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Uranus - okay I'm sidetracked

Uranus was discovered 13 march 1781
other events of note in 1781
the Brittish surrendered to the upstart colonists in America at Yorktown,
the Articles of Confederation were written
John Hansen was the first president of the continental congress set up by the Articles of Confederation...
the City of Los Angeles was founded! by 44 Spanish colonists.
Imanual Kant published his book on reason
and
Charles Messier published his Catalog of Messier Objects (book of objects you can see with the naked eye in the sky)

if you look at other things attributed to Uranus, like electricity... Until Maxwells equations came along (developed during the years 1862-1874) electricity was for the most part a novelty. with the better understanding of electricity came the telegraph, etc... which also spawned such great investigations as the michelson morley experiment of 1887... frankly the sky from 1862 - 1890 must have been rather interesting because it was a time of incredible change all over the place!

The first computer programmer Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace was born on dec 10, 1815 and started work on the first programable machine in early 1834, though she heard of the theory behind it in late 1834. Her paper on the subject was published in 1846, incidently the year Neptune was discovered, so one might credibly argue the computer is a child of Neptune.

I think one may certainly contribute changabilty to Uranus, but I think maybe also the idea of self rule and of logic. I think placing Uranus on the fourth for immigration might not have been a bad idea, considering the things born at the time of its discovery. I would say ending up in America would certainly describe the end of the matter, but maybe not for the reasons you originally described.

Woosh, I'm outa breath!

Granny!

This from Deb:

I do understand your point, but I think that at best Uranus becomes an adverb to Mercury.

That is beautiful and it makes sense. Thank you.

Our subject is ?Does Unburied Tradition Pull Modern Astrology Back??. It is becoming more clear to me that it should. Hellenistic astrology shared it?s roots with Greek philosophy and that philosophy was not just about things and ideas, but was fundamentally about discovering meaning and the guidelines for living in a meaningful world.

We?ve talked about traditional astrology, truth, reality, science, technology, Mercury, Uranus, and Hitler. Discussions like this often become disembodied, lacking a container to hold them. There is nothing wrong with discussing these things and it does have it?s place. But as is so often the case in these times, an underlying personal philosophy is often not mentioned. Now I suppose people have their philosophy, but it seems to be considered to be in poor taste and too subjective to express it. Therefore we end up with a lot of detached heads talking about whatever that head is currently distracted with. I?m not only thinking of this discussion, but also of the babbling world around us.

And now about my reply to Boris that astrology is the art of time interpretation. I say that because it gives meaning to the cycles of the Sun, Moon and stars and makes those cycles a personal experience. The art is the personal involvement in blending the elements of meaning. It links the person with the environment and releases astrology from the head and puts it into the bones.