Structure and Movement

We live in a world of constant change. Nothing stands still but everything is in motion. "We cannot step into the same river twice."

Yet, paradoxically, we also live in a world of form and structure. Everything has its shape, its structure. The form or structure is necessary as it provides continuity and preservation. 

Movement and structure - how can they coexist?

The recently completed opposition between Uranus (movement, change) and Saturn (structure, shape) points to this contradiction. And certainly during the past couple of years we have all witnessed many an old structure that has been forced to adjust and make changes. 

If we observe nature and the cosmos, we easily become aware that movement and change also in themselves have their own structure. Everything moves in cycles. Days and nights and seasons follow each other in an orderly manner.

We will also find that the forms and structures of nature are flexible. They have a built-in ability to move, grow and change!

So there is movement in structure and structure in movement! There is some yang in yin and some yin in yang. And so continues the ever-changing dance of our reality. The only invariant is change itself...

Even the gondola - the traditional Venetian boat type - has changed its design over time to meet new circumstances. Unlike its predecessors, today´s gondola is designed to offer tourists in Venice a romantic boat ride on the city´s waterways. It is designed so that the port side is somewhat broader than the the starboard side. This asymmetrical design compensates for drift and gives the craft a straight course and perfect balance with the gondolier standing on the port side, rowing with the single oar attached to the starboard side. This gives to the gondola its particular elegance and beauty of movement under the starlit skies of Venice...

Your Galactic Gondolier

Welcome to Galactic Venice

A Galactic Gondola of course needs a Galactic Venice. And perhaps you could say that the Galactic Venice is born the same moment the Gondola is launched. How else would the Gondola - the Galactic Gondola - find it’s element?

So let us have a Galactic Venice born at the very moment the Gondola is launched into the water! This means our imaginary galactic water city must share its horoscope with the Galactic Gondola! Their fate has brought them together to be born as twins.

And of course a galactic water city - as well as the Gondola – must have its Ascendant in the water sign of Pisces. The city of Venice - the terrestrial counterpart - actually has the very shape of a fish:

(The fish head and the jaws to the left and the parted tail to the right)

Our Galactic Venice - created the instant the Galactic Gondola was launched into its pitch black, starry reflective water - is further characterized by the polarity between Uranus just above the eastern horizon in the water sign of Pisces, and Saturn just below the horizon in the west in the earth sign of Virgo.

Like its terrestrial counterpart, our galactic water city is characterized by the polarity and contrast between the elements of water and earth - water canals and buildings of stone - between the intuitive and the rational, the emotional and the mental, the liquid and the fixed, freedom and limitation, spirit and matter ...

Your Galactic Gondolier