And There’s More ... !
Sun Flowers
In Sign Language 6, we saw how, through the seamless succession of Age Harmonic moduli, each moment of birth unfurls like a bud opening into full flower. Now, in another corner of this rich and amazing field has appeared another cluster of undiscovered blooms: go back to the system we used for nativities, and apply it to Solar Returns. Divide the exact time elapsed in decimal days between the Solar Return and the key event by 365 to find the year-fraction, and then use this as a Modulus in the Difference Listing for the Solar Return chart itself. (This will immediately convert in the box to degrees and minutes.) In pairs at the start and finish - the ‘Alpha’ and ‘Omega’ points - of the sorted Angle list, you will find those planets that convey the meaning of the event.
Here are the Alpha/Omega planetary pairs for a few crucial Solar Returns.
1. The first concerns the global catastrophe of Boxing Day 2004. At 07h58m50s USZ6 (-7h00) a massive rupture in the ocean floor just off North-West Sumatra (exact coordinates 3N18, 95E47) generated a series of tsunamis that devastated the coastal populations of almost every country and island washed by the Indian Ocean.
* For a set of consistent patterns, go to Nick Campion’s World Horoscopes and find the most accurate chart for each country.
* Set up the current (2004) Solar Return for each one (for the location of the disaster as well as the capital city.)
* Calculate the exact time in decimal days between the Return and the moment of disaster - in this case the time the tsunami wave first hit the beach.
* Express this period as a decimal fraction of a year.
* Enter this figure into the modulus box for Solar Fire’s Difference Listing, for the country’s 2004 Solar Return chart.
* Look at the Alpha and Omega points of the list.
The results below all specify major environmental upheaval and presumed human suffering or death.
For Indonesia at Banda Aceh at the moment of the Quake: Alpha - Asc/Uranus, Asc/Chiron. (Cancer Saturn was rising at the Return, north of the Equator)
For Indonesia, Jakarta: Alpha - Asc/Pluto (Chiron was setting at the Return, south of the Equator.)
For Sri Lanka at both Galle and Colombo as the wave hit: Alpha - Asc/Pluto. (Uranus on MC at Return.)
For Thailand at Phuket as the wave hit: Alpha - MC/Uranus, Sun/Neptune. (S.Node rising in Scorpio at Return. Cancer Mars on MC.)
For India at Cuddalore precisely as the wave hit at 09h02: Alpha - Uranus/MC, Uranus/Neptune; Omega - Neptune/MC. (Neptune on MC at Return, S. Node near Desc in Scorpio.)
For India at Delhi: Alpha - ASC/Chiron; Omega - MC/Saturn.
Sun Flowers
In Sign Language 6, we saw how, through the seamless succession of Age Harmonic moduli, each moment of birth unfurls like a bud opening into full flower. Now, in another corner of this rich and amazing field has appeared another cluster of undiscovered blooms: go back to the system we used for nativities, and apply it to Solar Returns. Divide the exact time elapsed in decimal days between the Solar Return and the key event by 365 to find the year-fraction, and then use this as a Modulus in the Difference Listing for the Solar Return chart itself. (This will immediately convert in the box to degrees and minutes.) In pairs at the start and finish - the ‘Alpha’ and ‘Omega’ points - of the sorted Angle list, you will find those planets that convey the meaning of the event.
Here are the Alpha/Omega planetary pairs for a few crucial Solar Returns.
1. The first concerns the global catastrophe of Boxing Day 2004. At 07h58m50s USZ6 (-7h00) a massive rupture in the ocean floor just off North-West Sumatra (exact coordinates 3N18, 95E47) generated a series of tsunamis that devastated the coastal populations of almost every country and island washed by the Indian Ocean.
* For a set of consistent patterns, go to Nick Campion’s World Horoscopes and find the most accurate chart for each country.
* Set up the current (2004) Solar Return for each one (for the location of the disaster as well as the capital city.)
* Calculate the exact time in decimal days between the Return and the moment of disaster - in this case the time the tsunami wave first hit the beach.
* Express this period as a decimal fraction of a year.
* Enter this figure into the modulus box for Solar Fire’s Difference Listing, for the country’s 2004 Solar Return chart.
* Look at the Alpha and Omega points of the list.
The results below all specify major environmental upheaval and presumed human suffering or death.
For Indonesia at Banda Aceh at the moment of the Quake: Alpha - Asc/Uranus, Asc/Chiron. (Cancer Saturn was rising at the Return, north of the Equator)
For Indonesia, Jakarta: Alpha - Asc/Pluto (Chiron was setting at the Return, south of the Equator.)
For Sri Lanka at both Galle and Colombo as the wave hit: Alpha - Asc/Pluto. (Uranus on MC at Return.)
For Thailand at Phuket as the wave hit: Alpha - MC/Uranus, Sun/Neptune. (S.Node rising in Scorpio at Return. Cancer Mars on MC.)
For India at Cuddalore precisely as the wave hit at 09h02: Alpha - Uranus/MC, Uranus/Neptune; Omega - Neptune/MC. (Neptune on MC at Return, S. Node near Desc in Scorpio.)
For India at Delhi: Alpha - ASC/Chiron; Omega - MC/Saturn.
2. The next Solar Return is personal - my own at 18h31m52s on 19th January 1992 at Ospringe in Kent. It was Full Moon, and also the Sunday I went into the major orders of our Church. The Return is unfurled to 09h00 am four days later on January 23rd when the phone rang with the devastating news that my loved Mum had died in the night. The elapsed time of 3days,14h,28m,08s taken as a fraction of 365 days yields a decimal fraction of 0.009871 to use as our modulus, and immediately it converts to 10' of arc. As this is a round number, we have a parabolic list which is very easy to read and startling in its predictive message - at the Alpha and Omega points are the shock of Uranus/MC and the bereavement of Moon/Saturn; at the halfway pivot point are Saturn/Sun (my sick father now a widower), Uranus/Asc for all the upheaval following the shock, Node/Pluto for the profound changes it was to make on my path, and Moon/Sun, the whole new phase of personal and professional life that would follow. The preceding Sun/Moon Phase return had been equally stark, but appears to stand alone; neither it nor the previous Lunar return seems to unfurl to the fateful day.
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3. The decision to ordain the first women priests in the Church of England celebrated its first Solar Return in London at 22h44m47s on November 11th 1993. The very first ordinations took place the following March, on the 12th, at 17h46 in Bristol. The time elapsed was 120.7919 days; the resulting modulus, the fraction of a year, was 0.330937. The Alpha group is truly impressive in its description of women empowered in solemn religious ministry by vows and the laying-on of hands - Moon/Node, Moon/Mercury, Jupiter/Moon, Jupiter/Saturn, Sun/Pluto.
4. And wouldn’t you like to see how Mary’s Solar Return of August 4th 6BC (at 21h23m48s in Nazareth) unfolded to the world-changing birth of her first-born Son?
The Return itself is absolutely right: the Sun and two planets are in the 5th house, the 5th’s ruler is the Moon, this is in the 1st house, and conjoins the North Node flanked by Ceres just below a serious rising Saturn. (Just for comparison, my own first-born was similarly announced by Solar Return Moon conjunct North Node exactly square the ASC, and Mars the 5th-house ruler angular at the IC.) On the Return's radix 7th cusp is a glorious dwad conjunction of Moon/Venus, and dwad Ceres - the Mother again - is with radix Sun/Venus in the 5th. On the dwad Ascendant is Pluto. At the dwad IC is Jupiter. This year will be life-changing. Mary’s birthday and that of Jesus are 9 months apart - so the divine conception of Jesus was the birthday present to end all birthday presents! And that nine months between the Solar Return and Christ’s birth on May 7th 5BC at 18h43m55s local time in Bethlehem works out at 275.88897 days, or 0.7558601 of a year. In the Difference Listing for Mary’s Return using this fraction as a modulus, we find a wonderfully descriptive Alpha group, of Venus/Moon. Node/Asc, Moon/Node, Pluto/Venus and Sun/Node, while Moon/Sun shines at the Omega point. Is this not a moment when a beautiful young woman fulfils her high spiritual destiny as a mother? It is worth noting the half-way point of this list, where Jupiter/Venus, Saturn/MC and Jupiter/ Moon are grouped, and also the pivot point - asymmetrical at 0̊ 07' - of Sun/Mars, Mars/Sun, all (if they turn out to be consistently relevant) adding to the picture of the mother given a Son in spiritual trust. |
The Son and The Moon
Seeing patterns like this, I get a bit wistful when the seasonal programmers yet again roll out the required hour on the Magi, the half-hour on the Star. Last December we had more of the same, with astronomers David Hughes, Michael Molnar and others increasingly arguing from the perspective of ancient Astrology - in itself a relief and a delight - but always, always forgetting the next crucial step: for even their very plausible theories of the birth of Jesus Christ utterly fall down as soon as astrologers take over from the astronomers and do what the latter have singularly failed to do because they will not or cannot - read the chart! How I long to stand up and explain!
Seeing patterns like this, I get a bit wistful when the seasonal programmers yet again roll out the required hour on the Magi, the half-hour on the Star. Last December we had more of the same, with astronomers David Hughes, Michael Molnar and others increasingly arguing from the perspective of ancient Astrology - in itself a relief and a delight - but always, always forgetting the next crucial step: for even their very plausible theories of the birth of Jesus Christ utterly fall down as soon as astrologers take over from the astronomers and do what the latter have singularly failed to do because they will not or cannot - read the chart! How I long to stand up and explain!
Molnar’s current and controversial favourite, the Moon-Jupiter occultation chart for April 17th 6BC is actually a very attractive pattern, and I wouldn’t argue for a minute that it has nothing to say about the momentous events that ensued in Judea - but it is not the natal chart of the Son of God. In the Helio chart, Mercury and Venus (although ‘setting’) are in trouble, and the Earth is unaspected. This would be a person who had no material effect on the world of humankind at all!
The Geo chart with Leo rising and the exalted Aries Sun close to the MC in the religious 9th at first looks highly convincing, especially with the Sun and the occulting Moon flanking the North Node’s spiritual sign-post; here is lots of energy, lots of purpose, Man and Woman on a divine mission. |
But here is the first ‘But!’ - the Sun, the Son, is unconnected to any of the outer, spiritual planets; and that connection is imperative for any spiritually-minded person, most especially the Christ, the Son of God. Instead, the outer planets are linked to Mercury, conjunct Mars in Taurus in the 10th. What this may be telling us is that the Moon-Jupiter occultation marked or presaged not the Nativity but the Annunciation by the Angel to Mary; there is no reason why this could not have preceded the Conception by the best part of four months, and this important Mercury is a wonderfully apt image for an announcing angel, a holy messenger from God. The uniquely powerful conjunction of Jupiter and Moon would represent Mary herself, thus honoured.
The second ‘But’ is this: that the chart must then progress, direct and return correctly - and this one simply doesn’t. There is no room here to compare it with the 12 years of work done so far (and as you see, still on-going!), to test and support the Nativity of May 7th 5BC, but it has all been published. Interestingly, if you daily progress this Occultation chart to 7th May the following year, the Moon has just slipped past the Sun by a few minutes of arc, which again suggests that the events are strongly linked.
The second ‘But’ is this: that the chart must then progress, direct and return correctly - and this one simply doesn’t. There is no room here to compare it with the 12 years of work done so far (and as you see, still on-going!), to test and support the Nativity of May 7th 5BC, but it has all been published. Interestingly, if you daily progress this Occultation chart to 7th May the following year, the Moon has just slipped past the Sun by a few minutes of arc, which again suggests that the events are strongly linked.
By the way, another chart has surfaced in support of May, 5 BC; there were three pre-natal eclipses (one on March 8th extensively studied and written up already), the second and by far the most powerful of which was a total eclipse of the Moon on March 23rd, its spiritual impact hugely reinforced by the Spring Equinox. This one may or may not have helped the Magi, but from our vantage-point we can appreciate the exalted Sun in a strong 5th house of children at Bethlehem, with the promise in its rising Mars and setting Jupiter of a hero, a prophet, a king. And does this chart also ‘flower’ for us? So far, there seems to be no modular unfurling with lunar charts; but yes, they progress nicely and this is no exception: the daily progressed Meridian joins the eclipse axis on May 7th, and the daily converse Horizon lines up with the same Moon-Sun opposition across the Nodes. The Son of God is born.
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