{"id":45211,"date":"2012-08-24T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/entry\/?guid=02fee404c511605f10adf5478f468abd"},"modified":"2012-09-15T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T16:59:18","slug":"medusas-talking-heads-astrology-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=45211","title":{"rendered":"Medusa’s Talking Heads – Astrology & Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bleak, emotive, conflicted, the subject of Rape seems at the moment to suddenly be a ‘hot topic’ with the world\u2019s media. Instances in the news includes the reporting of U.S Missouri Republican Todd Akin remarks<\/span><\/p>\n

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Actually in the real world, one in six women in America has been the victim of an actual or attempted rape with about 9000 abortions every year as a result of rape pregnancies. The number of abortions would be far more but for the fact that about 15% of victims are under the age of 12 and cant get pregnant. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The current struggle between Wikileaks front man Julian Assange and allegations that he sexual molested\/coerced\/raped two women in Sweden is clouded by high profile and often misguided opinions of rape put forward by politicians and supporters. <\/span>Of course everybody has had a say about what constitutes a rape such as U.K Respect Party M.P George Galloway’s  “it’s not rape as most people understand it” and <\/span>calling the behaviour just “bad sexual etiquette”. Actress <\/span>Dame Helen Mirren revealed that she was date raped twice but said that date rape ‘is not for the courts’<\/span>. Financier Ben Goldsmith tweeted that he was with Galloway and that the trumped up Swedish charges are a ruse as does rapper M.I.A. Also British Politician The Right Honourable Anthony Wedgwood Benn says that although the sex with the two women may well have been non-consensual, it does not constitute a rape. The women involved have not been really heard yet and are simply seen as ‘opportunists’ at best or ‘puppets’ in a conspiracy. The courts are apparently controlling the ways things are handled and the media are cranking it up somehow the issues surrounding rape appears to being used by various bodies for their own reasons.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Three people associated with the Jordanian Paralympic squad have also been arrested following allegations of sexual assault in County Antrim and have been flown home. T<\/span>here has also been news of the rape of a 14 year old boy frogmarched in broad daylight in a busy city shopping centre in Manchester, England. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In the U.S <\/span><\/span>Paul Ryan is helping out the debate with, ‘Rape is only Rape if the Offender specifies’ but then backed off by saying that the issue was a sideline. President Obama was drawn into the debate coming up with ‘<\/span><\/span>Rape is rape… The idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we\u2019re talking about doesn\u2019t make sense to the American people and certainly doesn\u2019t make sense to me.’ I<\/span>n the UK Kenneth Clarke suggesting ‘there are other <\/span>categories of rape’<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is obvious institutionalised rape due to arranged marriages and now forced marriages<\/a> in Morocco where the rapist can marry his victim in order to ‘take away the shame brought on her family’ or the rapes of ‘unveiled’ women in Sweden by Muslim gangs. The Times of India had six stories of a variety of rapes on one online page, including the gang-rapes of 16 year olds, the burning of a 14 year old rape victim and a 4 year old ‘Dalit’ girl from the ‘untouchable’ caste all increasing in frequency and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a nasty, disturbing and gut wrenching topic, with confused and confusing voices adding to the debate – and it is global. It is a misery that biographies and personal histories all over the globe give testament to the unending and pernicious endurance of this brutal act of violence. One small slip-up can have life-long damage and repercussions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With the battles over definitions, caught up in the semantics, we are plunged into the ambiguities of what constitutes rape – what it is and what isn\u2019t \u2018it\u2019 – all of which can befuddle, prolong and ultimately stall the process of dealing on a practical level with the prevention and consequences of rape. <\/span><\/span>Honest and clear debate must refine \u2018common sense\u2019 it can shine the light of awareness into very dark and murky places indeed. Information and education surely can lead the way, accidents and ignorance can be minimized. This will not affect an individual who uses their conscious choice to commit an act of rape, to act fully knowing they are overriding the other person\u2019s choice and \u2018do it anyway\u2019. However as a race we humans should strive for greater understanding of every aspect of this issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Astrologically \u2018rape\u2019 is symbolised traditionally and in myth by the planet Pluto, who despite being \u2018demoted\u2019 by the astronomical establishment a while back, seems nonetheless to have a will of its own and is possibly flexing its muscle (excuse the inuendo) \u201cahha don\u2019t ignore or demote what I am about, here\u2019s a reminder of my worst bits\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Pluto is about Power and it is clear that rape is not about sex but about the abuse of power. Women are physically weaker than men generally and violence against women appears to be endemic because of the fact that someone has the physical ability to use force against you. Pluto is the God of the Underworld who one day spies the beautiful young Persephone as she is innocently gathering flowers away from her mothers reach and protection. Pluto desires Persephone, and does not hold back from taking what he desires. It is his unalienable \u2018right\u2019. Pluto rapes and abducts Persephone taking her down into his realm and crowns her his Queen. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Beside herself with grief her mother Ceres (Greek:Demeter – suffering her own rape\/incest by Poseidon) consigns the world to wither, nothing grew in her state of despair which <\/span><\/span>consequently leads Pluto to agree under sufferance to release Persephone for 6 months of every year and for Ceres to allow the world to flourish for that time. She then has to return to Pluto’s hell and the world goes cold again (an easy divide is Summer and Winter). So whilst Persephone can never forget her fate, as a result of Cere\u2019s intervention she gets to spend half of the year back with her mother. She can never escape she just has \u2018moments away\u2019. She has lost her innocence, perhaps it could be argued, this is right, infantilisation will not lead to psychological health. And what you may wonder would Persephone have answered if ASKED if she wanted to have sex with Pluto? <\/span><\/span>
This myth suggests the answer will always be NO until innocence is breached, we will never want to leave maternal safety left to our infantile desires, consequently it will always feel like \u2018a taking against our will’ – ‘a rape of innocence’.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The whole thing is very ambiguous although there is the \u2018No means No\u2019 campaign which attempts to cut through such ambiguity. No is No whether said if you have had sex before with that person or with countless others. No is No – whatever clothing one is dressed or undressed in. No is No at whatever point in the proceedings the word is uttered. No is No no matter how awkward, frustrating or confusing the moment it is uttered. No is no even if not uttered but clearly implied or suggested. No is No when another person does not want any part of their body to be penetrated by any object or body part. <\/span>

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