GULA, THE GREAT DOCTORESS
I am a physician, I know how to heal, I carry with me
all the herbs...
I am provided with a bag full of effective
conjurations, I carry texts
for healing, I effect cures for all...
- The Gula Hymn of Bullutsa-rabi
Fifty years ago, Luang Poh Yaai lived as a Buddhist
monk - a first for a woman in Thailand where religious authorities bar females
from the monkhood. Today some get round the ban by getting ordained abroad and
returning to live in monasteries for women. The temple of Wat Thamkrabok sits
at the foot of a sweeping, craggy outcrop in the countryside north of Bangkok.
Its courtyard is shaded by ancient trees. March 30; http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35918052
Just a week
before the news was published, an exact Jupiter-Saturn square took place. Saturn has just stationed retrograde in Sagittarius - a sign associated with monks and monasteries - and let us recall that retrogrades refer to the past so that we have a story that began fifty years ago. At
Bangkok, a chart for this event has a Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune-Venus T-square
significantly placed on the angles.
This last quarter Jupiter-Saturn square,
occurring now, impels movement and expansion away from societal models,
sociopolitical structures, and constructs in our personal lives that have now
become limiting and restricting to new growth.The existing constructs in our
lives simply can not support any further growth, thus we either modify those
constructs so they can allow a greater level of growth and expansion, or we
dismantle those constructs all together.[1]
The following
extract from the essay Saturn square
Neptune: sweet illusion meets cold hard reality explains the dynamics of a
Saturn-Neptune square and how it is relevant to our news.
Those who’ve been indulging heavily in
Neptune’s lower aspect, turning their backs on reality and escaping into
television, alcohol, drugs or other forms of denial, are likely to be
hit especially hard by Saturn square Neptune. This is because we use these
things as a means of putting off the inevitable painful realisation and the
longer we avoid facing up to reality the harder we will be hit in the end.
On the plus side, Saturn can provide the
focus and stamina that is necessary to turn dreams into reality and can guide
you towards those goals that have real potential. In the end, although Saturn
can seem harsh at times, he’s there to show you the best way to move forward
and succeed in your life. Saturn square Neptune will also bring discernment and
the ability to differentiate truth from lies [2].
In addition,
Jupiter in Virgo also resonates to theme of discipline and self-improvement. As
this extract from the essay Jupiter in
Virgo/Saturn in Sagittarius- Detox explains.
Jupiter’s mission for us in Virgo is to help
us recover. Work with him and be rehabilitated. You will not lose the person
you have built for yourself in the crucible of the Cardinal Crisis, at least
not at your core, but you will find it much easier to rejoin society. Your
worst habits will be smoothed out, and the best parts of you will find ways to
grow. In short, you will feel human again after this is over. Saturn’s mission
is your liberation[3].
Finally, we
notice that Venus and Neptune on the descendant are conjunct stars of Aquarius.
On very ancient Mesopotamian kudurru (boundary stones carved with constellation
figures) the area we know as Aquarius, the Water Pourer shows instead a seated
goddess with a crouching dog: this was Earth Goddess Gula, “The Great
Doctoress”, daughter of Anu, God of Heaven. Gula was “Great One” or “Great
Female Physician” who could preserve the health of the body and remove sickness
and disease with the touch of her hand.
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