THE ACHRISTOU FACTOR AND SOME REFLECTIONS FOR DAY, 6-6-06

6-6-06 comes once a millennium (in American date numbering at least!) and like it or not the Antichrist is hot. 6-6-06 is the number of Therion, the Beast,the Antichrist (not the devil as claimed by Dan Brown who gets every fact wrong). Two films, both on the Antichrist, The Beast, from film maker Brian Flemming (see below) and an update of the seventies film The Omen are having premieres. Death metal rock group, Deicide, is releasing an album (The Stench of Redemption) to help Satanists celebrate. At the other pole since the day falls the week of Christian Pentecost the Spirit is being invoked by Christians worldwide. Even so, we don’t believe in Friday 13th so what’s in a day date?

I never assumed the day could signify much and I’m not about to say any Antichrist (lit. anti or replacement Messiah) will appear on cue……but……I believe 6-6-06 falls within a broad period of significance that it does its part to reflect and produce The following goes a little way to explain how. I shall also unveil some research on the sinister Achristou factor on which no one has ever commented and one would need to be a specialist to do so or want to. But prophecy, theology and occult buffs should all to find it relevant to their various inquiries. First however to define where we are in point of time.

6-6-06 and 2006 in History

2006 (along with ‘07) is a very special time in history if one accepts any principle like celestial signs or astrological influence. Two major transits affect both years and are the background against which all the rest must be read.

Pluto conjuncting the Galactic Centre

Major contacts to the Galactic Centre (GC) regularly involve major world events (it’s good for stock market crashes) but especially in religion. John the Baptist started preaching when Pluto (the “hidden God” death and transformation planet) crossed the GC, a slow moving point that in AD 27 had just entered Sagittarius, the beliefs sign. Visionary and revivalist type phenomena seem regularly to attend transits of the GC by outer planets. The Welsh Revival occurred with Uranus conjuncting it in 1904 as a couple of centuries before it had at the Jonathan Edwards revival in America. When Pluto last conjuncted the GC in the eighteenth century England experienced the Methodist revival with its extreme phenomena. We’ve had foretaste of the potential religious upheavals of the current transit with the Mohammed Cartoons crisis but more is likely to follow – since though it’s already within conjunction slow Pluto’s first perfect crossing of the GC isn’t till year’s end. Australia could be especially vulnerable since its Jupiter (beliefs, religion) is natally conjunct the GC so awaits whatever Pluto may do to it. Israel is also vulnerable, its Jupiter likewise conjuncts the GC but will be transited in 07 and 08 rather than this year. One suspects Israel could be struck by messianic fever .

Neptune conjuncts Christ’s Reputation Midheaven

Neptune is mystical and charitable but since few can live its highest potential its motions often correspond to mere muddle, deception and lies particularly in a year when Neptune squares Jupiter (beliefs and the truth principle) in the heavens and Saturn squares Jupiter (restriction to truth). But as Neptune approaches specifically Christ’s reputation linked natal Midheaven (I have maintained for some years now that I have the true data for Christ’s birth and I am familiar with how it works to the point of being able to predict from it) distortion and lies about Christ emerge, not least through the medium of film that at one octave of meaning Neptune rules. So we have everything from The Jesus Papers and The Gospel of Judas in print to The Da Vinci Code and The Beast and The Omen in films. Neptune’s conjunction is near exact this year but is perfect next year so ongoing controversy and scandal around Christ’s image can be expected. This again is a rare transit. Last time it occurred was in 1842 and it corresponded to the new image of Christ introduced by such as Mormonism and something like the birth of modern atheism in the English speaking world with the opposition more directed at the churches than directly at Christ which would have been too controversial at that time………Now for Achristou.


SINISTER and SATANTISTIC: THE ACHRISTOU FACTOR

Achristou belongs to an Aleister Crowley vibe. It’s not an Antichrist Super Star (to suit certain rock titles and tastes), it’s a/the Antichrist asteroid but it works, speaks, reveals.

This rock in space with meaning was discovered by astronomer J.D. Asher on 3.2.1995. Asher called his rock after the Greek born, wonderfully named, doubtless un-sinister, research astronomer of Ireland’s Armagh Observatory, Apostolos Christou (Apostle of Christ). Achristou elides Christian first name initial with surname to create something not in the Greek lexicon but which could be considered a neologism. Rather as the prefix a in Greek based words can give us agnostic or atheist, this supplies a meaning like “not of the Christ”, “freedom from Christ”. Biblical Greek uses antikristos, (the antichrist, lit. anti messiah), so this asteroid doesn’t give us that word precisely.

The question is: does it give the meaning? Since asteroids (the new dimension in astrology) are found to work on a word vibe the unexpected answer is, yes. That something Antichrist appears involved can be demonstrated through examples like those below. Plus Achristou’s discovery took place with the symbolically variable Venus - depending on context it is Christ as “the bright morning star” of Revelation or it’s “Lucifer” - conjuncting the Galactic Centre (events in religion). The asteroid itself was found in Virgo, Christ’s natal sun sign according to myself and various astrologers and theologians thus setting up a suggestive Christ-Antichrist contrast.

Achristou is harder to test than other new factors because we all have Achristou somewhere and many people, even with strong anti Christian sentiments, can’t (short of being merely judgmental or superstitious) be classified as little antichrists. So data must involve close, descriptive, obviously relevant contacts and with one exception below, a pop diva, I keep to where on an obvious creedal or policy basis a person or institution is promoting, (or a person or institution is in conflict with) certifiably Antichrist identified interests.


NINE EXAMPLES OF ASTEROID ACHRISTOU


Satanist, Aleister Crowley
Take the real life would-be Antichrist, Satanist Aleister Crowley (born 12.10.1875) who called himself Therion, The Beast. He shows Achristou at 3 Virgo (Christ’s sign) in close easy trine to his natal destiny/reputation house Neptune (at 2 of Taurus), a Neptune which at the same time was Crowley’s ruler of his ninth of religion/philosophy. So both his religion and would-be reputation distinctly converge on 666 through Achristou.

Rock Star, Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson, self styled “Antichrist Superstar” star was born 5.1. 1969 so as a Capricorn, Saturn is his natural ruler. Achristou at almost 19 Aries conjuncts his natal Saturn at 21. Needless to say, and despite the fact astrologers since medieval times have regarded Saturn as in some contexts the devil, most Capricorns aren’t Satanists. However Manson’s position of Achristou must take the natural Saturn link into account in his case. The more so given the position of his Hella (Old Saxon and Old High German for Hell which I have found is the true Hell asteroid). For MM it falls within one degree conjunct his natal 15 degree Capricorn sun. So he’s well into a devil/hell interests.

Satanist, Anton Le Vey
Author of The Satanic Bible and the First Temple of Satan, Le Vey (born 11.2.1930). Perhaps I should say first that the signature for specifically his The Satanic Bible is almost certainly asteroid Lucifer at the midpoint of Sun (identity) with Mercury(writing). However in addition he shows Achristou at 11 of Pisces in exact opportunity sextile to Saturn in its natural sign Capricorn, (love of the goat of Mendes perhaps?!) and exact semi sextile to Uranus in Aries. More significantly it is also in stress square to religion/philosophy/truth planet, Jupiter, at 13 of Gemini.

Film Maker, Brian Flemming
Ex fundamentalist, now atheist film maker Brian Flemming, (born 6.6.1966) has produced a thriller called The Beast related to Antichrist ideas (a fundamentalist girl realizes Jesus never existed and is persecuted as ”The Beast” by crazed fundamentalists). The film dramatizes ideas related to Flemming’s documentary, The God Who Wasn’t There. In this case Achristou conjuncts Flemming’s fated nodes at 25 Taurus and depending on the time of birth (I’ve used a round midday) it may well trine his moon in Capricorn (that sign again! ) so that he can easily make his Antichrist views very public. (I would further maintain that natally his Neptune - anything to do with films and disappearances - squares Christ’s reputation Midheaven, so one way of realizing this signature is to try to make Jesus disappear through film). This is a person of paradox greatly self deceived whose very rationalism puts him in line with a certain occultism. A bit like….

Antichrist Philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche, an influence on Nazism and Hitler, authored Der Antichrist. Asteroid Achristou is dynamically related to his natus. At 24 Gemini it stress squares his 25 Virgo Midheaven of career/reputation within less than a degree while it trines his 22 Libran sun and squares his 24 Pisces Jupiter, the religion/philosophy/truth planet. Note the conflict with the Virgo/Pisces axis so involved with the Christianity which Nietzsche considered a contribution to “slave morality” and a worldview with too much emphasis upon compassion. His refusal of compassion influenced Nazism and….

Adolph Hitler Himself
If Nostradamus foresaw Hitler in his Hister forecast, then he called this person an Antichrist, though Hitler was more performing an Antichrist type role than closely identifying with Antichrist belief/theory as such (though perhaps anti-Semitism would be enough to qualify). Here Achristou as for Flemming conjuncts his fated Nodes (south nodes in Capricorn, that Saturnian sign again!) exactly to within minutes of a degree. From here it trines within a degree Hitler’s Venus/Mars conjunction so he can easily perform and persuade towards Antichrist deeds. In passing I’ll note that Hitler has Hella (Hell) sextile his Saturn compared to Crowley who had it in trine to Saturn.

Pop Diva, Madonna
Really? No kidding !? Granted she’s not going around composing Satanic Bibles or doing evil like Hitler but…..not even to consider how her use of Jesus themes in entertainment may have desensitized society towards the sacred generally (a few days ago to launch her new Confessions tour she has descended on stage crucified and with a crown of thorns) it’s a fact that she has an obsession with Messiahs to the point of negotiating to buy property where some Kabbalists say the next one will appear. Whatever….Madonna’s natal sun is not only exactly square Achristou but, lending more significance (since we all have the asteroid somewhere hopefully inoperative!) the asteroid is in her ninth house of religion. Perhaps the square tells us the born again to be Esther is not too happy with her position, but by the rules something negative is indicated. And what might her personal evolution yet incline her to promote if Messiahs and Mahdis actually started to appear?

Iran President Ahmadinejad
This President (born 28.10.1956) denies the Holocaust, wants Israel wiped off the map and has affirmed Islam’s claims to world rule. Most recently he has encouraged President Bush to cooperate in higher things, arguably gently inviting him to convert which the Hadith requires he do before any declarations of jihad are made. Ahmadinejad expects the Mahdi to appear within two years which if such a figure emerged could have Antichrist implications. Ahmadinejad has Achristou at 25 Leo. It is in opportunity sextile to Mercury (giving news about) at 25 Libra and connecting semi-sextile to Venus (he could meet this person) at 25 Virgo (itself conjunct religious Jupiter at 23 Virgo). Depending on birth time Achristou may be conjunct Ahmadinejad’s moon also – at midday for which I set my chart it is so closely.

Jeane Dixon’s Anti Messiah
Whether or not her celebrated vision of an alleged Antichrist (born 5.2.1962) was right or wrong, the birth data for seeress Jeane Dixon’s false prophet shows Uranus, ruler of his sun sign Aquarius, conjunct Achristou, in turn conjunct regal and fame giving fixed star, Regulus (28 degrees to Uranus with Regulus at 29 Leo). Discovery time for asteroid Achristou had Sun in Aquarius at 15. Dixon’s figure, if real, was born with Sun and Mercury at 16 of Aquarius. We recall that around 15 Aquarius in a world point. It would take too much space to explain why Dixon’s figure seems so fitting for what she describes, I shall merely say there are sufficient reasons to make one suspicious she could yet be proved right and maybe, as she believed, the purpose of her life was to receive her vision of the Anti-Messiah. Anyway asteroid, Dixon is fittingly enough directly opposed, hostile, to the Mars of the person she saw.


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WHO OWNS THE DA VINCI CODE FILM FLOP?

Clearly the film isn’t the book. It’s hard to say just what’s wrong with it but the critics are basically right that’s it’s not all right. Something about The Da Vinci Code film doesn’t gel; Hanks seems lost, the music doesn’t quite fit, the scenes are good but the pace of the drama falters, the script leaves something to be desired, the conclusion is silly – how could one have a tribeload of people (as though to half duplicate the end of the Titanic movie), ready waiting for Sophie when she turns up on her surprise visit to Rosslyn Abbey?

So it’s a poorly paced melodramatic mess, but what about the treatment of and effect for religion?

Let’s be clear we’re dealing with ideologies here, not just entertainment. In what’s a rather serious charge, the chairman of The Christian Film and Television Commission has stated at a Washington news conference that the essentially anti-Christian and anti Semitic film that DVC is was financed by British Muslim, Mohammed Yusef’s Invicta Capital to the tune of 200 million dollars - the greater part of the film’s cost. As Baehr commented “it's a very serious problem when people start funding movies and books to attack somebody else's religious faith." And a double standard is involved because we have Muslims erupting in violent protests when they believe their own faith is attacked.

How Anti Christian is The Da Vinci Code film?

In some respects the film is fairer than the book. Brown’s total distortion of the facts about Constantine and Nicene and their supposed late invention of Christ’s divinity, is questioned, and the film’s position is likewise agnostic on numbers of Brown’s “facts”. However the tone is still either polemical or agnostic to the point of being spiritually undermining. Actor Ian McKellan (who had quipped at the premiere that if Brown had written "fiction" the Bible should carry the disclaimer it was "fiction") as Sir Leigh Teibing has a ranting speech which virtually says the world would be a kinder, juster, saner, safer place if it could be freed from belief in Christ’s divinity. And towards the film’s end Hank’s badly acted Robert Langdon is given a fairly lengthy exposition to Sophie (who has discovered she’s a descendant of Christ) to the effect that it doesn’t matter what Sophie thinks of the discovery or whether Jesus was divine or not because our beliefs are what make us and the world. We are in effect sold a New Age line in personal development and religious indifference or perhaps indifference to the nature of Truth in itself.

Tales of Beelzebub

Although there are ultra democratic people objecting that Christians are objecting to the distortions and critiques offered to their faith by The Da Vinci Code film, it’s a fact that no other religion would tolerate the treatment. Obviously I don’t mean the imprisonment or even execution others might impose would be right, but I do think Brown has crossed for profit boundaries he has no right to cross. Religious freedom in a society must include beyond critical freedom the idea of a basic respect for whatever faith is involved and perhaps too insure the cultural air is kept sufficiently clear for the delicate quality of the spiritual to be breathed, not polluted in the way that Dan Brown, however entertaining as a thriller writer, is polluting the atmosphere by exploiting high themes often through recourse to what historians of all persuasions know is lies and disinformation. Despite introducing his fiction with a declaration of its truth to fact, the list of his errors in terms of history, art, theology etc is truly astonishing. I have mentioned a few in my article
“Dan Brown and the Magdalene in Astrology”
Horoscope Magazine’s bi-annual almanac edition, for June but issued this week (Australia and New Zealand only).
It’s interesting that Brown’s writer’s Mercury is in exact aspect to asteroid Lucifer as though he were supplying us Beelzebub’s tales - which maybe he is.

Two points I didn’t make in the article. First that Brown's heroine, Sophie, is called this because she represents Sophia, Wisdom, the Gnostic being whose fall from the heaven prompted accidental creation of the material realm. In many respects the cult of DVC is promoting the old Gnostic heresy. Second, the film was bound to be less than wonderful and perhaps a less than successful flop. The premiere days were variously 18th and 19th May with the Cannes Festival run on the 17th. Whatever the date both Sun and Mercury were in the last degrees of Taurus, these being considered difficult, unfortunate degrees. Together they would tend to make or at least reflect that things were about as ponderous as they were though the film's tone is somewhat Taurean arty/classic.

Whether or not Dan Brown is giving us Beelzebub’s tales , my next dish will be on 6-06 6-and will unveil the Achristou factor and consider the Antichrist phenomenon and venture a prophecy.

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THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC BLINDSPOT

This Blog is about Censored Issues. The following article was offered to THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper in response to a report (28.4.06) on a rubbishing of astrology by scientists. It was sent to the Chief of Staff, the Science and Features editors. The last two sent automatic responses in their absence with alternative addresses from which I have not received even automatic rejection notices. (Granted most journalists and publishers don't use them but in courtesy they might). As a published author however I might receive a basic acknowledgement. (In France Le Monde invites published authors to express their views prominently). And some statements below might anyway have invoked response out of caring concern about the serious suppression involved. But alas Australia doesn't much respect its writers or artists,we're all so very very equal they can take their place in line with Joe Citizen and his opinions. As to astrology and religion they exist to be dismissed on almost any and every count anyway.

THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC BLINDSPOT

Maybe it’s because astrology is now gaining academic respectability, taught as a subject in such as Southampton, Bath, and Seattle universities, that scientists, beginning to panic, are determined to launch an attack. It had been reasonably established some years ago from the tests of such as the psychiatrist Hans Eysenck and the statistics of Michel Gauquelin (the former on extraversion and introversion around the sun signs, the latter on planetary influence on vocational dispositions), that there was something to astrology. Now in a recent study (reported The Australian 28th April) German and Danish scientists are attacking what is popularly considered the central issue of the sun sign to indicate there is nothing at all to astrology. They can find nothing to support different intelligence levels (I wasn't aware sun signism even dealt in that!) or character by the sun sign. Nothing?

Scientists are more than hard to please. Over a couple of decades ago now the Academy of Sciences in Belgium had told Gauquelin that if his (thousands of) cases could prove astrology by statistics we should no longer believe statistics. That’s not science it’s scientism, a new form of blinkered radical fundamentalism one which refuses dialogue. Astronomer Percy Seymour of the Plymouth Observatory in England found he was sent to Coventry by the scientific community in England for daring to suggest there might be something in Gauquelin’s statistics. Basically scientists don’t reckon to speak with those involved in astrology unless to tell them they are wrong.

Take noted astronomer, David Hughes. In the late seventies he wrote extensively on ancient astrology and its presumed connections to the birth of Christ. Developing his theories I claim to have found Christ’s birth data with innumerable proofs for it. But not with the Society of Authors appealing, his publisher asking, or an editor of one of my books who knows Hughes more recently mentioning me to him, has he ever deigned in years to contact me to answer questions or discuss matters. His indifference must be accounted one of the reasons I have been unable to advance my rather devastating discoveries for public debate. Breaking the PR barrier in this area is a formidable task even for a published author.

How can and will anyone one “scientifically” perceive and test in detail what sun signs claim? If you don’t wish to prove the case you never will because a lot of what's involved is at once special and elusive and linked not just to psychology but to such as medical associations like body parts in a way no one would care to test for. For example, Cancer the mother sign is the sign of the breasts. On this year’s Australian Big Brother, one of its housemates is a Cancerian so insecure about her breasts she has had a boobs job - at twenty. Another Cancerian housemate arrived on the show in a state of display suggesting she had no such hang-ups. Last year, Scorpio, sign of sex and the genitals, engaged Big Brother in issues that got political after a Scorpio flashed his penis and stuck it in the hair of a housemate he was styling. Most Scorpios won’t behave like that but maybe something along those lines will be more of an issue for them than others in the course of their lives. Such happened for myself and film maker, Tony Pitman, both Scorpios who, incredibly given current western trends, were charged by police with wilful obscene exposure for taking part in a nude demo so that one had to sit in court and hear arguments over whether we had in fact exposed our “members”. This year’s BB star could well be the Gemini Michael who has been displaying facets of the Geminian trickster archetype in the sheer playful relish with which he has agreed to double cross and chat up housemates, fib and steal from them. Will statistics catch the Gemini/Mercury thief, seducer associations, which of course not all Geminis for ethical reasons will display however well qualified – they may like Dorothy Sayers just prefer to write or read or talk about crime instead?

In some respects the problem is that astrology is not too little but too terribly accurate. I read best selling philosopher Alain de Botton’s horoscope and clearly didn’t make him too comfortable. I was able to demonstrate not just how planets worked but even how name asteroids show his favourite philosophers and which he deals with in his The Consolations of Philosophy. These are marked out in advance in his chart which was well triggered for publication of his breakthrough bestseller on Proust, asteroid Proust being strong natally and just waiting its moment.

This kind of thing isn’t good news for atheist philosophers and sceptical scientists. It’s obviously too much like fate or biblical statements about the night skies uttering knowledge and God naming the stars. Ironically, in the data I have for Christ, asteroid David Hughes exactly opposes the magian associated asteroid Chaldaea, betraying this scientist’s alienation from the astrology he researched; and, falling as Hughes’ asteroid does in the prideful sign of Leo it arguably betrays the status issues affecting his dislike…as some astrologers would say, the stars give you the Last Judgement in advance.
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If you want to test sun signs this side of social respectability the best way to go might be via literature, philosophy and art. One needs to take creative individuals minimally subject to average cultural conditioning. This way native style and archetypes emerge. It soon becomes evident that the ego of Aries is a real thing from the Cogito of Descartes to the transcendental ego of Husserl. One will then see how this contrasts with its opposite sign Libra, the relationship sign which adopts the almost Buddhistic, no self position of Oscar Wilde and Heidegger for whom the starting point is not the self but the Dasein, the being with others, and what’s already in this world. If you want to do philosophy with water sign Cancer go to Iris Murdoch (whose prize winning fiction work was suitably The Sea, The Sea) who talks about human consciousness being “soaked in value” and writes philosophy in a stream of thought like the Cancerian Proust, a writer who like Murdoch scarcely has room or time for a paragraph division in the onrush. Cancer Kafka allows you a few paragraphs but is also soaked in streams of thought and drowning in seas of confusion. If you want to try music instead of literature take Wagner, Richard Strauss and Stravinsky. If you can't appreciate how they are distinctly Geminian magicians then you may be a little lacking by way of synthetic intelligence and need a few intuitional abilities transcending the style of scientific fact collecting.

I have written of these things in a book called Astrology and Belief Today . It has never been published. Publishers prefer books on the astrology of cats, dogs and lovers and that situation suits the scientists well because they can continue to take pop shots at what looks more like party games than the Wisdom of the Magi. One day when the asteroids, Wisdom and Sophia hit somewhere meaningful, Truth may actually out. Meanwhile, alas censorship, suppression and even abuse rule.

CELEBRITY ASTEROID, POP STAR ANDROGYNY

Madonna, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Boy George, Shakespeare. What have they got to do with an unknown asteroid? Asteroids would seem to be rocks in space, not much to see or do unless you can make astrological sense out of them. Which is worth the effort as they will certainly give it.

Example for doubters of the principle. Poor unwilling celebrity, Schapelle Corby, stuck in a Bali jail on conviction of drugs smuggling she claims with good reason (given what’s been discovered about Sydney airport) were planted on her, shows natal Saturn conjunct asteroid, Bali. Then again, Princess Diana who was determined to marry Prince Charles, is shown by an asteroid, Diana, in perfect opportunity sextile to Charles’ marriage angle but also in uncomfortable square to difficult Saturn. There were problems.

Last week I finally followed an invitation at HoroZscope on the Net to be first to make an astrological comment on asteroid, ASTROGEOS which has been languishing around unstudied and uncommented since discovered at 17 of Cancer on 21.1.1988.

I’m pasting below what I put to the relevant Net site but which may get a bit more exposure than it is likely to obtain there if recorded here too. Also I could have said a bit more than I stuck into the small box so I’m adding a few more celebrity details. This may not be a “censured topic” but it’s likely to be what’s much the same, an ignored one if people don’t refer to this kind of useful information and it’s a fact that even most astrologers don’t explore the asteroids. I wrote:

Androgyny Asteroid

Androgeos should be an important discovery for astrologers. This is definitely the asteroid that marks out androgyny issues and impulses.

Notice that at discovery time suitably the Sun is at the beginning of, the moon at the end of, and Mercury, an androgynous planet, towards the middle of Aquarius, the sign long associated with the alternative, the different and androgyny. Pluto is in Scorpio the sex sign bespeaking transformation of ideas and research in that area. Even the sign of balance, Libra, rises. Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, is conjunct Saturn in philosophical Sagittarius which may have something to do with grounding and clarifying what the difference factor Uranus is about and the difficulty of realizing it.

Anyway, start testing this asteroid and you will find it works. Shakespeare's sun is exact trine this asteroid from Virgo. He was noted for his ability to see into and through both sexes and point towards enlightened androgynous attitudes - an ability which in terms of the regular planets is involved with his moon in Libra and his Neptune/Venus conjunction in Gemini (words). Androgyny has a great deal to deal with the air signs but this asteroid will help highlight what they are doing in a chart more specifically.

Pop Star Androgyny

See the chart of Madonna. Androgeos is exact trine her Virgo moon from Capricorn, perhaps a rather commercial/pragmatic use of the androgyny impulse but it is present within her work and involved with her odd notion she's a gay male in a woman's body.

If some of us have the right time for the chart of Gay Lib in June 1969 then Androgeos is conjunct the Midheaven of that chart which could amount to an interesting comment.

Here are what certain celebrities notably show. Boy George has Androgeos conjunct in less than two degree with his showy and cosmetics conscious Venus in Taurus. David Bowie has Androgeos conjunct his Capricorn sun. While it isn’t the closest of conjunctions for an asteroid (17 degrees to the sun’s 21 degrees) not only are wider conjunctions allowed with sun or moon but Androgeos is at the same time in nearly perfect sextile opportunity aspect to his Jupiter so he can enact and enlarge the whole androgyny idea for stage and make financial success of it (Jupiter in second of finances).

Mick Jagger (who for born at 6.30 am with 4 degrees of Leo rising for the benefit of the many in astrology who don’t seem to know the fact) has Androgeos at 14 of Libra (probably the most androgynous of the signs) near enough conjunct to his IC base of chart angle (at 11 Libra) from where it’s within opportunity sextile both his first house Mercury at 11 Leo and his fated nodes at 16 Leo so that bodily (first house) he can project physically an androgyny which seems rooted in his being (base of chart).

All these examples from show biz do however seem to reflect a rather physical, material and staged version of androgyny as opposed to the more essential psychological kind linked to the spiritual and to Jung’s hermaphrodite archetype and which I think Shakespeare’s chart demonstrates.

Myth, Minos and Name

In myth Androgeos was the murdered son of King Minos whose death caused the king's requirement of the regular sacrifice of the youth of Athens in requital. One could argue that the connection to Minos links androgyny somewhat to wealth, to gold and some earthy principle as in the charts of those showbiz people who have made androgyny work for them, but the deeper meaning as in psychology and religion brings on risk and sacrifice. Bur really I am unable to trace something specifically related to andogyny in this myth. In this case it seems the name, as so often with the asteroids, will have to suffice as guide to what Androgeos is about and does. What’s in a name? Quite a lot really!

FREEDOM INDONESIAN STYLE (AND BELIEF ANGLICAN STYLE)

While Australia under Howard is busily appeasing Indonesia over West Papuan boat people seeking asylum another story is going on that makes Indonesia only one notch below Afghanistan for toleration. We don’t hear about this tale as we did about Abdul because a death threat hung over his Christianity as opposed to just common garden persecution.

In Gunung Putri, West Java, at the end of last month a mob of around 200 descended upon the local Church of Pentecost protesting for five hours that the property was being “misused” because it was a church building. The mob was so threatening some women of the congregation went hysterical. The crowd only dispersed when finally it obtained agreement from the pastor to shut the doors of the church and effectively shut down the church altogether leaving the congregation nowhere to worship. The pastor was told that the church would have to be closed pending revision of a 1969 decree which dealt with church buildings requiring government approval.

The revision announced by the Religious Affairs Minister but still awaiting Presidential signature would require
1) at least 90 church members with official IDs
2) signatures from at least 60 neighbours of different faiths (i.e Islam) agreeing a church could be built/opened
3) Approval of local authorities.

Theoretically the constitution guarantees freedom of religion but Christians over recent years are familiar with obstruction which prevents their freedom of worship and the new decree would worsen the situation. It would become like other situations familiar from Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world where local authorities harass Christians, knock down new churches or prevent their construction with mobs aided by police and local authorities who override constitutional rights.

Any idea that Islam can be trusted for tolerance in any place where it gains a foothold or has a majority is foolishness. Ordinary Muslims may intend toleration but their leaders will often bully and ostracize them out of it. The church in Indonesia is in trouble like churches in virtually every Muslim country. Christians need to wake up and they need good leaders to defend specifically Christian rights and beliefs…..That's becoming an increasingly tall order.

Waffling Rowan Williams of the Anglican Muddle

The bankrupt quality of modern Church leadership is well reflected in Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams who having made a mess of the whole gay issue virtually reneging on his position and promises in that area is now virtually reneging on Christianity itself….. and I don’t mean because he's recently approved teaching atheism in English schools in RK.

I am referring to William’s as good as heretic’s speech ("Christian Identity and Religious Plurality") given in Brazil to the World Council of Churches last year which I have only just read. It is a long piece of clergy waffle about what Christians have to offer the world and if at all uniquely and exclusively. Williams believes Christians are exclusive in that they see everything in terms of Christ but otherwise

exclusivism is impossible… certainly the exclusivism of a system of ideas and conclusions that someone claims to be final and absolute. The place of Jesus is open to all who want to see what Christians see and to become what Christians are becoming. And no Christian believer has in his or her possession some kind of map of where exactly the boundaries of that place are to be fixed, or a key to lock others out or in.

Boundaries have their uses

No boundaries, no key? This itself is flat denial Christ gave any kind of “key” to Peter (as representative of Christians) as regards the kingdom of heaven or anything, and it ignores all idea that Christ as self declared Way is any Way leading anywhere. But Rowan Williams continues that Christians shouldn’t even have the question in our minds of how we might “convict others of error” or “win any competition of ideas” – surely we are talking about spiritual beliefs beyond mere “ideas” – we should only ask how we might see what others see and make it part of our own seeing. Christians should in short offer no proclamations but have a kind of convincing contagion in their own being which reflects that we and God are fundamentally at peace with the world. This is the outlook of someone whose life has been largely confined to the exploration of ideas in academe rather than the raw conflicts of life in diverse cultures!

Only last night I happened to see a news report on gruesome child sacrifices to goddess Kali in India. It is only because the British in India put a stop to such as thugee and suttee that a lot of these kind of horrors have been in recession and only now are making something of a comeback. Were Christians wrong to preach against much in Hinduism? Tradition has it St Thomas was martyr in India to worshippers of Kali his preaching offended.

Granted Kali and human sacrifice belongs to the extreme end of what used to be called “heathen darkness”. Even so, if Christianity is going to have mealy mouthed leaders like Williams determined to absorb the views of all faiths and cooperate with every diversity the unfortunate Christians of Indonesia won’t have the defenders they need (how many churches and church leaders are protesting their intolerable situation?) and as to any evangelical imperatives the church might have they will just get completely ignored. Islam however will suffer no such deferential hesitations in putting its views.

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JUDAS GOSPEL, BROWN GRAIL, GNOSTIC FOG

It never rains but it pours and the Judas Gospel is finally released around the same time as Dan Brown is acquitted (yesterday the 7th) in London. And though Brown ought to be free of the particular charge of plagiarism, it frees his book and the upcoming film of The Da Vinci Code to give out, much like the Judas Gospel, its distortions. Both the Judas Gospel and Brown’s fiction represent a modern Gnosticism, private imaginings, interpretations and envisionings of facts, history and things spiritual. Their open door to a largely welcoming world is all part of what I’d long anticipated would be “the year of lies about Jesus”. And yes, despite appearances, it continues the old story of censorship, information suppression and one-sidedness I have been complaining about.

The Judas Gospel is presumably the one that in 180 Bishop Irenaeus was condemning as lies and which was probably composed about 150. It makes out that in effect Judas conspired with a willing Jesus to rid Jesus of a life in a (weak) body he didn’t even want, an act that would give Judas gnosis and power and Jesus himself release. The situation is instinct of the whole Gnostic worldview in which the body is a curse and only soul is real.

Ever since news of the release of this gospel was anticipated I have endeavoured to point out to various people in the press that my Signs for a Messiah has a completely original reading regarding Judas from existing texts. I have demonstrated something about him and the nature of his betrayal that so far no commentator has done, and besides being a published author I am a doctor of religious studies with supposedly some authority to speak on such matters. Much help it has been in getting me heard on what I feel needs to be said about Judas or much else at this time.

The Gnostic Fog

Not that as opposed to what I am claiming from canonical texts the new Gnostic material is giving us history - nobody is really claiming that. Unfortunately however the effect, exactly like Dan Brown’s fiction, is to leave the general public unfamiliar with scholarly and historical issues in the area with the impression that since a variety of views must have once existed, nothing certain can ever be known today. It’s not so much lies about Jesus (though these are present) as a Gnostic fog being put around him. The same effect will derive from Michael Baigent’s The Jesus Papers, most of it a re-cycling for profit of his Holy Blood, Holy Grail thesis and published by HarperCollins (who else seeing they are chief milkers of every heresy?) in advance of The Da Vinci Code film premiere. He suggests we have probably been misinformed about almost everything around Jesus and Christianity is the biggest cover up of history.

Deadly and Contentious Aspects

I don’t know exactly when the Judas Gospel was released in America and it’s not necessary to know it exactly to have a general idea from the astrological standpoint but it would probably have been sometime on the 6th as it was on the news here in Australia by the evening of the 7th. What is interesting is that contentious Mars in Gemini (sign of Christianity) was contentiously, aggressively close to exact opposition to a Pluto itself near enough conjunct the Galactic Centre (events in religion) in Sagittarius. (25 opposite to 26). Importantly, Mercury (any news and in effect any gospel because it means “good news”) was conjunct the Saturn rather than the Jupiter (truth) of the era conjunction of Jesus’ birth. It was also inconjunct the Saturn of the day. Tradition has always had it that Judas was a Piscean and the late seeress, Jeane Dixon, even alleged on revelation this was the case. Whatever, Judas’ sun or some planet would surely need to have been conjunct Jesus’ Saturn for the possibility of such extreme betrayal to have taken place. So on the 6th and 7th with Venus just entered the sign of Pisces and Mercury conjunct Jesus’ Saturn would be a suitable time to be hearing about the traitor. These facts have besides to be assessed against the root fact that Neptune by transit is, according to my claims in the matter, currently nearly conjunct the Midheaven of Christ’s birth chart inviting precisely the fog around Jesus’ status and reputation.

An important premiere

Brown’s win means the premiere of The Da Vinci Code will go ahead rather as between reports on the trial and the aspects I assumed it would (Brown’s natal Jupiter (natally opposite Neptune) is presently being conjuncted. In other words Brown has a Jupiter return – how could he not be freed to export his afflicted Neptune distortions?! This means that everything I have written about the pattern of the premiere, the status of Magdalena, Leonardo etc for May 19th will stand and will apply. I hardly imagined anything so descriptive could fail to do so, it was in itself a sign the trial would have to be won on Brown’s behalf.

Information about the premiere and Brown’s revealing data will be published in Horoscope Magazine’s biannual edition for June but released in May and likely in time for the premiere. This will offer something astrological at its most topical and precise. This feature will be out in Australia and N Zealand and that’s good but it won’t be out in America, the home from which book and film and Brown himself emanate which is not so good. It is however a minor restriction compared with not being able to discuss the character of Judas from the point of view of scholarship at this time. Gnostics have very much overtaken the information field. It is disagreeable to see the first of the Gnostic popularizers, Elaine Pagels, who has in effect rejected Christianity, assuring the cameras and as though representing the religion itself, that the Gospel of Judas is a potential Christian lesson for us all in forgiveness and love. Perhaps we had all better get into the work of betrayal to improve ourselves!.... Or perhaps in lending credence and support to the new Gnostic trends that’s what we’re anyway doing.


Rollan McCleary

BOB GELDOF'S BOBSWORTH ON OZ

Well somebody had to say it and I was glad it was Sir Bob said it because almost anyone else would be told, “if you don’t like us don’t come here” - in short censored out and censored issues interest me. But in interview for The Australian last weekend he said, having remarked he would almost prefer to be able to live in Oz than anywhere, that however….

“You take the tall poppy thing which began in Ireland to stratospheric levels – which is silly ‘cause it stems from an inferiority complex. Ireland’s got over it. Australia needs to do the same”.

It does. It is little short of a sickness infecting everywhere from the kind of work kids put into school (they mustn’t seem too clever at anything) to the work of leading politicians don’t put in (lest they seem too statesmanlike and commanding). If there's some crisis in industry Oz usually needs to import someone from overseas, some Brit, some Yank to sort the problem out because they are more likely to cut through the mess and command the situation and be less resented for it, because how could an Australian tell an Australian what to do?

Is this inferiority complex or is it inverted pride? Whatever it is more broadly the attitude works against the arts, against culture, against the life of the intellect (the only really acceptable form of excellence is in sports) and even the spiritual life (one doesn’t have enough respect for transcendence, for God as being the Man Upstairs) and one is permitted to be rude about anything or to anyone.

If you never believed in elitism and privilege come to this country and you might just change your mind a little and give some thought to why a leading Socialist like G.B.Shaw believed even Socialism could and should use a degree of elitism. Privilege does somewhat exist here in the English style through a network of good schools and special clubs/societies but egalitarianism, praised as a national virtue, chokes efficiency and brings essential issues to a standstill as in a traffic jam, or a smog.

Apart from being like Geldof an Irish citizen (though I’m an Australian citizen too) I am also a published author, and academically a doctor which represents a lot of work and slog which ought to garner a little respect over time. Try contacting media, or ringing the press whether on behalf of yourself or others (recently I’ve tried it on behalf of the scandal of legal issues with all sorts of social implications that an Australian artist is involved in) and it’s nearly impossible to draw attention to yourself and any issue however important. You are dismissed or told to wait endlessly or write out information you are not thanked for or contacted about. Why?

Well, basically because Australia’s press, media or whatever is so busy up to the eyebrows being egalitarian they can’t deal with you (plus the niceties of explanation or apology can’t be wasted on individuals either). It means that if Mrs Bloggins has lost her canary and wants to take up radio time complaining about it even if it’s clearly her own fault she is as important and more important than you are and you can just wait or go away because we have to hear the whole line of all those other people like Mrs Bloggins because qualifications or no who do you think you are? Understand you’re a nobody, mate.

I fancy I shall live to tell the tell of the shocking treatment I have received here as a writer for major material regarding Christ that in America would likely have put me to the front of the queue for attention - if in this very special case it is myself that does matter. I regret to say that Australia would be prime contenders for giving Jesus “no room at the inn” treatment and because they no longer know how to appreciate the special, the serious, or the sacred. Let Bob Geldof actually live here and he will either find out some unpalatable truths about the place he most wants to be in, or he might just be the outspoken and Irish person needed to correct the aggressively uncorrectable Aussie manners.

For some other censored issues see my website at Rollan McCleary