HER STORY

TIMELINE OF THE LAST 2000 YEARS

showing the influence of the Galactic Centre

on the" SAGITTARIAN/PISCES AGE"

By Susan Seymour Hedke

The Galactic Centre can be understood not only as an unmoving astronomical or sidereal point in space between the constellations Scorpio and Sagittarius but also  as a position that moves in a Great Year cycle along the ecliptic  with the tropical signs of the zodiac  aking between 25 and 26,000 years to complete its cycle. The Galactic Centre is placed among the constellations of the zodiac, in Sagittarius and so may be included, just as  we include other features of the constellation pictures in the tropical  signs of the zodiac .

We are now nearing the end of a galactic Sagittarian Age, and with it the end of the  Great Year cycle, as the tropical Galactic Centre aligns with the winter solstice.

At the same time the end of a sidereal or astronomical PIsces Age and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius is occurring. Altogether this means the end of an  age ruled by Jupiter, who rules both Sagittarius and Pisces, and the beginning of a Capricorn and Aquarius age ruled by Saturn.

It is not certain exactly how long this Great Year cycle takes, most astrologer use 25,920 years for one Great Year but it has been calculated as 24,000 years and also 26,000. I tend to a length close to 25,000 years but if we take the accepted 25,920 years, then each  of the twelve 30° large signs and their ages last 2,160 years.  

 The exact length of the astronomical Pisces Age based on the constellation is difficult to calculate, yet it is possible to divide the circle into 2160 years for each  age and this would place at the transition to the age oAquarius now, as the Galacctic Centre aligns with the winter solstice.

Yet both complete cycles are part of one and ttherefore must take the same length of time to complete.

It is generally accepted among astrologers that the tropical Galactic Centre is now at 27° Sagittarius.

If the tropical Galactic Centre is now at 27° Sagittarius then the age will end, not on this transit of Pluto over the Galactic Centre and winter solstice, but between now  and the next transit of Pluto in 250 years. However, others claim that the Galactic Centre is now directly aligned with our winter solstice Sun at 0° Capricorn. So we must allow a leeway of about 3° in our calculations.

I see the story as not just one of his- story but of “her” story because I have discovered, as told in my book “The GALACTIC CENTRE and the Great Waves Coming in December” that the Galactic Centre is the womb of  Mother Goddess, the Milky Way Mother of Suns known of and told of in ancient myths,  who we have forgotten, and she the beginner and ender of great ages.

The Galactic Centre is of course a very large area and, as I show in my book, it covers most of the sign Sagittarius and some of Capricorn.

 At present an exact conjunction of the Sun to the Galactic Centre must be, if in 2010 at 27° Sagittarius, occurring every year on the 19^th December. 1,080 years ago approximately we could then estimate that the tropical Galactic Centre was half way through the sign of Sagittarius, at 15° Sagittarius.

 Here are two websites for more reading about the tropical placing of the Galactic Centre with a short ephemeris.  www.librarising.com and http://www.zanestein.com/galactic_center.htm.

--------------------------TIMELINE---------------------------

the last  2160 year age

(Galactic Sagittarian and vernal Pisces Age)

Let us look back through the last  2500 years

 of the Great Year that has lasted somewhat over 25,000 years, at the most significant dates:

dates when the Outer heavenly bodies like Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

 formed significant aspects like conjunctions, squares and trines to each other and to the Galactic Centre in Sagittarius.

We will also look at similar aspects between bodies and signs as the ones occurring in our present period, times when the Outer Bodies, especially Pluto, moved over the winter solstice and through Capricorn.

We will begin a little before the present age to see the first dawning of the Galactic Sagittarian and Vernal Pisces Age.

-470 BC

Pluto

neared conjunction with the Galactic Centre at the end of Scorpio.

The philosopher Socrates was born in Greece, who later took poison.

The philosopher Confucius died in China, which was advancing at this time.

Hanno of Carthage was exploring the seas.

-460 BC

Pluto

in Sagittarius,  still in aspect to the Galactic Centre in Scorpio

The Age of Pericles in Athens, Greece

Plays were being written and performed in Greece.

Aeschylus wrote “Prometheus Bound”[i]

A Huge and Magnificent Temple of Zeus (Jupiter) was erected at Olympia

Some of the most important professions of the next 2000 years were in their swaddling clothes: Law, Medicine and the Arts.

Great Athenians:

playwrights, poets, philosophers (Sag.) were born

 Romans even sent their Senators to learn about Law from the Greeks.

 Hippocrates was born, the Father of Medicine: doctors still take the Hippocratic Oath that they will try to save life. The Temple of Zeus one of the Seven Wonders of the World was erected and great sculptures were created by Calamis and others including a fine bronze horse. (Sag.)

Learning from the Greeks, the Romans started writing their Laws down and allowed the Plebians to share in making their Laws.

-447 BC

Early transition from Scorpio to Sagittarian Age continues

Uranus

conjuncts GC enters Sagittarius.

Pluto moved over the Winter Solstice into Capricorn

Work in stone is popular with Capricorn, wall building, and the Sagittarian Age loved building temples, so

work on the oldest temple, the Parthenon, began at Athens, for which the Elgin Marbles were then created. Pluto’s last transit through this part of the chart had caused a famous Stone, the Stone of Scone, to be supposedly transported from Egypt to Ireland.

 Also at this time of Pluto moving over the winter solstice into Capricorn the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt.

Around

- 430 BC

  Uranus conjuncts Pluto

 in Capricorn

Great Plague at Athens as Uranus conjunct Pluto helping to bring it to its knees.

The time before –689, as Saturn had conjunct Uranus and Pluto in Capricorn, trine Neptune,

the Assyrians had destroyed Babylon- a major end time.

Yet they were forced to rebuild it as Uranus entered Aries.

 Pericles, who had just written a „Funeral Oration“ died during the plague,

 but a star was also born, whose name is written in immortal material:

 Plato,

and at the same time the most famous building in Greece is completed:

the Acropolis.

 Anaxagoras is writing about the many forms of primal matter, a good theme for Pluto in Capricorn, and he claims that reason establishes them in order, Melissius then reasons about reality being infinite and Democritus asks himself what matter is made up of and decides or„reasons“that it is made up of very small particles: the first known “atomic theory”.

 These early Greek ideas have become a Classic base for later modern scientific and mathematical „Reasoning“.

The Statue of Zeus in gold at Olympia, is erected, that was one of the Seven Wonders.

In other parts of the world Nehemiah visits Jerusalem and rebuilds its walls and the Spartans are using rather Capricornian devillish substances: charcoal, sulphur and pitch as weapons of war.

400 B.C.

Uranus and Neptune

 oppose the GC

The State tells the individual to kill himself, the heroic individual overrides his own self interest and takes poison for “the good of the whole.”

The most famous Greek ever, was accused of teachings contrary to the State and condemned to death. Socrates died by poison at his own hand, he showed the importance of obedience to the will of the State, passive like Jesus, he accepted his fate philosophically and did not attempt to flee. He himself argued how important such laws were, necessary for the development of higher civilization: a tragedy Plato later wrote about. This was in the years around 400 BC.

 Xenophan made an early study of horses,

 Sophocles died and Aristophanes and Plato began writing.

321 BC

Neptune conjunct the GC at the end of Scorpio

In –321 Alexander the Great died in Babylon. He was still young and may have been poisoned.

Neptune had moved to conjunct the Galactic centre and Pluto was moving to oppose them. Aristotle, who had been his tutor died too.

The Arts flourished in Greece but they were bloody times, Antipater marched against Ptolemy Soter and won the Regency of Asia, his son had Alexander’s mother Olympias put to death. The Romans were on the way up. In –312 they constructed an early subterranean aqueduct and Appius Claudius began work on one of the earliest roads. A year later they created the first permanent navy in the world and a year after that, Rome defeated the Samnite and Etrurian allies. The title of “King” was used in –306 by Alexander’s successors after their defeat of Ptolemy Soter.

(Between 300 BC and 200 BC I would date the beginning of the Galactic Age of Sagittarius)[1].

-280

 Uranus

 conjunct GC end Scorpio

As Uranus transited over the Galactic Centre around –280 the Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic sculpture of Apollo, was completed which had probably been begun as Pluto opposed the GC though it was destroyed by an earthquake as Pluto neared a conjunction to the Galactic Centre in –224. About the same time, the first elephants were seen in Europe, used in a battle at Pandosia.

c. -220

 Pluto’s

transit over the Galactic Centre at the border from Scorpio to Sagittarius

The Romans were expanding. In –220 (Pluto c GC in Scorpio) they built another great road, the Flaminian way, from Rome to Rimini. Rome was a big problem for many lands, especially the ancient great city of Carthage,

Hannibal of Carthage had seen the bloody feats of the Romans under the rule of his father and he became filled with hate.

 However his emotion did not blind him, he was a brilliant thinker and strategic leader.

 In –218 Hannibal invaded Italy.

 He too used elephants.

In –216 he succeeded in destroying 80% of the enormous Roman army.

The Romans were so afraid of him that at times of danger they called out

 “Hannibal an di Portas” or “Hannibal at the doors”.

 His greatest opponent was Scipio Africanus. Hannibal had killed his father, also a Scipio, which, I cant help it, reminds me of “Scorpio”. Scipio learned to use his tactics and eventually defeated him in –202 as Pluto was nearing the end of its journey through Sagittarius. Hannibal travelled then to other lands. But his legend never died.

The Roman’s fear of Hannibal led to them calling on the gods and especially an ancient goddess called Cylene, whose statue was imported by sea with great difficulties.

c. -202

Pluto

entered Capricorn

c.-202 The Han Dynasty in China was founded, which meant a great transformation; Confucianism and Taoism were adopted as ways of life and the Chinese discovered the secret of manufacturing porcelain.

In this period the inscription was made on the Rosetta Stone.

 Cave Paintings were made in Ajanta

and a silver cauldron was made by the Celts in Denmark.

 Philip V of Macedon is warring and ravaged Attica. Still the Romans are the big name,

 Delphi the famous Greek Oracle came under Roman rule, but Philip of Macedon and Hannibal are resisting Romans brutal rule.

 Rome forms a league of states and nations to fight against Philip- the Achaean League- which reminds me of two things the UNO and the USA. Will something similar happen again? There are a number of great names, Antiochus III, Theodosius the Great .

–182

 Pluto

 conjunct Uranus

 moving from Capricorn to Aquarius

The Romans, still fearing Hannibal’s return, caught up with him, an old man.

 He drank poison as they surrounded his house. In the same year Scipio died too.

A serious number of poisonings were connected to this transition time:

-213 Aratus had died by slow poison for having criticized the tyranny of Philip of Macedon

This Pluto conjunction to Uranus showed a further advance for civilization as Romans built their first stone bridge in –179 and shortly after their first pavement and paved street.

Already as Pluto was in Sagittarius the Chinese were active making advances

The Great wall of China about –213 . It was 1,400 miles long. This was the period of the Chinese Bronze Age.

As Uranus moves to conjunct Pluto at the junction to Aquarius, many are defeated, die or commit suicide i.e. Hannibal and Antiochus III. Assyria is losing its war against Italy.

 Italy´s second most famous town Florence is founded.

c-87

Pluto and Neptune’s

opposition to the GC

was the time of Sulla in Rome, of Athens rising against Roman rule.

Sulla took Athens

In the 250 year period between the fame of Hannibal, and the baptism and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, there is a change of tone. An Arien-Scorpionic Martian element gives way to a more philosophical approach to the sorrows of the times, based on understanding the backdrop of meaning. That which led Hannibal to hate and fight the Romans, led Jesus to suggest turning the other cheek. Though the Romans may have feared he might be another Hannibal, as he was proclaimed as King of the Jews, Jesus didn’t attempt to lead the Jews to recover their land from Roman rule.

27-33 AD

Pluto

 conjunct the tropical Galactic Centre

Conjunct the sidereal astronomical Galactic Centre

The Baptism and Crucifixion of the Son of God and Mary.

The next conjunction of Pluto was the first with the GC in Sagittarius and the hero we remember most was the one known as the son of God - Jesus Christ was baptized in AD 27 and crucified in AD 33. The years of Pluto’s conjunction in the first degrees of Sag were the time of his greatest fame. The Romans and Pontius Pilate were afraid of uprisings among the Jews and had him very cruelly crucified.

Jesus’ style was more of the Piscean kind - turn the other cheek. Instead of fighting, he encouraged man to lift his eyes towards the heavens for the time was near.

Instead of trying to “take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them” as Shakespeare’s Hamlet tried to do and failed, he encouraged man to lift the veil, and look beyond this sorrowing round.

His three year presence led on to a 2000 year Christian era and Age of Belief, where men were willing to lay down their lives as he had done, to martyr themselves, be victimized, tortured and die for a God who gave them hope, who promised eternal life in a world beyond.

Though some people at this time were choosing the spiritual path and were willing to leave their bodies and the sufferings of this world behind them, there were others who revelled in the pleasures of it, like the Roman emperor Nero, who was born a few years after Jesus’ crucifixion in AD 37, as the GC was c. Mercury, Pluto, Sun and Mars in Sagittarius. In many ways a typical Sagittarius, Nero revelled in the arts in a decadent manner. He saw himself as a great poet, and has been thought of as the Anti-Christ archetype.

 He is supposed to have set fire to Rome and fiddled while it burned. He cruelly persecuted the Christians, blaming the fire on them. He murdered his minister in a fit of anger and another woman who refused him and then married a woman whose husband he had first murdered.

Yet though Rome supposedly killed the King of the Jews, the Belief took seed in the minds of the Romans themselves, so that Paul changed his name to Saul and became one of the first converts.

Another Roman remembered as particularly cruel, called Caligula, became Emperor. Arminius the German was heroically fighting the Romans, as Hannibal had earlier done.

Britain was announced conquered in 40 AD. London was founded in the time up to Pluto’s entry into Capricorn. At the solstice time Caligula was assassinated and a supposed imbecile Claudius came to rule but this brought a considerable improvement after a time of extreme decadence where many were poisoned and no one was to trust. Claudius may well have disguised himself as a harmless imbecile, it was the best way to survive. He later became remembered as a just ruler and historian. Roman poets, writers and philosophers began to appear.

The Romans continued to conquer Britain through Pluto’s transit in Capricorn. They built fortresses: They took control of the lead mines in the Mendip Hills.

Boudiccea, born about the time of Christ’s crucifixion as Pluto was conjunct the GC, saw her husband killed and her daughters raped and was publicly flogged by the Romans, after which she led the English people in a memorable war and rebellion against these cruel people in 61 AD and nearly won.

180 AD

Pluto

moves to Gemini opposite the GC

The Romans suffered a serious defeat while trying to take Scotland and had to retreat to Hadrian’s wall which a few years later was overrun and destroyed and had to be rebuilt. Forts were rebuilt by the Romans.

A Great Plague occurred.

The Acropolis was being built and an early church at Glastonbury

In China the Yellow Bonnets were causing devastation. An early form of printing was invented by the Chinese taking rubbings in stone of Confucian texts. There was the earliest Christian tombstone erected in Turkey.

283 AD

Pluto in Sagittarius conjunct Galactic Centre

In 283 the Forum of Rome was destroyed by fire,

Pluto c the GC in the fire sign of Sagittarius trined  Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune in the fire sign of Leo.

St. Lucy was born in this very year at the solstice and became a female Jesus figure.

She was later martyred by Diocletian, who

in 284,  became Emperor of Rome and split the Roman Empire in two.

The time up to 284 had seen the Empire in a time of crisis, invaded again and again by Barbarians, all seemed to be coming to an End.

This may have been connected to a climatic period of extreme cold.

 Diocletian arrested Rome’s decline, which effort may have been helped by a warming of the climate.

As Pluto moved into Capricorn

Diolcletian’s  methods became extremely harsh. He wielded Saturn’s scythe, or a rod of iron, to prune the dying plant. In 293 he introduced a stringent system of Laws and in 297 AD

 (Pluto in Capricorn now square to Uranus in Libra and opposite Saturn in Cancer)

he ordered the burning of all scientific books, which restricted scientific progress considerably for the next 1000 years.

Many of the books that could have told us more about the catastrophe that occurred at the time of Jesus crucifixion, or what we may expect now, may have been destroyed at this time.

The Christians were persecuted by Diocletian and St Alban was martyred.

 Others also died the martyr death at this time including St Georg, one of the last dragon fighters.

 Saint Lucy by Domenico Beccafumi 1521

Saint Lucy was born on the winter solstice of 283, which at that time was on the 13^th of December by the Julian calendar.

 As this was the longest night of the year it was appropiate that she should become the patron saint for the blind and those with eye trouble, she is venerated by orthodox and Catholic Christians. She is the only saint celebrated with feasts by the Lutheran Swedes, the Finland Swedes, the Danes and Norwegians, who retain many pre-Christian elements of their midwinter light festival.

Lucy means light and the Legende Aurea was a widely read version of her legend in the Middle Ages. Her story is shrouded but she was a martyr in Syracuse in Diocletian’s persecutions of A.D. 303, where she died at 19 years.

The little island that became Great Britain remained worth something to the Romans, though why is not clear to me- wine, tin and lead were just some of its virtues, but it was also considered a holy place at that time. Hadrian piled a few stones into a wall to stop the bad tempered Scottish from running down the hill into English, or Roman, territory. Hadrian’s wall still exits today.

Diocletian resigned exhausted and old, after his drastic pruning action . As Pluto entered Aquarius Constantius took over. He invaded England again and reformed the administration leading to greater prosperity, but the greatest fame goes to his son Constantine the Great who had been born about the time Diocletian had become Emperor and divided the Empire  in either 288 or one of the years before. This means he was born about the time Pluto was on the winter solstice. (The winter solstice was seen by ancients as a time of creation). It would be Constantine´s destiny to reunite the two Roman Empires that Diocletaian had torn asunder. So the seed of Rome’s renewal was sewn.

In China there were riches at this time and „millionaires“ owning 30 silk mills. Buddhism was on the rise there.

In Norway a stone was erected which has the longest runic inscription ever.–the Tune Stone.

In 306, as Uranus moved to conjunct the Galactic Centre, Constantine was proclaimed Emperor. That was when he reunited the two empires that Diocletian had divided

330-337 AD

GC conjunct Neptune

 square Pluto in Pisces, conjunct Uranus

This very Piscean time was an important one for the Christian religion. First at this time in history Constantine the Great founded one of the greatest cities of the last 2000 years in 330, transforming Byzantium into Constantinople and dedicating it to the Virgin Mary. But his greatest act, in 337, was to have himself baptised a Christian on his death bed, that did a lot for the Christian cause.  Typical that the greatest moment of significance should be the death of the “hero” or “king”, on which Christian religion was founded. He was the first Roman Emperor to become a Holy one. It set a trend.

Yet the trend was one of more bloodshed, as the people who also believed in Christ there were forced to die for their persuasion. Even Christians were divided among each other and killing each other.

Still this whole period was a rather holy one in which in 330 the Basilican Church of St Peters Rome was built. The next year, 331, St. Jerome was born and also in that year,

331, Constantinople became the seat of Roman Empire.

Constantine, or Istanbul as it is now called, was a great coastal doorway between east and west . Great protective walls were built around it as well as a moat. Its later built church of St. Sophia was built to represent the centre of the world as Constantinople was felt to be. It used the image of the circle to represent the cosmos and the division of four and the four directions and astrologer-astronomers were advised in its creation.

Constantinople had an amazing aqueduct, and a Hippodrome where 33,000 could sit and watch the horse competitions and the knights jousting. It was a cosmopolitan land in the tense mid point between two religious powers: Islam and Christianity.

Constantine founded a library there helping to move the centre of learning from its earlier position in Alexandria, a little further northwards. Alexandria had been built by Alexander the Great around –331, Alexander had at the same time “burned his bridges behind us” by destroying earlier great centres like Persepolis.

392-5 AD

Uranus

conjunct the Galactic Centre

A few blissful years for  Rome must have been under Theodosius the Great who in 392 as Uranus moved to conjunct the Galactic Centre, one transit after Constantine the Great had been proclaimed Emperor and united East and West, became Emperor of East and West. However he was the last to manage this. The Church is the one to thank for his title “Great” because he declared the Catholic religion the State religion and forbid all other pagan worship. His reign was short. He died in 395 in which year the first distant sound of drums of the approaching Huns.

410-433 AD

 Neptune and then Pluto

 moving from Taurus-Gemini opposite the GC

The Huns, along with the Vandals and Visigoths and other supposed Barbarians, or non Catholics, sacked Rome in these years. The Roman Provinces were overrun and Rome itself collapsed.

Hearing of Rome’s plight from the relative safety of England, St. Augustine wrote about it in “City of God”. He blamed the Fall of Rome on its allowing of pagan gods to regain power.

At this time a struggle over Free Will began with Pelagius for which people were even prepared to die!

431 AD, Mary was officially recognized as “Mother of God”

476 AD

Uranus

 conjunct the Galactic Centre

The next transit of Uranus to the GC brought the official End of the Western Roman Empire: a Gothic leader Odoacer forced Romulus Augustus to lay down power. Yet The spirit of Rome that had been sewn by turning it to the Christian faith at the last moment (where Rome had earlier been destroying all Christians - and Christ himself - and blaming them for Rome’s fall), lived on. That the flame didn’t die down was the passing of the flame to its chosen children to make sure they who would continue to feed its flame in its old age. England was one of these spiritual children that paid Rome’ s church its dues. It may be that indeed England had other sources for its Christian faith than the Roman Church, but it certainly helped Rome survive.

485 AD

Pluto c. Saturn

Square GC

As Pluto moved again to square the GC, conjunct Saturn and the North Node, a man was born of lowly origin, who shared the birth date 25^th December with Jesus. He rose to become a Christian king and the most legendary leader England has ever known.

It was 500 years after Jesus had been born with Pluto also in Virgo, the sign of the virgin, when Arthur was born. His birth date may have been given him, because the winter solstice and new solar year was the right time to birth a solar hero, implying that there was still an association between God and the Sun. Just as with Jesus, the birth year is uncertain and may have been 476[ii]

500-507 AD

Neptune

 c. Galactic Centre square Uranus sextile Pluto

At this time the Mayan culture was flourishing at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan. A Death God monument for the Mayan altar at Copan was created. (almost like a prophecy of the Dark Ages that would come to them by a later transit of Neptune in 1492)

Some call this the beginning of the Dark Ages for Europe that lasted till the Renaissance.

Strange that a light went out in Middle America at the same time that a light went on, about 1492, in Europe! And that a light had been on in Middle America as the light went out in Europe.

516 AD

Saturn

 is just ending his next transit over the GC, when we have the first mention of Arthur at the Battle of Mt. Badon.

c.520-530 AD

Pluto

 in Sagittarius c. GC.

Arthur and his knights at golden Camelot,

are remembered in a romantic light, in a period that otherwise was, or soon became, an extremely dark and dismal period in our history.

The knights battled to keep the little candle alight led by their flaming sword of righteousness, Excalibur, but eventually the battle was lost, Arthur was killed and Excalibur was lost also.

The Christian faith shines with an unnatural glow in the dark reality of these times.

Justinian

 became Emperor in Constantinople, he abolished paganism in Greece. Philosophers fled as Plato’s school in Athens was closed.

 Justinian built a Church to a woman, as Constantine himself had done: the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople.

St Benedict was busy founding the Benedictine Order. I remember reading how his sister had cried because he no longer had any time for her and so she prayed to his God to tell him how to listen! How pleased she was when God too complained of his not listening to her, by sending a terrible storm.

533-551 AD

Pluto

 in Capricorn:

 Earthquakes, volcanoes and plague.

If ever there was a time in the last 2000 years when the world was close to ruin and the light of civilization was close to going out, then it was in these years. There were more serious earthquakes in this period and this century than in any other. The first tremors came in 533 AD, as Pluto entered Capricorn[2]: an earthquake killed 130,000 people. Another one followed two years later. In this year, 535 AD, a volcano must have erupted, many consider it was Krakatau. The Sun darkened for many years and the trees almost stopped growing. Irish oaks showed stunted growth for fifteen years. All over Europe writers record this darkening of the heavens and the failure of the crops.

From 535,

 there were days of darkness, crop failure for years on end, droughts and floods. There is some record of these strange events: John Lydus recorded that in 536:”The sun became dim… for nearly the whole year…so that the fruits were killed at an unseasonable time.” Michael the Syrian supported this: “the sun became dark and its darkness lasted for eighteen months…the fruits did not ripen…”[3]. Because the grapes did not sweeten, the richer people used sugar of lead to sweeten the wine, and used it as a substitute even for the bad water. However, this lead to them becoming chronically sick from lead poisoning. It also turned the ruling classes eventually into imbeciles.[4]

A few years later the light and hope of Camelot, with its heroic Arthur, was extinguished.  Arthur was killed in battle and the sword Excalibur was thrown back into the lake to keep it from the hands of evil. Merlin disappeared, having stated rather like Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings, that the world had changed. He too left a number of prophecies of the End Times.

Then, in 543

a great earthquake shakes the whole earth and about the same time in many areas plagues break out that halve the populations of Europe.

In 547 Britain suffered its first real plague; a plague of boils. The plague in Constantinople caused, at its height, the deaths of ten thousand people a day. The plague in the Roman Empire began in 542 and continued to 595, as Pluto was in Pisces. The same occurred in other parts of Europe - the population was halved. The pox entered France through Marseille and here too changed the course of history. [iii] [iv]

These were truly dark and gloomy Capricorn times. The sky was apparently so overcast at times that there was not enough sun to ripen the crops. Recently I heard that the flooding of New Orleans has caused lead (Saturn’s metal) to be deposited all over the land. What a way to rot out certain peoples! The Celtic world seemed to have suffered so from sickness at this time that they stopped conquering, Christianity survived. Yet generally it seems to have been the beginning of a particularly dark age for women, who were no longer respected as priestesses and vessels of the Goddess. The Goddess was wiped out, the Christian God had no time for, or interest in women.

Although Europe and also India suffered at this time, China seems often to have experienced wealthy periods. At this time it was famous for its silk production.  Justinian sent missionaries to China with orders to smuggle out some silk worms. China seems to have relatively prosperous times by Pluto’s transits through Capricorn. Russia also often seems to show improvements.

603 AD

Saturn c. GC

Uranus opp. GC

As Jesus Christ was for the Christians, and King Arthur and Merlin were for the Brits, so

Pocal Votan was for the Mayans. He was the Sage King and prophet born to the Mayan people, as Saturn was conjunct the GC., opposite Uranus in Gemini. The GC was also trining Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Aries.

Pacal Votan has been called many things: prophet, messenger of time, messenger of Hunab K’u. During his life he brought illumination to the Maya like the Sun itself. Just a look from him could heal. He is said to have come from the stars. He knew everything, he knew of the End Times coming. He supposedly proclaimed “If Humanity wishes to save itself from Biospheric Destruction it must return to living in natural time.” From his tomb a snaking duct in white stone allowed him to communicate with priests even after his death, if they went into a deep meditation. He knew the secrets of K´’ulthanlilni or Kundalini, he rubbed a flint figure along their spines to help them awaken it.

610 AD

Pluto trine GC

Neptune trine GC

The Vision of Mohammed and the grand trine in fire.

The Arabs also had their prophet who held a light for them in the dark times, at least for the men! In this year Mohammed had his vision, in which the angel Gabriel told him he was Allah’s chosen messenger. He was forty years old.

His writings, like those of Jesus, were collected much later, but they speak in a male language but similarly of” fire and brimstone” and particularly this fire will be involved in falling upon the baddies in the End Time. The Koran is dominated by the element of fire and the destruction through fire. This is perhaps not surprising as there was a grand trine of Pluto in Aries to Neptune in Leo to the Galactic Centre in Sagittarius - all fire signs. After reading some of the prophecies in the Koran and remembering the recent terror attacks by believers, I asked myself if the end of the world might not indeed come through fire. The kind of fire that Sagittarius is connected to is the fire power stored in the earth, in the underworld, in hell, perhaps especially in oil. Burning up the oil supplies of the Christians is a perfect revenge: “let them burn in their own hell fires!”. Strangely or not it was only five years after Mohammed’s vision that, as the fire trine still existed, there was the first record of the use of “burning water”- petroleum, in Japan. Petroleum was first refined in the west as Pluto conjunct Uranus was in the fire sign Aries in the 19^th century. The possibility that disasters in 2012 might be connected to fire is very real and is suggested by the GC being in Sagittarius-fire still close to Pluto at the midnight time and Uranus squaring from Aries, then the term “Burning the midnight oil” could take on new dimensions if the Moslems set fire to the last oil reserves.

Again my incredibly useful “Encyclopaedia of Dates and Events” mentions Constantinople. In 610 it received a new ruler: Heraclius. This began a long period of Byzantine Persian wars. In 616 it was Egypt and not Rome that was overrun and not by the Barbarians but by Persians. (today’s Iranians)

In 616 St. Benedict was remembered in a Benedictine Church and nunnery built to his name in Folkestone.

664 AD

Neptune c. GC

Pluto opp. GC

T square Uranus in Pisces

The time of Neptune’s conjunction to the GC, opposite Pluto and square Uranus in Pisces, brought mixed blessings for England. It became attached to the Roman Catholic Church and caught the plague.

715 AD

Pluto trine GC

Neptune trine GC

Pluto now in Leo, was beginning to form its next grand trine with Neptune moving into Aries and the Galactic Centre in Sagittarius created another triangle of fire that seems to favour the expansion of the Arab Moslems. Moslem Empire spread at this time to cover an area from the Pyrenees to China, by 720 they had crossed even into France.

771 AD to 779 AD

Pluto

 in Sagittarius c Galactic Centre

 trine Neptune in Leo,

 opposite Uranus in Gemini.

The most legendary King of France acceded to the throne in 771, the Accession of Charlemagne. Physically he was pretty impressive with over 1m 90cm. He lived 72 years and had an energy that was indestructible. He ruled over a large Empire which reached from the North Sea and Atlantic coast to Naples in Southern Italy. On the 25^th of December 800 he was unexpectedly crowned Emperor of the West by Pope Leo III in Rome. Here there was a kite pointing at the GC.

In 779 Britain Offa of Mercia succeeded in subduing the West Saxons and uniting England. He became King of all England.

China was again happily making its usual kind of developments, like printing handbooks on tea and some unusual changes occurred like allowing Christianity in the Chinese Court.

Japan was making developments in printing, the first extant prints date from here.

At about the time of Pluto’s transit over the winter solstice Charlemagne was defeated in a battle.

The Fejo Bowl was created maybe by the British.

As Pluto entered Capricorn

Offa constructed a Dyke, an earthwork from the river Dee to the River Wye to defend against Welsh attacks. The Danes were exploring wider territories by sea, began attacks on England and destroyed Lindisfarne Priory.

In Egypt there was factional turmoil at this time

Chemistry was at its beginnings. Paper mills were springing up in Baghdad and Turkey, and there were some memorable religious writings such as in the first German ecclesiastical verse Wessobrunner Gebet.

828-9

Neptune

in Sag c GC, square Pluto in Pisces

Original foundation of St Mark’s Venice was set.

Translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest

A Danish king was baptized and recognized as Overlord of England.

In 829 The Nile froze over-an unusually cold period.

870s

First Neptune in Pisces square GC

Then Uranus in Virgo square GC

Accession Alfred the Great as King of Wessex in  871 AD

Difficult period for him in which England (Mercia) was divided between English and Danes, King Alfred had to go into hiding in the marshes, he hid in the house of an old woman and burned her cakes  that he was supposed to look after!

886

Neptune Aries

Saturn Leo

Grand trine GC

(Pluto Taurus opp. Uranus Scorpio)

King Alfred captures London and gives it to his son-in-law. Rebuilding of London began.

Cheapside, port and city of London

894

Uranus

c. Galactic Centre in Sag.

Alfred captured the Danish Fleet

And the Royal Navy is born. He dies as Uranus reaches the winter solstice area (899 AD)

910-924

Neptune and Pluto in Gemini

 Opp. GC

 Uranus squares from Pisces (opp. Saturn Virgo, so a partial grand cross.)

Danes still invading, now invade Ireland and Germany.

 913 and 924 Bulgarian attack on Constantinople repulsed, but Greece devastated.

980St. Benedict translated, renewed Danish raids also Viking raids on England

995

Neptune

c GC, square Saturn in Pisces

Olaf of Norway baptized in England, returned to Norway and forced acceptance of Christianity.

Thousands of people died in Aquitaine because rye was attacked by a poisonous mould.

1000 AD

As the millennium neared its close, Neptune in Sagittarius was leaving its more exact 995 AD conjunction with the GC.  A square to the GC from Uranus in Pisces had added to the trepidation, many feared the End of the World would come, but some were busy discovering and settling new worlds.

A number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occurred, like Vesuvius, in the years up to 1000 AD, these did not quieten the fearful atmosphere of a world in transition.

The Chinese were not worried though, they were too busy perfecting gunpowder.

Leif Erikson, a Viking, was the first European to put his foot in North America, probably in 1000 AD[v] as Neptune was in Sagittarius, 500 years before Columbus supposedly discovered it, (as Columbus discovered it, Neptune was also in the same place in Sagittarius, and Pluto was in both cases in early Scorpio), but although his visit is certain, he was killed by an arrow from one of the natives.

1014-1024