{"id":4049,"date":"2025-07-24T22:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2025-07-24T22:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:20:46","slug":"new-moon-in-leo-july-24-2025-1911-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=4049","title":{"rendered":"New Moon in Leo \u2013 July 24, 2025, 19:11 UT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Moon at 2+ Leo is tightly in cojunction with centaur Echeclus and opposite Pluto at 2+ Aquarius. The Echeclus-Pluto opposition is exact on July 26, 2025. Echeclus and Pluto oppose each other five times between September 2024 and June 2026, and this is the midmost of those oppositions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Echeclus was discovered in 2000 and classified as a minor planet. However, it has undergone several outbursts since its discovery. In 2006 it was also given a comet designation. Also Chiron and a few other objects are cross-listed as both a comet and a centaur. Echeclus belongs to a small subgroup of comets called Chiron-type comets, whose other members include Chiron and 39P\/Oterma. The orbital period of Echeclus is about 35 years and its diameter about 60 kilometers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Echeclus was named after the Greek centaur who fought in the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths. He was killed with a hit in the face with a lance that lacked its point. Loss of face (figuratively) or having one’s identity shattered has been suggested as the astrological meaning of Echeclus. Taking this a little further, espionage could be related to this, especially when Echeclus is in aspect with Pluto. A spy operates secretly and pretends to be someone other than he\/she is.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I think the factors of the discovery chart of Echeclus support this. Echeclus was discovered on March 3, 2000 at 16+ Virgo, in exact square to Chiron and Arawn at 16+ Sagittarius. Arawn was the Welsh ruler of the otherworld, who switched places and appearance with a mortal man, and then back again. Nobody noticed. The Sabian symbol for the Sun’s degree 14 Pisces is \u201cA lady in fox fur<\/i>\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Image: Madame Craucher with her chauffeur Boris Wolkowski in 1930s (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

Minna Craucher<\/b><\/span><\/span> (Aug. 23, 1891 \u2013 March 8, 1932) <\/span><\/span>was the false name of <\/span>Maria Lindell<\/span>,<\/span><\/span> a Finnish socialite and spy. Her home was a noted salon for various writers and artists, and a gathering place for the literaty group <\/span><\/span>Tulenkantajat<\/i><\/span><\/span>, for instance. <\/span><\/span>Minna Craucher can be considered a fictional character that Maria Lindell created for herself. In addition the name, she also created an education and a noble family background for herself. <\/span><\/span>Craucher became involved in the right-wing Lapua Movement. She began to be suspected of being a communist agent, which <\/span><\/span>led to her murder in 1932. Craucher’s Echeclus in late Leo is in conjunction with her Sun, sextile to Uranus in Libra, and semisextile to Mercury in Virgo.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another famous Finnish spy and salon hostess was the writer and cultural influencer Hella Wuolijoki<\/b> (July 22, 1886 \u2013 Feb. 2, 1954), known for her <\/span>Niskavuori<\/i><\/span> series.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Wuolijoki was a member of the Finnish Parliament and also served as the director of the national broadcasting company, YLE.<\/span><\/span> S<\/span><\/span>he had secret connections with the Soviet intelligence.<\/span><\/span> She maintained a transit point, the most famous user of which was John Reed, while traveling from the United States to Russia. Wuolijoki was arrested in 1943 for hiding a Soviet paratrooper spy on a mission. She was sentenced to prison for treason. Hella Wuolijoki’s Echeclus in early Leo is in conjuntion with her Sun in the last degree of Cancer, sextile to Pluto in Gemini, and sextile to Jupiter and Uranus in Libra.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alger Hiss<\/b> (Nov. 11, 1904 \u2013 Nov. 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of espionage in the late 1940s and convicted of perjury. Whether he was guilty or not continue to be debated. The Scorpio Sun of Alger Hiss is in conjunction with Echeclus.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Stig Bergling<\/b><\/span><\/span> (March 1, 1937 \u2013 Jan. 24, 2015) was a Swedish Security Service officer who spied for the Soviet Union. He was arrested and <\/span><\/span>sentenced to life imprisonment <\/span><\/span><\/span>in 1979. His escape and defection to Moscow via Finland in 1987 caused a great stir. <\/span><\/span>For health reasons he voluntarily returned to Sweden in 1994. Bergling’s Echeclus in late Libra is squaring tightly his Pluto in Cancer and opposing Venus in Aries. The time of his birth is <\/span><\/span><\/span>unknown, but in the noon chart Echeclus is exactly conjunct his Moon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> Alexander Litvinenko<\/b><\/span><\/span> (Aug. 30, 1962 \u2013 Nov. 23, 2006) was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, who had fled to London and was granted asylum in the United Kingdom. In November 2006, Litvinenko fell ill because of polonium poisoning. Litvinenko met with two former agents earlier on the day. He died a few weeks later. A British investigation identified a former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoy as the main suspect. Litvinenko has a stellium in Virgo. The Sun is in tight conjunction with Echeclus, and the other planets in Virgo are Uranus, Pluto, and the Moon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The second Echeclus-Pluto opposition of the current series took place on Dec. 26, 2024. On the previous day happened the <\/span><\/span>Estlink 2 cable incident<\/b><\/span><\/span> in the Gulf of Finland (Dec. 25, 2024, 12:26 EET -2:00). The oil tanker Eagle S, part of the Russian shadow fleet, intentionally caused the cable ruptures by dragging its anchor. The officers of the ship are suspected of aggravated vandalism and aggravated interference with telecommunications. An expert has estimated that Russia’s shadow ships may be commanded by an invisible captain. In reality, the commander who makes the decisions would be in a lower-ranking position than the captain on paper. An “invisible captain” and a spy have a lot in common, both are busy in the shadows doing something completely different than what is visible to others.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A week ago, coinciding with the third Echeclus-Pluto opposition aspect, we were surprised by the sighting of an <\/span><\/span>Indian warship sailing in the Gulf of Bothnia<\/b><\/span><\/span>. The Tamal frigate is Russian-made and was handed over to India in July. The reasons for the ship’s strange route can only be guessed at. The authorities were closely monitoring the situation. There have been speculations that the ship was spying for Russia.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Moon at 2+ Leo is tightly in cojunction with centaur Echeclus and opposite Pluto at 2+ Aquarius. The Echeclus-Pluto opposition is exact on July 26, 2025. Echeclus and Pluto oppose each other five times between September 2024 and June 2026, and this is the midmost of those oppositions. Echeclus was discovered in 2000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[131,194,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}