Roman Empire. He would kill thousands of Christians during his reign including Marcellinus (296-304) Papa of Rome. Tetrarchy is the co-ruler of the Roman Empire.

296 Marcellinus (296-304) is elected Papa of Rome. Athanasius (296-373) is elected Papa of Alexandria.

History:

287 The first recorded Viking raids are on the Lower Rhine. The Viking era is traditionally considered as 789 – 1100 A.D.

297 Romans deal with the Picts of Great Britain.

Earth Changes: none recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some


520-536 AD

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn.

520 King Arthur defeats the Saxons and stops their advance in Great Britain

523 St. John 1 of Tuscany is elected bishop of Rome

518-527 Religious suppression/destruction: Emperor Justin resurrected old laws against heretics and persecuted Goths and Aryans. Their churches were seized. King Theodore of Italy who was a Goth ad Arian ordered the bishop of rome to order him to stop the persecutions. Religious suppression and change also touched the Cult of Isis (that had been worshipped for 5,000 years) was destroyed during Justinian’s reign, plunging maternal/matriarchal worship into darkness and saw the rise of patriarchy and the worship of male gods only from this time to the present.

526 John 1, Bishop of Rome traveled to Constaninople but failed to stop the persecution of the Goth and Arian people and their belief system. The Italian King Theodore was imprisoned and he died.

527 Justinian, emperor of Constaninopole unites all branches of the Christian church and to abolish all heresies. He closed the Academy of Athens which he saw as a pagan center. He repressed the Manichaens, Jews and Samaritans to a level of second class citizens. Justinian Code decreed that those who were not Catholic were demented and insane. and, heretics/pagans would have no place to worship. Justinian established civil marriage and created the natural law that such mean are born free.

527 Sumer, once called the cradle of European civilization and Mesopotamia is lost to our historical memory as a great swamp covered the region.

530 Diosorus is elected Bishop of Rome. There is many politics at this time between Roman rule and the religious front taking on new power. The Roman senate is outraged by such unconstitutional behavior and they try to call the papacy fraudulent. But, it doesn’t work and the Catholic church continues to rise in power and authority thanks to Emperor Justinian’s heavy handedness toward all things pagan and anti-catholic.

533 John 22 is elected Bishop of Rome after moths of intrigue, corruption and bribery.

Earth Changes:

526 A quarter million people died in an earthquake May 29th in Antioch, Syria.

768-784 AD

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn.

none recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some

History:

768
The Lombards carry out a coup in Rome. They capture the Constantine bishop and elect their own Bishop, Philip. There is great political and religious intrigue during this period. The Constantine elected bishop of Rome is stripped of his papal office and has his eyes gouged out.

769
Kin Charlemange comes to power. He hosts a synod that included thirteen Frankish bishops to restore canonical order. They condemned iconoclastic and approved veneration of images (anything pagan).

770
The Vikings displace the Celt-Pict people along coastal settlements of Ireland and Scotland

The Lombards refuse to hand over promised cities to Rome. This creates a breach between the Bishop of Rome and the Frankish Royal House. It also creates mortal foes.

771
Frankish King Charles (Austria, southern German, Netherlands, Belgium and France) subdues the Lombard in Italy all the way to Rome.

772
Ghawa (Kumbi) (Ghana, Africa) is the Land of Gold. The kings of Ghana are considered the richest on earth.

774
The Franks defeat the Lombards. The Germanic-Saxon rebel against this conquest and baptism--and they are put down many times more by the Franks.

774
The “Donationa of Constantine” is the forgery of the Roman Catholic church dated to 326. It includes the confirmation of the bishop of Rome over ALL Christians and the dogma of the Church. It was finalized in 774.

782
King Charles 1 has taken 4.5 thousand Germanic-Saxon prisoners and had them beheaded on the banks of the Aller river.

Earth Changes: None recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some

1016-1032 AD

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn:
none recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some

History:

1016:
Viking/Danish, Celt, Anglo and Saxon peopled joined under reign of Emperor Canute the Great (a Viking). England became part of the Viking northern empire.
1016: Benedict VIII, bishop of Rome formed alliance to defeat Arab invader in northern Italy.

1019:
Byzantine halt rebels at Canne. Benedict VIII flees to Germany.

1022:
Constantinople excommunicates Benedict. The synod of Pavia prohibits marriage for all clergy. The main reason is to protect church property. If the priests can’t marry there’s no will leaving anything to wife or children.

1023:
Arabs have border warfare in central Spain.

1024:
John XiX (Romanus) elected bishop of Rome due their bribery to the Church.

1025:
Gudleif, Norse trader, discovers Icelander Bjorn Asbrandson somewhere along the coast of North America. Probably the first ‘white men’ to discover that continent--long before Columbus. Although St. Brendan (484-477) of Ireland heard another monk tell him of a land far to the west of Ireland. The saint took seven years to discover this land which is thought to be North America. If this is true, then he is the first European to discover this continent.

1027:
Gascon Sancho William and Aquitanian William V under the Christian flag attack Moslem Spain now controlled by King Sancho III of Navarre.

1030:
Norman Vikings create a fortress at Aversa, Italy, near Naples.

1031:
Emperor Knorad II forbids inheritance of fiefs by women (more of the patriarchy dominion working to disempower women in all ways).

1032:
Religious chaos and politics in the Catholic church come to a head. Bishops to Rome come and go even to the tune of one of them being poisoned.

Earth changes: none recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some

1264 - 1280 AD
Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn:
None recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some

History:

1264:
Kubli Khan rules largest empire in the history of the world. Even appointment in Europe must be approved by the great khan. Kubli marches on the Sung Empire, the last hold out to the Mongolian empire.

1225-1274
Thomas Aquinas creates a synthesis between Christian theology and Aristotelianism. Political power is natural, he says.

1265:
First English Parliament

1266:
Charles of Anjou, brother to King Louis IX of France seizes the crown of Sicily.

Scotland and Norway move to a treaty to end Viking occupation of Scotland.

1267:
Kublai Khan founded Beijing, China.

1268:
The invention of eyeglasses.

1269:
Marco Polo says he spots Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat, Turkey

1270:
Holy Wars, the 7th and final led by King Louis IX of France to the Holy Land.

1271:
Marco Polo establishes a direct trading route along the ancient routes to China.

Kubla Khan builds one thousand way stations along his great road between China and Europe

1271:
Last of the Christian Crusades against the Muslims. The Muslims recapture all the territory in Syria held by the Crusaders by 1291.

1272:
King Edward I, King of England wants the rest of Britain under his control.

The Hapsburg family begins their long rule of the Arch duchy of Austria (1273-1806).

1274:
Kubli Khan does not conquer Japan from South Korea because a storm at sea forced his fleet to retreat.

1275:
Freedom of Speech is curtailed because of censure by Roman Catholics toward Thomas Aquinas (who ws trying to connect Aristotle thinking to the Catholic religion). St. Thomas Aquinas believes women are defective by nature and not created in God’s image (more reduction of the feminine by the patriarchy). He also puts forth the notion that women had to be punished for bringing sin into the world.

Yakub moves into Spain with his Moroccan army and burned Jerez and killed the inhabitants.

The Sung Empire falls to Mongol Kubli Khan. The Khan then proclaims himself emperor of china and starts the new Yuon Dynasty. Kublic creates a cast system in China with Mongolian people being the ruling class and the Sung people are the lowest class with the Chin and Hsi-Hsia being the middle class. He nationalized gold and silver miens and created paper currency, a banking system and a centralized government that included China, Europe to the Pacific Ocean. Kubli also built a great navy for exploration and trade. He established the Mongolia-Persian Gulp route. Russians, Turks and Persian traders also came to establish trading houses with the mighty Kubli Khan.

1278:
278 Jews are hanged in London for clipping coins. Of course, Christians are just as guilty of the same offense but they are fined, not murdered. Religious prejudice.

1279
The Yuan dynasty (Mongol empire) has completed the conquest of China. The Sung Dynasty is eliminated.

1280:
Mechanical clocks are invented.


Earth Changes:

1277:
A storm floods the country surrounding the Zuider Zee (Netherlands). The towns are submerged and it allows enemy troops to capture the flooded cities by boat.


1512 - 1528 AD

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn:

Paracelsus (1493-1541) studied alchemy and chemistry at Basel University and learned the properties of metals and minerals in mines. His unorthodox mystical theories lost him the position of town physician of Basel (1526-1528), but through empirical experiment in pursuit of his dreams he made new chemical compounds and changed medicine and pharmacy.


Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1513) a Polish astronomer and mathematician shook the world order. He said the sun was the center of the solar system, not the earth. He also said orbits of planets were irregular. The Catholic church promptly banned his work for over 200 years. It should be noted he made the announcement while Pluto was in Aquarius, not Capricorn. However, all the work and thought were done with Pluto in Capricorn.

1512-1528 philosopher from Italy Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

ART:

1500-1550: The Danube School of German Painting and beautiful landscapes became the vogue.

1450-1600: Venetian School and was comprised of Renaissance artists, particularly painters who employed aspects of light and color.

1500-1650: Umbrian School was an Italian school of painting. This school emphasized perspective and geometric composition as well as modeling figures and objects by means of light and color.

1513 Urs Graf invents etching.

1516 Raffael paints The School of Athens

1520-1600 the school of Mannerism art flourishes. It is an art style that focused on the human form, depicted in intricate poses and in exaggerated, not always realistic settings.


History:

1512
Anti-pope Julius II Holy Roman League army is severely defeated at Ravenna but the arrival of the Spanish and Swiss army forced the French to quit Italy.

1513
Henry VIII (1509-1547) army destroyed the Scottish army at Flodden, and James IV, married to Henry's daughter Margaret is killed along with twenty Scottish nobles. Henry would also march against James V who is badly defeated and died shortly there after.

A Turkish map of the world includes South America, West Indies, and Africa includes a note how a Genoese infidel Columbo pestered the Spanish king for ships.

Leo X alias Giovanni de Medici (1513-1521) a commander in the papal army is elected pope some say without the use of simony. His objective is to make Spanish-Italy and his own Florence free from foreign domination and to advance his family influence outside Florence.


1514
Pope Leo X (1513-1521) renewed the system of sale of indulgence for the reconstruction of St. Peter's.

King Ferdinand (1479-1516) of Spain forbid the publication of any papal bull or rescript in Spain without preliminary examination by the Royal Council and without Royal approval. .

Selim I the Turk defeated the Persians (Iran) and in 1515 conquered Armenia and Kurdistan.

1515
Francis I (1515-1547) defeated the Vatican's Holy Roman League at Marignano recovering Milan for France

1516

Syria fell to the Turkish army this year as the Ottoman Empire expanded south toward Egypt. The first Jewish quarter to be called a Ghetto is created in Venice about this time.

Charles I (Hapsburg) of Ghent (1500-1558) a Flemish boy raised in Flanders became King of Spain.

1517
The publication of Luther's ninety-five theses became the official launch of protestant christianity. The Bible was given priority over the church as the source of authority. The scope for religious disagreements multiplied as more and more people were able to read it for themselves. The movement for the reform of the Catholic (universal) church and the breakaway of protestant and reformed churches is called The Reformation.

Turkey occupied Egypt and the Holy places of Mecca. Sultan Selim I take control of Jerusalem, yet very few Ottoman Turks settle in the city. They pressed on taking Algeria by 1519.

A number of cardinals plotted to poison Pope Leo X (1513-1521) and their leader Alfonso Petrucci is executed and several others are imprisoned. Pope Leo then packed the sacred college by creating 31 new cardinals.

Martin Luther (1483-1546) on October 31 at the castle church of Wittenberg, Germany, the Saxon professor of divinity posted his ninety-five theses or arguments calling for a disputation on the abuses of the traffic in indulgences.

1518
SLAVERY: License to import 4,000 African slaves to Spanish American Colonies is granted to Lorens de Gominot.

1519
Hernando Courts begins assault on Mexico, defeats the Aztecs

Courts brings Arabian horses to Americas from Spain

Domenico de Pineda explores Gulf of Mexico from Florida to
Vera Cruz

Emperor Charles V (Hapsburg) of Ghent (1500-1558) a Flemish boy King of Spain is elected Holy Roman Emperor on the death of his grandfather Maximilian. The Spanish people revolted against the Flemish rule and they’re absent king. The revolt lasted until 1522.

1520
Magellan navigates through the straits from Atlantic to
Pacific

Pope Leo X (1513-1521) (Giovanni de Medici) condemned Martin Luther (1483-1546) the German for daring to say that burning heretics is against the will of God, amongst other things unless he recant. Luther appealed to a General Council and for twenty-five years the Pope and Curia refused the appeal to the only forum capable of settling the grave issues in the church. Pope Leo is the great uncle of Catherine de Medici, future Queen of France.

King Christan II of Denmark and Norway defeated a Spanish army at Lake Asundeu and was crowned King of Sweden. He then renounced his offer for Amnesty and massacred most of the Swedish leaders, about 600 nobles.


RUTHLESS DESTRUCTION OF OTHER CULTURES: The Aztec Emperor, Montezuma II, is dead. The Spanish are considered the Bastille of Roman Christianity with a mandate to subject the Americans for Spain, the Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church.

Chocolate was brought from Mexico to Spain for the first time.

BOOK BURNING on October 7: The first public burning of books took place in Louvain, Netherlands.

1521
Martin Luther excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, Jan 3 but the papal nuncio in Germany reported nine tenths of all Germans cried Luther and the other tenth cried death to Pope Leo.

Guam, where America's day begins, explored by Magellan

Belgrade (Beograd), Yugoslavia fell to Turkey as the Ottoman Empire expanded into Europe under command of Sultan Suleyman I the Magnificent (1520-1566). Hungary is threatened and Rhodes is besieged.

Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese, died April 27, 1521, he had renounced his citizenship and joined the Spanish

The Spanish conquistador Hernan Courts attacked Tenochtitlan, Mexico killing 100,000 Aztecs

1522
Pope Hadrian VI alias Adrian Florensz Dedal (1522-1523) an inquisitor for Aragon and Navarre in 1516, inquisitor for Castile and Leon 1518 is elected pope.

Pope Hadrian had condemned Martin Luther as inquisitor in Spain and believed he should be punished for heresy and his teachings banned.

The Island of Rhodes (Greece) fell to the Turkish advance.

England declared war on France and Scotland.

September 8, Juan Sebastian del Cano d-1526, of Spain is the first to circumnavigate the world returning to Spain this year.

1523
Martin Luther (1483-1546) spoke out in defense of the Jews saying that our Lord Jesus Christ was born a Jew. He also argued that the Letters of St. James the Just, Brother of Jesus should not be included in the New Testament.

The first burning of heretics of the Christian Reformation took place at Brussels this year under the reign of Pope Clement VII (1523-1534).


1524
Giovanni da Verrazano explores Hudson River and New York
harbor waters

GENOCIDE, RELIGIOUS The peasants of Germany, about 250,000 from the Black Forest on July 19, 1524 revolted demanding the right to select their preacher, the abolition of tithes and slavery, the right to hunt and fish where they pleased, etc. May 15, 1525 the revolt is put down when one hundred thousand peasants’ martyrs are killed in a blood bath. When Bishop Conrad recaptures Wurzberg, the event is celebrated with 64 executions. He then toured his diocese with his executioner who took care of another 272 people.

Francis I of France (1515-1547) re-conquered Milan and Pope Clement VII aligned with France and Venice against Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) of Spain.

1525
The church controlled Salzburg castle is attacked by revolting peasants but they fail to breach the castle walls.

Martin Luther (1483-1546) married the former nun Katherine Von Bora having previously rejected celibacy.

In Spain a royal edict ordered all pasture lands brought under tillage during the first eight years of the Emperors reign be restored to its original state and placed at the disposal of sheep-farmers. Agriculture is considered the lowest form of occupation. Gentlemen and Catholics don't till the land.

The Anabaptist movement started in Zurich, Switzerland. They rejected infant baptism, forbid violence, divorce and materialism as described in the Bible. They also considered Holy Communion as the "Bread of Idolatry".

Charles V issues an edict in Holland ordering all those that call themselves Egyptians (Gypsy) to leave the country within two days.

William Tyndale's The New Testament in English printed in Germany and shipped into England against official hostility


1526
Spanish attempt colonization of Cape Fear; it lasts only a
few months

Henry VIII (1509-1547) is married to Catherine of Aragon.

Pope Clement alias Cardinal Giulio de Medici is born a bastard some say with a cold and dry heart. He is unable to juggle the rival ambitions of the growing national powers of Europe. Some suggest he attempted to perpetuate the dying Medici line through his bastard sons Alessandro and Lorenzo from a Moorish slave. Catherine de Medici his niece is also being considered to enhance his position. He made a fundamental error when he created the Holy League of Cognac uniting the French and numerous Italian Princes against Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) of the Holy Roman Empire that included Spain and Italy.

As the Pope wages war against the Holy Roman Empire Turkey is quietly invading from the east up the Danube valley. Turkey defeated Hungary in the battle of Mohacs then turned toward Vienna. A plague visited Rome this year.

The slave trade has escalated to the point where Portuguese bribed officials to revolt and provide goods and guns to any chief who would supply slaves.

PREJUDICE: The first anti-Gypsy laws are passed in Holland and Portugal.

1527
Charles V (1500-1558), the Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556) sent an army of 20,000 mercenaries mostly Germans and Spaniards against Rome. The city is put to the most terrible sacking for revolting against the Holt Empire. Pope Clement VII (1523-1534) is made a prisoner for six months.

The Holy Roman Emperor and Henry VIII (1509-1547) of England had agreed to divide up France giving the Duke a significant share. . Rome declared itself a republic and proceeded to rid itself of all vestiges of the loathed Medici name. They again encouraged the French to invade Spanish Italy.

Niccolo Machiavelli died and his book 'The Prince' is published. Vice and evil became respectable providing it was done for political or religious purposes.

Hernando Cortes brought back to Spain tomatoes, avocados, papayas and Vanilla from New Spain. The tomato was not an early success story as its acid content reacted with pewter plates, leaching out the lead, causing lead poisoning, leading to death.

November 20: Wendelmoet Weyntjen Claesdochter, became the first known Dutch woman to be burned as a heretic.

1528
Panfilo de Narvaez invades Florida from Cuba, wars with
Indians

Copernicus finished a book arguing that the earth goes round the sun, not the sun round the earth. The first printed copy was in 1543.

Gypsy (Roma) are first recorded in Sweden on 29 September.

The great Genoese Admiral Andre Doria deserted the French bringing with him his republic and it great fleet into Spanish dependency. Spain again marched against Italy driving the French from their short-term gains.

Earth Changes: none recorded but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some




1760 - 1776 AD

Great people born or came to power during Pluto in Capricorn:

1759-1797 Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher
1712 -1778 Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau
1724-1804 Emmanuel Kant, philosopher


1762
Rousseau's The Social Contract and Emile. The controversial content of Emile made life in France uncomfortable for him. In 1766 and 1767 he lived in England as the guest of David Hume. He died in France in 1778. In 1794 the remains of Rousseau and Voltaire were moved to the Pantheon in Paris.

1763
John Jacob Astor born in Waldorf, Germany

1764
Beccaria's Essay on Crimes and Punishment

1768
Joseph Priestley's Essay on the First Principles of Government
"The good and happiness of the members, that is, the majority of the members of any state, is the great standard by which everything relating to that state must finally be determined".

1764
Mozart writes his first symphony, at age eight


1768
Birth of Tecumseh, near Dayton, Ohio

1769
Napoleon I (1769-1821) is born Corsica having been bought by King Louis XV (1715-1774) two years previously from Italy.

1770
George Friedrich Hegel born

The phrase sciences morales et politiques was introduced into France about 1770. It is a term representing what we might now call the social sciences. See 1795 (Porter and Ross 9.2003)

1774
Birth of John Chapman, to be known as Johnny Appleseed;
dies 1845


ART:

Neoclassicism: (1750 - 1830)

The term Neoclassicism refers to the classical revival in European art, architecture, and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This period gave rebirth to the art of ancient Rome and Greece and the Renaissance as an opposition to the ostentatious Baroque and Rococo art that preceded the movement.

History:

1759-1761 Cherokee War

1760
In England, Catholics and Jews are not allowed into Parliament and women are considered only children of larger growth. A man of sense only plays with them, he neither tells them about, nor trusts them, with serious matters. King George III (1760-1820) came to the throne. De Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) would write 'when I see Christians cursing Jews, I see children beating their fathers.'

FAMINE: Ten million East Indians parish as a result of the Great Bengal famine.

Invention of the Steam Engine. Steam came to power the machines that were developing fast (particularly in textile industries of England and Scotland), creating factories where people worked to the rhythm of the machine. Piston steam engines had been used to pump water since the end of the 17th century. In the 1760s, James Watt created more powerful engines by condensing the steam in a vessel separate from the cylinder. These made steam engines an alternative to water wheels, and moved industry from the side of highland streams to lowland coalfields.

Final subjugation of Canada by England

George III becomes King of England. Colonial population
1.6 million

Bakewell Begins Selective Livestock Breeding

Caribbean Slave Rebellions


1761
A formal proclamation from the British throne confirmed the principle that no governor of any colony shall presume to alienate Indian Lands or give them to settlers.

Writs of Assistance case tried in Boston

1762
Great sheep farms are introduced to the Highlands of Scotland creating much unemployment driving the people to towns or across the Atlantic. Immigration is also from the Lowlands at this time.

Benjamin Franklin redesigns the harmonica, makes it a
musical instrument

Spain acquires Louisiana from France

Mozart Tours Europe as a Child Prodigy

Production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice



1763
Pontiac begins siege of Detroit, now a British fort;
incites other wars

Paxton Boys' Massacres

John Jacob Astor born in Waldorf, Germany

French and Indian War ends with Treaty of Paris signed September
3

Treaty of Paris important because borders of United States
established

1763
Also in Treaty of Paris, England gains Canada and French
land east of MS

1763
Vigilantes known as Paxton Boys massacre peaceful Conestoga
village

Publication of Freeman's Journal (slavery)

Proclamation of 1763 (territorial expansion)

King George III (1760-1820) made peace with France without informing King Frederick II (1740-1786) of Prussia leaving them to fight France alone. The Treaty of Paris clearly established the principle that the French had no right to give away Indian property, by treaty or otherwise. A mandate from the crown of England made it clear that possession of Indian Lands is to be acquired by fair purchase and then by governments and not individuals.

1764

Voltaire Publishes Dictionnaire philosophique

France under King Louis XV (1715-1774) accused the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) with subversion and by decree all Jesuit foundations and schools in France are closed and its members exiled from the kingdom.

All vagabonds and vagrants are denied residence in France with renewed legislation. Adult men are sentenced to the galleys for three years. All others are confined to the poor house for three years, and are then given a choice of domicile and a trade. Repeated offences by men result in the galleys for nine years, and in several repeat offences, in perpetuity.

James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.

Saint Louis founded

Molasses Act modified to produce revenue, in concert with
Revenue Act

Revenue Act. Taxation without representation introduced in
Boston

Committee of Correspondence formed in Boston

Mozart writes his first symphony, at age eight

1765
Pope Clement XIII issued a bull reaffirming Roman support for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) applauding its achievements but it had no effect. The attack on the corrupt Jesuit Order only expanded.

Britain tries to raise funds with The Stamp Act; Bostonians
riot

Stamp Act Congress meets in Albany, NY; first inter-colony
Congress

Quartering Act requires housing British troops in private
homes

Non-importation agreements arranged in principal colonies


1766
Haller Publishes Elements of Human Physiology

Sweden forbids book censorship in defiance of the Roman Catholic Church.

First American Professional Theater Is Built in Philadelphia

Stamp Act repealed by England in response to Colonial
boycotts

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon draw the line at MD & PA
border

1766-1769: Bougainville Circumnavigates the Globe

Lorraine Becomes Part of France

1767
Catherine the Great's Instruction

Spain under King Charles II (1665-1700) expelled the Jesuit from all his realms, asking the Pope Clement XIII (1758-1769) to suppress the order entirely. Naples and Sicily also expelled the Jesuit seizing their property.

Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.

John Quincy Adams, 6th President, born July 11; dies 1848

Daniel Boone crosses Appalachians, keeps heading west

Townshend Duties pile it on higher and deeper, create
Customs Office

Spallanzani Refutues the Theory of Spontaneous Generation (science)


1768
Methodist Church Is Established

1768-1773: Bruce Explores Ethiopia

Ottoman Wars with Russia

Parma expelled the Jesuit Order from their territory this year. France occupied the papal enclaves of Avignon and Venaisson, Naples those of Benevento and Pontecorvo. The underlay problem is that the Pope and the Jesuit Order should keep to purely spiritual matters. Pope Clement XIII refused to back down on what he considered Catholic dogma of church over state and suffered a stroke and died. Some believed that God struck him down for his and the Jesuit arrogance.

Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.

SLAVERY: British Slaves did not expect to live long, and twenty per cent died on the voyage to the New World. Between 1712 and
1768 two hundred thousand slaves were sent to Barbados but during this period the population only increased by twenty six thousand.


Captain James Cook (1728-1779) is sent to the Pacific to verify the reported French discovery of many Islands. In the ship Endeavour of 105 feet with a breath of 29 feet began to re-charted New Zealand and Eastern Australia. Cook used the Dauphin map of 1536 showing Australia as being owned by the First Lord of the British Admiralty. Dr. Joseph Banks brought this map. Cook also had the Jean Rotz chart also showing Australia.

The Chinese from 1405 to 1433 made many trips to the Pacific Islands including New Zealand and Australia with 63 flag ships of 500 foot length and 200 foot width. The charted the whole region and some of these charts made their way to Europe.

Clement XIV alias Giovanni Vincenzo (1769-1774) a Franciscan is elected pope.

James Watt invents an improved steam engine.

Clement XIV (1769-1774) is elected pope.

Colonies circulate letter complaining of taxation;
Assemblies dissolved

New York Chamber of Commerce established

British troops begin occupation of Boston

1768-1771: Invention of the Water Frame

Birth of Tecumseh, near Dayton, OH



1769
Rise of the California Missions as Catholic priests try to convert Native Americans

James Watt invents an improved steam engine.

David Rittenhouse begins astronomy studies

Siamese-Vietnamese War

Clement XIV alias Giovanni Vincenzo (1769-1774) a Franciscan is elected pope.

Chief Pontiac murdered by another Indian, near St. Louis

1769-1770: Cugnot Builds a Steam-Powered Road Carriage

Pombal Reforms the Inquisition

Napoleon I (1769-1821) is born Corsica having been bought by King Louis XV (1715-1774) two years previously from Italy.


1770
Most of the worst laws against Irish Catholics had been removed but in Ulster the Protestants formed the first Orange Lodges, a society which were against any freedom for the Catholics. This movement would follow the migrating Irish into Canada causing much injustice to the Metis and other Native peoples.

It is believed that more than 500 tribes of Australian Aboriginals occupied the continent at this time.

Francisco de Ortega names discovery on west coast for his
patron saint

Ludwig van Beethoven born; dies in 1827

Boston Massacre. Five dead, six wounded on March 5

Townshend Acts repealed, except for that on tea

Publication of Holbach's Système de la nature

1770 George Friedrich Hegel born

The phrase sciences morales et politiques was introduced into France about 1770. It is a term representing what we might now call the social sciences. See 1795 (Porter and Ross 9.2003)


1771
Woulfe Discovers Picric Acid (science)

Battle of Alamance fought in North Carolina

EPIDEMIC: The Black Death or Bubonic Plague (Bacillus Yersinia Pestis) arrive Moscow, Russia killing 200,000 people. The people rioted against quarantine efforts causing the disease to spread.

1772

Lavoisier Devises the Modern System of Chemical Nomenclature (science)

Vietnamese Civil Wars

Poland is partitioned by Prussia, Russia and Austria and Pope Clement XIV (1769-1774) is powerless to prevent it due to the Jesuit issue. The pope abandoned the traditional support for the exiled Stuarts.

Lord Mansfield, the Lord Justice, reluctantly ruled on June 22, 1772 that there was no positive support for slavery in English law.

Captain James Cook (1728-1779) is sent to Antarctica to confirm its existence as recorded on ancient maps. It is assumed this knowledge is as a result of the Chinese expeditions of 1405-1433. Cook failed on this mission but could assume that if it existed it would be a frozen land.

Samuel Adams at Boston Town Hall Meeting publishes list of
rights

Customs schooner "Gaspee" burned off Namquit Point in Rhode
Island

John Sevier organizes independent republic of Watauga in
Tennessee


1773
Herschel Builds His Reflecting Telescope (science)

African American Baptist Church Is Founded

Pugachov's Revolt

The Bourbon states are preparing for a complete break with Rome over the Jesuit schism. Empress Maria Theresa (1740-1780) hitherto pro-Jesuit declared her neutrality on the issue.

December: Maria Theresa, Empress of Hungary, orders all Gypsy (Romani) children over five in the Palatinate of Pressburg and at Fahlendorf to be taken from their parents. They are transported to distant villages and assigned to peasants to bring them up for a stipend of 12-18 florins a year. Most of the children run away to rejoin their families, who take refuge in the mountains or disappear in the plains.

To save nearly bankrupt East India Company, Parliament
tries a Tea Act

Boston Tea Party. 342 chests of tea go into the drink

Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President, born Dec 5 in VA, moves to
OH; d. 1841

Perez at Nootka Sound, on Vancouver Island as we now know
it


1774
Louis XV reigned (1715-1774) as King of France yielding to his grandson Louis XVI (1774-1792) who is considered weak, irresolute and awkward.

Louis 16th king of France.

Lord Dunmore's War

Hansard Begins Reporting Parliamentary Debates

Medical inspection of London madhouses introduced

Joseph Priestley isolated oxygen - dephlogisticated air
from which everything except its life giving properties has been removed.

Pius VI alias Giovanni Angelo Braschi (1775-1799) is elected pope. The pro-Jesuit and anti-Jesuit parties both supported his election.

James Watt improved the steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen (1663–1729), using patents developed by Thomas Savery (1650?–1715), and John Calley (d. 1725), also known as John Cawley was in partnership with Newcomen in 1705 to build the first prototype. Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), owner of the Soho Engineering Works at Birmingham, and he and Watt began the manufacture of steam engines this year.

This year marked the last known death of an accused witch in Europe. It is estimated that 100,000 witches were executed in Germany from the thirteen century and 30,000 were executed in France just during the reign of Henry III in the late sixteen century.

Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.

January 11: Nine old women were burned as witches for causing bad harvests in Kalisk, Poland.

Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.

Intolerable Acts include the Coercive Acts

British close the port of Boston in retaliation for tea
party

Virginia Conventions begin. Lead to First Continental
Congress

First Continental Congress convenes, in Philadelphia, September
5

Declaration and Resolves of First Continental Congress Oct
14

The Quebec Act nullifies all colonial rights west of Ohio
River

Hansard Begins Reporting Parliamentary Debates

Birth of John Chapman, to be known as Johnny Appleseed;
dies 1845


1775
Reforms of Joseph II (religion and theology)

This year marked the last known death of an accused witch in Europe. It is estimated that 100,000 witches were executed in Germany from the thirteen century and 30,000 were executed in France just during the reign of Henry III in the late sixteen century.

January 11: Nine old women were burned as witches for causing bad harvests in Kalisk, Poland.

Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.

Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery Is Founded

First Maratha War

Spanish-Algerine War

Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.

Jacques Perrier invents a steamship

Of the 3,500 physicians in the colonies, only 400 are MD by
degree

Patrick Henry says "Give me liberty or give me death!"

Fights at Lexington and Concord follow "the 18th of April,
in '75"

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Battle of Breed's Hill mistakenly named after nearby Bunker
Hill

Postal system created. Benjamin Franklin is first Director

Second Continental Congress, again in Philadelphia

Washington accepts promotion to General & Commander In
Chief June 16

Declaration on Taking Up of Arms issued by Continental
Congress, July 6

Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, declares Martial Law
November 7

Virginians defeat British at Great Bridge; British bombard
Norfolk

Pius VI alias Giovanni Angelo Braschi (1775-1799) is elected pope.

EARTH CHANGES:
November 1: A tsunami with 20 foot waves struck Portugal, Spain and Morocco.



1776
Wilkes Treason Trial: Free Press vs. Personal Freedom

Indian Delegation Meets with Congress

Foundation of the Viceroyalty of La Plata

Publication of Paine's Common Sense

New Jersey Women Gain the Vote

Adam Smith Publishes The Wealth of Nations

Revolutionary War in United States and freedom from Britain
Declaration of Independence 1776. In this period, the Colonies united against the British Empire and entered a period of armed conflict known as the Revolutionary War or as the American War of Independence, between 1775 and 1783. This culminated in an American Declaration of Independence in 1776. Revolution went on from 1756 to 1776.

France Supports the American Revolution

General Court of Massachusetts fires Governor, requests he
leave

Common Sense written by Thomas Paine

Virginia Declaration of Rights on June 12; written by
George Mason

Virginia State Constitution adopted June 29, will be model
for all states

Declaration of Independence drafted by Tom Jefferson, with John Adams

Nathan Hale regrets having "but one life to lose",
September 22

Christmas present for Washington at Trenton: 918 German
prisoners

David Bushnell invents a submarine.

Earth Changes:

1775
November 1: A tsunami with (6 M) 20 foot waves struck Portugal, Spain and Morocco.



LOOKING BACK, LET’S LOOK FORWARD....


If we look at history, however sparse it may be back in the BC era, there are still glimmerings of what may come with Pluto moving through Capricorn.

PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE:
We have some ‘heavy hitters’ born in Greece: Socrates, the famous philosopher whose ideas and perspectives are still a part of our reality to this day especially in the areas of science. Euripedes, the famous writer whose words are still taught in universities today. And then there is Archimedes, the Greek mathematician and engineer. Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. He was the first to calculate the circumference of the Earth.

And if we look at people born in AD, here are just some of many. Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish astronomer and mathematician pronounced the sun the center of our solar system--not the earth. He literally rocked world view. The German Reformer, Martin Luther, rocked the Catholic world and literally created the Protestant world as he separated from the Catholic world view. The Machiavelli family of Italy had a lot of manipulation and control over their Renaissance world. After Nicholo Machiavelli died and his book,”The Prince” was published, it made greed and evil respectable so long as one did it for political and religious purposes. And isn’t that ongoing to this day?

There was a tremendous amount of influential thinkers from the 1760-1776 Pluto in Capricorn. Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Priestley, and Emmanuel Kant, to name but a few. All of these great thinkers continue to influence us.

The world needs an influx of new and unique thinkers and philosophers to try and help us make the quantum leap forward and hopefully, into our heart chakra. If we try to look into the future for this next round through Capricorn, very serious, deep thinkers may ponder life and death. Euthanasia. When should getting old be the end instead of keeping someone alive with a terrible quality of life? Medical and bio morality and values . Gene splicing. Cloning. How computers have affected our lives and will continue to in the future. The care and feeding of our spirit as the world goes ever faster. Global warming. A kinder, gentler way of working with Mother Earth and how humans can once more fit in instead of being the ‘virus’ that is killing her and everything else on it. Also, what do the rich of the Earth owe the poor of the earth? Religion is a war making machine. Perhaps philosophers to come will help us to transcend this terrible truth into a peaceful frame of reference and way of living.

INVENTIONS:

One would look for practical inventions because Capricorn is ultimately practical--not fanciful. And since Saturn is the planet that rules this sign, we would expect to see from the past, inventions that could be used daily. One of our most famous is Benjamin Franklin. David Bushnell invented the submarine. Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet (now, that’s a real Pluto invention!), Jacques Perrier invents a steamship. George Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph, James Watts brought us the steam engine. Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame. All those who love sodas should than Joseph Priestly for inventing carbonated water (soda water). Priestly also isolated oxygen from a science standpoint. James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny. John Harrison, an Englishman, invented the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.

In the coming era of Pluto in Capricorn, we should expect some mind boggling, useful inventions to appear. They will have to do with manufacturing, travel (space ships, faster planes, cars that work on hydrogen or some other green ‘gas’), space ships, a new source of clean energy, medical breakthroughs (genetics, cloning), computer revolutions used by millions (think of the Apple people gone wild here and we thought the Ipod and Iphone were something? Just wait! Apple is ultimately the most practical and visionary in computers today and will bloom under this Pluto in Capricorn era).


RELIGION:

As you can see through history, it has been about one upsmanship of one religion destroying or trying to destroy others. And then manipulating the materials so that gospels are rewritten or chosen to show a certain way that people are to believe--never mind it’s not the whole truth of what is written in other gospels. Patriarchal ways of living have thrived for the last three thousand years. Before that, it was a matriarchal existence. And fascinating to me that this destruction of the feminine bega in BC, was being repeated, in a new way, during the time of some of our great European philosophers such as Voltaire. It was during the 17th and 18th centuries that science was separate out from religion. This was a huge step considering the Church had a deathgrip on people from Roman times forward to that time. And so, I would see more reconstruction and transformation of religion and its place in our lives. Considering the Church has gone through horrible sex scandals, religion is no longer seen as having lily white hands they’d like us to believe. We are going to see rebellion in religions--all of them--on a large or small scale.

With the advent of Mohammed, Confucius, Jesus, and other males who are now considered the right gender to deliver us truths in what we are to believe, perhaps the turn will evolve to bring a few women up to the top who may help us perceive a different venue and way of believing. Or, at least applying what we’re supposed to be practicing daily. A woman religious writer or minister may show us a different way that does not mean war, or saying that another religion is wrong or not as good as the one you believe in. With males running the religious ship we can see historically it has brought only war. And now, in today’s scope, it has brought us terrorism with one of the older male religions bashing one another: Islamic terrorists hating Christians. We had the Crusades and now, we are having them again in a slightly different way and expression. And even if you don’t agree with that statement what we can agree on is that it springs from a religious source run by men.

Religious upheaval took place through Martin Luther who overthrew the Catholic yoke and started Protestantism. We may well have another upheaval in the Catholic church. How about priests can marry and have a family? Women become priests? The Catholic church comes clean and admits that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’ wife? The veneration of women rises within the Catholic church instead of being seen as the root of all evil? We already see fractures in the Church of England when it comes to homosexuals; those who can tolerate such a way of being vs. those who cannot and the splintering of the church as a result. More of this will occur in many other religions.

And even more provocative: What if a woman rises to power and starts a NEW female religion with a female goddess that rivals “god” of the organized religions we have today? What if more women are dissatisfied with male-run, male-dominated religions and decide to create (actually recreate) one for themselves?

DICTATORS, KINGS and POWER BROKERS

Looking back in history, we saw the Mongolian Empire rise and become the ruling lord of the far east, Europe and all lands in between. The great Kubli Khan became master of the then, known world. Rome, who had a long period of power, buckled and dissolved. The Mongols then took over. There was petty fighting between petty kings in Europe and Britain going on in the last orbit. One thing for certain, we saw the rise and fall of many countries and their kings or dictators during this time frame. Napoleon is a good example of a Plutocrat. We’ll see one of his kind--perhaps more than one--in this next orbit through Capricorn.

Will we see a great movement once again the Far East? Yes. With China dominating the world stage? I believe China will become a major powerhouse with Pluto in Capricorn. Will Venezuela and other South American countries get together to control oil? Yes. What dictators of countries will fall? Rise? Rebellions are part of the nature of Pluto and in Capricorn they take shape and manifest. For sure, rebellions will take their place. The world seems to have an endless supply of power mongers and dictators. I’m sure we will see some very heavy handed ones during this transit. Iron will may well be invoked and it will be up to citizens to rise against such suppression. You need look no further back in history than the last pass of Pluto in Capricorn with the advent and creation of our nation through rebellion (Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Declaration of Independence, ect.)

And what countries are going to fight for freedom and democracy? Our country did in the last revolution of Pluto in Capricorn--and we won our freedom. Which ones will surge to the forefront to once again be the rebels with a cause? The cause of freedom.

INSTITUTIONS:

Any institution in our country, or indeed, around the world, is going to undergo scruitiny and transformation. Authority and those in control had best be erring on the side of positive and not selfishness or greed. For example, the USA health care system will be changed remarkably during this transit. Any organization, govenrment or otherwise, will be put under the microscope and if they are found wanting,will be changed. Old institutional or patriarchial thinking is out the door, finally. Women are going to rise up and begin to look at society, the needs of the elderly and needs of the very young, the poor and uneducated in a new and more positive, uplifting way.

A good example of this today is Heifer.org foundation. They are a organization who teaches the fundamental practicalities (here’s common sense in action). If you donate as little as ten dollars, it can buy a adozen chicks. Those chicks are then given to someone in a village. That person is taught how to take care of those chicks, feed them, raise them, breed them and then, use the eggs and meat for food as well as selling to others to make some moeny. Heifer.org is a wonderful website where you can see common sense in action--a show and tell--to help those less fortunate get back on their feet with humanity and dignity. This is truly a Pluto in Capricorn organization way ahead of its time and I predict that any organization like Heifer who emulates their success, will soar and grow during this coming transit.

FOOD:

I believe we are going to see a massive resurgence of everyone growing their own gardens or having farmer co-ops. People are tired of being poisoned by the food they eat. Just as there were “victory gardens” where the USA urged all inhabitants to have their own gardens because of food shortages due to world war 2, we will again have gardens. Green gardens. Green is good. And with the right leaders who are progressive we are going to see a return to organic. Even if you live in an apartment you can grow a tomato in a pot, your herbs in small pots on your window sill. People like Al Gore are going to lead the way. Isn’t it amazing that he won the popular vote in the USA running for president? He stood aside and didn’t fight George Bush. Instead, he went on to create an incredible vision that each of us can take to heart with Saturn and Capricorn there to guide us in the practicality of such ideas: a garden in your back yard. Growing your own herbs. Supporting your farmers in your area and eating produce grown by them.
I also believe that our diet is going to change more toward seasonal varieties of food. We won’t be buying as much ‘out of season food’ and that may well be good for us because our 100,000 years on this earth, our guts got used to foods being available only at certain times of the year.

And, new paradigms will be imagined and put into common sense practicality and use during this transit as well. Food programs will be reimagined for those who are starving. Why not bring them oxen and plows? Show them how to manage water and create fields of food for themselves? Such ideas are going to be put into action shortly. So many of those who starve do not need too. They only need the education,t he tools, the people and a little money to make it all come together. One man in India has already shown this to be true: he would loan a person three hundred dollars to help them get their business off the ground--and it did. He has hundreds of cases where his simple three hundred dollar loan has changed a family’s life, put food on their table and made them a working, dignified human being supporting the economy and society. That is Saturn in Capricorn in action. We will see more of this.

HEALTH:

Health insurance companies and medical moguls will be running for cover shortly--a just karma for all of them. You are going to see huge restructuring of health in the USA and indeed, across this globe. Alternative medicines are going to rise and be considered a necessary and viable part of traditional medicine. Hospitals and medicare and all of the health organizations and institutions are going to undergo a cathartic change--and a badly needed one.

How we look at our elderly, how we look at nursing homes that truly only house the old to let them die from benign neglect, how we see old age and treat those who are the end of their life path, are all going to be looked at and changed. Whether it is fixed or not is going to rest in part on the Pluto in Leo generation, the Baby boomers, to get this broken institutiona of health in our country fixed and turned around.





HISTORICAL SUMMATION AND A FORECAST FOR THE FUTURE:

It is obvious that Saturn, the practical planet and ruler of Capricorn is going to bring common sense (horse sense) which is in dreadfully low supply, back into being. I used to think common sense was something everyone had; but I was wrong. We are going to go back to things that are at once useful, utilitarian, practical and will last a lot longer, than before, thank goodness. Common sense will rule the day. If it looks pretty but is useless, it’s not going to be bought. A beautiful example of this is Iphone. It is a gorgeous product, no doubt--however, the practicality of it--the EASY use of it, is sounding a tidal wave of what is to come to the world as Pluto enters Capricorn.

The built-in obsolescence of vehicles and so many other manufactured goods are going to be out. It used to be that toasters, can openers and other utilitarian, everyday items, used to last for twenty or more years. Now, we’re lucky if they last three months--such is the greed of the manufacture to have us buy another one because they know we can’t do with out it.

Greed in the corporate business world will have choices to make. They can stick to the “greed is good” standard or they can move beyond this and look what corporations can do to help lift the rest of the world. It could be that rich corporate owners (look at Bill Gates) part with their billions to do something positive for the planet (never mind that he screwed us with the PC software that will be the dinosaur as Apple and their software take over the world via the Ipod and Iphone...).

When one thinks of Capricorn, one thinks of the curmudgeonly corporate being. But the high side of Capricorn is the enlightened owner who understands and manages his or her people with skilled hands and vision. We should see a lot more of these leader emerge now. Also, many manufacturer who is a diehard and wants to stick to ‘business as usual’ is going to find their business and world upended. Pluto comes along to show these people that their attitudes or selfish, greedy practices aren’t acceptable any longer.

You are going to see the building of highways, bridges and many other structures with a Capricorn energy around. The highways of the USA are in dire need of refurbishing. So are the majority of bridges. Look for common sensed changes and improvements/upgrades in the super structure of society and their needs.

Practicality, when focused, is a breath of fresh air. Look at the Toyota Prius hybrid or the Honda hybrid. You are going to see car makers around the world shift gears (pardon the pun) and move into energy efficient vehicles that uses common sensed things such as hydrogen, palm oil, or other yet undiscovered ‘green’ fuel for our cars.

And changes in the FAA airport and airlines is going to begin. Our antiquated flight systems will be restructured. One hopes the government sits on the airline companies and get them to stop having so many canceled flights or late flights. Sitting six hours on a runway is so ridiculous I can’t even put it into words. Fixes for these situation aren’t going to be long in coming.

Look for inventions that help make the human footprint on Mom Earth lighter and even positive. Turning salt water into drinking water is one of them. Using wind and solar power are going to be amped up so that many of us will be utilizing this renewable energy sooner rather than later.

Pluto is a planet of transformation and deep change. Anyone who thinks they are going to stick to their rut and not change is in for a rude surprise. Innovation and cutting edge practical ideas are going to lead the way. And people are more than ready for them. And to the point of voting in a WOMAN for PRESIDENT. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Scorpio and with Pluto in Capricorn sextiling her sun sign, this is not going to hurt her run for the White House. The rise of women in power is going to continue and she’s going to be at the forefront of it. You are going to see the subjugated rise. And the female gender has been all of that. Women are empowered and will now be in seats of power, large and small, around the world.

PLUTO KEYWORDS

To get an idea of how Pluto can influence us on a mundane as well as global arena, here are some keywords and concepts to help you understand his focus in our lives.


alone, likes being (is not lonely)
atom bomb/nuclear threat/nuclear war
Big Brother/
biological warfare (anthrax, VX gas, etc.)
builders of empires/corporations/business/corporate raiders/corporate take over on a global scale
clairvoyance
construction workers
cell dysfunction
cell multiplication out of control (tumors)
cell breakthroughs (stems cells from skin cells as an example)
chemical warfare
control issues
controlling
death (dying of some part of ourselves on some level: spirit, mental,emotional)
death/euthanasia issues coming to a head/letting people die when they choose to die
destructive
destruction
detectives
dictator
doctors
fascism
fanatics
genetic abnormalities
genetic flaws (leading to chronic disease)
healers
hidden
Hypersentience (alternative medicine technique)
"I renew"
intensity (able to focus on one thing)
insight
intuitive
introspective
introversion
invisible
layers, peeling them off
magic
magicians
manipulating
metaphysicians
military
mountains, can move them, figuratively speaking
NDE--near death experience(s)
nuclear
passive/aggressive behavior
penetrate, ability to
perceptive
police
psychic
psychologists
psychotherapy
rebirth
rebirthing (alternative medicine technique)
renewal
secrets
see/perceive, look through something to its core being (insight/perception)
sex
sexuality
sexual dysfunction
shamanism
shock
shy
Snake skin (shed yearly--person does a similar thing)
soul recovery and extraction (shamanic technique)
subconscious
subterranean
therapy
terrorists
terrorism
transformer
transforming
tumors (benign or malignant)
trauma
world-changer
zealots


For those of you who have a smattering of astrology knowledge, it might be helpful to see where Pluto is going to be in Capricorn in your natal chart. There are many websites that offer free birth charts. Once you get one, just find the house with the sign Capricorn on it and look at the degree. Remember, Pluto will be a 0 degrees of Capricorn, and that is where you will want to place it in your chart. Look at the house number. Then, look below to find out how Pluto is going to work with you through 2024.








PLUTO THROUGH THE HOUSES




Where is Pluto in Capricorn at in your natal chart? There are twelve houses in each person's chart. And each house symbolizes something in particular. Where transiting Pluto is at, currently, in your chart, is where and how your heart level Initiation will take place. At the bottom of this article, if you do not know your chart, you can employ one of our excellent astrologers to answer those questions for you!

There are twelve houses in our natal chart. Your transiting Pluto is in one of them. If you know which one, look below at the keywords for that house and this is where you need to make plans, change, transform and grow.
If we don't change it on our own--Pluto will change it for us.




HOUSE SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS

ASCENDANT (rising sign or 1st house cusp)

coat, like a--the public persona we wear for others--the facade we want others to see first--not necessarily our ‘real’ self
mask that we put on when outside our home
one's appearance
one's bearing and demeanor
one's behavior in public
how one approaches life
natural disposition shown to public
our physical body
persona, the 'false self'
public persona
the way People see you (the mask, the costume)
those in your life--work, the public
the way YOU Would like to be seen by others, the public

FIRST HOUSE (also known as the Ascendant, but these are other rulership keywords for this house)

abnormalities, one's physical
appearance, personal
appearance, physical
appearance, how one cares for his
approach to life, one's
beginning of all enterprises
one's birth
one's character
your desires
disposition
environment--immediate (school, office, public buildings)
habits
how one is seen by others (at work, on the street, etc.)
I am
impression one makes on others
individuality
personality
physical body
projected image (the mask and costume we wear outside our home)
self-opinion
way one expresses himself
way one wants others to see him


SECOND HOUSE

banks
banker
budgets
cash
checks
debts, personal
earning capacity
freedom
finances
gifts bestowed or received
income
inheritance
I Possess
integrity, one's
investments
material resources or possessions
money
morals, our
negotiable assets
partner's death
Personal values
Physical senses
self-worth
stockbroker, talent
Throat
thyroid
neck
base of skull
value, what we
voice
vocal chords
wealth

THIRD HOUSE

arms
wrists
fingers
fingernails
brothers
sisters
communication
commuting
concrete thought - the conscious mind
contracts
agreements
correspondence
intellect
intelligence
journalists
journalism
journals
lungs
breathing
asthma
meetings
conferences
message
telegrams
neighbors
nervousness
central nervous system
post office
mail
postmen
receptivity to ideas from others
restlessness
secretaries
short speeches
shoulders
studies
students
studying
teachers
teaching
tests, written and oral
trade
local transportation
all kinds writing
writers


FOURTH HOUSE

agriculture
cause of losses in speculation
cities and buildings
cousins
domestic environment
end of life
estates
father or mother-in-law
family
farming
gain from writing or contracts
gardening
one's grave or place of rest
home or residence
hotels
motels
land
later life conditions
leases
parent
personal activities
one's private life
property and possessions
immovable
ranches
ranchers
security and fortifications
stomach
traditions, family




FIFTH HOUSE

amusement
back
heart
circulation
Children
birth
adopted
concerts
Courtship
creative self-expression
drama
dramatists
games
group (like: bowling league, membership in a club, community of like-minded people)
hobbies
holidays
Income from real estate
love affairs'
love
one's lover
Places of entertainment
Pleasure
Public schools
show business
social affairs and functions
speculation
gambling
teachers
teaching
after
actions



SIXTH HOUSE

animals
pets, small or domestic (large animals are 12th house related)
army
nannies
assimilation of food
cafes
civil service
closets
clothing, in general
coworkers
daily work or routine
doctors
nurses
dress, one's manner of
employment
employees
health
hygiene
labor
laboring classes
libraries
nutrition
pantries
relations with coworkers
servants
service
subordinates, one's
tenants
work
work environment

SEVENTH HOUSE

agreements
contracts (verbal or written)
commitments, meaningful
competition
controversies
cooperation or the lack- of it
courts, the
divorce
fugitives
grandparents
lawsuits
love
lovers
lower half of the back (sacral/tailbone region)
buttocks
kidneys
ovaries
veins
marriage
nephews
nieces
opponents, known
outcome of all contentions
partnerships
marriage
business
peace
public, the
relationships
one-on-one
rivals
rivalry
runaways
social affairs
social functions
strife
enmities
pleas
war

EIGHTH HOUSE

alimony
astral experiences
bankruptcy
corporate families
death
debts
dowries
drastic changes
genitals
rectum
hemorrhoids, the
bladder
inheritances
insurance
matters relating to death
occult matters
outcome of lawsuits
partner's income
recycling
regeneration
reincarnation
resources, other people's
sex
suicides
support from others
surgery
taxes
wills

NINTH HOUSE

advertising
airline hostesses
attorneys, lawyers
ceremonies
churches
church affairs
ministers
courts of law
dreams
foreigners
anything that is foreign
foreign politics
freedom
grandchildren
higher education
universities
hips
upper legs
sciatic nerve
ideals
in-laws
journeys
literature
litigation
meditation
metaphysics
places at a distance
publishing
religion
philosophy
science, in general
travel agents
truth




TENTH HOUSE (Midheaven/10th house cusp)

achievement
advancement
ambitious persons
authority figures
bones
joints of the body
knees
skin
business
career or profession
dishonor
employers
esteem
fame
famous people
government
illness of one's children
leaders
leadership
matters outside the home
ones moral qualities
one's position in the world
parent, a
politics
politicians
prestige
honors
popularity
pride
promotions
reputation
responsibilities/duty
social status



ELEVENTH HOUSE

knees
calves of the legs
circulation in general
business income
civic organizations
congress
House of Representatives
colleagues
companies
contacts
counselors
death of parents (also 5th)
expectations
finances of one's employer
friends
acquaintances/colleagues
groups
hopes, wishes, goals
legacies
memberships
money from one's profession
one's fourth child
one's ideas of happiness
organizations
projects
ambitions
sons
daughters-in-law
sororities
fraternities
stepchildren


TWELFTH HOUSE

animals, large
aunts
uncles
confinement (may or may not be voluntary)
feet
help from behind the scenes
hospitals
places of confinement (prison, mental ward, hospital)
institutions
meditation
occupations of siblings
private investigators
rest homes
retirement
sanctuaries
sea
seamen
seclusion
loneliness
self-analysis
self-undoing
solitude
places of solitude
sorrows
secret sorrows
study
subconscious, our
thieves
welfare
secrets
secret enemies







PLUTO AND HOW IT ASPECTS YOUR CHART by Grace Verte

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Pluto is the planet that adds depth, strength or power, intensity or
obsession, will and insight to any planet which it contacts. Pluto is the
planet of transformation. Transformation means change, which is a death of
something so that a rebirth can take place. It is never easy, but we can
learn to direct and guide our inner energies to the highest good for our
own growth and for all those around us.

We can use our Plutonian energies to find lost objects, hidden memories,
and deeply buried secrets. We can also learn to work with anything
underground, such as oil, ducts,
subways, and sewers. Nothing is sacred or too disturbing for Plutonian
energies to tackle.

If we consider our presence here on Earth as an opportunity for soul
growth, then Pluto's energies are best used by swimming with the current.
Wherever Pluto makes an aspect to your chart, that area is intensified. If
we allow it, and go with the flow, deep transformation can take place
there. We can learn to transform demanding attitudes in ourselves. That
is the first law of astrology: to transform self, not others.

Hard aspects with which I will deal here are the conjunction, when the
planets are within 8 degrees of each other; the square, when the planets
are at a 90 degree angle to each other; the inconjunct, also called a
quincunx, when the planets are 150 degrees apart; and the opposition, when
the planets are 180 apart.

The planets represent the energies that are operating in our lives. The
personal planets which I will juxtapose to Pluto here are the Sun, the
Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

CONJUNCTIONS

When Pluto conjuncts our Sun your will is intensified and you have strong
leadership qualities. Our work will be to learn not to impose our will on
that of others. To be open about our motives and our goals, despite the
secrecy under which Pluto likes to operate. Other people are not fooled,
only our leadership would suffer

If Pluto conjuncts our Moon it adds power to our emotions. At times,
especially when we are young, this can lead to intense feelings, of going
overboard with emotional reactions, and therefore being out of control.

If there is anything Pluto hates, it is feeling out of control. Pluto asks
us to deal with our control issues in this area of emotions. Emotions are
often held too much in check, and we must learn that we can express
ourselves calmly and warmly. This position also often translates into
being very hard workers in order to overcome being overcome by emotions.

The Moon also rules motherhood, nurturing, and dependencies which may never
have been satisfactorily resolved during childhood. Since we didn't know
what to do with these feelings then, we have an opportunity as adults to
allow them up to awareness, in order to deal with them now.


When Pluto conjuncts our Mercury the focus is on communication. We may
come on too strong, and expect others to abide by our
opinions. With this placement we can contact the deep parts of our Self,
solve mysteries, and allow into our consciousness what others may commonly
sweep or keep under the rug. It is also possible to have strong
disagreements and even breakups with our siblings. Thinking in circles or
obsessing about a subject or a person is not uncommon. This ability to
think deeply about things can be used positively by delving into the
esoteric mysteries of life.


When Pluto conjuncts your Venus the intensity is focused on our creativity
and our relationships. In the areas of values we need to transform our
feelings of self-worth, of possessions and possessiveness into a more
relaxed and self-accepting attitude. The power of Pluto is often exercised
in love relationships, so that we have the opportunity and the power to
resolve them into sharing and tolerance.


When Pluto conjuncts our Mars our power seems doubled. We may be faced
with issues of self-assertiveness vs.. aggression and deeply buried anger.
The sheer force of our will can then cause us to become ruthless because we
can so easily overlook everyone in our drive to achieving our ambitions and
goals in our life.

But our anger and aggressive feelings can be directed into responsible
leadership qualities, our fears can be turned into courage and risk taking
when needed.

SQUARES

Pluto squaring the Sun signals internal conflict to bring about change in
the way we express areas that serve our sense of who we are. The Sun rules
the will, the spirit and our individuality. Here the transformation is to
allow our true self to come to the surface in order to release any negative
attitudes, and to transform inner stress associated with the square to the
Sun.

When Pluto squares the Moon we are faced with emotional turmoil beneath the
surface, usually held in check by Plutonian will and power. When they
erupt, it is like a volcanic force erupting. Here we need to learn to
trust ourselves to govern our emotions. We also need to learn to trust
others, especially in relationships.
We also have an uncanny ability to tune in to mass consciousness with this
placement, as the Moon also rules the public when it is ruled by emotions,
not reason.

With Pluto squaring Mercury, it challenges our mind to learn to keep an
open mind where the opinions of others are concerned - we might even
enlarge our own "knowledge" base. The difficulty to be overcome here is to
learn to trust our own knowledge, and that of others as well.

Pluto squaring Venus indicates that we are to learn to transform our
values, be they material, mental, emotional or spiritual. Holding on to
our old ways is out and the path to transforming our sense of self-worth,
ideas (ours and theirs), possessions and friends, is through relationships.
It is often through a crisis of resentments and jealousies that will come
up from our inner turmoil that we get the opportunity for it to be resolved.

Pluto squaring Mars asks us to deal with problems around
self-assertiveness, anger, and to learn to control our energies. Others'
energies are usually not a match for our unceasing, goal-oriented energies,
and we need to be less demanding of others in our attitudes toward them.
To keep all these activities from depleting us, we need to be aware that we
need periodic rests.


INCONJUNCTS
(QUINCUNX)

Pluto inconjunct (qux = symbol in next paragraphs) the Sun. The sun is the
source of our vitality. Pluto here causes a disruptive need for ego
gratification and/or recognition at all costs. When we bring Plutonian
energies to the surface, as in becoming aware of them, we thereby defuse
their power and intensity. We can then allow them to play their supportive
role in our life.

Pluto qux the Moon describes our habit patterns. Pluto's best use in this
aspect is to learn discernment where our feelings are concerned. While it
is necessary to bring our very intense feelings up to our awareness, we
then need to find a satisfactory and safe outlet for them. A
transformation of our habitual responses to our feelings may be the answer.

With Pluto qux Mercury our thinking abilities are deep, but if used to
confuse people with words, and to keep them in awe of our ability to use
uncommon words, we are missing our potential. This is a good placement
for writing mysteries and for doing research.

When Pluto is qux Venus it often skews our ability to appraise values
correctly. We may have a mistaken view of people, such as hidden enemies
who pose as friends, or of our own self-worth. We need to learn to let go
of possessiveness and jealousy over people and material things.

Pluto qux Mars asks us to learn to adjust our wills so as to allow others
their way too, and to use our courage in bringing about inner change in
ourselves.

OPPOSITIONS

When Pluto opposes our Sun it can goad us into opening up to new visions of
ourselves. What we need to transform is our ego, our will, and our
stubbornness. Love heals all and Pluto gives us the strength to make these
changes. With loving hearts and Plutonian power together we can love
ourselves back into our original unity.

With Pluto in opposition to our Moon deep feelings of possessiveness or
jealousy will surface, and we are susceptible to great emotional mood
swings. Our emotions are deep and difficult to control with this position.
Here we can learn to allow ourselves the freedom to feel what we feel, and
to allow others the same freedom.


With Pluto opposing Mercury we can be very intolerant to others' ideas and
beliefs. It can bring about a crisis of faith for us. We may project our
anger by speaking about things better left unsaid. Or we may intimidate
people into avoiding any discussions with us.

We need to learn to rein in the deep and passionate power behind our words,
and to tolerate dissension.


When Pluto is in opposition to our Venus we need to learn to temper our
possessiveness and jealousy, and to check our need to control others, as we
also need to learn to not allow anyone to control us. Here we are faced
with a transformation of values, physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual.

The Pluto Mars opposition gives us the opportunity to learn to interact
with others in a harmonious way. With this placement we are very ambitious
and intense and goal oriented. This doubled energy of Mars and Pluto can
easily turn into stubbornness if we don't consciously make the effort to
listen to or to try out ideas of others.

In all the above ways, Pluto assists us in our self-healing process by
reaching issues that are deeply buried. Only by bringing them up to our
awareness and embracing our shadow, hard as that may be, can we be healed.
Face it, Embrace it, and Erase it.

Love and Light,
Grace

graceverte@comline.com




TIPS ON HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE WITH PLUTO MOVING INTO CAPRICORN

Some people,especially Capricorn and Cancer people, are going to feel the powerful effects of Pluto through their signs. If you want help, take a read below. These are wonderful people who have years of experience, insight and heart who can give you information so that you can float through this time better instead of worse.

Others who have their sun in Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius are going to have their stresses and changes with Pluto in Capricorn. This is because it is in hard or stress aspect with your Sun at some point. When? That can be determined by a professional astrologer and will require you to hire one to get your chart created and read by them.

Those who have their sun sign in Taurus, Virgo, Scorpio and Pisces will find this a highly useful transit that will aid and support you in your goals and needs. Utilize a professional astrologer to tell you how to best take advantage of this time to maximize the possibilities for yourself.


ASTROLOGICAL COUNSELORS

You can engaged the services of the medicinegarden.com’s professional astrologer and find out. Our own Rosemarie Brown is a natal counselor. Just contact her at: starrose@sedona.net. Her website is: http://www.rosemariebrown.com. Grace Verte at:
Email: graceverte@comline.com

If you are wanting to move and aren’t sure where or you have a place in mind, but aren’t sure if it’s “right” for you, they have locale information available. If health is your consideration, both are trained medical astrologers. Or, Gail Carswell at rockdoc@mindspring.com. Or, Michael Foltz at solardoc@mindspring.com.

I'm sure one of these three professionals will be able to shed considerable light in what is going on in your life and the many choices you have available to you to institute and use. Better yet, visit their website: http://www.owlswebnest.com, for more information on all the services they provide.

UN-CONFUSE YOURSELF DURING THIS TIME

NEED A “Coach”, some serious therapy that gets to the “heart” of your angst or what you’re wrestling with? We recommend Rosemarie Brown. Please contact her at: http://www.rosemariebrown.com or by email at: Rosemarie Brown

NUMEROLOGY HAS YOUR NUMBER!

Karen David, world class numerologist and author on said topics, can help reveal the best way to take advantage of Pluto in Capricorn. And if you are being stressed out by this sign change, she can help you navigate those waters as well--safely and with emphasis on common sensed solutions to make your life kinder and gentler. See Karen at KDMystic@aol.com and visit her website at: http://www.karendavid.com.

VOICE ANALYSIS--THE MISSING NOTE

I’ve had my voice analyzed by Ani Williams and I can tell you from personal experience that we all have a “missing note” in our life. So what? Well, consider this. Without this missing note back in our life, we aren’t working off of 8 cylinders. We’re working on 6--or less! Please go to Ani’s website for more information. This is a life-changing “tool” that you should include in your personal Pluto transformation kit. http:// www.aniwilliams.com or contact her via email at: songaia@earthlink.net

SPIRITUAL UPKEEP RENOVATION: NEED A SHAMAN?

Gail Carswell, Michael Foltz, Grace Verte (graceverte@comline.com), Karen David (KDMystic@aol.com) and Rosemarie Brown are all trained shamanic facilitators who can help you through your spiritual transformation. For more information on Soul Recovery and Extraction, go to: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/SREchapter.html and then contact one of them for further help!

FOR CARE OF BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT: HOMEOPATHY

Our favorite classically trained homeopath is Yolande Grill of Cave Creek, Arizona. She does long-distance case taking by phone and I consider her one of the best we’ve got in the USA. So, don’t delay! She is also a shamanic facilitator, as well. Get a hold of Yolande at: y.grill@att.net