POOR POLAND ...
Not rescued, tragically, were the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, many key Government and military officials and scores of other passengers at about 10h50 BADT today (10th April 2010) on the approach to Smolensk Airport. The crash occurred in dense fog and was followed by a fire. The chart for this time, with its dwad, shows the conditions in graphic detail - the current Neptune/Chiron conjunction plus a Pisces Moon all in the Midheaven, with Ceres/Pluto just set. In the dwad, Pluto conjoins the MC, its Saturn is close to the radix IC, and its Neptune is with the radix Descendant. Dwad Moon, still in Pisces, is with radix Uranus. Curiously, dwad Jupiter 'rises', opposite the radix Aries Sun. Invariably when Pluto is on angles people's lives are overtaken by powerful events, and Ceres is often found weeping for her lost child. All that Pisces and Neptune conspired to cloak the runway approach in fog - and also to cloud the judgment of the pilot, who had been advised to re-route the plane. Jupiter has joined Pluto on Poland's 7th cusp. Jupiter again ... is there to be a silver lining to this heavy, heavy cloud? If so it may be found in Lech's twin, and previous Prime Minister, Jaroslav. The two were born 45 minutes apart- Lech at 02h45 and Jaroslav earlier at 02h00 CET ( -ish?) on June 18th 1949 in Warsaw. I am indebted to an astrological friend for the data. What is most striking is that both men have a draconic dwad 'full moon' in early Cancer/ Capricorn, currently hit by T Pluto. This is also Jaroslav's draconic MC/Jupiter axis, with T Pluto right on it. So we have spiritual purpose and maybe karma at work. This has had to happen because of the impact on the life of the surviving twin. Lech also had a Jupiter/MC, this time from tropical dwad to radix. This was opposite dwad Mars at the radix Leo IC ... death in the burning plane?
Curiously, this is echoed by the Q Chart of the crash with Jaroslav: at 02h00 that day Jaroslav's rising Mars/Mercury and setting Chiron were on the meridian in Smolensk, with Mars setting in coelo. These are patterns one might expect to find in the chart of the man who violently died rather than the survivor ... but see, on the Q Ascendant is Jaroslav's Jupiter. Lech's relationship to the crash is best shown by the Q Chart and its dwad - here the fog closes down again! ... Neptune rises at 02h00 CET with dwad Saturn and Mercury opposite; at the dwad IC is again Neptune with the radix conjunction of ruthless Pluto and bereaved Ceres opposite the twins' radix Uranus. One has to ask oneself if all this Neptune fog is also the pattern of a terrible betrayal. There are more fateful patterns implicit in Lech's Solar Return on June 17th 2009. Adding the vital dwad, its MC is joined by the dwad S.Node with N.Node on the IC - an image of surrendering the future at the appointed time of one’s passing - and in the dwad itself is a conjunction of Sun and IC - the end of life. This is with the radix Moon again suggesting the closing of a book before the start of a new one. Of course his twin has the same ‘New Moon’ and this time the radix Nodes on the Meridian. For him too the year ahead holds major spiritual and temporal lessons and duties. No Sun/IC conjunction for him, though; instead the Return dwad Sun and radix Moon are strongly angular on the SR Descendant. The dwad MC is with Mars; dwad Pluto is at the radix IC. This is a picture of a man’s profile significantly raised, an influential career taking off again - power possibly being resumed by a former Prime Minister. To be a President you have to have an angular Sun, and Lech's is the radix Gemini Sun on his dwad Desc, being terminally squared by the opposition of Uranus and Saturn. This is also the very axis of Jaroslav's powerful dwad Mc/IC-radix Sun, if the given time is reasonably accurate. Will he indeed be the one to step into his brother's shoes? Pluto has homed in with a vengeance - it is loitering with intent on the survivor's sidereal (historic and public) Jupiter/Mc conjunction! With a Mercury/Mars conjunction rising in coelo, Jaroslav is unlikely to be backward in coming forward. And he has S.Node 'rising' in the dwad; he will never feel that his life is his own. He knows he is a man of destiny, and with Pluto’s voice destiny is calling ever more loudly over the next few years. |
small world 2010This April issue is followed by further articles from 2010, which are available as clickable PDFs.
April 11th 2010
A CLOSE SHAVE!!! No, nothing to do with Wallace and Gromit ( I identify profoundly with Gromit...) but a pair of Cranes flying decorously down the M6 and momentarily having to change lanes. And suddenly presented with a football-sized lump of black rubble in the middle of the outside lane with no chance of avoiding it. Gerard has a Mercury/Mars conjunction in Capricorn, now being totally Pluto'd. His brilliant reactions at speed led to the lightning decision to run our low-slung car straight over this nightmare object, so avoiding the swerve to left or right that would have led to the holiday week's most horrendous pile-up. So I am still here to write this memo; and G is busy printing his 'Colmcille' newsletter; and the car is in her place with seemingly not a scratch to show for the ghastly sounds that came from her chassis and wheels as the Thing went under her. Yes, Mars was exactly rising. And the composite of G's Uranus with the transit had landed right on his Descendant. Thank you to every Friend we have in Heaven for getting us - and especially everyone around us - home safely last Wednesday. The crash and fire itself, of profound political significance to Poland, is of course most vividly depicted in the interaction of Tropical with Sidereal: sidereal Mars on the tropical Ascendant, sidereal IC on tropical Mars; sidereal Sun on tropical Uranus, sidereal Uranus on tropical Moon and MC. How poignant that so many died on their way to pay tribute to the thousands of Poles who were murdered at Katyn in 1940. The Polish chart most responsive to the current transits is that of Poland's independence on November 11th 1918. Nick Campion in his Book of World Horoscopes has set this for 12h00 noon in the absence of other information, but speculates that this may in fact be a valid time, as "it was at 11am GMT that the German armies in the west ... surrendered." As Warsaw was then on EET not CET, 2hours, not one hour, ahead of GMT, this doesn't really hold water - yet the chart as it stands has 6 Capricorn rising, very close to the crash transit of world-shaking Pluto and indeed exactly opposite Pluto radix. The annual progressed and Return charts are also very telling; the p.IC is just past chaotic Neptune and in the SR of November 2009 the 9th-house Sun/Mercury squares 1st-house Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune while a setting Mars squares sad Ceres in the 8th. It is - as I often find - the converse progressed pattern that tells the best story: the fog of Neptune obscures the Midheaven, fiery Mars exactly rises close to the Moon, and a weighty conjunction of Sun/Saturn sesqui-square Chiron closes the door on one chapter of the nation's history in order to open another.
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Postscript 2013:
Jaroslav subsequently ran against Bronisław Komorowski in the Polish presidential elections on 20 June 2010, which were called following the death of Lech Kaczyński. He announced his candidacy on 26 April 2010, and said he would take the place of his recently deceased brother.He received 36.46% of votes in the first round, while acting president Bronisław Komorowski received 41.54%. In the second round, against Komorowski, he was defeated—receiving 46.99% of the votes, while Komorowski received 53.01% and won. (Wikipedia.)
Jaroslav subsequently ran against Bronisław Komorowski in the Polish presidential elections on 20 June 2010, which were called following the death of Lech Kaczyński. He announced his candidacy on 26 April 2010, and said he would take the place of his recently deceased brother.He received 36.46% of votes in the first round, while acting president Bronisław Komorowski received 41.54%. In the second round, against Komorowski, he was defeated—receiving 46.99% of the votes, while Komorowski received 53.01% and won. (Wikipedia.)
A second version of the Q-chart is potentially useful here, too: the QP-chart, setting the nativity of JB in this case for not only the race time but the race location, Melbourne. Immediately we have the Aries race Sun on his QP MC! And for good measure the QP's dwad Jupiter on the QP Desc. This QP dwad also has the nodes right on the ASc/Desc, and Jenson's radix Mercury/Sun only just below the Ascendant. Finally (?!) the composite of this QPchart with the Australian Grand Prix has the Nodes along the Meridian and Uranus on the Desc conjunct JB's Mercury and - exactly angular on the 7th cusp - his Sun. This is looking like a race he is surprisingly destined to win, and he won it in great style after race leader Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull failed him in the final laps. |
WHICH FORMULA WON?
Two years running, Jenson Button (who, I am proud to say, shares my birthday) has won Formula One motor-racing's Australian Grand Prix. He is of course the current defending champion after friend Jupiter - first tropical then sidereal - smiled on his Sun for a year. Earlier Capricorn Lewis Hamilton enjoyed the selfsame Jovian privilege in 2008. I don't know Jenson's birth time, only his date and place - 19th January 1980 in Frome, Somerset UK (birthplace of Charles Harvey and home of my own metal-working ancestors.) How to ascertain the races he is likely to win - or lose?... Well, we do have a time: we have the Q-chart for every race. All you have to do, for example, is set up the chart for Jenson's birthday in Frome, but at 17h00 AEST, the start of the 2010 Australian GP. This will give you some idea of how Jenson and this GP relate to each other. Now set up the chart for the race itself, at the above time on April 4th 2010 in Melbourne. Now you have transits to the Q-chart, and already you can see T Pluto breathing heavily on the Q Asc, with Jenson's Jupiter close to the race Ascendant. Yet more encouragement emerges when these two charts are combined into a Composite: its MC at the very end of Leo is right on Jenson's N.Node/draconic Sun conjunction, also the C N.Node is on the C Ascendant. |
UNSURPRISINGLY?....
To end on another personal note, during early April I have had a slow progress of T Neptune on the DPIC (the daily progressed IC). I couldn’t get rid of the smell of traffic fumes. It pursued me to a concert, into breakfast, up to our room, to a spacious and very swish hotel bar, into our peacefully parked car - everywhere. It ruined a good meal, and even a stiff whisky wouldn't smother it! I was hoping, as I first wrote this, that the next day would banish the stink of exhaust as the IC finally separated from my gassy friend! It did.
To end on another personal note, during early April I have had a slow progress of T Neptune on the DPIC (the daily progressed IC). I couldn’t get rid of the smell of traffic fumes. It pursued me to a concert, into breakfast, up to our room, to a spacious and very swish hotel bar, into our peacefully parked car - everywhere. It ruined a good meal, and even a stiff whisky wouldn't smother it! I was hoping, as I first wrote this, that the next day would banish the stink of exhaust as the IC finally separated from my gassy friend! It did.
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