Everyone recognizes the “imposter syndrome” in themselves, but they’re hoping no one else can see it.
This includes politicians of all stripes. It’s the “Emperor’s New Clothes” all over again.
Oh, when will we ever learn? Oh, when will we ever learn?
Pete Seeger, Joe Hickerson, Bert Paige “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
Supposedly, Putin did not want Navalny to die, especially in prison, because that would make a martyr out of him and would cause negativity for Putin’s re-election prospects. So, that begs the question, who (or what) killed Navalny and, of course, why? Is something, someone, out to defeat Putin?
But, juxtaposed with this news is a video by Justin Sledge’s Esoterica channel:
That’s a clue to look at one of the cofounders of the Knights Templar.
Most non-Catholics would not know who Saint Bernard is. But his death day gives us an opportunity to look at his ‘exit’ point, astrologically.
Is there anything significant here? Other than a conjunction between the Moon and Saturn, I’d say not. But something has set this link up, so I’m going to presume that the Universe wants me to compare Navalny’s birth chart with Bernard’s death chart.
You’ve probably noticed my focus on some placements of Mars to be a sign of a “Peaceful Warrior”. Here, in Bernard’s death chart, Mars is at 11° Taurus, and Navalny’s South Node is at the same place.
There are two other exact conjunctions: Bernard’s ‘fatal’ Mercury is within 7′ of Navalny’s Ascendant and Bernard’s ‘final’ Part of Fortune is within 30′ of Navalny’s Uranus. But are they enough to confirm a karmic connection between them? I think so.
“All you need is love, love, love is all you need.” (The Beatles)
Imagine being born with a degenerative spinal disease. Imagine wanting to play baseball in the major leagues. Imagine having a father whose version of God’s will says that you have to become a preacher like him. Imagine trying to balance all these things at the same time. Imagine that it’s a true story.
You’d think as a Canadian I would have heard about this young man, since he was signed to the Montreal Expos farm system, but I hadn’t. That’s what made this film a joy to watch. (Besides, I know what it’s like to be a preacher’s kid.)
Now, let’s look at his birth chart, rectified to demonstrate the dynamics of a Saturn/Ascendant conjunction.
Normally, Saturn represents (in my humble opinion) the ‘Father’ in a birth chart. But sometimes it can represent an obstacle, a disability that has to be overcome. Then the father figure reverts to the Sun, as it does in this instance. So, an inconjunct between the Sun and Mars takes on the dynamic of Rickey’s dilemma: God’s Will or his own.
You have a rather strong will, which may be difficult to control. This is because your way of doing something tends to interfere with what you want to gain by doing it. Your actions in some situations may surprise people by contradicting what they have learned about you as a person. Inside of yourself, you may even begin to feel that you can’t approve of the way you act, or you may feel that you can’t deal comfortably with the results of your actions. In other words, you get yourself into real jams.
If you can learn to handle this problem, you can gain quite a bit of power over your life, because you are able to attack problems and situations in two rather different ways. When one approach cannot solve it, the other may be able to. Any connection between the Sun and Mars helps you stand up and assert yourself. You can fight successfully, but only if you learn to control your energies.
Following his retirement from baseball, Rickey Hill didn’t want to abandon the sport completely. As mentioned before the 2023 film’s end credits, Hill now coaches Little League Baseball in Fort Worth, Texas. But he also followed in his father’s footsteps and dedicated his life to his faith and preaching about his obstacles and triumphs. He wanted to share his story, and Hill was finally able to when it was adapted for the big screen in The Hill.
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Even at the time, there were efforts to hide his identity, so that he could lead a ‘normal’ life. But after his death in 2020, the truth came out. Now I have recreated his birth chart with a randomized timing.
This is an instance of getting a Cosmic hint to explain what is upcoming on early Saturday morning: an obsessive conjunction between Venus and Pluto, which, in his case, has the South Node sandwiched between them. My first thought was, this is connected to a past life*, but which one? As randomized charts can be tricky, I’m always pleasantly surprised when they turn out all right: (such as Neptune on the horizon.)
There are three inconjuncts, but only one of them can be completely relied upon.
This aspect indicates that you have a positive, optimistic outlook on life, and you enjoy socializing with good friends. However, there are some dangers with this aspect. First, it can be a sign that you are self-indulgent and possibly even selfish, although this is not likely to happen if you have a good, strong relationship with your mother. You have a great need to be cared for and supported, to be accepted for what you are with no strings attached. If this need is fulfilled, the positive side of this aspect will flourish. But if your mother does not support your needs fully, you will feel insecure and will look elsewhere for support and fulfillment. In this case your concern will be totally for yourself with little thought for other people’s needs.
This can be a difficult aspect because it signifies a conflict between your sense of responsibility and your desire to fulfill your own needs and do what you want. This leads to a struggle within you that may keep you from acting decisively. Instead of deciding what you will do, you feel caught between these two forces, wondering whether you have the right to do what you want. You may feel that others are trying to frustrate you, but it is only your own indecisiveness that is causing the trouble. Sometimes this conflict makes you very irritable and resentful about nothing in particular. Then, when someone happens to act in a way that is obviously annoying, you focus all your built-up anger on that person.
This aspect can mean that you have mixed feelings toward adults and persons in authority over you. Although you know that they have your best interests at heart and that they want you to succeed at your own objectives, it often seems as if these demands are keeping you from doing what you want. When you want to go off and have fun, for example, you are told to finish your work first. At times you want to break free of this restricting influence and go off by yourself.
So, not a Mount Rainier boy, after all.
Roland was born into a German Lutheran family in 1935. During the 1940s the family lived in Cottage City, Maryland. According to Allen, Roland was an only child and depended upon adults in his household for playmates, primarily his Aunt Harriet. His aunt, who was a spiritualist, introduced Roland to the ouija board when he expressed interest in it.
According to Thomas B. Allen, after Aunt Harriet’s death the family experienced strange noises, furniture moving of its own accord and ordinary objects such as vases flying or levitating when the boy was nearby.
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Okay. For those of you who don’t know about ouija boards, experimentation with them can open some people up to possession by discarnate beings. That’s what may have happened to Ronald. His aunt may have had a further hand in it, after her death. She could have prompted some paranormal experiences in order for his parents to seek help from Roman Catholic priests. We may now never know for sure.
This is where things get weird. When writing about William Marshal, earlier this week, I pondered on the birth and death charts of this individual. No matter who I linked him with in the present time, I couldn’t get a match. So, yesterday, after writing the first half of this post, I had a wee nap. Not 10 minutes into the nap, I got the suggestion to look at the Albigensian Crusade, and, of course, Philip II.
Ronald’s Moon is conjunct Philip II’s natal Pluto. Ha! And Ronald’s Venus/Pluto/South Node is conjunct Philip II’s ‘fatal’ Sun/Mercury/Midheaven. Ronald’s Jupiter is conjunct Philip II’s natal Part of Fortune, while Ronald’s Part of Fortune is conjunct Philip II’s natal Mercury. There are enough connections to prove karmic links, in my opinion.
This looks like a karmic debt to the Cathars for releasing a crusade against them. Well, I never…
What profiteth a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his soul? (Mark 8:36)
This recent abdominal surgery suggests that Kate has (or had) a gut issue. Literally, she is trying to hold her life together in the face of becoming the William’s Queen too soon. Is it an ulcer? Was she bulimic? Did she have a hysterectomy? No one who knows is telling us. So, I thought I’d look at her chart for insight.
Kate’s winning smile belies a nervous disposition. Who knows what goes on behind closed palace doors? But looking at her birth chart, the Sun/Moon opposition tells part of the story. She’s in the position of Princess of Wales because her mother wished it, even though her Capricorn Sun would have resisted the idea strongly. Perhaps she’s been a royal in a previous life (Sun/South Node) and didn’t want to go through that again. Perhaps the two inconjuncts will help us understand what’s going on, behind the scenes.
Your relationships with other people can be very intense. While you are young, they may be quite difficult, because you feel that others will accept you only if you deny yourself in some way. Or you may constantly feel you should put off doing what you want in order to do what you have to do. Usually your ideas about what you have to do come from the people around you. Also, contacts with other people will frequently force you to make serious, major psychological changes. Difficulties in your relationships with friends and family are signs of profound internal changes.
If your movements are restricted and you have few opportunities to experience yourself directly, you will become more resentful of authority and finally disregard whatever you are told, regardless of merit. Later in life this attitude could make it extremely hard for you to hold down a job, because you will respond to bosses in the same way that you respond now to your parents and other grown-ups.
Her ‘feud’ with Meghan Markle is a case in point. It has soured William’s relationship with Harry, and the result is a split in the British Royal Family. We’ve seen this before in the House of Windsor. Isn’t it funny how ‘things’ come ’round again?
‘Nuff said.
Hot on the heals of Mars and Pluto conjunct in Aquarius, today, on Valentine’s Day, comes another exact conjunction between Venus and Pluto. This one matters because we live in a binary world…
I chose my birth time of 3:49 am, to see what aspects would appear. Only Uranus is inconjunct with the Midheaven, which is significant because Uranus is the modern ruler of Aquarius.
You need to express your thoughts and feelings, but you often upset the people around you with your words. The underlying principle of this aspect is the need to balance your individual self-expression and manner of communicating with your need to learn and grow under the guidance of older people.
Certainly you will discover your own routes to what you want in life. Now you need to be given the confidence and encouragement to look for these routes on your own with total freedom.
This time I have not compared my birth chart with this event. There are a couple of reasons for that: in the first place, I have written about Venus and Mars before, especially when they are conjunct. This time Pluto is in the mix and that makes it more concerning. As an Aquarian, I have very strong emotions and the love/hate dynamic can sometimes pull me off course.
Finding a balance between these energies is difficult, even at the best of times.
Does that make sense?
(This comes today after experiencing a higher than normal blood sugar level this morning, while not having done anything differently last night. I wonder if the Mars/Pluto conjunction affected me personally…)
I found the following passages in the mid-1990’s, in this book. I thought enough of them to type them out for memory’s sake. Evidently, A.E.I. Falconar wrote about Sufi literature.
When the human voyager has freed himself from his fears and accomplished all his physiological needs, it is as if he has climbed out of a deep pit and reached the top of a high hill from where he sees a vast land stretching in every direction. He is like a poor man lifted into a limitless inheritance. In this transcendent land are all manner of beauties, poetry and art and mysticism, and beyond are ideas and places of the brain that have not yet been explored or developed…
When I started on my mental journey, the way seemed to be dark and impossible, yet I slowly found my way; and so can everyone else. I see the path to the peak experience as passing through the poetic, the emotional and the mystical regions. For the person who appreciates the beauty of poetry, the path though ecstasy and the peak experience is easy to see and it leads directly to the highest mysticism, ending in release and beyond. This is the way I know, and it is the only way I can write about but there are a hundred other ways to release and a hundred other ways for every intellect…
In meditation it is possible to dive deeper and deeper into the mind to a place where there is no disturbance and there is absolute solitude. It is at this point in the profound stillness that the sound of the mind can be heard. It is like the sea breaking on a far off reef, and it lulls the being into extreme calm. Like the sea it is a music primeval and here is no storm, only the silken waves soughing. When I listen to the sound of this sea, I sense that I am a voyager and this sound is a wind in the sails of a ship. But this sound is not of this world for other sounds are heard distinctly and cause this sound to die, though it returns with the silence. Sometimes I think it as a transcendent sound which speaks of unknown powers, of cosmic storms and sun winds sighing in the brain. This is no earthly voyage, and I see visions of ships that sail on no earthly sea. Our ships sail on upon a silent sea; no wind, there is no sound, but we move on.
Who knew?
As you may remember, I’ve been married three times. The first time was 54 years ago, tomorrow. The last time was 14 years ago, in May. The second marriage was the longest of the three, so far.
Individually, I have looked at these three weddings before, but I got the impulse yesterday to combine the three into a composite chart with my own chart, to see how they line up. There are echoes everywhere. For example, my Part of Fortune (@ 13° Virgo 33′) seems to have been a major contributor to my emotional happiness. The 1st’s South Node is within 1° of it, as is the 3rd’s Ascendant. But the 2nd’s Neptune is conjunct my natal Ascendant. It was during that 18 year marriage that my quest for spiritual knowledge was triggered, starting with my past life regression, which uncovered Pierre Radisson and the Roman Governor of Judea which would eventually reveal himself as Tiberius Julius Alexander. The soldier wounded on a World War battlefield came later, and might have been Ramsay.
All I know is that I wouldn’t have even thought to become a Karmic Astrologer except for my three marriages. And I wouldn’t have had my children, either, without them. So, hopefully, something good…
Let’s call it the luck of the Irish.
It’s one of those slips of the tongue (Freudian?) that comes about when you’re thinking one thing, but another thing comes out. I was writing a comment on Saturn Season Astrology‘s YouTube video yesterday, in reference to Mars and Pluto being conjunct this Wednesday at 0° Aquarius, and instead of “Rebel Yell” I wrote ‘Good day for a White Wedding.’ What!?
Like last week’s political assassination of Joe Biden, this chart has all the planets in one hemisphere of the configuration. This time, they’re in the personal half. Interestingly, 30 minutes before, the chart would have had a Yod pointing at the Midheaven, formed by a triple inconjunct from Venus, Mars and Pluto on one side, and a single inconjunct from the Moon on the other. That’s the “White Wedding”.
At the point of exact conjunction between Mars and Pluto, there are no inconjuncts.
You have a very strong will, although you may express it in subtle ways. If you don’t get your way, you may lose your temper, but when you see that that will get you nowhere, you change your tactics. The greatest problem with this aspect is that you may decide that getting your own way is the most important thing in life and that the only way to get it is by controlling others. Unless you are taught to have a high regard for other people’s rights, you may trample upon them. But in that case people are likely to gang up on you and try to stop you at every turn, which will make you feel very frustrated and even farther from attaining your objectives.
Sound like anyone we know?
Now, Ellie Dreams Down Under posted this video today:
What do you think?
It was something in the story of Henry the Younger King that caught my eye. Evidently, he stole Roland‘s sword, but didn’t get away with it. This sword may (or may not) have spawned the Sword in the Stone legend attached to Arthur. In fact, Durandal passed through the hands of Charlemagne, on its way to Roland. Rumour suggests that Wayland the Smith may have forged it. I’ve been to Wayland’s Smithy!
How’s that for synchronicity?
