On May 22nd 2017, 12 years after the July 2005 London Bombings, Great Britain was again the victim of a vicious terrorist attack. This time the city of Manchester was the scene of the tragedy when a bomb exploded during a show of a pop idol. 22 people were killed and 59 seriously wounded.
A previous terrorist attack happened when on July 7th, 2005 four Islamist extremists separately detonated three bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city , latelater,a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. Fifty-two people were killed and over 700 more were injured.
Another deadly terrorist incident happened in 1988 when the Pan Am Flight 103 exploded above Lockerbie.
THE HELIACAL CYCLES AND ” THE PATH” OF THE PLANETS
So, there is an interval of 12 years between the explosion in Manchester and the London Bombing in 2004 and 29 years between Manchester and the bombing of the Pan Am flight.
Twelve years is the heliacal cycle of Jupiter whereas 29 corresponds to the heliacal cycle of Saturn.
An astronomical planetarium shows us that Jupiter was heliacally rising above England around October 9th, 2004. This happened at the 4th degree of Libra, close to the ascendant of the horoscope of England of 1.01. 1801. ( 7° Libra). This is, at least according to Nick Campion’s Book of World Horoscopes, the most useful horoscope for the United Kingdom.
If we go back to the previous assault, it happened in London on July 7th, 2004, this is 9 months after the heliacal rising of Jupiter.
This new heliacal cycle, twelve years later, started around October 15th,2016 when at sunrise Jupiter became visible after combustion. This happened again ,of course, near the ascendant of the horoscope of Great Britain, this time at 8° Libra.
Seven months and 15 days later after this heliacal rising, the dreadful bombing happened in Manchester.
In modern astrology, we would not be inclined to connect Jupiter, this great benefic, to such negative events as terrorist attacks. However, this is not what we see in Mesopotamian Astrology.
In the excellent book ” Babylonian Planetary Omens- Part Four ” of Reiner and Pingree we read several texts of “omens” of Jupiter which do not exactly promise eternal sunshine and roses. On the contrary, they even often portend bad times to come.
According to the texts of the astrologer-priests of Mesopotamia, the quality of Jupiter, and the other planets for that matter, greatly depend on the place of the horizon where they make their first appearance. (heliacal rise) and secondly by the planets and stars which are visible in the sky at this very moment.
The heliacal rise of a planet always happens at a particular place at the horizon. This is the sector or “the path” where the planet becomes visible. These 3 paths which divide the eastern horizons are dedicated to the cosmic trio of the Babylonian chief gods in the Babylonian pantheon: Anu, Ea and Enlil.
These paths were known and used as early as the birth of the Babylonian Astrolab where 36 stars were divided in 3 columns, representing these 3 paths, each with 12stars.
Anu is the creator of everything and is the god of heaven; he rules the eastern part of the horizon. Enlil was the god of destiny and of everything between heaven and earth and rules the northern part of the horizon , whereas Ea (or Enki) was the god of the underworld and the ocean and rules the southern part.
These paths are determined by the azimuths where the heliacal risings occurs and every planet had its “favourite” sector to rise : Jupiter was happiest in the path of Enlil ,whereas Mars , preferred to rise in the path of Ea, ruler of the underground.
So, when the astronomer-priest observed a heliacal rise of Mars in the path of Enlil (which was for Jupiter) it was considered as a bad omen. There is also documentation that, if Jupiter rose in the path of ANU , it was interpreted as bad news for the ruling king.
It is, in this instance, interesting to see that the heliacal rising of Jupiter in 2004 and 2016 occurred in both cases in the path of ANU, which, according to the texts is the most difficult sector to rise.
When we look at Saturn, we see that in 1988 Saturn rose heliacally on January16th 1988 at 27 degree in tropical Sagittarius. The disaster in Lockerbie happened about 11 months later after Saturnus’ heliacal rise, on December 21st.
29 years later ( heliacal cycle of Saturn) on January 7, 2017, Saturn rose again at the same place and between the same stars. Five months later after the beginning of the new cycle, on May 22nd, there was that horrible terrorist strike in Manchester
THE HOROSCOPE AND THE SKY
The chart for the moment of the explosion ( Manchester, May 22nd 2017-22:34) shows a Last Crescent Moon exact on the IC when Mars is close to the descendant and makes an opposition with Saturn ,also close to the horizon. The Moon is going to the conjunction with Uranus and is squaring Pluto.But it becomes really interesting when we include the sky and fixed stars in our interpretation: At the moment when the Moon, in her phase of last visibility, reaches the IC, Antares, royal star of a martial quality in the heart of the constellation Scorpius, is exactly rising at the eastern horizon. Antares is extremely powerful, since, together with some other stars in her constellation, she will be visible for almost the entire night. So, the least we can say is that the combination of Antares with the Moon is shaping an exceptional powerful paran.
Mars is combusted by the rays of the Sun which is near the Pleiades and is situated between the stars which form the top of the horns of the constellation Taurus ; Al Hecka and El Nath. According to Bernadette Brady, El Nath is the point of attack and viewed as the force of the Bull, symbolizing a great and horrible weapon. When El Nath is combust (invisible by the beams of the sun) the violence may come totally unexpected, as a predator in the night.
There is also the fixed star Spica which shines exactly at the MC. This may appear somewhat odd as Spica is traditionally considered one of the most fortunate stars in the sky. However, this is not always the case; we read in the “Liber Hermetis ” that , when Venus is aspected by Mars, or, when Saturn is on the Ascendant, Spica is losing her beneficial influence, and corrupts the angular house where the star is located. We can see that in the chart of the explosion Mars is making a sextile with Venus and that, in addition, Saturn is near the ascendant.
For closing, we can only notice that , as 5000 years ago, the heavenly writing is still demonstrating what is happening on earth and that the maxim ” as above, so below ” did not lose its validity.
The sky above Manchester at the moment of the explosion
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