Saturn Retro 2025: 17: Saturn Mars Opposition

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water - Jaws 2

Yes! Just when I completely retired from writing Retrograde posts, this transition came up to my notice..
Retrograde Saturn in Pisces opposing Mars in Virgo.. PEAKING on 9th August, Saturday, 10 am, IST.

Just when we celebrated the ending of Mars + Ketu ( Angaraka yoga) in Leo.. 🔥🔥Mars in Virgo 👉🏼👉🏼🔥🔥👈🏼👈🏼opposing Retrograde Saturn in Pisces.. Began.. 🤬🤬

Also, yesterday I met some really dear friends in a close knit family party. Looks like.. the husband and wifey read my EVERY post on Retrograde!! But NEVER reached out... to ask the many questions they had..!! 🔥🔥🤬🤬🤬🤬 Yes, this means you.. Dhruv and Sanjana!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥. .

 Anyways.. Instead of posting NEW posts.. I'll continue to upload / update on THIS VERY POST until the 9th August.. Next Saturday.. FOCUSSING ON THIS OPPOSITION TRANSIT! thanks 🙏🏼🙏🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 16: Movie - Butcher's Crossing

Prologue

24th July, Thursday, day 12 of 14 days of Red Hot Rising phase of annual Saturn retrograde. As mentioned in the earlier post, Mars Ketu deep conjunction in Purva Phalguni, pada 4, Scorpio Navamsa, made it scorchingly Hot like Hell from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday morning. How Hot and Apocalyptic was this crossing? A movie brought these emotions to life, artistic expression. Which I saw half on Tuesday night, half on Wednesday night. Exactly at this omnious crossing of two phases. If you see my posts from seven years back, each Saturn Retrograde, I had coincidentally come across great Epic movies which expressed the flavour, taste, quality of Saturn retro through that particular sign, prevailing planetary transits at that time, transit and sign.

Retrograde Epic Movie

The plot is simple. In the Old West, a young student Will Andrews drops out of Harvard, comes to the frontier to join Buffalo hunter Miller ( Nicholas Cage) in a hunting expedition. This was during the period of great demand for Buffalo hides. 

Unlike other hunters, Miller is in quest of a great mythical massive herd in a remote land. Where other hunting trips take less than a week, their expedition runs into several months, because of the bloodthirsty greed of Miller. The three man crew is left to the mercy of the harsh elements of nature far away from civilization. 

And in the course of their prolonged, damned, apocalyptic, journey, as the naive Harvard dropout Will, questions his own intentions seeking adventure, we, as an audience, question our own innate bloodthirsty, greed, lurking within us, in our quest, ambition, to become GREATER than others, in our search of glory and achievement.

 
The Buffalo is the official vehicle/ animal upon which both Lord Shanidev and Lord Yama, ride upon. In the frontier land, the technical Bison, is mentioned as Buffalo. But they are sub species of the same Buffalo genus. Their complete oblivious ness, their stationary state, even when they are being shot down, massacred, completely shows the current Retrograde motion.

 The sheer butchery, savage, rawness, of the hunting expedition for buffalo hide, shows the exact energies of Mars Ketu deep conjunct in Purva Phalguni, pada 4, Scorpio Navamsa.

 
The sheer Dumbness, numbness of the low score of the general audience review shows the apathy, of the herds, as they stand stationary, in the face of great spiritual crises, trapped in their own, cosy existential limbos.

I saw Mandy stg: Nicholas Cage, during the second Covid lockdown, in the Great Conjunction, namely Saturn, Jupiter, and Pluto, after 100 years, in Capricorn. It was brutal like the times prevailing. 

And Butcher's Crossing by comparison is more like a documentary, factual narrative of a Buffalo hunting expedition gone wrong. More objective, distant, detached. The response is completely upon the viewer. It also shows that, post Covid, since our relationship to social media, digital platforms have increased manifold, our empathy has manifold decreased. Our apathy, insensitivity, as we are sucked into the existential limbos of our narrow individual existences. 

Gloomy??
NOT if you find yourselves watching such existential films during such Retrograde transits, WHEN, you're SUPPOSED to be in this state of self questioning, introspection, as per the schedule of the great wheels of time and fate.

Prologue

I was supposed to blog about a amazing new branding line, my client/friend, has bravely launched. I was supposed to blog about a new healing method that I have found.

But I guess not... not before I had to cross the butchers crossing, and retrograde/ retrospect into violent legacies from our past lives lurking inside our subconscious. The invisible effects and remnants of which we experience in our daily lives. And needs to processed. Especially during this time..

Also, yesterday, a great trailblazer, rockstar comet, Ozzy Osbourne passed away. I was a fan of his more haunting, Saturnine songs.. 👇🏼

👉🏼Fire in The Sky - Ozzy Osbourne 👈🏼

This favorite haunting, smouldering track of Ozzy strangely reflects the poster, mood, plot, and especially the ending... of the movie I reviewed above 🙏🏼🙏🏼🔥

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 15: Titanic Taandav

From Sunday, 20th July, 2:10 pm, afternoon to Wednesday, 23rd July, 8:50 am, the fiery, volcanic, Mars Ketu conjunction, ie Angaraka Yoga, in Leo, in Purva Phalguni Nakshatra, comes together in a Volcanic Clash in its fourth Pada.. SCORPIO Navamsa!!

This is FURTHERMORE much more MAGNIFIED and ACCENTUATED because.. This is running COMPLETELY PARALLEL to Saturn Retro 2025. ESPECIALLY it's volcanic, Rajasic preface of Gravitas phase. And the current Red Hot Riding Phase. 🔥🔥🔥

CONCLUSION

From Sunday afternoon 2pm to Wednesday morning 9 am... 

For some of you, a portal beyond unimaginable energy has opened after a gap of 18 years! You have been feeling this intense surge of energy these last two weeks.. In your blood, veins, within.. So go for it.. Make the Leap.. NOW!! 

And for others, these last two weeks have been 🤢🤢🤢😵‍💫😵‍💫🤢🤢.. How much more signs you need, just take a breather, take rest, just relax, chill out, hide under a rock.. In this period..

🙏🏼🙏🏼That's ALL todays post is about 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 14: Sun Saturn Swamp

I ran out of steam in these past 13 posts about Saturn Retro 2025. From last two days, COMPLETELY LEFT IT TO Shanidev to provided the impetus, inspiration to continue. And at noon, one call + what's app provided the basis of my next possible post 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

This was from Ravi Deka, my school senior, and close friend, bro, guide, and  astrology journeyman from 1987. Composite bamboo Boat maker, innovator, fuel innovator, etc, etc, etc 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

👉🏼Linked in profile: Ravi J Deka👈🏼

List of illustrious achievements are uncountable, BUT SO ARE negative experiences, calamities in his life, read his blog.. 👇🏼👇🏼

https://ravideka.blogspot.com/

My today's topic is about his morning what's app message (at top) where he's  pushing his latest boat prototype over marsh, land,  মেতেকা: water hyacinths.. even to reach the water. Yet, chanting the Lords name! A Sisyphean situation. But  despite uncountable and unlimited obstacles, this Man somehow never gives up!! Is it due to lagna Lord Sun in in 10th house, He who Maketh his Own Destiny.., EVEN THOUGH it's conjunct with Saturn, his 6th, 7th Lord!! 

Currently, his Leo ascendant house  has Ketu + Mars forming volatile Angaraka Yoga extremus until 27th July! Still, this man pushes onward!! Still, he continues climbing the precarious Red Hot Rising Retro mountain (13 - 27 July) of annual Saturn Retro 2025. 

I had previously blogged about him in my third blog 👇🏼👇🏼 but it was an erratic, fun post👇🏼

👉🏼Experiment with Moonstone 👈🏼

Not like this Retrograde, overloaded, Sisyphean post, full of the furnace, heat of the Vulcan industry. Where you're yourself physically pushing a boat you designed.. to reach the water 💧💧💧

Reminds me of the Werner Herzog movie.. Fitzcarraldo, where the protagonist moves a ship over jungles and mountains in the deep Amazon jungles.. 

Epilogue/Swamped

Morning, I was drowning in this series, a period story based on the marshes in Essex, a sea serpent, a superstitious fishing village, progressive priest played by "Loki", widowed naturalist, cutting edge doctor in a swampy, medieval, marshy, village setting

And reality imitates what art I'm watching. Another Bro, whose bank account got suddenly frozen due to KYC non compliance, and might have to go to hometown Gwhy, on borrowed funds!!

Yet another, an architect, whose site technician whose from Calcutta got electrocuted in his site, in the deep remote town of Haryana, and ALL the ensuing  complications this calamity implied!!! 

So, excuse me, if I abruptly wrap up this post..  Because.. I'm feeling a bit.. swamped. . 🔥🔥🔥

Saturn Retro 2025: 13: Bat From Beltola

Epilogue

From yesterday, the Red Hot Rising phase of annual Saturn retrograde 2025, has begun.. namely, from 13th - 27th July. The most intense first two weeks of Saturn retrograde!! It's only because of my keeping on constantly: 11 posts through the previous Gravitas phase, namely, 28 jun - 12 July, I can SOMEHOW continue narrating my experiences/ observations through blogging..

My usual eccentricity, electric restlessness temporarily GONE. Just a monotone drone, a flat graph on the oscillator monitor, without a pulse. The monotone Deadening hum of DC voltage. A perfect, mind numbing, deadening hum of the ongoing Saturnine schedule. Which, somehow, after a gap of SEVEN YEARS, I have accidentally resurrected/ restarted..

Today, I kind of feel empty, vacuous, after all that movement. Now that Red hot Rising Retro phase has begun for the next two weeks, how will I handle it? How will I continue, with the retrograde process??!!

One side of me says: forget it! Leave it at 12 posts! Another side: it's NOT complete until this Red hot Rising phase is over!

Celebration and Poisoning

I'm at Wework 16th floor after a looong time. My sister/ colleague/ Architect Shweta is leaving for.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 Japan🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🙏🏼🙏🏼 on Wednesday for a week, to attend a Architecture conference where she is going to be awarded for the nth, infinite time for her designs. Rajasic Retro Super blast!! 🔥🔥 as she's staying in..🗼🗼Tokyo 🗼🗼!! She might be visiting 🗻🗻🗻Mount Fiji too 🗻🗻🗻!!

Ahem, 😏😏😏😏, like I was saying, for Rajasic people..this time of 14 + 14 days! Gravitas + Red Hot Rising phase.. 27 jun - 28 July.. A time of Red hot crucial break through.. Window..

I got a chocolate cake from downstairs Modern Bazaar, to celebrate her victory. And was waiting for them for long time. Impatiently, angrily, I began eating the cake until this.. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Obviously, very soon, I started having the stomach cramps AGAIN!! Impatience, greed, rage, adrenaline, not working out too great.. 🤢🤢🤢🤢.. 

Bat from Beltola

I searched for some medicines in my bag, and all I found was this Bat Statue.. Which I got from a client in Beltola, hometown Guwahati. As part of 3 ghostly things not in place in her home. She couriered it to me in Delhi, long after I had left hometown. I constantly carried it around, in my bag.. and got checked at least 28 times in these past days, in the Metro, because of its size/ shape. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Later, out of boredom and stomach cramps, I started to click the Bat Statue with my favorite pendant, Tarot Card 12: The Hanged Man. BOTH UPSIDE DOWN in their natural state, BOTH Retrograde in their natural flow.

Then I started to remember my early childhood in Beltola.. 

Childhood in Beltola

In about 1980, we moved from a rented place in Kharguli to our own home in Beltola. It was all paddy fields, thatched houses, no electricity. 

Father was mostly away in tours. During monsoon, Mother used to park her car at Hazarika uncles house, few houses from Tiniali, and walk muddy, raw roads to home. Much later we got electric poles and electricity. A giant house, raw bricks, massive windows. Village life. Playing with village children, paddy fields.

After dusk darkness fell. It became a place full of legends and ghosts.. 

" Don't go to the hillocks alone, it's got wild spirits" . 

"Don't roam around after dusk." Etc . 

Our maid reported many ghostly stories regularly. Neighborhood was rife with weird scary stories! It was part of  our Daily Life!! 

Amongst all of them, was the legend of Betala, a preta, hanging upside down from lonely trees. 45 years later, when I do the math.. Beltola - L = Be-tola= Be-tala. 

But THEN... when all was Dusk and haunted. NOT NOW... the densely crowded, high towers, high priced real estate it's become... 

And the beautiful crafted Bat statue, not from anyone,of my Delhi or Global friends or clients regularly romping through the world. But from a client, a resident.. from an inner by lane in Beltola.. 

...Yeah!! 🔥🔥🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼!! 

Prologue

My friend Egghead send me pics as he visited his childhood hometown in Golaghat. A 100 year old priniting press, vintage cars, a 100+ year old bicycle, his childhood primary school established in 1886...Still running. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

...It's as Retrograde as it gets..

🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 12: Heaven and Earth

Epilogue

Saturn Retrograde has officially begun from yesterday, 13th July, Sunday, BUT I've ALREADY done 11 posts about the Gravitas phase... the two week phase before the official date. And, all that build up, impetus is NECESSARY if you're going to work with Saturn Retro energies! You can't just wake up on Saturn Retro day and just start working with it. It's impossible to blog, write about something as HUGE as Saturn Retro, starting from the day of Saturn Retrograde. It's too huge to tackle on a human level.

So now, having done that for last two weeks, I'm kind of logged in to the inertial flow. And continue to blog about the FIRST TWO WEEKS of Annual Saturn Retro.. the very very intense.. Red Hot Rising Phase. Marked red in all the graphs. Two weeks of extreme intense energies.. either way.

Heaven and Earth

On the very First day, official date, of Saturn Retro 205, 13th July, Sunday, I stepped out of home (otherwise, Sundays are ALWAYS at home), to attend the Matsya Sparsha function of Bina aunty, a family friend, who had departed for her heavenly abode on 3rd July. The Adya Sraddha and Naam was on 12 July, Saturday, which I couldn't attend due to exhaustion ( check previous post). Matsya Sparsha is the day when the family ceremoniously serves the favourite food of the departed, amongst other rituals. It sees the resuming of normal, non vegetarian diet, after the mourning of the 11 days of hobis diet.

Even though there was a variety of food served I ONLY took fried fish as per my own rituals commencing on 4th of July with the family. And copious amounts of whiskey + ice, in paper cups, which I sneaked out from the kitchen.

Later, after the guests had left, the whole extended family gathered in the living room with me.

There was an issue of a resolution of a property and they wanted my suggestions. It was natural because on 4th of July, when I had visited, I had cast the horoscope of the moment of departure for heavenly abode, and had obtained the wishes and messages, and astrological rituals connected with the departed soul. And now their question completely SYNCHRONIZED with that chart 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Ketu+ Mars in 4th house, shows karmic issues with home+ property. What was the way to resolve it? See 2nd house: Sun + Jupiter, a close family friend will guide about the resolution method. That was me the astrologer visiting the family on the ceremonial occasion.. On a Sunday. Check my uncharacteristic, stiff upper lip Victorian selfie uploaded on Sunday, at that moment on Instagram story.. Combusted Jupiter in Gemini.. 😅😅👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

And what are the further tell tale signs of this advisor/ medium of advice? Check 11th house, Pisces, where Saturn + Neptune are deep conjunct at 7 degrees in the Saturnine Nakshatra of Uttar Bhadrapad, deep sea serpent lying at the bottom of the ocean. 

Check my 10th post of Saturn Retro... Its all about the Saturn Neptune in Uttar Bhadrapad..!  Link 👉🏼 10th post on Saturn retrograde 2025 👈🏼

Some  events were written.. in/ by... destiny/fate.. itself.. We merely needed to understand decode it.. 

Prologue/ Conclusion

In fact, I feel, the ball was set in motion, when I visited the grieving family on 4th of July, and analysed the rituals to be followed, which they diligently followed up. And yesterday was the mere conclusion, wrap up of this entire Retrograde unfolding! On both the days, it was not natural, but took effort for me to reach their place.

Proves my point totally and completely, that one SHOULD begin this entire process two weeks, prior to the official date of commencement of annual Saturn Retrograde!! Because, yesterday my Oracle like shamanic performance providing advice for the joint property issue.. was merely a release founded/ grounded upon the continuous ritual build up through the Gravitas phase.

Heaven and Earth

As she ascended to Heaven

With Sun Jupiter wings of light

Also with Saturnine help.. 

Downloaded the advice.. 

 to her family

Praying for her.. on Earth..

🙏🏼🙏🏼🌷Jai Shanidev 🌷🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 11: Earths Core Magma

Today's my 11th post on Saturn Retro 2025. And in intrinsic continuance of the thought process of previous posts. And their Gravitas build up.

I'm dazed and sleepy, earlier having woken up early, to drop a young lass to T3 terminal, along with her parents (my childhood friends) to go to Australia for higher studies. Later, which I found.. was the SAME lass.. who created my Instagram account on 17 June 2017.. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

..when Saturn Retrograde was in Moola conjunct Natal Rahu, creating Shrapit Dosh. ALSO, when I checked the date of the birth of my Instagram.. 17 June 2017, the Saturn Retrograde, was at the fringe edge of Yellow Phase, just about to get into Blue/ Ebbing Retro phase, which is great for Saturnines.

CONCLUSION: If I had JUST checked ONCE and maybe started it JUST FOUR DAYS LATER, on 21st June.. history/ temporal events could have UNFOLDED in a completely different.. PRODUCTIVE DIRECTION..!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

But NOW, me digging deep into the past, Retrospective of Retro 2017.. after Seven years.. Is the HEAVIEST yet most Scheduled / appropriate thing to do.. BECAUSE it's only NOW, that the birth of Instagram on 17 June 2017, has finally found it's APPROPRIATE Saturnine use.. This Lifelong Process of private blogging finally getting shared to ➡️Instagram Threads ➡️Instagram Stories ➡️Facebook stories.... Like it was supposed to be.. SEVEN YEARS BACK.. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬!!

Rajiv has finally completed his Serpentine drawing above 👆🏼👆🏼.. 

And the early morning vaccum, and sleep deprived hungover void that follows you thereafter, immediately. And that, in light of the Gravitas phase, is most ideal to tap into. Log into. Worst is that I have another Freemasonry meeting few hours later, and the duties dumped upon me, at the last moment, is really adding to the heavy burdensome, lethargic, ennui, of this current situation.

To write about writing while in the process of writing. To think about thought while in the process of thinking it out. To contemplate about contemplation while in the process of contemplation/ retrospection. Card 12: of the Tarot: The Hanged Man

Sunday 11:30 am, 13th July

Saturn Retrograde 2025 officially begins.. 

Yes!! It has begun..and THANKFULLY I'm done with 11 posts ALREADY. All the ultra heavy posts.. that I posted during Gravitas! Just imagine them.. Hanging/ pending/ looming/unposted till now.!! The Retrograde Gravitas would have hit me FULL FORCE! The sheer energy overload upon the psyche..of great indecipherable magnitude. 

Thankfully, being vent out, post by post, day by day.

From today, a new phase, theRed Hot Rising retro begins.. 13th July - 27 th July,

Also so Incredible to witness many are experiencing life changing, landmark events EXACTLY at this time. Like I predicted for all Rajasic/ Fire/ Air ruled people. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Another close friend of mine found meaning, direction, love, exactly over the past Three days. One who passed through darkness for a long, long, long time. 

Didn't expect the timing.. To be So Sharp 🔥🔥😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

So! All Rajasic people, please beging something NEW over the next 14 days!! And all Saturnines, please continue to follow my lead... And continue to descent/ deep dive..

Prologue

My Freemasonry meeting after a gap of three months went quite well, despite me getting wet in rain, teaching late, doing my duties clumsily, etc, etc.. It turned out okay.. By inertia.. So i conclude today's post with a selfie in regalia, and a AI generated Victorian rendition of the same 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼