Gemini 2018: Betelgeuse Heart. Money Revolution. North Korea. Israel Apartheid. USA Truth Crisis.
Signs of Christ (Nicholas Roerich)
Gemini Keynote
“I recognise my other self and in the waning of that self I grow and glow.”
World Invocation Day
(Full Moon: May 29, 2018. 4.19 pm. UT.)
“Influential and potent forces pouring in at this time from the great stars Betelgeuse and Sirius. To these two influences, the disciples of the world in the senior ranks of the New Group of World Servers definitely react, and they produce a stimulation of the heart centre (Betelgeuse) and the head centre (Sirius).”1
Gemini: Festival of Unification
Gemini, Orion and Betelgeuse: Stimulation of the Heart
Uranus in Taurus: Revolution of the Monetary System
Notices and Advertisements
Korean Détente and Kim Yong Un
Happy Birthday Not: Israel Apartheid State
Liar Liar: USA’s Gemini Truth Crisis
Gemini: Festival of Unification or Goodwill
We re-acquaint ourselves annually with Gemini, the third of the new year’s three major festivals that sets the tone for the new year – Aries, Taurus, Gemini. The new impulse generated in Aries is concentrated and roots in earthy Taurus at the Wesak Festival – subsequently distributed in Gemini. Full moon periods are monthly cycles of high spiritual potential – to commune with the Spiritual Forces of the planet and participate in the great celebration of souls guiding, and being guided toward the light.
The annual World Invocation Day is always at the date of the Gemini full moon (May 29, 2018) – spanning 2½ days before and after the exact full moon time – totalling 5 days. Here is always the opportunity to be extra mindful and reflective, to tune into the subtle but powerful forces pouring into the planet via the zodiac sign Gemini:
“The result of this solemn three days of invocation will be followed by a climaxing day wherein the Hierarchy will unitedly, and led by the Christ, pronounce the entire Invocation, prefacing each stanza with its appropriate keynote, again sounded in unison. These notes you cannot know, but if, for instance, a very large number of the New Group of World Servers were brought together, their united OM might approximate the appropriate keynote.”2
Gemini rules communications and The Great Invocation is a potent, globally transforming mantram that can be used every day, but especially at any full moon festival. As the second ray of Love-Wisdom is the only ray to pass through Gemini, it is this force that is being invoked and disseminated – in all its various expressions – via the spoken or written word, music (the universal language), art, acts of human kindness and the internet – the externalised planetary etheric body.
Gemini rules inner communications because of its association with the etheric body, the medium of transmission for impulses from the soul via the mental body. Hence the quality of formlessness that Gemini expresses, making it a sign well suited to telepathic communication and inner work in general.
The first three festivals of the year are all connected to communication. Mercury the Messenger is the ruler of Gemini and the soul ruler of Aries, the first festival. As described in last month’s newsletter, Taurus rules the organs of speech and the “Taurian upon the way of liberation would do well to employ the method of directed and motivated speech of an outgoing and explanatory nature.”3
Gemini, Orion and Betelgeuse: Stimulation of the Heart
Recently, the author was contacted by a friend and co-worker who passed on an inspirational dream, giving permission to share with readers here:
“It was a clear night and I was discussing with three friends topics that had to do with astrology, even though I know nothing about it. While talking, I was observing the night sky when suddenly a stream of emerald light emerged from five ”stars” and linked them to an emerald pentagram and a five pointed star at the same time. It was magnificent to watch and everyone was amazed. This pentagram-star started moving in the night sky in different directions, and seemed to be closing toward our planet – until it stopped directly upon us, as we could see under it something moving.
Constellations of Gemini, Orion and Taurus.
“Rapidly a bright emerald vortex of great power appeared and it was spinning faster and faster. I felt fear because its energy was really ”dynamic” and asked everyone to run far away because I knew what was going to happen. We had run a few meters away when a wide stream of this emerald energy was released from this vortex and grounded to earth with a very ”thin” sound and I felt that it had reached the core of the earth.
Of course we could not see this stream because it was too bright and too close but we knew what was happening. After a few moments the pentagram-star disappeared and the stream of energy stopped and that’s when I heard inside my head, ”Orion came”. Turning back to the place where the energy was grounded, I saw something like a human figure walking away from us.”
There are several interpretations of this dream. Orion is Osiris in the Egyptian tradition, representing the first ray/aspect; he is husband to Isis that is connected to Sirius. The pentagram is the symbol of Venus and mind. Green is the colour of the third ray of active-intelligence which is connected to the so-called Third Cosmic Path (The Path for Training of Cosmic Logoi) – whose major star in Orion is Betelgeuse.4 A Sanskrit name for Betelgeuse is ārdrā, “green” or “the moist one”.
Blind Orion seeks the rising Sun. (Nicolas Poussin)
Osiris is our solar logos, in his role as intermediary to Orion. Osiris has several guises, at once our sun but also taking a Plutonic role as lord of the dead, the underworld and rebirth. Tradition states that he had green skin because he ruled the dead, who “lived” on in the underworld.
“When Osiris, “the defunct Sun,” is buried and enters into Amenti, the sacred crocodiles plunge into the abyss of primordial Waters—“the great Green One.”5
The further one delves into the Mysteries, the more is realised the inter-connectedness within the solar system, and the intelligences and great lives far beyond it. The constellation of Orion is speculated amongst students of the wisdom to be the solar plexus centre within a greater cosmic being known as the One About Whom Naught May Be Said (OAWNMBS). Hence, Orion’s “visit” in the dream may signal a cycle of increased interaction with our planet.
“The interest awakened in the public mind lately by the giant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion is due to the fact that at this particular time [written 1920’s] there has been an interplay of force between our tiny [solar] system and this giant one, and communication between the two informing Existences.”6
Centres within the OAWNMBS. (From, The Constellation Draco in World History)
Just as humans raise energies from the solar plexus to the heart in their evolutionary journey, so the Lives within this greater cosmic body interact similarly. As above, so below. Our not-fully realised or “unawakened” Solar Logos is regarded occultly as the heart centre within the OAWNMBS.
Hence, the close relation of our solar system to the constellations of Gemini, Orion and Canis Major (Sirius) – as found in the mythologies of Egypt and other ancient cultures, star alignments with pyramids and other sacred architecture. These stars are also prominent in our personal evolution on Earth, as one advances further along the Way, and becomes more sensitive to their frequencies:
“Influential and potent forces pouring in at this time from the great stars Betelgeuse and Sirius. To these two influences, the disciples of the world in the senior ranks of the New Group of World Servers definitely react, and they produce a stimulation of the heart centre (Betelgeuse) and the head centre (Sirius). The secondary effect of these energies is upon the mineral kingdom, particularly upon that peculiar product, gold, and that enigma, money.”7
Do you have a heart of gold?! The last few lines here are relevant due to the discussion of money later in this newsletter. These stars reach individuals and groups through the various zodiac signs because their potencies have to be stepped down. For example, a recent newsletter describes the seven zodiac signs through which the forces of Sirius pass. Furthermore,
“Stupendous suns” dwarf the speck of our sun in the lower left hand corner!
“… other streams of energy which definitely play upon and affect our planetary life, such as those coming from that great star, Betelgeuse, or from Antares and other stupendous suns and solar systems which are related to the constellations of the zodiac, and whose force reaches us through these constellations and not directly.”8
Orion is adjacent to the constellation Gemini and spans the sign Gemini, through both the energies of the second ray of Love-Wisdom pour, appropriate for the Gemini festival celebrating The Christ: “Upon the golden triangle, the cosmic Christ appeared; His head in Gemini.”9
Orion the Hunter’s bow points directly to Sirius, again highlighting the close relation of these two stars. (Sirius is regarded as the ajna centre in the OAWNMBS.) “Gemini—forms a point of entrance for cosmic energy from Sirius.”.10
Betelgeuse is at 29 degrees of Gemini in the tropical Western zodiac, hence its potent expression at this time. It also sits right next to the constellation of Gemini, regarded as a gateway for Sirian forces. Coincidentally, at the time of writing this piece, transiting Venus in Gemini was conjunct Betelgeuse, also the degree of the author’s Jupiter in Gemini. Jupiter is a second ray planet in Gemini, a sign that only transmits the second ray. Additionally, Venus is the esoteric ruler of Gemini and we are urged to pay close attention to Venus transits:
Orion the mighty hunter with out-stretched bow and a direct line from his belt to Sirius. Betelguese, Aldebaran and Rigel.
“Venusian forces of great potency are also playing upon our planet. In this connection, I would suggest that astrologers would be well advised to pay more attention to the activity and the influence of Venus. Much emphasis has been laid upon Saturn and Mars in the charts now considered. In the future, equal emphasis will have to be paid to the planet Venus, which in the Aquarian age will supersede Mars as a basic influence.”11
The reference here is to medieval astrology, where Mars and Saturn were once considered “malefics”. Venus is already regarded as “benefic” like Jupiter – and ever more so in the Aquarian Age where she will preside over expansive mental development and the Science of Relationships. Venus is the planet that blends love and mind.
“Students may be surprised to know that the source of the peculiar cosmic energy which is found streaming towards our system along this cosmic Path [third] is that of the sun Betelgeuse. This name is, however, a blind. The reason that certain facts connected with this sun have lately come more prominently before the public is in reality a subjective one. The science of the soul in its various aspects (mental, psychical, and spiritual) is making much headway now in the world, and is absorbing more and more the attention of thinkers.
Venus is the esoteric ruler of Gemini. (Jacopo Tintoretto: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, 1555.)
This is the result of certain waves of energy impinging upon our solar system and thus eventually finding their way to our planet. Betelgeuse from the occult standpoint is a system of the second order, just as our solar system is one of the fourth order. There is consequently a relation between these two numbers both in the system and the cosmos. This influence reaches our system via the sign Sagittarius.”12
These numbers 2 and 4 constitute the “second ray line” of ray expressions, 2, 4, 6. This solar system is developing Love-Wisdom (particularly Earth), hence again its connection to Betelgeuse/Orion, a constellation of the “second order” – far more advanced than our tiny sun-speck in the Milky Way galaxy!
Take note that Betelgeuse forces pass through Sagittarius, the polar opposite of Gemini. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, the ruler of the second ray of Love-Wisdom, the primary ray of healing and teaching; it is the Gemini-Sagittarius axis that is triggered at the full moon period, Sun in Gemini, Moon in Sagittarius. The opportunity for all conscious meditators will be to render receptive to the forces of Betelgeuse and Love-Wisdom that pour through Gemini.
Artist’s rendering showing Betelgeuse with a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface and a radiant plume of gas being ejected.
Astronomically, Betelgeuse is a red supergiant and the second brightest star in Orion, sitting on the right shoulder of the hunter. At the opposite end of Orion sits the star Rigel, whilst Orion’s belt straddles the middle with its three stars Mintaka, Alnitak and Alnilam – proposed by some to align with the three pyramids at Giza.
“Betelgeuse is one of the largest and most luminous stars visible to the naked eye. If Betelgeuse were at the center of the Solar System, its surface would extend past the asteroid belt, wholly engulfing the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and possibly Jupiter. Calculations of its mass range from slightly under ten to a little over twenty times that of the Sun.”13
The mystique of Betelgeuse has inspired writers and musicians through the ages:
“The star’s unusual name inspired the title of the 1988 film Beetlejuice; .. In August Derleth’s short story, set in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, Betelgeuse is the home of the “benign” Elder Gods; … The identity of the red star Borgil mentioned in Lord of the Rings was much debated; Aldebaran, Betelgeuse and the planet Mars were touted as candidates; … Astronomy writer Robert Burnham Jr. proposed the term padparadaschah which denotes a rare orange sapphire in India, for the star;
… In the poetic work Betelguese, a Trip Through Hell by Jean Louis De Esque, hell is on Betelgeuse because De Esque believed that it was “a celestial pariah, an outcast, the largest of all known comets or outlawed suns in the universe.”; … The Dave Matthews Band song “Black and Blue Bird” references to the star and Sirius. (See lyrics – “If I could fly at the speed of light, I could get to Betelgeuse in about six hundred years.”). Many other musicians have also referenced Sirius. Humbert Wolfe wrote a poem about Betelgeuse, which was set to music by Gustav Holst. (Here.)”14 Holst is of course the composer of The Planets.
A final passage about the mysterious Osiris connection to Orion, from Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine:
“Osiris is a great God, and at the same time a “prince on Earth,” who reappears in Thoth-Hermes … The esoteric doctrine explains it by saying that each of these (as many others) had first appeared on earth as one of the seven powers of the LOGOS, individualized as a God or “Angel” (messenger); then, mixed with matter, they had re-appeared in turn as great sages and instructors who “taught the Fifth Race,” after having instructed the two preceding races, had ruled during the Divine Dynasties, and had finally sacrificed themselves, to be reborn under various circumstances for the good of mankind, and for its salvation at certain critical periods; until in their last incarnations they had become truly only “the parts of a part” on earth, though de facto the One Supreme in Nature.”15
Uranus in Taurus: Revolution of the Monetary System
Taurus-Gemini in London-Britain
As an earth element, Taurus rules the earth’s resources, their right use or exploitation, their trade and transaction. Hence Taurus rules money and gold, that energy or prana that is used to exchange goods. Taurus rules all metals, particularly the “precious metals” gold and silver.
Hence, when Uranus the revolutionary enters Taurus and stays there until 2025, we can expect to see radical changes in how money is used, plus long overdue financial reforms globally. Taurus is a sign of bucolic bliss that can render it prone to inertia, stubborness and fixity – hence Uranus is about to give the big bovine a shake-up.
There has been for far too long, an insidious control of planetary monetary resources, based upon corporate networks and cartels that have had only selfishness, greed, dishonesty and deception at their heart. This must change if Humanity is to move forward, to shake itself free from shackles that have imprisoned and controlled for centuries. Now is the time to ring in the changes.
Taurus in its money guise is well represented by the bronze statue of an aggressive bull outside the New York Stock Exchange. The recent “Fearless Girl” statue facing down the bull, is a potent symbol of the deeply feminine nature of Taurus challenging the aggressive aspect of the masculine bull. The stock market is of course a hyper-aggressive, male-dominated culture.
That great disciple, Rachel Carson – author of several best selling books on the environment. Sun, Mercury and Pluto in Gemini with Virgo rising. More in the Virgo newsletter later this year.
The feminine Taurean values of caring for the environment, sustainable living, farming, permaculture, care of the oceans – must all strengthen if humanity is to survive. Natural resources have been raped, pillaged and burnt-out in endless wars and scheming for thousands of years – by the dominant power-hungry male culture. As we approach the androgynous age of Aquarius this imbalance of the sexes will find equilibrium, as is now beginning during this interim bridging cycle, where Libra is pronounced in the planetary horoscope.
The other “feminine” aspect of Taurus is the intuition or buddhi – as in Buddha, who incarnated, gained enlightenment and departed in the sign of Taurus. That buddhi must supercede mind is an imperative and natural evolution. The mind must be developed too, but its lower separative expression combined with selfish desire has been responsible for the quagmire into which humnaity has been dragged. One of the Buddha’s main teachings was about freeing oneself from the wheel of Samsara, by conquering desire – in all its guises.
The Role of London and Britain: The Effects of Uranus in Taurus
Britain Gemini soul, Taurus personality. Soul ray 2, personality ray 1.
London Leo soul, Libra personality. Soul ray 5, personality ray 7.
Returning to Taurus – London is the financial capital of the world and is a “nation within a nation”, hence it has a soul and personality zodiac rulers and rays. London’s personality is Libra, one of the main signs of money – as The Balance symbolises. Britain is a Taurus personality, hence these two Venus-ruled signs link the personalities of Britain and London, having a potent influence in the flow and control of money around the world.
Uranus Ingress into Taurus
London is speculated as the throat chakra of the five planetary centres, generically ruled by Saturn, also the ruler of the third ray of active intelligence. As the seat of the mental body, this throat centre represents the advanced mental development of the Fifth Rootrace.
The phallic forest of London’s financial district.
London is also a seventh ray personality, the ray known specifically for finance. Economics is ruled by the afore-mentioned third ray. The difference between Economics and Finance:
“Finance is a fund management science … The basic principle of finance is saving money and lending money … The science of finance deals with the interrelation of the concepts of time, risk and money. Economics is a social science … that studies the production, consumption and distribution of services or goods … how economies work and … interact.” 16
Uranus is a planet common to all these signs and rays:
- Uranus “falls” in Taurus, “producing … the sharp division between body and soul … to awaken and evoke the intuitive response of Taurus to an ever-increasing light.”
| - Uranus is the esoteric ruler of Libra, bringing Aries-Libra into an intense interplay, finding eventual balance, and an, “escape from opposing forces at the midway point between the source [Aries] and the goal.”
| - Uranus is the ruler of the seventh ray of Ceremonial Order, Magic or Organisation, the ray of finance, the organisation of money.
| - Uranus is the ruler of Aquarius, “the present Determiner of the future. That which is now initiated in Aries will become manifested in Aquarius.”
| - Uranus is the ruler of the sacral/sexual chakra, veiled by the Moon. Hence the fundamental issues of sex, money and survival needs.
Unfortunately the old stereotype still exists, perhaps today Mr Bull is wearing a business suit and is more refined in the art of bullshit: “Taurus governs the material outer form of the nation; it is this factor that has led her people to appear before the world under the symbol of John Bull, expressive of the British personality.” (The Destiny of the Nations, Alice A. Bailey. p.80.)
Therefore, Uranus will not only bring its transformative forces to Britain’s global influence in economics and finance, but profound changes to that nation’s somewhat recalcitrant and stubborn Taurus personality. This 7-year transit of Uranus in Taurus embraces the 2½-year passage of Saturn through its own sign of Capricorn, between now and 2020, profoundly affecting London as the throat centre, by shattering crystallisation which must always occur in this sign.
All other entities influenced by Taurus will be similarly affected, such as Rome, Moscow and China. (Astrologer Malvin Artley gives an excellent more in-depth commentary of the complexities of the world financial situation here.) Russia and China are major players who are trying to change the domination of the US$ as the fiat currency, hence this-so-far gradual development should see some major strides made in the next seven years.
Britain: Gemini Soul: Taurus Personality
In the linked article above, the author discusses the secrecy of the financial system in London, revealed more recently in a documentary, The Spider’s Web. This secrecy comes from the lower distortions of Britain’s Gemini soul force:
“As yet, from the higher angle, Gemini does not entirely control, for the soul of Britain is only now struggling for expression. [Written late 1940’s.] For long ages Taurus has led the way with his material aims, his acquisitive desires, his arrogant will and his blind moving forward towards the possession of that which has been desired. Pervasiveness and movement are two qualities with which Gemini and Taurus have dowered the race.”17
Secrecy breeds distrust, another trait of Gemini. The following quote has often been used in these missives, because it appears that since these passages were written over 70 years ago, the Taurus personality of Britain still controls to a large extent, at least on the money theme:
The PM’s Machiavellian mentor, Sir Humphrey Appleby, in the brilliant British comedy, “Yes Prime Minister”.
“It is the Gemini influence which has produced — viewing the work of the nation from the personality or lower angle — the secret and oft devious diplomacy and subtlety which has in the past distinguished Great Britain’s political activity. Gemini people are often distrusted, and the Gemini effect along this line makes of Great Britain no exception.”18
This dishonesty theme is later explored (Liar Liar) in relation to the Gemini personality of the USA, which is linked to Britain’s Gemini soul. The combination of lower Gemini with Taurus, the two ruling signs of Britain, have complicated and compounded its role as a leading nation of the Fifth Rootrace, as well as the expression of its throat centre; especially given the fact that London is a fifth ray soul, having correspondence to the mind and the Fifth Rootrace.
If the throat centre is the expression for the mental body of the Rootrace, then the blueprint of inherent dishonesty and corruption in London’s financial system, is easily transmitted and held in abeyance around the planet. Hence the change in world finance must begin in London.
Global connections by linking technologies reflect the planetary etheric web.
Uranus in Taurus for the next seven years has the potential to radically transform the financial system; for a re-evaluation to take place of what we truly value materially or spiritually. These changes are already underway as Blockchain technology evolves and digital banks emerge with names like Revolut (Uranus/revolution). The experiments in many countries of paying everyone a basic monthly income is also part of this, but more related to economics than finance.
“Taurus relates to the world through what has substance, however the transcendent understanding of substance and wealth as a collective value leads to the release of the need to identify with one’s personal property. This doesn’t mean that personal property is “bad,” or should be shunned, it simply means that one feels the value of managing their resources for a larger purpose and greater good. This is what we mean by stewardship.”19
Stewardship of the Earth’s resources will eventually be in the hands of the United Nations, when it has become a more matured and evolved entity:
“The new world order [a phrase hijacked by politicians and conspiracy theorists alike!], will recognise that the produce of the world, the natural resources of the planet and its riches, belong to no one nation but should be shared by all. There will be no nations under the category “haves” and others under the opposite category.
A fair and properly organised distribution of the wheat, the oil and the mineral wealth of the world will be developed, based upon the needs of each nation, upon its own internal resources and the requirements of its people. All this will be worked out in relation to the whole.”20
Has Humanity arrived at this visionary point of unfoldment yet? It is easy to see that there is a very long way to go, given the striking imbalance between the 99% and the 1%, the starving and displaced billions in undeveloped nations. Yet it is gradually changing and statistics today are much better than 20 years ago. The following passage was written post WWII, but has not changed substantially:
“Money—as with all else in human living—has been tainted by selfishness and grabbed for selfish individual or national ends. Of this, the world war (1914-1945) is the proof, for although there was much talk of “saving the world for democracy” and “fighting a war to end war,” the main motive was self-protection and self-preservation, the hope of gain, the satisfaction of ancient hatreds, and the regaining of territory.
The two years which have elapsed since the war have proved this to be so. The United Nations is occupied with rapacious demands from all sides, with the angling of the nations for place and power, and for the possession of the natural resources of the Earth—coal, oil, etc., and also with the underground activities of the great Powers and of the capitalists which they all create.”21
The BBC’s recent shameful and unapologetic piece of anti-Corbyn propaganda.
Britain has had the chance to lead the world upon a socialist middle way between capitalism and communism. That is why the work of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is so important today. (See the author’s recent analysis of Corbyn’s chart here.)
“The hope of Great Britain lies in her socialistic tendencies which enable her to take the “middle path” between the communism of Russia and the capitalism of the United States. It is the smug greed of the nations which escaped the war which is hindering progress.”22
Should Corbyn ever come to power, he stands in an unique position to work for Britain – with four planets in Gemini (Sun, Venus, Mercury, Uranus), and two planets in Taurus (Mars, Moon)! He has long pledged to take on the banks and institute better social programs but is up against the prevailing juggernaut of The System.
The “nations which escaped the war” may be a reference to places like Switzerland, a major player in world finance and also the repository of the notorious “Swiss bank account”, playing their part in the web of international banking deception. (Ironically, Switzerland is also home to Geneva, speculated as the heart chakra of the Fifth Rootrace.) In a recent article, Switzerland – A Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance to spreading Positive Banking News to the World:
“Too-big-to-fail banks have become also too big to control, and of course they do not want to be controlled. They have the (political) power to shed off any control. They want to continue creating debt, lending money not for economic development, but for profit of their shareholders. Banking for development has stopped a long time ago … by and large, in the West it’s corporate banking for profit. And thanks to the public’s ignorance and disinterest, deregulation took place behind our backs.
Did you know for example, that to become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a nation has to deregulate its banks – to put them on a platter at disposal of the globalized banking sharks?” (http://thesaker.is/switzerland-a-once-in-a-lifetime-chance-to-spreading-positive-banking-news-to-the-world/)
New World Trade Centre, NYC.
The great lie of 9/11 still persists today for a majority of the US population.
It is quite evident that the Western nations have been dragging their feet in terms of greater human equality and right management of planetary resources. Nations have enslaved their own people and governments are dictated to by corporations and banks. Uranus passing through Taurus will be a great opportunity to turn that around, especially when we reflect upon the fact that Uranus has not been in this sign since 1935-42, as discussed in the recent Taurus newsletter.
“The remainder of this century [20th] must be dedicated to rebuilding the shrine of man’s living, to reconstructing the form of humanity’s life, to reconstituting the new civilisation upon the foundations of the old, and to the reorganising of the structures of world thought, world politics, plus the redistribution of the world’s resources in conformity to divine purpose. Then and only then will it be possible to carry the revelation further.”23
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Korean Détente and Kim Yong Un
The news of North Korea halting its nuclear weapons program was a big turn around from the war of words in recent months, especially as the news came on the eve of the Wesak Festival; it is reflected in NK’s horoscope by transiting Jupiter making its second of three passes over Chiron in Scorpio (power), in the ninth house of foreign affairs, completed by mid-September this year. The Trump-Kim talks will be on June 12 in Singapore. Jupiter is the soul ruler of NK’s Aquarian ascendant, which is about co-operation and cultivating global community.
North Korea
North Korea transits
Then, in late October into November 2018, Jupiter passes over NK’s progressed sun in Scorpio before culminating on the midheaven/moon in Sagittarius – the “exagittarius” factor in NK’s propaganda. Hence, much of today’s stated intentions will be tested between now and then. Even at the time of this writing, the situation is a little shaky due to the threatening comments of John Bolton and Donald Trump suggesting “nuclear talks with North Korea could emulate the 2003 negotiations with Libya.” This evoked for North Korea, images of Gaddafi being brutally murdered on camera, an order that came directly from the US State Department and/or NATO powers.
This is also an opportunity to test Kim Yong Un’s birth chart of uncertain date, 1983 or 1984? (The author personally favours 1984, as discussed in an analysis of North Korea in a 2017 newsletter.)
Kim Yong Un
Uranus, the ruler of NK’s Aquarian ascendant, is the main trigger it seems in KYU’s chart, with its opposition to Mars in Libra. The god of war in the sign of peace is prominent in the charts of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. KYU may be nowhere near their stature, but Uranus as Libra’s esoteric ruler, opposing Mars from the sign Aries, creates a mutual reception that is promising – détente. The photo of the two Korean leaders holding hands at the north-south border is a Libran and Gemini symbol.
Transiting Uranus makes two more passes to KYU’s Mars between now and February 2019, which roughly corresponds to the time frame of transits in NK’s chart. Yet during this period, transiting Uranus will oppose KYU’s Pluto in early Scorpio that is conjunct his Mars in Libra. Both Uranus and Pluto are associated with nuclear power (uranium and plutonium), hence the old saying, “its not over till its over”. How much KYU will respond to this potentially unstable transit by assuming a ruthless power posture, remains to be seen.
Kim Yong Un transits. Note that his progressed Sun in Aquarius is in close harmonious trine to Donald Trump’s sun in Gemini, a positive aspect for their imminent meeting.
KYU is a Capricorn sun, another sign of power and transiting Pluto has been activating his Sun for the past few years, reflected by his sabre rattling with the USA. Now transiting Saturn in its own sign is approaching his sun, contributing a more restrained outlook, coming into more exact focus for most of 2019.
However during that time, transiting Jupiter will have triggered KYU’s entire stellium of planets in Sagittarius, which is the “instability factor” in his and NK’s horoscopes, noted in the 2017 newsletter. The most unpredictable time will be in the last week of December 2018, when transiting Jupiter conjoins KYU’s Uranus in Sagittarius, triggering the square to moon in Pisces – whose degree is uncertain due to an unknown time of birth.
If the 1983 chart is the correct one, Pluto occupies the same place as Mars in Libra in the 1984 chart, whilst Saturn is in Scorpio, close to 1984 Pluto. So the long term Uranus transit will activate both charts.
Happy Birthday Not: Israel Apartheid State
In a Facebook post during May, the author speculated on a difficult aspect of Uranus square Mars in the chart of New York City. May 13 saw an unique conjunction of Mercury and Uranus in the last degree of Aries with the moon in late Aries joining those two planets. All three of them were square Mars in late Capricorn, signalling a high potential for volatility anywhere in the world. Nothing came to pass in NYC (home to the United Nations), but it did in Israel.
This Uranus-Mars pattern preceded by less than two days Israel’s birthday of May 15, and is the prevailing square pattern in the Uranus ingress chart for the next seven years. Even though the square pattern remains between Mars and Uranus, it moved from Aries to Taurus in that two day period May 13-15. Hence, there will be profound ramifications for Israel over the next seven years.
Uranus Ingress into Taurus
Israel: The author prefers this chart because it is when the nation of Israel became a legal entity.
May 15 was Israel’s 70th solar return from its founding in 1948 – its birthday coincided with the new moon and the imminent ingress of Uranus into Taurus. Israel celebrated its USA-backed shift of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a deliberate and unnecessary act that was opposed by many in the international community.
Celebrations in Jerusalem whilst a massacre was going on.
The USA and Israel knew the ramifications of such a move, but did it anyway; it was a show of arrogance and disregard for the Arab world; salt was further rubbed into the wound by the massacre of 41 Palestinians on one day; there were more over the succeeding days totalling over 60, most of whom were unarmed and no real threat to Israel’s security.
“The extreme right in Israel, and most of the present government ministers, nurture the idea that Israel can, through its vastly superior military force, end the national aspirations of the Palestinians.”
It seems that Israel regards Palestinians as nothing more than animals that can be used for target practice. Indeed, there have been past comments by Israeli leaders to that effect. So while the world looks on, where is the OUTRAGE? At least now the United Nations has ordered an investigation, but will it amount to anything?
The Mercury-Uranus conjunction in late Aries square to Mars in late Capricorn had a powerful effect upon the charts of Netanyahu and Israel – just two days before the Uranus ingress into Taurus, on the Taurus new moon that fell directly on Israel’s Taurus sun. In Netanyahu’s chart, the square pattern triggered the default of his Sun in Libra square Jupiter in Capricorn – the use of excessive force.
“Jupiter … falls in this sign …in its lowest aspect gives the fulfilment of desire and satisfied demand, whilst in its highest Jupiter is the outgoing expression of love, which attracts magnetically to itself that which is desired—this time the good of the whole.”24
In his zeal to see Israel fully repatriated to its ancient homeland, Netanyahu’s actions come the closest to a modern equivalent of Hitler; he is regarded by many observers as a psychopathic liar, and who has the USA eating out of his hand. (Witness the puppet master in action, his 31 standing ovations in the US Congress three years ago.) Off course, he feels vindicated in fighting for a “noble cause” due to his extreme ideology, an extreme group ideology. His actions are in the name of the fanatical creed of right wing Zionism that has created increased anti-Semiticism against innocent Jews all over the world. But that is what Zionists want, it furthers their political cause.
Binyamin Netanyahu: Note Sun in Libra square to Jupiter in Capricorn.
Netanyahu transits: An amazing line-up of Sun, SA Pluto, SP Ascendant, transiting Mars and Uranus.
Interestingly, Netanyahu’s bellicose Mars in Leo is at the same degree as Trump’s Mars – also not far from Israel’s Mars in late Leo. In the transits chart above, Netanyahu has a powerful activation of his aforementioned Sun square Jupiter with,
1. Solar arc (SA) Pluto approaching a ruthless conjunction to his sun in the next few months.
2. Transiting Mars in Capricorn conjunct his secondary progressed (SP) ascendant, T-square to his Sun in Libra and transiting Uranus in Aries.
Given that this transit occurred on the Uranus ingress into Taurus, this pattern willl be activated for some time. It does have the potential to stimulate his better Libran nature and create a “Road to Damascus” moment; miracles can happen but no one is holding their breath either! Uranus, the esoteric ruler of his Libran Sun, will be in orb of influence until January 2019 – it does have the potential of striking a balance and creating a fairer outlook.
The lower aspect of Libra however, is appeasing all the political factions within his Likud government – just to stay in power, which has been the modus operandi thus far. Libra is also known for its third ray manipulation, not unlike third zodiac sign Gemini! The Uranus opposition to Netanyahu’s Sun in Libra has the potential of creating radical revolution for good – or erratic behaviour for ill.
In Israel’s chart, transiting Mars, Mercury-Uranus created a T-square with Israel’s progressed Sun that has just moved into Leo. Similarly, the new moon in Taurus triggered Israel’s sun in Taurus square Saturn/Mars in Leo, resulting in a ruthless outcome for Palestinian protestors. As commented upon many times in the past, the Moon, Pluto, Saturn and Mars in Leo constitute Israel’s biggest challenge – the illusion that it had a right to reclaim this land after thousands of years, the lion of Judea myth etc. (See 35 commentaries here on Netanyahu, Zionism and Israel.)
Israel’s transits on the Taurus new moon highlighting two extraordinary T-squares.
Israel’s transits on the Taurus new moon/Uranus ingress brought two T-squares into powerful focus:
1. The new moon fell upon Israel’s Sun in Taurus, SP ascendant in Taurus, opposing Chiron and transiting Jupiter in Scorpio – whilst T-squaring the problematic Mars in Leo.
2. The Uranus ingress into Taurus which occurred on the same day, was at the point of another T-square to transiting Mars in Capricorn opposite SP Sun in Leo.
Like T-squares in any entity’s horoscope, they are high points of tension that have the capacity for a breakthrough for the better; or, that the point of least resistance is chosen and the 
“might is right” approach prevails. Its entirely up to Israel to make this choice of course but it will be pressured by various nations.
The celebration of the US embassy relcoated to Jerusalem amidst Palestinian slaughter was despicable; it represents the unholy marriage between Israel and the USA, courtesy of Trump family enablers – Kushner, Ivanka etc. – while snipers were picking off unarmed Palestinian protesters. Washington made glowing compliments to Israel at this time and did not mention anything about the massacre, except that Israel’s problems can only be resolved “from within”.
This is the stuff of gothic horror and make no mistake, a “hard rain is gonna fall”, i.e karma will exact a heavy price on both the USA and Israel. Perhaps this will happen sooner than later (it is well overdue anyway), as discussed in relation to the USA in the following section.
Israel solar return 2018.
The solar return chart is cast every year when the Sun returns to its exact position in the natal chart. For Israel, this occurred the day before its birthday, 14 hours before the new moon/Uranus ingress etc. Hence the patterns here are similar to those examined above. But the key with this chart is the many placements in Capricorn. The ascendant is Capricorn – and Pluto, Mars (exalted) and Saturn (ruler) are all placed in this sign.
The Dead Sea
Capricorn is the sign of the Jewish people and many Jews around the world often proclaim, “Israel, not in our name … we do not share your Zionist political views or actions against the Palestinian people.” Yet they are often the victims of anti-Semiticism generated from Israel’s uncompassionate and cruel actions.
Hence, this solar return represents a turbulent period for Israel, where it may be bought to account for its actions (karma) by bodies such as the United Nations or Amnesty International. It may also trigger much debate and action within the global Jewish community.
“When humanity has solved the Jewish problem (with the understanding cooperation of the Jew) and overcome ancient antipathies and hatreds, it will do so by fusing the problem in one vast humanitarian situation. When that happens, the problem will be rapidly solved and one of the major difficulties will disappear off the face of the earth. Racial fusion will then be possible. Our earth humanity and the group of human beings who are far more ancient in their origin than we are, will form one humanity and then there will be peace on earth.”25
Trump is at the apex of a vast pyramid of liars. He is the sum product of a culture of lying where people can no longer distinguish truth from lies in their own behaviour.
Liar Liar: USA’s Gemini Truth Crisis
Recent articles in the news point to a “truth crisis” in the USA. One article was about the former NYC mayor, Michael Bloomberg calls ‘epidemic of dishonesty’ bigger threat than terrorism; the other a few days later was about recently “your fired” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Rex Tillerson warns of ‘integrity and ethics crisis’ – but doesn’t name Trump. Said Bloomberg,
Bloomberg: Sun, Moon, Venus and Mercury in Aquarius.
“How did we go from a president who could not tell a lie to politicians who cannot tell the truth?” Bloomberg asked. He blamed “extreme partisanship” for an unprecedented tolerance of dishonesty in US politics and said people were now committed more to their political tribes than the truth, suggesting that the nation is more divided than any time since the civil war.” “There is now more tolerance for dishonesty in politics than I have seen in my lifetime,” Bloomberg said. “The only thing more dangerous than dishonest politicians who have no respect for the law is a chorus of enablers who defend their every lie.” 26
Likewise, Tillerson made similar remarks,
“If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom,” Tillerson said.
Rex Tillerson (time unknown), Aries Sun, Mercury and Jupiter. Mars ruler in Scorpio which may even be his rising sign judging by those powerful eyebrows.
“A responsibility of every American citizen to each other is to preserve and protect our freedom by recognizing what truth is and is not, what a fact is and is not, and to begin by holding ourselves accountable to truthfulness and demand our pursuit of America’s future be fact-based, not based on wishful thinking, not hoped-for outcomes made in shallow promises, but with a clear-eyed view of the facts as they are and guided by the truth that will set us free to seek solutions to our most daunting challenges.”27
Of course politicians have been lying for centuries, it is almost expected! But Jupiter’s current “truth serum” transit through Scorpio has brought the matter to a whole new level. This is where USA’s Gemini personality must again be scrutinised, commented upon recently in an essay entitled USA’s Gemini Personality Maturation. As discussed in the earlier section on Britain,
“It is the Gemini influence which has produced — viewing the work of the nation from the personality or lower angle — the secret and oft devious diplomacy and subtlety which has in the past distinguished Great Britain’s political activity. Gemini people are often distrusted, and the Gemini effect along this line makes of Great Britain no exception.”28
In Britain’s case it is a matter of distorted soul force, in the USA it goes with the territory of personality expression. The link between Britain’s Gemini soul and USA’s Gemini personality is that “special relationship” sound bite we hear so often. Unfortunately, much of that relationship fosters secrecy, deception, economic advantage or NATO themes of European dominance.
USA’s Gemini personality makes Americans outgoing to the rest of the world – they are mostly open and friendly, ready to connect easily. Gemini is the sign of the naïve child, curious and innocently endearing – a quality that is one face of The Twins, whilst another dark side of Gemini is “the cattle thief” – deceptive, duplicitous and manipulative. Jupiter is the ruler of the second ray of Love-Wisdom, which is the soul ray of both Britain and the USA. The second ray is the only ray to pass through Gemini, imparting its basically loving disposition. Jupiter is th ruler of the second ray and ironically stands for truth.
Gemini brothers.
USA’s Gemini personality has a large influence through its gargantuan media organisations that dominate the world. Many or perhaps most of these media corporations “shape the news” with varying degrees of propaganda, dictating what to think to an undiscriminating and bamboozled public; this may be changing however, in light of the recent fake news crisis. Gemini is probably the most undiscriminating sign of the zodiac, whilst Virgo is the most discriminating.
USA’s horoscope challenge has Mars in Gemini square to Neptune in Virgo. The square pattern is challenging in itself, but the expression of Neptune in its lower octave creates more glamour and illusion. Mars and Neptune are the co-rulers of the solar plexus centre and reveal USA’s challenges in emotional integration.
Americans (and the world by association), have been duped by the black magic of advertising for decades. When we witness some of the advertisements of the 1950’s such as “Doctors smoke and recommend Camel cigarettes”, or “DDT protects your children” – we can scarcely believe that this occurred, people were conned by the glamour of “the authority of science” which still pervades today.
As discussed in the earlier link on USA’s Personality Maturation, this nation as a whole is only just now entering its phase of mental body integration within its Gemini personality; it is moving from adolescent to adulthood – that will see greater maturity by 2040, not too far away. So this process is taking place, but is being held back by the “dumbing down” of the nation through lack of education intiatives and constant digital distraction.
The Saturn return of 2016 marked the beginning of a greater mental maturity and will be consolidated upon in the next few years as Saturn travels through Capricorn; it will make hard aspects to the USA’s Cancer sun square Saturn in Libra, which may bring on some difficult karma for the nation, discussed earlier in relation to Israel.
Latest school massacre in Santa Fe, Texas.
The increasing potency of Saturn in USA’s personality will give it a greater potential to implement practical ideas. For instance, the inability to change gun laws is down to the abstract Gemini mantra, “our thoughts and prayers are with the victims” – of one or other lastest school massacres. But it is also down to the Gemini personality predominance of, “What a tangled web we weave when once we practice to deceive.” The representatives of the nation in Congress, who are mostly paid off by various monied interests, such as the NRA (Previous analyses here.), Big Pharma, Zionist groups like AIPAC etc. etc.
And so the secret backroom deals, under the table pay-offs all continue, compounded by keeping the lies alive through Gemini, the “artful dodger” – the pickpocket from the Dickens novel Oliver Twist, known for his skill and cunning. The elected representatives literally pickpocket the nation by voting according to the vested interests of their hosts/parasites.
Donald Trump, USA’s shadow incarnate, is also a Gemini personality – the greatest liar of his time, who continually brands others as liars! His Sun is almost the same degree as USA’s Mars in Gemini, the most troublesome unintegrated factor in the 1776 horoscope; a double act, the President and his nation.
Hence, most politicians have been compromised by this moral bankruptcy which has undermined the soul development of the USA. It has occurred in many other nations too of course, but the USA has reached a critical stage of being “hollowed out” by the greed opportunists, and greater appetite for further entitlement.
Sunrise at the Statue of Liberty.
Democracy in the USA has been severely compromised, almost lost and currently approaching its darkest hour, its point of deepest corruption in matter; it will create a crisis that will determine a choice and a resolve to move in a new direction. This choice may come soon when transiting Saturn opposes the US sun in Cancer, square Saturn in Libra pattern from early January 2019 to mid October 2019.
In the exact same time-span as the transit of Saturn, transiting Jupiter in Sagittarius in its own sign of “the truth”, opposing Trump’s sun/USA’s Mars in Gemini. These will be fruitful months to observe and to subjectively “hold the line” for USA’s resurrection and reorientation.
Phillip Lindsay © 2018.
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