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Let’s see if we can track the events of 2005 in Sister Marie Simon-Pierre’s life.
It would be nice to investigate the onset of the disease, years before, but it would takes us too far.
So, in 2005, after a moment of eucharistic adoration and meditation on the Mysteries of the Rosary, Sister Marie was cured of an advanced case of Parkinson’s disease; according to herself, due to the late Pope John Paul II’s intervention after she prayed for him. The miracle happened in June the 2nd, according to Wikipedia. Saint John Paul had died two months earlier, in April the 2nd.
First, let’s take a broader look at the astrological themes for that year.
I usually don’t put too much weight on profections (not because they don’t work; they just seem less descriptive), but it’s the easiest thing to check, so let’s take a very quick look at them.
2005 is a eighth-house profection for Sister Marie. Profected Ascendant hits natal Moon, which means profected Descendant hits the natal Saturn-Jupiter conjunction.
Profected Midheaven is on the natal ninth cusp by antiscion.
Profected Mercury and profected Mars are conjunct by antiscion.
The eighth house and its ruler, death and death. Ruler of the first house conjunct Mercury (which we know is associated with her disease); ninth house; and that nasty Moon - Jupiter/Saturn opposition.
Not a good time, I guess.
What about the progressions for that year?
The following chart presents her progressions for her birthday in 2005. What I will describe is what they are going to do, from that date until her 2006 birthday. Most of the things move around one degree, except for Fortuna and the Moon.
The coloured dots are the Arabian Parts (from the seven Key parts) which seem to be involved: the part of Necessity (gray), Courage (red), Spirit (yellow), and Captivity (black).
Those who like the strange bodies with nice Roman names will notice that progressed Midheaven will conjunct Neptune. An Earth-shaking year? And, well, that’s what Parkinson’s does to the body, the patient shakes all the time. It also conjuncts the natal Part of Captivity — associated with Saturn (limits, obstructions, cold and dry stuff, and death) - by antiscion.
The progressed Descendant hits the natal part of Spirit (the Sun part; the Sun rules the ninth house).
The Sun-Venus conjunction seems important, but… it has perfected two years before that. The Sun has just passed natal Venus (and the natal Sun opposition by antiscion). So, neither progressed Sun nor progressed Venus actually touch anything.
But don’t worry, the Moon does a lot of touching: first, progressed Venus by antiscion, then a Natal Part of Necessity opposition, then a Natal Fortuna opposition (also by antiscion), then another natal part opposition, the Part of Courage, then the Natal IC.
Fortuna is also busy. It conjuncts natal Ascendant, then, by antiscion, opposes natal Moon, conjuncts progressed Saturn, conjuncts natal Saturn/Jupiter.
So, including planets and parts associated with them (if you don’t remember the association, don’t worry, I will remind you of that below), we get: Saturn (with a bit of Jupiter), Mercury, the Sun, Venus, the Moon, and Mars. And the IC. At first sight, it’s a mess — we can see it’s an important time, and not very pleasant, but important how?
Well, first, the Mars Part, the Ascendant, and the Moon might mean the same thing: the body.
Venus, of course, rules the sixth house of diseases. The part of Saturn might mean restrictions, the part of Mercury is also called “of Despair”, and the IC conjunction might be in reality an opposition to the MC.
Let’s see how these things unfold in the Solar Return.
Hum… this doesn’t seem very good.
The natal Asc-Desc axis is the Solar Return MC-IC axis.
This means the star Caput Algol — the Severed Head of Medusa - is conjunct the MC.
The Moon — ruler of the eighth in the natal chart — is, by antiscion, conjunct the eight house cusp.
Venus (the ruler of the sixth natal house) has just entered its own exaltation, while natal Venus is conjunct the SR ninth house cusp, and the North Node. By antiscion, this Venus is, of course, conjunct the SR Ascendant.
Mercury, ruler of the first in this chart, is conjunct the natal IC, the lowest point of the chart.
Jupiter, the ruler of the eighth, is opposed natal Fortuna.
But not everything is bad in this chart. Natal Mars, ruler of the Ascendant, and the Natal part of the Spirit are conjunct the Solar Return eleventh house.
So, disease and death seem to be a prominent feature.
But we have Natal Lord one conjunct the house of blessings. And the Sun is immediatly evident by being on the Descendant — the Sun rules the ninth house of Religion.
Things get even more interesting when we look at another technique.
John Frawley calls it “Natal Arc Arabian Parts”. We subtract the Ascendant from the seven key parts, and then add up the solar return Ascendant. We get more or less with the part at the same “mundane position” as they were in the birth chart (That is, if one of them was rising in the birth chart, it will be rising in the Return, etc).
Here are the ones doing anything of note (which are all of them):
Natal Arc Fortuna (associated to the Moon) is, by antiscion, opposed Natal Mars.
Natal Arc Necessity and Despair (Mercury), by antiscion, opposes Return Mars.
Natal Arc Love (Venus) is, again by antiscion, conjunct Return sixth house cusp.
Natal Arc Spirit (the Sun) opposes, yet by antiscion, Return Mercury.
Natal Arc Courage (Mars) is conjunct (by antiscion, again) Natal Mars and all those things I said before.
Natal Arc Victory (Jupiter) is conjunct the Return eighth-house cusp.
Natal Arc Captivity (Saturn) is conjunct natal Ascendant/Return IC.
Things become even clearer: Mars emphasized by three of them, Mercury by another one, and the Ascendant by yet another. Lord of the first (natal chart), lord of the first (return), the first itself.
The other testimonies emphasize the sixth and the eighth. What happened to her, and what should happen to her, were it not for the miracle.
But the same Mars allows for the possibility of things taking that miraculous turn. Mars is also the ruler of the ninth in the Solar Return, and it is, after all, in the eleventh house of gifts from above.
If you are a bit disappointed in this chart — maybe you were waiting for lots of signs of miracle, and not a chart of disease and death — let me remind you that this is the essence of a miracle. Without it, she’d probably be dead.
Moreover, this Return is also the one in which her disease worsened.
Before I finish, I’d like to take a quick look at her Lunar Return for the miracle; I’m not calculating any parts.
Yep. The Moon conjuncts the IC, bottom of the chart again. And, by antiscion, on the Ascendant. The Moon rules, you know, that house in the birth chart. The eighth, which means that thing.
Jupiter, Lunar Return eighth ruler, is conjunct the natal IC by antiscion.
North Node on natal Venus (lord 6 of the birth chart and of the Lunar Return) and Fortuna (the part associated with the Moon, which rules, you know. That house in the birth chart).
The LR Venus, by antiscion, is conjunct Natal Moon and opposed natal Jupiter and Saturn.
Pluto is exactly where you would think it would be.
However, solar return Mars is conjunct Natal Sun — lord one conjunct lord nine.
Again, lots of testimony of disaster, with subtle open doors to Intervention.
It kind of makes me think on how the Cosmos is structured. But that’s a story for another time.
This was so funny I decided to do a third part: I want to find the same event on pope St. John Paul’s chart. Maybe, if there is time, a quick “synastry” between the two of them.
See you soon!
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