Some Predictions Based on Saturn & Jupiter

When Saturn and Jupiter influence one another you  get potential for very great persons to be born. Persons who lead society forward in new directions and who have heightened spiritual interests and talents.

For example a lot of really cool stuff happened the in 1969-1971 when this happened. Cool events, movements, and very interesting, often spiritually inclined kids were born. So let’s take a look at the relative transits of Jupiter and Saturn and see what strikes us in the way of making predictions.

c. 2000 – 2001 they were conjunct in Aries & Taurus. This was certainly a fascinating time. This kids will be adults around 2020. That will be an important milestone  for society

c 1991 they were opposite one another, Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn in Capricorn. Thus Jupiter was exalted and Saturn was strong. There were a lot of very very powerful underground movements going on at this time with the energence of Rap and Hardcore punk as strong forces to shape the nature of society for the next two decades and counting. There was an alarmingly powerful spiritual movement among the punk rockers at this time.

Planet Jupiter - "Guru Brihaspati"

Kids born during this conjunction are now 19 or 20 years old. They are now becoming adults. So my prediction is that we are bound to see a lot of new changes and new directions in the world, and these kids will take the wheel and make significant contributions to lead us in new directions. This will be a strong generation of adults.

c. 1981 The two were conjunct in Virgo. This is a rather neutral sign for the both of this, less pleasant for Jupiter.

So we should find, by examining history, that there is a generation theme caused by the different ways that Jupiter and Saturn interact every 10-11 years. Every 10-11 years they are either conjunct or opposite. This is what causes different trends and themes on a generational scale. This could be examined in far more detail by astrologers, using the specific signs involved and aspects from other planets to make sense of the generational specifics from one wave to the next.

- Vic DiCara

www.vicdicara.com

From Generations to Microseconds in Astrology

Each generation has a sort of signature or theme to it. It is the slow moving planets – Saturn and the lunar nodes – Rahu & Ketu – which govern these long term themes as they gradually move through the 12 signs.

Even every year has a certain flavor to it… determined mostly by the yearly movement of giant Jupiter from one sign to the next.

But within the years and generations there are huge variations of people and themes and experiences. These are the domain of the quick moving planets, especially the Sun (who changes signs from month to month) and the Moon (who changes signs about every 2 and a half days).

Still, even within 2 and a half days there are a tremendous variety of different types of people born and different flavors or themes and moods. This is governed by the most important of all astrological bodies, the Earth!

Most people think the Earth is absent from an astrological chart. This is myopia! The fact is that the very chart itself is the Earth!!! The 12 houses of the chart are the different portions of the Earth’s sky, with the most important point of all being the Ascendant – which is the Earth’s Eastern horizon.

The entire 360º of the zodiac and all the planets in it will pass over the Eastern horizon and “rise” within the course of each and every day. Thus every two hours places the larger and longer moving context of generational, yearly, and monthly influences into a unique configuration – every two hours creating people who would be influenced by those factors in a significantly different way!

Still, even within two hours, not everyone or everything is identical. This is the “sub-atomic” realm of astrology – the fine (and extremely crucial!) divisions of the zodiac which are smaller than the commonly understood “astrological building-block” of a sign:

The “hora” (which is the source of our clock’s 24 hours) creates a unique situation from hour to hour. The drekkan does so again every 40 minutes. Smaller and smaller divisions proceed through the navamsha which changes about every 13 minute and 20 seconds! The finest division is the sashtyamsha – creating a new quirk in the astrological scenario once every 2 minutes.

Then we must enter what is equivalent to Einstein’s 4-dimensional realm of relativity: the realm of astrological time integrated with astrological space. This is the domain of the great dasha cycles of the planets. And in this wavelike realm, each and every second of time has a new impact on how the future unfolds!

- Vic DiCara

www.vicdicara.com

Three Spheres of the Astrological Universe

The three most fundamental components of astrology are the planets, the zodiac signs, and the houses.

Envision in your mind three spheres… contained within one another, like those russian dolls?

The middle sphere is the planets. It is actually made up of 9 onion like layers which each moves independently - rotating, spinning, each at a different speed.

Then envision the outermost sphere… divided into 12 sections – the 12 zodiac signs.
It’s not moving at all. It’s fixed, standing perfectly still while all the and the planets are rotating and spinning in respect to it.

Finally, imagine the innermost sphere: The 12 houses. It is spinning, spinning fastest of all.

These three spheres are interconnected, all held together with a wire linking them to the unmoving outer sphere of the zodiac stars. Imagine yourself descending feet first into this scenario, descending towards the inner sphere.

As soon as your feet touch that sphere everything changes! The force of your feet stops it’s rotation like fingers stopping a spinning top. All the force of that rotation transfers to the outer two spheres, which now appear to both be moving fast above your head as you look up at them from your place on the inner sphere.

This is the astrological universe. You are standing on the Earth. She is spinning and rotating very fast, but from your vantage point she appears to be the most solid and steady thing in the world. You gaze up at the sky and see the onion layers of the second sphere moving above you – the Sun and Moon rising and setting day after day – and all the other planets and stars too (the third sphere), all spinning through the sky above you day after day.

If you look carefully and take notes, you will notice that the second sphere of planets is moving slowly in respect to the third sphere of all the rest of the stars. The onion layer holding the Moon is the fastest of all these, and you can notice her movement through the zodiac stars on a daily basis.

This is what an astrological chart shows you. The zodiac signs are the 12 sections of the outer sphere of the stars. The 9 planets from the second sphere are all mapped to their locations in respect to those stars. The Moon may be in Taurus, for example. Mars in Cancer. Saturn in Aries, etc. But furthermore, both of those spheres – the planets and the stars of the signs themselves – are rising and setting every single day and thus moving through the 12 houses of the chart. So that at one point in the day the Taurus moon rises in the easternmost “1st House”, while at another point in the day it sets in the westernmost “7th house” – and visits all points in between on the way.

This is the astrological universe!

- Vic DiCara

www.vicdicara.com

Why I Sometimes Hate Vedic Astrology

Because sometimes, no actually most of the time, the people who practice Vedic astrology are just… well… boring at best, bleak most of the time, and downright depressing often.

Time and time again, I have people come to me saying something along the lines of, “wow, I never knew I had any real hope in my chart. Every pundit who ever read my horoscope told me I would always be miserable and destitute.”

Each time I hear this I shudder. I don’t usually hear this from my Western clients – because they usually have not dealt with really Indian Vedic Astrologers before coming to me.

Why?

Presumably Vedic Astrology should be at its best, in its most authentic setting  - in India, practiced by Indians. So why is it so often so boring, bleak, and even depressing???

I think there is an almost valid reason.

Astrology as a Hard Science

Vedic Astrology differs from modern Western Astrology in that the Vedic system is very, very mathematically oriented, very fact oriented. It has always has been and still is culturally treated as a bonafide “hard science.”

Indian culture conceives of astrology in much the same way as we in the west conceive of astronomy and physics. Indian astrologers are primarily scientists. They are not the healers or shamins or whathaveyou who make up the bulk of Western astrologers.

Scientists are not famous for being sensitive to emotional subtleties.

And theres something else which compounds this situation: the differing cultural application.

Astrology as a Practical Governance

Traditionally (at least), Indians use astrology in a very different scope than how Western cultures have come to use it. In India people conceive of Astrology as a very practical thing governing the minute facts of daily life in an objective way. Astrology creates their calendar, runs their clock, sets holidays, governs religious observances, divines the nature of politics & wars, predicting the birth of a great saint or leader, etc. The most personal it traditionally gets is a relatively rough estimate of marriage compatibility – expressed only as a cold and objective numeric sum with little if any explanation or leeway of interpretation. When astrology was used for people in traditional India it was not for you or me, but for royalty. And even then, it did not have much psychological focus, but was mainly used to foretell the sequence and timing of major events in the lives of royalty.

Contrast this with the way we want to use astrology in the west, or just in the modern world as a whole! It is very different. Astrology today is mainly asked to evaluate and assist with our psychology, emotions, and personal growth.

The vast majority of Vedic astrologers in India are simply not trained for this type of application, are probably not personally well suited towards it, and infact are trained in ways which make them more or less disqualified to function well in this subjective, soft, and therapeutic role. They are scientists, physicists, and medical doctors called in to help a child deal with the trauma of having an emotionally abusive parent.

They are very smart.

They are excellent at what they do.

They know an amazing amount of amazing things.

But they basically suck as therapists.

Result: “I Prefer Western Astrology, thanks”

Vedic astrology is really vastly, vastly, vastly superior to the other schools of astrology as they exist today in their scattered and diluted remnants. But despite the glory of that towering fact, still – if you go to most communities in most parts of the world, people are turned off to it.

They say, “I prefer Western Astrology.” Trying to be liberal they add, “Maybe it’s because I am a Westerner?” But they can’t get past the fact that nothing about what they have seen from Vedic Astrology strikes them as even half as helpful as what they get from Western Astrology.

Why?

Well for probably 60% of them, they haven’t really even been exposed to real Vedic Astrology – just some freebie website chart or some do-it-yourself hobbyist. But for the rest, it’s because of what I identified above – the astrology is great, but the astrologer they encountered was just not qualified. I don’t mean they don’t know their stuff, and know it damn good. I mean they were not qualified to connect with the person on a level that was emotionally helpful to them.

Hope on the Western Horizon?

Here’s an idea with a promising ring to it: Westerners becoming Vedic Astrologers. They have the subjectivity and sensitivity and modern Western-dominated cultural background required to be appropriate councilors and advisors… but unfortunately they lack a real grounding in Vedic culture and a really deep understanding not just of the myriad formulae and laws of the Vedic Astrological Science, but more so of the greater cultural Indian experience in which those laws and formulae take on their true contextual meanings.

The end result is that there are only a few really good Vedic Astrologers suited for practicing astrology in today’s global culture.

Hope is not necessarily on the Western horizon. It is in the merging of East with West where hope lies. The world will be blessed with more and more truly great Vedic Astrologers, and Vedic Astrology will take it’s well deserved place of respect across the world, as Western people practicing Vedic techniques become more and more truly saturated in a Hindu way of breathing, eating and speaking – - – while at the same time Indian astrologers become more openly embracing of the values and needs of the modern world population.

- Vic DiCara

www.vicdicara.com

Addendum – Summary

Indian astrologers

• have a good grip on lots of Vedic concepts (all the devatas, the 4 arthas, etc. etc. etc. lots of things they culturally just understand, whereas foreigners will have to dilligantly study)
• Have a great grasp of all the scientific laws and formulae of the Vedic systems. They learned traditionally and thus memorized volumes of material.
• The DON’T have any counseling or therapy skills – so their other expertise is more or less completely lost and of little benefit to their actual personal clients.

Western (Vedic) Astrologers

• Do have a lot of psychological, therapist oriented background and skill
• But don’t really understand the underlying concepts (and thus the context) of the Vedic/Hindu/Indian world
• And are usually much less learned in terms of the sheer volume of yogas and formulae and rules they have memorized.

So, to make better astrologers for everyone – (A) the Indian astrologers need to aquire skills as personal therapists. and (B) The Western astrologers need to get a deeper understanding of the context of Vedic culture and need to pay more careful attention to the traditional rules and systems.