Thousands have taken part in a mass yoga programme
in the Indian capital, Delhi, on the first ever International Yoga Day. Security
was tight in the city with thousands of police and paramilitary deployed for
Sunday morning's event. Thousands of colourful mats were laid out on Rajpath -
King's Avenue - where the main event was held. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
addressed participants, but officials said he would not do any yoga himself. Mr
Modi, a yoga enthusiast who says he practices the ancient Indian art daily,
lobbied the United Nations to declare 21 June International Yoga Day. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33212949
Today , 21
June, the Sun enters tropical Cancer. This is an important event in mundane astrology. A chart for the ingress at Delhi has Saturn [29sc35] on the MC conjunct the
star Kornephoros [1sa18]. Beta (β) Hercules, Kornephoros, is a pale yellow star
on the right shoulder of the Kneeling Man.
A Latin
epithet for Hercules was saltator,
“leaper” and was associated with dancers, acrobats and sports champions. In our
case here it is easily related to the enthusiasts practicing Yoga in Delhi
today. Moreover, the PM Narendra Modi born 17 Sep 1950 around 12 noon also has
his radix Moon [2sa] conjunct Kornephoros so that his lobbying the UN for declaring 21 June International Yoga Day
is easily understood.
Two other
elements of the chart are relevant in the present context. Saturn on the MC is in a quincunx aspect to
Mars and Sun in the 5th. A Mars-Saturn combination gives rise to a disciplined
(Saturn) physical regimen (Mars) which
is what Yoga is essentially all about.
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