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peace
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posted April 29, 2007 07:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for peace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
2 months late I know.

Q:
Since this occasion is celebrated every February,it falls into 2 Sun Signs Aqaurius & Pisces.Any relations?.

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posted April 29, 2007 02:24 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I dont know but good question.
It actually used to be a week the 2nd week of February but eventually it became a month long event. The original week was to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas.

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posted April 30, 2007 12:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for peace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sun Signs:Aquarius & Pisces and how it relates to Black people:

Aquarius/the Inventor
Black people created rap music

Pisces/the Poet
Rap music + rhymes
Soul music(deep feelings)

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posted May 01, 2007 12:13 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I never thought of the Pisces/Aquarius connection to this. something to think about though.

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Dulce Luna
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posted May 01, 2007 12:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Black people created rap music


Actually, what is now called hip-hop originated in the Bronx between an X number of people (I can't remember the exact number) who were African American and Hispanic.

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Mama Mia
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posted May 01, 2007 12:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mama Mia     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is what I know about black history month and why it is in Feb..

Also from what I know blacks were the first to bring hip hop out. We started with Curtis Blow and grand master flash..That movie Brown Sugar tells alot..However Hip hop has nothing to do with black history month..


Black History Month


Black History Month is the successor to Negro History Week which was initiated on February 12, 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a pre-eminent historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Woodson was concerned that the contributions of Black Americans were overlooked or misrepresented and he began lobbying for Negro History Week as early as 1915. He selected February because it included the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and Frederick Douglass (February 14) whom he believed had dramatically impacted the lives of Black Americans.

In 1976, Woodson's legacy, now renamed the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, successfully lobbied to extend Black History Week into a month-long observance.

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Dulce Luna
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posted May 01, 2007 01:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
African Americans may have been the ones to bring out Hip-Hop but they weren't the only ones to help create it, that's what I really getting at.

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alanabelle86
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posted May 01, 2007 03:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for alanabelle86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
that's true, Dulce

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Passionate Pisces022586
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posted May 01, 2007 03:50 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi Peace,

Interesting topic
However, I think there is no connection with black history month falling into the signs of Pisces and Aquarius

To me (being a black female)

I celebrate black history month every day because I am thankful from where I came from and what my ancestors did.So in that case black history month will fall under every sign!!

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Moon Virgo 8th house
Sun Pisces 1st house
Venus Pisces 2nd house
Mercury Pisces 2nd house
Jupiter Pisces 1st house
Mars Sagittarius 11th
Uranus Sagittarius 11th
Saturn Sagittarius 10th
Neptune Capricorn 12th
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Belage
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posted May 02, 2007 12:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Belage     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Black history month is celebrated in America, not all over the world, so it's an AMERICAN phenomenon. Not surprising that it's falling on a month dominated by Aquarius and to a lesser extent by Pisces.

In America, blacks are perceived as different, upsetting, unpredictable, revolutionary, unusual, all of which are Aquarian/Uranus characteristics.

The Pisces part has to do with the dancing and music connotations.

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Dulce Luna
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posted May 02, 2007 12:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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In America, blacks are perceived as different, upsetting, unpredictable, revolutionary, unusual, all of which are Aquarian/Uranus characteristics.


Wow, that's a very interesting way to connect blacks in America to the Aqua/uranus influence.

I am black but not African American and once found it interesting how astrologers connected my culture to the sign of Cancer because of the familial structuring in our society..

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posted May 02, 2007 01:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Belage     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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"I am black but not African American and once found it interesting how astrologers connected my culture to the sign of Cancer because of the familial structuring in our society. I thought that was cool as well."

Dulce Luna, I can see how Black Africans could be connected to the sign of Cancer, as Africa is often referred to as "Mother Africa", or as the origin (womb) of mankind. These are all Cancerian traits.

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posted May 02, 2007 04:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for alanabelle86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't see any distinct reasons why it should fall in the month of Aquarius/Pisces.


Maybe some interesting correlations that

1) Aquarius- Throughout American history, we've always been the extreme outcast always seeking a great freedom and liberation that is always held off for "another day or the future", being just out of our grasp. And so we've constantly rebelled against brick wall after brick wall which can make us seem like the great "upsetters" of the Country at times.

Also, being outcast in that our status in America was unlike any other race that has ever been known here. Out of place and unusual in that we originally did not come here willfully, and (correct me if I'm wrong), I believe we were the only race that was forced here for purely economic purpose. Funny how Lincoln, called the Great Liberator, is also an Aqua.

All the changes in history made in our benefit has come in a sudden, eruptive, and violent change. It's never been something that has been discussed and passed calmly. Its always been through intense tension and rebellion.

2)Pisces - interesting because of all the sorrows, disillusionment, ill-perceptions, secret truths, spirituality, hopelessness, and undoing in our past, present, and future as a whole. Always the underdog it seems, and when we try to overcome that we're looked down upon.

Even guilt. I know when I was far younger, and attending far less open-minded and accepting schools, they didn't openly acknowledge Black History Month. And often, being the only African-American student, I felt so out of place, outcasted, and guilty for being proud. Because I'd always hear we didn't deserve a "month" etc.

Those are Aqua/Piscean emotions...so Idk. I love Black History Month. Hooray for it. :-)


Not preaching just correlating. Tell me if I'm off base.

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Dulce Luna
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posted May 02, 2007 04:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Dulce Luna, I can see how Black Africans could be connected to the sign of Cancer, as Africa is often referred to as "Mother Africa", or as the origin (womb) of mankind. These are all Cancerian traits.

Oh that's cool, I wasn't actually thinking about those either. I was thinking of strong emphasis on the family and the way we structure our families, not only with Black Africans, but also with the Nilotic people or African-Arabs of the North. But that's interesting to note as well too!

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)Pisces - interesting because of all the sorrows, disillusionment, ill-perceptions, secret truths, spirituality, hopelessness, and undoing in our past, present, and future as a whole. Always the underdog it seems, and when we try to overcome that we're looked down upon.

That's a great connection made to the sign of Pisces. I would also agree with it.

Its interesting to me to study the whole affects of the Diaspora on other cultures. Like for instance, I find that many Southern Foods are the same foods I eat back at home. I've also find the same thing with Hispanic foods as well. Even some of the words in my native tongue are similar to Spanish words along with the structure....but that may be due to Portuguese influence on my mother tongue.

My Opinion on Black History month is that it is great but it is more a reflection of Black-American History which I don't wholely identify with (mainly because it isn't my history). Nevertheless, its interesting and empowering.

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posted May 02, 2007 05:07 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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I am black but not African American and once found it interesting how astrologers connected my culture to the sign of Cancer because of the familial structuring in our society

dulce, i'm quite interested, what exactly is your ancestry if your black and not african american?

by the way, do you live in the USA?

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posted May 02, 2007 05:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh, Hi Neptune! You just caught me in the nick of time.

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dulce, i'm quite interested, what exactly is your ancestry if your black and not african american?

by the way, do you live in the USA?


Don't you remember, I'm a Mozambican! My ancestry is actually pretty mixed though because I have 2 grandparents who are mixed with Portuguese. Virtually everyone has some of that back at home.

And yeah, I live in Rhode Island.

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posted May 02, 2007 06:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Belage     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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All the changes in history made in our benefit has come in a sudden, eruptive, and violent change. It's never been something that has been discussed and passed calmly. Its always been through intense tension and rebellion.

2)Pisces - interesting because of all the sorrows, disillusionment, ill-perceptions, secret truths, spirituality, hopelessness, and undoing in our past, present, and future as a whole. Always the underdog it seems, and when we try to overcome that we're looked down upon.


Great insights Alanabelle!! There is an Uranian quality to the changes surrounding African Americans. In this country, AA are considered a wild card, in more ways than one...

Regarding the guilt associated with Pisces, don't forget that the guilt feeling is also experienced by non-AA for the past historical injustices toward AA. IMO that guilt feeling is rarely acknowledged, rather subtarrenean, but always in the background and sometimes used for political purposes by unscrupulous politicians.

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posted May 02, 2007 07:08 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
oh thats cool dulce, its funny because i never even remembered you saying you were mozambican. And actually theres a program online, well not for you because you know your ancestry, but for people like me, and its called africanancestry.com and you take a test to see where in Africa your ancestors were from. Once i get some cash i'll be doing that and i'll tell everyone the results. But on my dads side i'm jamaican,

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africanancestry.com and you take a test to see where in Africa your ancestors were from.

oh and just to clarify, its not an online or written test, its a biological swab (the DNA thing, yea)

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Dulce Luna
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posted May 02, 2007 07:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh yeah, I know which test you're talking about. I saw a Special for it on PBS with all these celebrities taking it. I'd like to take that test myself actually.....just out of curiosity to see. I already have an idea of what parts of the map would be highlighted.

I can already guess at face-value that most Africans in the Americas originate from West Africa. We in East Africa weren't largely selling slaves to the Europeans....we sold to the Arabs and Persians instead. But even that wasn't on a large scale; it was only one part of our trade relationship with them. The Europeans were the ones who came to Africa mainly for slaves and this mostly took place in West Africa.

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alanabelle86
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posted May 02, 2007 08:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for alanabelle86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I wish I knew my ancestors. I might check out that site. I've always wanted to do that. I do know on both sides of the family my great-great-greats were slaves but that's about it. I wish I had even a mild clue. I do know there's some native american blood mixed in, through my maternal side and west indian on my paternal side...but that's it.

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