09-14-2019, 05:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-14-2019, 06:10 AM by Eric the Green.)
(11-14-2018, 09:33 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(09-16-2018, 09:12 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Tolkien (born 1892) was not a Lost at all. With his ecological sensitivity and whimsical hobby of constructing Elvish languages, he looks like a proto-Silent.
He was from South Africa, don't forget that. Some of them participated in the World Wars, but were those wars a real threat for SA? The events which shaped SA most were a) the Boer Wars and b) the end of apartheid, for better or for worse. Their last big change was in 1994, not 1945.
Checking: The Boer War went from 1899-1902. Tolkien was a kid then, and his parents would have protected him. Yes, fits that he became an Artist.
Also, he was born in the year that Neptune and Pluto exactly aligned. For some, that was a powerful and rare influence that broke through the Lost Generation's cynicism, much as Uranus and Pluto aligning did in the sixties for Gen X. Mostly though, the generation cycle trumped the astrological in personal traits, and mainly the astrological meanings were seen in the social and cultural trends of those times. But sometimes these conjunctions and alignments of the outer invisible planets do shine through the cynical generation born during them, and they indicate the genius and the penchant among a relatively few exceptional individuals for exploring the prophetic, the fantastic, the spiritually-aware and the altered states of consciousness that were prevalent in the times they were born into, despite the social disruption such 2T times have on the families and attitudes toward children that they are raised in.
These two rare conjunctions in 1892 and 1966 and surrounding years happened to coincide with 2T awakenings in the generational cycle, intensifying and doubling the power of both cycles, but this meant that the children raised during them were more likely to experience the neglect that S&H attribute to their growing up as cynical pragmatists who were not so interested in the awakening that was going on when they were born. So the generational cycle tended to obscure the astrological resonance of the conjunction in their birth charts. But a few geniuses like Tolkien can still shine through, especially if they are born in the exact conjunction year!
Of course it could be said that it was only the generational cycle at work in these times. For myself, though, that doesn't explain why I said in late June 1966 that I could feel the power of something happening, and then I discovered astrology, and that conjunctions among outer planets explain such times, and so I asked myself whether there was a conjunction going on then, and then looked it up and found to my amazement that the rare conjunction was exact on the very day I thought it was.