The Gaza strip foundation horoscope

 

As the Gaza strip is a nobody's child in world politics, not being an acknowledged country, I checked the day for the Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement on the borders for this tract of land in order to establish some sort of birth horoscope. 

Much has happened since 1949, but comparing with Hamas' rocket attack makes this a plausible foundation stone for what might become the Armageddon of our times. The power hungry US, bound by the occurrences during WWII has just announced the dispatch of its most frightening aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, presumably to block access to Gaza by water and it needs be reduce this pile of rubble to desert sand, then going on to another desert storm and, perhaps, WWIII ...

The day of demarcating the border lines of the Gaza strip is seen in the innermost chart, and the soul and life of this area is certainly fraught with tension as the warrior Mars, is with the Sun. War over borders (or restrictions) is indicated by the opposition to Saturn, ruler over borders, limits and so on, but also an efficient organizer in less stressful combinations than this.

The chart is drawn as a "natural zodiac" meaning that this is how the Universal Soul might view itself, and here human morality does not apply. The planets are assigned as "good" or "bad" based on bodily man's preferences but for this natural chart many astrological rules don't apply. This is simply an archetypal map for a chronically warlike situation, and during certain periods the opposition between Sun/Mars and Saturn will spring into action in our material world, due to the synchronicity between the higher and lower parts of the World Soul.

As seen in the outer circle describing the attack on the stranger Israel in this area - stranger to the Palestinians and attested by the last two-thousand years - NOW is the time for this tension (seen in Gaza's "birth horoscope" to be felt. 

Natally, the area has the important mutual reception between Sun and Saturn (each in the other's ruling sign). Hindu astrology claims this to be as strong as two planets in conjunction, but here they are at the same time opposed and moreover in signs belonging to the unyielding Quality of Darkness. This is one complicated omen! 

In Hindu cosmology this might be taken as the deepest ignorance and habituated behaviors since the Quality of Light is the only way to progress (the middling Quality of Passion will never amount to anything while both Darkness and Light may both be useful depending on circumstances - ordinary people appears to trust the darkies, seeing stability and durability, although this quality in fact represents the illusion of a dependable world, so very few fallen souls in secular societies want to contemplate their brief existence on earth and thus explain why Plato found Democracy to next to the worst when managing a country. Only representatives of astrology's light quality, or the higher soul can be entrusted with the world. 

Now the animal king Leo and the human Water Bearer are only the archetypal motifs the planets act on. And while the ruler of Leo, the Sun itself belongs to the Light. A birth to Leo usually means a human soul has incarnated to become aware of his subhuman propensities and to master them. The ruler of the Water Bearer, on the other hand, is Saturn which essentially belongs to the Quality of Darkness. 

Why Saturn has been termed the Great Evildoer is again only from the human perspective, but even without moralisms it appears strange that the ruler of the 7th heaven - a metaphor in the ancient universe for the divine Intellect should not quality as Light but Darkness... A partial answer may be Saturn as Father Time: the veil of time causes all individuals to cling to Leo's view of life in desperation, living from day to day. Indeed only served an insignificant portion of life due to Saturn's division of time into small segments with very few individuals capable to follow the continuous thread, to see the Gestalt. 

The immensity of Saturn, beyond the ages he opens up, one at a time, is unfathomable and Tamas Guna (the Dark Quality) may well point to the inscrutable "ways of the Lord". Remember, Saturn is prominent as the bringer of Destiny. On Saturn's level all the individual karmas are brought together and organized into the Fate of the whole of humanity (the Saturnian Water Bearer has a strong social way of manifesting). 

Comparing the Gaza chart with the chart for its sending the rockets against their enemy thus is significant in the highest degree. Both signs are active in both charts and the mistreated people of the Gaza strip belong to the nobler part of Universal Soul but as yet unfulfilled or merely potential people. But while this people/piece of land is still based on Saturn in Leo and the fighting is precisely about being acknowledged as an individual (Sun = soul/individuality) - with arms (Mars) if need be, the creation of a Palestinian state is not in question, remember the "natural zodiac" does not moralize but takes the godlike view of things.

The outer chart thus shows how Saturn has reached one of its trigger nodes in the Gaza birth chart - the whole of the sign Aquarius, it's supra-lunar home sign. 

Here one may recall the wider aspects in antiquity. Saturn, natally in Leo's 10th degree must be regarded as a trigger during its entire transit through the Water Bearer and there triggering the tension in the Sun/Mars conjunction opposing its own foundation (Leo-Saturn). Some may regard this as contra-productive or even self-destructive but on the higher soul level no dead bodies are counted, for the gods (or their archetypes) operative through higher soul it is a question of principle. And a man opposing the god's will is indeed stupid.

Writing this from one of the most secular countries in the Western world (see the blog's 2nd entry), it seems to me West is not yet prepared to fully realize its global crime during centuries of colonialism. Untold accrued bad karma is waiting for its allotted payback time! As seen from the short final comment in Astrology and the rocket attack on Israel the astrological symbolism says this is about the realized mankind vs mere animals - Water Bearer's gregarious and social instinct and Leo's predatory or dictatorial instinct (Plato: dictators can range from good to horrific depending in personal qualities). 

Nobody can be so ignorant as to not realize how the West demonized historic Palestine (areas outside the newly created Israel - the "West/East mindset fully operative still in the 1940s) and thereafter labeled Hamas "terrorists". What these few charts (Israel, Gaza, the rocket attack) show is that all are share the same challenge. Especially Israel's destiny has been endangered from the first. As Orthodox Jews point out: a secular country, patterned upon the West, can not possibly be the Promised Land.

 

Post script

This short post failed to describe the "Gaza strip foundation horoscope" in full and leaving the matter without noticing that God's benevolence fills the fed up inhabitants would be remiss. 

Freedom bringing Jupiter with the faceless population (Moon) is an especially good omen, when noting it occurs in Sagittarius. Even in a natural horoskop (without paying attention to the 12 worldly houses) it is well to remember that this sign at its best carries the same meaning as the "noblest house", the 9th concerning itself with conscience and meta-logical intuition (the two highest faculties in the human being) and among worldly topics, religion, metaphysics and philosophy (of the idealistic kind).

Note. The 9th should not be confused with the 11th/Water Bearer who deal with thought models (conceptions), with ideology and social ordering. Except being, in rare cases, pointers to the unfathomable highest manifestation as divine Intellect. Very rarely a horoscope tie these sectors together, but then there is a strong potential for one of Plato's philosopher-kings". This blogger was born with Sun in the 5th "kingly house" but I can attest this is far from enough. The 9th house of Universal Dharma (order, but loose enough to be Jupiterian rather than Saturnian) must be connected to personal omens, creating a voice or channel for the Will of Heaven.

Also, the north moon node is about to return to its starting position in the Gaza horoscope. This does look foreboding... This Rahu is the demon of worldly ambition so the worst is possibly still to come... 

But how to handle the moon nodes (ambition/decapitation) if the natural zodiac indicates messages ultimately from beyond this material world? In Neo-Platonism earth also exists on a higher level (in Universal Soul) so that the Rahu node might indicate a karmically given period, part of the preordained destiny secular man no longer understands.

Using astrological rules it is interesting to note Jupiter/God promoting this riotous outburst of violence (the supporting120 degree aspect to Rahu). It happens in Aries, Mars' unsettled sign where, as it so happens, Jupiter/God happens to reside during this time. An entire blog post could have been written on this omen. This fits the early announcements from Hamas reminding that they remain in bondage at the hand of Israel.

As for the nodes, in Higher Soul earthy moralisms don't apply. The hopeless Gaza strip slum existence was preceded by geopolitical atrocities and bad planning stretching in earthly history (heaven and earth reflect each other). So in more than one way, astrologers could and should have been forewarned that Liberation is a keyword in this time. Such was the omen in Universal Soul. 

This flies in the face of Israel and the West, the latter whom authored the Mid-Eastern fiasco. The death toll, already high on both sides, is lamentable but this goes far beyond the individualist standpoint. This may even be yet another nail in the coffin of the old world order which eventually will give way to the Age of the Water Bearer and its new but yet so old insight of unity in diversity (one-and-yet-many).