My India and 29° Taurus
Originally Published: December 24th, 2012
Author: Smiljana Gavrančić
When
Mercury (deals, travel) started direct on August 8, 2012, everything I have
planned changed… The next day, on August 9, I found out that the girl I was
supposed to travel with on Friday, August 10, cannot make it… Of course, we
made the agreement in time of retrograde Mercury, and as astrologist I knew
things might change, but I let it be the way the heaven wants it to be … We
were supposed to travel by her car, so it automatically created the problem of
transportation for me…
The seat 36 – 29°
Capricorn
“What
now?”, I wondered. The only thing I knew was that being nervous about it will
not help at all, so I put all my energy and effort in trying to obtain the bus
ticket. Something inside me was telling me that I should not postpone the trip,
that the Universe wanted me to go by myself… I found out by phone that there
were only 4 (Saturn) tickets remaining… I said to myself: “One must be mine!”
So it was, I managed to get the bus ticket, and the very last one was sold to
me! “Hm, another confirmation that I should travel”, and when I saw that the
number of the seat was 36, I smiled and connected that to the number 9 (3+6),
Neptune (“secret”), that is in symbolism of this number… On the other hand,
Zodiac itself contains 36 decans, and this represented to me a very nice sign
by the road…
Truthfully,
I wanted this trip to bring me inspiration for my next article, for the next
story that will contain a “secret”… It happened, but I did not expect that the
trip to Croatia will give me the story of India, but since the best things
happen when we have no expectations – I accepted it all without resistance…
When
I made a horoscope for the moment when I bought the bus ticket, and saw that
the axis 1/7 goes across 29°
Capricorn/Cancer, exactly on my axis 3/9 (writing, the purpose), I was sure I
was going there to get the story, and 29° implied that I will find what I was
looking for – the “secret”… The sign of Capricorn can be primarily connected to
India, which is in the symbolism of Saturn, but this trip brought the
realization that for India, 29° (silence, meditation) of another sign is very
important…
Dunja – 29° Taurus
On
Friday, August 10, the day of my trip, there was a trine of Venus and Neptune,
which is a picture of a girl going to the seaside. I got onto bus and found the
seat 36… There was somebody waiting for me already… She greeted me with a smile
and I felt like I knew her from some time before…
I
liked her name, it is in the symbolism of the Venus (Dunja – quince), so I
supposed she would bring something nice… We started to talk immediately, and
the conversation went easy. I found out she was born in Rijeka, lives presently
in Novi Sad (she studies there), and she was travelling home, to visit her nona
(she calls her grandmother that) who lives on the island (29°) of Rab. Everything corresponded to the present
situation in the skies – Venus (girl) trine Neptune (island, grandmother).
“My nona is special,
she loves silence and peace, and she is very spiritual… She is very old, but
her silence is what keeps her alive.” These words deeply touched me and
reminded me of 29° Capricorn, the degree of the ascendant when I bought the
ticket for Rijeka, the degree of my 3rd house (writing, travel) in
my chart… I also foreboded some story about nona, grandmother, somebody who is
old (Capricorn) and spiritual (29°), special… But I still did not know that
India will appear here as something important… Soon, Dunja told me another
information about herself that corresponded to the situation in the skies, the
trine of Venus in Cancer and Neptune in Pisces – which is the picture of a girl
singing or playing music. Dunja Dorcic is one of the singers in the famous group
“Putokazi” from Rijeka, and she is the seventh one. The very name of the band
is symbolic (Putokazi – road signs). When you are astrologist, you definitely
see road signs in everything…
Dunja liked my name,
Smiljana, very much, and said that the island of Rab is very rich in the plant
immortelle (smilje – immortelle), that she regularly gathers it and so I must
come to Rab because of it… She was amazed that nothing happens by chance only,
and she confessed that she prayed to have someone sitting beside her that she
could easily go along with. I smiled and told her that I am astrologist, and
that really nothing happens only by chance. She was delighted to hear about my
profession and she told me: “I am double Sagittarius!” I liked that detail very
much, beside her name that I also liked, because I concluded that she as a
double Sagittarius may bring me something important in the field of my purpose,
knowledge (Sagittarius), as well as I may bring her some sort of
transformation, change, as ascendant in Scorpio… At the end of the trip she
told me: “You got me so interested in astrology that I wish to learn it. I wish
to change!”
The chart of the
moment I met Dunja tells that meeting her was really special, and that I would
continue my trip in the rhythm of 29° (as I had begun it, by buying the ticket
when the ascendant was at 29°). In that chart, the Moon is at 29° Taurus. In
Taurus, the Venus is in its seat, and the Moon is exalted, so both female
principles are strong here, which implied special, female energy that vibrates
silently (29°)… This was another sign that my axis 3/9 was “called out”, and
that I am about to easily get some knowledge, realization, purpose … since my
3/9 axis goes across 29° Capricorn/Cancer, as I have mentioned. I was happy…
The
very fact that both of us have the Moon (soul) in Cancer told that our meeting
was full of closeness, warmth – Dunja’s Moon is at 20°, and mine at 15° Cancer,
the orb of this conjunction being 5°, that implies the Light – Sun, the ruler
of the 5th sign, Leo -- in our relationship, the love. At the very
same spot resides the Moon (women) in the chart of India, the land on the East
that I will gain knowledge about in the West. Very interesting, isn’t it?
But,
one important fact that got my attention is the cusp of Dunja’s 7th
house (grandmother in female horoscope). It is at 15° Gemini! On June 6 this year on this spot the Venus
crossed the disk of the Sun, and I concluded that Dunja’s nona (grandmother) is
somehow important in this year, and when I saw that the cusp of 3rd
house (conversation) in the chart of my and Dunja’s meeting is also at 15°
Gemini, on my Fortune (the most personal point in everybody’s horoscope), I was
very sure that we met to talk about her nona! Since my Mercury is at 15°
Aquarius, in 3 (writing, conversation, travel), and the dispositor of my
Fortune – it all clicked… “Yes, I actually came to this trip to hear something
about Dunja’s nona”, I said to myself, and waited patiently for what Dunja has
to say about her, waited for my story…
We arrived in Rijeka,
and our meeting comes to an end, I stay in Rijeka and she goes to the island of
Rab to see her nona… We hugged each other, and then she told me the most
important thing: “I haven’t told you, my nona lived in India… I will tell you some
other time…” I stood there amazed, positively of course…
My Love –India &
Osho
At
that same time, on my trip, I read books of Osho, among others the book titled
“My Love – India”. Osho talks about
India in a special way, saying that India is not only geographical or
historical fact. According to him it is something more, a metaphor, poetry,
something invisible (29°), but substantial…
It is the vibration of certain energetic fields that do not exist in any other
country. Osho emphasizes that India is the country that continuously meditates
for thousand and thousand years, that it is the story of non-violence. No other
country in the world is so feminine as India. India was attacked, conquered,
but it never defended itself, never have the wish to expand and become huge. It
meditates, it is silent, passive, godly… and above all, feminine…
I remembered the
degree of the Moon when I met Dunja, 29° Taurus, having in mind that her
grandmother (Moon - woman) who is spiritual (29°) and lived in India made the
main impact on me. “This might be the important degree for India”, I said to
myself. The sign of Taurus is female sign, it is passive enough, and 29°
implies meditation, silence, while Mars (war) and Pluto (massive destruction)
are in exile and fall in Taurus – India does not like confrontation,
aggression… “In India, the holy (29°) animal is cow (Taurus)” – this also made
sense. Furthermore, the greatest monument to love, one of the 7 world’s
miracles, Taj Mahal, is situated in India. Since the fixed star Algol from
Perseus constellation is situated close to 29° Taurus, this might be the
picture of a woman dying at childbirth, as the case was with Mumtaz Mahal, the
beloved wife of Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India, who built that mausoleum after
her death as a symbol of love. Large number of people pray and meditate in
front of Taj Mahal – is this represented by the Moon (people) at 29°
(meditation, prayer) Taurus?!
But, it was too early
for final conclusions, I looked for more road signs. I knew some new
information about nona will reach me soon through Dunja, because the story is
started and I have to continue it somehow…
Nona – Sun at 29°
Pisces
Nona
was born on March 20, 1928 in Rab. The Sun (and ascendant as well) were at 29° Pisces! I started slowly to put puzzle pieces together. I have 29° Taurus that
I “suspect” to be important for India, and now I got 29° Pisces! I asked Dunja
if nona’s life was somehow jeopardized somewhere far away, maybe in India, for
it was my first idea for nona’s Sun (life, vitality) at 29° (the end) Pisces
(faraway places, hospitals). Besides the Sun at such degree, I was certainly
affected by her Pluto (danger, death, something deep), exactly at my Moon in 8
(research), at 15° Cancer. The woman I never saw in my life attracted me like
magnet (Pluto), and I strongly and deeply (Pluto) felt her (Moon)… Her Moon,
Mercury and Venus in Pisces (silence) speak about her spirituality that Dunja
told me about, besides her Sun (life) at 29° Pisces…
“Yes, she faced the
death in India. She went there because my grandfather got the job there, and
they brought their two children with them. One of them is my father. She learnt
English, they had servants, had a great time… but nona had to have a surgery
there, and she was very afraid, and she told to the doctor: ‘Do not let me die,
I have two small children!’ The doctor replied: ‘What is your death in
comparison to the whole world!’ Instead of breaking her, his words only made
her stronger, she raised above the mind, she realized that she should throw
away her ego, and she is alive today and she is very silent… “, Dunja told me.
“To throw away the
ego…”—I repeated to myself… Those words were very familiar to me, I read them
somewhere recently, apparently… I remembered that Osho talked about it in the
book I read, that one must learn he is not the most important in the world,
that he should throw away his ego and forget about selfishness… Yes, 29° knows
nothing about ego, selfishness… I was truly amazed. But I needed one more link
to confirm that 29° Taurus is important for India…
Massimo Savic – the
song India –29° Cancer
What I am about to
tell you is the proof that the Universe always takes care of everything… While
I was reading the mail from Dunja about her grandmother and connection to
India, I was listening to Massimo Savic and his song “India”, from the album
“The Sun rises again” from December 2008. It urged me to take a look at
Massimo’s chart.
Since the time of
birth is unknown, I used his Sun chart. The first thing that caught my eye was
the position of the Moon (woman) at 29° Cancer (28° Cancer 58’), where his
secondary and directive Sun was in 2008, when this song was released. The fact
that Massimo is really important here, in this story about nona and India, is
confirmed by his date of birth – he was born on June 6, 1962! Sun is his chart
is at 15° Gemini, the same position as the cusp of Dunja’s 7 (her grandmother, nona),
where also was the cusp of 3 (talking, conversation, writing) in the chart for
the moment I met Dunja, where also was directive Venus (wedding) of Mumtaz
Mahal on March 27, 1612, when she married Shah Jahan four centuries ago. Since
the first thing one thinks about when talking about India is Taj Mahal, one of
the 7 world’s wonders, then 15° Gemini is certainly important here, because it
represents the apex of lotus configuration, with 15° Leo on one side – the
position of Venus in India’s chart, and 15° Aries on the other side – the
position of India’s secondary Moon at the day of wedding, 4 centuries ago.
Interestingly, Mumtaz Mahal waited 5 years to marry Shah Jahan. They met in
1607, he fell in love and proposed to her, but they had to wait (29°) for the
wedding. The date of the wedding was determined by astrologers. In this waiting
(29°), there is the symbolism of female, passive energy, India…
Lotus constellation
across 29°
Massimo helped me here
to confirm my suspicion that 29° Taurus might be important for India, because
it creates strong lotus (lotus is the very symbol of the East, India)
constellation with 29° Pisces on one side, and 29° Cancer on the other side.
Since we are dealing here with female signs – Taurus, Cancer, Pisces, all that imply
passiveness, but also emotions and love (Venus is in its seat in Taurus, the
Moon is exalted there, and the Moon is in its seat in Cancer, Jupiter exalted
there, Pisces are the seat of Jupiter and Neptune, and exaltation of Venus),
then it is certain that India is the country that is silent (29°), female
(Taurus, Cancer, Pisces), passive, waiting… and certainly special (lotus
constellation) and full of love…
India and New Age
Since 0° (the
beginning) Gemini comes after 29° Taurus, and India’s ascendant is exactly
there (0° Gemini 54’), and since Regulus entered Virgo from ascendant at 1°
Gemini, it is to be expected that the new age that begun with Regulus in Virgo
will, in the next 2160 years, bring new age to India as well, especially to
women in India, and help them become more awaken and somehow more focused
mentally (Gemini) …
In the moment when the
Mind is erased – and the method to achieve it is meditation (29°) – we are left
with only a body that is absolutely beautiful, and the silent brain without
noise. In the moment when the brain is liberated from the Mind, the innocence
of the brain becomes aware of the new space that we call soul. Yes, India is
female, silent and full of love… But in the time to come – it will change,
certainly…
