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Solar New Year 2007
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by Robert Tkoch, astrologer since 1970
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Introduction
Foreword Synopsis
The past Sex?
The Boy The Girl
Synthesis Afterword
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Introduction
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The solar new year begins at 5:15 UT (0:15 AM EST, 6:15 AM CET) on February 4, 2007. This is the true beginning of Spring in the northern hemisphere on planet earth, the moment when the dormant life force begins to obviously emerge once again. In the following analysis, I will read the heliocentric chart of conception for this moment.
If you wish to learn more about the true seasons on earth, including the exact timing for all four seasons, please see the article on the calendar.
This article is balanced by a companion 2007 CD. The CD contains a spontaneous audio reading for the year, including a month-by-month detailed analysis of probable energies and events, with exact dates given. You can order the CD here.
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Foreword --- how the forecast is derived
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Assuming that the universe is divine (or divinely created), it follows that the primal events in this universe --- when seen with primal honesty --- must have true meaning. This follows naturally, since divinity, portrayed humanly as truth, must necessarily be meaningful.
On the other hand, if the universe is not divine, then the Good is not primal, and nothing meaningful follows. Astrology, then, is but a senseless description of cogs and gears in an amoral and mindless machine, a false perspective describing a useless contraption that runs on and on for nothing.
Since I (for one) have seen (inescapably) that the universe is divine, I will proceed on that assumption. As universal events have meaning, so do the events of stars and galaxies and solar systems. So will the natural rotations and seasons of planets have meaning, and so will the motions and epochs of our planet earth.
As the seasons come and go throughout the years, the central Sun beholds the changing motions of the planets, contemplating the dance laid out on a field of strict mathematical order enlivened by an ever-surprising subtlety. At new beginnings --- such as the beginning of Spring on planet earth, the moment when a new year begins to emerge --- the momentary positions and postures of all the planetary dancers must appear as the snapshot of the beginning, the first page in the choreographer's new notebook of the year. It is this planetary snapshot that I will analyze.
But am I qualified for such an analysis? Perhaps not, as perhaps no one is. Nevertheless, I have been honestly attempting such analyses for a few decades now, and seem to have achieved some reliability in the matter. Let time --- and the growth in understanding --- be the judge.
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Synopsis of 2007
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The heliocentric chart for Spring, 2007 is noticeably sexual, with male and female energies highly differentiated, then periodically balanced and unbalanced in a profound and complex dance. In this year-long combining of many opposites, there will be much opportunity for excitement and new experience.
Nevertheless, everything depends upon a quiet and respectful intelligence, a kind, contemplative appreciation of all and everything. The greater the understanding awareness, the greater will be the happiness.
In some intimate manner, it will be vitally important for each sex to see itself and its opposite with a balanced equanimity, without reducing the passion born of difference. The man who experiences how women think, and the woman who experiences how men think, who --- at the same time --- can both give equal value to either way of thinking, while yet maintaining a full identification with their own sex --- these will find that the joy of union is continually replenished by the attraction of the mysterious unknown, oneself finally understanding how to mingle fact and fancy, to consciously weave and unweave the fabric of life in a manner that is ever exciting and new.
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The recent past
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In recent years, mankind underwent an embarrassing mass neurosis wherein many people --- leaders of nations, authors, authorities, almost everyone --- fell into the natural result of their own previous errors and confusions, did not accept responsibility for the problem, failed to analyze the situation honestly, and thus began to spin out of control.
The essential error was that everyone began paying more and more attention to the negative than to the positive. The mass media had discovered that scary, bad news was more riveting and attention-getting than happy, positive news, and this meant more profit for the negative newscasters. This led to an excessive focus on the bad, which, through mankind's mental creativity, necessarily led to a predominance of unfortunate manifestations, which in turn produced generally low expectations, with correspondingly unstable situations for everyone.
When their old systems collapsed under their feet, people, not knowing what was wrong, simply ran faster along the same erroneous lines. As the chaos gradually became more noticeable than the order, so then did fear become more noticeable than confidence and faith --- whereupon a new group of unscrupulous people took advantage of this fearfulness and cultivated artificial new fear-stimuli in order to profit from the situation.
Deep down, everyone realized that this situation --- of fear feeding new chaos which fed new fear that became new chaos, meanwhile being further amplified by demonic people treating the whole thing as an opportunity --- while, at the same time, no one could seriously object, since everyone had already agreed to let everything happen as it would, since this was a laissez-faire democracy --- was indeed hopeless. This led to a despair that could only look away and wish for the best, somehow.
But it turns out that the entire mess does not need to be fixed, as it disappears when it is forgotten. And it is forgotten when the mind finds a more interesting idea, which is what is happening in 2007.
Finally --- it has become possible to look ahead, to truly see new hope upon the horizon, and to forget the past. The energies are changing drastically.
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Sex?
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Like a long-forgotten favorite puppy, sex emerges from its hiding place, to become alive again.
By "sex," I do not mean the arbitrary sexual conventions that people learn from their collectivity, nor do I mean the simple soul-forgetful pastime that finds solace in semi-conscious repetitive bodily pleasure. These are not sex, but rather momentary, conventionally-sanctioned outlets from conventional patterns that lead right back into convention again.
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When I say, "sex," I mean the primal, Yin-Yang-colliding, overwhelming energetic duality of this universe --- the utterly divine and respectable life force that invents beauty and virtue and life anew with every new creature and every new opportunity. I mean the inescapable, infinite dance that brings God into manifestation as good and evil power bestowing itself upon free mentaloid creatures whose thought unstoppably goes out to create immediate heavens and immediate hells.
By "sex," I mean the poetry of Rumi or Novalis, the baby bird irrevocably jumping from the nest, the young boy and girl wildly in love while they discover beautiful music and speak through letters that sound like poetry. I mean the bursting of supernovas in the heart of a hero who seeks the essential beauty that he once glimpsed in a girl's beguiling eyes, so enamored of the prize that he is willing to pay with his life.
Only such a power --- the one that fills mankind with bliss and yearning, holy fear and trembling, mystery and wonderment --- can transcend and dissolve the petty and trivial mess that mankind has made. Whether on the level of your own immediate personal life, or on the level of a nation or a planet, the equation is the same --- the old way is forgotten and changed into something better, only as a vastly superior meaning, value, and power are embraced.
Sex returns because it now becomes recognized as a primal and worthy thing, even as, in recent years, it essentially disappeared because it became incorporated into something strangely unlike itself.
For instance --- when desire no longer follows from individual spontaneity, when instead it is formed by social opinion and conformity or by the need to promote itself in order to facilitate some contrivance, then desire, i.e., sex, becomes indistinguishable from hypocrisy or obsequity, or the need to appear as something in the eyes of others. When this happens, sex has been enlisted in society's army in the service of society's goals, i.e.,compulsory family, conformity, security, money-making, and --- worst of all --- the eternal continuation of the social game. This process, cumulatively progressed, leads to a human world that is but a dim joke, a world where people must work like slaves for a dismal livelihood while they repress and forget just about everything that would make life worth living.
It is this error that can be forgotten this year, even while observant, thoughtful souls have a chance to remember what sex truly is, i.e., the eternal exciting polarity dividing the One into male and female counterparts who forever invent countless new ways toward a desirable union, while embellishing that union by realizing the joy that is their good, original nature.
Since we all have male and female qualities within us, we must each develop the inner boy and the inner girl until they are substantial and harmonious. In the light of this year's energies, let us begin with the boy...
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The Boy
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He knows that he is starting all over, beginning at the bottom, finally admitting that he --- his manly hopes and honor, his desire to acquit himself worthily before God and man, his love for the most beautiful beauty --- is still the infant that he was in the beginning. Dreams of mature and sophisticated power pass away in smoke, as he understands the truth --- the man is the boy is the old man is the infant is the embryo still there with God, and nothing separates these many selves but the river of time, which itself is a dreamy illusion.
And so, he laughs like a baby, and he lets his childlike emotions come forth. The brittle mask of his conventional ego dries up, cracks open, and falls away into dust. His real self is the little boy, full of hope and love, after all.
In terms of the coming year, this means that a ground-floor opportunity will be given, and that the germ for the idea is present at the beginning of the year, sometime around February 4. But conventional or pseudo-sophisticated people will miss the opportunity, for it is visible only to the baby within. And more importantly, it means that the man may actually understand the baby that he is, and may thus begin to live worthily --- as a child before the divine, as a modest lover in love with the moon, as a new mind aware that the truth is above this world, above and then above again.
Yet of the mature things of manhood, there is also a value. These are the gifts that he gathers up as an offering on the altar of the higher mind.
When looking toward Heaven, of what use are strength, or valor in war, or quick, calculating wit, or wealth, or the ability to govern a kingdom? Yet they still have value as a gift, as a trophy of the sojourn here, or as a minor flourish on the signature of the heart.
At first, he, alone within, must develop all alone. Who can he tell of the primal feelings that come from original being? So he thinks, and meditates, and remembers the things long forgotten. He realizes that this exact, honest, all-alone thinking is something that should have happened when he was a child, a lad, a young man a-growing in his prime. Yet it did not happen, for he lived in a chaotic world, a howling noise that confronted him as soon as he was born. Right away, he was forced to deal with the world and its hectic ways. No one had made a proper commonwealth, a proper family, a proper home.
He understands that he never had a real home, nor any reasonable father or mother, nor any teachers that knew the truth. There never had been any real peace and quiet, no structured, lawful relationships, no law. There was not a true king, no priest of God, no reasonable scholars who preserved a true wisdom. He had grown up amongst savages in an ignorant free-for-all, who believed and taught whatever they wished.
No wonder! No wonder everything had always failed, no wonder that he lived in unhappiness. He had never had a chance to simply relax, sit down and goof off for awhile, to come to himself, to be himself in a secure relaxation, quietly able to freely think.
And that is why he is where he is now, starting all over, and finally ready to accept the truth of his own, divinely-creative, yet barely-begun self. Since no one ever gave him a proper starting-place or resting-place, it is up to him to make one himself. He must build himself a proper idea, a proper identity, a proper mythology, a proper philosophy, a proper foundation, a proper home.
And thus he begins. He makes a new home by surrounding himself with the newness of his own new thought, and he gradually brings that home into actual manifestation by being true to his own naked primacy. Building himself up from his own innate idea, he builds his presence and his place until he is happy and strong. Then, and then only, will he go seeking his love...
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The Girl
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She pretended to be butterflies, as she waited in back of the west wind. Or on another day, she lay in the grass, watching the chubby cloud people flying overhead, while she wondered if she actually flew in her dream the night before.
For longer than she could remember, she has been waiting, thinking, ready to live but lacking the way. She wanted to give what she had --- visions of Gods, understandings of meaning, innate ability to dance in counterpoint while perceiving the soul of music, even while dispensing with definitions and preferring the quiet watering-place where innocent animals gather.
She has always been aware that this All is a profound and amazing dream, and that she, herself, is a dream-firefly with a little flying light, adding to all of the starry lights that give twinkling to the holy sky. Like a falling star, she changes and moves, forgetful of yesterday and today in a new and endless direction --- but O, how she longs to stop that dance and be quiet in a gentle constellation.
This year, the girl is all soul, delicate as thought, subtle as the truth. Anything more obvious than that is not the girl, but only the shadow of a girl, a replay of last year's model, a collective falsification to what must always be exactly here and now, sensitively honest, and utterly new.
In the year 2005, the change began. She had always perceived the ideal, but 2005 brought the ideal's insistence and requirement to be known. Whether she wanted to or not, she was given the wherewithal to be the leading mind, to innovate and invent and lead in a new direction. And ever growing more and more since then, her primacy comes forth this year.
If she were a ballerina, she might dance in the midst of a bright, shining light, giving meaningful expression to a myth that every child could know. Even the people of the world would be spellbound by her dance, as her occult meaning subtly undid the certainty of their consensual power, even as the magical incantations of her movements dissolved the forced and strained posturing of their society. When she moved by the power of beauty alone, they, whose entire world was built upon the misunderstanding and suppression of beauty, could only give way, and be undone.
If she made a movie, she might bring forth the most fantastic and colorful retelling of some ancient lovers' myth, a story that every heart knows so well. Yet in the telling, she would also tell the other part of the truth, that this love story must also be shown to those whose lack of it is absolute, to those whose own personal story is absolutely not a story of love. But she would look past these, even as she looked past the millennia of history that were in error, to the hope that one soul, one wide-awake child, would understand.
All year long, in time after time, this is her subtle act --- to be the soul itself, to imagine the highest virtue and beauty and to be that unreservedly, and even then to realize that it is not yet enough. There must be more, better, higher --- if only she might find the higher intellection. And then to honestly portray this beauty to all, even to those who cannot and will not receive it, to those who must always work hard to undo it, to those to whom the truth and the beauty are invisible, impractical, and nonexistent.
For here on earth, this is what the soul is always doing, anyway, since the beginning of time it has been so. But this year, the girl can be the soul, dancing on the stage of eternity while most of the audience watches a mirror reflecting only itself.
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The girl, with love's fire
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Then why dance? Because all of this with the audience, with the collectively-imprisoned people, has no real existence anyway. Her dance is the dance of a child of God before God, of a soul for Eternity, of her self for her meaning --- and also of a girl for a boy, a woman for a man. As she is a woman, for him does she dance, for the sake of love she practices her graceful arts.
Watching as God embroiders a sunset on the sky, she quietly does likewise in her own medium, full of faith that her embellishment of beauty in this world will necessarily lead to her love --- since she knows the law, that beauty and love and truth and joy are one.
By year's end, this too is known --- all of the collectivity was a swirling round of nothing, on and on forever like a giant parade of tubas going exactly in a circle, like stars swirling into galaxies and drops of water into oceans, gigantic and infinitesimal immensities forever busy in themselves. And who can know their meaning?
But she --- she is one, only one, a singular, new being, an original mind, and that alone is where she lives. And this only matters, the things of One --- her one self, and her one love, and her one and only original, new way of being.
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Synthesis
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Developing within and without, the male and female qualities are beautiful and innocent, clean and new. As such, they come forth already opposed by the old world, which itself cannot recognize them, since it always knows only the past.
The girl, especially, must quietly indicate the new message, one that points beyond the profane to a way and a realm that are intelligent and beautiful. Meanwhile, the man does not speak much, but he bides his time, while gathering a serious emotional intention. When he sees that it is the right moment, he moves with a complete, overwhelming, life-changing power that demolishes his old foundation, even while it launches an entirely better experience. Both boy and girl go beyond the conditioned, into the entirely new.
When the lovers meet, wherever they meet, they immediately know one another perfectly, understanding that their bodies and their bodily experience are but chapters in a story already happening within. Their conversation with spoken words is a perfect continuation of their long-enduring thoughts.
The synthesis of a beautiful male and female spirit is a beautiful child, whose existence can only be seen and told by those who know what beauty is --- and thus, all year long, in both male and female form, the need to develop the beauty within. Like the offspring of the divine, this child is not born of bodies, but only of the higher mind. Like all avatars, this child is both reality and myth, ambiguous historical possibility, actual vision and holy dream. The child is Intelligence, from which all else is born.
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Afterword
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Seemingly a paradox --- for the lovers to unite, each one must develop within to the extreme of excellent individuality, standing momentarily apart into a greater differentiation --- until, by sheer force of necessarily balancing duality, they are pulled into union. It is also important to remember that the male must also develop his own feminine side, the female her own male side, in order to meet that opposite one on the plane of outer manifestation.
This year, it is entirely possible to change everything in the twinkling of an eye, to suddenly jump to a higher level of understanding --- awakening, then, on a far better level of experience, one wherein both self and other are far more beautiful and happy --- while ignoring, as much as is possible, the repetitious and tedious noise of the collective world. This is accomplished by unleashing the power of true desire --- that is, the desire that is known to be happy and good, and therefore is not blocked or weakened by doubt.
But this positive change can occur only to those who have realized that the collective world i.e., society --- has no claims on their direction, because the collective world is not a person or a mind at all. Rather, it is only a kind of quasi-conscious, subconsciously-coercive average common denominator that only seems to be alive. To be sure, this collective world, on its own tired level, will certainly attempt to interfere, this year with a powerful bit of sophistry. Yet it should not be too difficult to choose heaven over hell, love over egotism, and happiness instead of worldly ways.
2007 will be an excellent year, for all those who can leave behind what was never their own, who can go instead, with full passion and energy, toward what they truly respect and love. That is the essence of the year.
Sincerely,
Robert Tkoch, astrologer since 1970
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This article is balanced by a companion 2007 CD. The CD contains a spontaneous audio reading for the year, including a month-by-month detailed analysis of probable energies and events, with exact dates given. You can order the CD here.
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