Retro 2016-11: Reversal of 2009 part 04: Narrow and Wide

Dear friends, the annual period of 4.5 months of Saturn Retrograde this year, 2016, is from 24th Mar- 14th Aug. This is my fifth consecutive year of posting online about Saturn retrograde. And, is preceded by detailed notebooks of observation about this period since 2005. The detailed concepts of Saturn Retrograde are here in this blog header titled Saturn Retrograde, just below the blog picture. The links to me previous articles online are: Saturn Retro 2012 (2 articles), Saturn Retro 2013 (70 articles),  Saturn Retro 2014 (11 articles) and Saturn Retro 2015 (15 articles)

General forecast for next two weeks 
Because of the complexity of my Saturn Retrograde blog posts, I hardly get feedbacks or comments on them. So, I have no idea, that any human creatures are actually reading them, except a very consistent, select few. But, this time, a lot of the silent audiences ACTUALLY called up with their feedbacks, and many Sun ruled, with the roster of their breakthroughs.
And this paragraph "General Forecast" is my response to the phone calls, feedbacks I have received.  Actually made me realize that beyond the pure Saturnine purpose of astrological research, and chronicling of experiences, and karmic redemption, my posts are being read by some actual humans, on whom my day to day astrological consultation is actually connected with...
... Narrow has become Wider..

Sun Ruled/ Saturn malefic: This Saturn Retrograde 2016, was an unique period for you to break existing levels of ennui, and, a lot of you have seized this opportunity for breaking ground, breaking dawn, breaking ice. But the next two weeks, until 8th June, being the last stretch the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase of Saturn retro 2016, still has a lot of potentiality to push this game, yet, one more step forward.

Saturn Ruled/ Sun malefic: This Saturn Retrograde 2016, was an generally horrible period of karmic clearing for  you, full of scheduled breakdowns, stagnation, regression, exile and ennui. And, a lot of you have experienced numerous breakdowns, regression, rock bottom, glacial ice ages, muddy waters, slippery grounds, etc. But still, the next two weeks, until 8th June, being the last stretch the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase of Saturn retro 2016, still has a lot of breakdowns, stagnation, regression for you to cross over.

The great Saturn retrograde of 2009...
In the last three posts Saturn-retro-2016-8: Reversal-of-2009, Part 1, and Saturn-retro-2016-9- Reversal-of-2009 Part 02, and Saturn retro-2016-10-reversal-of-2009-Part 03, I had discussed in detail, that,  how for me,  most Saturn Retrogrades after 2009, has mostly been a reversal of the great Saturn Retrograde of 2009. A landmark year of crash-down and disaster. Which, stands tall, as an example, a classic model, a foundation for all future Saturn retrograde research.
It's only through the mistakes of Saturn retro 2009, that I could finally confirm the powerful quality the annual 4.5 month long Saturn Retrograde period. It was in Saturn Retro 2009, where my astrological guide, teacher of Saturn Retrograde, T. N. Sarma, passed away on 13th April, 2009. But leaving behind this legacy of knowledge, as a foundation of research into saturn retrograde.
It was  the mega avalanche of Saturn Retro 2009, where I could realise the Saturn retro mistakes of this life, and many previous lifetimes.
And it was from Saturn Retro 2013 onwards, that I have been able to utilize the energies of this  period, for scheduled repetition, re-enactment and reversal of Saturn Retro 2009. Repetition, re-enactment and reversal of past events... to change their cycles of patterns ...

2009 and  2016
As discussed in the previous posts, in the the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase of Saturn retro 2009, I was in the last stages of the month long zen/ militaristic/ Architectural training programme under friend Monindro, at his place in Mumbai. A Sun ruled super-masculine disciplinary programme, based on Will to Power. But which was dwindling rapidly, towards the end two weeks of the the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase...
Like a ball in flight, reaching it's maximum height, before beginning it's journey downwards. 
Like the martial expedition, forward march, of Napoleons army.. entering a swampy, muddy ground at Waterloo. Like the expedition into the Amazon, in Werner Herzog's movie.. Aguirre, the_Wrath_of_God, where the invasion of megalomaniac Aguirre, finally crashes under mundane, malaria carrying, river mosquitoes.

Narrow and Wide..
Since Saturn Retro 2013, I have use the annual Retrograde period to regress into the narrowest recesses, backwaters of  personal/ visceral experiences. To Narrowly re-enact and reverse that classic disaster Wideness of Retrograde 2009.
BUT, this year Retro 2016, I have found that the scope of my my narrow historical personal experiences, seems to have extended their influences into a wider canvas of human events. My narrow research on Saturn retro seems to have extended it's magnetic influence on a widening social, political, geographical scenario.
And, as the energy of my Saturn Retro research has widened it's scope into a extended canvas, I, the researcher, become even more narrowly constricted, and squeezed into microscopic events..
..As the researcher researches the research topic, so does the research topic research the researcher. As the researcher looks deep into the research topic, so does the research topic looks deep into the researcher. As the researcher molds, formats, and edits the research topic, so does the research topic molds, formats, and edits the researcher
That's the only quantum/ way for true research...

...To be updated with more narrow inputs....

Retro 2016-10: Reversal of 2009- 03: Disreal and Unreal

Dear friends, the annual period of 4.5 months of Saturn Retrograde this year, 2016, is from 24th Mar- 14th Aug. This is my fifth consecutive year of posting online about Saturn retrograde. And, is preceded by detailed notebooks of observation about this period since 2005. The detailed concepts of Saturn Retrograde are here in this blog header titled Saturn Retrograde, just below the blog picture. The links to me previous articles online are: Saturn Retro 2012 (2 articles), Saturn Retro 2013 (70 articles),  Saturn Retro 2014 (11 articles) and Saturn Retro 2015 (15 articles)


Reversal of Saturn retrograde 2009- Summary
Dear friends, in the previous two posts Saturn-retro-2016-8: Reversal-of-2009, Part 1, and Saturn-retro-2016-9- Reversal-of-2009 Part 02, I had discussed in detail, that,  how for me,  most Saturn Retrogrades after 2009, has mostly been a karmic reversal of the great Saturn Retrograde of 2009, a landmark year, which stands as the classic model of crash-down and disaster. Wherein, for a saturnine person like myself, the mistakes during Saturn retrograde of many previous years (and probably of  many previous lifetimes), finally came crashing down in a mega avalanche of classic year 2009.

And how,  from Retrograde 2013 onwards, I have been able to utilize the energies of this Saturn Retro period, for some amazing repetition, replay, regression, and re enactment of past historical events.  Re- experiencing events from the past,  in a more revised, reoriented Saturnine manner....

Unreal  of 2009 and Disreal of 2016
As discussed in the previous posts the the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase of Saturn retro 2009, saw me entering a month long zen/ militaristic/ Architectural skills/ Life skills up-gradation training programme under friend Monindro, at his place in Mumbai. A very much Sun, Mars, Ketu super-masculine disciplinary training programme. But at the end of it, when I look at it was Unreal, at the best. Practical, masculine, steel bodied, yes, but deep down Unreal.

And in this year 2016, the yellow coloured, 3rd gear, Phase three phase of Saturn retro 2016, has spewed a vast amount of layered feminine Moon, Neptune, Venusian energies..  comprising seams of  social, medical, emotional, personal issues. Layers and layers of complex multi-layered seams, feminine, but very visceral, karmic and Diseal. Like the abominable layers of truths in any David Lynch movie.

The Unreal and the Disreal
 I first came across the terms Disreal and Unreal in the Roland Barthes book, A Lovers Discourse. Unreal denotes, fantasy, suspended belief, imagination, the suspended motion of a ball thrown up in the air, before it starts to fall, antigravity, satellites suspended in space, in orbit. Most of the Sci-fi/ fantasy, literature, movies of 50's, 60's, 70's was all about the Unreal, space, aliens, superheros and stuff.
And Disreal denotes the complex geological layers below ground level, below our ground reality, ancestral pasts, entanglements, forgotten histories, lodged inside ourselves, that we otherwise ignore and move forward, the visceral layers that comprise the innards inside each once of us, the mud, the swamp, the primitive bogs of karmic secrets. Most of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, had the Disreal as their basic premise. Where, instead of weirdness, aliens being out there in far flung space, the humans had their ancestral roots as domestic farm animals of an ancient race of  monster aliens, the Elders, the Cthulhu...!!

Unreal  of 2009 and Disreal of 2016
As mentioned in the previous post Saturn-retro-2016-9- Reversal-of-2009 Part 02, \towards the ending stretch of the yellow coloured, 3rd gear, Phase three phase, the month long zen/ Architectural / Life skills training programme, was slowly running into muddy waters. The martial, mountainous expedition, the guts and glory, forward march despite/ against all odds, slowly started entering a swampy, muddy ground, like Napoleons army at Waterloo. Or like the end of Werner Herzog's famous movie.. Aguirre, the_Wrath_of_God!!!

Yellow energies becoming Blue
In Retro 2009, it was my first experience of the energy drop towards the end of Yellow phase. And how, the gradually diminishing Rajasic Yellow energies of 3rd gear  phase gradually began to convert into the psychedelic Blue energies of the Falling Retro phase. 
How, like in Werner Herzog's movie.. Aguirre, the_Wrath_of_God, the strong forward moving Sun, Mars, Ketu energies now began to convert into the Blue, hazy, psychedelic, layers of Venus, Neptune, Moon vibrations.

Fortuitous/ synchronous events
Originally, I was planning to write on a different perspective on this phase, BUT, a sudden unexpected, out of the blue phone call from an Uzan Bazar friend, who wasn't in touch for a zillion years, and who was now into supply of surgical instruments, and asking about contact number of a certain doctor from my past, put the whole Unreal/ Disreal perception of the Yellow/ Blue energies into another perspective altogether. The bizarre synchronicity, Dadaist absurdity of the morning call, proved that, in this highly Disreal phase of retro 2016, some freaky veins of the Unreal has already begun to seep in, creep in...
 And, also proves that, whatever it is that I set out to write, on Saturn retrograde, is ultimately completely transformed by the fortuitous, synchronous events, immediately happening around me...

Then and Now...
Even though that highly important daily journal from 2009 is missing, the memory from my many revisions over the past years, brings clearly to mind, that, by now, during Saturn Retro 2009 I had put in my first journal entries about the gradually diminishing Rajasic Yellow energies gradually beginning to convert into the psychedelic Blue energies.  Even though, I had NO idea of the prevailing Saturn Retrograde, I wrote of the energy change in terms of Universal state of things!

And, now thereafter, especially from Retro 2013 onwards, this period of the annual Saturn Retrograde, usually always finds me, deeply enmeshed into the most microscopic nuances, visceral details, micro-mechanics of the Saturn Retrograde phenomenon!
 I was just trying to read this post, seeing it in blog preview, to check the colour coding!
 I couldn't even read it myself! So heavy was the layers and references of the Saturn Retro phase! But then, what has the destiny to be narrated in detail.. has to narrated in detail! 
Even if it's just as a bedrock foundation for future data reference, astrological thesis/ archive...

... to be updated in installments.....

Saturn Retro 2016-9: Reversal of 2009- 02 Sky and Swamp

Dear friends, the annual period of 4.5 months of Saturn Retrograde this year, 2016, is from 24th Mar- 14th Aug. This is my fifth consecutive year of posting online about Saturn retrograde. And, is preceded by detailed notebooks of observation about this period since 2005. The detailed concepts of Saturn Retrograde are here in this blog header titled Saturn Retrograde, just below the blog picture. The links to me previous articles online are: Saturn Retro 2012 (2 articles), Saturn Retro 2013 (70 articles),  Saturn Retro 2014 (11 articles) and Saturn Retro 2015 (15 articles)


Reversal of Saturn retrograde 2009- SummaryDear friends, in the previous post Saturn-retro-2016-8: Reversal-of-2009, Part 1, I had discussed in detail, that for me, how, most Saturn Retrogrades after 2009, has mostly been a karmic reversal of the great Saturn Retrograde 2009, a landmark year, where, the violations of many previous years of Saturn retrograde, (and probably of  many past lifetimes) finally came crashing down in one mega avalanche of catharsis and redemption.

But also, as discussed in detail in the previous post, from Retrograde 2013 onwards, I have been able to utilize the energies of this Saturn Retro period, for some amazing repetition, replay, regression, and re enactment of past historical events.  Re- experiencing events from my retrograde past,  in a more revised, reoriented Saturnine manner....

Reversal of Saturn retrograde 2009- part 1: summary
As discussed in the previous post Saturn-retro-2016-8: Reversal-of-2009 Part 1, the the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase of Saturn retro 2009, saw me entering a month long zen/ militaristic/ Architectural skills/ Life skills up-gradation training programme under friend Monindro, at his place in Mumbai. A very much Sun, Mars, Ketu super-masculine disciplinary training programme.
And how, this year 2016, from Monday 9th May itself, the yellow coloured, 3rd gear, Phase three phase of Saturn retro 2016, was full of highly layered feminine Moon, Neptune, Venusian energies..  comprising closest of people landing up in town, in highly social, medical, emotional, personal issues involving layers and layers of complex multilayered  seams of Moon, Neptune, Venus, energies.

Reversal of Saturn retrograde 2009- part 2/ today/ current..
Such an elaborate preface, of the previous two paragraphs though very tiresome was absolutely essential, for anyone who has understand, conceive, perceive the manifold complex layers of Saturn Retrograde, especially from the Saturnine perspective.

In Saturn retro 2009, the the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase saw me drowning into the Sun, Mars, Ketu disciplinary training programme.
And today, in Saturn retro 2016, yellow coloured, 3rd gear, Phase sees  me drowning into highly layered emotions of Moon, Neptune, Venusian energies..  completely...

Reversal of Retro 2009 & 2016: update 20th
In Retro 2009, I was centrally focused on my army like, architecture, life fitness training programme. On the lines of Nietzsches "will to power". A super-masculine, steel bodied, endurance programme at Monindro's place, Belapur, Mumbai, isolated away from all. Completely enraptured and focussed on the uphill task, the mountainous road of Guts and Glory..

Retro 2016 finds me unfocussed, distracted by the environmental issues, social, daily issues all around me. Work and personal issues gone to dogs. A flabby, foggy, drowsy, ill stomached, weak, crawling journey, at home ground, Delhi, and flooded with people, especially with female energies. Completely bogged down by domestic issues, because our landlords caretaker gone home, so in charge of the sudden water shortage, multi-layered domestic issues, downhill journey to a great swamp...

In Retro 2009, I was completely focused on my self, body mind tuning, lean, mean, steely warrior approach. Focus on Self, and Will to Power triumphing over all peripheral/ environmental issues.

In Retro 2016, I cannot even focus on my stomach problems, probable amoebic or fungal infection in my guts, haven't  even sorted tickets for back home journey, haven't been able to sort out my current monetary mess. Self at the cost of a seething flood-tide of peripheral/ environmental issues.

In Retro 2009, towards the ending stretch, the martial, mountainous, guts and glory, forward march despite/ against all odds, later did run into swampy, muddy ground, like Napoleons army at Waterloo. In fact, it was my first experience of the energy drop of the Blue phase of falling Retro. And also about the s-l-o-w-l-y decreasing forward impetus, Martian/ Solar energies towards the end of Yellow phase. Like how, a ball ultimately comes to stillness, suspended motion, at mid-air before eventually reversing it's direction downwards, ground wards due to gravitas.
Currently, in Retro 2016, I'm experiencing the exact mechanical process described above, in Reverse. But it's very difficult to explain, as opposed to the Retro 2009 illustration of a ball finally coming to suspended motion, at mid air.
As opposed to the Self/ Will to Power over environmental/ peripheral factors in Retro 2009, in Retro 2016, it's been the complete reverse... the Self getting totally derailed, Willpower getting completely submerged due to environmental/ peripheral factors. Fragmentation, dissemination, infected stomach, foggy brain. Even writing this particular post happened in many installments and after many delays. What I'm experiencing here, is the Soul, the Energy Core of the inertial heaviness of Retrograde's Yellow Phase, when the humongous, leviathan wheels of saturnine retrograde energy, halts to a close on 8th of June for a month till 8th of july, the Blue phase of Saturn Retro.
Not to forget, that, this year's Saturn Retro has been further complicated by the energies of retrograde Mars conjunct Saturn retro in Scorpio. AND Guru Ghandala yog in Leo, the conjunction of Rahu and Jupiter after every 7-8 years! Like I said, a multi-layered flood-tide of peripheral/ environmental complications entangling itself into Saturn Retrograde!!
At this juncture, I question myself, the function and purpose of my humongous layered accounts of Saturn Retrograde. The Examination of stillness and gravitas. All these narratives are on a Blog, not on any official book, textbook, or leather bound volume of astrological authority. The work itself is serious, elaborate and layered. But the function itself is completely obscure. My usual experience has always been.. people reading my posts, and saying, "we didn't understand it, explain it to us, in the good/ bad, do's/ dont's, simplified paradigm. 
BUT, the true undercurrent of Saturn Retrograde's function, is one of self doubt, self negation, review, reexamination, reprise, especially among the Saturn ruled people. An instinct that must have led to the birth of philosophy and metaphysics in the history of the human civilisation!! It was definitely a long forgotten season of Saturn Retrograde, that must have sparked, ignited and fuelled the philosophical gene in the evolutionary process of humankind...!!

... updated later.. .

Sky and Swamp: Retro 2009 and 2016

1st June, Wednesday: As a true hallmark of retrogression experienced by me, a Saturn ruled person during period, I'm updating this post (thanks to blogging), Retrogressing back in time from 1st June, Wednesday to 20 May, Friday. Wherein things are becoming extremely marshy, Neptunian, for me. As opposed to the Martian training campaign of 2009. Right now, I feel like a man with dissolved boundaries, complex multiplicities, like a water buffalo swamped in a marsh.....

A lot of Sun ruled people I know have testified to having reached sky heights during this period. And looking at the sheer strength of the Retrograde energies of 2016, I kindly ask them to continue, persevere till the 8th of June, to make the most of this powerful Solar energies.
Whilst many Saturnine like me, are experiencing Marshy, descent into the primeval bogs. Regression into one's swampy bogs of past origin. During Saturn Retrograde, the intent of the Saturnine function  is to purposefully elongate, extend, diffuse, disseminate and complicate. This back in time warp, update to a previous post is an example of that. 

Lucid Dream: Last night I had a dream about a relationship from my past in lucid, elaborate and extravagant detail. Even after waking up and having Liv 52 and Kumarasavya and sitting out in the terrace, the frightful sharp aftertaste remained. The lucid, elaborate and extravagant detail. seem to neutralise the efforts and history of the past ten years. But, there was no choice, I had to face it full on. Unravel those Retrograde aspects of my own sweet persona. Even as I've been struggling with this two months of vertigo, yet I've got to equivalently Retrograde into deep seated past issues. Enter into the bog of these swampy marshes that ooze with the backwaters of my subconscious.

Faculty 1990, Sec C, Whats app group: In the past three days, I have heavily connected to a Whats app group, Faculty 1990, our batch, section C. Despite past weird experiences, and fallouts, because of the timing of the Retrograde 2016, I am snap on, to our earliest back bench, classroom humour, and deepest childhood backwaters, instantly. I'm ingratitude to the  powerful Retrograde energies of Saturn during this period, for whisking all Saturnines so rapidly and seamlessly into the past. In fact, the energies of this group must have provoked the lucid, elaborate, extravagantly detailed dream, mentioned in the last paragraph.

X-Men: Days of Future Past: These past few days I've been viewing and reviewing X-Men: Days of Future Past , half recorded on Tata Sky. The quirky irony here is that the entire film didn't get recorded, rather the pre-climax meeting of the world leaders in Paris, onwards got recorded. It's quirky because I record the most unknown, low profile, but worthy movies with alarming accuracy. This partial recording of only the end part of the movie seems to correlate with the conclusion week of this entire two and half months (Red, Orange, Yellow) phase, check graph above, of Rising Retro, coming to an conclusion. And, in this Saturn Retrograde 2016, I have layered seams and seams of retrograde posts, links , hyperlinks to previous articles, retro histories, one upon the other, in an burgeoning heap of crumbling gravitas.
Later, I'm going to continue Sky and Swamp as a stand alone post, in the Future from where I come, namely 1st June, 2016. But the current text to happen in the past, like in the movie. Watching this Retrograde, back in time X Men, movie during this Retrograde period feels so awesome. Mentioning the movie itself, seems to have opened a valid doorway into the energies and electri-cities of/ from the past. I think, instead of this retrograde update to a previous post, if I had simply uploaded a new post titled "Retro 2016, x,y, z.. X Men: days of Future past", the subtle energy that I'm feeling, while typing this, in my fingers, skin, breath definitely wouldn't have occurred.
Because of the layers beneath layers, the retrograde energy is flowing at the bottom most, tail end of this previous post. Thanks to blogging, time jumps are convenient and methodical. Ultimately, this blogging kriya (process) is being undertaken, so that I can acknowledge, archive, intercept, cognize, and thus manage the retrograde energies in the most awesome way. 

As Edgar Allan Poe says in his tale Murder in the Rue Morgue (click link: Complete-tales-and-poems-of-edgar-allen-poe the game of whist or draught is far superior to Chess, in which all pieces have multifunctional complex moves..

...to be updated...

Saturn Retro 2016-8: Reversal of 2009

Dear friends, the annual period of 4.5 months of Saturn Retrograde this year, 2016, is from 24th Mar- 14th Aug. This is my fifth consecutive year of posting online about Saturn retrograde. And, is preceded by detailed notebooks of observation about this period since 2005. The detailed concepts of Saturn Retrograde are here in this blog header titled Saturn Retrograde, just below the blog picture. The links to me previous articles online are: Saturn Retro 2012 (2 articles), Saturn Retro 2013 (70 articles),  Saturn Retro 2014 (11 articles) and Saturn Retro 2015 (15 articles)

Dear friends this is my eight post on ongoing Saturn Retrograde 2016. Today is the 53rd day of  retro 2016. As I explained in the earlier posts, this past ongoing phase has been incredibly strong, forward moving time and full of breakthrough for Rajasic, Shakti ruled Sun, Ketu, Moon, ruled people. Mars has been somewhat excluded from my usual Rajasic list of Sun, Moon, Mars, Ketu because Mars is currently retrograde and conjunct with Retrograde Saturn in Scorpio. As repeated a million times before, this is a very retrograde time for Saturn riled people.

In fact, for those Saturnine people, who can utilize the energies of this period properly, this period can facilitate a lot of  amazing repetition, replay, regression, historical re enactment of past events, namely recreating half boiled events from our past, so that we may experience them, in an more thorough and saturated manner.

Reversal of Saturn retrograde 2009
For me most Saturn Retrogrades after 2009, has mostly been a karmic pattern reversal of the great Saturn Retrograde 2009, one landmark year, where, the summation of many years of Saturn retrograde violations, (and probably of  many past lifetimes) finally came down crashing in one mountainous mega avalanche.
The reasons for which is explained in these post from Saturn retro 2013 in detail: Saturn-retro-2013-68: negation of negation and the Paris reverse posts: Saturn-retro-2013-69: paris-reversed 01, then Saturn-retro-2013-71: paris-reversed-03 but post 70 seems to be missing, then..Saturn-retro-2013-72: paris-reversed-04 and the last conclusive post of the series.. Saturn-retro-2013-72: paris-reversed-04.

Today, currently we have entered the one month long (coloured in yellow) Phase three, or the 3rd gear of 2.5 months of rising retro (check graph below)...

In 2009, in the last two weeks of the orange phase, I had landed up in Mumbai and got my missing certificates re issued, through a long humongous phase.
The the 3rd gear, Phase three,  (coloured in yellow)  phase saw entering a month long pact with my I friend Monindro, who said he would put me in a zen/ militaristic/ Architectural skills/ Life skills up-gradation programme, in which he would train me in both Architecture/ meditation/ discipline. And, as it sounds, it was a very much Sun/ Mars/ Ketu kung fu training kind of programme. Something Solar like the Will to Power, or some militaristic disciplinary programme.
in 2009, the  yellow coloured, 3rd gear, Phase three, was from 14th Feb to 14th March. My wife Sangeeta had dropped by just before valentines day, 14th Feb, on some work assignment, and Monindro, Sangeeta and me celebrated together, and she left, and my harsh Solar/ Martian militaristic programme began. Suudenly from Girhastha life, I entered a Sun, Mars, Ketu military school, with no phone, no communication, no social connection, a masculine super military training programme..

Inversely, this year from Monday, 9th May itself, the yellow coloured, 3rd gear, Phase three was full of highly layered feminine Moon, Neptune, Venusian, feminine issues, as closest of people, landed up in town, in the most multi-layered, Venusian, Neptunian social, medical, emotional, personal circumstances. And additionally many people, mostly women, suddenly chose to connect with me regarding long pending Moon, Neptune, Venusian, layered, emotional, issues. Suddenly, I was immersed into layers and layers of feminine energy of Moon, Neptune, Venus.. ,, complex multilyared terrains of layers of emotions and histories. Especially, a vast FLOODTIDE of feminie Neptunian energy in the most layered form...
Phase three Retro 2009 saw me in a desert like, solitary, Sun, Mars, Ketu harsh military training...
Phase three Retro 2016 sees me in a highly layered Moon, Neptune, Venusian journey of layers...

... to be contd......

Saturn Retro 2016-7: Seven days

 
Dear friends, the annual period of 4.5 months of Saturn Retrograde this year, 2016, is from 24th Mar- 14th Aug. This is my fifth consecutive year of posting online about Saturn retrograde. And, is preceded by detailed notebooks of observation about this period since 2005. The detailed concepts of Saturn Retrograde are here in this blog header titled Saturn Retrograde, just below the blog picture. The links to me previous articles online are: Saturn Retro 2012 (2 articles), Saturn Retro 2013 (70 articles),  Saturn Retro 2014 (11 articles) and Saturn Retro 2015 (15 articles)

Dear friends this is my seventh post on ongoing Saturn Retrograde 2016. In the previous post, I had talked about the special nature of this years Saturn retrograde,  which is lot like an elaborate Rajasic Shakti energy Layered Cake, possessing many elaborate and  powerful underlying layers. Click link: Saturn-retro-2016- post-6-Energy-Layer-Cake.

And today I want to talk about the next Seven Days, that represent the culmination of this long buildup since Feb 20th itself, as mentioned in my previous post. The next Seven Days representing the rise of Sun in Aries from 8th degree to max 15th degree i.e, max exaltation, from 22nd April, Friday to 29th April, exactly Seven days.. from Friday to Friday. Like a ultra blockbuster movie running for exactly one week.. Friday to Friday!!
I'm really sorry for uploading this today, Tuesday evening, but as you would read below, you would understand my Saturnine experience/ viewpoint, and forgive my obvious Saturnine delay!
Below is the ling to Seven Days.. my ever favourit Sting song since the summer of 1996..

I feel, if utilised properly, especially by the Rajasic, Shakti, dynamic Sun, Moon, Ketu, ruled people (not Mars, as Mars is currently retrograde) this seven days can comprise the Seven doorways one has to cross, to reach liberation, or the kundalini rising through Seven Chakras to reach fulfilment. Each of these Seven days, owing to the long buildup since Feb 20th itself, (mentioned in detail in the previous post), can be compared to the Seven notes, or Seven colours of the rainbow from the Shakti ruled people. It reminds me of the multifarious rainbow colours of the rainbow crystal!! Just reach out and touch it. Yes, this is your time to merge into Shakti, take the leap to connect to energy. An amazing moment, an amazing opportunity!

However, for the Saturnine people, Saturn ruled people, it's definitely the most challenging, even ghoulishly cathartic Seven days, and can be compared to the Seven tasks of Hercules, or like the tests faced by Prahlad, at the hands of Hiranyakashipu. There's nothing much to do except chant the name of God, Vishnu, Jesus, Allah, Mahakali, Guru, according to one's religious practice. The special nature of this scorching one week would see the worst fears of the Saturnine person come to rise, come alive. Like my favourite childhood comic book Tarzan at the valley of Death, sorry I couldnt find the link where Tarzan crosses seven challenges, in a demonic mountain, to get a sacred flower to cure Jane, of an evil spell, BUT, that comic was the most artistically created masterpiece, where Tarzan and his companions face the Seven sacred fearsome challenges, in the valley of deat.

But, due to the this years retrograde Saturn being in Scorpio, this Herculean test of Seven days, fearsome challenge would be highly internal, complex, involving stinging emotions, scathing rebukes, and churning of one's internal insecurities brought to life. And, more so because Mars itself is retrograde and conjunct with Saturn. Imagine a very intensely visceral scenario, a lot like this years Oscar winning movie The Revenant directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu starring Leonardo De Caprio.

 

Where the challenges faced by the protagonist comes in layers, much like the Layered Caked described in my previous post. In a series of subsequent events one following the another. In fact, my friend Mriganka was repeatedly talking about this movie, and I should have shared this movie analogy in the earlier post itself, but due to the extreme Saturnine challenges and delays that I'm currently facing, all these identifications and expressions are surfacing only now.

.. due to exhausting nature of this post I will update..add more later..:P

Saturn Retro 2016-6: Energy Layer Cake

Dear friends, the annual period of 4.5 months of Saturn Retrograde this year, 2016, is from 24th Mar- 14th Aug. This is my fifth consecutive year of posting online about Saturn retrograde. And, is preceded by detailed notebooks of observation about this period since 2005. The detailed concepts of Saturn Retrograde are here in this blog header titled Saturn Retrograde, just below the blog picture. The links to me previous articles online are: Saturn Retro 2012 (2 articles), Saturn Retro 2013 (70 articles),  Saturn Retro 2014 (11 articles) and Saturn Retro 2015 (15 articles)

Dear friends this is my sixth post on ongoing Saturn Retrograde 2016. In today's post, I want to narrate about the very special nature of this years Saturn retrograde, 2016, which can be compared to a distinct, and elaborate Rajasic Shakti energy Layered Cake, possessing elaborate sediments of powerful underlying layers...


The first Rajasic Shakti from 10th of March, gets tremendously boosted up, because Mars enters Scorpio in February 20th itself, forming the volatile Mars- Saturn conjunction in Scorpio, the explosive Shani Mangal yoga, from February 20th itself, TWO WEEKS prior to (Brown) Arrest Phase of Saturn retro begins. This year, the 15 day build period,the Arrest Phase of Saturn Retro (refer graph above). starting

Once the Red coloured Red Hot Phase begins from 24th March, te official commencement date of Saturn Retrograde 2016, the energy level goes crazy in the early stage itself, powered by the explosive combustion energies of overwhelming Mars- Saturn conjunction in Scorpio, the explosive Shani Mangal yoga. Especially, as Scorpio is a sign ruled by volatile Mars.

Just when you thought that things would get slightly cooler, once the (Orange) 2nd Gear Phase sets in from 8 April, Lo and Behold, another Rajasic Shakti layer.. Chaitra vasant navratri 2016 begins, in which the waxing Moon phase, Devi Shukla Paksha is oozing and exploding with Rajasic, Shakti energies. The energies of  this Navaratra shakti Moon phase, Devi Shukla Paksha become stronger day by singular day, much beyond the traditionally observed 9 days of Navaratra, well into the 15th day, the Full moon, the Chaitra Devi Purnima, conclusion on 22nd April, Friday.

As a further layer, the week Thursday, 14th April to Thursday, 21st April represents what I term as the Rising Sun- Moon week, as the rising Rajasic Shakti energies of the Navaratra Devi Shukla Paksh, i.e, waxing moon, is paralleled/ mirrored by a rising Sun. increasing exaltation of Sun from 1st degree to 8th degree in Aries/ Mesha, the sign of the Sun's exaltation.
This powerful phase is fuelled FURTHER On, because of a multi planetary retrograde currently going on .. the major planets Jupiter, Mars, Saturn being retrograde, Mercury almost combust by Sun in Aries. Then, Rahu and Jupiter conjunct in Leo, to create Guru Chandala yog. And on 17th april, Mars goes retrograde, BOTH RETROGRADE,  in Scorpio..  an advanced version of Shani Mangala yoga. Only Venus, now exalted in Pisces, but then without Saturnine influence Venus represents pure Shakti incarnate energies, hence most of the Devi Shakti rituals especially connected to Laxmi, are often performed on Fridays, i.e, Shukra-var, a day ruled by Venus, i.e, Shukra. 
As many other planets are retrograde, or conjunct to exert any individual energy influence, the sharp and distinct Sun Moon energies are laser sharp in this week.

Finally, as the Rising Sun and Moon phase, concludes on Purnima/ Full Moon of 22nd April, Friday, the fun doesn't stop, AS, the final layer comes in the energy cake, as the Sun continues it's rise from 9 degrees to 15 degrees, the maximum possible exaltation in Aries, on 29th April, Friday.

IN CONCLUSION: All Rajasic, Shakti, Sun, Moon, Mars etc ruled people should make the maximmum of this Layered Cake energy drama from February 20th to 29th April, a Super Diwali bonus of Saturn Retrograde, 2016!
And Saturn, Rahu ruled should utilise it for all kinds of regression, pending, cathartic, pending, past pending activities, hopefully from inside of a drak cave..!!

Saturn Retro 2016-5: Zizek theories

Dear friends, the annual period of 4.5 months of Saturn Retrograde this year, 2016, is from 24th Mar- 14th Aug. This is my fifth consecutive year of posting online about Saturn retrograde. And, is preceded by detailed notebooks of observation about this period since 2005. The detailed concepts of Saturn Retrograde are here in this blog header titled Saturn Retrograde, just below the blog picture. The links to me previous articles online are: Saturn Retro 2012 (2 articles), Saturn Retro 2013 (70 articles),  Saturn Retro 2014 (11 articles) and Saturn Retro 2015 (15 articles)

Dear friends in the previous post I wrote about Saturn Retrograde connecting to post modern theories of Gilles Deleuze in his landmark book Difference and Repetetion, (click link: Post: Saturn-retro-2016-04: Difference-and-repetition). In today's post, I want to discuss various theories of post modern thinker Slavoz Zizek about reality and how it connects to Saturn Retrograde. 

"Reality is produced through a "grimace of the Real" - an impossibility that becomes distorted into reality. Example- the blinding Sun that generates illumination through being beyond more than reality. The Real itself is "nothing but a grimace of reality". The Real that which shines through the distorted perspective we call reality. 

Reality is sustained by an excess that cannot be incorporated within it (the indigestible bone in the throat). Reality is the very consequence of a mind splinter. Distortions in reality are always possible because of the basic distortion illumination and whose outline can only be perceived by looking awry."

Uncanny that Zizek connects the phenomenon of illumination of reality, to the blinding Sun. He says that Reality is something so blazing and powerful, that we percieve it only through distortions. Exactly, how we understand planetary influences ONLY when a particular planet is debilitated, negative, withdrawn, diminished, weak, and distorted.

 

 Like, for example Saturn ruled people can only understand the function and nature of their Saturnine energies, ONLY when Saturn is Retrograde, when the usually forward moving Satrurnine influence is reticent,  withdrawn, diminished,  weak, and distorted!! And without the shade of the black Saturnine umbrella, they recieve the full hot blaze of the Sun, frying up their innards and pouters.

But for those ruled by Sun, Mars, Ketu, Pitta, rajas ruled it's quite the contrary!! ONLY when Saturn is retrograde, their energies bloom completely without the usual Tamasic interference, the cyclic grind, the heavy Gravitas of Saturn, which always keeps them in loop, in the cycle of things. Without the influence of Saturn, they are enabled to facilitate the full blaze of the Pitta energy, neccesary for them to take that annual quantum jump into their next level of evolution.

Like, I was discussing in the previous post, most people equate Saturn with repetition, and Sun as a source of origin. However, in actuality, for Sun, Mars, Ketu, Pitta, rajas ruled people it is true. BUT for Saturnine people, the Sun is the source of cyclicity, repetition, as in the annual Solar calendar of 365 days, with it's annual festivals held on specific fixed dates. And Saturn is the source of all difference, movement, differentiation and evolution.