A simple life, part III - The Saint

Let’s start all over again.

If you don’t know what I am talking about, read the previous posts here, here, and here.

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I have an excellent introduction to the model of the Cosmos, the spheres, the circles, the signs and the houses here.

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This is the birth chart for St. John Paul II.

I’m not going to delineate it today. Maybe another time.

Also, in order to be able to look at many different techniques, I am not talking about fixed stars or arabian parts.

Let’s jump to the event we want to look at.

The saint was kind enough to die before his birthday and make a miracle after it, making sure each event has a different solar return (And a different profection, a different set of progressions, etc).

Profections for the year:

It’s a second-house profection, ruled by Mars.

Profected Ascendant opposes natal Sun (or rather profected Descendant conjuncts natal Sun).

Profected Fortuna opposes natal Moon.

Profected Sun and profected Moon (by antiscion) conjunct the Ninth-house cusp.

Profected Pluto is on the MC.

Profected MC is on Saturn.

Profected Saturn is on the twelfth-house cusp.

The ruler of the tenth; the Moon; the ninth (twice); the tenth. So far, so congruent. This was a ninth- and tenth-house affair.

Saturn, ruler of the fourth, doesn’t seem to fit our event); and the twelfth house also doesn’t make much sense.

Maybe it’s too far fetched, but the twelfth might be “the seventh house’s sixth house”, someone else’s disease.

Apart from Saturn, then, all other testimonies are understandable, and some of them are obvious.

The progressions:

The Moon, by antiscion, hits Natal Moon.

Fortune opposes the eighth house (ok, technically it conjuncts the second, but we all know he was already dead), then opposes natal Sun, opposes progressed Mercury by antiscion, changes sign, opposes progressed Moon by antiscion. and opposes natal Moon by body.

Progressed MC hits, by antiscion, progressed Venus, which, enters Virgo.

OK, lots of Moon, a bit of the Sun and Mercury. Mercury rules the ninth, it makes sense.

Venus hitting the MC is ok, too — it’s him, Venus rules the Ascendant. But what about it entering Virgo, and losing dignity?

Well, he’s already dead, and in Heaven. This is the Return for when he did a miracle — God’s mercy descended by way of his intercession. And Virgo is Venus’s fall.

Have a look at the Solar Return for this year:

There aren’t many things happening here.

The Ascendant, by antiscion, is on the natal ninth-house cusp.

The MC is, again by antiscion, on natal Fortuna.

Pluto, for those asking, is opposed natal Pluto by antiscion.

Natal Mars is on the Return South Node.

And there’s this very close, but separating, trine between SR Jupiter and SR Venus. Let me start with it. Venus rules the twelfth in both charts, true, but it also rules the first house in the natal chart. Jupiter rules the third and the fifth in the natal chart, and the eleventh in the Solar Return.

Well, the third and the fifth may be the ninth — faith — and eleventh — blessings — of the seventh, “other people”. And Venus dominates Jupiter.

The other testimonies are easy to understand: Mars rules the sixth, diseases, in both charts. Putting the part of the Moon (ruler of the first in the Solar Return) in the Midheaven, and emphasizing the ninth house are testimonies that don’t really need explanation.

Lastly, let’s take a look at the month when the miracle happened: The Lunar Return.

Saturn on the eleventh cusp is the first thing that catches the eye, I guess.

Jupiter is opposed the eighth house of death and, by antiscion, is on the Descendant.

Mars — ruler of the sixth in the natal chart, and the eighth in this return — is opposed Mercury, ruler of the first house, here. The Pope opposing sickness and death.

Mercury also rules the tenth house in this chart, and the ninth and eleventh in the birth… and all these houses, in one way or another, seem to fit (and were emphasized in one or another of the techniques). Natal Mercury is itself highligted by the Lunar Return Sun.

And natal Sun (ruler of the tenth in the birth chart) is itself highlighted by Return Venus - natal ruler of the first.

Well, I think this Lunar Return is descriptive enough — it compensates for the comparatively low-profile Solar Return.

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I am not done with this just yet. I think I will check St. John Paul’s chart for when he was canonized, and compare his chart with Sister Marie Simon-Pierre (who is, by the way, still alive).

But I won’t do it in sequence; it’s good to change the subject, sometimes. I’ll probably have one or two lighter posts next.

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