Two years before the predicted "end times" of the Mayan calendar in 2012 , this year's date of December 21 will also be an interesting time:
(i) A total lunar eclipse will occur: (the first total eclipse since February 20, 2008)
(ii) The eclipse’s total phase lasts for 72 minutes (72 is a mystical number associated with G-d's name)
(iii) The planets Saturn, Pluto and Uranus will form a T-square:
The T-Squares of 2010-2011 promise to be interesting. The last time this pattern occurred was during the early years of the Great Depression.
Throughout history, when Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus form hard alignments such as a T-Square, a time of socio-economic and political destabilization, tension, and contraction arise. Any hard alignment involving these planets suggests a period of stress where growth and evolution is demanded yet hard to achieve. On one hand, the alignment represents a stalemate between opposing forces, and, on the other, the alignment represents a time where pressure, hardship, and frustration ultimately give birth to something radically new. Out of this alignment arises a new order, where the old order disintegrates and gives rise to new social, economic, and political visions and movements.......
Given historical precedence and the archetypal dynamics involved, The Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus T-Square of 2010 should coincide with a period of great socio-political upheaval and destabilization, if not crisis.
I'm confused. Aren't we supposed to avoid astrology? The site you link to looks...I don't know, forbidden? If I'm wrong I'd like to know.
ReplyDeleteLook at the planet situation for the end of 2011. Also look at Bibi's birthchart for next year. It's going to be an exciting year. Not in the joyful sense though.
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I prefer to call it a celestial event, rather than astrology. Planets do have an affect on the world, even if the Jews are "above the stars".
ReplyDeleteThat's just my opinion, others are welcome to disagree.
Devorah, I don't know enough about it to disagree. Times are very interesting, however, very interesting, indeed..
ReplyDeleteThis is ASTRONOMY, not astrology. Big difference. Thanks for the heads up, Devorah.
ReplyDeleteIt seems from Rashi that negatively predicted astrological events can be given a new positive meaning through Mitzvot. For example, Pharaoh saw the Jewish exodus as happening under a particularly "bloody" zodiac symbol (Which he called "Ra", probably mars). Therefore, he warned the Jews that it's not to there benefit to leave at that time. Instead, some 40 years later upon entering Israel, the Jewish People get circumcised. Rashi comments that this satisfied the astrological "bloodiness" that Pharaoh had seen and there was no need for anything negative to happen.
ReplyDeleteSo, we can take a lesson that probably all these future astrological alignments probably have a corresponding Mitzvah that can re-channel their energies in a positive direction. If we're not on the level to point to something specific, we have a very simple formula that we recite on the High Holidays, "Wholehearted return to G*d, prayer and charity removes harmful heavenly decrees."
It's also worth noting that in the Messianic age, there also has to be moments when we will encounter zodiac alignments which seem to portend negativity. After all, the Maimonides teaches that the world (at least in the initial stages) will follow it's usual natural order. So obviously since that time will be overwhelmingly positive, there must be a way for these signs to be positive also.