Earth Day: Heliocentric View

Earlier today I opened a mail from a fellow astrologer and contributor to this blog Ton Brakenhoff. Ton wanted to publish a piece about the “Day of the Earth“. To be honest I have heard of “Animal Welfare Day”, “Women’s Day” “Father’s Day”… and numerous other sorts of day.. but “Earth Day” that was something new to me. Anyway… Ton analysed the horoscope for the first Earth Day on 22 april 1970. But I find the idea so fascinating I have been thinking about it ever since. Eventually I came to the conclusion that if we really want to find out something objective about our Earth – we should look at the heliocentric chart (the Earth viewed from the position of the Sun) as opposed to the common earth based “geocentric” chart. The Earth itself always stands in opposition to the Sun, so where the Sun is in your birth chart, exactly oppositie that, is the earth. The Earth in the heliocentric chart is closely conjunct with Jupiter in the fixed water sign Scorpio, both planets are unaspected. Interesting to see that when Al Gore brought his film out – Pluto in Sagittarius was turning the Venus/Mars Gemini square to Mercury/Pluto in Virgo into a t-square. The heat was suddenly turned up a notch or two.

Destruction of the earth by water – a giant wave – or by an overdosis of poison/toxic materials is a possibilty with the earth bound to Jupiter in Scorpio. Ton cited Charubel in his article. Quoting him for 2 degrees Taurus. Interesting to see what the Sabian Symbol say for the Earth here at two Scorpio:” A broken bottle, and spilled perfume” Oh gosh…. Let’s hope there will be more left of our earth than that..