Aries 2025: Easter. Arcturus. Equinox. Khafre. Heathrow. Hercules. Neptune Ingress. Myanmar. Israel-USA. Shamballa.

Aries Keynote
“I come forth and from the plane of mind, I rule.”
(Full Moon: April 13, 2025. UT 00.22)

Aries, First of Three Spiritual Festivals
___The Fixed Star Arcturus
The Resurrection and Ascension of Easter
Aries Equinox, Neptune and the Imminent Return of Christ
Equinox Horoscope and Mercury-Venus Retrograde
___Khafre Pyramid Revelation
___Heathrow Fire and Britain’s Decline
New Moon Eclipse in Aries
___The Aries Labour of Hercules
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Myanmar-Thailand Earthquake: More Rumblings from Shamballa?
Neptune’s Ingress into Aries
Israel-USA: Loss of Moral Compass?
___ A Karmic Reckoning from Saturn-Neptune in Aries?
Shamballa in the Year 2025

Aries, First of Three Spiritual Festivals
It is the beginning of the spiritual new year once again – Aries renews the cycle, heralding the first of the three annual spiritual festivals – Aries, Taurus and Gemini.

These zodiac signs establish an aspect of the annually amended Planetary Plan, the Divine Blueprint that is constantly precipitating into human consciousness. Aries’ theme is about the emergence of the subjective, subtle idea – patterned and programmed in the ethers, that will eventually manifest upon the outer plane:

“Aries is the place where the initial idea to institute activity takes form. It is the birthplace of ideas, and a true idea is in reality a spiritual impulse taking form—subjective and objective.”1

The first three signs of Aries, Taurus and Gemini function as a triangle of subjective energies that condition the remainder of the year. Hence, tuning into their qualities through personal reflection, group meditation and service will reward the enquirer.

Aries – Easter Festival, the Festival of the Risen Christ.
Taurus – Wesak Festival, the Festival of the Buddha or of Illumination.
Gemini – Festival of Unification – unifying East-West, carried forward by the Christ.

Aries-Libra Full Moon 2025. (Note the yod formation focused on the Moon in Libra.)

The most striking part of the horoscope is a T-square from the Sun-Moon opposition to Mars in Cancer, bringing great potential for emotional volatility, mood-swings, anger and irritation. Mars in Cancer is also prone to the opposite of volatility – the suppression of emotion which can result in passive-aggressive behaviour and/or depression.

Pluto energy, from deep in the earth, erupting at the surface.

After the full moon, the Sun in Aries will move forward into an applying square with transiting Mars in Cancer. These planets culminate their square pattern in the first degrees of Taurus-Leo on April 20, in orb for a few days after.

Hence, from the April 13 full moon onward, there are about 10 days to be most definitely “on guard” in personal interactions, reactions to, or by others.

As Cancer is about family, major show-downs within or without the family – or neighbours, could erupt at a personal level. On the world stage, disputes over borders, claims on land and property; selfish “crabby” national behaviour in the family of nations. (USA has Sun, Venus and Jupiter in Cancer, Trump has Venus, Saturn and Mercury in Cancer.)

As the Sun and Mars move forward on their transits into Taurus and Leo, a grand cross is formed with Pluto in Aquarius around April 23-24, continuing to April 27. This may cause considerable contentions in the global tariff war. Pluto in Aquarius is about the sharing of resources, while Mars in Leo tends to have a me-first, “mine” approach.

It is worth noting in the full moon horoscope, there is a “yod” or “finger of god” formation focusing on the Moon in Libra. Uranus in Taurus sextiles Saturn-Venus in Pisces and all planets quincunx the Moon. Saturn the lord of karma closely conjunct Venus – exalted in Pisces, where “…the Sons of God … have learned to love and truly reason”. Uranus falls in Taurus, “… hidden in the depths, awakening the intuitive response to an ever-increasing light”.2

Hence, the combination of these forces focusing through the Moon in Libra-the-Peacemaker, augur well for peace talks and the creation of equilibrium, whether it is in Ukraine, the Middle East or the current tariff wars.

The Fixed Star Arcturus
Moon in Libra is also conjunct the fixed star Arcturus – said to embody daring to take a new path, to go in a direction never travelled – a “gateway to higher realms”. Arcturus is traditionally said to be the “Bear Watcher” or guardian of the Great Bear constellation, the protector.

The famous psychic, clairvoyant and “multi-Pisces” – Edgar Cayce, mentioned Arcturus 30 times in his various readings – among which,

“Arcturus, the wonderful, the beautiful! As the bright and glorious light … Arcturus, the greater Sun, giving of the strength in mental and spiritual elements toward developing of soul … mental forces having great vision in every direction, especially those of the unseen elements, bringing then much psychic and occult forces to the body.”3

The Resurrection and Ascension of Easter
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7. St. Paul.)

The Ascension of Christ (Salvador Dali)

The main message about Easter is not about the agony of the crucifixion, or the gory blood sacrifice, but the Resurrection – regeneration and renewal to a new life:

“In the past, the keynote of the Christian religion has been death, symbolised for us in the death of Christ and much distorted by St. Paul [a Scorpio] in his effort to blend the new religion which Christ brought – with the old blood religion of the Jews … It was the magnetic power of the will that Christ referred when He said, “I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.”

Salvator Mundi (Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.)

This had no reference to the crucifixion but to the magnetic will of the Christ to draw all men, through the life of the indwelling Christ in every heart, out of the world of material values into the world of spiritual recognitions. It did not relate to death but to life; it had no reference to the Cross but to the resurrection.

In the cycle which Christ will inaugurate after His reappearance [post 2025], the goal of all the religious teaching in the world will be the resurrection of the spirit in mankind; the emphasis will be upon the livingness of the Christ nature in every human being, and upon the use of the will in bringing about this living transfiguration of the lower nature.”4

This is the philosophy behind the “born again” Christian, but in the near future all religions will be focusing upon the resurrection of the spirit. To resurrect from the “dead” personality life into a greater soul awareness. Resurrection is also related to the word sacrifice – “making sacred”, related to the sacral chakra where most of humanity is polarised – in terms of survival, materialism, money and sex.

To sacrifice is to ignore the cravings of the separated self, to relinquish and release, which allows consciousness to be raised to a new level. Once achieved and reflecting upon what was – it was not really a sacrifice as commonly perceived. What was given up on one level becomes a multifold gain at a higher level.

And of course, sacrifice is related to the well known axiom: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13.) Each individual has the capacity to emulate the Christ – “Christ in you, the hope of glory”, to draw themselves and others, “out of the material world into the world of spiritual recognitions”.

More than ever in the world today and within this global crisis, millions are relinquishing the old material values and taking the first initiation, also known as the “birth at Bethlehem” in the “house of bread”, celebrated at Christ-mass:

“The unfoldment of the Christ life—as a result of the presence and activities of the second divine aspect of love—will result in the ending of economic fear, and the “house of bread” will become the “house of plenty.”  Bread—as the symbol of material human need—will eventually be controlled by a vast group of initiates of the first initiation.”5

Aries Equinox, Neptune and the Imminent Return of Christ
The true new year began at the vernal equinox on March 20 – pregnant with the potential of what Humanity can choose, in this momentous year of 2025 – when the Centennial Conclave at Shamballa will take place at the Wesak Festival in mid May. The horoscope for the equinox determines the new year and particularly the next quarter, before the summer solstice in June. The outstanding feature of this chart is Neptune’s conjunction from late Pisces to the Sun in the first degree of Aries.

The Aries Equinox 2025.

Through its esoteric ruler Pluto, Pisces releases and relinquishes the past, destroying the ties that bind the two fishes together. One door closes and a new door opens in Aries. Walking through the door of initiation, into a sign which is all about new initiatives, provides the blank canvas of the new year, upon which the soul’s art can be expended.

Neptune almost entered Aries in June 2024, but went retrograde at the last moment. On March 30, 2025 it entered Aries proper and will dance in and out of Aries-Pisces until Jan. 2026 – staying thereafter in Aries until 2038. Neptune has various interpretations, from its lower mass consciousness expression of confusion, deception and illusion or glamour – through to the mystic and visionary, the intuition that brings inspiration.

Intuition is esoterically buddhi – direct knowledge or “pure reason”, beyond the mental plane; it is the ultimate goal for Humanity who all receive flashes of intuition along the road of many incarnations toward liberation.

Neptune’s transit through its own sign of Pisces in the past few years, has seen the God of the Waters in the sign of The Fishes – stir up the astral bodies of Humanity. Particularly in relation to its lower expression of deception and confusion and muddying the waters – where mass glamours were potently activated by the forces of materialism.

But those experiences, particularly from 2020-2025 – have in hindsight, generated greater knowledge, understanding and the acquisition of wisdom. All of this has been in perfect preparation for the Masters of Wisdom meeting at the Taurus-Wesak festival this year –  which also marks Their once-in-a-century conclave with the Lord of the World and Shamballa: Sanat Kumara, Melchizedek or the Ancient of Days.

Command of Rigden Djapo (Nicholas Roerich)

The “Master of Masters” is known as The Christ, an office He held when inaugurating the Age of Pisces 2,000 years ago – as the Piscean Avatar. As goals for the Pisces dispensation were not fully achieved, He has planned to finish the work by returning again in the Age of Aquarius. As many students of the Mysteries are aware, Neptune is one of the names by which the Christ is known:

“Neptune is known esoterically as the Initiator. In certain ancient formulas, the great Teacher of the West and the present world Initiator, Christ, is spoken of as Neptune, Who rules the ocean, whose trident and astrological symbol signifies the Trinity in manifestation and Who is the ruler of the Piscean Age.”6

“He for whom the whole world waits” is known in all traditions – the Messiah, Imam Mahdi, Bodhisattva or Lord Maitreya. When Neptune enters fiery, first ray Aries – there lies a reminder of His injunction, “I come not to bring peace but a sword”. The sword is a symbol of the first ray of will-power that passes through this first sign Aries:

“The sword which He wields is the sword of the Spirit; it is that sword which produces cleavage between a true spirituality and an habitual materialism. The major effect of His appearance will surely be to demonstrate in every land the effects of a spirit of inclusiveness—an inclusiveness which will be channelled or expressed through Him.

All who seek right human relations will be gathered automatically to Him, whether they are in one of the great world religions or not; all who see no true or basic difference between religion and religion or between man and man or nation and nation will rally around Him; those who embody the spirit of exclusiveness and separativeness will stand automatically and equally revealed and all men will know them for what they are.”7

The New Group of World Servers mediate between Hierarchy and Humanity.

Neptune’s passage through Aries for the next 13 years provides an ideal time for the return of Lord Maitreya. In Christian symbolism, the Christ is known as the “Lamb of God” – the lamb is a symbol of innocence before it becomes the Aries ram.

This “return” will at least be in the hearts of humanity – if not an actual Reappearance upon the physical plane – where “all eyes shall see him”. Or “whoever has ears to hear, let them hear” – regardless of spoken language.

Hence the precipitous situation in the world today, the long-planned return of the Masters, is contributing to the global turmoil. Their highly refined frequencies are at odds with the existing status quo, forcing Humanity to step up; especially the aspirants, disciples and initiates, who comprise the New Group of World Servers, the bridge between Hierarchy and Humanity.

The ancient Forces of Materialism know well The Plan of the “White Lodge”and have been actively trying to keep Humanity in the dark for aeons – but they now know that the “jig is up”. Much activity that can be seen in world events is the desperate attempts by the minions of the Dark Forces to preserve the past, deceive, mislead, bully, creating confusion and fear.

Hence, 2025 will be the major pivotal point between the Pisces-Aquarius precession cycles, affording Humanity the opportunity to acquiesce to the Aries polarity of Libra and that sign’s injunction, “I choose the way that leads between the two great lines of force”.

Libra (Susan Boulet)

Equinox Horoscope: Mercury-Venus Retrograde
– Khafre Pyramid Revelation
– Heathrow Fire and Britain’s Decline
Another important feature noted in the Aries Equinox horoscope (March 20) – is Mercury and Venus conjunct in Aries, retrograde – trine to Moon in Sagittarius. Mercury retrograde, going back into Pisces from Aries.

Mercury is super intuitive in both signs – watery Pisces and fiery Aries; much slower and reflective in Pisces, quicker and more direct in Aries. Hence, during this retrograde peiod, what impulsive Aries mentally projects, Pisces will provide deeper reflection.

Mercury is also the esoteric ruler of Aries, quick in thought but also intuitive. Esoterically, Venus in Aries bypasses the mind and accesses “pure reason” or intuition. Venus is also retrograding back through Pisces, the sign of its exaltation, where:

“The Sons of God who are the Sons of Mind are raised up into glory through experience and crucifixion because they have learned to love and truly reason.”8

Mercury and Venus retrograde in Aries, trine the Moon in Sagittarius, give opportunity for several weeks to ponder and deeply reflect upon one’s philosophical foundations – particularly any emotional attachments to ideologies, spiritual or political. The Moon in Sagittarius can be very fanatical in this respect, the source of many glamours.

Hence, this retrograde period of several weeks will provide opportunities for negotiations between major powers, with those in our own lives and within ourselves.

Khafre or Middle Pyramid.

Khafre pyramid at Giza
The first degree of the Aries Equinox brought the astonishing news about the Khafre (middle) pyramid at Giza. The information had been around since a press conference on March 15 (The Ides of March), but it became more broadly revealed at the Equinox.

Hence, in the ensuing weeks of Mercury-Venus retrograde, much more will be investigated and may emerge around those sensational findings which claim an extensive underground network. There is already some conflict in the realm of archeological academia and “alternative archeology”, where old paradigms of thought are being challenged!

Mercury or Thoth, the Ibis-headed god.

Mercury is also known as the Egyptian deity Thoth – god of wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment. These next weeks and months will surely be an exciting ride, leading to further revelations no doubt. Author and researcher – Christopher Dunn, has stated the following:

My initial impressions, based on my own research and that of the others referenced here, are that if the reported scan data and analyses are correct, this would be a major discovery and a validation of my own theories. But more importantly, provide motivation to pursue a path towards clean energy and a safer environment.

… when igneous rock in the lithosphere is put under stress, peroxy defects in the mineral cause positive hole electrons to shoot to the surface … the fundamental question asked was, “How do we drive mechanical vibrations into the earth and through the pyramid?”

After publishing my first book I heard from and met John Cadman, who had created a model of the Subterranean Chamber and used it with a system of pipes and valves to demonstrate that it could perform as a pulse generator.

A complete survey of the many deep shafts and tunnels on the Giza Plateau may provide answers to the questions these speculations create, and we may learn that the progenitor of John Cadman’s hydraulic pulse generator system that caused the ground to shake lies not within the Great Pyramid, or any other pyramid for that matter, but elsewhere, and deeper underground. Created before the pyramids were built, its purpose may have been to serve all the pyramids on the plateau by squeezing electrons loose from igneous rock.

“It could be that the pulses generated in the Great Pyramid’s Subterranean Chamber are specific to just the Great Pyramid and its performance as a maser. The big daddy of pulse generators that causes the entire plateau to resonate may not be in any of the pyramids but deep under the bedrock of the Giza Plateau, functioning as Cadman’s research and model have demonstrated.”9

Dunn’s extensive research, diagrams and video resources can be found here: Results of Satellite based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) scan of the Giza Plateau.

Below left: The underground scans taken by an Italian team of scientists. Above left: The speculated columns that reach a long way into the Earth.

Heathrow Fire and Britain’s Decline
UK PM Keir Starmer, said on the eve of the Aries Equinox (Thursday, March 20), “Vladimir Putin will face severe consequences if he breaches a peace deal with Ukraine, as western military planners began drawing up plans to enforce any agreement between the two countries.”

Virgo sun Starmer is one of the many weak and ineffectual leaders in Europe. His sun is exactly conjunct Pluto – planet of power something that he can onlu use in a draconian manner.

Let us not forget how in a previous government position, he did nothing to alleviate the suffering of Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison. And when it came to Covid, he was a serious promoter of the insane lockdown rules. More recently, to raise funds for Ukraine, brutally taking money away from disabled pensioner support.

Starmer’s latest posturing along with other fools in the EU against Russia is just that – recalling one of the soliloquies in Shakespeare’s Macbeth,

“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death … life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Late on the same day of Starmer’s impotent remonstrations – a huge fire ignited an electricity substation near London’s Heathrow airport, completely immobilising all flights and causing global transport chaos. Interesting symbolism regarding the loss of power for Starmer and for Britain. (London is speculated to be the planetary throat chakra, the centre of mental development and thought.)

The “three stooges” of Europe – Leyen, Macron and Starmer.

Immediately, various media jumped on the “blame it on Russia” bandwagon, fuelling a fire of a far more dangerous kind. There were several possibilities about this fire:

1. A technical glitch that set it off with no human interference.
2. Sabotage by Britain (MI6) upon itself, a “false flag” to blame Russia.
3. Sabotage by Russia – possible, but why would Russia risk implicating itself as a suspect?
4. Sabotage by some other unknown party for unknown reasons.

That story has since been buried by many other stories clamouring for the headlines, but it was essentially a classic Mercury retrograde even! (An investigation was launched, the outcome unknown at this point.)

New Moon Eclipse in Aries (March 29, 2025.)
New moons anchor subjective seeds for the full moon that follows two weeks later (April 13.). The new moon partial eclipse had an extraordinary double stellium in Aries and Pisces. Mercury was retrograde in the first degree of Aries – conjunct Neptune and Venus in late Pisces.

Mercury as esoteric ruler of Aries, was about to swap places with Neptune, exoteric ruler of Pisces. Both these planets in their highest expression are related to the intuition, direct knowledge – beyond the mind.

Furthermore, Neptune was about to make its much anticipated entrance into Aries for the first time in 164.8 years, which occurred the day after the eclipse on March 30 – securing its position more fully in Aries by Jan.2026.

The downside of this conjunction was typical Mercury retrograde problems with communications, transport etc, plus deception, scheming and muddying of the Neptunian waters. Yet Mercury and Venus both retrograde in Pisces, provided opportunities for long and deep reflection, particularly on many humanitarian issues that are largely ignored around the planet.

Aries new moon solar eclipse 2025.

The spiritual New Year began at the Aries equinox (March 20) and the new moon eclipse consolidated the new beginning by sowing a seed for the upcoming harvest of the Aries-Libra full moon on April 13. The new moon eclipse in Aries was a time to initiate plans, to formulate and release those ideas that will set the tone for the next twelve lunar cycles of the zodiac – individually and collectively.

Aries rules the head which contains the brain – the “hardware” of the physical body that receives ideas transmitted from the “software” of the soul, via the mental body. The soul ruler of Aries is Mercury, embodying the keynote of Aries, “I come forth and from the plane of mind, I rule”. Although Mercury is related to the intuition or buddhic awareness, it also acts as the messenger from the archetypal realm of ideas, through to their implementation upon the physical plane.

Mars as mundane ruler of Aries is the force which implements those ideas through physical action. Hence, Aries is always a period of sowing, whilst the reaping takes place in polar opposite Libra – where the consequences of actions are revealed.

Aries 2025 started with a bang at the equinox with the intense fire at Heathrow airport and the fireworks may continue – in terms of sudden, aggressive – or even violent impulses in our own lives, or the clamour of ongoing military conflicts in Ukraine or the Middle East.

At the Aries new moon, there were some extraordinary opportunities for leaders with vision (a minority!), to set the right note for the coming year. Unfortunately, it appears many are doing the opposite, especially in Europe.

There are worst case scenarios for getting it horribly wrong, through Aries impulsiveness and decisions based upon emotional reactivity, not thinking things through.

The Aries Labour of Hercules
The first of Hercules’ 12 labours, his trials and tests around the zodiac – is in Aries. He is sent by his Master to capture the fierce horses of Diomedes, the son of Mars. Yet through pride and impulsiveness, Hercules’ friend Abderis was killed and the labour became a misadventure:

“So great was his [Hercules] delight in the prowess thus displayed that he deemed it ‘neath his dignity to hold the mares or drive them on the Way to Diomedes. He called his friend, saying: “Abderis, come hither and drive these horses through the Gate”.

And then he turned his back and pridefully marched forward. But Abderis was weak and feared the task. He could not hold the mares, or harness them or drive them through the Gate in the footsteps of his friend. They turned on him; they rent and trod him underfoot; they killed him and escaped into the wilder lands of Diomedes.”

Those wild horses are a symbol of the mind and the imperative to discipline and train it. Aries is a fire sign, symbolic of the mental plane and the divine ideas that emanate from that realm.

The realisation of those ideas is brought through Mars, a “non-sacred planet”. Yet its function is to also reveal where the “not-self” resides – the area where Mars rules, the solar plexus – seat of the astral or desire body.

Hence the tendency to colour ideas with the astral nature, distorting them, allowing the lower ego, whose power base is in the lower chakras – to dominate. Combine this with the exaltation of the Sun in Aries and you have a recipe for ego/mind getting out of control – arrogance incarnate!

There is also a connection between Mars and the wild Mares, the latter word relating to “mar”, the sea, the watery feeling nature. When Jesus, who was crucified in Aries – said, “there shall be no more sea”, He was alluding to this possibility:

“… the sea of storm and passion will be superseded by the sea of glass, which directly reflects the higher intuition, and mirrors it with perfect accuracy, being unruffled and immovable. The emotional body will be set apart wholly for service …”10

At the Aries solar eclipse, the two “horses” of Neptune and Mercury, provided great potential for summoning the intuition – which translates as inspiration – fueling definite action to manifest.

Neptune’s Horses (Walter Crane)

Mercury retrograde provides opportunity to go back over old ground and get things right, whilst at the same time creating frustration and delays for impatient Aries, slowing down the charging Ram.

With Mars currently placed in Cancer, the theme of domestic protection is high – whether that is the personal home or the motherland – territory acquired, held or stolen. Housing crises and unaffordable property in many Western nations is another shocking situation that is being highlighted.

The Aries-Libra polarity is a war and peace scenario. It can be a “necessary war to combat evil” versus a peace that might just want to selfishly avoid conflict; or it can be an imperialistic and aggressive war – versus a true peace that is connected to non-interference and right human relations.

As mentioned earlier, at this full moon the Moon in Libra is a the point of a yod. This Aries-Libra full moon (April 13) will “open the gate” to the following Wesak (Taurus) festival when the Shamballa centennial conclave is speculated to be taking place:

“Libra admits the soul into the world centre which we call Shamballa, for it is the polar opposite of Aries which is the place of beginnings.”11

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Myanmar-Thailand Earthquake: More Rumblings from Shamballa?
“… electrical phenomenon which finds its expression in the light … in the phenomena such as thunder storms and … lightning, with the aurora borealis, and in the production of earthquakes and all volcanic action. All these manifestations are based on electrical activity of some kind, and have to do with the “soul of things,” or with the essence of matter.”12

This 7.7 earthquake on March 28, 2025 (just 24 hours before the new moon solar eclipse) – had its epicentre near Mandalay, occuring several weeks after the devastating earthquake near Shigatse – just over the Himalayas, north-west from Myanmar.

The event horoscope, set for Mandalay, has earth mother Cancer rising – conjunct Mars, ruler of a stellium in Aries – Sun, Mercury, Vulcan and Chiron. The Moon in Pisces was also making a close applying trine to Mars in Cancer, lending a strong gravitational pull that worked as a trigger. The moon was about to conjoin lord of karma Saturn which was also trine Mars and the Cancer ascendant.

Myanmar Earthquake

Building collapse in Bangkok.

Warring Mars and maverick Chiron were also in a tight square to one another, creating the “earthquake signature” in the horoscope. Chiron is a large asteroid that has an eccentric orbit between Saturn and Uranus, serving as a bridge between Saturn’s “ring-pass-not” and the freedom of Uranus in the outer solar system. Esoterically,

Chiron, “the wounded healer”.

“… the effect upon the planets of what are called “asteroids” is known. This is much greater than exoteric science has so far admitted, but the significance of this must eventually be interpreted in terms of energy and on etheric levels.”13

In the Lisbon tremor chart for Aug.26, 2024 – Chiron was the most elevated body to the midheaven – the astro-catography map saw the Chiron/MC line running down he coast of Portugal.

Chiron, the “wounded healer” is again prominent in the astro-cartography earthquake map for Myanmar and Thailand. The Chiron/MC line runs near Mandalay, straight through Chiang Mai in northern Thailand and close to Bangkok in the south.

Astro-cartography of the Myanmar Quake. Note the Mars/Asc and Pluto/Asc lines circled at the top of the chart.

Extending further south, the line passed through northern Sumatra, location of the 2004, 8.1 quake and tsunami on Christmas Eve. Mars was very prominent in that event chart which had Capricorn rising at the same degree opposite Mars in this 2025 event.

Reflecting the tense square aspect between Mars and Chiron, the Mars in Cancer/Ascendant line runs straight through Shigatse, just south of Mandalay, crossing the vertical Chiron/MC line south of Bangkok. Chiron was also prominent in a conjunction with the moon in Aries – at the Shigatse quake that killed around 400 people, in early January 2025.

Chiang Mai was strongly shaken by the quake but with relatively minor damage. Bangkok felt it more strongly – with the spectacular collapse of a 33-story building under construction. (The building collapsed vertically into its footprint, reminiscent of the 9/11 towers in 2001.) There was however, much more destruction and loss of over 3,000 lives near Mandalay, Myanmar. (Burma.)

Another interesting factor here is that a straight line can be drawn from Shigatse through Mandalay, Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Could that be a ley line or fault line that runs more or less parallel with the Mars/Ascendant line?

These ongoing “tremblers” may well be the outer expression of more “rumblings from Shamballa”, ahead of a minor “Shamballa impact” around the Taurus Wesak festival on May 12:

A straight line can be drawn from Shigatse through Mandalay, Chiang Mai and Bangkok.

“Some of the available inflowing Shamballa forces are being absorbed directly by humanity and by certain of the subhuman kingdoms, particularly the mineral kingdom. This latter absorption will lead eventually, when complete, to those volcanic episodes and those basic earthquakes which will change the face of the earth by the time the sixth rootrace comes into manifestation.”14

Mercury retrograde in Aries no doubt played its part as well, about to swap places with Neptune as it moved into Aries, as Mercury moved back into Pisces. To conclude, let us reflect upon the following passage that precedes the first passage at the beginnning of this article:

“A shift in the Earth’s polarity, due to the pull of a great cosmic centre. This powerfully affects the Earth’s orientation and is responsible for the present earthquakes, and for the volcanic eruptions and the many earthquakes during the past one hundred and fifty years.15

One such centre is to be found at the North Pole, and two more are located within the planetary sphere, and frequently the inflow of force or energy to these internal centres (via the polar centre) results in those disasters we call earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.16

The Mahachohan is working specifically at this time (in co-operation with the Manu), with the devas of the gaseous subplane; this is in connection with the destroying work they are to effect by the end of this rootrace, in order to liberate Spirit from constricting forms. Volcanic action therefore may be looked for, demonstrating in unexpected localities, as well as within the sphere of the present earthquake and volcanic zones.”17

Neptune Ingress into Aries
The end of the Age of Pisces will astronomically occur in 2,117.18 The passage of Neptune though its own sign of Pisces in the past 13 years, will be the last Neptune cycle in that sign before 2,117 – hence symbolically it represents the passing of this Piscean Age.

Ingress of the outer planets into any sign typically occur about three times due to their retrograde and direct motions. Hence, those ingress horoscopes can determine general world trends for the duration of that planetary cycle – in Neptune’s case 164.8 years.

The The last ingress of Neptune into Aries was from 1861-1875, the period of the American Civil War – based upon the major issue of slavery. Neptune’s transit through Pisces in the previous 13-year period had worked in stimulating the collective conscience.

It had also marked the emergence of spiritualism; mass psychic sensitivity – as well as some religious movements in Protestantism, Church of Latter Day Saints, Mormanism etc.

The 1861-62 Aries Ingress Charts
When considering Neptune’s entry into Aries from 1861-1862, both ingress horoscopes set for Washington, have Uranus dominating the chart from the midheaven. It was also the time of the third Uranus return for the USA, hence the upheaval and revolution of the time. (Aries is of course ruled by Mars, the god of war.)

Neptune Ingress Aries Horoscopes 1861-2.

Uranus rules the Aquarian sun of one ingress chart and is hierarchical ruler of the Aries sun in the other ingress chart. Hence, both charts foreshadowed the pioneering the development of modern technology following soon after the Industrial Revolution of 1760-1840.

In the last ingress horoscope, the Moon and Mars are in Gemini conjunct Uranus, representing the US Gemini personality – the warring brothers at odds over several issues, but slavery the main one. In the first ingress chart of 1861, the sun is in Aries the sign of pioneering ideas that usher in the new paradigm.

(Original Caption) A seance: Table rapping as practiced in the first half of the 19th Century under the infleunce of the Fox Sisters. Woodcut.

Uranus is ruler of the 7^th ray of Organisation or Ceremonial Magic, whose sub-cycle in 1860 coincided with the Neptune ingress into Aries. Uranus rules esotericism or occultism and it was in 1875 that H.P. Blavatsky published the first of several occult tomes – Isis Unveiled. (The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn emerged around the same time.)

HPB had grown up in the time of Neptune in Pisces and was deeply involved with spiritualism, seances etc. which won her some infamy. Though she was at heart a true occultist and amanuensis of the Masters. Uranus also rules exoteric science:

Da Vinci inventions.

“Uranus, the occult planet, stands for exoteric science which penetrates into the hidden side of form life, and thus we have the period wherein man is not alert enough or conscious enough to seize upon opportunity and turn it to esoteric or soul ends, but can identify himself with the more advanced aspects of form.”19

Bearing in mind that scientific discoveries are always being made, during Neptune’s passage through Aries 1861-1875, discoveries included,

“1861: Louis Pasteur: Germ theory. 1864: James Clerk Maxwell: Theory of electromagnetism.

1865: Gregor Mendel: Mendel’s laws of inheritance, basis for genetics. 1865: Rudolf Clausius: Definition of entropy. 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev: Periodic table. 1873: Frederick Guthrie discovers thermionic emission. 1873: Willoughby Smith discovers photoconductivity.

1875: William Crookes invented the Crookes tube and studied cathode rays.”20

The 2025-26 Ingress Charts
All three ingress charts are significant. These charts are based on the location of Washington DC, hence the rising sign of Taurus will change if set for other locations such as London.

Three Neptune Ingress charts for 2025-26.

The first ingress chart for March 30, 2025, is on the inner wheel of the tri-wheel above. It sees Neptune entering Aries while the Sun, Moon, Vulcan and Chiron are also in Aries. Yet there is a significant stellium in Pisces from which Neptune recently exited, including Saturn, moon’s node, Venus and Mercury. Hence, this chart is a bridging one from the past cycle into the new cycle.

Water reflects that which is from above to that which is below. The purple Jacaranda tree reflects the colour of the 7th ray – purple.

The second ingress chart in the middle wheel for Oct.22, 2025, has a grand trine in water signs: Saturn still in Pisces, trine to Jupiter exalted in Cancer – trine to Mars Mercury in Scorpio. Moon is also in Scorpio and the sun is in the last degree of Libra on the cusp of Scorpio.

Hence this horoscope has, in the spirit of Neptune – co-ruler of the astral body, a profound emotional emphasis. The powerful placements in Scorpio, a sign of initiation, reflect some intense testings and trials for all those upon the Path who are consciously entering the new cycle.

The third ingress chart in the outer wheel for Jan.26, 2026 – sees a large stellium in Aquarius: Sun, Pluto, Mars, Mercury and Venus. This is of course significant and echoes what was stated earlier about 2025 being a pivotal point between the Pisces-Aquarius ages. (As stated earlier, the Sun is said to precess into Aquarius astronomically in 2,117 – just under a century away.)

The Tibetan deity Manjushri, wields the sword of wisdom and discrimination.

The last ingress chart (3rd) may well be the most important in terms of determining the next 165-year cycle of Neptune from Aries to Aries. Aquarius dominates the horoscope on the eve of the Aquarian Age. As Neptune is the ruler of the sixth ray of Devotion and Idealism, its’ passing from Pisces into Aries also signals diminishing of the sixth ray influence that  began to “pass out of incarnation” in 1625.21

This will allow the incoming seventh ray cycle to come into greater strength, the ray ruled by Uranus – ruler of Aquarius. Its cycle began in 1945 and will continue for 2,500 years, overlapping the 2,160 year cycle of Aquarius.

As stated in other recent missives, Neptune in Aries heralds the return of The Christ, reminding us of his edict, “I come not to bring peace but a sword”. The sword is ever the primary symbol of the first ray of will-power which passes through this first sign Aries. The sword of discrimination, but also of destruction – that will cleave spiritual materialism so rife upon the planet. Aries the Ram is the “lamb of god” and Neptune is another name for The Christ in the West.

Hence, the period of Neptune’s transit through Aries from 2025 to 2039, may well usher His reappearance in the world – at the least a brief preview! This will stimulate and inspire Humanity, following in the wake of whatever decisions the Hierarchy will make at the 2025 Centennial Conclave. High on Their agenda may well be the appalling situation in Israel, location of Christ’s last appearance, covered in the next article.

Israel-USA: Loss of the Moral Compass?
(This subject has been thoroughly analysed in many past newsletters.)
Considering the ongoing brutal and unremitting attacks upon Palestinian civilians since Oct.7, 2023, and the whole-hearted backing of the Israeli offensive by the current US administration – one wonders where it will all end.

The public have been deadened to the plight of the Palestinians through saturation media coverage in some cases and none at all in many other instances. Either way, there is a natural tendency to avert one’s eyes and heart to such misery and suffering. Another day, another massacre – and those who care deeply about the situation watch helplessly from the sidelines.

It appears that no organised demonstration or public criticism can prick the conscience of world leaders, many of whom are committed whole-heartedly to their support of Israel. Especially the USA: Trump and the Republicans accepted nearly half a $billion in donations toward elections since 2016 – from pro-Israelcasino magnates Sheldon and Miriam Adelson.

So is it now a case of the piper being paid with unswerving loyalty – or does Trump have a long game? As stated in previous missives, all of Trump’s appointees to Israel and deeply pro-Zionist, some quite rabidly! Yet, the Democrats would have done exactly the same, so controlled are all US politicians by the far-reaching Zionist lobby. It is said that working with Mossad, they have “dirt” on everyone, assisting their financial coercion and blackmail tactics.

Public resistance by students or academics in universities around the USA, demonstrations or voiced criticism – are being rewarded by arrests, calls for expulsion, deportation or steep fines. However, in a recent meeting with Netanyahu at the White House, Trump threw an unexpected curve-ball by stating that negotiations were underway with Iran, a country that Israel was hoping to attack. The following short report shows how Netanyahu was ambushed!

It appears that the majority of world leaders have allowed the Zionist interpetation of history to over-ride the true facts – which must be constantly re-stated: Palestine was taken over illegally by those who sought to create Israel in 1948, resulting in the death and displacement of thousands.

Since then, the Palestinians have existed, not really lived – under a permanent siege that has degraded and demoralised. Decades of various intifada’s and “mowing the lawn” – an incredibly cruel term coined by Israeli’s, referring to their regular and blatant slaughters of Palestinians. Gaza has been the world’s largest open-air prison camp for decades, is it small wonder that resistance groups like Hamas would naturally rise up against their jailers?

Since Oct.7, 2023 these irregular “gardening” practices became a permanent and ongoing holocaust (an ironic term), to the point now where Gaza is a razed wasteland where over 50,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. These are official figures, but the death toll is said to be much, much higher.

Nor does it account for the hundreds of thousand injured, or count the cost of emotional and mental trauma for so many children and adults. This can only create more embittered generations who will not forget the injustices and cruelty, forcing them to form resistance movements.

On March 23, 2025 – official figures stated: Palestinians killed Tuesday — at least 404. Women and children killed Tuesday — 263. Senior Hamas officials killed Tuesday — 6. The above is a summary on this subject frequently aired by the author. But now, due to what appears to be a long term commitment to support of Israel, the question must be reiterated to world leaders and their minions: Have you lost your humanity?

The Zionists have successfully brainwashed the West, playing the victim card of persecution – and Israel being the homeless orphan “defending itself”. Ironically, it is the Palestinians who have now become today’s persecuted “Jews”. The most glaring omission by world leaders (not all) – has been inertia, a lack of compassion toward the Palestinian situation, an historical amnesia and a cowardly support of Israel.

Hence, the world has lost its way, its moral compass has ceased to work, disturbed by chaotic, magnetic forces generated by the Forces of Darkness. If Aquarian soul USA cannot resolve this current crisis – and if its destiny is to be a world leader into the Age of Aquarius, then USA and Humanity are doomed by their own inaction, complicity and apathy.

A Karmic Reckoning from Saturn and Neptune in Aries?
This unresolved crisis will generate a huge karmic debt, the ledger of which may be balanced sooner rather than later – “It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall”. (Dylan)

As averred to in the previous article, one hears the dire warning of The Christ upon his imminent return – “I come not to bring peace but a sword”. That same Christ who was not recognised as the Jewish Messiah 2,000 years ago, condemned by the Rabbinite courts for “blasphemy” – and crucified upon the cross during Aries.

As Saturn, the Lord of Karma soon enters Aries – with Neptune (a name for Christ), the next few years may be particularly telling. Saturn and Neptune will dance with one another in early Aries from late May 2025 (two weeks after Wesak), on and off through to Feb.2026. Saturn will stay in Aries until April 2028, presiding over one of the most tumultuous transitions in human history.

Saturn is the Law that has access to the sword of Aries – the sword of justice that cleaves truth from falsehood. Saturn rules the Capricorn personality of the Jewish people, who have their soul upon the first ray of will-power, the most powerful ray passing through Aries:

“Saturn “falls” in Aries. This has two meanings, for this is a dual sign. First: Saturn is the Lord of Karma, the imposer of retribution and the one who demands full payment of all debts and who therefore condemns us to the struggle for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side.”22

(A note about the following song which Dylan wrote in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis of Oct.1962. Transiting Jupiter in Pisces was squaring his songwriter Gemini Sun.)

It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall (Bryan Ferry version)
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been, my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I’ve walked and I crawled on six crooked highways
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

[Refrain]
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

[Verse 2]
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept dripping
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleeding
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten-thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

[Refrain]
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

[Verse 3]
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warning
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazing
I heard ten-thousand whispering and nobody listening
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing
I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

[Refrain]
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

[Verse 4]
Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
And who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman, her body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred

[Refrain]
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

[Verse 5]
And what will you do now, my blue-eyed son?
And what’ll you do now, my darling young one?
I’m a-going back out ‘fore the rain starts a-falling
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And the executioner’s face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I’ll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it
And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking
But I’ll know my song well before I start singing

[Refrain]
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Shamballa in the Year 2025
“… an Approach for which the initiates and Masters have for centuries been preparing, and for which all the Wesak Festivals since the meeting of the Great Council in 1925 have been preparatory.”23

As discussed in many articles over the past few years (here), the once-in-a-century meeting of the Great White Brotherhood in the “halls of Shamballa” – is in the year 2025. Given the importance of the Wesak Festival, it is the most logical time when this Centennial Conclave will take place. The Wesak festival is always at the Taurus-Scorpio full moon, which includes the once-a-year descent of the Buddha – working in an esoteric triangle with The Christ and Sanat Kumara.

It is the festival where all disciples are enjoined to attend upon the inner planes, connecting with the Masters of their respective ashrams and linking with other co-workers – in their pledge of co-operation with the Planetary Plan.

Commenting about the 1925 Conclave, The Tibetan discussed letting go of old concepts to allow new techniques to emerge. In terms of our evolving consciousness, no doubt same may be expected of us in 2025:

“In my last instruction to you I dealt with some aspects of the new approach to discipleship and to initiation; it is essential that the old concepts—profoundly useful in their day—should be forgotten and the newer methods and techniques should be substituted. This is now necessary on account of the surprising unfoldment of the human consciousness during the past twenty-five years. [Written around the late 1940’s.]

The steps taken at the Conclave in Shamballa in 1925 (based on tentative conclusion at the previous centennial Conclave [1825]) and the pressures exerted by the Hierarchy have proved most successful, and out of the chaos of the world war (precipitated by humanity itself) – there is developing a structure of truth and a paralleling responsiveness of the human mechanism which guarantees the perpetuation and the rapid unfoldment of the next stage of the teaching of the Ageless Wisdom.”24

As touched up earlier, this Aries-Libra full moon festival is the “open door” to Shamballa and, “Libra admits the soul into … Shamballa.”25

Phillip Lindsay © 2025.
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