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CONTENT Author Page Saptarishis Astrology 4 Saptarishis Astrology 11
Article 1 Vol 4 Publitorial ‐ Part 1 2 Vol 4 Publitorial ‐ Part 2
Western Astrology 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Elections Launch Your Book ‐ Living Birth Chart The Stock Market Crash of Oct 08 & Beyond Astrology, Switchwords & Energy Healing Techniques Discover Your Past Life & Heal Thy Present Economic Forecast Rendezvous With John Frawley Magi Analysis ‐ Franklin D Roosevelt An Astrological History Of Hyper Inflation Edward Bach & the Power of Flowers
Ron Bippus, Canada Joyce Hopewell, U.K Robert Gover, USA Kat Miller, USA
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Holly Hall, USA Constantine Semenov, Crimea Saptarishis Astrology Sandy Crowther, USA Robert Gover, USA Stefan Ball, USA
46 51 59 69 85 95
Yenbeeyes, India Saptarishis Astrology
98 108 123 132 137 145 151 160 172 180 189 204 214 218 222 236 248 250 257 263 273
Indian Astrology 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
Saptarishis Nadi ‐ Gemini Asc ‐ Chart 1 Bhrighu Saral Paddathi ‐ 1 Gripping Of Nodes ‐ Part 2 Secrets Of Ascendants My Gurudev (Hindi) Suryaat Nakshatra Bindu ‐ 3 Dnyaneshwari ‐ Chapter 2 Thandavamalai ‐ 2 My Journey In Hindu Astrology Mandook Dasa ‐ A Proper Exposition Rohini Nak Padas In Ravana Samhita Bhrighu Saral Paddathi ‐ 2 Padma Chakra ‐2 Astrology ‐ A Road Map Of Our Life Blasts in India ‐ 2 Sukar Nadi ‐ 3 31st Jan 2009 Venus in Trine with Malefics ‐ Part 1 Vedic Vastu‐ 3 Key Notes ‐ 1 Sri Sri Tadepalli Shastry Garu ‐1
Babu Yodh & B.D.Vaghela, India
Ashok Upadhaya, India Upendra Bhadoriya, India Paresh Desai, India V.V.Shirvaikar, USA R.Ramanathan, India PVR Rayadu, India Iranganti Rangacharya, India Rushikesh Deshpande, U.K Saptarishis Astrology Pramod Bhavsar, India Dr. Roopa Vohra, India Vilas Deo, India Saptarishis Astrology Team SA R.G.Krishnan, USA M.M.Mistry, India Saptarishis Astrology Shreeram Balijepalli, Canada
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Saptarishis Blessings || Gururbrahmaa Gururvishnu Gururdevo Maheshvarah || || GururSakshaat Parambrahma, Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah||
Vol 4 – Publitorial – Part 1
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t was an issue to remember befitting the homage to an Old Master of the Science who had passed away. It was a 425 page Vol. reaching over 96 countries with 15937 visitors as of 1st Dec, 2008 (Vol. 3 was around 5515 visitors – 77 countries) the detailed statistics of it can be downloaded along with the log report in the download section of the site. We would henceforth refrain in supplying stats as it’s in a way boasting around. We do not know much about computers & sites so with our limited knowledge of website technology we foolishly gave links to the log reports in last Publitorial and the webmaster later disengaged it next day. Scolding us, that people can do cyber attacks if log reports are given out openly. Our apologies. Must break our tradition now & quote USA Vedic Astrologer Sandy Crowther: ‘Saptarishis Astrology…it is truly a remarkable publication for the astrological community…I don’t know how you all do it, but your efforts (with the arrival of each new issue), seem to TOP the last issue…which I always think cannot be beat! Anyone with eyes and a heart can surely see the life energies that are put into this wondrous publication. Thank you again. Though the above is of the milder accolades that have been received kindly note the word heart & which we would link in Part 2 of the Publitorial. Sandy’s & others blessings must go to the writers, volunteers, copy editors, proof readers, translators, designers & webmaster who slog day and night, they need an applause for the revolution these handful of astro lovers exhibit to the entire astro community, displaying fully a new concept of ‘Giving Back To the Community’ & maybe to themselves in their next lives as we all would have this website still functioning when we are reborn giving easy access to learn as compared to print magazines where we cannot access old issues. The merit of this charity of education will be earned in this life or next depending on the sign of the 3rd house of one’s chart apart from other factors that need to be considered.
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ongratulations must be accorded to those who predicted Obama’s outcome and standing ovation to R.G.Krishnan of USA, DiNorah Kitchener of Canada & Anthony of Hawaii through his dreams prediction which was sent to us via email prior to the event. It is noteworthy that R.G. Krishnan used the newly revealed CSP Arc Method (published Vol. 3) which is not dependent on the correct birth time and even a Western Astrology adept can master it in an hour with some guidance. Norah used profections which is similar to BCP method and she had predicted in Saptarishis Astrology Vol 2, indicating that Hillary would be the 2nd in command. As we write this there are news reports that Hillary could become the Secretary of State which is more powerful than being Vice President.
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Let’s face it; we all saw what the name Condoleezza Rice came to mean in world politics in the last few years. There is an astrologer who is 92 years old and praise to him for still pursuing & predicting at this age, sticking to a technique called Age Harmonics (we have requested him to write on this method whenever he can for SA). He is from Netherlands and we had wanted him to present the prediction he made in the The Real Astrology forum months back, but due to his age he is not in a position to compose an article for us. Our love for elderly astrologers & astrology compels us to give a standing ovation to Sir Paul Langeveld who predicted in July 2008 the outcome on the TRA forum which is produced below. Van:
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[email protected]] Namens P.Langeveld Verzonden: woensdag 2 july 2008 17:23 Aan:
[email protected] Onderwerp: [therealastrology] RE: Obama president 4 November2008 for sure Hi TRA, Now that we have the right time of birth of Obama I made a new investigation about the election and I found that Obama will win without any doubt ! I am sorry that it is impossible to send the charts by which it will be proved, like the 12th Harm. Solar Return, the 4th Harm Lunar Return and finally the 47,25357 Harmonic Age by Yahoo, but anybody who would like to have them has only to send me their Email address and I'll send them by return. Paul
His Mail To Us Gentlemen, It's my pleasure to inform you of the method I followed to predict that Obama would win without any doubt. The three charts I made are to be seen in attachments. Especially the Age Harmonic of the 4th November is decisive! This way of using the AH when we have to do with a corrected Natal is always giving the exact day something indicated by the Stations will actually happen! It is practically infallible! A great pity is however that in this HA ‐ 8 ruler Sun is in square to both Mars and Uranus, by which there will be a possible attack by gunshot ! Paul Langeveld Netherlands P.S: I would be obliged if I could receive your quarterly magazine.
Obama’s Secret Magic Word
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he BCP technique was described in the previous issue, though only some percent of it is revealed due to shortage of space. Let’s apply it to Obama’s Chart. The first problem is that many say his birth certificate is wrong and is a spoof to divert attention. Let’s suppose for once that the chart below is wrong data. It was predicted on an Indian forum called Sohamsa: that in the 2nd year, a dramatic event would have happened in his family. Why, since Dragons Tail (Ketu) sits in the 2H of family and as per BCP method 2nd house is 2nd year, they reported back that around the 2 nd year there was divorce in family (2H). But you see if we stick to basics of astrology all of us know that Dragons Tail (ketu) means ‘Change’ or ‘Break’. So result would be either in the 2nd year or 3rd year and hence Obama can be either Sagi or Capri Asc. Wherever in your chart Ketu sits there is 100% change in the significations of the house concerned, it won’t be a stagnant house but a dramatic house. Obama’s Mars is in 8H of his chart and Mars means God Hanuman in Indian astrology apart from other things: the President Elect is smart or someone smarter is advising him.
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Time Magazine revealed that he carries Hanuman Idol (Hanuman stands for Mars) in his trouser pocket, trouser is 8H and Mars sits in his 8H. Why is he activating this deadly Mars Rahu combo by keeping Hanuman Idol in pocket is it since Mars rules the 4H of Throne and 11H of position in his life and Mars will ‘Bless’ the 5th from it when worshipped? What is this 5th from Mars, it is his 12H (Fruit of Throne) & as per BCP it is 12, 24, 36 or 48th year of his life, incidentally when the elections were done Obama was running the 48th of his year. We shall visit this later.
Now the key is that to be President you need to be a performer and if you have no track record of being a President what you need to do is what politicians do best: ‘Perform in your speeches’. What did Obama say that enthralled the voters? He just said ‘Change’ and he created magic around this word
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2 ‘Change’ . He said ‘Yes We Can – do the Change & the crowd roared for the Lion. What does Ketu (Dragons Tail) mean‐‐it means Change and it sits in his 2H of speech, did he use the word Change, so is the chart that of Obama? We don’t know but the power of this change (Dragons Tail) must be judged it is exalted in the 9th divisional sitting in the 4H of Throne in the 9th Harmonic Chart (9th harmonic signifies fruits of the chart). He used the word Change and he gets to sit on the Throne. Dragons Tail in 2H of speech makes you cutting edge in your talks, since that is the nature of Ketu cutting edge & sharp. His speech tone can be attributed to Dragons Tail style of speech. This Ketu is an important tool in birth rectification that most don’t use and some of us are still fixed to the charts that we used to predict before the birth certificate of Obama surfaced, let’s revisit some basics. Dragons Tail (Ketu) is the co‐owner of Scorpio which is the 8H of Transformation/Change in the natural Aries Zodiac Asc, his Ketu is exalted in the sign of Scorpio in the 4H of throne in the 9 th harmonic & this energy it brings back in the 2H of speech in his natal, being stupendously powerful, Ketu signifies Liberation (Moksha) so when Obama said the word ‘Change’ he created in the minds of his audience that he is going to liberate them from the tyranny of the previous administration & the economic mess. Astrology does not mean predicting if Obama or a client will win the elections, Astrology means guiding him as to what he must do or say (Change here) to win the Elections & then once elected guiding him to keep his promise (Change) in an honest manner. If we can’t make our political clients or normal clients an honest human being, then let’s throw our astro books and stop calling it a divine science. Lastly apart from many combinations (yogas) that he has, one must be mentioned, 12L in Asc getting debilitated and the debilitation is removed by Saturn (death/misery) as Saturn is in own sign in kendra (Sasa Yoga) and this is called in India NeechaBhanga, which means due to someone’s misery he will gain. McCain misery was Obama’s Gain.
Grand Mothers Death: Result Is The King Is Born
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bama is running the 48th year of his life, deducting multiples of 12 the 48th year comes to his 12th house, Jupiter is the ruler, who comes to the Asc (self), 12th lord in Asc means death and hence one must keep quiet as there is no fixed method to determine longevity, though there are many methods of timing death in Indian astrology but they do not work consistently. Now the worry is 12L Jupiter and its degree is 7Cp32, use the calculator provided in download section or multiply 7.32 x 12.166 (365 ÷ 30)= 90 days, add to his birth date and you get 4th Nov 2008 the day of the elections. But you see death like form especially with Tr Rahu in Asc & Tr Sat in Leo in 8H of longevity. So do you predict death? No, you keep quiet though the buzz on forums is he could be assassinated before Election Day. Now interestingly a death did occur in his life around 4th Nov 2008 when his grand mom died. After the event it is easy to justify: 4H is mother, mother’s mother is 4th from 4th i.e. 7H whose lord Moon (also significator of mother figures) is aspected by Tr Saturn by his 10th aspect from Leo carrying energy of death as he is in the 8H of death on his 7L of grandmother, some mother figure is going to go. Tr Saturn is also on his Rahu (who is significator of grandparents), worst is Tr Saturn in Leo at that moment aspected the Letter M (SBC method) sitting in 8H of death and incidentally his grandmothers name was Madelyn Dunham and this M was also aspected by Ketu. Now we in India know that Ketu means Moksha (liberation) Significator that is after death you go home (light workers know this concept) and Obama tells a crowd in North Carolina: "She has gone home" what synchronicity. Tr Jupiter is in his 12H & it will destroy the 6th from it which is the 5H where Moon the 7th lord of grand mom. She should be careful during this period is what you can predict at the most. You notice what Tr Jupiter is doing & also the 48th year lord is additionally Jupiter, mark this. Maybe the 19.24 birth time could still be wrong, we don’t know as it’s easy to justify an event after it has happened ‘I Knew It All Along’ Syndrome. Obama & Negative Approach of Indian Astrology ne of the reasons most Indian astrologers can reject Obama’s 19.24 time of birth is since it contains a very bad combination the 12th lord in Asc, this from time immemorial has been prescribed as not a combination of successful life as 12th house is losses & Asc is self, so Losses (12H) comes to Self (1H) or death (12H) comes to self faster. There is another way the Mystic
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Astrologer uses it that must be revealed here, see as 1H signifies ones success & standing on ones feet, so the Mystic Astrologer predicts that ‘When Success has to come to Self, someone will die around him’3. For e.g. 7H is house of Public Life & Attaining High Positions in Masses so if you have debilitated south node (Rahu) posited in 7H of grand mom then when grand mother dies one ‘could’ come in prominence, this is what happened in a chart known to us, 1 week before the launch of the 1 st issue of this magazine when work pressures was too stressful one of the team members grand‐mom expired, he was just reminded that the show must go on as they say in Bollywood and within an hour he was back with us. Within 2 weeks the magazine had created ripples in the Vedic Astro world giving him Limelight (7H) effects. In order to end this with Obama lets quickly take an unknown method of timing. His birth date is 4th Aug & Election day is 4th Nov, so its approximately 91 days from his birth day. Let’s see this carefully on the 90th day from ones birth day how to count which planet will have maximum influence. From birth day first 20 days is ruled by Sun, next 50 days is ruled by Moon (masses) and next 27 days is ruled by Mars. On day of election this Tr Mars of Hanuman that we pinpointed in Vol 2, was in his 10H of KingShip and this Mars is that Hanuman Idol that he keeps in his trouser pocket as per Time Magazine. Some say his fate was decided from day one after Hillary was out and it was sealed in 1‐2 months before the D Day, if you notice that would be the period of Moon and his Moon which signifies masses in mundane is exalted in the 5H of Power which he got. The Power of BCP and our Failures: Most Stunning Prediction Ever
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Using principles of Sage Varahamihira that the house where lord of a particular house is disposited it shows the circumstances as to how the event will unfold in life.
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This chart belongs to a friend who is also involved in the design of this magazine; we often go together to Narasimha wadi a pilgrimage place in Maharashtra, India with Madhav Deshmukh & his friend Narhari who is the yogi searcher for us. There at the house of the priest, who is well known to us, we have our meals served traditionally and hence it is loved. Now in the house of this priest another pilgrim had come there from somewhere near Satara whose name evades our memory. When the priest introduced us to this man, he said he is a very good astrologer, but this astrologers attitude was somehow not welcoming and manner of speech was exhibitionist, so our group was not impressed, but he said a few things about aspects of Saturn that can be found only in Kumaraswamiyam, an ancient text, so our ears stood up. He gave his number and said he would contribute articles to the magazine. Later he met us in the evening and this scribe decided to share the Bhrighu Chakra Paddathi Methodology with him. He was impressed. He said show me a chart, and this is what dashed out. He said ‘Son, this method is correct if the following prediction comes true, let me know by phone. Now hear ‘In the 36th year (12H) which would be between May 2008 to May 2009 he would get lot of pain in the feet, this man’s communication equipment (note moon in 3H) will get spoiled. Moon’s asterism lord Ven is in the 12H with the 8L of destruction and he will have to shell out huge amount of money (Jupiter’s 5th expansive aspect) coupled with Ven in own house to buy a new one. Either the new equipment would be Red or White in color.’ This is how it exactly happened word by word 3‐4 months from the prediction and incidentally he had a red color laptop (Mars aspect) which got damaged completely and was replaced by a white colored Mac Book (the color of Taurus is white as we all know). He further said that during this year this friend of yours will talk a lot on the phone (12H has Ven who is lord of asterism of Moon which is in the 3H of communications), he will talk to lot of people while walking (Moon is in 3H of travel) and for long time (Moons dispositor sun is exalted) and could be with astrologers (it’s with Mer) and while talking he would be travelling and stand on black ants killing them (12H has Saturn and all of us know that Saturn denotes black ants) By this way he would make Saturn angry and this bad karma will be done by your friend. But our logical brain crept in. How can he travel and stand on black ants at the same time? Now word to word as predicted it happened and incidentally the chart holder either talks on his mobile via headset while driving (travelling) or when in office he always goes outside his office and strolls on the verandah where black ants are roaming around. Few months back when he was facing problems with his boss (9L of Saturn) he asked us for remedy. We immediately reminded him to check if he is stepping on black ants, and he checked‐‐yes he is doing so and killing them every day, hundreds of them, and then we reminded him of the prediction that he had received. Although we can boast that the astrologer had used the BCP method but we ourselves cannot make such a great & mind‐blowing prediction. That’s the difference between master and student, in fact we are desperately trying to go again to Narasimha Wadi and ask
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Mr.Mahesh Pujari (priest) the name of that astrologer so that we can ask him to write for us. By the way he did indicate that native’s feet (12H) will have problems and the native developed corn in his feet & also skin infection around his ankles, this was not predicted in detail but one can notice that 8L of chronic disease Saturn sits there aspected by 6L of disease Mars aspected by 8H Jupiter, healing happened only half as Jup is debilitated & Tr Jup from Sagi did not make a link to the 12H of the 36 th year. Biggest Kept Secret Of Astrology: Prelude to the 4th House
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n Indian Astrology some traditions teach you to recite mantras to become good in learning astrology and to become mind blowing in predictions. After 10 years of doing all that one still cannot predict on a 50% correct 50% failure case like that of Obama Vs McCain. After 40 years of reciting mantras one is still at the same crossroads, then one blames it on the data not being accurate. How come we astrologers can charge $350 for rectifying a birth chart to the 60 th division of the Asc that is 2 minutes variance level but somehow when it comes to rectifying Obama’s or McCain’s chart from a 24 hour variance level we can’t even fix the Asc. Nobody questions this on forums either due to lack of honesty or due to the fact that humans love to be taken for a ride. Mantras or Sadhanas (austerities) does not make one an astrologer or solve all your problems, otherwise as mentor says, ‘India would never be facing so many problems like poverty, racism etc.’ By reciting mantras we love to get the feeling that we are spiritual beings or doing some great spiritual thing and this goes to the head of most. Take our case of Saptarishis Astrology Magazine. You approach a yogi known to you with whom thrice you have shown your editorials thinking he is impressed, then you ask him the accurate time of Obama, and he shouts back angrily, ‘Has his father asked you to look at his chart, then why are you looking at his chart (‘Uske Baap Ne Tujhe Pucha Hain Kya Kundali Dekhne Ke Liye, Phir kyu Dekhta hain…. ) haven’t you read the ancient scriptures (shastras)? If not asked should you predict? The scriptures are very clear that curse comes on those who predict without being asked or without the need of a prediction’. Your head hangs in shame, and they think it is fun to meet yogis. At the end of the meeting he says, ‘Your editorial I have read, it does not speak the truth, the full truth I mean, if you can only do PR astrology (public relations) then you are one among the millions of useless students who call the science divine but do not know what divinity is. To get to the divinity of this science for ‘Useful’ predictions you must learn to speak ‘The Full Truth’ and ‘As It is’ without worrying about the consequences. It requires a huge heart (4H) to speak the Truth. (Heart is 4H which is 3 rd ‐ of action from the 2nd house of speech). You try to reason with him on how unbiased an editorial should be & not hurt anyone’s sentiments, how to balance the Indian & the Western reader together. He simply replies Your faith in Gods Path is not their son. Didn’t I teach you that the karma (10th) of 2nd house of speech is the 11th house and Saturn is the lord of Aq the natural 11th sign. Didn’t I teach you that Saturn is the planet that makes you a super fine Jyotish 4 and spiritualist? When Saturn strikes, what will you do, son? If you are interested in doing PR astrology then you will only build organizations like most of the others but never learn even the meaning of the word Jyotish. Just by calling your books Saptarishis Astrology (Saptarishis is the 7 holy sages in India/7 arch angels of the west) you gain nothing if you can’t reform the ridiculous state of Indian astrologers. Our astrologers have becomes jokes in the name of astrology. They are not astrologers but mantra & tantra experts in the name of astrology, all of them … I had thought you would make a difference, you are like others, get out of my sight.’ Your breath stops, not a single muscle moves and not even your eyelid such is your state when you hear a retort like this. We kept quiet for some time, thinking that the storm is over we again quietly approach pressurizing him to tell us the correct birth time of Obama so that we could go to the internet forums of world astrologers and indicate (boast) the correct time. He retorts vehemently …………… Continued in Part 2 of this Issue 4
One will observe that Saturn signifies old age and normally it is the old astrologers who are more revered due to their years of experience of profound observation & deep learning – all the qualities of Saturn of Aq. In old age the pot of these astrologers is filled with knowledge and wisdom gained through experience. After the editorial was finished we realized that as of now no one takes Aq as a Mystic Sign and a new controversy would be created as it happened in one of our lectures in Ahmadabad city done last year where we had mentioned Aq as a very important sign for astrology. Then by Gods Grace on 26 th Nov 2008 we read words of Late B.V.Raman ‘Aq is known as a mystic sign’; ref Late Prof B V Raman, in Dec 1949 editorial, Page 738, 16th line.
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Saptarishis Blessings || Gururbrahmaa Gururvishnu Gururdevo Maheshvarah || || GururSakshaat Parambrahma, Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah||
Vol 4 – Publitorial – Part 2
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e retorts vehemently ‘Marriage will happen or not? This basic question we Indian Jyotishis can’t predict with guarantee. What do you all want to do with Obama? As if he is going to give you all an award. Leave me in peace, he has his own astrologer who is guiding him don’t worry about him, worry about yourself, clean your heart and come back when you are reformed’. The time we met him must have been wrong, yet when truth strikes your heart you are absolutely numb. On the way back we kept on thinking what the yogi said and co‐relating it with the same words in our Bible, and the path outlined in it which we are not following. Our obeisance to our Bible ‘The Last Book of Astrology’ the book that has made our lives, catapulted our path in Jyotish to abnormal level as compared to what was before, though many light years still to cross. That book does not contain techniques of astrology but far more vital secrets of Astrology as it talks about The Path. To understand this Path & the Biggest Kept Secret of Astrology let’s get started below on a journey that would stretch in many of the publitorials. The breathing should be slow and deep, as what follows is complex information even for the seasoned Vedic astrologer who is used to this house to house decoding yet at many places lot of things would need to be unraveled. 4th House – The Astrology of Throne This house is called the house of Primary Education, although we can split it up to 2H, 5H, 9H of higher education and 8H of occult & so on. But ancients have focused on the 4H as the house of education, throne, heart, Pure Intent, comforts & happiness. We must request the westerner astrologer to stay with us till the end of this long piece to know the Secret Of Astrology that we found only being mentioned in ‘The Last Book of Astrology’. For it is such a secret that no tradition lays stress on and all of us today have forgotten its importance. Let us take 4H and its relation with Natural Zodiac (Aries as Asc) referred to as the chart when God created this Universe by some and called since time immemorial in India as the Naisargik Kundali. We would take the 4H as the central house and move to other houses to judge how this knowledge of the 4H behaves & is in turn influenced so that at the end we realize the key to the 4H of education of astrology that we all seek. 1st 4th house is the central pillar of one’s existence when one is born as it is the house of mother whose breasts we suck to survive, from it the milk (nectar‐knowledge) flows. Your first learning (education) starts in your mother’s arms when she teaches you the real meaning of the word Maa, Mom, Mother. It is also the sign of Cancer whose lord is Moon which stands for mother, it is a watery sign yet it is not
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violent water; it is calm and soothing like mothers love. So in order to gain knowledge, the student of this science needs to be ‘Calm’ (key) and for the 4H to prosper you need to have movement (watery sign) in this house, so your information (education) should move and cannot be holed up, as stagnant water will one day create diseases. That is the reason they say for an astrologer, if one does not have vices yet suffers from heart disease (4H), then one has holed up the knowledge, if there are blood pressure problems then as blood is not flowing properly, knowledge from your heart (4h)) does not flow properly. If your knowledge is not pure then your heart swells giving you ego and attitudinal problems (5H) as the 2nd from 4H is 5H of attitude, and 2 nd from any house is the gains of that house. That is the reason they say in ancient India that when they see an astrologer showing off information (education) that he did not have a good guru, for if he had, this would not be the result at all. The ‘Last Book of Astrology’ says ‘The weight of Knowledge is so much; man cannot bear it hence he bends down due to the weight (gets humbled) ‐ that is the reason one with true knowledge would always be humble, never have ego, never get angry or run others down on the subject of knowledge.’ Sign ruling the 4H whether fixed, dual, moveable, airy, fiery all will add further color to your approach to education & level of learning, it’s a natural watery sign (Cancer), if fire element comes here in 4H its not comfortable. Suppose fiery sign/fire element has come in watery sign in 4H, then water becomes hot and boils and evaporates, finally no water. So if one’s house (home) catches fire then it means one has done something drastically wrong with ones knowledge (4H) as fire on water is naturally not possible, against nature and Mother (4H) nature is angry with you or it could also mean among many other things 1 that your students are going to deceive you soon as students is 5H and 12th from it (4H) will show the loss of 5H or one has misused ones mantras (5H of mantra) hence there is fire in your home (12 th from 2 5H). Hence astrologers in India do not speak about fire in one’s home for they know this rule if they learnt astrology from the way tradition teaches you that is Natural Zodiac or Kaala Purusha Kundali. 4H is mother and education and that is the reason Mother Saraswati is considered the Goddess of 3 Learning in India, she is not called just Saraswati but addressed as Maa Saraswati . 4H of natural zodiac is Cancer sign which as per our texts mean ‘residing in forest’ hence to gain real knowledge one must go internal in seclusion & not external in forums or organizations, become quiet and calm like the water energy of Cancer. That is the reason it is said ‘Astrology is the knowledge of Monks’ (Jyotish Sanyasiyo ka Vidya Hain) since they are always secluded. Remember Linda Goodman secluded herself from the rest and became the No.1 author, the first to come on New York Times Best Seller List. 2nd 2nd from 4H of education is the 5H it is gain of education that gives you knowledge & intelligence (5H matter) and you feel proud at times due to your education as 5h of the natural zodiac is ruled by Leo the Lion who resides in forest and hence for gain of knowledge (5H) one must become secluded where Astrology becomes your religion. But if knowledge becomes a tool for your ego or fame (5H) then your intelligence (5H) gets marred and what you write (3rd is writing, so 3rd from 3rd which is 5H is the Resultant House. the 3rd house of writing) can become egoistical & this ego becomes a harm inflictor (marak) to the 4H of education thereby stopping your further growth of the 4H. In Vedic astrology the 2nd from any house is the house of sustenance and thus if you do not sustain anything properly this same 2nd house becomes a ‘Harm Inflictor’ for the previous house. If you have malefics in the 5H of intelligence or aspecting it (e.g. Saturn, Nodes) then your intelligence will become marred as you cross 36 years of age & worse after 42, the ages of Saturn & Rahu or till those age it will be marred, depending on the sign. If a retrograde malefic influences this house then you will misuse what you gained (5 th is 2nd from 4th house) from your education of previous life as you grow old. Most astrologers say this to scare parents (that a child’s education will suffer a break when such malefics influence) to sell remedies and 1
Please keep in mind that the whole article is in context of our discussion of astrologers learning/knowledge gain.
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Somehow no one bothers to ask what was the karma, what was the esoteric reason behind burning of the ancient libraries of Nalanda University & Royal Library of Alexandria. There has to be a karmic reason. What sin did we all commit that our knowledge got burnt down.
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There are various schools of thoughts on this, normally we take 5H as Creation (Brahma) & 4H as Saraswati Goddess, but in Tibetan regions they take the reverse for deities of various houses for remedies. Sticking to Brahma for 5H can seem logical as 5H is children and you create (brahma) / give birth to your children.
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gain money, yet the other side of the coin is misuse or no use of one’s education & all your mantras (5H) won’t be able to save your children or save you from the wrath of your students as both children and students are 5H matters and the house placement & aspects of malefics in a chart show ones sins. Unfortunately we ignore this rule when we delineate our favorite astrologer’s charts. 3rd 3rd from the 4H of the Information of Education is the 6th house, and in natural zodiac it is Virgo ruled by Mercury, the planet for communications. So 3rd from 4th becomes the writing that you do in astrology of what you learn (4H), and if there are malefics in this house then you can develop lots of enemies (6H is enemies) and also diseases through your writing. Some of us develop lung problems if our writings demean others educational material & we wonder why. That is the reason the monks of astrology never write as they know that people outside in cities are narrow minded and would not digest their writings, but their gain is freedom from enemies and disease as they gave up writing. They don’t write for forums or fight with other astrologers. Example: if one has Rahu (Dragons Head) in 6th house, ones writings will be read by foreigners more (Rahu means foreigners), it would be research oriented (Rahu shows research), by being a malefic who wanted superiority over Gods (mythology) Rahu will make one demean others in your writings creating fights by being controversial, one would not reveal the true information in her/his writings as Rahu has tendency to hide as per Indian mythology when Rahu the demon cheated the gods to gain nectar by disguising himself as a god. Take another case concerning ones learning, Dragons Head implements its energy in the 3rd from itself ‐ ref Aug 08 Vol 3 issue of SA ‐ so if you have Rahu in 4th house it will make you write (3H) to fool others as Rahu fooled the Gods to gain nectar (money) & to influence naive foreigners (Rahu means foreigner) and create fights (6H is fights) this will give you disease as 6H is disease. Depending on the sign it will be incurable or curable. As 3rd from 4th house of learning is 6H of accidents then if one has an accident combination in ones chart one should be careful of not hiding ones knowledge as 6H gets activated and accident is caused. When we hear of an astrologer having a chronic accident we first enquire if that astrologer was approached by a student or publisher and if he refused sharing the knowledge. Often the answer we get is yes. 4th 4th from 4th is the 7th house of public life & position in public life (pada prapti), this 7H is the Resultant House of the 4H, the concept is called Arudha in Sanskrit, which you calculate by counting the number of houses away from its original position. This can be applied to all houses. Example: if we want to find out the resultant house of the 5th house in a chart we will count 5 places from 5th house and we get the 9th house. The intelligence of the 5H gets converted to the wisdom & philosophy that is seen from the 9th house, e.g. if you see children from 5H, no malefics aspecting it or its lord but you see malefics influencing 9H or its lord then you deduce some problems in area of children. Coming back to 7H (4th from 4th) this sign in natural zodiac is Libra, the result of one’s education is to make one a balanced individual especially in public life as an astrologer. As it is the resultant house of your education if you become unbalanced in your dealings towards knowledge it in turn affects ones 4H of education. As it becomes the 7th house of relationship, problems in the 4H reflect on our relationships, often one finds that astrologers are the most difficult people to deal with in their strive for public standing and often their marriages are ruined due to wanting self projection & pushing partner in background. Now if the 4th house is pure then your education brings you great success in acquiring fruitful public positions, you become a useful astrologer in the public eye. If 4H has restrictive planets influencing it (like Saturn) then your education can be restricted at any point in your life, and if no positive influences then you do not get public limelight (7H) effect. Example: if you have Rahu influencing the 4H then your knowledge is incomplete as Rahu could not devour the nectar completely and his head was cut off by Chief of Gods as per Vedic Mythology resulting in Rahu & Ketu. 10 th from 7th house is the 4H of learning, 10th means karma, the result, how an astrologer behaves in public life ones learning increases or decreases. If lot of time is spent doing conferences (7H ‐ public life), ones further learning is reduced as the action (10th) is in the 10th from it. That is the reason you find that many famous astrologers after one point stagnate since they spend too much time doing publicity stunts (nautanki). Good learning (4H) ensures good Publicity (7H) automatically since the karma of 7th is dependant in the 4H of learning.
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5th 5th from the 4th house of Learning is the 8th house of occult and longevity/survival. You can survive as an astrologer in this world only if you have good learning; the gain of occultness of the 8H is a result of the previous merits of the 4th house of Learning, since the 5th means previous births merits (poorva poonya) & 8th is the Storehouse of Previous Merits (Poorva Janma Raj Kosh). The natural sign of the 8H is Scorpion: if your merits are not good the science will bite you and that is the reason elders in India do not encourage a householder to practice astrology as without knowing the roads (tradition) of the 8H of scorpion you can get sting badly & end up in poverty or misery. From the 8th house the 4th house of learning is in the 9th (fruits) from it, which means Previous good merits in matters of Learning or Knowledge gives fruits of good learning of astrology in this life. This is the hidden logic behind why elders say 8H is the house of occult/astrology. So if we cheat people of knowledge, books or manuscripts or hiding it (8H is house of hidden) you will suffer in next life when it comes to your astrological knowledge and other areas too, but here our discussion is on learning astrology and astrologers, not other areas of life. The 5th shows ones attitude so the attitude by which you do your studies (4H) is governed by the 8H and the fruits therein of ‘Continuous Flow of the Learning Cycle’. The 8H is the house of darkness and solitude and you need to be the Apprentice of the Master but in solitude that’s the key as it is 8H. Now if your Master has many students you won’t get the solitude (ekant) to do your studies. Often we think that books are our best gurus since we are alone (8H) with our books. Why didn’t our sages have 10,000 students under them? Why did Jesus not have more than 12 disciples? Was their knowledge not superior to attract many? Because they knew that energy could be transferred to very few, unlike today’s Gurus who are in the business of wanting more and more students? Their true worth is seen by the number of students a guru has. 6th 6th from the 4H of Learning is the house of 9th house of Teacher, Righteous actions (Dharma), Wisdom, God’s blessings & Fruits of One’s Life. Now 6th means service/efforts/hard work/obstacles/gratitude, in order to get wisdom to become a Guru one needs to do extreme hard work and serve (6th) ones Guru. It is a fiery sign (Sagi) and your teacher at times gets angry with you but if our ego is so much that it hurts us, then we do not get the Guru ‐ period. But is there a true guru today, one can spend lifetimes in a city or forum and you won’t find one. 9th house is the house of Sagittarius in the Natural Zodiac whose lord is Jupiter the natural teacher. 9H is the house of Gods too so when we don’t get a guru we make God our Guru, and its far better than today’s Guru who accords you titles of Guruism depending on how much you served (6th) them with praise or money. What should be the relationship towards our God (or guru) & our learning, well as it is 6th from 4H and 6th shows serving, faith and bowing down, that’s what it should be as when you have full faith only then you, bow to someone or to God. When we bow down in full faith to our Gods or Guru or Master, we gets in return the Occult Knowledge (as the 4th house is 8th from 9th), so in order to learn anything from anyone whether it be a colleague or book or magazine we must show humility (6th) and be ready to learn, but if we show 9th house trait of already being a Guru, what will we learn? The energy will go into the 12H of loss (9th energy of Guruism from 4th is the 12H). There is a negative side to the 6th as it shows selfishness. And so when we take this selfish attitude of the 6th from the 4th house towards our guru (9H) then true love, true knowledge does not come to self (1H as it is 5th from 9th) but when we convert this selfishness into honest gratitude we get the real knowledge (9H). Here unfortunate is the Guru (9H) who is born with many sins of previous life to get a selfish student, for e.g. Internet Paramparas (tradition) have many gurus who are most hated by their students and Gurus are aware of this, even the student knows the guru is aware of their hatred but all of them butters their gurus alas true knowledge has not come out from the gurus as a result not a single of the Paramparas can predict to save their life. We must pity such students and such Gurus who, in spite of knowing the game they are playing with each other, are so dependent on each other for surviving today in the ‘Age of Fame Astrology’. The 9H is the house of prosperity and is governed by the deity Laxmi, Goddess of Wealth, when we serve our Guru we get everlasting wealth his true love which is unconditional, is not unconditional love the greatest wealth of all since time immemorial. 6th from any house is the house of jealous, as enemies are jealous of us or vice versa and we can’t speak good about our enemies or vice versa. 6th from the 4th house ones knowledge is the 9H which is
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the house of Higher Knowledge, it is our by our hard work (6 th) that our knowledge becomes refined and becomes higher knowledge (9H). As it is the house of higher knowledge we as astrologers should be careful that we do not carry the negative side of the 6th house energy from 4H to 9H as we can then become jealous of others higher knowledge and this is often the trap of the 6 th houses energy of selfishness & greed. When we tend to hate or dislike or argue with others who have higher knowledge (9H) we are converting the 6H of hard work energy to become jealous energy and thereby the Source that is the 4H gets spoilt effecting our own learning. As we tend to continuously criticize others works (9H). Often you will find out that the Supreme Astrologer who has understood the meaning of the word Jyotish never privately or publicly criticizes others higher knowledge whether it be in form of books or articles. You will observe that not a single Sage has ever criticized another Sages work. You come to know the worth of how one will progress in astrology if he or she reads a great book on astrology and no praise comes from him, if no praise comes you know which type of 6H energy is travelling from his 4H since when one gets jealous of someone’s success surely he is not your friend (4H) but you are taking him as the enemy (6H) and this happens mainly when you do the Astrology of the Throne (4H) and not Astrology of the Heart (4H). This is the difference in the 4H energy. This scribe has observed over many years of observation when he learns a secret technique from an astrologer and when he teaches the same to another astrologer, he is not much interested in learning and after learning it has no praise for it as if he has learnt all the techniques of astrology. We noticed the 4H of heart methodology from a master who had no tradition in astrology, no guru yet he went on to become a Master of the science & also world famous. Those were the nostalgic days when sitting at his feet we would hear stories of him praising other astrologers’ works, always praising. So much love flowed. No doubt the energy flowed from his 4H to 9H and back to his 4H with more higher knowledge, much more than what others ever got. 7th As the 1st house is self and 7th house is the Man that comes out in the world to interact with it, same is the 4th house of Learning and the 7th from it becomes the 10th house of what comes out of that learning, which, being the 10H, can either be your profession or your free serving to help people. It being the sign of Capricorn in the natural zodiac is ruled by Saturn, one must be careful with what is done with this learning (of the 4th house) as when Saturn strikes no mantra can save, and we know that even Gods had to go into hiding for years due to Saturn. Our obeisance to Gods and planet Saturn both. At times when this 10H is spoilt due to actions of previous or this life, an astrologer develops problems of the knee as 10H & Capricorn is knee, this knee problems cannot be ignored by a prudent astrologer. 8th This is the best house; the 8th from 4th house is the 11H of gains of money, gain of position and gains in fulfillment of desires. Ruled by Aquarius the Pot Bearer who some say needs to overflow to function and some say it should not overflow being half empty whereas some say the pot of the sign is actually empty. It is the pot of Occult Knowledge of the 4H of Learning (8th from 4th); this is the real Occult of the Astrology. 4th house sign is Cancer which is water element and this water must flow through ordeals (8H) into the Pot of the 11H of Aquarius and it is then only (struggle energy of 8 th) that the pot becomes full to give you Gains that is signified by the 11H. Now, the 8th house is more to do with magic, tantric activities, austerities and unfortunately the astrology of today, which is far different than astrology of olden days. Think of it this way: if 8H is occult then 4th (education) from 8th is the 11th house. And 8th from 4h is also 11H, both ways we come to 4 the same 11th house that is Aq that is ruled by Saturn and the natural Obstacle House of the zodiac (For Aries, Cancer, Libra & Capricorn the 11th from it is the Obstacle Sign). No wonder to gain money or position or fulfillment of desires humans face so many obstacles and get it after a lot of effort, and as the elders say, Saturn gives results after delay—it’s not delay, it’s the hard work and efforts signified by Saturn to cross the obstacles (11H). The difference between a good and a bad astrologer is Saturn; the 4
After this editorial was finished, we came across our Nadi notes book and found written there that Aq is another mystic science of zodiac besides Sc, besides 8th from any house is the mystic house of it since it carries with it Sc energy. The color of Aquarius is deep‐brown and if one notices the headings of each article, paragraphs & borders of pages of this magazine are deep brown in color by coinci dence.
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good astrologer has worked hard burning midnight oil to test each and every technique he finds in books. See, oil is signified by Saturn and night is when Saturn is strong. The problem here is the fortune (4th) of this occult knowledge (11H) is governed by 2H (4th from th 11 ) and also Saturn implements itself in the 4th from where it sits. Saturn is the Dharma Holder (Judges Righteousness in Each One) so one’s speech has to flow with Truth & what you do with this Mystic Knowledge is governed by Saturn. No doubt the ancients and as late as C. S. Patel have said you must always speak the truth. But this is so tough in today’s world. If you speak the truth in today’s world you are banned from forums of dictator astrologers, if you suggest that before we decide on anything lets first remove those 60,000 manuscripts (Saturn) on the topic you get banned by Fuehrer’s Of Astrology who do not realize that one day people with only 6 years of astro knowledge will come & remove the carpet under you. As 6 year olds represent Indigo Children and color Indigo is the higher octave of Saturn as per some. Why is the water to flow continuously from Cancer to Aquarius since you need to make many pots that can contain your ever increasing learning. See the clay of the Aq pot is made of mud (earth‐ 4H), now this is made with hands (11H & 3H) & some water (4H). The Saturn here is the toughest to deal with, as it is a fixed Saturn here rather than a moveable Saturn of Capricorn, if one is too fixed it breaks the Pot‐ knowledge gone and if one is too soft the Pot cannot be made. This should give a clue as to what kind of energies we require to benefit in gaining knowledge when it comes to the real mystic knowledge of the 4H of our learning. The other clue for Indian Astrologers who take Lord Ganesh (elephant headed) as Lord of astrology and pray to him for excellence in astrology is for the reason that Lord Ganapati is considered as the remover & creator of obstacles (11H) as we all know and the 11H 5 (Aq) is ruled by Lord Ganapati . We hope now the logic of Aq‐Astrology & Lord Ganesh is grasped by Indian astrologers. In India the richest city is Mumbai & also hosts Bollywood, this city holds the biggest festival in the whole of India for Lord Ganapati as he removes obstacles (11H) and gives gain of desires & money (11H) which Mumbai has. 9th 9th from 4th house of learning is where the heart of God is, and is called the house of pleasures and spirituality. If you reside (4H of home) in the heart of God won’t you enjoy pleasures & spirituality? 9th from any house is the fruits of that house hence they said donate knowledge as 9th (fruits) from 4H of knowledge is the 12H of charity & also the fruit of the happiness of 4H (sukhastana‐4h). For more into this readers can refer to Sri Krishna’s words in Bhavishya Purana (holy text) that we translated for the first time for the benefit of readers in Vol 2. The sign is Pisces of the natural zodiac and it is the water where fish moves around, so the fruits of this action are ever flowing and also feeds others (fish). This 12th house is the house of the heart (4th from 9th) of the Guru, the Master and of the Gods. So once you donate true knowledge without worrying about the fruits of it then God falls in love with you as his heart is yours and you will automatically get more knowledge as 12H is the Knowledge of the Gods (4 th from 9th). That is the reason there is a verse in sanskrit which says that to hold knowledge and not allow anyone to bring out knowledge is a sin which cannot be reversed. Alas today’s organizations and Gurus do not want you to bring out knowledge, if you bring it out their throne gets threatened as they practice the astrology of thrones. It is important to note this relation that, as the 4th house is the 5th (poorva punya/merits of previous birth) from the 12H of Gods heart/spirituality. Hence it is your previous births merit of donation of knowledge by which you get good education (4H) of this science in this birth. Please re‐read the above verse and see the cycle is complete – 9th from 4th your fruits (9H) of donation (12h) of 6 knowledge in previous life (12H) & it comes back (5H) as knowledge (4H) in this life. That is the reason it is said donate without your shadow coming to know of it, without any conditions in your donation, we can’t say ‘Give me $250 for my article or magazine’ but it can’t be free either as anything free has no value since gratitude died 2000 years back. 5
House Ruler Deity Wise: 1. Shiva 2. Kubera 3. Kumar 4. Saraswati 5. Brahma 6. Varun 7. Parvati 8. Yama 9. L axmi 10. Visnu 11. Ganesh 12. Agni – this rulership is as per one school of thought.
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Here it can be this life also depending on the sign occupied there and other multitudinal factors.
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10th 10th from the 4th house is the house of karma (10th) of the education that you learn. This makes you or breaks you by giving you ego about it as the 1H is the house of ego. In reverse, since 4 th house is the 4th from the 1H, it bloats your heart (4H) giving you a bigger ego, making the 4H ‘Fixed’ and not flowing like water which it should be as 4h is sign of Cancer. This energy movement becomes cyclic 4th to 1st to 4th and becomes a black hole most astrologers cannot escape including this writer. That is the reason for gain of true knowledge in olden days the monks were advised begging as a ritual so that their ego becomes zero and flow of energy goes on and on in a cycle as the monks were not after gold but after knowledge. 11th 11th from the 4th is the 2H of wealth, speech and family. As such 11th stands for gain and 11th from any sign stands for gain or no gain of that house. If your actions in the 4H are good then there is gain in the 11th from it resulting in prosperity to you & family; if the actions are bad then your whole family goes down. The natural 4H sign is Cancer and hence its Obstacle Sign would be Taurus, which means if you do not allow free flowing of energy in the 4h which is its natural birth‐right (cancer sign) then you 7 create Obstacles in the 2H of family, wealth and speech. How is this 4H so instrumental – if one does not want to learn or does not allow one to learn, then one’s heart (4H) will get fixed, which is against the very basic nature of the 4H. Hence the result will be destruction of wealth or family or speech or eyesight at one stage of life. Depending on the sign it will be either in this life or next or next to next and that’s the reason Sage Parasara wrote 5000 years back that ‘Hence, everyone should have knowledge of Jyotish, particularly the Brahmin. The one, who, is devoid of knowledge of Jyotish, blames this Vedic Science will go to the hell called Raurava and will be reborn blind.’ Mark the words blind and knowledge of Sage Parasara. The logic of this verse as to why sage mentions blind has so far eluded most so we here make a humble attempt to explain a part of it. See co‐relate this with logic 8 as to why it is said that Jyotish (11H) is the eye (2H) of the Vedas (4H) from whatever you read in the paragraph titled 11 th. Vedas means the highest knowledge as per Indians and is tough to understand. Take Vedas as 4H, the supreme part & gain of this knowledge of Vedas would be the 11th from it, as 11th symbolizes the highest gains in a chart and the 11th from 4th is the 2H of eyes, hence ‘Astrology is the eye of the Knowledge’ has been cryptically by our ancients as astrology opens our eyes to see the difference between illusion and the reality of our existence, that is our past actions that result in future results. This whole concept deserves an article but let’s see it from other angles. If we take 9 th of essence from 4H of the 4Vedas, we get 12H of spirituality & right eye and it is just astrology becomes a Spiritual science. If we take 8H as Astrology of Occult, then the 2nd (eye) from it becomes the 9H of higher knowledge. Astrology becomes your eye to see the plan of God (Vedas). There is so much more to this for example see 4H and take 11th from it which is 2H of speech. In India it is said that an astrologer needs Vak Siddhi which means the words (prediction) that comes out of his mouth should become true. Now mouth is 2H, 3 rd from any house is the action of that house which becomes 4H, if malefics are in 4H it becomes an impediment as malefics signify impediments, now as food for thought go to charts of those astrologers whose prediction failed on your charts or those gurus who often fail in their predictions and in some of their charts you would find a malefic in 4H or association of 4L with malefics. Unfortunately no astrologer writes on this particular aspect since he would lose his business. 12th 12th from 4H is the natural 3rd house of writing and also the house of charity of knowledge (4th) as 12th means charity. That is the reason when an author writes a book (3H) or gives a lecture he donates (12 th) his learning (4H). Donation is always unconditional love and hence if one writes a book but does not 7 8
Again 11 th energy of Ganesh‐obstacles comes here, hence for vak‐siddhi (predictive ability) since ages astrologers pray to Lord Ganesh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas
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reveal his full knowledge in his writing on that topic his donation is not accepted by the Universal Energy which is male female combined that is Gemini of 3H of Natural Zodiac. Reverse is 2nd from 3rd house of writing and good communication skills, it results in gains of more knowledge (4th is 2nd from 3rd) & fortune (4H of fame & fortune). The 3rd house is the natural sign of Gemini, the combination of the male‐female energy, the unbiased one: your writing needs to unbiased, for without which knowledge would not grow. Your writing should be honest, admitting your failures, and not such that one day a 6 year old kid (Mer‐Gemini) comes to tattoo on your hand, this sentence, ‘I Do Not Know Astrology’. Remember Mercury is the kid and the 12th house is the loss of the 4H of knowledge, hence they say in India for those egoistic astrologers that one day a kid (Mer‐Gemini ruled) will come and show your inferiority (loss) to you, if you have so much of ego (4H of pride) on your knowledge. Indians can refer to the ancient story of Prahlada & Dhruva – 6 year olds who reduced the ego of their opponents. It is said in every era they are reborn to drive out the old egoists. As 12th from 4H is 3H of writing, it also means that by writing what was yours (4H) is no more yours (12th from it) and it belongs to the world, as it being 12th it is charity of your knowledge whose sign is Gemini in natural zodiac, which stands for intelligence as it is ruled by Mercury, and in next life or this you are rewarded with more intelligence due to your charity of knowledge. In order to avoid length of this write up we have not used Elements (Tatva) and many other characteristics of each sign. But what is the bottom line, what is the so called Biggest Kept Secret of Astrology. It is the 4H of:‐
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es without a good heart one cannot learn astrology, one may learn information, become a great predictor but the basic meaning of the word Jyotish (not using the word astrology here) will not be understood by us. You see the 4H is the house of the mother; here the mother and the kid unite as the kid sucks the milk from her breasts which are located also near ones heart, it is not the milk here that flows, it is the mother’s love from her heart which flows to the kid and that is how Learning Flows from The Heart. If heart is not pure, what will one teach to others, what knowledge will you share? Remember what our old teachers said: ‘I taught him with my heart’ (Dil Khol Ke Sikhaya). Because the guru and student are in love with each other. The student (5H) gains from the 4th. When you start a science you start for the love of it, because your heart (4H) wants you to learn that science. At that time you are not worried about what you gain from the science, about the politics of practitioners of this science, just like a mother while feeding her baby does not wonder if the baby is going to take care of her in old age. One of our proof readers was travelling in the local metro train, correcting the articles, and a girl next to her said, Oh Astrology, I want to learn it, go to America and make money out of it, but I am not finding time to start the study. This is the condition of Indian Astrology. It’s not wrong to make money or not to make money out of it, what’s wrong is there is no intention to learn the science for its Holisticity (must coin a new word here). Show us a Guru who checks your intention when you approach him to learn. Too many of today’s gurus are in the business of creating thousands of students, and too many students aren’t concerned enough to check the heart of the guru. Malefics as we know spoil the houses they sit with or associate with. Forget about the complex rules let’s just stick to this basic rule and see this through an example. If Rahu sits in the 4H of heart, the heart of the person is spoilt and such a person is called Kapati (man who cheats) in India since Rahu by very nature tried to cheat the gods of the nectar. This Rahu in the 4H wants to go ahead in life by hook or crook. That’s what Rahu displayed in the Nectar story of Indian mythology. In India, Astrology is considered a very divine science and of the gods. That is the reason in ancient India one would not teach astrology or mantras to a student who has Rahu in quadrants to the Asc or trinal to the Asc, as when in trines to the ascendant it afflicts the mind of the native or can give him false guru and no guru wants to be that false guru. Just for the record this author also has one of the above negative combinations but which astrologer tried to check that? The moment money is shelled out they start teaching, even if not money then for the sake of increasing ones students count they teach. Do current Gurus check your chart before they start teaching you? No they don’t? This Rahu influence is so
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beautiful that Parampara secrets are revealed not in India but abroad (Rahu’s influence again) but this is the way the world is. Students join the Guru’s Institution and leave it when they find out the Guru is a politician and a cheat, yet will still join back shamelessly since we are so hungry for this 4 th house of Throne of Knowledge as we can easily cheat (rahu) young entrants by imparting further courses and we think Saturn from 10H is not looking at our 4H. It took this writer incidentally 2 years of gap to decode this verse from ‘The Last Book of Astrology’ – ‘To Learn Astrology Infidelity Is The Most Important Virtue’ – ‘The Rishis (sages) do not like Infidelity’, why did it take so long since we forgot that 4H is the house of chastity. Here Babaji is not referring to sexuality related infidelity but knowledge (4H) related infidelity as one needs to be honest to ones knowledge capability, otherwise guru/higher knowledge becomes obstacle to gain (6th is obstacle & 6th from 4H is 9H of guru or higher knowledge). As we close this long piece, let’s see a movie that is considered by many to be one of the greatest 9 spiritual movies of recent times ‘Jerry Maguire’ – starring Tom Cruise & Cuba Gooding Jr, who plays Rod Tidwell. Jerry (Tom Cruise) is a Sports Agent & one day writes about dishonesty (4H) in sports profession and gets fired. He has no clients except his Tidwell, now see what Wikipedia says ‘Tidwell tests Jerry's resolve through a very long telephone conversation, which culminates in the famed "Show Me the Money!" telephone yelling match between Rod and Jerry. Later on when Tidwell can’t make it big he accuses Jerry of being lousy, then Jerry gives the famous mantra ‘You know why you don’t have the $10 million dollar contract. You Play With Your Head, Not Your Heart’. He goes on to later win a $ 11 million dollar contract – notice the synchronicity of the number 11 and now check what you read in the 11th from 4th and also the 11H of a chart, all of it is governed cum controlled by the Key which is the 4H of Heart, money is just the bi‐product let’s not forget that. Let’s all do the Astrology Of The Heart instead of becoming No.1 & doing the Astrology of the Throne.
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In June 2008, AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Jerry Maguire was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the sports genre. The dialogue ‘Show Me The Money’ comes in the AFIs 100 movie quotes at 25 th ranking.
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Elections By Ron Bippus, Canada. Canadian Federal Election Libra Ingress – 22 Sep 2008, 11:44 AM, Ottawa, Canada Poll Opening– 14 Oct 2008, 9:30 AM – St. John’s, Newfoundland
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n order to predict the outcome of an election, mundane or classical astrology looks at the Solar Ingress chart prior to an election and at the poll opening chart on the day of an election. These two charts generally agree, but in close elections they can be different. The Ingress Chart is always set for the capital of the country in question, in this case Ottawa. The poll opening chart on the other hand is set for the eastern‐most city in the eastern‐most province in the country, or for the city in which the polls first open on Election Day. The reason is that all the polls open at the same time of day; therefore they open first in the eastern part of the country. In Canada, the eastern‐ most city is St. John’s, Newfoundland. In small countries with only one time zone, this is not a consideration and the poll opening chart is set for the capital. However, in Canada with its six time zones, the location of the poll opening chart is crucial. The 10th house or MC rules the incumbent party and its leader, and the 4th or IC rules the opposition party and its leader. The 1st and its ruler and always the coruler Moon rule the general public.
on Bippus is a professional Astrologer
with 35 years experience. Ron has re-typed all of William Lilly's "Christian Astrology" and it is now available in modern English. This is the most informative book ever written on the art of horary astrology. As well, Ron has turned Lilly’s horary astrology information into a modern horary textbook entitled appropriately enough the “Horary Handbook”. He lives and practices in Toronto, Canada.
The chart for the Libra Ingress in Ottawa has Scorpio rising, Virgo on the 10th house cusp. Mercury ruler 10th of incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Conservative) is peregrine in Libra in the 11th of supporters. Mars ruler 1st of the 20
public is in separating conjunction to Mercury and Venus. Support for the current government is eroding and fading. Mercury is in applying sextile to Pluto, co‐ruler 1st, in the 2nd house of money. Harper’s focus is on supporting the banks, large corporations and financial institutions and receiving their support in turn. However, Venus will aspect Pluto before Mercury can do so. This is a prohibition and so the sextile will do Harper no good. Harper starts out well enough, but the Moon will eventually square Mercury before changing signs. Public opinion will turn against Harper because he treats the public (Moon) with contempt.
Jupiter ruler 4th of the opposition leader Stephane Dion (Liberal) is in its fall in Capricorn in the 2nd house of money. His financial ideas will not be well received. Neither Mars nor Pluto ruling the public apply to Jupiter, so Dion will lose. Moon of public opinion is in tight applying opposition to Jupiter and wide square to Mercury. The public is opposed to Dion, but later in the campaign that opposition will lessen. The Moon makes no aspect to Neptune, co‐ruler 4th of the leader of the other opposition party, Jack Layton of the NDP. He will do well enough and gain some seats from the Liberals. Mars of the public 1st is in separating trine to Neptune and Neptune is in separating sextile from Pluto co‐ruler 1st. He is well respected and public support for Layton is high at the beginning of the campaign but will slowly fade. Poll Opening Chart ‐14 Oct 2008, 9:30 AM – St. John’s, Newfoundland Just like the Libra Ingress Chart for Ottawa, this chart has Scorpio rising; only the MC or 10th house cusp is in Leo, not Virgo. Sun ruler 10th is in its fall in Libra in the 11th house of supporters, in no aspect to Mars ruler 1st but in applying sextile to Pluto co‐ruler 1st in the 2nd 21
house of money. Harper will retain the support of the financial and industrial sectors, but lose the support of the public. He will say things for which he will have to apologize later. His statement to Saskatchewan farmers that real Canadians do not support artists on red carpets cost him the support of the educated people in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Culture may not be important to farmers but is very important to educated people. Harper’s withdrawal of support for the arts hurt him badly at the polls. His other self‐sabotaging comment was to the effect that Canadians are not afraid of losing their homes, despite the fact that 200,000 people in Ontario and Québec lost their jobs in the manufacturing sector. This is just plain insensitive.
Moon co‐ruler 1st is in Aries in the 5th in applying opposition to the Sun. The public opinion in eastern Canada, which holds two thirds of the population of the country, sharply turned against Harper. His lack of daycare and other social programs hurt him at the polls. He won a slightly larger minority instead of the majority that had been well within his grasp. Like Toronto’s favourite hockey team, the Maple Leafs, he snatched defeat from the jaws of victoryJ Saturn ruler 4th of the opposition leader (Aquarius) is in the 10th in Virgo, in applying opposition to Uranus co‐ruler 4th in the 4th. Even though Stephane Dion is focused on the leadership job, he is in the power of his enemies. Mars ruler 1st is in very wide sextile to Saturn and wide trine to Uranus co‐ruler 4th. Unfortunately Mars aspects Jupiter before Saturn or Uranus; this is an abscission or cutting 22
off of light. The public will turn away from Dion and the Liberals, and this election was the worst showing ever for the Liberal party in the 141 year history of Canada. Moon co‐ruler 1st makes no aspect to Mars and only a wide trine to Pluto. Dion is well liked as a human being but gets absolutely no respect as a political leader. The ascendant is in applying trine to Uranus. The people like Dion as a man, but not as leader of the country.
USA Federal Election 2008 Scorpio Ingress – 22 Oct 2008, 9:09 PM, Washington, DC The Solar Ingress chart for Scorpio has Gemini rising, Pisces on the cusp of the 10th. The 10th represents the incumbent party leader, John McCain of the Republicans. Jupiter ruler 10th is in its fall in Capricorn in the 7th, in the house and power of its public enemy. Mercury ruler 1st is triplicity ruler of the air element and is in Libra in the 5th, making an applying square to Jupiter. The public is angry with McCain because of his lack of social policies, especially child care programs. Neptune co‐ruler 10th is separating from conjunction to the MC in Aquarius, retrograde and in wide applying trine to Mercury. He is not likely to be elected president, Neptune moving away from the MC. The public may like McCain as a man but they don’t want him as a president. Moon is in Leo in the 3rd in applying opposition to Neptune. Public opinion is turning against the Republicans and McCain.
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candidate Barrack Obama’s child care and social programs are well received by the public. Moon co‐ruler 1st is in Leo in the 3rd of communication in separating sextile to Mercury and applying opposition to Neptune. The people will oppose McCain, significantly shifting support to Obama. The separating sextile between Moon and Mercury indicate Obama may also have some communication issues that he needs to fix. Saturn ruler 8th of national debt and 9th of foreigners is in Virgo in the 4th, in applying opposition Uranus in Pisces in the 10th. Issues of crushing national debt due to involvement in foreign military ventures will destroy McCain and help Obama. If Obama can come up with solutions to these problems, he will win the election. The only question left is the whether the win is a landslide or simple majority. Poll Opening – 4th Nov 2008, 00:00, Dixville Notch, New Hampshire Dixville Notch is a pass through the mountains of NH, and has a population of about 75 people. Its only claim to fame is that the polls open here at midnight, making it the very first place in the USA where people vote. All eligible voters gather at midnight at the town hall and then vote.
The chart has Leo rising, Taurus on the 10th house cusp of the incumbent party. Venus ruler 10th is peregrine in Sag in the 4th of the opposition. The incumbent party leader John McCain is in the power of his enemy. Sun ruler 1st is peregrine in Scorpio in the 3rd, in no aspect to Venus. The people don’t like what McCain is telling them and have turned away from him. Moon co‐ruler 1st is in Capricorn in the 5th its detriment in no aspect to Venus ruler 10th. The 24
public have turned their backs on McCain. Venus is in separating square to Saturn in the 1st. The public are upset with McCain and have turned away from him. Sun ruler 1st is in applying conjunction to Mars ruler 4th of the opposition, in its dignity in Scorpio in the 4th. The people will vote for Obama, the leader of the opposition because he is seen as a wonderful leader. Moon co‐ruler 1st is in its detriment in Capricorn in the 5th of children, in applying sextile to Mars. The people will vote for Obama, especially because of his social sensibilities. If he promotes his social policies he and the people will be happy. Unless Obama shoots himself in both feet with unfortunate comments, he will definitely win the election.
Astrological Summary Of Past Panics What to look for: Planets in the constellations Pisces, Gemini, Virgo or Sagittarius. ü Planets in Pisces are opposite the US Neptune and square the US Mars. ü Planets in Gemini are conjunct the US Mars and square the US Neptune. ü Planets in Virgo are conjunct the US Neptune and square the US Mars. ü Planets in Sagittarius are opposite the US Mars and square the US Neptune. History suggests that the number of planets afflicting are more indicative of a crash and panic than the preciseness of the orb. - Robert Gover, bestselling author of Time & Money
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Launch Your Book The Living Birth Chart by Joyce Hopewell
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ere is a short extract from the book, which is available from the API Book Shop, Amazon and other retailers. "This book is intended as a follow up to The Cosmic Egg Timer, where Richard Llewellyn and I gave an introduction to the Huber Method. Many of the topics covered in The Cosmic Egg Timer are revisited in greater depth, with an emphasis on working practically with the material presented, as well as working in a hands‐on way with your own chart. Here I share my own experience and understanding of this new astrological approach to psychology, based on twenty‐one years experience as an astrological counsellor, teacher, correspondence tutor and training facilitator for the UK Astrological Psychology Institute. The practical exercises and activities suggested for the reader have been tried and tested in live training seminars and workshops, and have brought deeper understanding to the people who have worked through them, together with a lot of insight, enjoyment and laughter, as they learned more about their birth charts and themselves along the way. I’ve included the kind of questions that students ask me about various aspects of the Huber Method, and I’ve aimed to respond in a manner similar to the replies I give when I’m teaching, either in a live session or when I’m tutoring by correspondence. Astrological psychology was developed in Zurich, Switzerland in the early 1960’s by Swiss astrologers/psychologists Bruno and Louise Huber. Using their extensive understanding of astrology, psychology, the spiritual teachings of Alice Bailey and Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis, they succeeded in combining the very best of traditional astrology with modern growth psychology. Drawing these threads together, and basing their teaching on their own empirical research, the Huber Method evolved organically and is now used by thousands of practitioners and students of astrological astrology throughout the world. It provides a powerful tool for self‐ understanding and psychological/spiritual growth which is practical, easy to use and which can yield profound insights for the user. It’s very clear to me that the best way to learn and understand astrology from a deep level is to make it come alive in ways that we can relate to. It’s all well and good to understand what Mars means on an intellectual level. We have a concept of what kind of energy Mars has, and how it might be expressed. But can you spot Mars in action and for real in your 26
everyday life? Can you observe it at work in yourself and in the behaviour of others? Do you watch a TV programme, film or live interview and see Mars in action in some of the characters? If you can do that, then that’s what I call making your astrology come alive and be tangible and “for real”. When it becomes an integral part of your everyday life, then your astrology lives, and you do too, in a more consciously aware and responsible way. The key feature of using astrological psychology as a tool for personal growth and self‐ awareness is that it places taking responsibility for ourselves, our own lives and what goes on in them, very firmly into our hands and our hands alone. It offers us choice, and once we’re aware that we can exercise this in our everyday lives, things are unlikely to ever be the same again. We will be in the driving rather than the passenger seat and the responsibility for which direction we take will be entirely ours. This is a practical workbook, and the best way to gain the most from it is to work through the exercises using your own chart. The content is not intended as a course in the Huber Method of astrological psychology, but if the reader is already a student of API (UK) they will hopefully find the content a useful supplement to the course material. Regardless of whether you are a student or not, it is recommended that you have a notebook or loose leaf file to use alongside this workbook. You will certainly benefit from working on your own chart, and if you have a few other charts to work on ‐ maybe those of family and friends ‐ this will help expand and deepen your experience and understanding of using astrological psychology as well as making the learning journey through this book more interesting, insightful and rewarding." Joyce Hopewell has been a Professional Astrologer for 21 years, specialising in the Huber Method of Astrological Psychology, and Principal of the UK Astrological Psychology Institute for 17 years. Her background is in teaching and social work. She has been a speaker and training facilitator in Astrological Psychology in the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. She broadcasts on BBC local radio, and has written two books on Astrological Psychology: “The Cosmic Egg Timer”, pub. November 2004, and "The Living Birth Chart" pub. November 2008. Joyce Hopewell, API (UK) Tel: +44(0)1565‐633829 www.api‐uk.org Chart Interpretations & Articles at http://joycehopewell.blogspot.com
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The Stock Market Crash of October 2008 & Beyond By Robert Gover, USA.
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Robert Gover (born November 2, 1929) grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard College in Philadelphia), received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, worked as a journalist, became a best-selling novelist at age 30, lived most of his life in California, and now lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. On the Run with Dick and Jane is his ninth novel. His previous book, Time and Money, explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. He can be contacted at
[email protected] or www.robertgover.com
n various articles and my book Time and Money: the Economy and the Planets, I predicted a great depression to begin in 2008 and last till at least 2018 and probably beyond. So I am not surprised that worldwide stock markets are crashing as I write this, in October 2008. The Dow ended the week Friday, October 10 down 40% from its top a year previous. Throughout the world’s financial community, panic reined. Members of the G‐7 nations gathered the weekend of October 11 and 12 in Washington to puzzle over how to arrest the downward plunge of stocks, reducing or wiping out the pensions of uncounted millions and constricting credit. The following Monday, October 13, 2008, the Dow leaped a record 936 points, the biggest one‐day point gain since 1933, and 11.6%, the steepest percentage rise since 1939. The behavior of stock markets so far in October was called a “Black Swan” event, comparable to winning the lottery twice in the same week. The public is learning such concepts as “credit default swaps” a ruse to avoid government insurance regulations, and the trickeries of accounting which has created a distorted system for decades. My specialty is economic astrology, so my interest is in comparing this current crash with previous like events. I have spent years finding planetary patterns that have 28
historically correlated with stock market crashes and economic depressions. If we become aware of these patterns, we can know when the next period of economic distress is due to hit. If we are aware that the Saturn‐Uranus opposition we’re now operating under demands we change established ideologies and procedures, we may avoid the worst. Since industrialization, there have been repeating cycles of booms and busts. In boom times, people feel optimistic and get busy producing and consuming, creating prosperity. Then, for no apparent reason, the boom time ends and we cycle into a period of pessimism. One of the first indicators of pessimism is a stock market crash. Some stock market crashes in the past have heralded recessions, depressions and great depressions, so the number 1 question hanging now is, will this super‐erratic October 2008 stock market lead us into another? Examining the three worst crashes of the 20th Century—1907, 1929 and 1987—only the one of 1929 led into a great depression. Why? There are endless explanations offered by a variety of experts, most of them quite logical. The explanation I offer here is astrological. Astrology is not considered “logical” by modern science, yet anyone who has studied astrology realizes that planetary influences affect us subtlely on an invisible level. For the sake of this discussion, let’s call it the level of subconscious mind.
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My research has led me to two hypotheses: Every time the USA’s natal Mars‐Neptune square is afflicted by one or more of the outermost planets, we enter a time when a stock market crash becomes possible, likely or virtually certain. Every time the USA’s Sun‐Saturn square is hit by the outermost planets in the Cardinal Signs of Capricorn and Aries—forming a grand cross pattern with the USA’s natal Sun‐Saturn square—the nation has suffered a great depression, and there have been no exceptions to this “rule of thumb.”
It’s when afflictions to the US Mars‐Neptune square (causing crashes) have then evolved into afflictions to the USA’s Sun‐Saturn square that crashes have led into great depressions. It is this sequence of afflictions we are facing now. Let’s examine the worst stock market crashes to illustrate.
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hen the Panic of 1907 hit, the USA’s Neptune was opposition transiting Uranus in Pisces, and Pluto was conjunct the US Mars. The roughly 30‐year cycle of Saturn in Capricorn preceded this crash, and because none of the other outermost planets were in Aries, this crash was not followed by a great depression. When the Crash of ’29 hit in late October, Saturn was in Sagittarius opposite, and Jupiter in Gemini was conjunct the US Mars and square the US Neptune, and the New Moon was conjunct the US Neptune. As Saturn then moved into Capricorn to square Uranus in Aries, the Crash of ’29 led into the great depression of the 1930s. When the Crash of 1987 hit, the planetary culprits were Saturn and Uranus conjunct in Sagittarius, aided by Chiron in Gemini, conjunct the US Mars. What followed was a conjunction in Capricorn of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, but because these planets did not square another in Aries, no great depression. Pluto, was in Scorpio, forming a beneficent sextile to the trio in Capricorn. 29
When the Crash of 2008 turned down with grim square is afflicted by one or more of the determination under the Full outermost planets, we enter a time when a Moon on Monday, September 15, the US Mars‐Neptune square was stock market crash becomes possible, likely or being hit by the Full Moon, a virtually certain.’ Saturn‐Uranus opposition, and if we expand the orb a bit, a grand cross formed by Pluto in Sagittarius opposite the US Mars in Gemini. By 2010, Uranus will have moved into Aries and Pluto into the mid range of Capricorn, forming the grand cross pattern to the USA’s natal Sun‐Saturn square, to form the great depression grand cross. In 1929, the US Sun‐Saturn square was also being hit by Uranus in Aries while Pluto then was in Cancer, opposite Capricorn. The now‐forming Uranus‐Pluto square is due to hit with full force from 2012 through 2015, but we can expect the overall economy to be in deep trouble by 2010 when a T‐square will be formed by Saturn in Libra, Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Aries. These transit‐to‐natal aspects do not have to be exact to be effective. And it often happens that Pluto’s full effects aren’t felt till Pluto has moved on, releasing the exact square, opposition or conjunction. Pluto’s effects are often most powerful in its waning phase. rom an astrological perspective, the reason we are headed into a great depression lasting from 2008 to at least 2018 and (depending how we respond) perhaps beyond, is the upcoming square from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn, creating another grand cross pattern with the US Sun‐Saturn square. There is another, longer planetary cycle we must factor into this forecast, and that is Pluto’s roughly 248 year orbit around the Sun. For Pluto is, as I write this, in the final degrees of Sagittarius, conjunct the Galactic Center. Its previous visit to this area of the heavens coincided with the years leading up to the American Revolution. Prior to that, in the early 1500s it coincided with a pandemic inadvertently brought by European explorers, which depopulated the Americas. Pluto’s movement through the last 3 degrees of Sagittarius has a history of bringing huge transformations. When we add the upcoming Uranus‐Pluto square and grand cross with the US Sun‐Saturn square, the coming decade appears to be another major turning point in human history, comparable to the early 1500s and 1760s. Hard angles by Uranus and Pluto—whenever and Every time the USA’s Sun-Saturn square is hit wherever they have formed— by the outermost planets in the Cardinal Signs of have a history of bringing revolution and fundamental Capricorn and Aries—forming a grand cross change. And, because the present pattern with the USA’s natal Sun-Saturn Saturn‐Uranus opposition will square—the nation has suffered a great last well into 2010 and morph into depression, and there have been no exceptions to a T‐square with Pluto, we can expect the current crash of stock this “rule of thumb.” prices and chaos to lead into another great depression, this one likely to be worse than any in memory, owing to Pluto’s lingering conjunct the Galactic Center. What we are living through is a convergence of planetary cycles: 1) the 45‐year Saturn‐Uranus opposition, 2) the 248‐year Pluto‐Galactic Center conjunction, and 3) the 30 ‘Every time the USA’s natal Mars-Neptune
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Uranus‐Pluto square and grand cross with US Sun‐Saturn square, which last coincided with the great depression of the 1930s. By 2013‐2015, Uranus will have completed its 84‐year‐cycle since 1929‐1933. Note that there has been one major change in the world economy since previous crashes: Today the biggest profits come from making money produce more money; previously, profits came from investing money in making goods and services. This new “money game” is a Ponzi Scheme. It’s cotton‐candy money that evaporates when stock markets crash. This makes the economy even more vulnerable to that famous wrecking crew, the Saturn‐Uranus opposition. Those who do not believe in the potency of planetary cycles call themselves rational. I have yet to meet a human being I can truly say is rational, but that’s another story. Rationalists point to cause‐effect events leading to stock market crashes and great depressions. From the astrological perspective, these cause‐effect events are manifestations of planetary aspects acting on the invisible causal plane or subconscious realm. “As above, so below,” as one ancient stargazer put it. Now that modern rational science is venturing into the subatomic realm, we may live to see the day when science will make a discovery: that what happens up there in the sky correlates with what happens in the subatomic realm. This would be a rediscovery of “As above, so below.” Meanwhile, you can bet the farm that by the mid‐2000‐teens, much of the world will be struggling through another great depression, and a time of massive transformation with the high possibility of another world war. The bigger the balloon of optimism preceding busts, the bigger and more long‐lasting the succeeding bust is. The good news is, humanity has survived great depressions since records have been kept, and found ways to improve economic conditions coming out of such hard times. Meanwhile, millions of hard working, play‐by‐the‐rules citizens of the USA, Europe and elsewhere will probably lose all or part of their pensions in the present ongoing financial collapse. This means the rules of the money game and/or the monetary system will have change if we are to avoid the worst. . Best possible scenario, the powers that be will make the changes necessary to avoid massive starvation and homelessness. In fact, this process appears to have already begun. The US government, after decades of promoting so‐called “free‐market capitalism,” has suddenly done an ideological about‐face by socializing the debt incurred by big corporations. This is being done to “save the capitalist system.” In fact it revolutionizes the system by “sovietizing” it. What scared 20th Century capitalists about communism was the old Soviet Union’s ownership of banks and big industry. If transplanted to the USA, they feared, it would mean spreading the wealth horizontally. Well, now it is being transplanted to the G7 capitalist nations. What is underway as I write this is an attempt to socialize the debt of these free‐ market ideologues without socializing their profits too. They want to keep big corporate profits private while distributing debts to the public. The logical next step is for government authorities to come out of their ideological Trickle‐down trance and realize they can’t save their most generous campaign contributors (the big bankers) without saving the people who make the big bankers rich, the vast majority of workers and consumers. The vast majority needs to be saved in order to continue supporting the wealthy few. 31
There is another problem with the present bailout of banks and big corporations. No amount of such bailouts will overcome the reluctance of the majority of people to buy money and consume products at any interest rate, especially if inflation and unemployment continue to rise. And there will be more astounding surprises in store for the whole economy as this series of Saturn‐Uranus oppositions make direct “hits”—in 2008 on Election Day November 4, in 2009 on February 5 and September 15, and in 2010 on April 25 and July 26. As Uranus’s square with Pluto continues to tighten, we can look for revolutionary thinking to arise and prevail. Together, Uranus and Pluto will terminate what no longer works and initiate the new and improved. The sensible thing for us humans to do is cooperate with this process of economic transformation. The old ideology has clearly led us to a funny‐money economy (the rich minority and the increasingly poor majority). Every past great depression in US history has been preceded by a record disparity between the rich few and the majority. What is needed is systemic change that will distribute wealth more horizontally. Uranus looks out for the downtrodden.
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The second biwheel chart is for the Crash of 1987. Again it was Saturn and Uranus afflicting the US Mars‐Neptune square, this time with help from Chrion in Gemini.
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For the Crash of 1929, Saturn in Sagittarius opposite Jupiter in Gemini afflicted the US Mars‐Neptune square. The crash this day was triggered by the Moon conjunct the US Neptune. Why did this one lead into a great depression? Note Uranus in Aries opposite the US Saturn and square the US Sun, the signature of great depressions. Also notice that Pluto was conjunct the US Sun, while Mercury and Venue were conjunct the US Saturn.
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Astrology, Switchwords & Energy Healing Techniques
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By Kat Miller, USA.
witchwords are powerful one‐word affirmations which attract desired experiences, help clear unwanted energies and can be used to help ease astrological imbalances, enhancing life experiences. Switchwords were first introduced by James T. Mangan “The Secret of Perfect Living” first published in 1963. Shunyam Nirav brought them back into focus with his book “Switchwords, Easily Gives to You Whatever You Want in Life” in 2006.
Miller is a natural health care
practitioner. Kat specializes in energy healing techniques. Kat is founder of the Emotional Freedom vial, Healing Energy Vibrations vial, Flower Energies vial and Rescue Remedy energy vial. Kat also brings a new level of understanding to Switchwords, utilizing them to help restore emotional, physical, karmic and astrological balance. www.ehdef.com Email:
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I have spent thousands of hours learning, researching, refining and utilizing Switchwords. I have had many wonderful experiences and successes utilizing reflex muscle testing to create Switchphrases for specific and general situations. I also utilize this technique to find Switchwords and Switchphrases for dealing with astrological events, elements and signs. When afflicted by astrological imbalances, Switchwords, simple yet powerful tools, can be utilized to help smooth the experiences. A Switchword is a one‐word affirmation that embodies an experience, condition or desired result. 37
Say, sing, think, intend or chant a Switchword like you would a mantra, then relax and follow inner guidance, and watch what happens. You may feel an urge to change your routine. Do it. Something good may be coming your way. Switchwords are quick and easy to use, and can be very effective. Chant Switchwords while eating, drinking, bathing or relaxing. Use them for meditating. Use them any way you want, any time you want. There are no restrictions on Switchwords. Switchwords always work for your higher good. At times combining two or more Switchwords into a Switchphrase may increase the power of Switchwords. When you encounter an astrological sign or element that causes a disruption, chant the Switchword and/or Switchphrase listed below for that sign or element. For example: To help clear disruptive effects of Mercury: 1. 2.
Chant “ACT.” If the disruption continues, then chant the entire Switchphrase for Mercury: “ACT‐ACT‐DivineORDER‐NEXT‐WHET‐ACT”
A list of Universal Switchwords can be downloaded at: http://www.sw.ehdef.com
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witchwords and Switchphrases that may be helpful in quelling effects from astrological elements, element locations and imbalances include:
Moon: Switchword for all encounters: SHOW Switchphrase for all encounters: ALONE‐POINT‐SLOW‐DUCK‐BE This Switchphrase means: Increase focus on self, find direction, be patient, dispel hypersensitivity and be at peace. Mercury: Switchword for all encounters: ACT Switchphrase for all encounters: ACT‐ACT‐DivineORDER‐NEXT‐WHET‐ACT This Switchphrase means: Transition, be a good orator, increase efficiency at this time, hone and finalize transitions. Mercury Retro Switchphrases: DIVINE‐ADJUST‐LEARN‐CUT‐SHUT This Switchphrase means: Increase personal ability to create balance, rejuvenate, sever ties and stop looking for trouble. DivineORDER: TOGETHER‐ADJUST‐REACH‐NOW This Switchphrase means: Revamp things, become single‐minded, create balance and find solutions to your problems now. ACT‐JUDGE‐LIGHT‐DIVINE 38
This Switchphrase means: Speak clearly, increase comprehension, lighten stress and work miracles. You can use any one of these Switchphrases that seems appropriate for your current situation with Mercury Retrograde, or you can use all three at once. Venus: Switchword for all encounters: OPEN Switchphrase for all encounters: ATTENTION‐JUDGE‐LIMIT‐WOMB This Switchphrase means: Do detailed work, read and enjoy it, regain control and reconnect with Source. Sun: Switchword for all encounters: WOMB Switchphrase for all encounters: DIVINE‐WOMB‐JUDGE‐PHASE‐PRAISE‐ADJUST‐ TOMORROW This Switchphrase means: Increase personal ability to feel secure, increase comprehension, improve situations, be beautiful, handle unpleasant conditions and clear sorrows. Mars: Switchword for all encounters: GIVE Switchphrase for all encounters: DivineORDER‐LIMIT‐GIVE‐SWEET This Switchphrase means: Clean up, regain control, be helpful to others and be caring. Jupiter: Switchword for all encounters: WHET Switchphrase for all encounters: MOVE‐NEXT‐JUDGE‐GO‐CARE This Switchphrase means: Increase energy, finish lots of meticulous work, increase comprehension, progress and remember what you are doing. Saturn: Switchword for all encounters: LISTEN Switchphrase for all encounters: LISTEN‐LEARN‐UP‐MOVE This Switchphrase means: Predict the future, be youthful, release inferiority complexes and clear inertia. Saturn in a difficult place: DIVINE‐LIGHT‐ADJUST‐BLUFF This Switchphrase means: Work miracles with inspiration, create comfort and enhance imagination and dreams. Rahu (north node of moon): Switchword for all encounters: RESTORE Switchphrase for all encounters: DIVINE‐LIGHT‐RESTORE‐PHASE‐WAIT‐OVER‐ DOWN This Switchphrase means: Multiply intensity, restore fairness, improve situations, learn secrets (you have been wanting to learn), end frustration and clear hypersensitivity. Ketu (south node of moon): 39
Switchword for all encounters: WITH Switchphrase for all encounters: POSTPONE‐MAGNANIMITY‐WITH‐DIVINE‐ LIGHT This Switchphrase means: Let go of pettiness, harmonize well with others and brightly focus positivity.
Astrological Events, etc., and Switchwords Switchwords and Switchphrases which may be helpful in dealing with the energy from astrological events include: Planetary Attacks: CANCEL‐CLEAR‐CONCEDE‐CONFESS This Switchphrase means: Get rid of negativity, clear anger, stop arguing and end aggression. RESTORE‐JUDGE‐FIFTY THREE‐PHASE‐NOW This Switchphrase means: Restore honesty, increase comprehension, pay primary concern, improve the situation and act on good impulse. Love Relationship Affected By Astrological Imbalances: DIVINE‐PRAISE‐LOVE‐TOGETHER‐LISTEN‐BETWEEN‐LIGHT This Switchphrase means: Make extraordinary accomplishments in generating, accepting and experiencing love, master the ability to be in touch with self and nature, enhance telepathy and understanding between love partners and lighten the mood. Saturn Opposing Venus: JUDGE‐LIMIT‐OPEN‐QUIET‐BE‐MOVE‐CHANGE This Switchphrase means: Increase comprehension, set parameters, allow life to flow as it will, quiet the ego, be at peace and in good health, increase energy and dispel physical and emotional pain. Natal Venus Conjunction Transit Mars: CRYSTAL ‐HORSE‐ACT‐NOW This Switchphrase means: Increase self‐love and self‐worth, enhance your speaking ability and act on good impulse. Minimize Astrological Malefic Effects: DIVINE‐MAGNANIMITY‐ELATE‐CHARM –NOW This Switchphrase means: Increase personal ability to end pettiness, turn setbacks into triumphs, manifest your heart’s desires and act on good impulse. DIVINE‐TOGETHER‐CRYSTAL‐HORSE This Switchphrase means: Work miracles, have it all together and improve your self‐worth and self‐confidence. Divine ORDER‐ADJUST‐GUARD 40
This Switchphrase means: In an efficient manner, create balance and protection. Solar Eclipse: UP‐UP‐UP‐PUT‐FULL‐TOGETHER This Switchphrase means: Be in high spirits, dispel the blues and inferiority complexes, and expand capacity to master any activity. Lunar Eclipse: OPEN‐FOR‐THANKS‐BUBBLE‐GUARD‐PRAISE This Switchphrase means: Breathe easier, promote the release of guilt, expand beyond perceived limitations, protect yourself and your property and be beautiful.
Astrological Signs and Switchwords Following are Switchwords and Switchphrases that may be helpful when dealing with astrological signs, whether you were born under the moon sign, sun sign, or are exposed to someone who was: Aries Switchword for all encounters: JUDGE Switchphrase for all encounters: FORGIVE‐HORSESHOE‐ JUDGE This Switchphrase means: Eliminate remorse, strengthen your soul and improve comprehension. Taurus Switchword for all encounters: ELATE Switchphrase for all encounters: OPEN‐ELATE‐PRAISE‐LISTEN This Switchphrase means: Be tolerating, turn setbacks into uplifts, stop being critical and be in touch with nature and yourself. Gemini Switchword for all encounters: FULL Switchphrase for all encounters: TOGETHER‐MOVE‐FULL This Switchphrase means: Become single‐minded, increase pep and expand your capacity for life. Cancer Switchword for all encounters: WOMB Switchphrase for all encounters: JUDGE‐GIVE‐GUARD‐WOMB This Switchphrase means: Increase comprehension, help others, maintain protection and be secure with yourself. Leo Switchword for all encounters: WITH Switchphrase for all encounters: WITH‐MOVE‐HORSE‐LISTEN‐ATTENTION 41
This Switchphrase means: Be agreeable, clear inertia and start moving, gain power, be in touch with yourself and nature and avoid carelessness. Virgo Switchword for all encounters: CHUCKLE Switchphrase for all encounters: POINT‐NOW‐JUDGE‐AROUND‐CHUCKLE This Switchphrase means: Find direction now, improve comprehension, gain perspective and turn on personality. Libra Switchword for all encounters: OPEN Switchphrase for all encounters: POSTPONE‐FORGIVE‐OPEN‐BUBBLE This Switchphrase means: Let go of resentments, breathe easier and expand beyond perceived limitations. Scorpio Switchword for all encounters: HORSESHOE Switchphrase for all encounters: SLOW‐ELATE‐GUARD‐HORSESHOE‐FORGIVE This Switchphrase means: Have patience, turn setbacks into uplifts, preserve personal safety, remain steadfast and release resentments. Sagittarius Switchword for all encounters: FORGIVE Switchphrase for all encounters: BUBBLE‐FOR‐GIGGLE‐POSTPONE‐FORGIVE This Switchphrase means: Get energized, promote yourself, enjoy the task at hand and let go of resentments. Capricorn Switchword for all encounters: ADJUST Switchphrase for all encounters: LIMIT‐HORSE‐AROUND‐ADJUST‐PUT This Switchphrase means: Regain control, gain power, improve perspective, create balance and expand. Aquarius Switchword for all encounters: DUCK Switchphrase for all encounters: ACT‐MASK‐ELATE‐FULL‐BUBBLE‐DUCK This Switchphrase means: Transition, save from harm, turn setbacks into uplifts, go beyond expectations, expand beyond perceived limitations and dispel hypersensitivity. Pisces Switchword for all encounters: HO Switchphrase for all encounters: FIGHT‐GUARD‐HO‐FULL‐QUIET‐WITH This Switchphrase means: Intensify intents, preserve personal safety, relax, expand capacity, quiet the ego and harmonize well with others.
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Following are some Switchphrases which may be helpful for dealing with the November 2008 through February 2009 transits: November 1: Mercury transits to Libra Switchphrases: JUDGE‐CHUCKLE‐BOW‐ACT‐GUARD This Switchphrase means: Increase comprehension of situations, turn on personality, dispel arrogance, improve your speaking abilities and protect yourself. How To Use: Use this entire Switchphrase to help deal with all the effects of the transit. Say, chant, sing, think or intend the entire Switchphrase “JUDGE‐CHUCKLE‐BOW‐ ACT‐GUARD” anytime you find yourself affected by this transit. November 7: Venus transits to Sagittarius Switchphrase: FOR‐GO‐DIVINE‐CHANGE‐BUBBLE‐ROOT This Switchphrase means: Promote progression, increase personal ability to dispel emotional and physical pain, expand beyond perceived limitations and grow. November 8: Mars transits to Scorpio Switchphrase: JUDGE‐BOW‐BUBBLE‐AROUND‐WOMB This Switchphrase means: Increase comprehension, dispel arrogance, expand beyond perceived limitations, gain perspective and reconnect with Source. November 16: Sun transits to Scorpio Switchphrase: LEARN‐JUDGE‐SWING‐MOVE‐WATCH‐RIDICULOUS‐SLOW This Switchphrase means: Rejuvenate, increase comprehension, be bold, clear inertia (begin moving), perfect skills, center attention on you (or your work) and be wise. November 19: Mercury transits to Scorpio Switchphrase: ACT‐HELP‐NEXT‐FULL‐ACT‐WHET This Switchphrase means: Be good at speaking and making decisions at this time, increase capacity to speak well and sharpen your mind. December 3: Venus transits to Capricorn Switchphrase: UNMASK‐JUDGE‐FIFTY THREE‐TINY This Switchphrase means: Bring things into focus, increase comprehension, be responsible and be polite. December 8: Mercury transits to Sagittarius Switchphrase: OPEN‐ELATE‐PRAISE‐ACT‐POINT This Switchphrase means: Breathe easier, turn setbacks into uplifts, stop being critical, become a good speaker and find direction. December 10: The great benefic Jupiter transits to Capricorn, its debilitation Switchphrase: JUDGE‐GUARD‐CIRCULATE‐ADJUST‐FORGIVE‐HORSESHOE This Switchphrase means: Increase comprehension, protect yourself and your property, mingle, make yourself comfortable, release resentments and safely move rapidly ahead. December 15: Sun transits to Sagittarius Switchphrase: WATCH‐LIGHT‐GIGGLE‐FIGHT‐PUT‐AROUND‐CONSIDER 43
This Switchphrase means: Learn to lighten your mood, enjoy the task at hand, intensify intents, build, improve perspective and fix things. December 19: Mars transits to Sagittarius Switchphrase: ELATE‐ATTENTION‐, MAGNANIMITY‐GIVE‐OVER This Switchphrase means: Turn setbacks into uplifts, avoid carelessness, be generous, help others and end frustration. December 28: Mercury transits to Capricorn Switchphrase:GO‐HOLD‐NOW‐DO‐HORSE‐COVER‐ACT This Switchphrase means: Begin to be attractive, act on good impulse, stop procrastinating, be strong, subdue inner excitement and anxiety, and express yourself well. December 29: Venus transits to Aquarius Switchphrase: LOVE‐BRING‐BE‐LIMIT This Switchphrase means: Be accepting, deliver what you intend, be unaffected by ridicule and keep others from taking advantage of you. January 11: Mercury goes Retrograde Switchphrases: DIVINE‐ADJUST‐LEARN‐CUT‐SHUT This Switchphrase means: Increase personal ability to create balance, rejuvenate, sever ties and stop looking for trouble. DivineORDER‐TOGETHER‐ADJUST‐REACH‐NOW This Switchphrase means: Revamp things, become single‐minded, create balance and find solutions to your problems now. ACT‐JUDGE‐LIGHT‐DIVINE This Switchphrase means: Speak clearly, increase comprehension, lighten stress and work miracles. You can use any one of these Switchphrases that seems appropriate for your current situation with Mercury Retrograde, or you can use all three at once. January 14: Sun enters Capricorn Switchphrase: CONTINUE‐ADJUST‐PRAISE‐RESTORE‐WHET This Switchphrase means: Increase endurance, create balance, stop finding fault, restore honesty and refine (self or projects). January 26: Mercury Retro moves back to Sagittarius Switchphrase: ACT‐JUDGE‐QUIET‐UNMASK‐WOMB‐POINT This Switchphrase means: Be a good orator, increase comprehension, quiet the ego, bring things into focus, be secure and find direction. January 27: Venus enters Pisces, its house of exaltation Switchphrase: OPEN‐ROOT‐UNCLE‐TOGETHER‐LISTEN This Switchphrase means: Free the mind, discover, ward off apartness, have it all together and be in touch with yourself and nature. 44
January 28: Mars enters Capricorn, its house of exaltation Switchphrase: BUBBLE‐AROUND‐ PUT‐NOW‐CONTINUE This Switchphrase means: Get energized, improve perspective, expand (whatever you are working on) now and increase endurance. February 1: Mercury back to direct motion Switchphrase: ACT‐POSTPONE‐ THANKS‐GO‐GO‐GO This Switchphrase means: Transition, let it go (anything that has been causing problems for you), stop regretting, end laziness, begin (whatever you have been putting off) and progress.
The Life of Al-Biruni (973-1048 AD) Abu Rayhan Muhammed ibn Ahmad alBiruni was born just before sunrise on 4 September 973. His birthplace was the city of Kath (modern day Khiva) situated on the River Oxus in what was then the Principality of Khwarizm and is now Uzbekistan.
February 7: Mercury enters Capricorn Switchphrase: POSTPONE‐PRAISE‐ WITH‐ACT‐OPEN This Switchphrase means: Let go of fault finding, immerse in thoughtful conversation, free the mind and breathe easier.
Between 1017 and 1030, al-Biruni travelled extensively in India, collecting material for his monumental survey of the history, customs and beliefs of the sub-continent. India was his most highly-acclaimed work during his lifetime. He also produced a major work on astronomy, known as the Masudic Canon, dedicated to Mahmud's son, Ma'sud.
February 12: Sun enters Aquarius Switchphrase: FOR‐AROUND‐GO‐ BETWEEN‐ELATE‐MASK‐HORSE This Switchphrase means: Promote improved perspective, progress spiritual and psychic awareness, turn setbacks into uplifts, shield yourself, be solid and be strong.
As well as the Elements of Astrology , he wrote important books on medicine, geography and physics and translated Ptolemy's Almagest into Sanskrit. He died at Ghazna on 13 December 1048, aged 75.
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Discover Your Past Life & Heal Your Current By Holly Hall, USA
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ave you ever wondered who you may have been in the past life? Which talents, gifts and characteristics you developed? Were you the man? Or where you a woman? And are you using your talents in this lifetime? Our mission, is to rediscover our talents and our gifts and then use them in this life time to contribute to our community in the most progressive and positive manner possible. In this article you will discover all the areas of a chart that indicate past lives, particularly the most recent past life.
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experience as a professional Astrologer. Radio, newspaper, magazine appearances and columns fill her resume. With her psychic grandmother and clairvoyant mother's legacy, Holly will propel your spiritual growth. www.12listen.com & www.astrodreams.ca
The Moon The moon indicates the characteristics you developed in the past life and brought to this life. It is your “knee jerk” reaction to life now. Reading the Moon Signs as if it is a Sun Sign will describe the kind of person you where in your most recent past life. For instance if a Moon is in Gemini in a chart than that particular person was an intellect, and the job or mission of that person was to gather and pass on information. Doing this can take on many forms, Gemini’s work well with their hands and may have been a carpenter or mechanic. Or a communicator, such as being a teacher, writer, singer, preacher, story teller, a traveler, a musician and so on. You can further discover exactly what area the Gemini (or any other Moon sign) used this ability in the past life, by the House it is in. You can also see the difficulties and lessons that remain from the 46
past life that need to be addressed in this life. Simply, by looking at the aspects the Moon makes to other planets. You can also discover the talents, gifts and specialties you created by looking at the positive aspects. We will discuss this later on in the article. The South /North Node‐Dharma and Karma. Nodes are not planets but points in astrology that indicate Dharma‐North node (what makes you happy‐your calling/Righteous Path/Dharma) and Karma south node (our lessons that we go though due to past life actions) north node is life Jupiter and South node is like Saturn. Also the areas of where you will learn these lessons or play out your Karma will be determined by the House placement. So for instance if your south node is in your 4th house then many of your karmic debts will be with a parent (most likely mom) and in your childhood (so you may be picked on or not excepted as an example) People in your life that are represented by the house are your soul mates, your soul family in which you reconnect with. So in this example, mom and childhood connections (4th house stuff), as well as people in authority (10th house stuff). Note: Not all soul mates within your soul family are comfortable connections, as we learn lessons from others we have wronged or have wronged us in some way. And this may be carried over as an adult in your workplace with bosses, any one that reigns over you as the North node will be in the 10th house. But interestingly enough this is where you discover your strengths and apply them throughout your career and within your community status. The 12th House
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many positive or challenging aspects to the Sun and Moon. Look at the aspects, the ruling planets and the house in which the Sun and Moon reside. Aspects Trines and Sextile to the Sun (if same sign as Moon), Moon and Nodes indicate that you have a huge gift and talent in regards to the sign they are in and you will succeed if used in the area of your life shown forth by the Houses they reside. For instance‐If a Moon is Trine Mercury in lets say Leo and th Sagittarius in 3rd and 7th; the gift Many planets in the 12 house is a good indicator and or talent here is to that you had a recluse past life, had possibly such a communicate (3rd) to others, the need to harmonize, balance, to life that created many fears, or that it ended soon. relate, mediate (7th). To be proud, stand out, educate and accept other belief systems or cultures (3rd and 9th). Remembering that communicating can take on many forms, speech, writing, teaching, education, radio, print, internet, music, etc. Squares And Opposition Indicate the need to learn through challenging events and circumstances designed by past Karmic events. Choices made in a past life. This is when past life souls will re‐connect with you that had been involved and have karmic debt to pay to you as well. Female Or Male In The Past Life Looking at the amount of masculine and feminine signs in a chart within the personal planets only‐Sun through to Mars‐can determine the sex you where in your past life.
Moon Signs In a past life you embody the characteristics below, if your moon was in: Aries‐ A warrior, fighter, aggressive, a sergeant, firefighter, leader of others through your courage. Police officer, in the military. Taurus‐Persistent, values material world, earth bound. Farmer, artist, carpenter, banker, cook, craftsmen. Gemini‐Gatherer of information, communicator, teacher, speaker, preacher, writer, towne cryer, educator. Cancer‐Mothering, nurturing, caregiver, emotional, home important, feeling, nurse, doctor, practitioner, mother is a soul mate in this life. Leo‐Family important, children, creative, artist, actor, leader, courageous, out spoken, royalty, self employment, boss, idealist, romantic. Virgo‐Martyr, caregiver, nutritionist, health practitioner, perfectionist, and service orientated servant, nun, and priest.
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Libra‐Law and order, peace keeper, easy going, understanding, lawyer, mediator, judge, diplomat. Scorpio‐Investigating, psychology, investor, financial advisor, insightful, curious, secretive, surgeon. Sagittarius‐ Prophet, philosopher, professor, traveller, wonderer, curious, humorous, witty, author, most likely lived in a very different culture than this life. Capricorn‐Father, authority, manager, self employed, practical, organized, controlling, leadership ability, advisor. Aquarius‐Unique, go by the beat of their own drum, progressive, has acquired many acquaintances in past life, humanitarian, scientist, alchemist, intuitive. Pisces‐Spiritually aware, deep love, loner, hermit, healer, artist, poet, musician. Psychic may have experienced great loss in past life. Houses 1st‐Hear to develop a sense of self ‘Who Am I’ and how do I want the world to view me. 2nd‐One must learn what he/she values, possessions. In this life must use talent to earn a living and value how they earn that living. 3rd‐The gift here is to communicate and share knowledge as you learn. Curious you must teach others as you are learning. 4th‐Your area is within the home environment, especially as a child. May have strong ties to the mother figure in this lifetime. 5th‐This house is the house of family and your children, or children in general. The house of creativity and romance. 6th‐In this house one has the talent to focus on nutrition, teamwork, and health issues. 7th‐Your gift is to learn about others, to compromise and learn through all your partnerships and relationship. Helping another. To mediate and share the concept of fairness. 8th‐“What makes others tick? Discovering the unknown. Dealing with fears you’re own and others. Psychology and occult. 9th‐This house is the area of higher education, travel and world religions and philosophies. 10th‐The areas of self employment, managing others and leadership within a community. Marriage and through community involvement. 11th‐This is the house of friends, large organizations, the public. Also your aspirations and dreams. 12th‐This house represents the need to uncover hidden sides of yourself, also prisons and hospitals. To work on your own to rediscover you and through this helping others.
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Remember that this is only a brief explanation. Looking up each sign and house as well as the meanings of the moon and nodes in detail will help you see past life tendencies brought into this life in more detail. Next issue we will learn how to discover family dynamics in a birth chart, focussing on Mother and Father Figures.
Sushruta Samhita The Sushruta Samhita is a Sanskrit text on surgery, attributed to Sushruta, (6th century BCE), the "father of Surgery". The text as preserved dates to the 3rd or 4th century CE. Amongst the eight divisions of medical knowledge (Ayurveda), surgery was considered the most important branch. The text was translated into Arabic in the 8th or 9th century. In India the practice of surgery is very ancient that dates back to around eight hundred BC. Surgery was termed as `Sastrakarma` and was one of the eight branches of Ayurveda, which is the ancient Indian system of medicine. Sushruta Samhita is one of the oldest book in Ayurveda that was written by Sushruta, the legendary Aurvedic Physician of ancient India. The Sushruta Samhita is the complete book that deals with the practical problems of surgery and midwifery or obstetrics. Sushruta was the first person who studied human anatomy. In the Sushruta Samhita this detailed study of anatomy is described. Sushruta was the specialist of rhinoplasty or plastic surgery and ophthalmology or the elimination of cataracts. There are eight main divisions in Sushruta Samhita namely Chedya (excision), Lekhya (scarification), Vedhya (puncturing), Esya (exploration), Ahrya (extraction), Vsraya (evacuation) and Sivya (Suturing). 50
Economic Forecast By Constantine Semenov, Crimea Translator: Ivan Pizhenko
World financial system survives after Great Crash 2008. The worst crisis since '30s, with no end yet! Anyway, the 2008 is shaping up to annus horribilis for the U.S. stock market. Heading into Friday's session Nov 21, 2008, in which an early rally effort quickly faded, the S&P was down 49% year‐to‐date and on track for its worst year ever. Down 43% year to date, the Dow is heading for its second worst year in history, the WSJ reports, trailing only the 53% decline in 1931. While the major averages tell a grim tale, the action in components of the S&P 500 speak to the extent of the devastation. Heading into Friday's session: • 115 S&P stocks were trading under $10 • 41 were trading under $5 • 204 were trading with a market cap of less than $4 billion
Constantine Semenov lives in the Crimea & has been a long time student of mysticism, and a full time practicing astrologer specializing in business & political astrology. He holds an impressive track record of world-wide predictions and makes full use of amulets in his practice. You can read about his past predictions on September 11th, Tsunami in Indian Ocean, Columbia Shuttle Disaster on his website http://www.tigrovo.com.
Everybody suffers from this global economic crisis, rich men lost billions during the 2008 financial crisis. Poor men possess less than even they used to have! What was the origin of this crisis? The origin is the finishing of Pluto in horoscope of the U.S. in Capricorn. I predicted the global collapse of capitalism in 2005 in article about Prophecy of Maya 2012.
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The Economy of USA What was the beginning of this global financial crisis which started from summer 2007? It began from the declaration of financial problems by the Countrywide Financial Corporation, the largest mortgage organization (nation's largest mortgage lender) giving credits under the dwelling. Founded on March 14, 1969 by two New Yorkers of David Loeb and Angelo R. Mozilo, in better times the company gave profits, some of the highest percentages in the history of the USA. One of the publications ‐ Fortune named it “stock in 23,000%” and it is on that profitability it arose in one row with such leaders of profitableness as Washington Mutual, Wal‐Mart ‐ the largest supermarket of America, and Berkshire Of Hathaway, company of the richest man Warren Buffett! Now it fell!
Astrological reasons were the following. First of all, basic planets changed their positive positions to the negative ones and companies went bust. All financial problems were created by the Saturn and Mars, and Jupiter, if this planet was in the close contact with these destructive planets. This fact leads to the crash of large, global scale. That also occurred in the USA into 2007 and was extended throughout the world into 2008! In this case, in the horoscope of Countrywide Financial Corporation, Jupiter has absolute destructive status – Jupiter is the ruler both Mars and Saturn simultaneously, since Saturn in Aries, and it rules Mars, and Mars in Sagittarius in the abode of Jupiter in horoscope of Countrywide Financial Corporation. Both planets have strong energy status ‐ Saturn in Aries the first in the zodiac of the horoscope of company, Mars in the fiery sign and in the turn in retrograde motion, which makes it extremely destructive nature in activity! Moreover, in this horoscope aspect ‐ position of Saturn is at the point of the turn of Mars approximately 128 ‐160 degrees! This is the point where Mars turns retrograde (this distance from Mars to the Sun, when it is turned retrograde or direct after being retrograde in the direct or retrograde motion) and one 52
of the most destructive Saturn position if this destructive planet occurs in this point of 128 ‐ 160 degrees from Mars! Usually, this leads to the crash, which it was possible to avoid by re‐ registering the company on the other date (with another horoscope)! Important component, as shows experience, this aspect works destructively at all levels including catastrophes! This aspect was in the horoscopes of the aircraft chief pilots on commercial airlines, two last plane crashes on the Russian Air lines in August 2006 and the recent which was predicted by me in Saptarishis Astrology Vol 2, air crash in Perm' Russia, on September 14, 2008! The most interesting point, is in Osama Ben Laden also these is the same aspect in his horoscope, and September 11, 2001 there was also same aspect among Saturn and Mars! By the way, precisely, on September 11, 2001 there was this aspect in large orb! No comments! This is one of the most destructive aspects! The consequences of tragedy on September 11 were reflected in the economy of the USA and peace as a whole more than noticeably. So, at the end 2006, Jupiter passed into the sign of Sagittarius, on natal Mars, in horoscope of Countrywide Financial Corporation. Strengthened negative influence retrograde transit Mars, which was in the opposition with Jupiter in the second‐half 2007 and first half 2008, which included destructive program and neglected the complex effect of dominoes, in which there was entire financial system of the USA, which gave the money under the guarantee, and which were spent by borrowers those have taken the money into the debt under the guarantee of dwelling and not paid those money back in time! All this led to the collapse of American financial system!
By the way, Countrywide Financial Corporation suffered big losses in 1982 ‐1983, when Jupiter returned to the sign of Sagittarius and it was again with natal Mars. Same time Mars transit went retrograde in 1982 on natal Jupiter. This influencing strengthened the destructive activity of both planets! Saturn transit was also there on the border the signs of Virgo and Libra on natal Jupiter. This led company to suffer heavy losses during this period! As a result this company was acquired as bankrupt by Bank of America. Also it’s necessary to say about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that were nationalized and saved from bankruptcy! Scenario number one was performed!
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Next ones for bail out were financial giants like these CitiGroup Inc. – almost bankrupt stocks fell below 3 $ in Nov 2008, compared with 52 $ a year ago in summer of 2007. Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in September 2008 and was not bailed out! For example, in Citigroup horoscope the basis of problems composes the negative transit of Saturn on Natal Mars in the Virgo, very negative aspect.
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The most interesting fact is the bankruptcy of the leader of the financial system Lehman Brothers. It completely became bankrupt in September 2008. It happened for the first time in 160 years of its glorious history in the negative position of immediately several planets. First of all this is the opposition of Saturn of transit to natal Saturn in the Pieces. However, the main destructive factor is the finishing of the cycle of Neptune in the horoscope of Lehman Brothers, which is ruler of natal Saturn in the Pieces and is, positioned Aquarius in horoscope of Lehman Brothers. This historical phenomenon for the first time occurred in 160 years of Lehman Brothers history, so negatively was reflected in the fate of company ‐ the giant of the financial industry of the USA has fallen. As a whole the crisis struck the financial institutes of the USA because of the simultaneous activation of destructive factors in all companies’ horoscopes. Therefore this horror to Wall Street will end yet not soon and most likely smoothly, will pass into stagnation, when the stock market of the USA will not grow for several years. This is the cycle of motion of Saturn relatively to Pluto of the main U.S. stock index of Dow Jones Industrial Average began the period of finishing the period of growth, in other words, summer, changed into autumn and later to cold winter. I guess the world capitalism will see the ice and snow soon!
Stock Markets Of course the stock markets are the main indicators of progress in economy. So, it’s very important to analyze the horoscopes of stock exchanges NYSE and key stock markets indices such as DJIA, S&P 500, NASDAQ, NIKKEY, FTSE 100 etc. The position of Saturn and Mars and aspect between them in the horoscope of Stock Exchanges is one of the most important! These two planets indicate the level of drop in the prices and level of index change in points. It creates a crash in bad constellations! One of the most destructive aspects is the Saturn position in point of Mars starting retrograde (the same as in the horoscope of 55
that described above in horoscope of Countrywide Financial Corporation) you can find in horoscopes of all key U.S. Stock Market indices the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poor's 500, Russian stock index ‐ RTS and in horoscopes of NYSE and NASDAQ. That means that American and Russian stock markets could be destroyed totally. It’s almost sensational that some destructive program always leads the markets to the death! The main question why these all key Market places and indexes have in horoscope same, such destructive aspect? And may by someone controls it? The NYSE, Tokyo Stock Market (TSE) and RTS horoscopes, the main destructive planet of crash ‐ Saturn is located at the key points of zodiac ‐ sign of Aries (NYSE, TSE) and Pisces (RTS)! In the practical aspect, this speaks, that in one period will begin the crash of market as this was in 1929 in the USA. For this reason, the crisis from one exchange, simply stated, throws on another market and so everything is brought down, although in the language of wise men this is more frequent than only emotion! Contemporary financial crisis 2008 already compared with the Great Depression in the USA 1929 ‐1933. And there are actually bases. Financial indices with each year into the next 10 ‐11 years will deteriorate, and times will only be the small splashes of the lift of an increase in the economy. Cycle of Uranus will be finished in the horoscope of the Great Depression in 2011. That’s why this period could be the most dramatic in history of world economy. Opposition of Saturn and Jupiter in period of 1990 ‐1992 was heavy for the economy of USA! Here interesting connection. In 1929 Saturn was in the opposition with natal Mars in the sign of Cancer in the horoscope of the TSE thus it gave in it to the crash! Now Saturn moves along natal Mars in Virgo in the horoscope NYSE, which made the equity market in America to plunge so low. The opposition of transit Saturn to natal Saturn in the horoscope of New York Stock Exchange 1981 ‐ 1982 and 1952 ‐1953 it was the period of heavy recession! Basic corporations of the USA, such as Caterpillar inc. ‐ the producer of the largest machines and technology in the world, suffered the millionth losses, the output level in the USA fell very low! Its maximum value was achieved summer of 2007 more than 14 000 points, when Saturn was in the trine with Pluto. Now it smoothly passes into the square, the aspect negative and which reduces its value! As a result the tendency of its motion downward and smooth sliding down for a period of the following decade will correspond to the phase of the winter, when Saturn will move to Pluto into the sign of Capricorn. For example, the period of their opposition is the period of large shakings. So it was into 1929 ‐ 1931, when the Great Depression in the USA began, and the same was in the period of tragedy on the September 11 in the USA, and subsequent after this market crashes. In both periods Pluto was in opposition with Saturn! These are more than serious arguments in favor of astrological influence on the fate of the world economy. As a rule the motion of Saturn to Pluto and their connection in conjunction will give the process of decrease and recession. So it was in mid 1970s after the Oil crisis and decrease in the economy of the USA, while so at the beginning of 1980s when Saturn and Pluto they were in conjunction and the economy of the USA was already in depression ‐ major companies suffered great losses and citizens lost their money. The same history was also after the Second World War. When Saturn returned in the connection with Pluto and began the decrease with the sharp reduction of production. Strictly the same scenario awaits the USA and the majority of its satellites in the next decade. The growth times have ended. 56
Certainly, it is necessary to look at the problems of America more widely than simple key financial indices. This put together sums up the consequence of the beginning of the cycle of Pluto in USA horoscope, which already completes, and with its complete passage into the sign of Capricorn for the USA will begin very tough times, which as a whole will be prolonged to 2024! It reminds the history drama of the fall of the Roman Empire! We can say about this with the confidence after reading about the by the fate of Roman Empire, which also survived the so‐called crisis of the third century in the period of the finishing of the cycle of Pluto in the horoscope of the Roman Empire. By the way, it has fallen precisely on its second cycle in 474 A.D.! Sliding down into the pit! This prolonged, I would say protracted recession, in the darker tones this appears, as the economic decrease in the complex financial situation by several years forward! The crisis could last till Pluto meets Saturn and Jupiter in 2020! European Scenario In reality European crisis will not be affected so strongly by the economic and financial problems of the USA; therefore is not necessary to expect strong weakening of Euro, the main currency on the currency market. FTSE and DAX, two basic stock indices of Great Britain and Germany will plunge at the beginning of 2009! Russian Scenario The period of huge growth of Russian stock market is over!
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The basis of the horoscope of the stock exchange market of Russia is the index RTS. This index includes main 50 Russian ‐ joint stock companies such as “Gazprom” JSC, “Noril'sk Nickel” JSC, “Aeroflot” JSC, “Lukoil” JSC. It is the main determining factor of the health of the economic and financial indices of Russian economy. Let us look at its past and will see into the future. Majority of astrologers consider the date of September, 1, 1995 as the base date for the horoscope. In the horoscope of RTS Saturn and Mars are very powerful! Why in 1997 there was the most significant decline in the index? Because of the finishing the cycle of Mars in the RTS horoscope in the opposition with Saturn transiting Aries. The prolonged retrograde motion of the Mars in the sign of Libra determined the trend of the decrease. As a result towards the end of the year in autumn 1997, when Mars were under natal control of Chiron, they were in the connection with natal Mars in the opposition with transit Saturn, the index fell. Drop continued in the period of the opposition of transit Saturn natal Mars in the horoscope of RTS. By the way, the following finishing of the cycle of Mars in the same half year retrograde transit on natal Mars in 1999 affected the RTS index and it fell to its minimum point.
What happens next? Index fell catastrophically! This is connected with the opposition of natal Saturn to transit Saturn while finishing the cycle of Mars in the sign of Libra. Certainly, the beginning of drop began in May 2008, when transit Mars visited Leo in the opposition of Neptune and Chiron, in Aquarius, the natal rulers of Mars and Saturn in the horoscope of RTS. This gave the first wave of sales, further Mars was in the Virgo in the mutual opposition with Saturn transit to natal Saturn in Pisces in the horoscope RTS, and finished its cycle in Libra in September and October 2008 completing its victorious procession, after killing index RTS and reducing Russian market capitalization. What I can advice to investors, to the holders of securities and to simple citizens? Market will continue to fall and stay in recession until transit Saturn passes through the Virgo and Libra in 2009 ‐2011! The economy of Russia is already past its way of increase, the period of the decrease came. As a result the era of great financial turmoil has just begun!
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Rendezvous with John Frawley The Real Astrology
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ohn ‘The Specialist’ Frawley as some call him is not the name of the character Sylvester Stallone played in his famous movie but John is the ‘Horary Specialist’ of the West or Prashna Expert as Vedic astros would call. Some call him the ‘Horary Guru’ for re‐ introducing traditional astrology in the West. He is the author of The Real Astrology, Winner of the Spica Award: International Book of the Year, 2001, The Real Astrology Applied, The Horary Textbook, Sports Astrology and the magazine for traditional astrology The Astrologer’s Apprentice. He teaches students from all over the world and lectures from Brisbane to Budapest. John is one of the few contemporary practitioners of the “Real Astrology”. His method of teaching is distinct by its straightness, clarity, and practical applicability and last but not least by his special sense of humor. One actually doesn’t have to say too much about this expert astrologer who practices the methods of the 17th Century Legend William Lilly but has made it simple for common man to master. He has an unmatched following which is far more than Gurus of Vedic Astrology yet he remains a humble Light Worker of Traditional Astrology of the West. As a senior astrologer Mr. Christopher Warnock wrote for Johns work ‘All I can say is that many traditional astrologers have left modern for traditional, but I am not aware of any traditional astrologers who have forsaken it for modern. The ability of traditional horary to make such amazingly accurate predictions is supremely seductive.’ Though we could have asked Margaret George our illustrious interviewer or any of our Western Astrology writers of Saptarishis Astrology to conduct this interview but we felt in order to bring a different perspective of introducing him to various Vedic astrologers around the world we ourselves conduct this interview as a novice. Questions that seem obvious to the Indian astrologer adept of Horary wherein 10‐20 main stream systems exist, the same seems different for Traditional Western Horary Astrology & vice versa, this is a good mix for all. For the 27 asterisms presented below are 27 questions in this Rendezvous with John Frawley. 1) Would you tell us a little about when, how and why you learned astrology? J.F: I had been interested since a child, and learned to cast a chart from Margaret Hone’s textbook. What fascinated me was that astrology offered a different model of reality to what I was being taught in school. This is still what fascinates me: a coherent and flawless model of reality. 2) Who has been your Guru/Teacher of Astrology; can you tell us some of your cherished moments with him/her? J.F: My great teacher has been William Lilly. I am often regarded as a slavish adherent of his teaching, although this can be only by people who have not read my work. One great thing about Lilly is that he gets it wrong so often. This forces us to think about why and how he has gone wrong, which is a much more productive way of learning than being given words 59
of infallibility to be slavishly memorized. Another great thing about Lilly is the way the man is so visible in the work: flawed, passionate, and endlessly engaging. 3) Do you have any preferred specialisms in the field? Please tell us what they are, why you prefer it, and perhaps an example of one of your favorite applications of this type of astrology? J.F: I retain a particular fondness for horary, because of its breathtaking simplicity. This is a example from my Horary Textbook: Chart: August 30th 1998, 9.20 am BST, London. Regiomontanus houses. Tropical zodiac. Asc: 9 Libra. Moon: 8 Sag.
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orary is the art of drawing specific answers to specific questions from an astrological chart set for the time the question is asked. It is quick, simple and effective, providing concrete, verifiable answers. “How quick? How simple?” Follow this example. You may not yet understand many of the technical terms I use, but the principle of the judgment should be clear. Next door’s cat had been gradually moving into my house. When he didn’t appear for a couple of days, I was concerned for his safety, so asked the question ‘Where is the cat?’ I set an astrological chart for the time I asked this question and for my location at that time. Printing the chart here, I have left out everything not needed for judgment. I am asking about a cat. This is a small animal, and so is represented by the sixth house of the chart. The planet that rules the sign on the cusp of that house will signify the cat. Pisces is on the 6th cusp, so its ruler, Jupiter, signifies the cat. Where is Jupiter? In the 6th house: the house of the cat. So where is the cat? In his own house: at home. Is he OK? Jupiter, the most benefic of planets, is in its own sign, so has lots of essential dignity. Signified by a strongly dignified benefic, the cat is doing just fine. 60
Jupiter (the cat) is in a water sign, so he may be somewhere wet. But water signs also show places that are comfortable, which, considering the nature of the beast and that he is clearly happy where he is (strongly dignified benefic), must be the more likely choice. So he is probably curled up on the sofa or bed. Will he come back? Jupiter is retrograde: it is going back where it has been before. So yes, he will come back. The chart has given a specific, verifiable answer to the question. It has done this using only one planet! Horary is quick; horary is simple. We can refine this answer by predicting the time of the cat’s return. For this there must be a connection between the cat’s significator and something that represents either me or my home. Jupiter is making no such contact in this chart, so we must introduce a second planet. The Moon is natural ruler of all lost objects, especially animate ones. The person asking the question is shown by the Ascendant and its ruler. The Moon applies to sextile the Ascendant. Just as the 6th can be taken literally as the cat’s house, the first is literally my house. The Moon must travel almost exactly 1 degree to perfect this aspect. So the cat will return in almost exactly 1 unit of time. The sign and house the Moon is in as it makes this aspect tell us which unit of time this is. With the Moon in a mutable sign and a cadent house, the unit must be a day. So the cat will return almost exactly 24 hours after the time for which the chart was cast. And so it proved. Even now, we have only two planets in the chart. Yet we have a precise, timed, accurate prediction. Horary is simple. 4) How does the traditional astrology differ from the modern astrology of the west? J.F: The important distinction is a philosophical one. The western astrological tradition is monotheistic: it is the astrology of the Christians, Jews and Moslems. As such it differs fundamentally from the astrologies of not only the modern world ‐ although the tradition is alive and well in this modern world! ‐ but also of the ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, and from jyotish. Despite their differences in technical approach, these astrologies have more in common with each other than they do with the western tradition. 5) Can you tell us a bit more about your book Sports Astrology and its application, maybe with an example? J.F: The problem with even the best of textbooks is that the reader cannot ask the book questions. My aim in Sports Astrology was to answer as many as possible of the puzzling questions that the student would love to ask a teacher, but cannot ask a book. Insofar as I have succeeded in that aim, the book has a far wider relevance than simply to the field of sports prediction. Here’s a example from the book: Chart: Sept 10th 1996, 7.08 am BST, London. Regiomontanus houses. Tropical zodiac. Asc: 23 Virgo. Moon: 17 Leo. ‘This is a horary question asked about a football match: Will we win?’ ‘The querent’s favorites are shown by Mercury, Lord of the 1st. The enemy is Jupiter, Lord 7. Look! Horrible stuff happening to the 7th house: Saturn and the South Node are there.’ ‘Yes. What about Mercury and Jupiter?’ ‘They’re both in angular houses. But neither is in the sign of the cusp, so they’re both strong, but not that strong. Mercury is about to go back into its own sign. That must be important.’ ‘Not here, my boy. If this had been a long‐term question, maybe. But for a short‐term issue, like the outcome of one game, we cannot cross the sign boundary.’ 61
‘OK. So it’s retrograde: that’s weakening. And it’s opposed by this nasty Saturn.’ ‘But that’s almost 4 degrees away: too far to be of great importance. Saturn afflicts Jupiter too, and more closely.’ ‘Then Mercury is aspected by peregrine Mars and peregrine Venus. That must count as an affliction.’
‘Good. Not such a great affliction, but certainly worth noting.’ ‘That’s about it, Master. Mercury’s peregrine; Jupiter in its fall. No receptions between them. It’s all much of a muchness.’ ‘Yes, from what we’ve seen so far it would be too precious to try to split them apart.’ ‘So was it a draw?’ ‘That would be the obvious answer ‐ and would often be correct. But someone had to win this game. And anyway, you’re missing something.’ He thought for a moment, then, ‘It’s those little animals again, isn’t it, Master? Look, the antiscion of Jupiter is at 22.07 Sagittarius, exactly on the IC.’ ‘Well spotted! Yes, by its bodily placement Jupiter is in an angle, but not so strong because it’s not in the same sign as the cusp. But by antiscion it is exactly on that angle: very powerful. There are two more testimonies here, both by antiscion. Which are...?’ ‘Oh look, Saturn and the South Node afflict the 7th house bodily, but not so much because they’re not in the same sign as the cusp. But by antiscion they fall right on the Ascendant. That’s bad news for the good guys.’ ‘Yes. And the third testimony?’ ‘By antiscion, the North Node falls right on the 7th cusp.’ He had been doing so well, it was almost a sorrow to beat him. But it was my duty. ‘Foolish boy! The Nodes are opposite each other. If one is on the Ascendant the other will always be on the Descendant. That isn’t two testimonies; it is saying the same testimony twice. Now, where is that final testimony?’
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e stared at the chart in desperation, calculating anstiscia for everything he could see, till at last he stumbled upon the right one. ‘It’s Mercury, isn’t it, Master? By antiscion it’s just inside the 7th house, in the hands of the enemy.’ ‘Good! I hope you see why I set you this chart. It illustrates two very important points. First, that you cannot ignore antiscia. Here, no antiscia: no judgment. Second, it shows the difference between being in an angle in the sign of the cusp and being in an angle in a different sign to the cusp. Will you remember this?’ ‘Yes, Master,’ he promised, rubbing his head. 6) Do you give personal consultations, please give us an example or two of your most outstanding consultation? J.F: Here’s another example from my Textbook. The querent’s friend was in intensive care, in a coma. After two or three days, the doctors still couldn’t work out what was wrong with her. They suspected a brain hemorrhage. What I love about this chart is, first, that the querent was not even involved in the issue: she was asking about her friend. To the modern mind, getting a accurate answer from a chart like this is crazy. Second, is that the chart provided a accurate diagnosis in a few minutes, while the doctors were unable to see what was wrong with her until the post mortem. I stress that there is nothing clever about the astrologer here. All the astrologer needs to do is keep himself out of the way so the astrology can do its job. Chart: July 3rd 2001, 2.18 pm BST, London. Regiomontanus houses. Tropical Zodiac. Asc: 21 Libra. Moon: 18 Sag.
The querent said, ‘My friend has been taken to hospital. She is in a coma. The doctors don’t know what’s wrong with her, but think she may have had a brain hemorrhage. What is the problem? What is going to happen?’ The querent is not involved in this question, so we go straight to the 11th, the house of friends. Its ruler, Mercury, signifies the friend. Seeing Mercury in Gemini, we might think 63
that the friend is doing fine. But no: although Mercury is in a sign that it rules, in a medical question it is in a very bad condition. Mercury is a cold/dry planet. It is in a hot/moist sign, a sign contrary to its nature. It is dis‐eased. The friend is not well. This much we know, of course: the woman is in a coma. Which planet is causing Mercury problems? We can look to the ruler of the sign Mercury is in. This brings us back to Mercury. There is no reason that the significator of the illness should not be the same as that of the patient. But here we have a more likely culprit, especially considering the sudden onset of the illness. Mercury is just separating from opposition to Mars. Mars is peregrine and retrograde, so it is a nasty sort of Mars. The Moon’s most recent aspect can also be taken into account. Its last aspect was to this nasty Mars. Mars is confirmed as significator of the illness. Mars in this part of Sagittarius, Saunders says, 40 ‘is hot and dry above nature, consuming and drying up the radical moisture and humidity of the body, and utterly extinguishing the life of man’. It does this by infecting ‘the body and blood with much thick, red choler that is hot and very dry’. Choler is the fiery humour, the fiery part of the human constitution. The doctors suspected a brain hemorrhage; had this fatal Mars been in the friend’s 1st house (the 1st being the house of the head), it could well have shown this: a kind of fiery explosion in the brain. It isn’t; it is in her 5th (the 5th house from the 11th), which is the house of the heart. She has had a heart attack. This was confirmed at the post mortem. What will happen to her? She is in a coma, so our first question must be, ‘Will she live or will she die?’ Looking into the death of somebody other than the querent, we must consider both the turned and the radical 8th house. Here, the turned 8th house (8th from the 11th: the radical 6th) is ruled by Mars. Mercury (the friend) is separating from opposition to it. If the sick person is sitting up in bed and chatting, this is a most positive sign: she has come into contact with death; she is still alive; she is going to survive. In the context of someone in a coma it can be taken that death, in the real sense, has already happened. The Moon separates from Mars and applies to Mercury, translating light between them and so remaking the aspect: the friend will die. The number of degrees the Moon must travel to perfect the opposition gives the timing: she will be pronounced dead at the end of that afternoon. In the blessedly small number of horaries I have been asked to judge on death in comas, this remaking of a separated aspect by translation of light is typical for showing the doctors’ recognition that hope has gone. 7) How do you keep in touch with the practice of astrology today, when new significators are needed to be created for new inventions or new careers? J.F: There are no new inventions or new careers, merely variations on old ones. There is nothing new under the Sun. If the Incarnation of Christ happened without the need for a new planet, we certainly don’t need one for some trivial invention. 8) What is your most exciting or important finding, insight or discovery during your time as an astrologer? J.F: The absolute necessity of grace. No matter how skilled we are, we cannot make two thoughts join together by our own volition: all is given to us. 9) You had written about Marsilio Ficino exposition of the Part of Fortune, kindly tell our readers how you use it in your style of astrology.
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J.F: Ficino writes that Love is born of Plenty and Poverty. When he writes this, it is clear that he is thinking of the Part of Fortune, which is created by the Sun (Plenty) and Moon (Poverty). So Fortua shows what we love ‐ though in a deeper sense than romantic love. I suggest that a good name for Fortuna is the Part of Hunger. It shows what we most deeply hunger for, yearn for, long for. This makes it a great motivating force, because if we hunger so deeply for something we are likely to strive to our utmost to satisfy that hunger. 10) Tetrabiblos by Ptolemy is highly regarded, can you demonstrate the effectiveness of one of its verses and how most modern astrologers have not understood its application? J.F: I think the best of Ptolemy is his section on the Rulers of the Soul, or the Rulers of the Mind, depending on which English translation you are using. This is the ancient equivalent of sun‐sign astrology, though having nothing to do with the sun‐sign. But how much more valuable than sun‐sign astrology! If we choose as these rulers the planet or planets with greatest influence on the Moon and Mercury, we have a quick, incisive, and very deep picture of what goes on inside the person’s psyche. 11) Which prediction given by any astrologer current or past would you say was the most stunning? J.F: The most stunning? Surely those three guys who got on their camels and travelled all the way to Bethlehem on the basis of their prediction. 12) Who do you think has contributed the most to the field of astrology? J.F: Ptolemy is by far the most influential writer. How much he deserves this influence is debatable, however. 13) What do you think is the purpose of astrological knowledge? J.F: To increase our awareness of our relationship to God. 14) Which major development do you believe needs to be made to promote better understanding and application of astrology? J.F: Reintroducing the study of logic in elementary schools. The greatest barrier to an understanding of astrology is the inability to think straight. 15) What is the most unusual task you have been given to do with astrology? J.F: How many! One that comes to mind is the woman who asked the horary question, “Will the chicken’s egg that I’m carrying around inside my bra hatch out?” I suspect you can guess what the answer was. 16) Atleast once in your life you would have faced a non believer of astrology who might have attacked it mercilessly how did you react? J.F: By changing the subject. I feel no need to persuade anyone. 17) What has been your most memorable prediction till date, can you illustrate it for us so that even western astro enthusiasts can learn from your exposition. J.F: Many predictions are memorable, for many different reasons ‐ not only ones made in public or about public events. Especially pleasing are those where the chart forces one to look at it in a new way.
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Here is an example that can be easily understood. This is taken from an article in The Astrologer’s Apprentice, issue 22. Chart: Nov 25th 2004, 2.50 pm BST, London. Regiomontanus houses. Tropical Zodiac. Asc: 8 Taurus. Moon: 19 Taurus.
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of artificial light, shining as it does with borrowed light. By primary motion it is soon to come over the horizon, making it visible. 11 degrees of a fixed sign: the lights will come on in 11 hours.’ Jeremiah, inflated by his success, dared to differ. ‘No,’ he said. ‘We’re an up‐to‐date yard. It’s only a loose connection, same as always. 11 minutes.’ Secure in the knowledge that the chart would prove him right, the Master kept silent. There was no loose connection, but a serious breakage in the treadmill itself. Robin, our smith, set to work immediately. Power was restored 11 hours later. Although we are usually concerned only with the secondary motion of the planets against the backdrop of the signs, a motion that appears as anticlockwise in our charts, the primary motion that is the reflection of the Earth’s daily rotation, taking planets from the Ascendant to the Midheaven and down to the Descendant, must not be forgotten. It is especially significant in Return charts, but has its part to play in horary. In any chart concerned with death, for example, a significator near the Descendant and therefore setting by primary motion is a major testimony. 18) Which has been the toughest chart that you faced till date & why, can you illustrate it here for us & what were your predictions on it. J.F: Mundane astrology is always hard work. There are so many charts involved, of all the various cycles of time. A particularly difficult one was when a government had been advised by its scientists that it might expect an earthquake on a certain date. I was asked to check this out. The charts showed a good deal of evidence supporting the idea. The problem is, though, that while one can study charts for when earthquakes have happened, one cannot possibly study charts for all the occasions when earthquakes have not happened. So we cannot know how much evidence we need in order to predict an earthquake. I advised erring on the side of caution by keeping the emergency services on stand‐by, but fortunately nothing happened. 19) Can you illustrate any of your worst failures in astrological prediction and your afterthought on it? J.F: In a lecture, I predicted that Denmark would win the Eurovision Song Contest, which was to be held a few days later. Out of 24 competitors, Denmark came 23rd. My afterthought? OK, I got it wrong. 20) What are the qualities that make one a good astrologer and what is that one quality that you prescribe most? J.F: Clear thinking to read the chart and, God willing, a certain amount of compassion with which to communicate what one has read. 21) If you were to cast a horary chart for USA Economy now as to what do you see in the coming years, what would be your predictions based on your astrological analysis. An illustration would be most helpful. J.F: Horaries I have done for clients suggest a period of difficulty lasting several years. But their questions have had the state of the economy only as background to their personal concerns. Casting a chart specifically for the broad mundane issue is most unlikely to produce a judgment of any value, because unless the astrologer is very close to the seat of power he is most unlikely to be able to see beyond his own preconceptions. Even if he is close 67
to the seat of power he will find this difficult, because those sitting in that seat are similarly unable to see beyond their own preconceptions. Sounder judgment can be gained from study of the mundane charts, because we can compare what is happening now with what the stars were doing at similar times in the past. We can skip the insoluble question of which is the ‘correct’ chart for the USA by using the chart for the great conjunction before independence. As I’ve demonstrated in issue 19 of The Astrologer’s Apprentice this works very well. March 18 1762, 4.41 pm GMT. It makes sense to cast this for Washington, even though Washington was no more than a patch of swamp at that time. 22) Some have called you the reincarnation of William Lilly the 17th century astrologer due to your dismissal of modern western astrology practices, how do you face these criticisms and what’s your reply to your critics. J.F: I don’t reply to my critics. I do the work that’s mine to do: take it or leave it. 23) Did you ever experience a Vedic Astrology reading from an Indian, if so what was your impression of it? J.F: I had an interesting experience when an Indian newspaper in England sent someone to interview me. He turned out to be a gold medalist in jyotish, who returned a few days later with some prashnas that he had judged. I set charts for the same time and place, judging them by western horary methods. Different zodiac; different techniques: but even in detail the results were the same. As we would hope, of course ‐ but it was nice to see this in action. 24) This question will be loved by Vedic Astrologers too, when you see a horary chart for 'When will I get a new job', what do you see first and then what is the most important criteria that you see? (the intention behind this question is for the Vedic astrologers from the globe to compare notes with your style as compared to theirs) J.F: Querent is show by the Ascendant ruler and the Moon; the job by the planet ruling the 10th house. Do we have an applying aspect between them? If we do, we can take the timing from the number of degrees needed to perfect the aspect. That is the classic scenario, but some charts will show the situation in different ways. 25) What are your favorite techniques for timing events? Would you like to share them in this space? J.F: In the natal chart? I use secondary progressions and solar and lunar returns. There is no single method allowing exact prediction from the nativity; nor, because we live in a fallen universe, can there be so. That’s why we need to combine methods. But on the other hand, there is no virtue in working too hard, using still more techniques: if this combination doesn’t show an event, the event will probably not happen. 26) Are you working on a new book, if so on what topic and when do you plan to release. J.F: I have several projects in hand at the moment. There is a book on natal astrology; a practical companion to The Horary Textbook; a book on the astrology underpinning Homer’s Odyssey, demonstrating, among other things, the existence of horoscopic astrology much earlier than is usually believed; a book approaching the relationship of fate and free will from the direction of astrology. I’ve been concentrating on the natal book, but will probably finish the book on Homer first. 27) How would you like to be remembered as towards your contribution to astrology? J.F: The main theme of my work is the dependence of astrology upon faith.
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Magi Analysis: Franklin D. Roosevelt By Sandy L. Crowther CMA
The Magi Society was founded in 1625 by a small group of Shao Lin Monks.
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he Magi Society is now a worldwide organization and has produced three of the most important books ever published on astrology. Four charts are used for Magi analyses: Geocentric longitude and declinations, and Heliocentric longitudes and latitudes. The primary purpose of the Magi Society is to continue to conduct scientific research to improve and expand our knowledge of astrology and to teach it to Magi Society members throughout the world. The Magi Society is also dedicated to helping bring about a universal acceptance of the validity of astrology. The Magi Society has also taken on a leadership role in the battle against opponents of astrology. Franklin Delanore Roosevelt: FDR was born January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, New York, U.S., and died on April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia. He was the 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and
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reforms known as the New Deal, and he served as the principal architect of the successful effort to rid the world of German National Socialism and Japanese militarism. (Reference http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9463381) Preliminary Study Material Magi Index on Jupiter's Web: Links may be accessed by visiting http://www.jupitersweb.com/magi_astrology.htm (There are currently 68 pages in my Magi Notebook, and the Alphabetical Index will direct you to 726 Notes on various Magi teachings).
Although the analysis below is not by any means all‐inclusive, my intent is to bring forth a few salient points in the life of FDR, while addressing some of the various concepts of Magi Astrology. I hope that this will be of interest to the reader, while providing the students of Magi Astrology an opportunity for study. Geocentric Natal Chart: Longitudinal and Declinational Charts Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Natal Gifts and Talents:
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The bi‐directional applying Jupiter enhancement of Uranus, also known as the Super Fame Aspect and Aspect of Political Power, along with the applying Jupiter and Uranus enhancements of Chiron, two Cinderella Aspects, certainly yields much notoriety, power, and political acclaim in support of being known for famous leadership in his chosen political career. This powerful Chiron Planetary Synchronization forms a Super Conjoined Trine, and connects three super energies forming a powerful alignment of Jupiter, Chiron, and Uranus. This Super Conjoined Trine planetary synchronization is the primary Focus of the natal chart. The joining of these energies suggests that Franklin D. Roosevelt possessed a high degree of gifted talent with respect to a successful political career, along with notable public acclaim as a leader in the political arena. The Chiron Magical enhancement to Uranus also puts the emphasis on fame and success in career, revealing gifts of charismatic political appeal. Clearly, FDR’s chart from birth demonstrates that he was astrologically conditioned to be politically blessed. Additionally, we see another planetary synchronization forming a Magi Triangle in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s chart with Mercury, Mars, and Pluto all speaking to powerful and energetic communications. Mars is additionally at EXDEK (extreme declination) in the declinations. FDR’s talents and gifts additionally unfold in his energetic initiative and powerful way with words, coupled with intellectual communication skills. The applying bi‐directional Mercury‐Mars enhancement is creating High Balance Aspect on the day of FDR’s birth. Although this particular planetary balance generally recognized in superstar athletes, this type of planetary balance greatly enhanced FDR’s sharp wit, intelligence, and astute communications, along with his ability for being well received. FDR’s Natal Sun forms an applying aspect to Neptune and is relative to his creative and healing presence, as well as his inner stability, while his applying Venus aspect to Saturn shows his preference for maintaining control of his own financial prospects and affairs. Venus square Saturn is the charts Focus Aspect. FDR’s declinational Super Aspect of his Uranus applying enhancement of Pluto falls well within the allowable one‐degree orb, and is truly a great and powerful aspect for a strong political leader, suggesting both power and fame. He was innovative, and not afraid to use his political power to initiate change of the status quo, thus destabilizing many popular existing states of affairs. As an overall result of both his independent fervor and innovative 1 ideas, he became both the most loved and the most hated President in American history. FDR’s declinational Neptune proximity enhancement to Chiron, Cinderella and Romance Aspect, further supports his unprecedented long‐term political artistry and career charm,
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and becomes the declinational Focus Aspect. Even Charles de Gaulle, who well knew Roosevelt’s disdain for him, succumbed to the “glittering personality” as he put it, of “that artist, that 2 seducer”. Looking further at the declinational chart for Focus, we see another planetary synchronization forming a Magi Pyramid, with the alignment of Mercury contra‐parallel both Neptune and Chiron, with Neptune and Chiron proximity enhanced forming the declinational Focus Aspect and a lifetime Cinderella and Romance Aspect. This aspect is further enhancing the prospects of both career and marriage, and further addressing his creative communication gifts and talents with respect to his long‐term career and earning power, along with his enduring charismatic public image. Heliocentric Chart:
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iewing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s gifts from the heliocentric angle of perspective, we note the tight longitudinal Jupiter‐Pluto Super Success applying enhancement; supporting the powerful and successful influential political leader. Additionally, his Venus enhancement of Pluto adds to the line‐up of Super Aspects supporting that he was natally conditioned to receive, as does his Venus enhancement of Jupiter. These enhancements form a Super Magi Triangle and are relative to incredible benefic influences, surrounding his power and leadership abilities, along with his luck, charm, and his sense of humor in his ability to lead his political public. This is the Focus of the Heliocentric longitudes. Mercury square Mars is the proximity enhanced Heliocentric Focus Aspect, addressing his high initiative in communications. There are many more supporting enhancements to be seen from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s heliocentric chart that are indeed in support of his geocentric chart, however, they are too numerous to make mention of each and every one. Suffice it to say, that gifted and blessed he certainly was. However, looking at just one more aspect worthy of mention, we see a longitudinal Uranus and Neptune enhancement, again speaking to his long‐term political fame. Franklin D. Roosevelt certainly was natally well sanctioned with multiple gifts and talents, and his gifted astrological portrait is highly evidenced by more than the above fore‐ mentioned ideal aspectual alignments. The heliocentric bi‐level enhancements of Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron alone are quite remarkable, as are the number of applying aspects that the benefits for future positive progressions. Super Aspects: In conclusion, the line‐up of Super Aspects is really quite remarkable. They include a double Jupiter‐Uranus (in both geocentric longitude and heliocentric latitudes), Jupiter‐ Chiron conjunction in geocentric longitudes, and a declinational geocentric Uranus‐Pluto. In the Heliocentric longitude chart we find a Jupiter‐Pluto, Venus‐Pluto, Venus‐Jupiter, and in the heliocentric latitudes as mentioned above, a Jupiter‐Uranus enhancement. 2
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Summer of 1921: Mysterious Illness afflicts FDR with Poliomyelitis:3 Although I will not go into any detail with respect to his paralysis, I have noticed in the past that often Astrologer’s struggle to find the connections for any debilitating illness afflicting FDR. I give the following applying natal aspects that have potential to be harmful for progressions and transits. These, coupled with fraternal aspects, can certainly indicate loss of power and reflexes through deterioration and/or muscle impairment. • Geocentric Sun applying square Neptune: Duration of personal power and vitality impaired. • Geocentric Mercury applying square Pluto: Impairment of power of reflexes and sense of balance. • Geocentric Venus applying square Saturn and Helio Saturn applying parallel Venus: loss of coordination in parts of the body. • Heliocentric Earth/Moon Complex applying square Saturn: Unfortunate loss of power. • Heliocentric Mercury square Mars within the Magical Time: Hindrances and blockages to body movements, reflexes, and sense of balance. Multiple Planet Aspects: Magi Quads and Midpoint Crossings:
The charts below show both the longitudinal and declinational Magi Quads and Midpoint Crossings in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s chart.
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Magi Quads: Above in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Magi Quad longitudinal line‐up and based on the Occurring M/Q Magi Sequence, we find [Jupiter conjunct Neptune] + Chiron Saturn + Pluto, at the top of the sequence, resulting in a Super Aspected Magi Quad. This is indicative of talent in a successful and lasting career because of charismatic leadership, with strong desires for monumental changes in government. His highly inspired creative leadership skills, coupled with a powerful ability to successfully dominate the political arena, resulted in a lucrative political career. We also see a Magi Pyramid Quad (#17 ‐ longitudes) with the pairings of Mars + Uranus Sun + Venus. This relates to his massive amounts of energy and ability to bring about change, as being a reflection of his sociability and public appeal. There is additionally a Magi Quad Yod (#18 – longitudes) Sun + Uranus Mars + Saturn, while Pluto graces the midpoint of the Mars + Saturn pairing, creating a Magi Quad Yod, speaking to his ability as a famous political figure with the power to control war. There are more configurations that are also worthy of notice, but I will stop with the listings above. Declinational Magi Quads: MDQ’s
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First in the declinational Occurring M/Q Magi Sequence we find Jupiter + [Chiron parallel Neptune] Mars + Uranus, resulting in an Aspected Magi Dek Quad. This is relative to a distinguished and fearless successful public image coupled with charismatic long‐term leadership, and enabled FDR to successfully direct his massive amounts of energy and courage to significant and noteworthy future endeavors. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said Isiah Berlin, was one of the few statesmen in any century “who seemed to have no fear at all of the future.” 4 Jupiter + Uranus Pluto + [Chiron parallel Neptune] follows next, resulting in an Aspected MDQ, and indicating that FDR was politically talented at dealing with the public and recognized for his achievements and enduring successes. This Magi Dek Quad brings both power and charisma along with extraordinary qualities that total up to a very famous public image. The Primary Focal Planet for the longitudinal M/Q’s is Pluto. The Primary Focal Planets for the MDQ’s are both Jupiter and Neptune. The planetary energies of Pluto, Jupiter, and Neptune are perfect for describing FDR and his talents and accomplishments. He was a long‐lasting, successful, powerful, political figure, with exceptionally gifted personal attributes for outstanding leadership. Midpoint Crossings: (MDX’s) Below please find the charts and tables of the MDX’s relative to FDR’s chart. Again, I will briefly demonstrate my understanding of MDX’s using just a few samples from the many available in FDR’s chart. First in the sequence, we see that the Sun is trine by both the Mars – Pluto, and Mercury / Pluto midpoints, and both MDX’s form a semi‐sextile to Neptune. These are Aspected MDX’s and show, first, that this type of supercharged energy, relative to power and politics in the Mars – Pluto MDX, would bring FDR lasting and long‐term personal success through his outgoing nature. The Sun is additionally parallel the Mars/Pluto MDX in the declinations, and widely contra‐parallel Jupiter, as Jupiter is additionally parallel the Mars ‐ Pluto midpoint. We might call this as Aspected Bi‐level MDX Enhancement. The second Aspected MDX, Mercury / Pluto midpoint trine Sun semi‐sextile Neptune indicates that his commanding speech and powerful political skills are a vital part of his political gifts, and support his abilities long‐term as a creative individual who can both command and receive attention. Further down in the sequence of MDX’s, we note in FDR’s MDX lineup an Aspected MDX of Saturn – Pluto (#33). The Saturn – Pluto midpoint is both conjunct Jupiter and trine Uranus. Through aspect transformation, we can safely conclude that his elevated desires for enforced political change were best realized through his political fame and skills in leadership.
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Marriage Chart of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt – 3/17/1905
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elow please find the Marriage Chart of FDR and Eleanor, in addition to the Magi Quad Timed Sequence relative to my analysis of the most exact Magi Quads. Also, please see the separate charts with the inclusion of Juno.
With respect to the Marriage Chart, there are many factors that need to be synthesized and balanced for overall integration, as far as what the Marriage itself brought to both of them publicly and personally. What first catches our attention is the Dynamic Symmetrical Turbulent Planetary Geometry in the form of a T‐Square involving Uranus and Neptune, with Mercury at the apex. This pattern sets up immediate conditions for stress within the marriage. They had trying communications about freedoms within the marital union, versus long‐term commitment. The negatized symbolisms (or offsets) to these planetary representations in this symmetrical pattern, reveal an inability to successfully communicate with one another for a long‐term about personal commitments, resulting in an unchangeable need for satisfying ill fated urges for bouts of independence and freedom, further suggesting instability with respect to both commitment, and truthful communications. The union may have been unsettling in many respects, lacking contentment. It is no secret that FDR had a long‐term love affair with his wife’s secretary, Lucy Mercer, so this planetary geometry speaks clearly to a need for freedom, along with years of untruthful communications, right from the onset. Absent were Venus – Jupiter enhancements to remotely hint at, or suggest loyalty and faithfulness, and no apparent counter‐balancing aspects are seen to offset the negativity of this symmetrical pattern. However, the tight Neptune/Chiron Double Direct Quincunx and Cinderella Aspect is additionally a Double Cinderella Aspect – as it is also present in the declinations of FDR’s natal chart and therefore excellent for both their Marriage Chart and Franklin’s career, as it addresses the Union of Marriage itself along with the success the marriage brought to his career. This configuration therefore overwhelmingly supports and stabilizes the capacity for holding the marriage together for the long term ‐ regardless of the difficulties in the marriage ‐ while promoting unprecedented career longevity in the political arena and enhancing his political public image for years. Jupiter applying trine Uranus creates a Magical Angle, gives positive progressions and is additionally a mirrored natal aspect – is a Super Fame and an Historic Aspect, addressing the super fame and tremendous leadership that resulted from this union, in addition to the successful global changes that result from the combined creative geniuses that this union creates. Recognized as an historical couple, the marriage certainly enhanced his career; this couple was one for the books. Jupiter applying square Chiron results in romantic marital tensions and implies a lack of future trust and fulfillment in the union. Additionally, the Sun – Mars enhancement can indicate the natalization of a union that is empowered with high energy and initiative, and therefore suggesting that the Wedding Chart enforced their combined drives and passions as a 77
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couple, introducing action as opposed to indecision in their union – perhaps energized with a bit of martian tension and irritation at times. Overall, they could accomplish much together. In the declinations, we have Saturn applying parallel Chiron, the Heartbreak Clash, and Eleanor certainly did have her heart broken upon finding the love letters addressed to her husband, from her secretary. Although FDR did not want a divorce 6 when she offered that up as a solution, and he promised to end the relationship with Lucy Mercer when his wife, Eleanor, found out, the words were just words. He could not end the affair, as the irresistible temptation continued to carry on into the future. This betrayal resulted in Eleanor focusing on her own personal and public interests and prospects, and ended any intimacy 7 that was left in the marriage. 8 Lastly, we have Sun applying contra‐parallel Mercury, suggesting that the marriage provided terrific success in intellectual endeavors and common pursuits, resulting in an intellectually compatible union. Please find relevant charts below.
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Juno: Although not much has been written about Juno as of yet, it has been revealed by the Magi Society to be representativ e of a mistress…So I thought it both relevant and interesting to include Juno in this particular chart. In FDR’s personal chart, we have the planetary synchronization of Saturn trine Juno, and Juno applying semi‐sextile to Venus. Using Saturn ‐ Juno as the nucleus of the synchronization, and Juno as the central focus by virtue of being connected to both Saturn and Venus, I would read this planetary geometry as an irresistible temptation and an uncontrollable desire for extra‐curricular involvement with a mistress. In FDR’s natal chart, Mercury is applying contra‐parallel Juno, supporting communications with mistress. In FDR’s Marriage Chart, in the declinations we see that Juno is also involved in a planetary synchronization with Sun and Mercury, with Sun at the apex, therefore I translate this as ‐ the Union of Marriage would include correspondence with a mistress, supported by the confluence of declinational Mercury – Juno in his natal Geocentric chart.
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Magi Quad Time Sequence The Magi Quad Timed Sequence (above the declinational MQ sequence) will show the most exact Magi Quads and what type of successes the Marriage Chart may have brought to the individual. The longitudinal Timed Magi Sequence will illustrate the more precise nature of Roosevelt’s success based on the timed MQ astrological influences. In order of exactness for reference, please see that the longitudinal MQ’s follow in the order of # 11, 10, 12, and 13. 11. Jupiter + Saturn Sun + Mercury: Here we have a Magi Quad suggesting exceptional leadership qualities of grace and dignity fully supporting his natural and powerful communication skills. 10. Neptune + Chiron Mercury + Venus: Inspired and long lasting career because of articulated intelligence and enhanced communication skills. 12. Venus + Mars Saturn + Chiron: Grace of action and love of movement results in strong abilities resulting in charismatic career. 13. Saturn + Uranus Mercury + Mars: His charismatic and commanding ability to move the country through quickness of action and a lightening fast mind.
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An Astrological History Of Hyper-Inflation By Robert Gover, USA
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aturn has been in harsh aspect to other outer planets during every instance of ruinous inflations since the one that brought down the Roman Empire. During 2007 into early 2008, Saturn was opposite Neptune. For most of 2008 through 2010, Saturn will be moving opposite Uranus. In 2010, the Saturn‐Uranus opposition will form a T square with Pluto. This series of aspects promises a new burst of hyper‐inflation that could become the worst in history. Before exploring the astrology involved, some information about the phenomenon of inflation. What all inflations have in common is the devaluation of a society’s money. Some inflations sneak up like a thief in the night. Others explode into reality. Inflations usually end in deflations‐ recessions or depressions. A gold standard won’t prevent inflation, as the Roman Empire’s case demonstrated. Price controls have failed to stop it. It is not always caused by “too much money chasing too few goods,” as inflation during the Black Plague demonstrated. Inflation can’t be legislated out of existence. Once it works up a good head of steam, it will likely run its course before abating...although when it finally relents, politicians and economists will find rational
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1929) grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard College in Philadelphia), received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, worked as a journalist, became a best-selling novelist at age 30, lived most of his life in California, and now lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. On the Run with Dick and Jane is his ninth novel. His previous book, Time and Money, explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. He can be contacted at
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reasons for why it was their wisdom and expertise that ended it. In some instances, inflation has been a scapegoat for other problems—some people blame today’s gas price spikes on price manipulations in the financial community. Many blame growing demand from emerging nations. Few connect it to the devaluation (and/or inflation) of the dollar. It’s long been known that oil is a finite resource, and that demand for oil is growing. Why didn’t the US Government prepare for the inevitable? The answer has to do with the powerful influence, in the form of campaign contributions, of oil companies on Congress. Oil companies have been the big winners in the recent spike of oil prices. The big loser has been the American middle class worker and consumer. Higher prices at the gas pump raised the price of food and other commodities that rely on ‘Other hyper-inflations have occurred transportation. This coincided under Saturn-Uranus or Saturn-Pluto with a simultaneous crisis in real oppositions. These planetary aspects do not cause estate prices which rippled throughout the financial inflation. They coincide with inflations that are community and impacted big ripe to happen.’ banks and a variety of investors, foreign and domestic. To deal with the mortgage crisis, the Bush Administration “socialized the debt” by taking control of Fannie May and Freddie Mac on Sunday, September 7, 2008, piling new debt on old and transferring this new debt to future generations of taxpayers. This delayed the day of reckoning, virtually guaranteeing a potential monetary catastrophe. Socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the rest of the American population is likely to lead to revolution around 2015. This latest inflation 2006‐2008 occurred under a Saturn‐Neptune opposition. Neptune erodes the status quo which Saturn strives to preserve. By mid‐2008, a Saturn‐Uranus opposition was beginning to have its effect. Other hyper‐inflations have occurred under Saturn‐Uranus or Saturn‐Pluto oppositions. These planetary aspects do not cause inflation. They coincide with inflations that are ripe to happen. The stars influence but do not compel. Nations respond differently to the same celestial influences. Brazil responded to the oil crisis of the 1970s by beginning to switch from imported oil to sugarcane ethanol. By 2007‐2008 when the US economy was threatened by inflation of commodities and deflation of home prices, Brazil was poised to create greater prosperity. The Saturn‐Neptune opposition erodes status quos which have outlived their usefulness. Inflation occurs when it’s the nation’s monetary system that is ripe to erode. When you examine the nuts and bolts of any period of inflation, it’s difficult to find a single reason to satisfy the rational mind. In the USA, there has been a long, steady, century of single‐digit inflation which happened so slowly, most people didn’t notice—until the price of gas per gallon went from around $1.50 to $4.50 in 2008. Back in 1950, a gallon of gas in the US cost around 25 cents. An ice cream cone that cost a nickel in 1950 now costs $2.50. This price rise happened so gradually that most Americans weren’t aware of it—until, perhaps, they went shopping to buy their first house and learned that the house their parents bought for, say, $25,000 was now priced at around $450,000. Not everything inflates at the same rate. During the 20th Century, real estate inflated much more than most other things because homeowners are allowed a large tax deduction for mortgage costs. This drove home prices up by 3,000% or more since 1914. 86
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Robber and Benefactor nflation robs some and benefits others. It generally robs most from those on fixed incomes, the working class and lenders/creditors. It benefits governments, property owners and borrowers/debtors. It enables borrowers to repay loans with devalued money. Lenders compensate by raising the cost of loans with a variety of fees. These different factions of society often overlap and are in any case interdependent. A teacher whose salary is devastated by inflation may also be a property owner benefited by the same inflation. A large lending institution may be deep in debt to another creditor, and both may go under due to working class people forced by job losses to default on mortgages. This in turn impacts the ability of companies to borrow the money needed to expand, which means laying off more workers, causing more mortgage defaults, further constricting bank loans, and so on. Inflations come in a variety of severities. During the 20th Century a little inflation— 4% to 6% a year—came to be seen as beneficial, at least by some economists. We want the value of money to be consistent, but the value of any form of money, in any time in history, has never been static. The price of bread rises or falls ‘Astrologically, the Fed was “born” with Sun with the weather—a good harvest lowers the price, a bad opposite Pluto (hidden conspirators opposed to the harvest raises the price. Government) and Jupiter opposite Neptune Periods of expansion are (economic expansion confused, or confusing to inflationary as more money is issued into the economy and others). By 2008 when this latest financial crisis people buy things they would hit, Pluto had moved around the Zodiac to be not buy in recessions or opposite where it was when the Fed was born.’ depressions. During expansions, lenders lend money and borrowers borrow. When an economy constricts, lenders stop lending and few wish to borrow, reducing the amount of money in circulation, causing deflation. Deflation favors lenders over borrowers. Falling prices may result from too much supply or too little demand. Too much supply can be a good thing. Too little demand is almost always bad. During inflations, borrowers pay lenders in dollars that won’t buy as much as when the money was loaned. During deflations, borrowers pay lenders in dollars that will buy more than when the money was loaned. But, since deflations usually occur during recessions or depressions, borrowers may be forced to default on loans. For example, in 2008 as the home‐loan bubble of the previous years was deflating—even while gas prcies were driving inflation—a record number of homeowners were defaulting on mortgages, especially Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs). Millions of homeowners suddenly found they had to pay doubte or triple their oriiginal monthly rate for homes that were rapidly losing market value. This combination of inflation of gas and other commodities at the same time real estate was deflating was excacerbated by a rise in unemployment. Government was urged to do something, anything, to avoid the dreaded “D word,” depression. “For a while the bad‐debt overhead can be bailed out by creating yet more debt, backed by public guarantees in what even the Wall Street Journal acknowledges is “socialism for the rich,” that is, privatizing the profit and socializing the losses...What ultimately supports the price of these mortgage packages is the price of the real estate pledged as collateral. And despite Mr. Greenspan’s celebration (as few years ago) of soaring housing prices as “wealth
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creation,” it really was debt creation. As housing prices plunge, the debts remain in place.” (“The Next Big Bailout” by Michael Hudson, www.counterpunch.org.) The present monetary situation is further complicated by the huge and growing gap between rich and poor which has dramatically expanded in recent years. What we now have worldwide is what I call the Bifurcated Economy. The wealthy few live in a very different reality than the impoverished many. Statistics show that 2007 was one of the best years ever—for the wealthy few—as the global economy grew 4.9% to $66 trillion. At the same time, the impoverished many faced a rise in diseases and a growing scarcity of water and food, among other hardships. Ripple Effects hen a government feels threatened, a little inflation tends to turn into rampant hyperinflation because governments print more currency to deal with emergencies. Runaway inflation’s ripple effect throughout a society can be more devastating than invading armies. While a government may benefit from repaying its debt in cheaper money due to inflation, it may be left with an ungovernable society in rebellion or chaos as people struggle to make ends meet with rapidly devaluing money. Wars pump tremendous amounts of new money into society while destroying things of real wealth. The US Government privatized control of the US monetary system in December of 1913 when it created the Federal Reserve System, owned and operated by a small group of bankers with a fiduciary responsibility to provide profits for their shareholders. For the crisis building in 2008, that means big trouble ahead for the USA as a nation, as the Fed traditionally privatizes profits and socializes losses. Astrologically, the Fed was “born” with Sun opposite Pluto (hidden conspirators opposed to the Government) and Jupiter opposite Neptune (economic expansion confused, or confusing to others). By 2008 when this latest financial crisis hit, Pluto had moved around the Zodiac to be opposite where it was when the Fed was born. The conspirators of the Fed are now, it seems, poised to be undone by their own conspiratorial machinations. The International Monetary Fund has announced it will audit the Fed and render its report in 2010. During and after the last great depression, the belief arose that the Fed could, and should, exert controls that prevent inflation. By the end of the 20th Century, such controls were beginning to resemble a comic strip. The stock market crashed? Okay, lower interest rates to bring it back up. Whoops, the lowering of interest rates created a real estate bubble, which burst and rippled throughout the financial community, collapsing big banks. The Fed saved big banks with infusions of money to be repaid by future taxpayers, practically guaranteeing much worse future problems. And this little scenario omits global warming and the steady rise of more devastating weather events. Money systems, once instituted, seem to develop a destiny of their own in sync with subtle forces beyond human control. Since around 1900, periods of inflation have led to deflation. Under the Saturn‐ Neptune opposition of 2006‐2008, the world watched commodity prices inflate while real estate prices deflated, war profits soared and weather‐related catastrophes multiplied. Government allocated huge sums of money which were swallowed up by the rich and well connected, and never reached those in need. Hurricane Katrina became a bonanza for well‐ connected companies without helping hurricane victims. This evidence, and more, indicates the USA’s monetary system has become dysfunctional and is ripe to fall under the upcoming Saturn‐Uranus opposition. 88
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150 Roman Empire
Saturn in Cancer opposite Uranus in Capricorn
1350 Black Plague
Saturn conjunct Pluto in Aries
1501 Europe gold imports
Saturn in Taurus opposite Pluto in Scorpio T square Uranus in Aquarius
1720 John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and South Sea Bubble
Saturn in Scorpio opposite Neptune in Taurus both square Moon’s Nodes
1782 American Revolution
Saturn 24 Sagittarius opposite Uranus 0 Cancer both square Mars in Pisces
1784 French Revolution
Saturn in Taurus opposite Neptune in Scorpio Uranus in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius
1862 American Civil War
Saturn and Jupiter conjunct in Virgo opposite Neptune in Pisces
1017‐1923 Russian Revolution and German hyperinflation
Saturn and Neptune in Leo opposite Uranus in Aquarius.
1937 Chinese Revolution
Saturn in Pisces opposite Neptune in Virgo, both square Chiron in Gemini and Moon’s Nodes
1965 Indian Inflation
Saturn in Pisces opposite Uranus and Pluto conjunct in Virgo
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devaluing dollar to drive prices up at gas pumps, while at the same time real estate prices were deflating dramatically. Saturn rules established systems. When opposed by Neptune, the established tends to become confused or problematic, fraught with dilemmas. When opposed by Uranus, the established may be overthrown by unexpected change or revolution. When opposed by Pluto, a major cultural change begins. In the economic realm, these oppositions precipitate whatever conditions are ripe to manifest. Two Saturn‐Uranus oppositions ago, in 1918, conditions in both Germany and Russia were ripe for revolution, accompanied by wild spikes of inflation. Saturn in Libra T sq. Uranus in Aires In the USA, women got the right to vote—although this wasn’t a bloody sq. Pluto in Capricorn 2010 revolution like the one taking place in Russia, it certainly changed status quo politics in the USA. The present Saturn‐Uranus opposition will become precise by Election Day, November 4, 2008. It will make four more successive “direct hits” during the coming two years: February 5 and September 15, 2009, and April 26 and July 26, 2010. The mood it brings will last through 2008 to the end of 2010. This Saturn‐Uranus opposition is likely to bring more drama in the USA than elsewhere because it will be part of a grand cross pattern to the USA’s natal Mars‐Neptune square, which has a long history of coinciding with stock market panics. (“An Astrological History of Stock Market Panics,” www.robertgover.com). Uranus and Empires
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This does not mean we are doomed to repeat the horrors of the early 1500s in the Americas. History repeats but does not rhyme, as Mark Twain observed. We look for what needs to change, or what is ripe to change. In our modern economy, the so‐called “American Century,” what’s ripe to change is the monetary system—the way bankers conjure money out of thin air and lend it to politicians who pass the bill on to unwitting taxpayers. In 1350, inflation coincided with Saturn opposite Pluto and the Black Death pandemic in Europe. This pandemic was almost as severe as the one that occurred about 150 years later in the Americas. One third of Europe’s population—20 million—died. The inflation that occurred simultaneously wasn’t another case of “too much money chasing too few goods.” The money supply remained constant. Commerce came to a near standstill because of the bubonic plague. Pluto opposite Saturn transforms established orders. The plague left European serfs freed from slavery and able to demand wages. (The Saturn‐Pluto opposition of the early 1500s was not so kind to Native Americans, as it removed them from their lands and turned them in wage laborers.) 1720 in France, brought on by what history now calls “John Law’s Mississippi Bubble” simultaneous with the crash of the British South Sea Bubble. John Law’s story is fascinating, for it reveals both the advantages and dangers of a fiat paper money system. 1784: French Revolution, when Saturn was simultaneously also opposite Pluto. This revolution not only transformed France but also became the model for future revolutions against monarchies. 1862: the American Civil War. Inflation was brought on by European bankers aggressively selling money to the Confederate Government while the Union Government created most of its own money, the “Greenback.” Another example of how Neptune opposition Saturn changes the status quo. 1917: Russia’s Communist Revolution simultaneous with hyperinflation in Germany. Saturn and Neptune opposition Uranus. The Uranus‐Neptune opposition occurs once every 171 years. 1937: China’s Communist Revolution. Saturn opposed Neptune as the Communists rebelled against the Nationalist Government, which was busy dealing with a Japanese invasion. From the summer of 1945 to the summer of 1946, post‐WW II Hungary’s currency suddenly inflated by a startling 400 octillion. Saturn was square Neptune through 1944 and 1945. 1965 in India, GDP grew 33% in the Sixties reaching a peak of 142% in the Seventies, decelerating sharply back to 41% in the Eighties and 20% in the Nineties. During the mid‐ sixties, Saturn was in Neptune‐ruled Pisces, opposite a conjuncion of Uranus and Pltuo in Virgo. Germany and Russia
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Simultaneous with the build‐up to runaway inflation in Germany was the Russian Revolution, when, under Saturn‐Neptune and Saturn Uranus oppositions, Russia suffered a dramatic devaluation of the ruble. The Bolsheviks dreamed of a world without money and— under the Saturn‐Neptune opposition—used newly printed rubles to buy foods from peasants and transport these to industrial workers in cities. Peasants constituted 79% of the population then, and were largely self‐sustaining and had nowhere to spend these rubles, so this money was virtually worthless. During the series of conflicts that resulted in the revolution, retail prices in Russia went from 1.00 in 1913 to 17,100,000,000 by 1924. According to some sources (1), the Bolsheviks’ idea was to continue printing money until it became worthless, “thus allowing money to commit suicide.” The result was a thriving black market in consumer goods. This trend was arrested in 1921 when a market economy was reintroduced, with the government in control of banking, major industries and foreign trade. With the industrial revolution beginning around 1776, inflations steadily increased in frequency and severity. Before paper currencies became ubiquitous during the 20th Century, periods of inflation were rare. The dollar is based on “the full faith and credit” of the US Government, not gold or silver or any other tangible asset. However, during the 20th Century “black gold,” oil, arose to become the basic measure of all currencies. Americans are told by the mass media that they’d be paying even more for a gallon of gas if they lived in Europe. What this propaganda omits is that it now takes about a dollar and a half to buy one euro worth of gas. A hundred euros now buys about a hundred and fifty dollars worth. If the present downward trend of the dollar against the euro continues— and there are plenty of reasons to bet it will—the cost of gas in the USA will continue to inflate. The ripple effect of the dollar’s devaluation could cause runaway inflation throughout the US economy. Big agricultural corporations now ship food thousands of miles to markets, so rising fuel costs jack up food costs, as well as the cost of plastics and a variety of other products. If American politicians were not so dependent upon big corporate campaign contributions, the USA could have begun decades ago to end the “addiction” to oil, as Brazil did. Michael Hudson, in his essay referred to above, delivers the following analysis of how the system now works: Rising debts and real estate prices go together, because asset prices depend on how much banks will lend. For creditors, the dream is to obtain an ultimate backup at public expense: government insurance that they will not lose when debtors are unable to pay. The political problem is how to get the government to insure and protect bankers rather than debtors, given that debtors are much more numerous when it comes to the voting booth. In such cases campaign contributions are the balancing factor. Governments are “privatized” and “financialized,” that is, turned from democracies into oligarchies. The banking system aims to make sure that the only losers are the customers it is supposed to serve: debtors, homeowners and employees of companies being “financialized” as the economy is de‐industrialized. Indeed, financialization and de‐ industrialization are becoming almost synonymous. The trick is to get voters to think they are getting rich while actually they are being painted into a debt corner, along with their employers, local government and the federal government too. What makes voters think they are getting rich is numerically more money in their paychecks. But past a certain point, pay raises cannot keep up with debt creation and the 92
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inflation imposed by the Fed printing more and more dollars to deal with more and more debt. Not for no reason is inflation called “the hidden tax.” Once inflation is precipitated and building momentum, a government trying to stop it is comparable to the apocryphal King ordering ocean tides to stop rising. It also illustrates the astrological reading of Saturn opposite Neptune: the established order eroded by a subtle, relentless, eroding assault. Unlike rising tides, inflation is man‐made. Yet past a certain point, inflation becomes like a force of nature. Paper Money
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events characterized by the aspecting planets. It’s a mystery reminding us that we are not masters of the universe. Both planetary aspects and inflations tend to build like ocean waves. We can trace a slow but relentless inflation building in the USA since 1914 when the Federal Reserve System began operating under a Sun‐Pluto opposition. It has had smaller crests and troughs over the last century but now appears poised to become a tsunami, leaving a swash of deflation, depression. Since the Fed was created, the dollar has devalued (and/or inflated) by an average off, 929%. Something that cost $100 in 1914 cost $2,029 by 2006. Since the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008, the rate of inflation has risen steeply. Neptune’s eroding of established Saturnian systems will most impact whatever we are most focused upon. The previous Saturn‐Neptune opposition formed in 1971‐72 to coincide with what’s called the OPEC inflation. Americans were focused on the War in Vietnam and the Nixon Administration. There was an erosion of the established poltiical order, as Nixon was forced to leave office or face impeachment. The latest Saturn‐Neptune opposition impacts the financial realm because it has become our focus of attention. It’s become our focus of attention because it’s become dysfunctinoal. It needs to be changed. Meanwhile, Pluto has moved around the Zodiac to a point opposite where it was when the Fed was created. Pluto’s eliptical orbit makes it appear to move irregularly during its 248 year cycle. In Sagittarius where it now is, Pluto becomes philosophical, religious and spiritual. In Capricorn where it will soon be, it becomes practical and goal‐oriented. The goal of any monetary system is to spread prosperity to all secrors of society. By 2020, we may find that money has become a public utility rather than a tool of politial power. Endnotes: 1.
For an in‐depth examination of historic inflations, see An Analysis and History of Inflation by Dan Pearlberg, Praeger, Westport, CT, 1993. This book of only 186 pages sells for around $100, a price that reflects Pearlberg’s exhaustive scholarly research in rare combination with his abiltiy to explain this complex and highly technical subject.
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