It seems a bit of a cheek to even attempt this birth chart, but something tells me that it might be worth the try, anyway. July 22nd is her Saint Day, according to the Catholic Church (although that usually represents her death date) and 10 BC would make her four years older than Jesus, which is well within the realms of possibility. Mary Magdalene, I believe, was a real flesh and blood person. The timing is randomized.
Interesting aspects, are they not? I especially like the Venus/Pluto conjunction, just because.
Venus Conjunct Pluto
You need to be loved very much, but you also need to love others. The attachments you form are very strong, because you don’t take relationships casually. On one hand, this can make your life very rich, as long as the people you are attracted to are equally intense emotionally and are good in other ways as well. But with this aspect you may be attracted to people who are not very good for you or who do not have your best interests in mind. This is particularly so if you do not have much self-confidence or self-esteem.
The most important factor signified by this aspect is that you hope to transform the conditions of your life through relationships. Thus you feel that every strong emotional attachment is very important for your future. Just remember that you must pick only the best people as partners in these relationships.
Mary Magdalene’s Relationship with Jesus Christ
Her Jupiter conjunct his Venus? Puts it all into perspective. I think they knew each other in a past life (his South Node conjunct her Neptune and his North Node conjunct her Moon), probably in Ancient Egypt.
On a whim, we watched this film on Netflix last night. I wish we hadn’t, now, partly because we are getting old, and partly because I don’t like psychological horror movies, like “Signs”. However, we watched it until the end to see how it would finally be resolved, if indeed it would be.
But, I came away with one reminder of a truth, once spoken to me in the middle of a very trying time:
In a thousand years, none of this will matter.
But is that really true?
If I can still look back on events that happened 2,000 years ago, then it does matter to me, personally.
You Will Hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars (Matthew 24:6a)
If you are a fundamental Christian, you will probably know the whole scripture passages that are related to the “End Times” by heart. They amount to Jesus’ promises to them for his disciples’ future salvation.
What makes me suspicious of the whole text is this segment near the end:
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV)
This calls to mind “Jesus Christ Superstar”:
Let us just admit that to the Jews in Palestine, their world ended when the Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. As far as the Jewish race was concerned, they were scattered to the four corners of the earth. How could Jesus have known that?
1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: 2“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. 6They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues, 7the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.
8But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ. 11The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred? 18And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’ 19You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred? 20So then, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it. 22And he who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the One who sits on it.
23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous. 30And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers. 33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. 35And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Matthew 23:1-36 (Berean Standard Bible)
Then, Jesus says this about Jerusalem:
37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! 38Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’
Our modern churches have become like Laodicea, the seventh church spoken to by the Spirit of Jesus in Revelation 3:14-19.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
NKJV
It was something that Philip K Dick wrote about his vision of being a early Christian in Roman times: they had a secret, that Jesus was still alive, and they were waiting for his return. If you wonder how that must have felt, think of it as a quickening fire. The authorities thought that they had dispensed with the renegade rabbi and his rabble, by crucifying him in Jerusalem in 30 AD. But rumour had it that he had resurrected on the third day, and because they couldn’t find the body, they presumed that it was a plot to overthrow the Roman government in Judea. That rumour spread like wildfire, igniting the hearts of true believers, not just in Palestine, but everywhere in the civilized world. Christianity was born.
(And then we wonder how the ‘phoenix rising from the ashes’ became a symbol of the resurrection.)
But after just seven years short of 2,000 years, we have become complacent. The conflicts in the world have made us (mostly) immune to the plight of others. NIMBY and “I’m alright, Jack” have become our mottos. Only when the war comes to your home town, will you fight the good fight, again.
The icon for a theophany is the famous one shown above, depicting the Dove hovering over Jesus’ head during his Baptism by John. Does it surprise anyone that PKD also had an appearance of God to him in 1980? The image on his book “Valis” recalls the dove-like image of Jesus on the Cross.
Now, the epiphany of February 3, 1974 began PKD’s Exegesis which culminated in a vision of Jesus on November 12, 1980. This is the chart for the event, randomized for ease of handling.
The Mars/Neptune conjunction in Sagittarius in the 12th House (of the Unconscious) may be the driving force of this event. At any rate, there are no inconjuncts, so all is revealed.
When PKD’s birth chart is compared with the event chart, the Uranus in Aries of his 1st House (of Personality) is opposite to the event’s Jupiter in Libra. That Jupiter/Saturn event conjunction (in Libra) also echoes back to the same configuration of the Star of Bethlehem in Jesus’ birth chart (in Pisces).
You may have noticed that I am using Jesus and God interchangeably here. The idea is that the Son is of the same nature as the Father and is symbolized by the third figure, the Holy Spirit: the Trinity at work.
Now, this is going to seem like a bit of a stretch, but the idea has now become firmly wedged into my brain. In 1974, PKD remembered a life in Rome, as Thomas (the Twin). From all accounts, Thomas left the Middle East in 52 AD and went to India. But, who’s to say how long it took him to get there and where he might have been in the meantime? The only thing that is known is his martyrdom in 72 AD.
This date, July 3rd, is according to the Syrian Church. And the timing is set for noon, local time. If it doesn’t jibe with PKD’s birth chart, we will know we’re barking up the wrong tree, astrology-wise.
Well, *Lordy, Lordy* there are links in the Akashic Records! What do you think of them apples?
There is a lot of controversy surrounding PKD. For one thing, people think he was a mad genius who could see the future. For another, he has had a mystical experience of remembering his life as an early Christian named Thomas in Rome, trying to escape detection by the Romans. So which is it? Both!
As I suggested in the title, PKD may have been suffering from survivor guilt.
The science-fiction writer Philip K Dick puzzled over the distinction between mental illness and religious experience after he had one himself. He claimed that, while he was recovering from dental surgery in February 1974, his consciousness was awakened by a mysterious flash of pink light. After the pink flash, he had visions of abstract paintings and unfamiliar engineering blueprints. Streams of fiery energy – of ‘liquid fire’, he said – seemed to weave through his environment and inhabit his body. He saw scenes of ancient Rome superimposed over his neighbourhood: ‘I looked around and saw Rome! Rome everywhere! Power and force, stone walls, iron bars.’
I’ve written about this experience before. The Ichthys pendant triggered the remembrance of a past life in 1st century Rome. Now, on its own, this would seem to be a ‘pink’ bolt of light out of the blue.
I knew that by charting this event, I would get a clue: that Venus on the Descendant speaks volumes. So many of his stories have an internalized element, which can only be understood as a feeling of having one’s twin living inside your body. Does that seem strange? It makes sense to me, since we internalize so much of our feelings, sometimes without even knowing it. The clue? Thomas, signifying the Twin.
Let’s look at his birth chart when combined with the event chart:
Do you see the event Sun lining up almost exactly with his natal Moon? At the same time the event Moon is transiting his natal Mars. Meanwhile the event North Node is triggering his natal Sun/Mercury/Saturn conjunction. In other words, it was time to act, to get his life straight again.
