WWII in GR

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 11 06:58:19 CDT 2000


Howdy
--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
(snip)
> Leni's whispered words to Franz (415) from sometime in the early
> thirties
> are a cosmological prophecy, a warning which he did not hear, or did
(snip) ... ("The new planet Pluto," she had whispered long ago, lying
in
> the
>    smelly dark, her long Asta Nielsen upper lip gibbous that night as
> the
>    moon that ruled her, "Pluto is in my sign now, held tight in its
> claws.
>    It moves slowly, so slowly, and so far away . . . but it will
> burst out.
>    It is the grim phoenix which creates its own holocaust . . .
> *deliberate
>    resurrection*. Staged. Under control. No grace, no interventions
> by God.
>    Some are calling it the planet of National Socialism, Brunhubner
> and
>    that crowd, all trying to suck up to Hitler now. They don't know
> they
>    are telling the *literal truth* . . . Are you awake? Franz. . .
> .")
> 
> What could she sense, what is her power of oracle here? She is in the
> "claws" of the phoenix, astrological Pluto (thanks Uncle Douglas):
> she
> recognises her own fate. 

It read this differently: Pluto is the phoenix in the claws of Leni's
sign, Leni is not in the claws of the phoenix.  A question for Uncle
Douglas -- what sign or signs was Pluto traversing in the early
thirties, and what was its motion?

mark

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