Showing posts with label Mundane astrology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mundane astrology. Show all posts

Wednesday 8 March 2023

Pluto in Aquarius: the dictatorship of the "commonness" and of the "abnormal" - And your money don't belong to you!


The majority of astrologers considers Pluto's upcoming entrance into the sign of Aquarius as a "positive thing". Probably because they tend to link the sign of Aquarius with an impending "golden age"! As a result, they mostly make optimistic predictions like "a new brighter era will dawn," "the common people will rebel against their autocratic rulers" and so on.

What those astrologers overlook is the fact that the "Pluto in Aquarius" "equation" has two coefficients: Aquarius AND Pluto! So, on the one hand Pluto is (somehow) "activating" the sign of Aquarius alright, but on the other hand it is simultaneously attempting to impose its "tenebrious vibrations" on the sign of Aquarius! That's crucial and unless we take that aspect into consideration, we will not be able to interpret Pluto in Aquarius correctly.

You see, Aquarius represents the "ultimate archetype of freedom"! Left on its own devices the sign of Aquarius is incessantly working for the freedom and self-determination of the common people (and of course planet Uranus is doing something analogous, equally contributing to human liberty).

The presence of Pluto, however, in the “sign of urns” will significantly "hinder" that Aquarian attribute! You see, Pluto favors the "compulsive unification" of people, over their "individuation" and "self-determination"! Hence, in the years to come, a "dictatorship of commonality" might start ruling our planet, and those who are deemed "privileged" or not common enough may be stigmatized and "castigated"!

Surprisingly, a similar "zeigeist" was in effect during the previous time that planet Pluto was in Aquarius, at the end of the 18th century. What was the major historical event back then? The French Revolution of 1789! A revolution that took place with Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn in Pisces! Does this ring a bell to you? The "harsh" planets Pluto and Saturn will be in the very same zodiacal positions from March 23, 2023 onwards! 

The 1789 revolution was followed by the infamous "Reign of Terror" (during 1793-94, with Pluto in Aquarius opposed by Uranus in Leo - that's actually a "double-whammy" configuration, a quite potent one). Tens of thousands of (often innocent) French citizens were deemed, by fast-track trials, "enemies of the State" and were executed at the famous "Guillotine"!

Thus, if you were socially "privileged" and not "commoner" enough, that was one of the worst times in history to live in France! Do you see Pluto in Aquarius at its wildest here? And can you guess how wild the "stygian" Pluto in "loco" Aquarius will get in the years to come?


                                            The dictatorship of the "abnormal"!

Another dictatorship that Pluto in Aquarius can forcefully impose on us is that of the "abnormal"! Types of persons and events that were previously regarded odd and even weird will be promoted as the "norm" (for example, men declaring that they believe they are women).

Many people today may find it strange for a (previously) male colonel (such as American Jennifer Pritzker) to lead his soldiers while dressed in a skirt and makeup. However, this will be relatively normal in the near future.

But there is a paradox here! The transgender movement is not "grassroots"! It appears to have spread "from top to bottom". That is, it was conceived, funded, and supported by wealthy Americans such as Jennifer Pritzker. This contradicts the whole essence of the "peripheral" sign of Aquarius! However, it is very much in sync with the "Pluto in Aquarius" spirit.


                                              Not owing any of your own money!

Let me give you an example of how that "dictatοrship of commonality" that I described above might affect our money. Soon all money will be digital. Bills and coins will be redrawn by the state and will thus vanish! Only digital money transactions will be allowed.

You might think that that's a rather convenient thing. No more dirty and perishable paper banknotes in our hands! Well, think again because there is as well a quite dark "Pluto in Aquarius" side to it!

With all money being digital, the State will have the absolute control of it! Meaning that the State's long hand will constantly be in your pocket (or digital bank account). If some day the State decides that - due to some imminent crisis - the food, the gasoline etc. should be rationed and every citizen should receive an equal portion of food, gasoline etc (no matter how much money s/he has) then you will see Pluto in Aquarius in its best! 

You see, if you don't have much money Pluto in Aquarius will somehow work to your advantage. It will mainly hurt people who have enough to a lot of money, because under a digital rationing regime their fortune will be somehow blocked and "castigated", making them feel as if it were worthless - if it cannot abundantly provide them what they want! This is an unprecedented situation that has never occurred again in our societies, in the last few centuries.

If we have ever dreamed of a society with fewer money inequalities, or the "democratization of money," Pluto in Aquarius will bring us as close to that vision as possible! The dark aspect though of Pluto in Aquarius is that the state will be able to easily cut off the flow of money (in the interest of the "greater good") at any given moment. Capital controls on our money will be easily implemented. "Money driven lockdowns" as well, in which each citizen will be allowed to receive and spend money i.e. only within a certain range of his/her home .

All in all, Pluto in Aquarius will definitely regulate, to a considerable extent, the "money inequalities" (and all kinds of inequalities) that currently exist in our societies. On the other hand, it may deprive individuals of many liberties (and that will in fact be the effect of the totalitarian side of Pluto over the sign of Aquarius - the "vessel" of absolute freedom)! Freedom will be worth dying for! 

Thomas Gazis
Copyright: Thomas D. Gazis 

Thursday 21 April 2022

Our "airplane" (the "West") is nosediving - but we think we are flying fine!


Throughout history, the empires seem to be ever shifting from East to the West! Starting with what we consider the oldest known empires, the Mesopotamian and Egyptian ones, the "world hegemony" was consequently taken over by the Hellenistic Empire, by the Roman Empire, by the Frankish one and - later on - by the Spanish and the English empires! Then, the center of power shifted further westwards and USA became the strongest world empire! And apparently the time has come for the "world hegemony" to shift even further westwards, to China! 

Such discussions are often held on the internet. But most of us are treating them as if they concerned some distant future event. Few people realize that this "changing of hegemony" process is happening right now, right in front of our own eyes! 

I believe that we Westerners (Europeans + Americans) are somehow out of touch with the current cataclysmic events that are taking place all over the planet! We have been ruling the world for so long that we have become complacent and arrogant. But the current war in Ukraine has dramatically overturned many things that we were taking for granted, till now! 

First of all, we are having a distorted perception of reality! Our western media are telling us that the entire planet is hating the Russians, because they invaded Ukraine. The reality is that the two thirds of the world population are pro-Russian (courtesy of the USA interventions and invasions in very many countries, all over the planet). Our western media are telling us that the Russian economy has been hit hard and the Russian Ruble is now worthless. In reality (as you can see in the diagram below) the Russian Ruble is almost stronger now that it used to be before the war in Ukraine! 



Actually, what has been hit hard is the economy of Europe! The prices of basic goods have skyrocketed in the previously prosperous Europe and the inflation is rampant! The prices of the basic goods have risen as well in the USA. This is probably the first tangible sign that USA is getting weaker in the world scene! It is still a military super power but its economy leaves much to be desired! In February 2022 USA's national debt topped 30 trillion - for the first time ever in the history of this great country! With such a humongous debt the USA economy is currently on the verge of collapse! 

You might argue that USA has been having a huge debt for decades now and apparently has handled it fine, so far! Things have drastically changed though! You see, the US dollar has been the world's reserve currency ever since 1944 - with the "Bretton Woods" agreement. With that agreement the US Dollar acquired a unique international status - and the US economy some amazing privileges! But that era seems to be ending now, as more and more countries are buying and selling goods not anymore with US Dollars but with other currencies (such as the chinese Yuan and the Russian Ruble). The US Dollar is rapidly losing its status as the "word's reserve currency"! That's not good! 

You see, the USA financial mechanisms were facing so far the spectre of the huge national debt by issuing more banknotes, by printing that is more dollars! And as long as the US Dollar was the "world's reserve currency" they could get away with it! Till the day that is that the US Dollar would start losing its much privileged international status! And apparently that day has arrived! 

One of the first signs of a "debilitated" currency is the so called "domestic inflation". Since the US Dollar is getting weaker, you will need more of it to buy the same things you used to buy in the past at a lower price. You need i.e. more dollars now to fill the gas tank of your car - in comparison to just a few months ago! As the US Dollar and the Euro will be getting weaker the prices in our western countries will keep rising! 

But we are apparently oblivious of all this! That's definitely the result of the current Jupiter - Neptune mega - conjunction in Pisces! It is as if we are living in a permanent fog and the only thing we can discern is some shadowy figures and actions taking place all around us! Not to mention that the aforementioned mega-conjunction in Pisces is somehow announcing to us - with fireworks - that the world we used to know is closing now its cycle and is arriving to its end!

Thomas Gazis 

Copyright: Thomas D. Gazis

Sunday 3 April 2022

The 500 years mega-resonance planetary cycle (and the irrevocable degradation of Europe)!

"Europe" by Justus van Egmont

I was watching the other day a video of a brilliant Greek geopolitical analyst (Constantine Grivas) who was positing that the current war in Ukraine is signalling - among other things - the definite ending of the 500 years European dominance over the world! Plus, it is signalling the irrevocable transformation of Europe into a "vassal continent", on the periphery of the new geopolitical protagonists of the world!

Of course, him saying that "we are witnessing the ending of a 500 years cycle" struck an astrological chord in me! You see, a 500 years period is quite significant, astrologically speaking. Every 500 years (approx.) a Neptune / Pluto conjunction is taking place on the earthy skies. A conjunction that is considered a major player in Mundane Astrology! We might not have currently a Neptune / Pluto conjunction on our skies - nor we had 500 years ago - but the relation of Pluto to Neptune (their "phase") is today exactly the same as it was 500 years ago: Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn, forming an over-stretched "waxing" Sextile among them. This means that we are somehow experiencing now - on a collective and on a "transcendental" level - a kind of "zeitgeist" that is similar to the one that humanity experienced 500 years ago (I will expand on this a little further on)!

The significance, though, of this 500 years planetary cycle does not end there. There is much more to it than that! Because ultimately, this 500 years period coincides with a mega "resonance" planetary cycle! Let me show you what I mean.

To start with the most exterior planet, Pluto, this little (but ultra-powerful) fella is completing an orbit around the Sun every 248 years (247,94 to be precise). Thus, in a period of 500 years Pluto has completed 2 orbits around the Sun (not precisely but pretty close to it)! Meaning that if we know in what sign Pluto is at a certain year we can easily find in what sign it was 500 years prior to that year. In most cases, Pluto would be in the same sign - or otherwise in an adjacent one.

I have already pointed out in another article the Uranus - Neptune 168 years (approx.) "resonance". Let's see now whether or not these two planets "resonate" to the 500 years period, as well. Planet Neptune is completing an orbit around the Sun every 165 years (164,81 to be precise). If we divide now 500 by 165 we get a number that is astonishingly close to the number 3! This can be very useful to us, because if we know in what sign Neptune is at a certain year we can easily find out in what sign Neptune was 500 years prior to that year (most probably in the very same sign - or otherwise in an adjacent one).

Moving on to Uranus, this eccentric planet is completing an orbit around the Sun every 84 years (84,02 to be precise). If we divide now 500 by 84 we get a number that is quite close to the number 6! Thus, in a period of 500 years Uranus has completed six orbits around the Sun! Meaning that by knowing in what sign Uranus is at a certain year we can deduce that most probably it was in the very same sign 500 years prior to that year - or otherwise in an adjacent one.

Let's see now if this works with Saturn, as well. The planet of the rings is completing an orbit around the Sun every 29 years (29,46 to be precise). If we divide now 500 by 29 we get a number that is pretty close to the number 17! Thus, in a period of 500 years Saturn has completed seventeen orbits around the Sun! Therefore, if we know in what sign Saturn is at a certain year we can find in what sign it was 500 years prior to that year: most probably in the very same sign - or in an adjacent one.

Do you see my point here? 500 years ago the planets Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto might have been in the very same signs they are now! Saturn in Aquarius, Uranus in Taurus, Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn! "These things don't happen" you might say. Well, they actually do! Because in 1522 indeed all of the outer planets, from Saturn to Pluto, were in the same zodiacal signs that they are now!

What are the chances of such a coincidence? Not very many, I would say. You see, If we start going back in time in 500-year increments (1000, 1500, 2000, 3000 years etc.), the "harmonic resonance" of the 500-year rule will begin to break down. (as the planets Pluto, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn will start shifting into ever more adjacent signs. In an oddly symmetrical manner though: when Saturn and Uranus shift (in tandem!) to the previous sign then Neptune and Pluto shift (again in tandem!) to the following sign, and vice versa.Thus, this "mega-resonance" is mostly "in tune" within the 500 hundred years range before or after a given year. Even then, however, there might still be some "cacophonies", having i.e. a planet in the sign that is adjacent to the anticipated one.

Yet there is something extremely intriguing happening here. I researched the last 7000 years (using the "Solar Fire 9" astrology program) and discovered that the planets that concern us (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) have been in the same zodiacal positions that they occupy today (simultaneously) only once: around the year 1522 CE! Never before, never after that period! So, there must be something quite unique and special that is connecting us with the year 1522 CE. What would it be?

Half a millennium ago cataclysmic events were taking place almost all over the globe, events instigated by the major European powers of the time, which were vying to conquer and colonize as many foreign lands as possible! The great protagonists of that era were the Spaniards, who actually were the first Europeans to conquer and colonize a transcontinental empire (the Aztec one)! On August 13, 1521 the relatively small Cortes army finally overpowered the significantly more numerous Aztecs and militarily captured Tenochtitlan (today's Mexico city). That was a monumental event, that occurred while Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were in the very same signs they are now! Hence, when Cortes was named governor of "New Spain" in 1522, that event marked the beginning of the European powers' centuries-long rule over practically the entire world!

Fast forward 500 years and that astonishing European preponderance seems to have irrevocably faded, with Europe being reduced now to a helpless bystander in the deadly USA-Russia-China mega-clash over the world's new domination!  

Thomas Gazis
Copyright: Thomas D. Gazis

Wednesday 6 March 2019

Uranus in Aries has gone away...and with it the "Better Me" virtual self?



Just a couple of hours ago planet Uranus left the sign of Aries and entered Taurus (definitely this time)! We all know that when we come down to Uranus we should expect the "unexpected"! Thus, it's not easy to predict the situations and events it will bring about on a collective level, during its seven years stay in Taurus.

It's far easier to study Uranus' effects in hindsight. And I personally think that one of the "themes" that Uranus brought about, during its stay in Aries (from 2010/11 on), was the "BETTER ME VIRTUAL SELF"!

Take Facebook for example. It is full of "Fake accounts" (hundreds of millions)! Full of fake ID's, fake avatar photoes etc. The same goes for the other Internet social media. I always considered this an interesting subject. Why do people need to create fake accounts? Is it because they want to con their fellow humans? Or is there another need, lurking behind this massive phenomenon?

Undoubtedly there are many fake accounts out there, created by rather malicious people with the sole purpose to conceal their true identity and con (in any possible way) their fellow humans.  But most of the hundreds of millions of the fake accounts were created for a totally different reason, a reason perfectly mirroring the energy of Uranus in Aries!

You see, for the first time ever in the history of humanity, people had the chance to create on Internet a better virtual version of themselves!  A "Virtual Self" that would be prettier, taller, thinner, richer, younger (if the user was elder), a grown up (if the user was an adolescent) etc. And we are talking here about hundreds of millions of rather genuine people, who created a fake account with no malicious intent to con their fellow humans. Of plain people who just took advantage of the never experienced before, fascinating possibilities the internet was opening up to them!

The core desire of these people was simply to experiment, to become a kind of "glamorous Cybernauts" and see then how it feels to get into 
a virtual social environment and interact anew with the people around them - presenting them an "enhanced" version of themselves! 


Some may see this as a scam. But if we change our point of view we realize that this might be a liberating experience for many! Remember, Uranus is an ultra liberating planet! And actually, that was one of the jobs of Uranus in Aries: to liberate us from our usual, somehow burdening, imperfect Selves, so that we become "lighter" and then unhinderedly interact with our fellow humans as pure MINDS (without the usual drawbacks and inhibitions that our "physical Self" is imposing on us)!

Of course, Uranus in Taurus will scrutinize all this and consequently many fake accounts will be removed! And then many people will loose the thrill of cybernauting with their "Better Selves" the various virtual social environments. You see, Taurus brings things "down to earth" and makes them specific, tangible and somehow "heavy"! More "secure" though...


Thomas Gazis
Copyright: Thomas D. Gazis

Saturday 7 July 2018

The unusual celestial phenomena of summer 2018 (the 3 eclipses, humongous Mars etc.)!



As most of you know, we are currently under the spell of the notorious "Capricorn climax". Of a kind of "massive planetary turbulence" that is getting ever more stronger and that will influence our world even more intensely in the next two years (2019 - 2020)! Apart though from this "Capricorn climax", which is setting the general tone of our times, we are additionally experiencing this summer some unusual celestial phenomena that are showering Earth with extra cosmic "energies"!

Saturday 23 July 2016

The astrological causes of the grim "zeitgeist" running now through Europe!


According to the myth, Jupiter the father of all gods in the disguise of a bull abducted the beautiful phoenician princess Europa and brought her to the european continent! In this way the continent of Europe was "inaugurated"! Every myth is rich in symbolism and this specific one is recounting to us the fact that the current European continent was bound to become a blessed land, a land that would display at its fullest the archetypes of royalty, of joviality and of taurean stability and prosperity.

Friday 21 August 2015

Jupiter in Virgo - the God of small things!


Without too much ado, planet Jupiter entered a few days ago (on August 11th) in the sign of Virgo! The event went largely unnoticed, probably because at the time most people in the northern hemisphere were taking their summer vacation! Thus, unlike the entrance of Jupiter in Leo a year ago, this was a "no fanfare", low profile event - but that's quite appropriate to the nature of Virgo!

Tuesday 24 March 2015

The Greek Declaration of Independence (and the true national horoscope of modern Greece!)



"If you can keep your head when all about you 
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 
 If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 
But make allowance for their doubting too; 
 If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, 
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating
................................................................
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, 
And - which is more -you’ll be a Man, my son!"

This Rudyard Kipling's "If" poem was one of my favorites during my early adolescence. I couldn't entirely understand the melodramatic tone of the poem back then. I was just sensing that life - and the poet's talent - had distilled some omnipotent truth in this particular poem, so something was telling me to keep it in me as some precious resource. That proved to be a wise move because as the years were passing by I was ever more encountering situations were I had to make a stand against many individuals supporting a totally different point of view. I was thus resorting often to this poem, as I was struggling to maintain my inner balance. Because difficult as it might be to stand all alone against many it is (when creative) one of the holier tasks a human being can undertake...

Monday 28 July 2014

Jupiter in Leo (an "unhyped" interpretation...)

                                                        (Courtesy: Bill Attride)

There has been too much hype over the entrance of planet Jupiter in the sign of Leo - a few days ago. Supposedly all things are going to get better now and the optimism will sky-rocket among the people! But how can this be? According to the astrological tradition Jupiter was in a far better position in the previous sign, in Cancer where it is EXALTED! This means that from the moment Jupiter left Cancer and passed in the sign of Leo it was somehow "demoted" energetically - since Jupiter neither rules Leo nor is exalted in this fiery sign!

Undoubtedly Jupiter is not in its most privileged position when in Leo. On the other hand it is not in its most inopportune position either ... You see, according to the Hellenistic astrology (and to the Medieval / Renaissance one) Jupiter is the nocturnal ruler of the fiery triplicity (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius). Consequently, it acquires in Leo certain titles and offices. Not though the ones most astrologers are thinking of. If you noticed before, I wrote that Jupiter is the nocturnal ruler of the fiery triplicity. Which means that in the sign of Leo it exhibits somehow distinctively its properties but ultimately in a different - "esoteric" I would dare to say - manner. And in any case not so exuberantly and visibly as many would expect. This is pointed out by the law of "Tao" as well: The extreme "Yang" energies (the combined ones of Jupiter and Leo) are converted - from some point on - into "Yin"ones!

The main "obstacle" for Jupiter in Leo to manifest its exuberant side stems out of its most archetypal / fundamental property: the one of "opening up" and "expanding", the ever going on process of "dilatation and expansion". Such a property though is not particularly compatible with the sign of Leo, which generally works in favor of the "centrality" (Leo is ever promoting the "centralization" of all things). Therefore, there can never be a true"expansion" in the essentially "centripetal" sign of Leo, which is pushing the energies from the periphery to the center - and not from the center outwards, as  the expansive planet Jupiter desires. The often narrow minded, stubborn and inflexible nature of Leo offers anything but a breeding ground for the spiritual and idealistic Jupiter, which needs a lot of dialogue, movement, freedom and open-mindness in order to flourish!

Jupiter somehow stands for the "complexity" while Leo opts for the "simplicity" (Jupiter ever interrelates isolated ideas, composing out of them complex and advanced concepts - and this mecchanism lies at the foundations of philosophy). On the other hand Leo is removing the more complex layers in order to get to the very core of a situation. Thus the two work at crosses purposes here. In addition, Leo (together with Virgo) is the sign of "purification". It wants to purify things out of any "spurious" element. But it is imperative to define first here what is a "spurious" element according to the Leonian perspective - because what exacly is "spurious" is often debatable. And what might seem spurious to the sign of Leo might seem quite indispensable to Jupiter so that it makes a "conceptual interconnection" and extrapolate something "higher" out of various randomly lying and apparently unrelated ideas.

On a "mundane" level Jupiter has to do with goals, belief systems and ideals (the ideals of a certain society, of a state, country etc). With the presence of Jupiter in Leo the social / national ideals might fluctuate and become more rigid and authoritarian - permitting thus extreme ideologies to surface. And as Leo is a conservative sign (remember that in the zodiac it is diametrically opposed to the "radical" sign of Aquarius) it is now likely to trigger a more rigid spirit worldwide. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the first "tsunami" of conservatism / monetarism in the Western world appeared in 1979 - when Jupiter was in Leo again - with the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of England.

Despite the fanfare of many astrologers the periods of Jupiter's presence in Leo have not been the brightest in human history! In March 2003 we had the American-British invasion of Iraq (who can really forget the hysterical Bush's and Blair's cries / calls to war?). In January 1991 we had the war in the Persian Gulf, with the Americans leading both the liberation of Kuwait and the invasion of Iraq. While in June 1967 we had the "six days of war" between Israel and Egypt that almost sparked an international armaggedon. All these major wars were conducted in periods when Jupiter was in Leo! And the two wars in Iraq were apparently "justified" by the pretense that the Americans had to impose their own "democracy" upon Iraq (how much "Jupiter in Leo" is this thing - enforcing my own "democracy" upon others? No true democracy is ever enforcing anything to any one!)

On another level, perhaps it is not so surprising that the unusual and deadly heat wave that swept Europe in 2003 (that has allegedly caused more than 70,000 deaths) took place under the dominion of Jupiter in Leo (representing the somehow excessive manifestation of the "fiery element", of the "heat").

Clearly therefore, a lot of energy is released globally when Jupiter is "transiting" in Leo. But the question is how to manage all this exuberant energy, because if it is diverted in warfares - like in the periods mentioned above - no creative results can be obtained. Obviously all this "excess energy" is better channeled  in activities like sports (which are consistent with the spirit of Leo), in recreational purposes and in "games". Also, with Jupiter in the sign of "spectacles" there will be a "booming" in film industry, fashion and in "spectacles" in general.

However, with Jupiter in Leo ​​some historical peace efforts were made too (such as the famous "Camp David" treaty  in 1978 between the Egyptian President Sadat and the Israeli Begin, the nuclear disarmament agreement of 1979 between the U.S. President Carter and the Russian Brezhnev and the historic west/east Germany unification in 1990). Perhaps this unifying trend stems from what I mentioned before as the "esoteric" aspect of Jupiter in Leo.

Ultimately that may be the best gift Jupiter in Leo will bestow upon us: the ability to work "esoterically" with ourselves and find our true inner core, our "center" so that in all purity we follow our hearts!

Thomas Gazis

Friday 20 June 2014

When Hades reached the top of the firmament (the "dark" 2010 - 2020 decade)!


As you most probably know Hades is the mythical god of the underworld. Therefore Hades (or Pluto) should be normally dwelling under our feet, within the farthest depths of the earth. How would you feel then if I told you that Hades has actually left his gruesome kingdom and is currently residing on the top of the sky, over the very "Zenith of the world"? If I told you that Hades is currently hovering over our heads, invisibly exerting its tight grip on our societies?

Monday 21 April 2014

The Grand Cardinal Cross of April 2014. Αn historical event!



The crucifixion has been the central theme these days within the christian communities. As we speak though a unique "Cosmic Cross" is ever more precisely formed in our skies - climaxing to the April 22nd perfect (partile) Cross configuration between the planets Pluto, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars (all of them being exactly at the 13th degree of the corresponding sign. And it is interesting to know that both the USA's natal Sun and the Russian President's Vladimir Putin Sun stand at the 13th degree of Cancer and Libra respectively)!

Thursday 26 April 2012

Far-right parties on rise in Europe

The poster you see above apparently is a very convincing one. It is a modern political  poster of the French far-right party "Front National". The slogan on it goes: "let's produce French products with French workers" . This is a rather nationalistic slogan that obviously goes against the many millions of foreign (or foreign descent) workers in France! But it seems to have been appealing to the French, because last Sunday it led almost the 20% of them to vote for "Front National"!  And although the above poster seems modern, dynamic and "awaking" it is somehow reminiscent of certain posters that are by now 80 years old! I am referring to the 1930's far-right political posters in Europe, of a highly volatile period that ultimately led to the rise of Hitler's fascist party in Germany (Mussolini's in Italy etc.) and to World War II! 
In reality, us astrologers we had already compared and correlated the actual period with the 1930's, we had already predicted the rise of far-right parties in the 2010's even whole decades ago! We "knew" about it and we were ready to witness it! But now that is happening under our own eyes it is impressive! There is a resurgence of the far-right parties almost all-over Europe! This is not a new phenomenon. As I said before, it happened again back in the 1930's (in the previous "Uranus - Pluto squaring each other" period - again back then with Uranus in Aries and Pluto in the cardinal sign of Cancer).You see planet Uranus expresses - according to the sign it is in and according to the aspects it receives - the "political trends" of each single period. And now that Uranus receives a heavy square aspect from Pluto (a "dark", irrational, extremist, absolutist planet) far-right parties are rising again all over Europe! 
P.S. A meteoric rise of the Greek far-right party "Chrysi Avgi" (Golden Dawn) has occured in the last 3-4 years. On the Greek Parliamentary Elections of the 6th May 2012 the party "Chrysi Avgi" won 7% of the votes (while in the previous 2009 elections it had won just a 0,29%! This means that the "Golden Dawn" party increased its power - in less than 4 years - by a factor of almost 2400%!).

Monday 5 March 2012

World War II - An astrological "Waterloo" no more!

                                    (German troops at the outskirts of Warsaw watch the city burn)

                                                         (by Thomas Gazis)

There is a certain ignominy that casts its shadow over the shoulders of all the modern astrologers, a sort of disgrace that the skeptics are actually taking advantage of. This ignominy has to do with a colossal failing of ours that occurred in the previous century: the astrologers all over the world had blatantly failed to predict the gigantic event of the World War II! French astrologer Andre Barbault - an internationally recognized expert on Mundane Astrology - is explaing the intricacies of this failure in his book "L'Astrologie mondiale":

"Shortly before the war my older brother (an astrologer himself) was running a journal on world events called: "L'Avenir du Monde" ("The Future of the World"). In those times a grim specter was hovering over Europe - especially after the Munich events - and the crucial question on everyone's lips was: can peace be given a chance? "No, the war will not happen" was the reassuring headline of my brother's newspaper, just a few months before the outbreak of World War II - and actually in full agreement with his astrological "intelligentsia" colleagues".

Barbault got utterly disappointed by the blatant failure of the pre-war astrologers to predict world war II!  He wrote later on: "what if tomorrow a third world war or a disruption of global proportions were to break? Would we be able this time to predict it? A new forecast fiasco like the WW2 one would ultimately amount to the condemnation of our celestial art!"

The late 1930's astrologers were very knowledgeable about astrology, almost as knowledgeable as we are! Just think the fact that they were including Pluto in their charts, they knew how to spot the major planetary formations and they were taking seriously in consideration the various Ingresses and Eclipses. Why they failed then so miserably?

Let's see the data they had in their disposition. First of all, in the very year the great war broke (1939) no major stellium was formed upon the sky - nor any major configuration between the outer planets. Let's study then the Vernal Ingress chart that preceded the war. You can see it below:


With the Moon being in the bellicose sign of Aries and both Sun and Moon in the Eighth House - receiving a square aspect from Mars -  and with Pluto sitting right on the Ascendant this Ingress chart is  fraught with war energies! I am wondering how the 1930's European astrologers missed to see that!

Let's study now the Solar Eclipse that preceded the outbreak of the World War II. You can see its chart below. Surprisingly, the Sun and the Moon are found again in the bellicose sign of Aries, receiving an almost partile square aspect from the culminating Pluto (not to mention the fact that Saturn is conjuncting the Luminaries)!


In both these charts there is a "war odour" which the astrologers of the time apparently did not pick up. In hindsight, it's easy to criticize the astrologers of the 1930's for this blatant failure of theirs but if we would put ourselves in their shoes we would extenuate them a lot. In human history there have been many difficult Ingresses and Eclipses and most of them did not entail an event of epic proportions (likeWorld War II). Back in the late 1930's there was no major planetary configuration on the sky heralding an imminent war. In addition, planet Pluto had been discovered just 9 years before, so they didn't have a good understanding of it - as we don't have today a good understanding of the dwarf planet Sedna, which was discovered in 2003 (we just know that Sedna is an ultra-remote and "exotic" object, with an eccentric orbit that looks like a stuffed cigar).

The newly found "dwarf planets" (or "Kuiper Belt Objects" or "planetoids" as I prefer to call them) are actually constituting our new advanced astrological "tools" and they are making the difference (the 1930's astrologers totally ignored them)! If you consider these planetoids as some sort of minor "asteroids" then you should think twice. Planetoid Eris is bigger than planetoid Pluto and if you consider Pluto significant in astrology then you have to consider Eris equally significant! And you should consider significant too the second biggest planetoid: Sedna!

Although it's very early to decipher the astrological properties of these newfound planetoids, we may try to extrapolate some of them out of the "synchronicity" of their name and out of the "zeitgeist" (the "spirit") of the period of their discovery. If you think about it, Eris has a lot to do with war as it is the goddess of discord and strife (in Greek mythology it was Eris that threw the golden apple and indirectly caused the Trojan war). Sedna on the other hand is the most "exotic" and remote planetoid of our (wider) solar system. Its orbit actually looks like a stuffed cigar, with our entire solar system comprised in that cigar's burning edge!  The "snuffing edge" of that cigar-shaped orbit extends incredibly far away - till the so called Oort cloud, a "bubble" of unimaginable dimensions that surrounds our solar system. In the Oort cloud the kingdom of the Sun ends (we have discovered there the so called "héliopause") while beyond that "cloud" there is nothing else but the galactic space. So Sedna constitutes a sort of "cosmic link" that interconnects the more tangible reality of our Solar System with the transcendental oddity of the external galactic space, with the deepest mysteries of our universe! Thus I consider Sedna's energies ultra- undifferentiated, universal and fatal - much more than Pluto's energies are!

Let's travel now with our imagination back in the 1930's. We are some French astrologers experiencing the aftermath of the 1931 Saturn - Uranus - Pluto T-Square (in hindsight, we can tell now that Sedna was pivotal in that formation, as it was conjuncting Uranus and squaring Pluto and Saturn).We would feel that something was going terribly wrong with Germany and we would try to figure out astrologically if there would be a new Great War. We would ask ourselves: when do wars break out according to the astrological theory? During major inharmonic planetary configurations of course but chiefly when the sign of Aries is over-activated. So, we would look ahead and we would see no over-activation of the sign of Aries in the 1930's - 1940's. On the contrary, we would notice an over-activation of the peaceful sign of Taurus in the beginning of the 1940's! Thus, our conclusion would be that no war would occur in the 1930's or in the beginning of the 1940's!

Let's change our script a little bit. What about being French astrologers of the 1930's knowing about Eris and Sedna? That knowledge would radically change our perspective. Both Eris and Sedna orbit the Sun in a very long time periods (Eris in 557 years and Sedna in a staggering 11.400 years!). During the whole period of World War II both Eris and Sedna were in the sign of Aries! That's a unique event that occurs only once every many thousands of years (last time i.e. that Sedna was in the sign of Aries the mammoths were roaming over an ice-covered Europe. Not to mention that rarely both Sedna and Eris are simultaneously found in the sign of Aries)! Thus, this must be considered an event of epic proportions!

How much of a coincidence is the fact that the bloodiest and most violent War in human history (that unleashed tremendous energies and caused an alleged number of 70.000.000 casualties) occurred when both Eris and Sedna were in the sign of Aries? And on the other hand, how can such a war break out with just an outer planet in the sign of Aries (Jupiter)? It makes no sense at all. The World War II had a distinctive Aries trait (Germany is traditionally an Aries country and even its "Blitzkrieg" (the "lighting-war" that the Germans introduced in WW2 for the first time ever in world history) is a typically Arietid product. All this makes sense only if we take in consideration Eris and Sedna! In such a case, an entire stellium is formed in Aries on the very moment of the German invasion in Poland (1st of September 1939) that traditionally signals the breaking of World War II: 


We can clearly see now a whole array of planets-planetoids in the bellicose sign of Aries (with three of them falling in the bellicose - as well - Eight House). Eris is conjuncted by the Moon and Jupiter while Sedna receives a square aspect from Mars. This is by all means a major war outbreak chart!

 And since we have in our hands these new wonderful “tools” (Eris and Sedna) why we don’t apply them to the 1939 pre-war Vernal Ingress chart so as to see what kind of clues will come out this time.



Well, you can see above how much ominous this Ingress chart becomes! Eris is conjuncting both the Luminaries and squaring Mars!  That’s a pretty “shady” element on its own (if you think that Eris instigates strife)! Additionally, Sedna is tightly conjunct by Saturn - unleashing its harsh energies over the social and political reality of the time! This Vernal Ingress chart might easily be considered a war harbinger (notice how much the very first degrees of Aries are emphasized in it, as in the case of the chart erected for the German invasion to Poland. The Moon is in both charts in the sign of Aries - almost in the same degree)!  If the astrologers of the 1930's had in their disposition the "tools" of Eris and Sedna they would have realized the fact that the 1939 Vernal Ingress chart was a war precursor!

Even World War I can be more clearly understood if we consider the fact that Sedna already was back then in Aries, while at the same time Pluto was forming a square aspect to Eris (actually during the critical years 1914 - 1916 Pluto was forming a broader square aspect to both Eris and Sedna. That was quite unusual and certainly must have bore certain implications on world history that we should pinpoint)!

I have personally re-examined tens and tens of major events in world history and I can assure you that we rarely encounter a chart of some historical significance with none of these two planetoids pivotally participating in it! I am even amazed by the fact of how much accurate are the aspects that Eris and Sedna are forming in each separate case!  Beyond any doubt, their discovery is monumental; it is a Columbus kind of discovery for astrology! Eris and Sedna are the new kids on the planetary block. Us astrologers we should call them planets and not planetoids (we are already calling Pluto a planet and we are not regretting it at all). Since the energies of Eris and Sedna are distinctively “collective” and “universal” it is more than obvious that these two planets will enormously enrich Mundane Astrology in the years to come!

I believe that the newly found planetoids - planets have considerably expanded our consciousness and opened us brand new horizons! They are offering us unique new tools, with which we can now improve and enhance - like never before - our interpretative and predictive techniques!

Thomas Gazis

P.S. You can read here some speculation of mine on the properties of Eris.

This is a Thomas Gazis original article
Copyright: Thomas D. Gazis 

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Jupiter and Uranus conjunct at the end of the zodiac: a confused, decaying world!



The zodiac represents a cyclical process (which on a higher level is actually spiral). It has a specific "Begining" (the zero Aries "gama" point) and a specific "End" (the last degrees of Pisces).  We are actually experiencing a particular astrological phenomenon now. The two planets mostly associated in astrology with the world of ideas, with liberty, with the expansion of the human consciousness and awareness  (Jupiter and Uranus) are both transiting now in the last degrees of Pisces (the very last degrees of the Zodiac, that is). Thus, these 2 planets - forming a conjunction - are actually closing now a major historical cycle and are heralding an important message, which we should try to understand.

Thursday 2 December 2010

Capricornian Greece: 1 out of 4 is a civil servant!


(image: from a video by the "Imi-skoubria" group)

Modern Greece is a Capricornian country (please see my relative article here).  A Capricornian country should have a typically rigid and overgrown - "Kafka" type - public sector.  And indeed Greece has one. Out of a population of 11.000.000 an estimated 1.250.000 are civil servants! If we compare this number to the number of civil servants in some major European countries - like i.e. France, where out of 65.000.000 inhabitants only 1.680.000 are civil servants - then we will realise how over-inflated is the public sector in Greece.

Friday 10 July 2009

Jupiter - Neptune conjunction: the miracle aspect!




An important planetary conjunction is taking place now over the sky. The planets of spirituality and high idelaism Jupiter and Neptune have approached so near in their orbits that are now somehow "embracing" each other, being both at the same zodiacal degree (26 degrees of Aquarius, exactly). It is the second time this phenomenon occurs (the first happened on 27 May 2009, while a third "embracing" of these two planets will take place on 21 December 2009).

The Jupiter - Neptune conjunction has been described as "the aspect of the miracles"! It is now likely to cause a big or small miracle in your life, depending on the area it activates in your chart and on the aspects it forms with your natal planets. Be careful though, because this conjunction may lead you as well to some kind of deception.

A miracle might happen now on a global level, too. Certainly, this conjunction will uplift the level of human consciousness and will tune the masses to more spiritual and idealistic frequencies, especially as most of us are frustrated by our previous shallow and materialistic way of living. It might create some major collective Utopias as well.