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NCN GROUP NEWS,
the newsletter of the New Civilization Network
Issue 4, November, 1997
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Welcome to the newly named (renamed) NCN newsletter. We
encourage people to submit articles or article ideas for
consideration. We are looking for people and projects who are
engaged in positive actions which encourage positive change. We
also welcome ideas and explorations that challenge us to imagine
the New Civilization. Please send submissions, ideas and
questions to Bob Ewing via email at cclash@web.net.
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Conference summaries by Ed Elkin
Here's the report listing my 10 highlights for the two conferences.
BODY & SOUL HIGHLIGHTS (Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 1997)
1. Fri. Night Opening Keynote: Maya Angelou: A stirring, poignant,
humorous, sassy, earthy, delightful, compassionate, brilliant,
loving soliloquy on the human condition.
2. Sat. Eve Celebration: Matthew Fox "Techno Cosmic Mass of
the Angels" An amazingly skilful evocation of the human spirit
combining rap poetry, evocative multiple recorded musical styles,
alternation of high energy movement with stillness, slides of angels
and images conveying the full range of the human experience,
acapello voices, and the simple gesture of moving from person to
person with hand on one's own heart touching another's hand.....an
experiential cornucopia of richness, depth, and glory.
3. Almost 2000 people attending, representing all facets of the
body and soul spectrum;
4. Excellent presentations by Terrence McKenna, Bernie Siegel,
Barbara Brennan, James Redfield, Shakti Gawain, Michael Toms,
Matthew Fox and others
5. providing food for thought and hope for humanity's future.
Virtual Reality (VR) demonstrations of how VR can be used to treat
health disorders from autism to Parkinson's Disease.
6. Interactive communication between on-site participants and
virtual participants around the world
7. Overall production quality sponsored by New Age Journal and
Hollyhock Holistic Center
8.On site massage and healing room, featuring OSMOSIS, an
enzyme footbath conversation pit, and a team of skilled
bodyworkers.
9. Downtown San Francisco location at the Westin St. Francis
Hotel.
10. Superb informal networking among quality participants.
For more details, contact Dr. Rick
Ingrasci,<cybercafe@whidbey.com>
THE AWAKENING OF HUMANITY: HIGHLIGHTS (Nov. 2, 1997)
1. Tribute to intended presenter, John Denver, by Jerry Jampolsky
& Diane Cirincione.
2. Rolland Smith's poetry and commentary.
3. Neale Donald Walsch's humor, humanity and honesty as a
"Master Communicator" about life, love, God, and evolution.
4. Barbara Marx Hubbard's brilliance of intellect, strength of heart,
and clarity of vision about the awakening of humanity as a universal
species.
5. Announcement of the launching of the new Foundation for
Conscious Evolution website
< http://www.whatworksweb.com> collating information about "what
works:, the seeds of the future in the present.
6. Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith's inspirational closing prayer.
7. Beautiful setting at the Palace of Fine Arts, the Presidio of San
Francisco.
8. Post conference private reception at the St. Francis Yacht Club.
9. Simplicity and elegance of overall format production.
10.Superb informal networking among quality participants.
For more details, contact the Foundation for Conscious
Evolution,<fce@peaceroom.org> .
Reported for the New Civilization Network Newsletter by
Ed Elkin, Consulting Synergist, New Civilization Network
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November!
Wild birds are a delight to have around and we maintain feeding
and water stations year round even here in what will soon be frozen
Massachusetts. Our beautiful copper birdbaths are in the back of
the house and in the front so there's plenty of water and space for
everybody. This was such a dry year that we frequently saw bees
watering down when everything else had dried up. The birds also
appreciated and used the baths for drinking and bathing.
It's time now to prepare for the winter and even the Spring. We're
putting up a new birdhouse so it has time to "settle in" over the
winter for use next Spring by some lucky bird family. Not a fancy
"boughten" birdhouse, we prefer to nail them together from scrap
wood and aren't too careful about hole size either. The new one is
for small birds - wrens, chickadees, etc. Go ahead and
nail one together and have fun painting it and then coating with
polyurethane to protect the house - Nature doesn't make
birdhouses to strict dimensions!
It's also time to think about putting out suet for the woodpeckers
and even the chickadees who like a little fat with their sunflower
seeds... We wait until the weather is consistently cold for the suet
so it doesn't spoil.
If you're going to maintain a feeding station with sunflower seeds
or whatever, be sure to keep at it consistently as the birds will
come to expect the food as a major part of their diet. They'll
reward you by settling nearby in the Spring and raising a family.
And remember to slow down and watch the birds! It's better than
TV and you'll see there's a whole lot to observe about bird behavior
over the course of a year!
Howard Schechter
Coppersmith's, Inc.
www.coppersmiths.com
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THE NEXT CENTURY, SHOWN BY ITS BIRTH MOMENT
DECEMBER 31st, 1999**MIDNIGHT***JANUARY 1st/2000
Anita Sands/ astrology@earthlink.net
The idea came to me when I stared down at that 98 on my watch
and realized that there were only two years to the millennium! The
idea startled me. The dawn of a New Thousand years, the THIRD
MILLENNIUM. Suddenly, I had an itch to see what the New
millennium's horoscope would look like. I wondered if an astrologer
could get a snapshot of the entire thousand years to come from its
birth moment! It was a novel idea, but why not?
I puzzled how I'd approach this horoscope. Perhaps the way I
approach any natal chart. I'd just pretend it was a newborn baby.
I scrambled for pens and cast the horoscope, seeing instantly that
this newborn child had Libra rising. So the new millennium will
be loving and kind. The ruler of the hour, or of the chart is
VENUS ---planet of love, art, pleasure. I began to fill in the
planets on this 'birth analysis'.
My astrologer mother walked by the table where I worked.
"The new century will have Libra rising," I said proudly.
"So everyone on earth will be at a New Year's Eve party,
socializing."
"Of course, they will," she laughed. "Every New Year, Libra
rises at midnight ---that is no big deal. And every year everybody
parties."
"You have a point", I frowned, but maybe there's some meaning
to it. Venus the Millennium ruler will be in Sagittarius, so in a
way this is a SAGITTARIAN baby, one that loves knowledge,
studies, increased literacy.
As I recall 96/97, Venus was also in Sagittarius at midnight,
was l997 a year of wisdom?
"I wrote a lot of magazine stories that year," I said.
"Sagittarius rules writing articles."
"Well if you react to New Year's that much, watch out because
97/98 New Year, Venus will be in Aquarius, stationery, conjunct
Mars and opposite Uranus, a really volatile romantic placement."
"People will fall in love with new partners at that New
Year's Eve party and leave whomever they're with."
"That'll make you happy," My mother smiled. "Maybe you'll get
your old boyfriend back.
"Well, I said snappily, "I know how you feel about Venus,
Uranus and Mars in aspect--romantic stews and trouble but the
millennium night itself is quite tame. Venus is in SAGITTARIUS,
very ethical, right smack on the third cusp of nearby travel and
sextile Neptune in Aquarius so this Millennium, people will love to
read and maybe astral travel. Neptune is mystical. I think this is
a sure sign that people studying metaphysics are going to be very
happy. NEPTUNE rules the 6th house where PISCES is. They'll all
be healing everybody. Holistic healers will be very big.
Other Third house things. All kinds of Travel." I pondered
that Pluto in the third house. This new millennium will travel like
crazy. By air or water?"
"Neither! My mother responded. "Don't you see? She will
travel BY FIRE, as Venus is in a fire sign. And the third cusp
rules travel to nearby places. By rocket, to Paris to Moscow, to
nearby planets, even. " She sauntered into the kitchen, to refill
my teacup.
My mother's way of casting horoscopes always amuses me.
She reaches for anything and uses it as a symbol.
"OK, travel and high brow Sagittarian books and laws and
publishing and holistic healing. Deepak Chopra will be very happy
to hear it. The New Millennium will be very high brow and fun.
"Except there's a major T-square --the most troublesome and
volatile of all the aspects. And it involves the MOON which in any
chart is co-ruler of every cusp. And this Moon is opposite Saturn,
and square Uranus. And look, Moon rules the tenth house of
people in POWER. Where is the Moon? In SCORPIO of other
people's money, Scorpio of the oligarchy, what do they call them?
The plutocracy."
(Odd that Scorpio and Pluto all go together in mythology,
astrology and in symbol and word roots, too.)
I studied the chart seeing that SCORPIO was in the money
house, the 2nd and held what then became a 'financial opposition.'
" Only it's a T-square alright, with two malefics. OK, I
guess I see money problems, crushing debt. Financial problems
given by Moon opposite SATURN, planet of lack."
"DEPRESSION is the word one uses with Moon/Saturn linked.
And a lasting one as they progress at the same rate, meaning the
Progressed moon will be chased by Saturn transiting in the skies.
You'd have to get an emphemeris for the next century to see how
long Saturn chases the progressed moon of this chart.
"Saturn rules the 4th house. The traditional plodding home
government. They're not quick enough. They're too greedy or
something."
"That's right. Every government, sucking the taxes out of us
to pay its national debt."
Who, ours or Englands? Look, I did both charts. London and
Washington."
"Everybody's. What country isn't in hock to the world banks
for its money supply! The world banks are squeezing us all.
All charts on the planet are almost identical, so it's
everybody's home government taxing them. Don't you know that a
New Year's chart is almost identical at midnight in every country.
In England, Moon will be a degree behind, or 8 Scorpio, In Los
Angeles, a degree ahead, l0 or ll Scorpio, but very similar
degrees of Libra 7 or 8, will rise in every city in the world at
midnight.
"So in every place of the world, Saturn rules the 4th, the
home, the roots, the foundation. Taxes are higher. Something's
wrong at home. And on a microcosm level, home security not
there, fear of losing the home? Saturn of 'not enough' and Taurus
of MONEY. Moon is in a crisis degree. 9 fixed. (That old system of
counting every 13 degrees as a crisis, 13 and 26 cardinals, 9 and
22 fixed and so on...)
"Taxes are a big issue all the time but I do see some kind of
additional financial cataclysm. That's a serious T-square,
involving a luminary, the Moon, and Uranus and Saturn. Ur/Sat
principle is TENSION. In fixed signs, chronic tension. This isn't
something new. It is chronic and lasting. The central part of the
opposition is in money signs Taurus and Scorpio and also in money
houses! The 2nd and 8th. But URANUS in Aquarius brings sudden
eruptions of unexpected conditions that aggravate the fixed
opposition. Aquarius ruling electronic inventions."
My mother poured two fresh teacups, sat down and pointed to
the 5th house Uranus, the focal point of the nasty T-square under
discussion. "Aquarius is the sign of computers --maybe a financial
problem caused by some kind of technical thing, maybe a power
outage or a massive computer crash."
"You know, I've actually heard there's some danger of
government and all the world banks having outdated computer
mainframes fail...something related to their not functioning
because they were all programmed for only two digits to depict
years --instead of four. Mistake of the programmers in the
fifties, trying to save space, not realizing that once all our IRS
or SSA data had been entered that way, multiplied by fifty years,
there was no calling it back or revising or retyping it.
"If they didn't want computers to turn over to a double zero,
and go back to 1900, and write over their own tracks, they'd have
to replace every line of data in every file written in every bank
and government computer for the last fifty years. If every person
on earth typed all day and night for the next two years, it
couldn't be done."
"Right. Social Security, IRS, Banks, stock market. All of
their files worthless on the stroke of midnight? Forty percent of
the populace dependent on government for their pay check?
"There's a word for it, Mom. The hackers call it Year Two K
or something. I ran to my trusty computer, leapt onto the
INTERNET
and quickly did a search on y2k. The symbol the tekkies use. The
search engine quickly found fifteen thousand entries, articles,
papers, books. Y2k was mentioned everywhere, computer
magazines mostly, Newsweek, too.
My mother politely pretended to read the monitor. She's
allergic to technology, having no Aquarius planets, and loves
books, being a triple Sag, while my ruler sun is in Aquarius and I
prefer reading it on a monitor. As she scanned y2k articles, she
admitted, "So OK, I'd expect a market crash from a computer
crash. It could happen."
"O.K. What else?" I defer to my mother in the stargazing
department. She has been doing charts for 56 years.
Well, from what I see, rocket manufacturers, computer
programmers, pilots and astronauts are going to do very well in
the coming age."
"What else? What do I do next, Mom. Pretend it's a baby's
Horoscope."
It's Venus conjunct Pluto in Sagittarius, sextile Neptune in
Aquarius, money will be spent on cars and computers,
metaphysical training courses, learning, university educations."
Next, Mars rules the significant other, and it's conjunct
fixed star Regalus, the star of Kings, opposite Bacchus. Bacchus
rules very big money, tycoons, Bill Gates types. Bacchus is in LEO
of Show biz. So Bill Gates types will get into show biz. Actually,
Gates has a planet in 27 Leo, as I recall, so he actually appears
in the Horoscope of the Millennium, as a King. Then we have Mars
of partners semisquare Sun. Anytime you have SUN aspecting
another planet, the planet gets huge power. So the Mars becomes
powerful and famous and in Aquarius in the 5th house, very
creative and political. Gates will run for president."
What else? Well, our partners will appear to have more wealth
and power than we do, make us nervous.
"I wonder. Can one read this event as a human being?"
"We could think of it as an event. Try my old Ivy Jacobson
horary rules on it" I laughed. My mother has a tendency to do all
horoscopes the way her teacher taught her back in the 40's. The
rules were easy. What house is ruled by a malefic? What does
each of the malefics rule and what does it afflict?
Well, Saturn is a malefic, it rules the fourth house of home
and foundations. Saturn is a troubling planet because its nature
is to control unduly. It is in TAURUS sign of money. Governments
fear financial insufficiency and quincunx PLUTO, want our money
but have a hard time getting it. Popular tax groups start.
Uranus rules the fifth house of speculation, stock market and
it squares all the planets. It endangers Saturn. Markets endanger
governments.
Mars rules the 7th house of the open enemy. In Aquarius, that
would be an Aquarian country, Russia. We would see tycoons
rising as kings. Bacchus conjunct fixed star Regalus (Kings)
opposite Mars, their tycoons would be Moscow Mafia ---Gangsters,
according to the rules of Reinhold Ebertin that Mars/Bacchus
portrays gangsters. So in many countries, the gangster element
rules.
I shivered, getting the eerie feeling that this was how
Nostradamus was able to predict events thousands of years
ahead.
"The house of MONEY is ruled by PLUTO which is in
SAGITTARIUS, so you'd expect well intended financial reform
legislation. Emphasis on LAW, legislation or international
treaties that would bring resolution, coming when Venus
progressed to conjunct that Pluto. Nine years into the millennium.
You'd expect treaties with foreign lands, for international
trade, new laws, all the things of Sagittarius. Foreign people.
Who? Aliens? Maybe foreigners from another galaxy? Maybe star
trade and travel?
Or astral travel," my mother said. "Pluto and Uranus in a
sextile rules transformational, supernatural and mystical things.
Venus in Sag sextile Neptune in Aquarius is the same. We may all
learn to travel in our astral.
Don't count on it Mom. Look, the chart's money ruler is PLUTO
and it's ll Sag, an area ruling travel. (According to Weymss
Degrees of the Zodiac Analysed, an old textbook we use in my
family 12 Sag/Gem rules vehicles & travel.) The hopeful part is
that PLUTO makes two good aspects. First, sextile URANUS in
Aquarius of electronic inventions...Maybe the colonization of
space. Travel stocks will be a good source of revenue for another
thousand years especially those related to space travel. Second,
sesquiquad Jupiter in ARIES, for manufacturing companies
involved in rockets or space travel vehicles. I should make a
notation to call my stock broker after the financial crash, and look
for rocket airlines offering frequent flyer miles to Mars."
"But not right away because the money ruler Pluto is quincunx
Saturn, a definite insufficiency planet. Mars is progressing into
it for the first twenty years of the Millennium.
I erased my note.
This chart is like a zebra. A happy Venus, spiritually
bolstered while the realities press in. Saturn afflicts three
planets in this chart, Moon, Uranus and Pluto. Saturn is favorable
only to the SUN in CAPRICORN, in the fourth house of the home
government. So the home government gets its tax ingresses from
the people but the ruler of the 4th house --the home
government---aggravates a lot of other conditions, as it hits three
other planets, Uranus, Pluto, Moon in an adverse way. Maybe
they'll take away more entitlements from the people."
"Don't worry Mom, if your social security check doesn't come,
I'll let you live with me. You can work for your keep---doing my
MATH. (An allusion to the fact that I can't do a logarithm worth
a darn.)
Thank you. But if you take Venus to rule me, and Pluto my
money and Pluto is sesquiquad Jupiter, I may just find some new
business. Aries in the 7th in Aries is energetic.
Many people don't use sesquiquads but I find they work just
like squares or trines. Pluto linked with JUPITER is doing both of
them a favor. Sesquiquads are hard for the untrained eye to see,
but soon it becomes easy when you realize that if you add l5
degrees to any planet and jump a sign you'll see the 45 degree
angle quick enough. Jupiter Pluto linked gives the good side of
Pluto, a powerful new financial rebirth--which is always a Pluto
keyword. And these two progress at the same speed for decades
after. My finger traced through January 2000 into February.
"Well a rebirth will certainly be required if all the
computers crash from being misprogrammed."
As I looked at the birth chart of the third millennium, I
could I get a feel of what was coming this way. There were
challenges but we were up to it and there were new avenues and
opportunities coming if people on the planet earth get pressed by
any millennium sized problems. Of that I felt certain.
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