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Indian Supreme Court orders release of undertrials




The Supreme Court of India on Friday (Sept 5) said that the undertrial prisoners who have already spent in jail half of the period of the sentence they would have got if convicted for the offences they are charged with, will now be released. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha said that judicial officers of the districts will visit the jails under their jurisdiction once a week to look into such cases and order the release of such undertrial prisoners. The court said that two months' drive, starting from Oct 1, will see a sessions judge and judicial officers subordinate to him visiting the jails under their jurisdiction to examine such cases and ordering the undertrials' release. India Today, Sept 5






Long after eclipses are over and gone, they continue to affect events in our lives. This is especially true in places where eclipses or major configurations accompanying them aspect the angles. Shown here is the chart for the solar eclipse of November 3 at Delhi. Notice that the eclipse [11sc]  is square the meridian axis making it very significant for the place.

A simple technique, among others,  to find when an eclipse would manifest is to calculate when the angles of the mundane map reach an aspect to the eclipse. Here the radix mundane eclipse map has the MC square the eclipse. Progressing it to September 5, brings the Ascendant [11ge18] to an inconjunct aspect to the eclipse Sun [11sc16] triggering it into manifestation.





The eclipse [11sc16]  is conjunct the star Alphecca, alpha Corona Borealis [12sc12] which was  part of the ancient Chinese asterisms T’ien-Lao, the Celestial Prison or  T’ien-Wei, the Celestial Jail. Eta Corona Borealis (7sc18) was the door of the prison. Alpha [Alphecca]  (12sc28) was the jailer.  It was said that when all stars were clearly seen the prisons of the empire would be full, but if only seven stars were visible many would be pardoned; alpha shining bright meant many prisoners, but if it was faint many would be released [1].

Mars [11vi], the ruler of the mundane 12th house associated with prisons and also issues of human rights is sextile the eclipse [11sc]. It is  conjunct the star Zosma which Bernadette Brady associates with victimhood.

Both Mars and the eclipse form a Yod with Uranus [9ar22] . In a previous post I had explained the deeper significance of  Sabian symbol phase 10 (occupied here by Uranus). An extract from the post is reproduced below:

The earliest sources of the myth combining Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Perseus, Cetus and Pegasus are not known. A king symbolically represents leadership and responsibility to bring order to a chaotic mass here represented by the sea and the sea monster Cetus. Life and consciousness are struggling to emerge from the dangerous primal soup – the sea.  Sabian 1 degree shows a woman emerging from the sea]. Such an emergence is fraught with danger and at first susceptible to failure. Here King Cepheus  and Queen Cassiopeia represent early attempts by the ego that makes  laws to force an arbitrary order on this chaotic matrix.  Symbolically in the story this is shown by the  imprisonment of  the next  generation – Princess Andromeda – and  the possibility of her being devoured by the sea monster Cetus. This drama is played out primarily but not exclusively in the first ten degrees of tropical Aries. The Sabian symbol for 10 Aries is “A Teacher gives new symbolic forms to traditional images”. In this phase we find the capacity to restate the problem inherent in the first phase, i.e. the problem of focusing one’s energies emotional drives and cultural values which exclude more than they include. As a result there now arises in consciousness a desire to reformulate at a new level much that had been taken for granted because it indeed originally had been an evolutionary necessity. This is where Perseus and Pegasus are getting ready to rescue Andromeda from the jaws of Cetus.


Since the Sabian Symbol for Uranus is 10Ar we can now understand why the King  (the Supreme Court here) has felt a need to revise his attitude towards Andromeda (prisoners held  unjustly without trial ) 



[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.727)

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