The Louvre Heist

by Jane Lewis

When word of a daring heist at The Louvre hit the airwaves on 19^th October I wasn’t at first sure if this was a promo for a new Pink Panther film I was hearing.  What a heist -  £72million worth of French crown jewels disappearing down a ladder onto a get-away scooter on the banks of the river Seine!  Was that the old-fashioned telephone bell I could hear ringing in Inspector Clouseau’s office?  Sadly, it was true.

Scorpio is the natural ruler of the 8^th house of other peoples’ money, of audacious acts in the secret world of underground criminal gangs.  Of course, it also covers much less sensational things such as joint bank accounts, wills, legacies and insurances.  At 9.30 am Paris local time when the thieves brazenly climbed in through an upstairs window Scorpio, the most nefarious as well as the most sacred of signs, was rising on the horizon of the event chart.  Gangster Mars was bang on the Scorpio ascendant visible for all to see, accompanied by cheeky, fleet-of-foot Mercury, these making lucky trines with exalted Jupiter and the moon’s north node.  A week later news of the first arrests has started to filter through but it’s feared that the jewels will have been broken up days ago and disappeared into the dark criminal underworld.  The event chart also reveals a grand trine in air signs, incriminating the Moon and Venus with Uranus and Pluto.  No doubt, some heads will roll in the months and years to come but for how long will the perpetrators ultimately get to enjoy the great abundance of wealth they carried off?

Mars and Pluto co-rule Scorpio.  As the Sun moves through Scorpio hidden secrets may be brought to light and the criminal masterminds behind the robbery and their deeper motives exposed, although details are unlikely to be made public for some considerable time.

Scorpio and Pluto are linked closely with things kept hidden behind closed doors, in the dark and secret.  Both in the outer world and inner world of our unconscious drives and motives.  Sacred means secret.  The planet and sign relate to the colours black and white, to the light and the dark, both of which contain the other and define the other in a sacred marriage, like yin and yang.  White Eagle himself has a particularly strong connection with Scorpio, indeed the portrait of him in his First Nation feathered headdress hints at this through the cross in the circle badge he wears in the ‘8^thhouse position’ of his face.  What’s more, the 8^th-9^th cusp is emphasised by the little diagonal line within it.

It is the Way of things, the Tao,  that light and dark live together inextricably linked, one defining the other.   In the natural world in the northern hemisphere the days are now shortening fast as the dark gradually increases until the mid-winter solstice when it will be at its greatest.  The time of greatest darkness contains the seed of light within it, which starts to grow the very minute the dark has reached its fullest extent.  So, it can be said that birth begins at the moment of death, and the path towards death starts at the moment of birth.  Good contains evil, evil contains good.  Our short lives on planet Earth provide the soul with opportunities to learn a little more each time about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Evil, the dark face, constantly waxes and wanes like the cycles of the moon.  The light and dark weave their paths around one another not only in big news events ‘out there’ but through the small daily events of each of our individual lives.  When we are affected strongly by the transits of Saturn and the outer planets beyond its orbit (Pluto, Neptune, Uranus) the universe is trying to teach us something very profound about this interplay, and so Scorpio and Pluto are two of the most arresting agencies that demand our fullest attention.