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YOUNG PEOPLE'S GUIDE TO ASTROLOGY




Buddha and the Freaks





Man is born complete as a magickal being, before being reduced to an irrelevant consumer.


Copyright © 2009 by Klaudio Zic, all rights reserved. www.lulu.com/astrology



FREAKS


Who were freaks? Freaks that were or still are were ordinary folks. In some area of the world and at a proper time, one could find nothing but freaks. Becoming one became easy as slipping into blue jeans. If you happened to play electric guitar very well, you were in the position to say something politically or not. For that, you needed no uniform at all.


COMA


The introduction about freaks is here in order for the young generation to understand better the pointy where the previous generation stuck. As said before, freaks were just ordinary people. Sure, they have made a lot of promises, but eventually ended up satisfied with a suburban residence, Buddha statuette and sitar. Most like any generation, but with pink speckles and eyes full of hope. So that were freaks, the generation of Pluto in Coma Berenices.


BRAHMA


Did we mention Brahma? Far from being a freak, Brahma was a scientist. The Brahma created and proposed a fairly simple and therefore workable model of the universe as presented in the Vedas. This model includes a simple lunar zodiac along with an acceptable solar ecliptic system. For all practical purposes, we can take Brahma as initiator of the four-faced universe. The foursquare principle of IHVH is known in the western world as Tetragrammaton. So far so good, we have a square universe or do we?


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The Sun has a strange habit of not rising at east at all. Vaguely it rises somewhere around east, that is to say one never knows for sure but it should rise somewhere fairly close to east. How close is that? Not so close actually, not so close at all. The cardinal points do account for the four faces of Brahma and IHVH, that is the local Brahma or the local zodiac for planet Earth. Unfortunately, these four faces precess, that is move in time. Buddha was mum on that. The set of ascendants is subject to precession.


VEDIC HERITAGE


While the Vedic model is a workable one, it was expected if not subject to an upgrade. Every cycle has its Hayagriva who updates the zodiac from East to West and from India to Hayastan. The real Vedic heritage is experimentation. We would never have the Vedanta if we would settle for Rig Veda. Not that Astavakra Samhita is not towering above the Upanishads. Vedic study is a complicated subject. In comparison, the cyclone that rages between the Old and New Testament is a simple binary formula. Now if Vedic study is a complicate subject, astronomy is not, at least at the level of compatibility. Namely, astronomers in India, Australia and Japan all agree on the basic principles.

IAU


The uniform astronomic principles are established under the IAU convention. There are 22 zodiacal stations, Pluto is not a planet, Eris is a dwarf planet and so on. Today much as ever, astrology is based on astronomy. Even with Pluto in Coma Berenices, music required a conservatory. A high degree of musical education was implied in the art. Freaks made noise for freaks, but musicians of the time played for an educated audiencei.


DWARF PLANETS


Now we are coming to the point. Already at the time of Coma Berenices, there was a giant gap between music such as Gentle Giant or Grateful Dead. While astronomy has made giant leaps ahead, astrology stagnated in its post-Vedic stage. Ptolemy had but a vague idea of the zodiac and no idea at all of the precession of the ascendants. Of course, freaks hardly studied Ptolemy, which was in fact good for them. They studied peace and love. The horoscope had to confirm to the ideals of a generation. When a dead space chunk like ex comet Chiron appeared, it was taken as big omen of reiki, rebirthing or whatever was at hand. The Beatles brought Vedic ideals into everyday life.


CHIRON


Klingzor and Chiron are parallel symbols of castration in European mysticism. The Grail legends have somehow transported the symbol of the castrate from Greek fauna. Both wizards have magickal powers along with a tragical note. Chiron is the symbol of a generation which has lost its balls much as the fabled being that one can still meet and converse with on the astral domain. Much as the zodiac for the masses lays stuck in Aries forever on spring equinox, so the freak horoscope froze with Chiron. Whatever this Chiron is, its castrated symbolism seems apt for a whole generation. Note that Chiron is not a centaurii. There are dozens of centaurs among which several larger than Chiron, which is not a centaur at all. We can take comet Chiron as a symbol of a castrated generation. Klingzor and not Parzeval would be the patron of Pluto in Coma Berenices.

PAGEANTRY


The succession of zodiacal avatars would hardly occupy someone less than 32nd Masonry grade. We suppose that the Blue Lodge does not admit teenagers? Instead of enumerating the due avatars of the ascendant, let us sit a step lower than Osiris and observe the initiates there. Buddha could incarnate in an initiate and thus become the first astrologer for all practical Vedic matters. The succession would lead to modern Vedic astrologers. The grand wizard Shamal of the court of King Cyrus would follow suit along with Enoch and Petosiris. Hipparchus would shine as guiding star among the mess and Ptolemy. Later on we would string along gentlemen like Galileo, Cassini, Bruno, Nostradamus, Brache, Kepler and Newton. The equatorial system was perused in China and thus perhaps the best alternative to the ecliptic to this day. Mayan civilization could survive as distant echo through lesser tribes. The Navajo and Hopi culture match every sincere tribal astronomy as based on observation. The only ones who never observe the skies were the so-called astrologers.


HALLOWEEN


Let us take for an example the time in which we write this short essay. As every year, the Sun has left Virgo on Halloween, heading for Libra. It will remain in Libra on Sai Baba's birthday, November 23rd. Now both Vedic and western astrologers miss the position of the Sun by several constellations. The rough estimation of their error is from two to six zodiacal signs or constellations. The details are elaborated for the purpose of comparison. The known one sign zodiacal offset that the western astrologers pride themselves with has become a two sign offset, nothing to be proud of. Now the freaks, who had NASA in the backyard1, were busy elsewhere.


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1NASA JPL, Pasadena CA, USA.

iSitting audience as in the case of Magma, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, ELP or Genesis.

iiAstronomically speaking, Chiron is a dead comet.