Crawl 01: Crawling From The Wreckage

"Crawling from the Wreckage" I have waited FOREVER to use that title, somewhere, sometime in my blog. This was the title of Storyline from issue # 19, of Doom Patrol, from where Grant Morrison took over the usual storyline, and the normal costumed hero comic book, continued to became one of the most awesome Avante Garde series in comic history!

Today, 11/11/ 2003, or 11th day of the 11th month of 2013, as the Sun enters 25th degree of Libra, and achieves 5 degrees of distance between the Sun @ 20th degree, thus (almost) ending the Combustion of Saturn by the Sun. (Sun combusts any planet within 5 degrees distance). So the unholy combination/ the wreckage of Sun + Saturn + Rahu conjunction in Libra is slowly getting over. ( Check my Karmic blog link: Kalsarp with Rahu Sun Saturn 17 oct - 16 nov). And hence the ideal time, ideal opportunity of using the title.. Crawling from Wreckage!
In fact, so disturbed was I by the events of this transit that by noon was I contemplating changing, overhauling this entire blog into some other topic/ format. But by evening Amon-RaAset Magus from the Frateritas Saturni facebook group commenetd on the blog, and an old friend Urja Syrop called up from US after a long time. And I HAD been reading Doom Patrol yesterday late night, so it all fell into place. Previously, I had used the title "Crawl" erroneously in my prior Ketu blog for a long time. But in the end, it's Lord Saturn who Crawls so slowly. and I have Shanidev conjunct with Ketu in my 9th house of Fate/ fortune, thus, things often Crawl forward for me! :P
In the end, I feel we arte just vessels capturing the Ego/ essence quality of planetary transits. Just responding to planetary motions in the sky, even though a lot of us love to believe in the Illusion of 100% free Will/ Will power/ or Will to Power! But the Saturnine way is that of the Crawl. Slow serpentine, meandering crawl, unraveling journey.
So, here I am finally recovering/ crawling from the disaster of Sun + Saturn conjunction in my ascendant... yours truly.. Crawling from the Wreckage..!!

Log 02: Sombre White V.S. Sexy Saturnine Black

I originally wrote this article for my Karmic Logs blog for a post: Time for karmic cleansing: 20th Sep- 4th Oct, 2013, but have extended an appropiated it here on account of it's significant Saturnine considerations: 

I always wondered about the Vedic association of the colour white  to sraddha, mourning,widowhood, funeral rituals. Why not black, as universally ascribed in the Western world to mourning rituals, funerals, gloominess, etc. This preta paksha + kalsarp yoga, I've ACTUALLY comprehended the underlying connection of white and mourning. Actually personally experienced it in a subjective and physical manner. Especially, after online interaction with a Hermetic scholar and  magickal practitioner, Ty Dawson. Who had some fantastic insights in his facebook notes on  the Sephiroth dynamics. Especially in the cosmic Opposition/ dynamics of Sephiroth (2) Chokmah V.s Binah (3). Check links:  Ty Dawson on Chokmah the sefira of masculine-divinity and  Ty Dawson on Sefira Binah: understanding female divinity.

After much thought, i came to an overwhelming conclusion. The best way to describe my past ten days of Pitru Paksha (especially boosted by the current Kalsarp Yog ): I have been feeling WHITE! White as in paleness, colourless, sparse, ni- ras ( devoid of rasa). White as in the universal scourge that bleaches our life, and makes it colourless. As opposed to serpentine, magickal, fluid potency of Black. Black as in Kali/ Tara, mystery, power, occult, magic of Shakti. WHITE as in the formal, sombre white, sterile interiors of a hospital, or the white board room of a corporate interiors. Black as in the feminine, energies of the night, Saturnine mysteries, the Third Sephiroth of Binah. WHITE as Chokmah, the blazing energy, the masculine Godhead, The Jupiterean father, Divine cosmic Father, Pitra/ Brahma/ Brihaspati. The SOMBRE WHITE connecting all rituals during Pitru paksha, paying obeisance to the Divine father, Brahma, Brihaspati, Pitra, worshiped in form of departed ancestors. WILD BLACK, as in the prevalence of shakti energies running fluid, and dynamic, for the entire course of the rest of the year! It's interesting to note that due to various curses, lord Brahma/ Pitra is only worshiped during this period of Pitra Paksh! Hence, original Vedic standpoint is more from the point of Binah ( worship of Cosmic Divine Mother), rather than Chokmah signifying the worship of Cosmic Divine Father, represented by Christianity.

Damn! due to the influence of Pitru Paksh/ Brahma/ Pitra, I'm sounding like an Jupiterean scholar, a priestly guy, a knowledgeable scholar. Not me, at all!! FOR, I'm a Saturnine, Binah ruled guy, full of flux, duality, fluid motion, and deconstruction. And this Pitra/ Chokmah (2) phase is helping me understand and recognise my own inner Binah / Saturnine nature much better! BUT FOR A CONSIDERABLE TIME IN MY LIFE REGARDLESS/ IGNORANT OF MY INNER NATURE, i had been ADOPTING and IMBIBING the Jupiterean principles of Chokmah/ Divine father/ Cosmic Patriarch/ Brahma principles. At my own cost. At my own great undoing..!!

Log 01: Saturnine beginnings

I began my astrological journey while still being an Architectural student in Mumbai. to cut a long story short, the journey was jump started by finding the book  The Greatness of Saturn by Robert E. Svoboda  in a nearby book fair in 1997. After a long journey I discovered the Serpentine Nodes, karmic designs of life etc, etc, becoming a Vastu consultant, astrologer myself. Yesternight, 15th Sept '13, i was up late updating a Post on Kalsarp yog transit, 2013 in my Serpentine blog dedicated to the nodes. later i was scrambling through my old archives, found an PDF book Fire and Ice; the Brotherhood of Saturn by Stephen Flowers. Browsing through it late night, i discovered this ancient German theosophic order had perfectly embraced, understood, and proliferated the rather difficult Saturnine path. A viewpoint which refreshingly shook of the stranglehold from the classical Aryan Vedic standpoint which lay emphasis on Sun as the centre of the astrological universe. Or the classical Roman- Greico stanpoint providing a rather lopsided  logocentric/ centric viewpoint on the importance of Saturn or Lord Shanidev, in our material existence. I feel the Saturnine viewpoint embraces duality, the serpentine deconstruction of Nature embodied by the post modern Aquarian age. Hence under the extreme significant auspice of Saturn + rahu in my ascendant sign Libra, and the Kalsarpa in my ascendant axis, and prevailing Chinese year of the Serpen, I commence, or rather re- commence this blog on the philosophy, metaphysical, scholarly, deconstructive, occult, post modern, Karmic approach of fabulous yet highly misunderstood Saturn/ Lord Shanidev, titled.. Saturnine. Jai Shanidev!

Annual Saturn Retro, 2013, Crossover week: 24 Feb, Sun- 4 Mar Mon

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I have been following Annual Saturn Retro, 2013 in Great detail in my Pitra Karma blog But saw the traffic in this blog, and HAD to copy the whole thing here. I dont even update, where does visitors come form??  Day 10- Annual Saturn Retrograde, 2013, 27th Feb, Wednesday. As I have REPEATED many times earlier, this year, this week from 25th Feb Monday- 4 Mar Monday, is CROSSOVER WEEK, the most IMPORTANT KEY FACTOR of entire Saturn Retrograde of 4.5 months! Since I take a lot of feedback from my core astro group, and readers of this blog, I am illustrating this week with two examples to make it clear for the more gentler and somewhat simple minded readers.

This CROSSOVER Week is like  1) DYNAMICS of a ROCKET TAKING OFF 2) HATCHING OFF EGGS

ROCKET'S TAKE OFF, 

For Sun ruled people, you guys ARE the Rocket taking OFF! This is WHEN, YOU overcome the threshold of gravity, boundaries and Cross Over. CROSS over from a stationary Earth-bound object and BECOMING a Flying object. This is WHEN you exercise MAXIMMUM Will power to INITIATE as much as possible. SUSPEND ALL negative thoughst, drawbacks for this week. DONT allow yourself to be HELD BACK. INITITATE as much PROGRESSIVE ACTIVITY as POSSIBLE! 

For Saturn ruled people, you are the LAUNCHING PAD, the foundation to ENDURE the heat, fire, exhaust gases of the Rocket's Take off. You will experience MAXIMMUM DOWNWARD PRESSURE. Maximmum blasting Combustive Heat! DO NOT resist. Just Accept. Just bury yourself Mindlessly as much as possible.DON'T resist the negativity, or try to Supress Negatiuve thoughts. Its CATHARTIC, its a Karmic Purification process taking place. Just ACCEPT/ RELENT.

HATCHING EGGS
For Sun ruled people, you guys ARE the baby bird, formerly inside the egg. Breaking OUT of your Egg Shells. What are these Eggshells? Made of Calcium deposits ruled by Saturn, these eggshells are protective structures, boundaries, shells around you. All this while, these eggshells served an important purpose of protecting you. Giving you a contained, secure, insulated environment for you to Hatch. Develop from a deliacte embryo into a fully developed bird. BUT NOW, that the development/ hatching is over, its TIME to BREAK this COSY, PROTECTIVE Eggshell and STEP OUT into the Real WORLD. The NEXT level! It's time for your technical BIRTH! In th Annual Cycle of things!!!
For Saturn ruled people, bad news is, it's OUR  eggshells, that are to be broken. Saturn rules, bones, structures, and eggshells are a wonderful testimony to the egg/ego of Saturnine creation. Based on ideal principles of symmetery, geometry, design, optimization, etc. All this while our perfectly designed eggshells provided protection, insulation, structure, to the baby birf hatching inside, yes. But NOW, it's time for these very Eggshells to be borken. A Neccesary step in the path of evolution. So we have to accept the FRAGILE EGO of our eggshells to be broken in this phase. So that later when Saturn finally goes direction, and the baby bird has matured into a fully a flying creature. We can enjoy the bone creating process to create the most aerodynamically designed bone structures, enabling birds to fly in air!! But for now, it's our egg/ego shells to be broken..! :P

Annual Saturn Retrograde 2013: CROSSOVER WEEK

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25th Feb,Monday, Day 8 of Annual saturn Retro, 2013. Exactly one week over of Rising Saturn Retro. In the ABOVE DETAILED GRAPH have put down the deatiled 'schedule' of Phase-1: 1st GEAR of Rising Retro. Below are Details of Prologue Phase and 1st Gear Phase of Saturn Retro. The beginning, commencement of the long 4.5 month long odyssey... 

DETAILED SCHEDULE OF 1st GEAR PHASE, RISING RETRO, 2013

4 Feb, Monday, TWILIGHT: Two weeks before official Saturn Retro commences, as saturn slows down considerably in it's forward motion relative to Earth, the first 'Twilight' effects of retrograde commence. Depending on which house, saturn is currently transiting in your horoscope, the effects can be felt. Also note that, Saturn aspects the 3rd, 7th (directly opposite), and 10th sign from the sign which it's poistioned. So in summation FOUR house are affected by Saturn: the House/sign it's transiting, the 3rd sign/ house, the 7th sign/ house (directly opposite), the 10th sign/ house. The topics and subjects governed by these Four houses/ signs can be seen to REVERSE in some way for Saturn ruled people. And Progress in some way for Sun ruled people.  

11 Feb, Monday, BREAKING DAWN: The first cognizable effects of imminent Saturn Retrograde can be DISTINCTLY felt ONE WEEK BEFORE actual/ official retrograde begins. Anywhere between 11 Feb Monday- 18 Feb Monday, everyone undergoes a distinct, PREVIEW of WHAT's to come ahead. The first signs of announcement of incoming retrograde season. I experienced volatile eruption, uprooting, turbulence, during this period.

18 Feb, Monday, OFFICIAL BEGINNING OF SATURN RETRO: The buildup of the prior two weeks now fully blossom, begin manifesting from the First day through the entire week. Like, I explained: Its like a Rocket is taking off! For Both Sun and Saturn groups experience, between 18th Feb Monday- 24th Feb Sunday,  the first actual influence/ effects of the change. In form of high pressure, gravity, churning, inner wrestling. Sun ruled people are LIKE the rocket ship who's trying to TAKE OFF overcoming sheer gravitational pulldown. A great moment of individual overcoming on all levels. For them its ASCENT/EMERGENCE/ WILL TO POWER despite all resistance. And Saturn ruled people is like a Submarine sinking down due to high pounding G-Force from above. Like a mountain descending upon them. For Saturnines, it's SELF SURRENDERING to HIGH GRavity and resultant DESCENT/IMMERSION/ sinking Down into Depths.

25th Feb Monday, CROSSOVER: This one week from 25th Feb - 4 Mar is most IMPORTANT as it Seals/ Confirms the Process of entire Saturn Retrograde! This phase sums up the process/ activity of the prior phases of Rising Retro. This is when we Crossover from Intent into Confirmation. We align ourselves with the shift/flow of the astrolgical current. For Sun ruled people, one should exercise as much Individual WillPpower as possible. Remember phil Collins song: AGAINST ALL ODDS. flex your muscles, your inner conviction , force, individuality, the stampof your personae. If you can cross this phase, symbolizing the YOUR PERSONAL ROCKET CROSSING the atmospheric resistance and Highest pullback gravity. This is when you CROSSOVER from a Earth/Gravity bound object into a Stellar object. PUSH ON! DON'T RELENT.  For Saturn ruled people also a very CRUCIAL WEEK. DO NOT resist the force of Gravity making you descent into the Depths.No voluntary dramatic action,no sudden flashes of rebellion. Just ALLOW yourself to Descend. Hang On, be still, Let GO. DONT PUSH BACK. RELENT This week is when you CROSSOVER from being a Surface Object to becoming a Dweller of the Depths. aperfect crossover into essential hibernation, regression Mode of Saturn Retrograde.

Personally from yesterday, 24th Feb, sunday I could feel distinctly the sheer conflict between Individual will and Garvity coming to logger heads. My conscious intelligence was telling me something and my instinctive/inertial/ gut feeling saying the opposite. But today, evening while writing this Post, I can understand the crucial importance of the Crossover phase. The stamp of registration for the long retro saturney/odyssey ahead. Not easy at all, but, all we can do is TRY!!!!!

Annual Saturn Retro 2013: GRAPHS GALORE!!

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I have bee continually updating in my Pitra Karma Blog about the current Annual Saturn Retrograde,  2013. But am surprised to find a lot of traffic, checking the Google analytics, in this currently neglected Outer Planets blog. GUESS EACH BLOG HAS A LIFE/ INDIVIDUAL ENTITY OF ITS OWN!! So here I'm uploading All the Graphs I made for Annual Saturn Retrograde, 2013. DETAILED explanations, blow by blow accounts in my Pitra Karma blog. Cheers!

In memory of departed friends..

Our friend Juthika Das departed us forever on 8th August, '08.
In memory of Juthika & dearest friend Ron who left us behind..

Our last meandering online chats
was about the magic of bygone days..
hazy crazy magical manori stays..
journeys without destination
celebrations without cause
we were rebels without a pause...

just when we're getting nostalgic
about dear departed friend, Ron..
suddenly, without a warning..
you yourself were gone..
left suddenly for your journey beyond...
leaving behind an irrevocable void..

like we were talking, my friend..
its only memories in the end..
its only memories that get left behind..
of hazy, crazy summer days,
and journeys without destination..
of celebrations without cause..
we were rebels without a pause..

a handful of precious memories
are all that get left behind..
and in that handful of precious residue
shall I forever hold you close
to mine heart.. and my fondest thoughts..

the crazy spirit of your souls..
the rapture in your smiles..
magic dust in your eyes..
of magic shores far beyond..


the residue of Ketuvean glimmer
shall remain in my own spirit vault,
eternally and hazily... ALIVE...