The Miracle of the Sun, or the Miracle of Fatima, and Astrological Correlations
Most have some familiarity with this remarkable story but I want to revisit it with the aid of the symbols for the degrees of the zodiac I use daily in the Cosmic Piper forecast-meditations. The synchronicity is truly remarkable, a miracle on top of a miracle!
There are multiple sources and books about the Fatima miracle. I was reminded of all of it by a current Netflix show titled simply Fatima. It presents pretty clearly what most of the accounts present, though with perhaps some overdramatization of the criticism and cruelty the children faced. (Or perhaps not; people can be mean-spirited.)
In the spring of 1917, while the First World War, or Great War, was going on---horrendous in its barbarity and cruelty---three young children in Portugal, shepherds living near Fatima, reported seeing a vision of an Angel, and then on May 13 of a Lady whom they took to be the Lady of the Rosary, or the Virgin Mary herself, later called the Lady of Fatima. Their reports gained publicity gradually.
They were told to go to the place on the 13th of every month. Then they were told in July (mainly through Lucia the eldest) that on October 13 there would be a miracle 'so that all may believe.' Of course all this was controversial, but I do not want to diverge into discussion of the secular or atheist opposition, which stretched even to the governmental level when some officials detained the children and interrogated them. The children reported that the Lady had told them to announce that prayer, and saying the Rosary, could lead to an end of the war. This was the message they were to convey.
At any rate, by October 13 the publicity had reached such a level that between 30,000 and 40,000 people came to Fatima to see what would happen.
From Wikipedia: 'According to many witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke and the Sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The Sun was then reported to have careened towards the Earth before zig-zagging back to its normal position. Witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became "suddenly and completely dry, as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling". Not all witnesses reported seeing the Sun "dance".'
Those who did authored remarkable reports: '"The sun, at one moment surrounded with scarlet flame, at another aureoled in yellow and deep purple, seemed to be in an exceedingly swift and whirling movement, at times appearing to be loosened from the sky and to be approaching the earth, strongly radiating heat."―Dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho, writing for the Catholic newspaper Ordem'
"... The silver sun, enveloped in the same gauzy grey light, was seen to whirl and turn in the circle of broken clouds ... The light turned a beautiful blue, as if it had come through the stained-glass windows of a cathedral, and spread itself over the people who knelt with outstretched hands ... people wept and prayed with uncovered heads, in the presence of a miracle they had awaited. The seconds seemed like hours, so vivid were they."―Reporter for the Lisbon newspaper O Dia
'As if like a bolt from the blue, the clouds were wrenched apart, and the sun at its zenith appeared in all its splendor. It began to revolve vertiginously on its axis, like the most magnificent firewheel that could be imagined, taking on all the colors of the rainbow and sending forth multicolored flashes of light, producing the most astounding effect. This sublime and incomparable spectacle, which was repeated three distinct times, lasted for about ten minutes. The immense multitude, overcome by the evidence of such a tremendous prodigy, threw themselves on their knees."—Dr. Manuel Formigão, a professor at the seminary at Santarém, and a priest.
"I feel incapable of describing what I saw. I looked fixedly at the sun, which seemed pale and did not hurt my eyes. Looking like a ball of snow, revolving on itself, it suddenly seemed to come down in a zig-zag, menacing the earth. Terrified, I ran and hid myself among the people, who were weeping and expecting the end of the world at any moment." —Rev. Joaquim Lourenço, describing his boyhood experience in Alburitel, eighteen kilometers from Fátima
Reading this, I felt impelled at once to see what was going on in the sky that day. According to one of the major field systems I use in the daily charts, the one which puts the moon's North Node (called Rahu by the Hindus) as the beginning of the first house, the sun was in the 10th sector, at the very top of the chart. It was exactly (within one degree) sextile Mars in Leo, the sign of the sun, in the 8th field of death or regeneration.
The symbols I use in the daily reports are based usually on three planets, the sun, Venus, and Mars, because they move by a degree or a little less or more each day and because experience has proven them to be significant. Signor Borelli's symbol for the sun's position that day is 'a man in the robe of a priest standing in the cloister beneath the light of a window.' Of course it was largely religious people who took these predictions seriously enough to be present at the event, and then they found themselves beneath the 'light' of the sun's amazingly extended 'window.' Charubel's symbol for the same degree is even more explicit: 'The sun shining brightly'! Need I say more? Charubel elaborates: 'A great man; a public character who will be noted in his day and whose presence among mankind will be considered essential.' Whatever that may mean for those born with the sun or a planet at that degree (many things for many people), on the Fatima Miracle day it meant Our Lady herself or whomever she was speaking for, as manifest in the sun's brilliant dance.
Then Mars, in Leo the sign of the sun: Borelli: 'A man running in the face of a strong wind, but making little headway. His garments fly in tatters behind him.' This may not seem complimentary, yet it describes what the thousands of spectators went through, because there was a terrible storm before a sudden calm and the sun-dance. It is dramatized well in the Netflix show titled simply Fatima. As I watched it I wondered what impelled them to press through the storm blowing into their faces. Charubel's symbol for that same degree sets forth what they finally experienced: 'A star surrounded with many rings.' Charubel says this is 'one of those suns which revolve around the great central sun' and of course our sun is one of those suns. 'Thou wilt meet with trials, but fear not, "thy bread shall be given thee and they water is sure."'
Charubel wins this day with his two symbols for the two strong astrological planets (we call the sun a planet for convenience), the sun and Mars: 'The sun brightly shining' and 'A star surrounded with many rings.' Quite remarkable. And that is why I use these symbols: They prove themselves in daily observation.
As for Venus, in early Sagittarius, it is Signor Borelli who gave the most applicable symbol: 'The Goddess of Mercy enthroned.' Obviously on October 13, 1917, this was Our Lady of the Rosary or Our Lady of Fatima. Sepharial in his interpretation gives, of course, beautiful praise to the Goddess, and the keyword Sympathy. The Goddess of Mercy is exactly how this Lady behind the miracle was viewed by those faithful and lucky enough to be there that day.
I had already, since years, noted that Venus was in that same degree on November 24, 1926, which is Sri Aurobindo's Day of Siddhi and the day that his spiritual partner, The Mother, became for all practical purposes the head of his Ashram. Their followers of course believe that she is 'The Goddess of Mercy enthroned;' in fact she often sat on a throne. Siddhi means, roughly, spiritual power, and that is the day, one might say, when both of them attained some pinnacle of assurance in their Integral Yoga done for the world more than for themselves.
I just got on my knees. The confluence of these wonderful or divine synchronicities is another example of why I remain, to the best of my limited ability,
Cosmic Piper
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