6/29 aka 29/6: Operation Leo Rising
Part 1 of The Wholesome Astrology of the Chosen Nation.
You may have missed it, fellow diggers, with all the chaos of the Great Test of Faith that was the middle of June… but your resident Leo Stellium Stargazer most certainly did not.
Operation Rising Lion
Sorry… Operation what?
What is the official inspiration for Rising Lion?
It is a provocative name, for sure: but what else would you expect, from a Nation who’s Leonine Luna sits proudly at the top of the sky?
This is quite the Moon placement, as we will get back to at the conclusion of this multi-part wholesome (but very high-stakes) celebrity horoscope: and even more Leonine, when we consider Ares, Kronos and Hades — the three archetypal villains of the Skyclock — sitting there beside her.
For now, we might look to Luna — as we do so often, and particularly here, in that company and at perhaps her most Dramatic — for a deeper symbolic inspiration for Operation Rising Lion.
Or, perhaps, we can go just a bit deeper into the Skyclock for our true inspiration — what time exactly did the Lion officially Rise?
HERMES
Well, would you look at that: the Lesser Benefic, Aphrodite in her home surrounds, graciously bestowing the exact ascending point of the Eastern Horizon with her presence. Very appropriate for a Libra Rising Nation, with Aphrodite as their Ruler: at her most notorious and emotional in the 10th Whole Sign House of Cancer.
That would be a Ruling Aphrodite that was just made even larger-than-life by an Exalted Jupiter New Moon on the 25th: 12 days after the Lion Rose.
Interestingly, four days before that, on the day of the Solstice, the vaguely United States launched their own OPERATION against fine people of Persia:
OPERATION- no, sorry:
OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER
Extraordinary celestial geometry on its own terms (surely a Hall of Fame-r): the peak of those dual Ares-Hades Middle Fingers of God — one to Saturn-Neptune and one to Sun-Jupiter, themselves in Square — with Ares still breaking free of a Square to Prometheus, now shaping up for his August stare-down with Kronos from Libra as he turns that Minor Grand Trine into a Kite; all with Luna and Aphrodite cosy-ing up in more Exaltation, and ALL in the midst of a Celestial Serpent: stuck in a fully-catered first-class celestial vehicle full of snakes.
6/24 aka 24/6: To Live In Serpentine Times
There is a lot that could be said about tomorrow’s Exalted Jupiter New Moon Chart.
Although: nothing apparently obvious about the exact time of the hammer dropping — aside from the symbolic and aesthetic power of pushing the orange button as a Solstice Sol sets over the western horizon with an Exalted Zeus.
If we plug in Tehran time, however, we find our Wounded Centaur Chiron — of wounds and sacrifice — on the Ascendant.
Yikes: that feels somewhat… personal.
Anyway: back to Operation Rising Lion aka
Aphrodite Ascending is fun, but it is Ares that we really should be looking at, accelerating towards the end of Leo and a degree away from a Square to Uranus.
If we plug that back into The Chosen Chart, we can see that Operation Leo Rising was launched not just with Aphrodite on the Ascendant, but within a Degree of an exact Chosen Mars Return.
Which means that Mars in the sky also would have been Conjunct Regulus, just as The Chosen Mars is also Conjunct Regulus.
Which means, of course, that the Chosen Mars is Conjunct the Mars — AND THE LEO RISING — of the Supreme Orange Leader of the Realm, who you and I know more affectionately as the Tangerine Terrorist.
Of course, respectable pundits would not dare suggest that Operation Rising Lion was almost certainly a carefully executed Skyclock Ritual.
Certainly, they would not entertain that the entire operation was branded to be a very clever and very personalised ego stroke from the Chosen Nation to its Chosen Citrus — a Citrus who seems to hold the fate of that Nation in his chubby orange mittens.
Conversely, your wombat will simply tap the Sign again:
The Tangerine Terrorist is my favorite moniker for the golden golem 🤣
I'm linking this into my research for the OMGdess book I just officially started writing. The Biblical quotes and prophecy make the point exactly. In When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone writes about the 'battle-axe cultures.' And here they are being claimed proudly by God the fukker, Yahweh.
Tangerine terrorist is excellent. I suspect that the whole Bible is a literary usurping of fem-centric cultures. Along with Isis-Ra-El, I've read that the tribe of Judah came from the Moors. Would that be now Morocco? So the Lioness of Judah was never Yahweh's pet. On to your next post on the Churlish Chosen!