Zahir
Published: 16th December 2013 | Author: Smiljana Gavrančić
„When
someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive...“
(Paulo
Coelho, „The Zahir“)
When it happens that
Ascendant is in the same sign as the cusp of the 12th house (past
life), than it is quite certain that in this life we will continue where we
have once stopped… If, at the same time, happens that the same planet (who is
the ruler of both Ascendant and 12th) is the ruler of the 5th
house (the house which is important from the point of view of past lives), then
it is more than certain that precisely this planet should be focused on when
interpreting the person’s natal chart. In this, if this planed is also the planet to form a square with the nodes’
axis – then we can say that this plant is the point of a problem in putting
together of opposite powers in one person. When the planet is
materialized, what the nodes are not, it takes over all the energy of the two
opposing powers onto itself and thus presents the point of a problem. How will
the problem be resolved will be seen from the dispositor of the given planet…
Venus in a square with
the nodes’ axis
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Namely, it is well known
that the true partnership lies in the nodes’ axis, which is more primary than
the one presented with the Ascendant-Descendant axis, and that in the search
for a true partner, one should always look whether there is a plant making
aspects with the nodes’ axis… Recently, while in my article “Jelena, a womanwho is not here” I have written about the planet (Venus) which is making
harmonic aspects with the nodes’ axis, this time I will write about the planet
which is making an unfavorable (a square) aspect towards the nodes’ axis. This
time, I will also write about Venus, but about the Venus of a renowned
Brazilian writer Paolo Coelho, as his Venus is the ruler of his Ascendant, the
ruler of his 12th house and the ruler of his 5th house!!!
Obviously, this is related to love, which is something rather important to this
man, something that he should be working on in this life, as it is precisely
here that we see debts through partnership relations, a huge possibility for a
person to suffer due to inability to get from partners what the person expects,
and all this is because the person was a rather indecisive one in the previous
life, i.e. the person was unable to decide with which partner the person wanted
to be with, thus the person was with both, which finally lead to
dissatisfaction of both sides. This is why it is necessary for the person in
this life to be dedicated to the partner and to give, unconditionally, to love
in a deeper and more committed manner, to “dive deeper” in the field of
relations, as a solution of the opposites is hidden precisely in this depth… We
know that Venus is naturally exalted in the sign of Pisces, in the 12th
house, thus the true magic of love is found only in unconditional commitment to
love, which is the true becoming of one with the partner…
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If now, when we look at
the natal chart of Coelho, we look at the cusp of 12 (past life) at the very
degree of the Moon’s exaltation (3° Taurus), this implies that the emotions
were something that exalted this person in the past life as well. Ascendant is
at the very end of the sign of Taurus (28° Taurus 07’), while the nodes’ axis
goes over the Ascendant-Descendant axis, which strongly implies on the
significance of relations during the present life. Venus is the ruler of both
12th and 1st, but also of 5th (love in this
life, but this also signifies a house necessary from the point of view of past
life), whose cusp is in Libra (relations) in which there is Neptune (faith,
magic, “diving deep” in the field of love…). Venus was at 27° Leo 15’ which (at
the time of his birth) was a rather close conjunction with the royal star Regulus that brings fame and success in life. However, this Venus is
intercepted, thus things do not come easily; here one needs to wait in silence…
especially when it comes to writing, having in mind that this Venus is in the 3rd
house (the mind, the intellect, everything that we write…), but also the person
needs to wait here for love, and “dive deeper”, the person has to have
indefinite belief (Neptune – belief is in the fall in Leo, while Saturn –
patience is in the exile in Leo)… Venus also has a strong conjunction with
Mercury (the ruler of the 5th from the 12th – past life’s
love) which is also forming a square with the nodes’ axis, thus it is more than
certain that Coelho, in his past life, had made some moves “half a way”, i.e.
he had made a wrong decision, which is why he is still at unrest even today,
making the disagreement between partners live on… And, in this life, he should
listen more to his intuition and less his logic…
The “magical” woman
Before Coelho became a
writer, he had a very dynamic life. The spirit of rebellion has marked his
youth. When he was 16, his parents put him in a mental institution because of
his sudden mood changes (he was mainly silent, having occasional sudden outbursts
of anger and hysteria). He was a hippie, journalist, he used hashish, he wrote songs
for some famous Brazilian pop stars… Ever since he was 25, he has studied magic
and occultism (the 3/9 axis is the axis of knowledge, studying, insights, our
Future I) and it goes through 29° Cancer/29° Capricorn, which is the picture of
the mind’s need to “see beyond” and become familiar with a “secret” (it is well
known that 29° Cancer is the place where two lights come together and this is
the place that is called the Third Eye, whereas 29° Capricorn is related to
masonry and secret knowledge)… However, as this is 29°, he had to wait for some
higher “cosmic revelations”… having in mind that they come to him with the help
of a woman, who will make his evolutionary path easier with her Heaven (her
chart)… and initiate the 29° Cancer/29° Capricorn axis…
His Venus, through the
dispositor (the Sun) comes at 0° Virgo, which is the picture of loneliness, but
also of a new beginning (0° is always a picture of a beginning). As the sign of
Virgo is also the sign of serving to God, this precisely shows that this man
can, throughout his life, get an opportunity to, somehow, start from scratch in
the field of service to God, and to heal so deeply (the Sun has a sextile with
Chiron, which is at 4°Scorpio, which is
almost at the degree of Pluto’s exaltation - 3° Scorpio). Namely, precisely 6
years after a significant woman comes into his life, the one who has been with
him ever since, in 1986, he started a journey at which he would reunite with
God, at which he would return to the Catholic faith, the faith of his
childhood… He walked a 830 km long journey, as a pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostela in Spain, which has significantly changed the further course of his
life…
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Until he was 33, this
man managed to get married, as well as divorced, three times. He got into
relationships easily, was getting married even faster (the need of Taurus
Ascendant), as all this is his internal need (the cusp of 12 – past life, at
the degree of the Moon’s exaltation – closeness, family). If we look at the
very cusp of 7th house, which primarily speaks about marriage, than
we see that it is at 28° Scorpio 07’ and that the ruler Mars is weakened by the
position in the sign of its fall, in Cancer, and that it is also in a square
with Neptune, thus the initial enthusiasm soon becomes disappointment, as it is
hard for it to materialize a story in the area of relations, due to the lack of
faith and personal silence, thus it grows tired, lacks energy, which is only
because it is not silent enough… The very Moon in 7th can point out
towards changeability, while the sign of Sagittarius quite certainly may point
out towards several wives (Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, quite often shows
abundance…).
However, only his fourth
wife, a well known painter, who communicates with her
angels (Neptune) while painting, Christina Oiticica,
brings to him a solution to his problems and helps him become the person who
can “dive deeply”.
The relationship with
her heals him, returns him to his faith and, most importantly, fulfills his
great dream – makes him a writer! They met on Christmas 1979, the following
July 1980 made a Lutheran religious ceremony. He started his spiritual journey
in 1986, as explained in the text above…
If we look at directions
(where everything moves about 1° in 1 year), then we see that the Venus in the
directions was positioned at 29° Virgo (July 1980), which wakes Coelho’s 3/9
axis, thus entering of this woman into his life has definitely “opened” him up
for special (29°) insights…
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On the other side, in
Christina’s chart, Mars is at 29° Virgo, which carries Jupiter (knowledge)
within from Aries, and the very 29° Virgo in known in astrology as a very
specific place in the Zodiac, the place that can give “clairvoyance” to the
owner. This is the place of a very intense intuition and, in any case, a
“silent synthesis” of a sign that has got the ultimate knowledge and is finally
able to produce a writer! However, as Christina is his fourth wife, we see her
through his Venus, as precisely his 1st house, i.e. his Ascendant
presents his fourth marriage (in addition to being Coelho himself, as well as
his inner need, the past life – as the ruler of 12th), but also
through the symbolism of Venus (a painter, an artist)…
It is interesting to
see, in the directions, the very Ascendant at 0° Cancer, which, of course,
implies a new beginning with a woman, though, even more, Chiron (healing) in
the directions at 6° Sagittarius 42’ is at the very Moon (Soul, woman) in 7th
(relations) of Coelho, thus all these are signs that with this woman he is to
reach an opportunity to heal… However, the most significant thing here is that
he had to start the journey from 0° Virgo to reach to 29° Virgo, so as to
finally and with ease open up the door for a “secret”, magic, and everything
that he has written about in his novels after his pilgrimage. He actually only
became a writer after that journey, he published his first novels then to
become, now, one of the most famous and read writers in the world… He started
living his dream only after that journey…
The first Saturn’s
return of Coelho – October 1976
The first Saturn’s
return of Coelho, which happens when he was 29, shows us the significance of 29°
Virgo, which gets activated with coming of Christine into his life. In his
natal chart, Saturn is the ruler of 9th (the purpose, the Future I),
whose cusp is at a very special 29° Capricorn, which is why the very return of
this plant to itself carries along a rather significant message.
Precisely in 1980, when
Christine came into his life, Coelho lived through Saturn’s return, through the
2nd house of his chart, (when he is almost 33), whose cusp is in
Virgo and the very Mercury (writing) is positioned precisely at a “magical” 29°
Virgo!!! The Moon in this chart is exalted and it will make a trine with this
same Mercury, thus this is a picture of a woman who connects him with special
insights…
Butterfly (Neptune) instead
of rings...
Christina and Coelho
have been together for 34 years now and they have recently made their
long-lasting relationship official, they got married precisely on her birthday,
23rd November 2013. However, as the Venus in the
chart of Coelho is in a sextile with Uranus, precisely as their living together
has been all these years was rather interesting and different, thus the very
wedding ceremony was different. Instead of exchanging rings, they used a tattoo
of a small butterfly as a symbol of their partnership, which they both tattooed
onto their left forearms.
“I loved all my wives, of course, but
Christine is the one who is responsible for my good and great changes in life.
When I looked at her, I knew that this was it.. She returned my faith… She
taught me to be quiet, to believe, she ‘led’ me to the ‘secret’… We will
continue doing what we have done all these years, I will be walking with my
‘new wife’ down the forest of the Alps…”, says Coelho…
“To me, this is my first marriage. I have
great admiration for him, his courage, determination, intelligence and
consistency… He is rather romantic, just as I am. Even when we are separated,
when we are in different countries, we are always together, we speak on the
telephone for hours…” says
Christine smilingly…
~
Zahir, in Arabic, means visible,
present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once
we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every
thought, until we can think of nothing else. Zahir is something (or someone)
that begins with a hint and turns into something we constantly
think about.
This is something that, once touched or seen, we never forget. Our thoughts
remain occupied by it, until it drives us to “madness” (Neptune)…
„This book is dedicated to you,
Christine, my wife...“
(Paulo
Coelho)
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