Reflections

Water, water

Holy mystery Heaven´s daughter

Everything reflects its time. That is what Astrology is basically all about. Like the starry night sky is reflected in the night's pitch black water, so every phenomenon reflects its time.

The chart for the launch and first oar stroke indicates the outline of how the Gondola and its Galactic Venice together form a mirror image of the cosmic moment that brought them into existence.

We have already noted that the Pisces Ascendant sets the keynote while the opposition between Uranus in the water sign Pisces at the prow and Saturn in the earth sign Virgo astern strikes a basic chord.

Uranus and Saturn... Ouranos and Chronos… Here ancient myths are woven into a rich tapestry depicting the voyage of the Gondola… Uranus in Pisces in contrast to Saturn in Virgo...

Can opposites reflect one another? Identify with each other?

In the astrological symbolism Uranus stands for intuition and innovations as well as liberation and revolution. Saturn represents the opposite - the rational, limited, established and constant. A similar contradiction exists between Pisces and Virgo - the intuitive contrasts with the rational, freedom with restriction, spirit with matter.

Incompatible opposites, it seems. Or perhaps not. Is not our whole life an extraordinary expression of the unlikely unifying of polarities? An alchemical dance constantly going on despite its seeming impossibility?

Is not the fate of man to integrate within his own being the opposite polarities of heaven and earth? Of spirit and matter?

And is this not what gives meaning to life and hopefully so also to its apparent contrary - death?

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