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Astrology of the Rohingya Crisis



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The Rohingya people  historically also termed Arakanese Indians  are a stateless Indo-Aryan people from Rakhine State, Myanmar. An estimated 1.3 million Rohingyas are residents of Myanmar, while another 1.5 million form a diaspora, with many refugees.  The majority are Muslim while a minority are Hindu.  They are described by the United Nations in 2013 as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. UN officials and HRW have described Myanmar's persecution of the Rohingya as ethnic cleansing, while there have been warnings of an unfolding genocide.

Once bustling villages in Maungdaw, Northern Rakhine State, are now eerily-silent ghost towns, littered with animal carcasses and charred or smoldering houses. This is a result of a spate of arson incidents following an attack on Aug 25, dubbed “Black Friday” by the Myanmar government.
While the persecution of the Rohingya people is several decades old, the latest round of violence began on August 25 suspiciously close to the Solar Eclipse of August 21.





 A chart for the eclipse at Maungdaw has Neptune on the MC in a paran square with Saturn on the descendant. The geocentric waning square between Saturn-Neptune took place in 2015-16. However, the paran square at Maungdaw  at the solar eclipse has re-energized the waning square giving it a new lease of life. It is therefore important to understand what the Saturn-Neptune cycle stands for. Nick Fiorenza in his essay Sociopolitical & Personal Explorations 2016-2020 writes:

 In general, a Saturn-Neptune cycle is about the structuring of our ideologies into concretized form, whether those structures are beliefs that uphold and defend those ideologies, or physical constructs we build in our lives. It is also about the structuring of, as well as constrictions about, society's ideologies and sociopolitical orders. When Saturn and Neptune conjoin and initiate a new synodic cycle, as occurred in 1989, two primary things occur. Neptune wants to dissolve Saturn's previous constructs and segregations into universality, and Saturn wants to solidify the visions and ideals inspired by Neptune into societal structure, ideals which had been gestating from the previous cycle, in essence wanting to birth a new sociopolitical order as the cycle begins. This energetic can also accentuate resistance from long-established sociopolitical structures to any new ideologies trying to emerge. Thus, a Saturn-Neptune synthesis can still result in the formation of new religious or political dogmas, their rules and regulations, and their idealistic followings. Nonetheless, the sequence of Saturn-Neptune cycles impel a progression in society's values and ideologies, albeit a slow progression in Saturn's slow and methodical tempo, and a progression tempered by the overall level of true spiritual awareness of the masses.

In the sociopolitical arena, Saturn-Neptune cycles are about the ebb and flow of more conservative, controlling and authoritarian ideals. Our opportunity as we enter and move into the last quarter of this cycle is to first recognize that the structures we have created in our lives and the limits those structures impose are the solidification of ideologies we began to formulate starting in 1989. It impels us to begin to consciously make changes in our lives based upon realizations we have had about what did and did not work in practicality throughout the previous manifestation quarter of the cycle; i.e., from 2007 until now. The summation of these realizations may now emerge throughout this geocentric square (2015-16) as impulses arising from within self that tell us, we need to change. Simply, the structures we have built in our lives and in the world can no longer support our shifting ideologies.

About Pisces, the sign Neptune occupies on the MC, Dane Rudhyar wrote:

Pisces is an era of storms and of wholesale disintegration. But Piscean winds of destiny may impel men of vision and courage to discover many a "new world," as much as they do destroy or suffocate the many who stubbornly resist change. Pisces is an era of often sharp and violent repolarization. It is an era of purgation and cleansing.

The “purgation and cleansing” can easily become “ethnic cleansing”.  For the stars that form the backdrop to Neptune, Diana Rosenberg gives the following examples of “expressions of race and religious prejudice and terrorism”.

There are chart elements here of Jew-stalking Nazi SS Lt Col Adolph Eichmann; torturer/ murderer Captain Alfredo Aztiz, “Angel of Death” of Argentina’s Dirty War of the 1970’s – 80’s when 30,000 were killed or “disappeared”. There were transits to these stars in 1939 on Carnival Day in Lent when Dresden’s Jews blamed for the Black Death, were burned alive in Altmarck Square; in 1876 at Custer’s last stand after attacking Indian villages, Custer and his troops were annihilated by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at Little Big Horn; at the swearing-in of Adolph Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, and at establishment of Dachau Concentration camp near Munich that became an extermination camp where about 70,000 were killed, mostly in gas chambers; at the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the acquittal of brutal police officers; at the start of the 1994 Ruanda genocides, when ruling majority ethnic Hutu deliberately set out to kill of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates: hundreds of thousands were hunted down like animals and slaughtered and many others.




Finally, if  we look at the chart of Burma (4 Jan 1948; 4:20 am Rangoon) we find Neptune transiting exactly over the IC [14pi] so that the current Neptune Full Moon of September 6 aligned with the meridian axis shining a light on the genocidal killing.

The Neptune transit on the IC is accompanied by a powerful solar direction “Progressed Sun [23pi] square radix Uranus [23ge]” triggered by transit Saturn opposite Uranus. Here Uranus is conjunct the star Al Hecka [24ge]. About this star Nick Fiorenza writes:

Al Hecka, Zeta Taurus, the south horn, is of stalemates, standoffs, and brick walls—fighting old and antiquated crusades—particularly of a religious-political nature—and blindly or automatically continuing the fight out of habitual pattern even though the original purpose behind what we were fighting for is long gone. Al Hecka can express as beating one’s head against the wall, a relentless and futile pursuit. Al Hecka brings attention to when the accomplishment pursued is of a time no longer applicable—the time to surrender the physical struggle and move onward into a field of mutual cooperation.


The minority Rohingya are Muslims descendant of  Bengali migrants who began moving into the area after the late-19th-century imposition of British colonial rule. The majority group in this territory is the Rakhine people, who are Buddhists that inherited the legacy of the long-standing Kingdom of Mrauk U. The clash is therefore between two racial/religious groups and the star Al Hecka is indicating the need to get past this struggle.

[1] http://www.lunarplanner.com/Saturn-Neptune-Square/index.html#Saturn_Neptune_Square

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