ecosophia | Magic Monday

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The picture? I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me. I'm going to jump back here a bit because I managed to trace down another significant figure from a lineage I've already discussed. Bishop Richard, Duc de Palatine was an Australian spiritual teacher and Gnostic bishop who played a crucial role in bringing the alternative sacramental movement to the United States, and strongly influenced both of the bishops who consecrated John Gilbert. Born Ronald Powell in 1916, he became a member of the Theosophical Society and then a bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church. After the Second World War he moved to Britain and founded the Pre-Nicene Christian Church, one of the major fountainheads of Gnostic Christian spirituality in the English-speaking world, and later traveled widely in the USA and elsewhere, teaching students, ordaining priests, and consecrating bishops, until his death in 1977. I've recently had the chance to study more of his writings and have discovered that he was much more influential a source for the Gnostic material I received than I'd realized -- so he's this week's honoree.

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You did a podcast last year discussing the astrological timing of the Ukraine-Russian conflict which seemed to suggest the timing was favorable for the Russian side. During the recent Mars retrograde I see the Russians retreated, restocked, and rearmed and now that the retrograde has passed are on the offensive again.

Would this suggest coincidence to you or astrological literacy on the part of the Russians? What do they say again, once is chance, twice is coincidence, and thrice is enemy action?

The Russians are behaving as though they've got a first-rate astrologer helping to plan their strategy. It's not just the Mars retrograde; they ducked a Mercury retrograde, too, and Uranus just went direct as well. I'm guessing that the Russians are going to go on the offensive in a fairly big way over the next week or so.

This is a fascinating topic.

1. JMG, you wouldn’t happen to be looking for Wednesday topics, or subscribestar/patron topics, would you? :-)

I’d love to read a post about how one would go about astrologically planning something as complex as a war - as an example for a real-life astrological application, so to speak.

And/or a post about why you think the Russians are having a good astrologer, and why they chose e.g. date X for this, and not date Y, etc.

(I know this would just be a very limited simulation game, since war is complex, and we wouldn‘t have all the necessary background information anyway. But seeing astrological strategies applied has been very helpful to me, and this is a very real-life application.)

2. Does anybody know any good resources which are discussing the astrological timing in this war?

(I‘m aware there is a ton of astrology websites discussing it - but I‘m having trouble finding the decent ones, if they even exist.)

Thanks,

Milkyway

1) Nope. That would require learning about a branch of astrology I haven't studied at all -- mundane electional astrology, the branch that would be used to choose good times for countries to do things. To judge by the differences between natal and mundane astrology, this would involve a lot of additional variables.

2) I've seen essentially no discussion of it, which is odd. You'd thing astrologers would be all over it.

1) Fair enough. ;-)

2) Weird indeed. When I couldn’t find any serious astrological discussions, I thought it was my own faulty search technique, but if you haven‘t seen much either… hm. Do you have any ideas on why that might be?

Milkyway

Quite a few astrologers have messed up massively in recent years when making predictions about political events, starting with all the people who wrote enthusiastically about Hillary Clinton's inevitable election victory. I suspect a lot of them are getting shy about sticking their necks out further.

Uranus just went direct is very good news for me. The last 5 years have been my Uranus Return, and included a major change of location for starters. Plus the Lockdown and other world-changing events. And I don't doubt at all that the Russians have a first-rate astrologer working for them. Which none of the pundits who are grabbing at every setback for them and hyping it to the skies seem to know about. The story of Brave Little Ukraine seems to have a mythic resonance with the American public. But - in general - what else does Uranus in Taurus Direct signify in contrast to Retrograde?

Iridescebt Exogenous Moth.

Uranus is in his fall in Taurus, and so he's not going to be especially well behaved, except for those who have him very well placed in their natal charts. I'd expect to see several months of sudden disruptive changes that will leave a lot of people shaken.

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