уторак, 23. јун 2015.

Israel and 0º Capricorn Originally Published: June 20th, 2015. | Author: Smiljana Gavrančić

Israel and 0º Capricorn 
Originally Published: June 20th, 2015. | Author: Smiljana Gavrančić


Although primarily connected to the sign of Cancer (because of Jupiter’s exaltation – fortune, religion, spirituality), Israel is sensitive to the Great Cardinal Cross across the 0º degree of cardinal signs inside the Zodiac, precisely 0º Capricorn in this Great Cross. The 0º degree of any cardinal sign is very sudden in nature. Here, things both start and end abruptly and suddenly. These places inside the Zodiac are specifically ‘hard’ due to the fact that the 0º degree of any cardinal sign is in a semisquare (45º aspect) with a so called “Avatar degree” (15º of fixed signs – Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius). As a consequence, countries somehow connected to the 0º degree of cardinal signs are automatically related to the Avatar degrees, making their destinies somehow more difficult. Finally, 0º Capricorn is an image of the famous Wailing Wall (Saturn is the essential significator for a wall, since it rules the sign of Capricorn), and also the image of the suffering of the Jewish community during the World War II, in concentration camps (Moon – the people, is debilitated in Capricorn).

“The Father of the Nation” – born in a country with the symbolism of “Avatar degrees”

David Ben-Gurion, the man who dedicated his life to the founding of the Israeli state in Palestine, the first Prime Minister of Israel and the Minister of Defense, later named “the Father of the Nation”, was born in Płońsk, Poland (former territory of the Russian Empire). It’s often said that “names are destinies”, and there is a Star of David depicted on the Israeli flag. On the other hand, it’s interesting that “the Father of the Nation” comes from Poland, a country I mapped on one of the so called “Avatar degrees” inside the Zodiac in my research (you can read more about it in my article “Poland and 15ºAquarius”). The cups of 9th house in David’s chart (representing his purpose and the future life) on the cardinal 0º Libra, bringing him closer to Israel (0º Capricorn). A square is an aspect that “pulls” us in a certain direction. In the moment of the declaration of Israel’s independence (May 14th, 1948.), his progressed MC was exactly on 0º Capricorn!



Wars

However, the establishment of the independent state of Israel and its existence has become the cause of frequent wars and conflicts with the Arabian countries, such as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The warfare between Israel and Egypt ended with the signing of a peace agreement on March 26th, 1979, while the conflict between Israel and Jordan ended with the signing of a peace treaty on October 26th, 1994. Sporadic negotiations with Lebanon, Syria and other neighbor countries still haven’t shown any results. On the other hand, Israel is currently involved in a third conflict with Palestine on the territories under its control since the six day war in 1967., in spite of the Oslo agreement (mediated by the U.S. and Bill Clinton) on September 13th, 1993. and the efforts invested by Israel, Palestine and peacemakers of the world.

Now let’s take a look at Israel’s chart. We find the 3rd/9th house axis across 0º Capricorn/0º Cancer. The 3rd house describes neighbors, negotiations, while the 9th house speaks about foreign countries. So, even in the chart of Israel, we can spot the 0º degrees of cardinal signs!





The Oslo agreement of 1993


In the exact moment of the signing of this agreement, secondary Venus of Israel was on 0º Cancer, in retrograde motion. Venus is the ruler of Ascendant in Israel’s chart, and speaks about the state of things in the nation, the capital city, and it’s a general descriptor of diplomatic relationships. Retrograde motion is certainly the cause of the prolongation of the conflict despite the signed agreement. On the other hand, secondary Venus (diplomatic relations) of the U.S. was on 0º Aries, while the Solar Arc Moon of the U.S. was on 0º Libra! In the chart of the United States, the Moon is the ruler of the 9th house (foreign countries) and describes events outside the territory of this country. All this automatically fits in a Great Cardinal Cross across 0º, the Cardinal T-square on 0º Aries, Cancer and Libra which automatically activates the point across the focus point of this T-square – which is 0º Capricorn in this case, a degree I linked to Israel.



Palestine

If we take a look at Palestine’s chart, we can spot the image of Israel in the symbolism of Saturn on 0º Capricorn, in the 4th house (territory). It’s also interesting to take a look at the Solar Arc directions of Palestine in the time of the Oslo agreement signing, in 1993. The chart angles make a Grand Cardinal Cross across the 0º degrees.



After World War I, Palestine became a British colony. In 1947. it was suggested that Palestine should be split into two independent countries – a Jewish one and an Arabian one. However, only the Jewish country of Israel was created, which annexed some territories that were supposed to belong to the Arabian (Palestinian) country. The parts of Palestine not included into the territory of Israel (the West Coast and the Gaza Belt) were then added to Jordan’s and Egypt’s territories.

During the war in 1967. Israel claimed the territories of the West Coast and the Gaza Belt, where the autonomous Palestinian National Authority would be formed in 1994. Ten years later, in 2004, Israel retreats from the Gaza Belt, still keeping the West Coast under its control. The Palestinian organization Hamas overtook control of the Gaza Belt in 2007, forming an autonomous Palestinian government opposed to the Palestinian government on the West Coast.

On November 29th, 2012. Palestine was upgraded to non-member observer state status in the United Nations.
If we search the ephemeris for eclipse dates, we can find three eclipse events that could have influenced these events:

The first was a solar one, which occurred after the six day war, on June 22nd, 1968. on 29º 30’ Virgo which is quite the trigger for the Great Cardinal Cross on 0º degrees. After this eclipse, in February of 1969., the Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, the successor of the Father of the Nation, David Ben-Gurion, suddenly died. Levi himself had an important role during the six day war.

Then there was another solar eclipse on 29º 20’ Virgo (On September 22nd, 2006.), in the aftermath of which Hamas took over control over the Gaza Belt (during 2007.).

Palestine’s status in the United Nations was upgraded after the famous lunar Millennial Eclipse in 2010. on 29º 21’ Gemini.
The last eclipse (a solar one) happened on March 20th, 2015. on 29º 27’ Pisces.

The last, 29º degree of mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces) are definitely important, since they are the ‘gateway’ to the 0º degrees of cardinal signs.

The harmonic point on 4º Capricorn

If we take a look at the relationship of Palestine and Israel in the chart of Palestine, then we need to make the harmonic point chart between Mercury (the ruler of Palestine’s Ascendant) and Saturn which represents Israel in the chart of Palestine. We can spot the harmonic point on 4º Capricorn, exacly the degree where we can find the Solar Arc Sun of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this year. Across the Zodiac, on 4º Cancer, there’s the Ascendant ruler in Israel’s chart. On September 28th, 2015. we’ll witness a lunar eclipse on 4º Aries, which will activate this harmonic point by making a square.

The position of Venus in this chart is also interesting – exactly 0º of the cardinal sign of Libra.
Anyway, the fact that the current U.S. president Barrack Obama’s Solar Arc Sun will be on 4º Libra in that moment makes this very important, because it represents the involvement of the United States in the events between Israel and Palestine. This is also a representation of a conflict (square) between Obama and Netanyahu. The conflict seems unavoidable, since the White House warned the Israeli prime minister that it will stop giving support to its ally in the United Nations, also hinting at a change of course in politics when it comes to Near East.

The warning came after the Israeli prime minister declared that he won’t allow the Palestinians to create a country. Everything points to a possible beginning of a conflict between the U.S. and Israel in the autumn of 2015, the ‘gateway’ to this being previously opened by the eclipse on 29º Pisces in March...




Donald Trump in Israel 2017


Donald Trump (the current US president) had visited Israel on 22 May 2017. Tertiary Moon of US was exactly at 0 º  Capricorn! In other hand, midpoint of Venus and Jupiter in US horoscope is at 4 º Cancer 26’, in opposition with 4 º Capricorn – the harmonic point which I’ve mentioned. In other hand, Trump’s Venus (ruler of his MC) in Solar Arc is during 2017 at 4 º Libra, squaring 4 º Capricron. There will be the Solar eclipse at 4 º Capricorn on 26th December, 2019. This may be very important for the relationship between Israel and US, because, than Trump will have in Solar Arc directions Saturn at 4 º Libra.

After all, in the horoscope of Israel we can see Venus (diplomacy, as ruler of 8th – conflicts) at 4º Cancer. Also, it is interesting that 8th house starts at 28 º Taurus 32’, very close with 29 º Taurus – ’anaretic’ degree and the place of The Pleiades, or „Seven Sisters“ (it’s well-known that they are crying in myth).

Trump is the only US president who had visited the famous Wailing Wall. Before him, Barack Obama had visited too, but in 2008, before he was elected.

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Chart sources:

"The Book of World Horoscopes" Nicholas Campion
"Horoscopes of the USA and Canada", Marc H. Penfield







 Smiljana Gavrančić is the editor, founder and owner of IAM-INFINITY Astrological Magazine. She obtained her astrological education at the Institute for Astrological Research and Education ―Johannes Kepler‖ in Belgrade, graduating in October 2010, after studying International Law at Belgrade University. She is an International Certified Professional Astrologer (ISAR C.A.P.) and a member of ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research) and of the Astrological Association of Great Britain. She specializes in mundane astrology and she practices karmic/hermetic astrology, astrology of degrees/archetypes (mythology, fixed stars) and synastry. She is writing her first book Special Degrees in Mundane Astrology. Her writings have appeared in  The Astrological Journal, and on The Mountain Astrologer blog and ISAR’s International Astrologer. Smiljana is a speaker at astrological conferences and workshops in Serbia and abroad (Brazil, Cambridge-UK, the Astrological Lodge od London, Athens (Greece) ). She blogs at www.astrologsmiljanagavrancic.blogspot.com    in English and in Serbian.

More about Smiljana you can read here - Biography




субота, 20. јун 2015.

Izrael i 0º Jarca Objavljen: 20. jun, 2015. | Autor: Smiljana Gavrančić

Izrael i 0º Jarca
















Tokom rata iz 1967. godine, Izrael osvaja Zapadnu Obalu i Pojas Gaze da bi na delu ovih teritorija bila formirana autonomna Palestinska Nacionalna Uprava 1994. godine.  Deset godina kasnije, 2004. godine, Izrael se povlači iz Pojasa Gaze, ali zadržava kontrolu nad Zapadnom Obalom.  Tri godine kasnije, 2007. godine, kontrolu nad Pojasom Gaze preuzima palestinska organizacija Hamas, koja u Pojasu Gaze formira sopstvenu palestinsku vladu suprotstavljenu palestinskoj vladi na Zapadnoj Obali.
29. novembra 2012. godine Generalna Skupština UN-a donosi odluku da prizna Palestinu kao suverenu državu.
Ako sada pogledamo u efemeridama eklipse, nalazimo tri eklipse koje su mogle uticati na ove događaje: 
Prva je bila solarna, dogodila se nakon šestodnevnog rata,  22. juna, 1968, i to na 29º Device 30' što i te kako aktivira Veliki Kardinalni Krst preko 0º. Nakon ove eklipse, u februaru 1969.godine, iznenada umire tadašnji izraelski premijer Levi Eshkol, naslednik "oca domovine", Davida Ben-Guriona. Levi je inače imao važnu ulogu za vreme šestodnevnog rata. 
Zatim smo imali još jednu solarnu eklipsu na 29º Device 20' (22. septembra, 2006) nakon čega Hamas preuzima kontrolu nad Pojasom Gaze (tokom 2007.godine). 

Potom 2010 čuvena milenijumska eklipsa 21. decembra 2010 (lunarna) na 29º Blizanaca 21'-nakon ove eklipse 2012 Palestina postaje priznata od UN-a! 

 Poslednja eklipsa se dogodila 20.marta, 2015,bila je solarna i desila se na 29º Riba 27'. 
 Poslednji, 29º, promenljivih znakova (Blizanci, Devica, Strelac i Ribe) su i te kako važni, jer se upravo sa njih "ide" na 0º kardinalnih.

Harmonična tačka na 4º Jarca

Ako iz ugla horoskopa Palestine pogledamo odnos ove zemlje i Izraela, onda ćemo napraviti horoskop harmonične tačke između Merkura (vladara Ascendenta Palestine) i Saturna koji predstavlja Izrael u karti Palestine. Vidimo da se harmonična tačka nalazi na 4º  Jarca gde je ove godine, 2015, pozicironirano Solar Arc Sunce izraelskog premijera Benjamina Netanyahua. Baš preko puta, na 4º Raka, nalazi se vladar Ascendenta Izraela. Krajem septembra 2015, tačnije 28.septembra, imaćemo lunarnu eklipsu (pomračenje Meseca) na 4º Ovna što će svakako aktivirati ovu harmoničnu tačku, preko kvadrata. Zanimljiva je i pozicija Venere u ovoj karti-nalazi se upravo na 0º  Vage-0º  kardinalnog znaka. No,mnogo važnije je to što će u tom trenutku trenutni američki predsednik Barack Obama na 4º Vage imati svoje Solar Arc Sunce, te će i te kako Sjedinjene Države biti nekako uključene u dešavanja na relaciji Izrael-Palestina. Ovo je i slika sukoba (kvadrat) između Obame i Netanyahua. Sukob je već evidentan, budući da je Bela kuća više puta upozorila izraelskog premijera da će uskratiti svoju diplomatsku podršku u Ujedinjenim Nacijama dugogodišnjem savezniku i da će promeniti svoj kurs politike kada je reč o Bliskom Istoku.Opomena iz SAD stigla je posle izjave izraelskog premijera da neće dozvoliti da Palestinci naprave državu. Izgleda da će jesen 2015 otvoriti i mogući sukob na relaciji SAD-Izrael. Mada, već je martovska eklipsa sa 29º Riba "otvorila vrata".... 


Izvori: 
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/ 
"The Book of World Horoscopes" Nicholas Campion
"Horoscopes of the USA and Canada", Marc H. Penfield 
http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Ben-Gurion,_David

четвртак, 21. мај 2015.

Karmic relations and the Moon’s Nodes Originally Published on 20th January, 2014. I Author: Smiljana Gavrančić

Karmic relations and the Moon’s Nodes
Originally Published on 20th January, 2014. I Author: Smiljana Gavrančić



The role of the Moon’s Nodes can be very significant in synastry, particularly when it comes to “strong karmic relations”… When the Nodes of one person are found in conjunction with the personal planets, horoscope’s angles (or their rulers) of another person, than we can rightly suspect that this is a karmic relation, especially if the conjunction of one person’s South Node is with a personal planet of another person… The South Node often brings the energy down of that planet to a lower octave, thus it may feel somehow enchained and without possibility for growth. The nature of the South Node in synastry is to slow the other person down and to somehow “return it to the past”…

Venus in the chart of Rade Šerbedžija

The famous Croatian actor (of Serbian descent), a poet and musician, Rade Šerbedžija has Ascendant in Libra, while the ruler of his Ascendant (Venus) went to 12th house (the house of past life), therefore, this actor is also in this life somehow “tied” to his past life.




Of course, we may suspect that this is some sort of a past-life love story, where it took a lot of faith and hope (Venus in Virgo is in the fall). As the Venus carries along Jupiter and Neptune from Libra, the rulers of 7th (relations) from the 12th, but also Chiron (wound, pain) from Libra, this only additionally confirms its connectedness to some “painful” love from his past life, which gets “revived” in this life by the relations with his second wife, a well-known movie director Lenka Udovički, as it is precisely her having her South Node on Rade’s Venus! If we look at the depositor of Rade’s Venus, than we can see that it is retrograde (problems…). Mercury going towards Pluto (transformation, danger…), so the memory of it was rather painful… However, as all this is in 11th house (the house with a potential to set ourselves free, analogue to the 11th sign, Aquarius), than it is precisely that some dangerous life circumstances take him, through transformation, towards setting himself free. He was brave enough to “melt” with dangers, he “dived in”… (retrograde Mercury – his final depositor, going towards Pluto).

However, as his life with Lenka, even though they have been together for already 24 years, he has faced some very painful moments, but it is precisely that those painful moments have transformed him and bring them even closer, as they say themselves… Only after they started living together, the war in the area of the former SFRY started, this was in the early nineties of the past century, they had to run away… He was shot at in one café in Belgrade, however, luckily, the outcome was not fatal… He was against the war and he was loud in expressing it, and, even today, he is quite well known as having nostalgia for the past Yugoslavia… Soon after that, they made their home in Slovenia. “These were very difficult times…”, says Lenka…. Their first child, their daughter Nina, they used to bathe in the sink… Later, they moved to London and, after that, to the United States, precisely, to Los Angeles, where they developed their artistic careers, starting from scratch… The family expanded, they got two more daughters, Milica Alma and Vanja. In the fifth decade of his life, Rade was working on building of his career in a new language, in a new setting…

In the early 1990s, Rade (at the time when he met Lenka) was 44, he had already had one marriage, two children, while the young Lenka was really young, being only 20 and having just completed Movie and Directing Academy. They met in the north of Vojvodina, in Subotica, in a movie festival… Šerbedžija, in this way, got an opportunity for love when he laid his eyes on the young director of Latino-American roots and with dark curls, who won his heart at first sight… “Our first encounter happened at the Subotica Theater during football championship. Although I was focused on the game I was watching, I also managed to notice Lenka. She was standing at the door and she was sort of asking something my friends. I exchanged few words with her, so I did not even notice that this actually turned out to be quite a long conversation. When Lenka stepped out, my friend Inge Appelt said: “This little girl is the one you will marry…”

Lenka Udovički

Two decades younger Lenka Udovički had already known pretty well who Rade was, as he had been a part of her childhood through the roles she used to watch on TV.



At the time she was in the Venus period (from 14 to 22), which in her chart is in Capricorn and in conjunction with the Sun (an actor, but also an essential signifier for a man, husband, in female horoscope), which made a separating (past) square both with the Moon (wife, family) in Libra as well as with Uranus (divorce, setting free) in the same sign – so, this in Lenka’s chart was precisely the picture of Rae, an older, mature man, who has already had a family, wife, as well as a divorce…

Rade’s first marriage was with a well known dance professor and choreographer from Zagreb, Ivanka Cerovac, with whom he had a son, Danilo, and a daughter, Lucija, and whom he divorced in 1987.
“I did not plan to fall in love, I planned to have a career, but he won me over with his simplicity, honesty and boyish spirit that I recognized in him…” – said Lenka.

Ten days after that, they started living together, Rade moved in with Lenka, into her small, student’s apartment, in an attic. He moved in with her bringing only one suitcase. They married next year, in 1991… The depositor of Lenka’s Venus is precisely Saturn, almost at the degree of the Moon’s exaltation (3° Taurus), so no wonder that she got a huge family with Rade, having three daughters (Taurus is a female sign, the place of Venus’s seat and Moon’s exaltation, the two most significant female principles)… 

Directive South Node and Ascendant

The following supports the idea that the role of the nodes is rather significant in this story. In the year when she met Rade, Lenka’s directive axis of the nodes was precisely over his natal 1/7 axis (relationship), more precisely, the directive South Node (as everything in the directions moves by 1° for 1 year) of Lenka on the day of her solar return, 1st January 1990, being at 4° Libra 26’, at the very Rade’s Ascendant, which clearly points out that she somehow “invites” him that year to a karmic love, love from the past…



On the other side, in the secondary progressions she had her secondary Venus at 29° Capricorn 59’, at her natal Mercury (carrying along her South Node – the past, which is on Rade’s natal Venus), which also clearly points out some end, some karmic love, love from before (the symbolism of 29°), however, also, to another beginning, which will soon follow (when the Venus comes to 0° Aquarius)…


The touch between the Sun and Venus



During the life, when it happens that the Sun in progressions (the natural representative of the series 5 – love) moves over the natal Venus (the natural representative of the series 7 – relations), this can usually be an “alarm” to suspect that some love story is in the air. Namely, it is precisely during 1990 (the progressions done on the date of his solar return), when Lenka enters Rade’s life, that his Sun in the progressions got to 16° Virgo 05’, only after having completed transit over his natal Venus (the ruler of Ascendant in the 12th) at 15° Virgo 31’, by which the story with Lenka, his past life love, is somehow “opened up”…

That 15° Virgo is really a significant place in the chart of this person is also confirmed by the horoscope of his past life (Dwadasamsa chart), where we find the Sun precisely (the natural representative of the series 5 – love) at this degree, precisely at 14° Virgo 39’, which is within the permitted orb of up to 30’.



On the other side, the very Lenka in her chart has the conjunction of Venus and the Sun and, if we do secondary progressions for 1st January 1991 (the date of her solar return in the year when she married Rade), then we find an exact conjunction of the secondary Sun and secondary Venus at 1° Aquarius, which surely points out towards a love story that will get opened up by this solar return.



“Return to the past” during this life is an opportunity to fix circumstances from before, meaning, to improve the circumstances ahead of us, as the past creates the present, and the present creates the future… Finally, nether the past nor the present nor the future exist; time as a category – does not exist… Everything has already happened… If someone enters your life to put their South Node onto your Venus, try to “dive deep” into yourself and to make the “difficult” circumstances as light as possible…

  

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