It’s cold….
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……out here in the hall; I’m giving serious consideration to B’s suggestion that I should move my computer into the living room. Trouble is, there isn’t anything big enough to put it on except the (ex-kitchen) table that it’s currently sitting on, and finding room will be difficult. So for now I’ll put on another cardi instead. Our central heating really needs replacing (the radiator behind me is barely warm), but that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.
At least I don’t have anything terribly urgent to get on with this week. I’m making good progress with the new website for Transit. It doesn’t have to be ready for another month, but it’s pretty much ready to go online now; I just need to add more content and fill out the year’s Diary.
Developing this website has really fired me up for doing more of the same – I’ve been delving into the WordPress code and I’m starting to make sense of it; hacking it to do what I want is looking very possible. If it was warmer, I’d spend an evening or two getting a new site together for the blog. But that’s for later. Hopefully, I can get some business from building more such sites – got to find something to replace the lost income when the final printed version of Transit goes out in March.
Ah well. In the meantime, here’s something that I wrote as an editorial for the next Transit – it will be in the last printed edition and the first online edition:
Choosing an image for the cover of the printed version of Transit was always a job that I left until last – I had to have the whole magazine assembled before I could start thinking about a cover. Invariably, the final image would just pop up almost randomly and would often be completely different from whatever I had started planning. At times this process got me far too close to the deadline for comfort. But, usually, the image that came up out of nowhere would be striking and apt.
While working on the development of this site, I decided that each section (Council News, Data Corner etc) would have its own readily identifiable logo, or icon. So I started writing down ideas; for most sections, an image came readily to mind – a globe for World News, the AA logo for Council News and so on. Then I came to Sophia Centre News. What on earth could symbolise Sophia?
As I often do, I went to Google Images for inspiration. There I found that unlike most deities, poor Sophia seemed to have no easily recognised symbol or appearance. I found her variously portrayed as a mermaid, a dove, a winged woman as well as numerous shapely Classical beauties (usually with whole galaxies of stars whirling around their well-coiffed heads). So, unable to find anything definite, I decided to stick to my tried and trusted routine of leaving the problem to stew in my subconscious for the time being.
At that point, I started wondering what was happening in my personal natal chart. I seldom look at my transits and hardly ever check my progressions (much of the time, I don’t even know what sign my progressed Moon is in). However, this was at the beginning of January – the start of a new year, and working on a new Transit. Very appropriate for checking up on my chart; so I fired up my astrology program.
I already knew that I was experiencing my second Saturn return, with Uranus opposing it (and the two of them opposing/conjuncting my Sun) – that had been happening for months. The big surprise was finding that my progressed Sun, at 15 degrees of Taurus, was exactly (to the minute!) trine my natal Saturn at fifteen degrees of Virgo; moreover, my progressed Moon was in early Capricorn and would be forming a trine with both later this year. What a lot of Saturn, Earth and Capricorn!
An even bigger surprise came when Mike Harding gave me Transit’s ‘birth data’ – the date that John Addey proposed that members should have a small newsletter. This was February 1st 1971, when Saturn was at, yes, 15 degrees of Taurus.
Ummm… More Saturn! (There are other significant links in the synastry too, but I’ll leave those for now.)
Saturn, Saturn, Saturn – what does it all mean? That’s what I’m still asking myself. But, possibly, it’s all connected with Wisdom and the getting thereof (“Sophia” means Wisdom). Saturn is usually portrayed as an old man – but plenty of old women know more than a bit about Saturnian matters. Perhaps Wisdom is the other face of Saturn, the one that is shown to you when you’ve passed a few Saturn trials? Perhaps, perhaps…
As of the date of writing I still haven’t found a image, by the way. But it will pop up eventually – Sophia/Saturn will see to that.