Exactly Halfway through Winter, This Family’s Still Here

Posted on February 4, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Northern Cardinals

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Is the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Kublai Khan?

Posted on February 3, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Xi Jinping (June 15, 1953)

( Pequim – China, 24/05/2019) Vice-Presidente da República, Hamilton Mourão, durante Audiência com o Presidente da República popular da China, Senhor Xi Jinping. Foto: Adnilton Farias/VPR

Call it a thought that just won’t go away. I wrote this morning about the first meeting between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, whose Yuan Empire covered all of China and some surrounding countries. Then Xi Jinping‘s name kept coming into my head. OK, OK, I said, enough is enough: I’ll look at him.

No one knows what time of day he was born, so I randomized the timing (which strangely enough raised a birth chart that is reminiscent of the ones on most of the astrology sites), and then flipped it on its head by making it P.M., instead of A.M. There is only one inconjunct, now, but can we trust it?

Jupiter Inconjunct Midheaven

The problem with this aspect is to find a balance between, on the one hand, expressing yourself creatively, perhaps artistically, and having a good time and, on the other hand, getting ahead in life, learning the ways of the world and finding an acceptable role in society. You know you will have to make sacrifices in order to accomplish anything of value.

Later in life, you will enter a critical period when your need for personal satisfaction and freedom force you to change jobs or even careers. When you have learned more about the world, you will understand how to make changes intelligently, but now you should discipline your Jupiterian drive for freedom and learn what you need to know to take over your own destiny. You should learn as much as possible about any subject or skill that will make you more aware of the larger world. Travel or foreign study would be beneficial, if that is possible. The more you know about how you fit into the larger scheme of life, the easier it will be to make the right decisions when you have to change to a more rewarding and personally satisfying course.

The misfortunes and suffering of his family in his early years hardened Xi’s view of politics. During an interview in 2000, he said, “People who have little contact with power, who are far from it, always see these things as mysterious and novel. But what I see is not just the superficial things: the power, the flowers, the glory, the applause. I see the bullpens and how people can blow hot and cold. I understand politics on a deeper level.” The bullpens was a reference to Red Guards’ detention houses during the Cultural Revolution.

Wikipedia

From 1979 to 1982, Xi served as secretary for his father’s former subordinate Geng Biao, the then vice premier and secretary-general of the Central Military Commission. This gained Xi some military background. In 1985, as part of a Chinese delegation to study U.S. agriculture, he stayed in the home of an American family in the town of Muscatine, Iowa. This trip, and his two-week stay with a U.S. family, is said to have had a lasting impression upon him and his views on the United States.

Ibid

So, what about Kublai Khan?

Yes, well, that’s an excellent question. I knew that I could only answer that one when I compared Xi’s birth chart with Kublai’s birth and death charts. Here they are:

Almost always, I’m surprised by astrological connections, even though the individuals are about 650 years apart. And given the fact that the birth charts are rectified or randomized (and the death chart set for noon), the slower planets are symbolic of the cycles of time.

So, what do we see? Pluto is the connector between their birth charts, being within 3° in Leo. Xi’s Sun is conjunct Kublai’s ‘fatal’ Ascendant. Xi’s Part of Fortune is conjunct Kublai’s ‘fatal’ Midheaven and his natal Jupiter. Xi’s North Node in Aquarius is about 6° from both Kublai’s ‘fatal’ Pluto and his natal Ascendant. Xi’s Saturn/Neptune conjunction is within 7° of Kublai’s ‘fatal’ Neptune. Oh, and let’s not overlook Kublai’s ‘fatal’ North Node being within 6° of Xi’s Mars in Cancer.

Yes, we have liftoff.

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A Meeting of Two Remarkable Men in the 13th Century

Posted on February 3, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Marco Polo (Sep 1254 – Jan 1324) and Kublai Khan (Sep 1215 – Feb 1294)

On this eve of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022, I thought it might be interesting to look back about 750 years to this meeting, because without that happening, the present would be quite different.

September 19, 1275

Before I show you what purports to be a totally ‘inspired’ event chart, I want to share how I arrived at the date: in the Julian calendar, Marco Polo was born on September 15, 1254 and Kublai Khan was born on September 23, 1215. I split the difference between them, and pinned the date to 1275, when Polo was just 21. In other words, their meeting was (in effect) a double birthday celebration.

Marco Polo on Meeting the Great Khan for the First Time

Marco Polo met Kublai Khan soon after arriving in Shangdu. He called the great Khan a “Lord of Lords” and “the most powerful man in people and in lands and in treasure that ever was in the world” – -and this was probably no exaggeration. [Sources: Mike Edwards, National Geographic, May 2001, June 2001, July 2001]

Marco recalled it in detail on the greatest moment when he first met the Great Khan:” They knelt before him and made obeisance with the utmost humility. The Great Khan bade them rise and received them honorably and entertained them with good cheer. He asked many questions about their condition and how they fared after their departure. The brothers assured him that they had indeed fared well, since they found him well and flourishing. [Source: Silk Road Foundation silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo ]

“Then they presented the privileges and letters which the Pope had sent, with which he was greatly pleased, and handed over the holy oil, which he received with joy and prized very highly. When the Great Khan saw Marco, who was then a young stripling, he asked who he was. ‘Sir’ said Messer Niccolo, ‘he is my son and your liege man.’ ‘He is heartly welcome,’ said the Khan. What need to make a long story of it? Great indeed were the mirth and merry-making with which the Great khan and all his Court welcomed the arrival of these emissaries. And they were well served and attended to in all their needs. They stayed at Court and had a place of honor above the other barons.”

The timing is also randomized, so the inconjunct (which does not depend on a correct time for the day) seems to be symbolic of the meeting of East and West.

Jupiter Inconjunct Neptune

You may have a natural talent for dominating others, but don’t fall in love with this talent and be motivated by it. You can be effective at influencing people only if you use your talent to help others and yourself achieve desirable goals together. You must be an agent for betterment at all times, and even so you must listen to others’ ideas about betterment to be sure that you aren’t just seeking power in a more roundabout manner.

Marco Polo’s Birth Chart

This chart is rectified to show the journey that he undertook for age 21 (Jupiter). There is one inconjunct between Venus and Uranus. That Saturn on the Ascendant in Capricorn is significant, too, I expect.

Kublai Khan’s Birth Chart

This chart is totally randomized. Even so, three of the four inconjuncts have Jupiter in Pisces at one end. What are the chances of that? The other ends are Saturn, Uranus and the Sun in Libra. Hmm. Finally Venus is inconjunct Mars. That explains his choice of administration over conquest: it made him softer than his grandfather, Genghis Khan.

Combining the Three Charts Together

When you compare the charts, it is obvious that this meeting had more to do with Marco Polo’s destiny than with Kublai Khan’s life. And that is to be expected. But some have accused him of making it all up. On his deathbed, he said this:

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It’s Not Funny Anymore…

Posted on February 2, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Groundhog Day 2022

On this day in 1887, the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, celebrates the first official Groundhog Day. One hundred and thirty-five years later, Groundhog Day happens every day with COVID-19.

Here are some cartoons to help cheer us up, while we wait another sicks weeks for the end.

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The Aquarian Message of a Sufi Teacher

Posted on February 1, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Today is the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Tiger. It’s also the day of an Aquarian new moon. So I think it’s probably an inspired thought to write about Inayat Khan’s Sufi message for the West.

These are some covers of the books that Khan wrote

I was reading from an on-line biography of Inayat Khan yesterday, when I came across the following:

There are ten principal Sufi thoughts which comprise all the important subjects with which the inner life of man is concerned:

1) There is one God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none else exists save God.

2) There is one Master, the Guiding Spirit of all souls, who constantly leads all followers towards the light.

3) There is one Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, which truly enlightens all readers.

4) There is one Religion, the unswerving progress in the right direction towards the ideal, which fulfils the life’s purpose of every soul.

5) There is one Law, the law of Reciprocity, which can be observed by a selfless conscience together with a sense of awakened justice.

6) There is one human Brotherhood, the Brotherhood and Sisterhood which unites the children of earth indiscriminately in the Fatherhood of God.

7) There is one Moral Principle, the love which springs forth from self-denial, and blooms in deeds of beneficence.

8) There is one Object of Praise, the beauty which uplifts the heart of its worshipper through all aspects from the seen to the unseen.

9) There is one Truth, the true knowledge of our being within and without which is the essence of all wisdom.

10) There is one Path, the annihilation of the false ego in the real, which raises the mortal to immortality and in which resides all perfection.

The Life and Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

It seems to be a message that needs to be stated again and again, until people start to take notice. In my own way, I have tried to demonstrate these truths, but I don’t have the spiritual clout that he did.

Some of Khan’s Quotes that are Still Relevant Today

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An Inspirational Portrait of the Man

I hope these words help to enlighten your soul.

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The Greatest Female Spy of All Time?

Posted on February 1, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Mata Hari (August 7, 1876 – October 15, 1917)

Police photo of Mata Hari in 1917, before her execution as a spy at the age of 41. MUST CREDIT: Museum of Friesland Collection, Leeuwarden

If you were hoping for something more salacious, you needn’t have come to this post. There are plenty of photos of Mata Hari in various states of undress on the internet. Strangely, she’s been on my mind lately, so I was not too surprised to see her referenced in a passage from Inayat Khan’s life story.

Initially, their public performances centered on Indian music and they accompanied dancers such as Mata Hari and Ruth St. Denis in both America and Europe.

The Spiritual Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan

(And that, my friends, is how my intuition works: I get a nagging thought which won’t go away, and then during some casual research, the person’s name comes up. Then I have to look into their life.)

This is not a reincarnational astrology post, just so you understand why I’m doing it. Noor Inayat Khan may have really been the greatest female spy of all time, but I wanted to see why Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari would have chosen to be a spy in the first place.

This chart is randomized. I originally though that I might move the time of her birth to allow Neptune or Pluto to take centre stage, as it were. The position of her Part of Fortune @ 0° Cancer suggests that her execution at age 41 was exactly what her life’s purpose was, strange as that might seem. The interconnected Yods (Fingers of God) are totally reliant on 3:06:33 pm being the correct birth time, so we cannot totally rely on the story they tell us.

Saturn Inconjunct Midheaven

This aspect indicates that you very much need a positive relationship with your parents, especially your father. You should not be disciplined sternly unless you are given lots of love at the same time. Otherwise, giving and receiving love from others will be a real problem for the rest of your life. Unless you are truly supported by your family and friends, you will begin to feel lonely and isolated from others and inferior to them. Also you are likely to have very serious difficulties with authority figures, because you are afraid of how they will treat you, not expecting that anyone will ever give you the loving guidance you need. You will see all authorities only as potential threats to your freedom and as sources of pain and trouble.

Neptune Inconjunct Ascendant

This aspect can be a sign that you feel you must give way to others in order to get along with them. This can take two forms, both of which will be difficult to handle while you are young. The less positive form is simply yielding to all outside pressure and always giving in to others’ desires. This will produce unconscious feelings of resentment that you can’t express, but that make your relationships with others rather difficult. And as you get older, if you do not learn to stand up for your rights, this problem will get worse, because you express your unconscious resentment as a martyred attitude, which makes it impossible for others to appreciate or use anything they get from you. Thus the results of your sacrifice are totally negative, because you are not happy with giving and they are not happy with receiving.

Neptune Inconjunct Midheaven

While you are young, you won’t have a clear idea of what you want to do with your life. In fact you may never orient your life around a single idea of purpose. But don’t worry. Your purpose in life may not be one that is readily defined in terms of a career or profession. More important may be your style of living or your experience of life. Simply learn to always be aware and to learn whatever there is to be learned. With your sensitivity and intuition you can understand much more than other people, especially those who have wrapped their lives around their career or profession.

Her Execution has an Accurate Time, Just Before Dawn

There is one inconjunct connecting Venus and Pluto, which implies that it was her blatant femininity that really was her crime. By all accounts the trial was mostly circumstantial, and the charges trumped up. When we compare her birth and death charts, we’ll see how accurate in timing everything was.

Her ‘fatal’ Pluto and South Node conjunction is within 5° of her natal Part of Fortune. I’m also mindful that her natal Sun is situated on the Lion’s Gate. She wasn’t afraid to die, even blowing one last kiss at the executioners, after refusing a blindfold. That’s the effect of the Leo Sun.

Exactly!

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Another Cassandra Alert:

Posted on January 31, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Might Biden Attack Russia at the Start of China’s Olympic Games?

All this time, we in the West have been focusing on what Putin might or might not do about Ukraine. We tend to ignore the other side of the coin: America. I wrote about the Olympic Games, yesterday

Pay special attention to the Nodes of the Moon in each of the charts. USA’s North Node is conjunct Joe Biden’s Pluto @ 7° Leo; the Olympic Games Start’s South Node is conjunct Biden’s Sun @ 27° Scorpio; and Biden’s own South Node is conjunct the USA’s Moon @ 27° Aquarius. See what I mean: Joe Biden is the missing link in the chain of events.

Watch this space…

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“Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!”

Posted on January 31, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Karma: Is This What I Signed Up For?

I’ve been aware of some of my past lives since the early 80’s. Now, 40 years later, I’m beginning to think that it’s all a delusion of some kind, self-delusion perhaps.

As usual, it takes looking at what other astrologers think for me to make sense of the nonsense. And, of course, the mindset of the person may have a lot to do with what kind of information they uncover.

The hard thought is that this is the Devil’s handiwork to keep us preoccupied, so that we don’t pay attention to what’s happening to the world, right under our noses, as it were. That was why I mostly kept my focus on world events, some in the the past and mostly in the present. (See “At This Point in Time”.)

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”

Hosea 8:7

We all seem to be reaping the whirlwind.

In other words, Karma.

And that is exactly what my reincarnational astrology research has shown me: everything and everyone are connected and in the energetic backdrop are the planets and the stars.

(Dharma means “cosmic law and order”.) For some other Lord Krishna quotes click here.

They say that about a week before one’s birthday, one’s mind reviews yet another year that has passed. My 72nd birthday will be one week from this Wednesday, hence my short retrospective blog, here.

If I’ve learned anything in the past 12 months, it’s to trust my inner being. So, no more looking back into past lives because I have nothing to prove to myself or anyone else. And if you think my work is nonsense, vote with your feet and unfollow me. Thank you.

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Well, Here’s Another Interesting Thought About:

Posted on January 30, 2022 by cdsmiller17

The 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing (February 4, 2022)

There is some speculation as to whether Vladimir Putin will launch his Ukraine offensive to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday of this week. Hmm.

Well, yes, it could be possible since Mars will be inconjunct the Midheaven at that time, but then I am reminded that Mars can represent symbolic warriors doing battle, which is what the Olympics are all about. When I compared Putin’s chart with this event, I didn’t get any conclusive connections.

However, because of the Gate of the Angel being triggered by the Sun @ 15° Aquarius that day, it made me look at the start of World War III, yet again. Is this the event that starts the long slippery ski slope to Armageddon?

Notice that Saturn is conjunct the Sun there.

I’m not sure if I’ll get to live long enough to see if this is true, but my Mercury in Capricorn is conjunct both Mercury’s in these charts @ 24°. And the 2043 bomb drop on Tokyo (Midheaven @ 27° Capricorn) is conjunct the Olympic Games Start’s Pluto. Hmm, again.

Sure it is…

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It’s Time to Disprove a Theory about Putin

Posted on January 30, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Genghis Khan (died August 25, 1227)

When Nostradamus predicted that the King of Terror would return in 1999, people have speculated that he may have been referring to Vladimir Putin, who rose to power in Russia in that year, two days BEFORE a total eclipse of the sun.

Everyone knows who the original ‘king of terror’ was: Genghis Khan.

We do not have his birth date, but we do know when and where he died. I have set the clock for noon.

I would suggest that his death was shrouded in mystery (with Neptune on the Descendant), but nothing can be taken for ‘fact’ with a 12 noon event time. Astrology isn’t an exact science; it’s all a matter of interpretation. However, when the timing is known to be exact, the information gleaned is clearer.

Two Images to Reflect the How Far Temujin Came in Life

The world before the Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire: now, that’s some conquest!

But what about Putin?

In order to ‘confirm’ the karmic relationship between two individuals over time, I need to see connections between the (purported) prior life and the present one by comparing the death and birth charts. Except for Khan’s ‘fatal’ Neptune being 1° from Putin’s natal Jupiter, there are no conjunctions.

However, the spirit of conquest is highlighted as a double Yod (Finger of God) from Khan’s ‘fatal’ Jupiter and Neptune pointing to Putin’s natal Sun/Saturn conjunction. But are they one and the same? No.

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