The Iraq War

     DO YOU SEE THE FORMATION OF A STAR ? This ingress chart is dated march 20, 2003...but if you are more anxious to know something about the Spring Equinox of March 20, 2015, you will have to wait for the next blog after reviewing what happened in the Spring Equinox of march 20, 2003 when US Pres. George W Bush decided to deliver that fateful "Strike on Iraq" in retaliation for the deadly attack on the New York Twin Towers on 9/11. As to who did it, Bush and Blair the PM of UK then thought it was Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Seven years later they didn't find the evidence of accumulated weapons of mass destruction there. We need therefore a Flashback.

Herein is a reproduction or reposting of the text of Ingress chart spring equinox of March 20,2003, based in Washington DC article I posted on July 12, 2011 in "Forest of Stars," with the title EXPERIENCING 5DIMENSIONAL ASTROLOGY.   Why 5Dimensional?  I would like to call the attention of our readers to the fact that Astrology is a mystical science that goes through cycles of paradigm-shifts, as given in full by a treatise on the Mayan Calendar designed by the ancient Mayan Elders concerning humanity 's development as it rises from the lower dimensions of existence to Higher authentic levels of Self-realizations.  Truth to tell, I have given blogs on the Mayan Calendar in previous postings  with the view to prepare our readers for the rapid acceleration of the World's Mind in the first two decades of the millennium to demonstrate further growth of humankind through technology as well as mystical experiences.


 Experiencing the Fifth Dimension while we still live in the extremely materialistic Third Dimension could be mind-blowing for it would entail an actual 'experience' of an Ingress chart with  a  promising but enormously difficult to comprehend "crucible of fire" image. This is what we are actually experiencing in parts of the world of horrifying raging forest fires suggestive of a people with houses burning that's undergoing tremendous "cleansing" now.  

 In 2015 Spring Equinox chart we see Aries on 13 degrees of the Ascendant carrying a heavy load of Pisces to Aries planets in 12th house and Ascendant, signifying the aforementioned "crucible of fire" image .  Strangely enough, we have a War on Iraq chart in 2003 which displays a fantastic, magical Diamond Star formation (see above)  that precedes the years of seemingly war stoppage only to blow up again with the emergence of new terrorist jihadist groups threatening to wipe out peace and ruin drastically developed areas in the middle east in Syria and Iraq by violently assaulting masses of people, disarranging the demographic boundaries of said countries, and we ask questions where is it going to lead us?   Just hang on, and if you are already AWARE of shifting between the third, fourth, fifth dimensional levels into  their vibrating energetic matrices, you are indeed going through the sudden unexpected bunglings, and infuriating challenges we encounter, or exploding right in the market place, or in a mosque, sometimes drastic upheavals in this miraculous Journey.                            

In her book Catastrophobia, Barbara Hand Clow presents evidence that Earth axis did not tilt very much before 95,000 BC, when the cosmic disaster disarranged the whole solar system. Astrological readings are structured therefore, by seasonality – equinoxes and solstices because once the axis tilted, early humans quickly learned how to maximize their lives by the seasons. Seasonality has a huge influence on human consciousness, says Barbara, and I agree, because of a strong sense of  practicality obtaining in people.  Usually, we need to know how's the weather up or down there to determine our safety in making trips or simply to get a forecast of the success of a business venture or agricultural progress such as an abundant rice harvest .More about surviving the climate change department is our concern.. 

Astrological reading is nothing if it is not experienced. George W Bush invaded Iraq exactly during the Spring Equinox of 2003, because the Elite knew this moment had a formative potential. Also, that makes GWB a visionary, regardless of what we think. This happened on Day Three of the Galactic, based on the Mayan Calendar, so this invasion caused events that will influence the rest of the Galactic Underworld that’s only a step to the Universal plane of Ascension. 

On April 26, 2003, I wrote an article in the Elan section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, titled “Making Sense of the Iraq War.” In it I presented the equation that we are a race in crisis and in transition. Based on the astrological chart of the “Strike on Iraq” (March 20, 2003. 3 a.m. GMT), which coincides with the coming of the Age of Aquarius, the energies of the planets are telling us that this is the defining year of the Aquarian Age, and it occurs exactly during the Spring Equinox of 2003, Day Three of the Galactic, based on the Mayan Calendar. Nothing happens by accident as we invariably experience from lessons learned. and if we haven't learned, the same vibrating cycles keep repeating. 

 In the ingress chart of 2003, two important planetary formations rule the Iraq War –- the Mystical Rectangle and the Grand Trine which form into two triangles, one pointing downwards, the other pointing upwards, making a huge Star configuration. Incredible for a war chart, we say if we know the beauty, splendor, and power of stars, definitely incredible! (see chart)

The Grand Trine that looks like an inverted pyramid indicates that the world is still materialistic, exploitative and acquisitive. The other Grand Trine however, that’s looking up indicates that certain parts of the world are getting spiritual, and now ready to rise to higher vibrational frequencies of the Heavenly spheres by transcending the physicality of a Returning Karma, in this case the pains caused by diseases,accidents or disasters we suffer when we inadvertently violate the universal Law of Cause and Effect.           

The Mystical Rectangle’s appearance is a powerful sign that explains the mystical aspect of human life on earth. Mystical tendencies show if the people are equipped for attuning to the Divine through alchemy, or the will to be a co-creator of the Creator in creating a much better world with the aid of prayer and meditation being practiced on a regular basis. In this chart, there emerges a breed of people “in pursuit of studies too profound to be accessible to middle-class mentality.” Instead of trying to mend what is broken in society in a material sense of building houses, malls, hotels, they focus on creating a completely new world, the utopian Garden of Eden of the new spiritual and mystical Aquarian Age. To them, the only things that need repair are hearts and minds. And how do we repair hearts and minds? How do we mend the Shape of the Formless in us? Do you hear the sound of one hand clapping in zen meditation? 

This is how we experience Astrology. We see the inner self of a human, his heart and mind, his soul, not just his apparel or how stylish he/she looks.  Then it becomes more complicated and confusing, to the point of you becoming bewildered when the sexes get mixed up, the male becomes female or vice versa, without losing the basic genetic makeup, then we encounter the "bading" (Tagalog for homosexual in various shapes. sometimes heavily autistic and bi-polar) only to encounter a human being who indulges in "double speak" and when making contracts or agreements that make no sense ends up in a "double bind" as in in the case of the  BBL (Basic Bangsamoro Law) peace process  between a group of terrorist rebels and government,  you see a lot of unconstitutional provisions in the draft drawn up making it damaging to the sovereign will of the people as a nation, indicating that some kind of mental aberration happened to the President and the Filipino negotiators who are known for their academic substance without their knowing it. Worse, the responsible people called mainstream  Media have been probably paid to give it a News Blackout. There is a public sense that media is under control of the current regime. 

 Bear with me, please, because we are crossing five rivers at the same time to get to where we as teachers have to reach to meet the children in school, this may be a situation in some far flung barrio in the hinterlands of Mindanao or the Cordilleras in Luzon.  I consider the image very appropriate for the kind of tough situation we are in as guides or teachers or plain citizens of a country trying to restore a semblance of law and order at a time when one learns that Time is an Illusion, a mind -blowing concept, Time is illusory in that it merges the Past, Present, Future into one Now.  We are made responsible for every action or acted-out choice we make at each level of time, and feel it is such Fun, enjoying all the moments, at every encountered moment, just having fun, fun in the Philippines where it speaks as spellbinding Tourism, then you encounter the shocking truth about life while crossing five rivers to reach the school of basic learning, indicating the infuriating truth about corruption in government where budget for building schools, roads, and bridges was mismanaged or wasted in nebulous Neptunian ways. For the 2016 solar return chart of the Philippines, Neptune, the cosmic higher octave of pure intent, is afflicted by oppositions from Jupiter conjunct Moon in 4th house of soul foundation, stands smack on the Midheaven, peak, tenth house of career in governmental institutions. Pluto is in the transformative 8th House of death-rebirth cycles in flowing harmonious trines to Jupiter conjunct Moon in 4th house of roots.  Salvation at last! If we have studied what we have learned over the decades of meeting turbulence in skies, lands and seas while taking trips.  

  Five rivers symbolize the Five dimensions of time/space continnum, easy it seems to cover having done the journey on foot and thinking it's all been fun, getting muddied up to knee at times perhaps, thanks to climate change, but on the Third dimension going to end in Fourth, graduating from studies steeped in Indian philosophies given by outstanding yogis and white bearded gurus in eternal meditation detached from the world or on the other extreme, steeped in banking and commercial trade in focused financial adoration of the world's goods and dissipated life, also suspected to be funding wars of extremely dangerous radicalized groups in Syria, Iraq, Africa, Afghanistan, (for protection, and  to be sure they don't take in the suffering refugees fleeing from these wars, leaving them to Germany, and Sweden and the rest of Europe to handle) we start to meet the Fifth dimension. In the years 2014-2015, Neptune returns to its own sign in Pisces, where, on its 12th degrees, we see why we have been struggling to understand Life:

 "Gnoethi souton" (words on the lintel of Apollo's temple in Delphi. "From the hub to the rim and back again" (Dante, Paraiso, xiv, 1). "As he looks back, back will have to go," (Dante, Purgatorio, ix, 132).  Are you still here? Patience is the lesson to be learned in schooling. and be sure to bring your baon -- intelligence.  

The problem of such an existence is how to insert oneself in the Whole, or, in other words, to find out where one's innermost core may prove an ordeal, taking up one's best years and further. 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 even, like a wheel for ever removed from any contrivance, he may end up by becoming a pretty but useless trinket, an ornamental dead weight for himself and others. But once the hub is properly fitted upon its axle, the yield and the range of the native's activities cannot anymore be measured by conventional standards; his vitality is prodigious and the depths to which his unfettered thought can reach are abysmal.  

The more dangerous is any aberration.  To avoid that danger --  restore Balance, Truth, Compassion, Forbearance. Understand the Laws of karma, and live them.        

At this point I’d like to show another chart with a Mystical Rectangle formation, and this is the Philippine chart of June 12. In a previous posting, I made projections of the Filipino OFWs penchant for going to work in the Middle East, consciously to earn petro dollars to improve life in his own country, unconsciously, to infuse the subtle energies of a kind of internalized spirituality on their masters’ consciousness, indicating an ability to repair their hearts and minds. The arrival of our Pinoy OFWs along with the numerous other multinational workers swarming as it were like ants in the vast deserts of Arabia were there to build, to construct roads, bridges, buildings. And all kinds of infrastructure increased to advance the sparkling de luxe modernity of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, Baghdad, etc. The astonishing progress of the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq (though with difficulty), also opened the world's eyes to the insufferable inequality and injustice between lifelong dictators and the suffering, heroic people in Middle East countries that were now "Awakening" after the Iraq War was launched by the Allied forces led by the US on the Spring Equinox of 2003, indicating a new beginning of a new order through tremendous upheavals, death and destruction in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq.    

The paradoxical appearance of a STAR formation of two Grand Trines intersecting each other, along with a Mystical Rectangle in the Iraq war chart denotes great energies in support of a war that is unlike no other war in the past. This is a human conflict in ancient Mesopotamia, cradle of civilization that has been prophesied in sacred texts as crucial in terms of its responsibility to bring about a new age and a new order. This may well be the long predicted clash of civilizations induced by religious fundamentalism, except that the attendant violence runs counter to being “civilized.” Together, the Mystical Rectangle and the Grand Trine in the Iraq war chart present a cosmic confrontation of polarities, of opposites. On one hand, the allied nations have been displaying ego and anger. On the other, there has been emphasis on humanitarian activities, with all-out aid and missions. It calls on us to have an open mind about all that’s happening in the world now

Let us then look at Astrology in the Fifth dimension. Let us try to unite the two levels of spirit and matter. Heaven and Earth, as represented by a huge Star formation composed of two Grand Trines, intersecting each other, one pointing Up, the other pointing Down as seen in the Iraq war chart, and so understand the essence of the connection between the planets and our lives on Earth. As an astrologer from the Faculty of London, Szanto, puts it, if we look at the universe from the top of the mountain, or from the circumference of the circle, it is. The whole of it is contained in a space-time continuum. The horoscope is a circle of a space-time continuum. The past, the present, and future exist in potential. This is the universe in its spiritual state, at the archetypal level of the zodiac. 

For instance, if you are born between June-July, you are Cancer, Cancer is your archetype, it describes you as a human type. It is not the Sun in Cancer in itself, as a rational image that describes the person. It is the force behind the symbol. The Sun in Cancer is no more than a door, a psychic image, leading us to the inner meaning. The way to the symbolic truth contained in the Horoscope is through the intuition. This does not mean that we should not use our rational faculties. Indeed we should but it will be fused with the intuitive powers for both are halves of the whole -- Heaven and Earth, as astrologer Szanto declares in his book, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Earth.' 

If we look at the universe from the bottom of the mountain or from the circumference of a circle, it comes to life. Things happen. Events unfold. We have the choice of watching the drama passively as an spectator, or actively by taking part and give meaning to the events that happen to us. Ultimately, we are asked whether we recognize the meaning of what occurs in our world. 

The point of astrology is to get in touch with the inner meaning of the time. Most of us cannot experience the meaning of the moment directly and we therefore need to rely on the phenomena that reflects it. The quality of the universe as it is, is continually reflected in the planetary cycles, and we find the meaning of the universe in the creation of a new world in the middle of the Summer Solstice of 2011 with three lunar eclipses from June 1 to July 1, 2011. Events since the Gemini New Moon has continued to verify the critical nature of three themes 1) a crisis over the use of nuclear power 2) chaos in the Middle East 3) economic collapse of some advanced countries. Fort Knox's gold bars are rumored to be disappearing fast as the war in Iraq by the US coalition of allied forces was taking a heavy toll on the US economy resulting in a dreadful recession that the Obama regime inherited. Surely we have lived not only in a time of chaos, but in a time of miracles since then and up till now!