-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-05 03:10:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> @ OURANUS IS URANUS IS HEAVEN! URANUS, THE KINGDOM IS AT HAND! Uranus is >the >> ruling planet of the age of Aquarius that we are now entering. As we look >> around we see that Uranus is true to its reputation, to shake traditional >> aspects of life & cause things to turn upside down. It's right on >schedule >> isn't it? In the Bible Jesus says, " The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." >> The New Testament was written in Greek and the Greek word for heaven is >> Ouranos. Uranus. What was actually being said was, " The Kingdom Of >Uranus >> is at hand," and we are witnesses to its changing power. Keep watching. >> http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/hidden.html#KINGDOM > >Uhhh, eh hem... Excuse me, but Heaven may be YOUR anus, but it sure isn't >mine! Speak for yourself, okay? Uh ... LOL A few observations here that may help remove your head from Uranus. (1) The term "Kingdom of Heaven" used in the NT is a EUPHEMISM -- avoiding direct reference to the name of God (Yhwh) in similar fashion as translating "Yhwh" in the Hebrew obliquely as "Lord" (Kurios) in the Greek (and therefore in English translation too). The more literal term "Kingdom of God" (="Divine Kingdom" or "GOD's Rule," in contrast to the rule or territory of CAESAR) is the preferred in the EARLIER Gospels. (2) In ancient astrology, back when the zodiac was new, the symbolism for the sign of Aquarius was that of a handsome youth holding a water jar or cup, in his role of "butler" or cupbearer to his Lord. In Sumerian myth, the youth was Adapa (the model for the Biblical Enoch), who recklessly flew to Heaven on the back of the divine Zu bird in order to steal the secret of immortality. In Greek myth, it was Ganymedes, whom sky-god Zeus (swooping down in totemic eagle form) seized and carried off to Olympus to serve as his servant and pederastic toy-boy. (For THAT reason, it's a fairly common belief among literate "New Age" homosexuals that the "Age of Aquarius" will establish a new culture based on "unisex" bonds and homosexuality in general, turning upside-down the "obsolete" Patriarchal social order.) In the Babylonian myth of Gilgamesh, in the 12 sequential "tablets" that portray the Sun King's course through the zodiac (a la "labors" of Hercules), the tablet corresponding to Aquarius tells the story of the prideful, violent race of men --those striving to be "like God," as the Serpent promised Adam & Eve-- whose hybris was punished by God in Noah's Flood. So, the one theme of Aquarius which all these archetypes have in common is the greedy intellect of mere mortals, who seek unauthorized entry to "Heaven" and acquisition of divine status, but who are then PUNISHED for their arrogance -- at best, they're "abducted by aliens" to be SLAVES. (3) The ancients held that the sign of Aquarius was ruled by the planet Saturn -- the planet ruling Law and Order (actually the Laws of Nature, which men tend to violate with impunity), but (also sharing rulership of Capricorn) in a more COLLECTIVE form, e.g., the GROUP ("hive") authority of councils and elders. Then, when the planet Uranus (originally named "Herschel," after its discoverer) was discovered in the late 1700s, coinciding with a revolutionary era, astrologers decided for the first time that Uranus was the true ruler of the sign Aquarius. They began to study its effects in individual natal charts, and what they concluded was that, first, "Uranians" were "deviates," prone to homosexuality (hence the term "Uranian" was often used in the Victorian Age to glorify gay and lesbian literati as "supermen" with "special" sensibilities), and secondly, were "rebels" temperamentally driven by compulsion to "shock" people with their unorthodox behavior -- "different" purely for the sake of "difference." In time, the influence of Uranus was detected in other areas generally more positive (despite its being most angular in galvanizing public speaker Hitler's chart and dominant in square to Bill Gates' sun), but even today among astrologers, Uranus in strong aspect to one of the EMOTIONAL or INSTINCTIVE planets (Moon or Venus) is a dead giveaway regarding sexual orientation. (Uranus in aspect to other planets tends to "dissociate" a person from the physical and the norm, resulting in a highly mentalized "objectivity," removed from "natural" feelings, and thus inclining toward a cool "scientific" non-identification with the physical world as most humans know it. Mental brilliance with inhuman indifference to others, except insofar as they provide food for thought and/or new, unusual experiences/experiments. They make good engineers, but also, good ideologues, terrorists, and Nazi doctors ...) Uranus apparently DOES rule Aquarius -- the good and bad of it, as earlier described. You're not too far off, in CERTAIN respects. A joke among astrologers has been, "Yes, men are from Mars, women are from Venus; but gays are more interested in Uranus." DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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