Swimming with the Zeitgeist

1. Swimming with the Zeitgeist Understanding our place in the universe Claire Chandler

2. The Spirit of the Time The unfolding cosmos is a series of interlocking stories. The mini-Olympian struggles, comedies, common places, triumphs and tragedies each one of us enacts during the course of our lives are not only written in our own personal horoscope and expressed through our individual soul. As in a hologram, analogous dramas, dilemmas and potentialities telling essentially the same stories are acted out at the time of our birth in the theatre of the world through the Anima Mundi, the World Soul. Charles Harvey, Anima Mundi www.clairechandler.com

3. When you Consider a Chart… There is/are: • more going on than the events of a single life • More within each moment than can be played out in one brief lifetime • Seeds flowering which were sown long ago • Seeds being sown which will flower in the distant future www.clairechandler.com

4. Your birth chart? • “Your” birth chart is not your exclusive property • It is the chart for the moment you were born • Describes much more than one life • And much more than one thing www.clairechandler.com

5. More than Natal Astrology • Each life is enacted against a backdrop • Each backdrop required players to bring it to life • Traditionally many astrologies were considered • Within this framework, we will be better placed to judge a human life www.clairechandler.com

6. Hierarchy of Astrologies • Mundane astrology • Empires and great nations • Dynasties and families • Kings and potentates also known as Leaders and countries • Natal astrology • Electional astrology • Horary astrology www.clairechandler.com

7. Wheels within Wheels • We have tools here for dealing with time spans from single moments to vast expanses of time • Having an understanding of the interconnections between these various levels can give us clues to the context of a situation www.clairechandler.com

8. Wheels within Wheels 2 • Shorter term works within the provenance of the longer term • Horary and Electional act within the bounds of a lifetime • A human life exists upon a larger stage • This larger stage can be described as the Zeitgeist – the Spirit of the Times www.clairechandler.com

9. Cycles of the Planets • Astrology is the study of the nature of time • The movement of the planets through the zodiac and with regard to each other defines this • Outer planets changing signs • Aspects between planets • cycles www.clairechandler.com

10. What is a Cycle? • All cycles have the same phases and these phases have the same nature • Two different types of cycles • Cycles with regard to a fixed point • Transiting Saturn square to natal Saturn • Transiting planet returning to its natal position • Relationship of two moving bodies to each other • Sun Moon cycle www.clairechandler.com

11. Sun Moon Cycle • Good example as you can see what’s happening • Move from conjunction through to opposition and back to conjunction • Energy moves out, is questioned, flowers, fruits, decays and lies dormant before the next cycle starts • All cycles have this form www.clairechandler.com

12. Cycle Phases Flower, Full Moon, Midsummer, Midday Fruiting Returning Blossoming  - 180  - 135  - 135  - 120  - 120 Harvest, Last Quarter, Autumn, Sunset Shoots, First Quarter, Spring, Sunrise  - 90  - 90  - 60  - 60  - 45  - 45 Germinating Outgoing Proceeding Decaying  - 0 Seed, New moon, Midwinter, Midnight www.clairechandler.com

13. Health Warning • Taking things our of context will end in tears • Many cycles re-enforce each other • This is when it gets exciting www.clairechandler.com

14. Outer Planets Pluto Neptune Uranus Social Planets Saturn Jupiter Inner Planets Mars Venus Mercury Luminaries Sun Moon The Planets www.clairechandler.com

15. Long Term Cycles Outer planets to other outer planets • Pluto Neptune 492 years • Neptune Uranus 172 years • Pluto Uranus 127 years www.clairechandler.com

16. Medium Term Cycles Outer planets with Saturn • Uranus Saturn 45 years • Neptune Saturn 36 years • Pluto Saturn 33 years www.clairechandler.com

17. Short/Medium Term Cycles Outer planets with Jupiter • Uranus Jupiter 14 years • Neptune Jupiter 13 years • Pluto Jupiter 12 years www.clairechandler.com

18. Short Term Cycles • Sun, Moon, Inner planets and angles combining with Jupiter, Saturn and Outer planets • Sun: the day • Moon: the hour • MC: the minute • Asc: the place • MC/ASC: this time and place www.clairechandler.com

19. Jupiter Saturn Cycles • Saturn Jupiter 20 years • Short/Medium term cycle • 240 years in same element • 940 years through all the elements • Great Chronocractors, Rulers of the Ages www.clairechandler.com

20. 1583 20 Pisces 1603 8 Sagittarius 1623 6 Leo 1643 25 Pisces 1663 12 Sagittarius 1682 19 Leo* 1702 6 Aries 1723 23 Sagittarius 1742 27 Leo 1762 12 Aries 1782 28 Sagittarius 1802 5 Virgo 1821 24 Aries 1842 8 Capricorn 1861 18 Virgo 1881 1 Taurus 1901 14 Capricorn 1921 26 Virgo 1940 14 Taurus* 1961 25 Capricorn 1980 9 Libra* 2000 22 Taurus 2020 0 Aquarius 2040 17 Libra 2060 0 Gemini 2080 11 Aquarius 2100 25 Libra *more than one conjunction Jupiter Saturn Cycles 2 Beginning of age of reason leading to the Enlightenment Beginning of post industrial society and the information age Beginning of industrial revolution www.clairechandler.com

21. Jupiter Saturn Cycles 3 • These cycles form the back bone of societal change • The longest cycle the ancients had • Three phases • Very Long – 960 years – Empires • Long – 240 years – Dynasties • Medium – 20 years www.clairechandler.com

22. Catching the Zeitgeist • Outer planet person • Personal point with outer planet • More so if synched in with a phase of a cycle • Picked up by transiting cycle • Each time is experienced twice • As a transit • As part of natal pattern • Synastry with Organisation or Institution which it itself part of the zeitgeist www.clairechandler.com

23. Superman • Chart is for the first radio broadcast • An American myth which has global appeal • The “Man of Steel” • He is also everyman, in the form of Clark Kent • Enduring appeal, still making versions of the story www.clairechandler.com

24. Stills photography or movies? • Every part of your chart is also part of a phase of a cycle • Each planetary combination is in a relation to each and every other one even though they may not be within a conventional orb • Transits are not just single contacts, they are cycles in motion • Time flows and a chart is just a snapshot • Paying attention to the larger cycles shows where the waves may break www.clairechandler.com

25. Further Reading • Books • Mundane Astrology, Campion, Baigent and Harvey • Anima Mundi, Charles Harvey • Tables of Planetary Phenomena, Neil Michelsen • Websites • www.clairechandler.com • www.astrolodge.co.uk www.clairechandler.com

26. Questions?