The Revolution
of 1860 has been initiated.
–The Mercury
newspaper (Charleston), reproduced in Bruce Catton’s The Civil War.
USA:
II. The Civil War
i: Secession of South Carolina
The
election of Abraham Lincoln on November 6, 1860, was interpreted by the South
as a clear signal to dissolve the union of the States. South Carolina was
the first to vote for secession on December 20, 1860, followed by Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana the following January and by Texas
on February 1, 1861.
During his inaugural address,
Lincoln warned that he would “hold, occupy, and possess” Federal property
located in Confederate territory. Lincoln was pointedly referring to Fort
Sumter, a military stronghold still brazenly flying the Union flag in the
heart of the Confederacy. After Southern forces surrounded the important harbor
fort with military encampments and unsuccessfully negotiated with the North
to abandon it, Lincoln announced his decision to reinforce Sumter with supplies.
Jefferson Davis then issued the command to shell the fort. Under the Confederate
command of P.T.G. Beauregard, the first shot was fired from nearby Cummings
Point, commencing thirty-four hours of shelling. (See my essay below: “The
Shelling of Fort Sumter.”) Sumter surrendered to the Confederate forces on
April 13, at 2:30 P.M., thus ending a bloodless “battle” (Primary Mars) that
signified the beginning of an incredibly “bloody war” (Mars) between the States:
one that would result in “widespread collective transformation” (Primary Mars
/ Secondary Pluto).
In the astrocartography calculated
for South Carolina’s secession, Primary Mars forms a wide Transcendental Midpoint-Field
with Secondary Pluto over thirty-two of the thirty-four states that formed
the United States at that time. Primary Mars rises over western Texas and
the central U.S., while Secondary Pluto rises east of New England, over Newfoundland
and the Atlantic. The two states excluded from this field–California and Oregon–were
the only two that were relatively uninvolved in the war, because of their
distance from the conflict. The Mars / Pluto pairing symbolizes “violent /
social and political upheaval” and eerily echoes the quotation from the Mercury
newspaper (above): “Revolution” (Secondary Pluto) “initiated” (Primary Mars).
Revised
& updated:
5 August 2005
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I. Introduction
II. Transcendental Biographies
| III. Transcendental Events
IV. Psychic inflation
- Summary of Planetary Symbolism
- Transcendental
Planets
V. Nodes / the Triple-zero Transcendental | Appendices: Orbs / References / Data
Additional Maps | Bibliography | FAQ
Postscript:
I. Interview in Astrolore
| II. Transcendental Nations
| III. American Presidents
& LAP Saturn
IV. World Events | V. Numinous Consciousness
VI. The LAP as a metaphor of the soul | VII.
Zones of Intensity |
VIII. Complete Index of Names and Events
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