SPRING CHART OF 2015

Astrology has its roots within the first known cultic reverence of the heavenly bodies.  We can find this manifest in the Sumerian cuneiform writing which is initially a pictograph script that was developed in the Mesopotamian region around 3000 BC where present- day Iraq is located.   Later pictographs were transformed into the so-called “live form” symbol for  God, a star- shaped arrangement of lines one conclude from this  that “God” and “star” have the same linguistic root in the Sumerian cuneiform. Later Babylonians and Assyrian inscriptions reveal a connection between “God” and “star” or constellation as well.  The oldest reliable record in which stars are provided with names is known to us, humans, from around 1800 BC.

The basic principles that make up astrology are outlined in the book, now a classic, “The Anatomy of Fate,” by a Jew, Z’ev ben Halevi.  It is thus clearly close to the cultic reverence of the heavenly bodies tied to observational science; it is a heartfelt faith that the cosmos is divinely ordered and governed, and that everything which happens in the heavens and which calculatedly stands, mysteriously, in close relation to the events on earth.

From 1983 to 2012, humanity has entered into, traveled through and is now colliding into the opposite side of the dark rift in the Milky Way according to Max Mason, in his book “Astrology of 2012,” published by Hay House (http://alona joy.com)  The Maya understand that this rift is a place of intense transformation, it is called the “Dark Night of the Soul’’ for Earth and humanity, assisted by the Living Masters in a sacred passage  of 33 years to be completed  by year 2016, indicating a generation born in this early 1930’s who lives in times of drastic upheavals. Very often their lives are disrupted and dislocated by wars, revolutions, economic collapse, and natural catastrophes under a negative square between Uranus and Pluto.  Uranus is the planet of sudden changes due to man’s revolutionary tendencies, as well as a high level of technological creativity.  Pluto is the planet of God’s supreme will to transform man’s lower levels of consciousness to higher spiritual, mystical levels. A mystical level means the act of communing with God without recourse to reason, attaining a divine union thru daily regular meditation and heartfelt prayers.  If humanity is under a negative square between Uranus and Pluto occurring in repetitious cycle these years, as observed in the Middle East and other parts of the world, this “Dark Night of the Soul” transit will soon pass and be completed as we, all of humanity, approach 2016. 

 At this time,  we are beginning to see a glimmer of light at the end of the long tunnel of transformation.  This comes at the end of every 26,000 years of planetary evolution, marking the end of a long cycle of time, covered by the Mayan Calendar. Some of us will make it through this time without much scarring or being wounded, while others will be unrecognizable compared to their original forms. What true light of pure consciousness shines upon surviving humanity by 2016 onwards, no darkness can undo. 

Our bodies have memory in our DNA that in the past at the end of each age. We have had many dirty closets to clean, but we are asked not to judge ourselves for collecting all that ugly baggage for we have learned so much and grew spiritually by working to clear out. 

Looking at the Ingress chart of 2015, for the world, starting at zero Aries point, we are surprised, jolted to see that the majority of planets are congregating around the curvature of the 12^th House of records of the karmic past tied to the First House of renewal or rebirth. The horoscope is enormously imbalanced. It is tilting towards the left side with a heavy emphasis of planets on Self-undoing. There’s so much neurotic tendencies involved with Neptune conjoined to Mercury planetary energy of the practical mind, Neptune ruler of Pisces, stands for the divine essence of our human being, not afflicted by other planets. Positve flowing trines to Neptune would imply advanced evolution, an avataric, saintly soul.     .  

 Opposite to the Self in the horoscope is the other selves who act as potential guide, to help the native make well thought out decisions, negatively to make one lose direction, to get into a confused mental fuddle called “neurosis“. In other words, he does not know the golden mean or golden middle; he is either high-handed or subdued, either an infamous or nefarious executioner or a contemptible victim of life according to the whole of his pattern pointing to the one or the other form of incontinence.  We see here two persons, one is high-handed, which is the nefarious executioner, and the other native subdued, the one to be executed.  

 This spine-chilling image comes from the Moon on 8 degrees Aries conjunct Sun on 00 Aries 00 in 12^th House of spring equinox 2015.   “If overbearing, the native will be a quarrelsome daredevil, devoid of self-control, inclined to the most arbitrary kind of violence, his recklessness will be his own undoing.”  You can see the picture here of a likely new convert probably from a western state in Europe, Belgium, or Bosnia to the organization of IS (Islamic state) terrorist jihadist who appears to have no choice, because if he is cowardly, meaning if he refuses to do violence as ordered by his brutal master, his life will be a grey one, dully monotonous in its boundless misery and endless gloom.  A western convert who wishes to leave to return to his country, but he can’t give up, he will be killed if he refuses to die to go to paradise as they say, so he is “luckily enough, he is not  apt to live long.”  In this Ingress horoscope of 2015 we see the repeated image of executioner or victim, irascible or stubborn pigheadedness leading to incontinence or total lack of control, eventually leading to violent psychosis of rampant irrational killings in the name of religion.  

 The alignment of planets consists of Neptune, Mercury, Chiron in Pisces, Sun-Moon conjunct in zero Aries for the Sun, and for the Moon on 8 degrees Aries denoting in neo-platonic parlance, the subject’s “irascible” soul’s incontinence. What does “incontinence” mean? Simply put it means not restrained, uncontrolled, in such cases, people may be incontinent because they are lacking in normal excretory functions so they are often sick or lacking sexual restraint, unchaste.  Neptune, ruler of Pisces, the spark of divinity in man on 8 degrees Pisces conjunct Mercury planet of practical intelligence has this to say regarding the 12^th House neurosis of a double-placed Piscean sign and energies:  there is shiftiness (Pisces is a double-bodied sign, mutable, changeable in mode of action) and inner dissension in today’s human beings, probably more of the  male, the co-existence of conflicting features such as on one side, childishness or unripeness, lack of self-criticism, unfitness for independent life, and on the other side, a remarkable aptitude for business, practical skill on a small scale, bodily and mental resilience and fitness.  Ability to do great deeds, such as the arts, painting, music, and to botch the simplest things.  We have many incredible artists, at this time, it’s true. 

There is promptness and indecision, tact, and boorishness, light-mindedness and immodesty, reckless and at the same time naïve cunning.  Wow! no wonder we have an Ingress chart that doubles up, top heavy on one side, but still carrying the features of both halves of the whole coin with a few planets on the other side of chart. In this case, Saturn and Jupiter both retrograde, meaning review, reboot, renew these given energies of restriction and expansion respectively with the Moon's North Node in your selves to be transformed into new humans. 

  There is so much ability to do great deeds and to botch the simplest things.  Men of this type cannot live without a woman or women to tidy them up, although they prefer a brother or brothers have a great part in  the native’s life. A brother here could mean a real one or someone always available, willing to help.  Mga kapatid, we are all brothers, are'nt we in Aquarius the Age of Uuniversal Brotherhood?  Why are we killing each other?   Where’s Uranus now, ruler of the sign Aquarius, the water bearer?. Luck is ambiguous.

 Uranus is conjunct Moon on the Aries Ascendant, and trines positively Jupiter in Leo retrograde in 5^th house of romance, pleasure, rulership, and creativity.  The problem of such an existence is how to insert oneself in the Whole, or to find one’s central point (‘‘central” not middle point, like hasty interpreters will have it) The way to one’s own innermost core may prove an ordeal, taking up one’s best years and further.  No ambition, no goals. As Buddha says, don’t believe what I say. 

 At each cross-road the native may have to stop in utter puzzlement and retrace part of his steps. Like a wheel caught in the wrong contrivance, the native may go to pieces; or like a sprocket wrongly fitted in its hub, he may skid off and come to grief, or he may end by becoming a pretty but useless trinket, an ornamental dead weight for himself and others, says Mercury in Pisces, in 12^th house, of inner dissensions, but once the hub is fitted upon its axle, the yield and range of the native’s activities cannot be measured by conventional standards, having Uranus (the unconventional), rising on the Ascendant of this Ingress chart, conjunct Moon with golden trines to Jupiter and Saturn both retrograde?  His vitality is prodigious, thanks to his female or male cook or herbalist and the depths to which his unfettered thought can reach are abysmal.  The more dangerous is any mental aberration.  Now do you wonder why the world today, the community of western nations are often making summit meetings on how to deplete the resources of, degrade and destroy the safe havens wherever they may be, of these enemies of peace.
                                

 Looking at the Ingress chart again we are a bit horrified to see the Moon on 8 degrees Aries indicating  that the world today is run by people who do not know the golden middle, so the ingress chart of the spring equinox March 20, 2015 is top heavy on the vertical left of self-undoing.

 It shows a life of unresolved hurts in its emotional life, and bloody slayings coming from past lives in a space-time continuum, memories deeply buried  in the subconscious of our minds, and now asking to be released, forgiven, and erased as well, for this is the beginning of a new cycle in the First House  of renewed soul/spirit of Uranus conjoined by Part of fortune, Mars aligned in the fiery, aggressive, domineering, bullying  Aries with Venus in harmoniously, beautiful but inordinately vain Taurus that has become irascible, causing incontinence with Mars conjunct in a fiery sign.

 Normally, Taurus is innately an unselfish, giving sign.  Pluto on 15 Capricorn in the ingress, meaning the beginning of year 2015, shows too much neurosis: Neptune is conjunct Mercury,in negative square to Saturn retrograde. Chiron in Pisces, in 12^th house of karma, natural house of Pisces, hence, the double Pisces aspect gives great insight into the full cosmic reality but confused, the native experiences an inner sorrow that makes him a kind of collective psychic garbage pail for everyone he comes into contact with. So he goes into drugs, alcohol to get drunk and to love whoever comes and upon this gets lost by imagining detachment, a form of dissolving past reality, releasing himself into total abandon, irascible and incontinent. 
         

But the good news is Pluto on 10 Capricorn has risen to the highest point of the horoscope, which has not happened in past years, in the Tenth house of career called the Midheaven of the ingress chart of 2015.  We see  the great transformative Plutonian cosmic body in flowing positive trine to Black Moon, not a planet but a hidden part of the Moon on 13 Virgo, 6^th House of healing, transforming us into new humans.  It is a time of choice, hard to define at first as it can lead us either to peace or strife, more troubled and less free  but gradually we are learning  now to become wise and learned, over-sensitive, melancholy or pessimistic, sometimes gloomy, but self-possessed, fair and lord-like; a defender of the weak, but watchful and wary.

 The native at this time is keen on performing his task, his service to others, and he/she may be an occultist, perhaps a seer, certainly a pursuer of studies too profound to be accessible to middle-class mentality. You who are reading this posting or taking time out of your work to listen to a lecture on paranormal subjects would represent this attempt to infuse a degree of high sense of phenomenal reality to your practical life at this critical transition to the Age of Aquarius.  Night time dangers are to be taken into account, symbolic of pursuing a study of the supernatural deriving from magic.

 In biblical times, the ‘three kings’ or magi (meaning wise men) who went to seek the holy baby Jesus born in the manger (cared by Mary and Josef in a small barn giving shelter to animals, for there was no room for them in the inn) to deliver their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, were called “ astrologers" in the holy book, since their guiding compass were the galaxy and stars .
 

This year’s spring equinox on zero degrees Aries chart marking the beginning of 2015, has the “crucible of fire” image on its Ascendant, meaning the native’s character will be subjected to exceptional tests.  His or her youth will be subject to such a furnace or burner of grief as to blast anybody who is not made of the sternest stuff. 

You have heard for example of the hostages captured by the Islamic state jihadists terrorists in Syria and Iraq who were killed for refusing to convert, subjected women to slavery, giving ground for some women to commit suicide rather than submit to forced ties of physical, emotional torture, children killed to prevent a promising future for their infidel parents, the men beheaded, and the latest was a Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in a cage, and masses of people killed in blood-curdling atrocities reported from Syria, Nigeria, less of Iraq now. 

 Some parts of the world where social and economic injustices are calling out loud to be resolved as in the case of Hong Kong domestic helps, and we have our own horrific story to tell in January this year about 44 young police (special action force) who were betrayed, abandoned without benefitting from a military  reinforcement, and were thus outnumbered and mercilessly slaughtered by the local islamic jihadists. Because of a confusion of orders or lack of orders hiding behind a secret agenda of catching a highly prized target ..a most wanted foreign bomb-making terrorist, they fell, luckily the fallen heroic 44 succeeded in their quest.

 All these horrible killings were done in the name of religion, a most misunderstood religion. This is not about Islam, it's about certain people who have misrepresented their deity.  
   

 But a growing glimmer of light is coming through the cracks or through the long grey tunnel of years of transformation. We have gone through natural catastrophes of unprecedented nature such as devasating typhoons and snow storms, over flooding, lands-slides burying houses, radioactive tsunami in Japan, tremors, deathly epidemic diseases, hunger, freezing cold for displaced thousands, million in various refugee camps living in tents but grateful for the help of the UN and other international humanitarian organizations.  Gratitude to kind, compassionate persons like Kayla Mueller age 26, who left their comfort zones to work to render service to suffering Syrians at the risk of their own safety.  Captured and held hostage by the ISIS terrorists in Syria, such as the horrific case of James Foley’s execution  by beheading, likewise for two Japanese hostages who came to give humanitarian aid.

 .  This year 2015, all good and bad features of an extreme steadfastness and positivism are indicated.  On one hand, firmness, constancy, sturdiness, endurance to exertion as in the outstanding case of the Jordan king carrying out his airstrikes campaign of eradicating the jihadist terrorists called ISIS in retaliation for burning alive in a cage their beloved heroic pilot whose plane crashed and was captured. 

Alongside with the US led coalition forces the Jordan king who vehemently kept his vow to crush the Islamic state terrorists with three-day heavy bombings of the enemy’s positions has effected a turning of the tide to emerge. Perhaps unknowingly, the king of Jordan has displayed a sense of phenomenal reality denoting amazing fearlessness and faith which is indicated by Jupiter planet of divine protection and benevolence in positive trine connections to 12^th house Sun-Moon conjunct in Aries and Saturn in Sagittarius retrograde, which is sitting on the zodiac degree of widows.  Uranus rising on Aries ascendant is still in negative square to Pluto on the Midheaven in Capricorn, but its harmful negativity is gradually dissipating after decades of drastic upheavals, death and destruction with Uranus now in positive trine to Jupiter retrograde in Leo, conjunct Part of fortune and Mars in Aries bringing sudden luck or unexpected fortune.

 On the other hand, stubbornness, restiveness, pigheadedness, hypercritical skepticism and lustfulness have manifested in congressional corruption, huge PDAF and DAP or even donations to Yolanda funds lost while at the same time the economy in general has enjoyed a big boost rendering the rich to get richer with the poor still remaining in bewilderment. But employment rates have risen as a result of increasing domestic/ foreign investments in real estate development, as in the case of the new "City of Dreams" in Paranaque, a major casino and games resort calculated to draw the celebrities of the world to it, although for this project to succeed, restraint and balance are recommended for an enlightened government to emerge led by a sacred feminine-inspired woman leader to pursue economic goals and maintain sustainability by living in simplicity.

This  is indicated as a gift of the universe to the laborious Filipino people by the Moon in the 4^th sector of lands and houses of the June 12 Philipines republic chart. The  Moon is in golden trines to Saturn conjunct Uranus, both retrograde in Sagittarius, in 12^th house of later years.  Hence, the sources of income and means of subsistence are lastingly assured, nay too lastingly, which may hinder and thwart progress, even mobility in general with too many shiny cars, vans nearly piling up in traffic overload.
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There is much enthusiasm, much spiritual urge, not much faith in man, but faith in God manifesting as  a living, radiating, rain-proof internalized spirituality which overwhelmed Pope Francis on his 4-day visit to the islands in January, 2015. 
  

Whatever his luck, the Filipino feels happy, and is therefore in a constant state of satisfaction, even as sorrowing widows of dead cops and soldiers who have fought the good fight triumphing over terrorists of Islamic State-led natives in Mindanao, but with Sun sandwiched between Pluto, and Neptune higher octave planets of mystical intuition and grace the Filipino is inclined to be more intuitive than rational, more mystical than practical, more stable than imbalanced. Luck is not ambiguous.