Mars/Poseidon
The
active principle of Mars: religious or political activity; association with others
who are active in religion or politics.
Involved
with ideological/ethical organization and activity
Outspoken
about views; stand up for religious or political opinions.
• Religious
conversion (also Uranus/Poseidon and Pluto/Poseidon)
Martial effect:
•
Social,
religious, political views or activities are oppositional or defensive.
•
Disruption, aggression, war for the sake of
belief
•
Assault by religious or political figure.
Several religious
antagonists of historical significance had natal Mars/Poseidon aspects.
Before he was a leader
in the Transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a minister who left
the church after he became embroiled in controversy over his refusal to
administer important rituals, writing the essay, “A young minister refuses to
perform crucial duty”. He outraged the
Protestant community with a speech which “discounted biblical miracles and
proclaimed that, while Jesus was a great man, he was not God: historical
Christianity.” He was denounced as a
poisoner of young men's minds”.1 His SR contained Mars=Poseidon=Aries. Natal Mars//Poseidon
John Brown,
an evangelical minister, was the leading proponent of violence in the American
abolitionist movement, saying “repeatedly he
was following Christian ethics”.2 With N. Mercury=Mars/Poseidon
4’ orb, some important events highlight the Mercury component:
When he met a military
tactician with whom he wrote a tactical handbook, Brown had Mars/Poseidon and
Mercury coming to Aries and the Sun. (His
time of birth DD rated, so I did not emphasize the Asd. or MC,) His Harper’s Ferry raid went wrong when a
train passed through, resulting in casualties inflicted by Brown’s men, who
“inexplicably” allowed the train to pass…into the next town where they notified
officials.
Immanuel Kant was forbidden by law to speak in
public on the topic of religion. 3 The date of the decree in 1794 is not chronicled
but T. Poseidon was within one degree of a conjunction to his natal Mars that
year. N. Mars//Poseidon
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “unorthodox religious beliefs led him to
be called ‘the great heathen’” resulting in opposition
to the creation of a Goethe monument “on account of his
offensive religious creed”. 4
His Mars/Poseidon aspect was part of a
larger picture with Uranus and the Moon.
P. Poseidon stationed within 1’ of the
Mars/Poseidon midpoint for over 20 years, spanning the time when his
university “dissertation
which questioned the status of the Ten Commandments, proved too scandalous to
be accepted” 5
and he wrote Faust.
about a man’s deal to sell his soul to the devil.
Martin
Luther was a convert who started a religion.
He was excommunicated as a heretic, with Mars/Poseidon SA Sun 2’ orb
September 15, 1520
Luther
“Encouraged priests to marry when that was forbidden by the Church and
advocated divorce according to biblical principles” 6. This is symbolized by MC/Venus/Saturn=Mars/Poseidon.
He
was also a highly influential antisemite.
When his natal
Mars/Poseidon was exact by progression, he published a book calling Jews “the
devil’s people” and advocated setting synagogues on fire, forbidding rabbis to
preach and expelling them “for all time”. 6 “We are at fault in
not slaying them…God's anger with them is so intense." 6
Adolf
Hiter studied Luther. Hitler had a wide
semi-octile of Mars/Poseidon, but even more descriptive was a tight midpoint
picture of Hades=Mars/Poseidon, which the RPP delineates as “Morally base
acts. Lack of ethics”.
Mars/Poseidon
was one symbolic component marking acts
of his thuggery-driven by ideals, as was
Hades. Here’s an example: On September 14, 1921, Hitler disrupted
a meeting where an opponent spoke. He
was beaten and shoved off the stage. Hitler
was arrested but pronounced the incident a success. “It's all right. We got what we wanted. He’
didn’t speak" 7 Mars/Poseidon SA Sun and T. Mars=N. Hades. The opponent (Mars/Saturn=Hades=Poseidon) was
murdered when Hitler came to power.
A pivotal moment in Hitler’s combative ascent was an
attempted coup d'état known as the Beer Hall Putsch, when 20 Nazi’s and
police officers died. Mars and Poseidon
were SA to each other and T. Mars was with Hades, triggering the Mars/Poseidon
midpoint. (November 8, 1923)
Another turning point “pivotal
in the establishment of Nazi Germany” 7 was the politically stoked Reichstag fire. Hitler blamed the Communists and now had a convenient
excuse to exhort President Hindenburg to pass a decree suspending civil
liberties and detention without trial, enabling Hitler to detain his opponent and
win the election just weeks later. Mars/Poseidon SA MC
The founder of the
Jewish Self-Defense Organization, advocated arming Jews against the imminent
danger he foresaw. In 1935 he said: "Catastrophe
is approaching. ...I see a terrible picture ... the volcano that will soon spew
out its flames of extermination," 8 He
was Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Sun and Hades =Mars/Poseidon (<34 no TOB);
Sun//Mars//Poseidon). Note both Hitler
and Jabotinsky (and Osama Bin Laden) had Hades=Mars/Poseidon.
Another icon of Jewish self-defense
was Avraham Stern (Stern Gang). Born
with natal Mercury=Mars/Poseidon (noon chart <34), his poem set to music, Unknown
Soldiers, told of “Jews who would
not be drafted by other countries while they wandered in Exile from their own
country, but rather who would enlist in a volunteer army of their own, go
underground and die fighting in the streets only to be buried secretly at
night”. 9
Over a quarter century
before Hitler’s rise, France was polarized by the Dreyfuss Case, springing from the unjust conviction of a
Jewish army officer for allegedly providing
military secrets to the enemy. Alfred
Dreyfus had prominent Mars/Poseidon aspects, as did a number of his opponents, the
unabashedly antisemitic anti-Dreyfusards.
When the real culprit was acquitted with false evidence, Emile Zola’s expose
of the injustice, “J’accuse”, ignited "tumultuous demonstrations nearly
every day" 10 by
anti-Dreyfusards.
Alfred Dreyfus had N. Mars/Poseidon=Aries
precisely as well as a tight semi octile of Mars and Poseidon, part
of a larger picture which included Kronos and Vulcanus (below left), spelling
out the highest levels of government involvement. The
release of .J’accuse and the ensuing riots were marked in Dreyfus’ chart
by Mars/Poseidon SA MC and Sun SA Mars/Poseidon precisely.
One outspoken AntiDryfusard was the artist
Edgar Degas, a “ferocious anti-Semite”. 11
Degas was a follower of La Libre
Parole, published by the head of the Antisemitic League of France. Both the
League and the publication commenced when T. Poseidon was square to the
leader/publisher’s N. Mars. He had same natal
picture as Dreyfus: Mars=Kronos=Vulcanus=Poseidon. (Edouard
Drumont)
Over 140 years later
in France, Brigit Bardot has been convicted
and fined 6 times for promoting racial hatred. In letters she wrote responding to the Muslim practice of
slaughtering sheep, she’s accused of “making
racial insults in her writings about animal abuse”, using terms like
“degenerate savages”. 12
My personal opinion is that
she’s probably a bigot, but her activity on behalf of animal right is “moral
behavior” indeed. When
the natal aspect became exact by progression, she joined her animal rights
foundation with an Indian foundation, holding annual meetings in a Buddhist
pilgrimage spot. The first meeting she attended was
marked by 2 SA pictures: Mars/Poseidon SA Asc. and SA Sun (Chart right).
She’s not a Buddhist
but she continues to attend.
There are other aspects
for harm in some religious context. Pastor
Clementa Pinckney was assassinated in a bible study class in church. Although his natal Mars/Poseidon=Aries <30’
orb, he also had a tight Chiron/Poseidon aspect, which also appears regularly in
similar, even identical, events.
His shooter had the
north node of Chiron conjunct natal Poseidon.
T. Poseidon was within minutes of
his natal Chiron. The event occurred with
T. Mars=T. Poseidon. (Dylan Roof)
The list of violent. politically motivated
ideologues with Mars/Poseidon is long and varied. Some of them are:
David Koresh (Mars//Poseidon), Timothy
McVeigh (Sun=Mars/Poseidon), Ted Kaczynski (MC=Mars/Poseidon), Jim Jones (Mars=Saturn=Poseidon close to the
AP), Gordon Liddy (Mars/Poseidon=Aries), Ayman
al-Zawahiri (Mars/Poseidon=Aries), Osama Bin Laden (Sun=Hades=Mars/Poseidon
<38’ orb).
Spanning the politically charged 60’s and 70’s were ultra-radicals
Cathy Boudin, a founder of the Weather Underground who served 23
years in prison for killing 2 policemen in a robbery and Bill Ayers of the SDS and Weather Underground. who went on to bomb the Capital
Building and the Pentagon. (Boudin had
Mars/Poseidon=Aries <17’ orb and Ayers had Mars/Poseidon=Aries 3’ orb)
A leader
in the 60's German Red Army Faction, Andreas Badder had a semi-octile of
Mars=Poseidon, part of a larger picture MC=Mars=Saturn=Node=Cupido=Poseidon
(and Juno). (Below left)
He was
radicalized by a riot which began as a noise complaint over late night
music. When the musicians were arrested,
scuffles broke out, leading to four days of street battles between 40,000 young
protesters and police on horses. T.
Poseidon was stationary, forming an antiscia to his natal Mars 10’ orb.
When he and his girlfriend protested the Viet Nam war
by bombing a department store, his SR had an exact conjunction of Mars and Poseidon On the
day of the bombing, T. Mars was with Poseidon and explosive Uranus, all contacting
his natal Uranus. Note the Juno ingredient; his girlfriend participated
and a department store was the target)
Dealing
with belief driven conflict is part some peoples’ jobs. Once Mayor of Bordeaux, philosopher/essayist Michel de Montagne successfully
moderated the hostilities between the local Catholics and Protestants. Earlier in his career, he accompanied the king to a siege during
the
War of Religion. When the siege began,
P. Mars=N. Poseidon 3’ from exact. When he arrived,
Mars/Poseidon SA MC precisely.
A
victim of weapons and ideology who didn’t believe in either was Robert
Oppenheimer, one of the casualties of the 1950’s Red Scare. Due to his perceived association with
Communists, the chief architect of the atomic bomb was denied his security
clearance. The revocation occurred with
P. Mars was exactly
square to his N. Poseidon. No natal
aspect. P.
Poseidon was exact with his Sun; after his clearance was revoked, he withdrew
from professional life and spent his time sailing in the Caribbean with his
family.
Miscellany
James Baxter flagellated himself for the
purpose of religious penance. Also an
activist for Māori culture and a religious convert. (Mars//Poseidon)
Henry III religious self-flagellation; murdered by a monk. (N Mars qx Poseidon.
Event: murder by a monk: : Mars/Poseidon SA
Sun)
Literature:
T.S. Eliot wrote Murder the in the Cathedral
and was a religious convert. (Mars//Poseidon)
Louis Celine wrote A Fine Mess denouncing
Jews, Freemasons and the Catholic Church.
1 Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
3 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-religion/
4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
5 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe/Sturm-und-Drang-1770-76#ref924204
6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power
8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky
9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Stern
10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair
11 21 Facts About Edgar Degas | Impressionist &
Modern Art | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)
12 https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/11/brigitte-bardot-fined-for-inciting-racial-hatred
