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Astrological chart of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe, the "King of Egypt" of Holiness, the carrier of the generational messianic spark of the generation in the last half of the 20th century
This chart is the Rebbe's birth chart, born 18 April 1902 in Nikolayev, Russia. The Rebbe's birth time is reconstructed as 7:54pm by an Israeli astrologer (a different birth time would affect only some data in the interpretation such as house placements and moon degrees).
In honor of today, the anniversary of the Rebbe's passing, this chart also includes transits for 1:50 am 12 June 1994, the moment that the Rebbe transitioned to the world of spirit and is now available to all beyond the boundaries of time and space.
Some interesting things to note about the Rebbe's chart, with transits for his day of passing:
* The Rebbe's chart features a grand cross between Pluto in the 8th
house (17 Gemini), Venus in the 4th house (11 Pisces), Uranus in
Sagittarius, and the Moon in Virgo (10th house). The grand cross is a
marker of unique individuals and can also be viewed three-dimensionally
as a pyramid that creates a pathway to higher destiny if the individual
can overcome the quadrupled tensions between planetary forces that plays
out within. In the case of the Rebbe, this higher destiny involved his
work in the outside world (10th house), his roots and past (4th house),
connection to the feminine (his association with the sefira of Malchut)
and unity consciousness (Venus in Pisces), and intellectual versatility
and genius in applying ancient wisdom to the highly dynamic context of
the late 20th century (Uranus in Sagittarius), bridging old (Venus in
4th) and new (Uranus). For any individual the existence of a capacity
for change and revolution along with a deep embedding in a chain of
succession of leaders and expectations could create conflict (squares),
but with G-d's help such an individual can capitalize on the highly
discordant energies to translate the divergent forces within the soul to
the birth of something entirely new in the world outside, such as a new
movement that brought together the spirit of the age of
Aquarius/Mashiach with the deepest teachings of Kabbalah of ancient
days, without sacrificing neither an iota of piety and the fire of
authentic observance nor a thread of human sensitivity and empathic
attitude towards his fellow man and woman. Such a soul seeks not peace
but continuous growth and upliftment in oneself and in the world around
him or her.
* On the day of the Rebbe's passing, 12 June 1994,
a day of great loss for the world, when the sheep lost their shepherd,
there were two yods in the sky. A Yod is a rare astrological formation
highlighting times of a severe buildup of tension that moves a process
entirely to a different realm on which the tensions at hand can be
resolved by the birth of something new and unheard of. The yods on this
day quite interestingly were pointing at the Sun, the most important
planetary force for our world and solar system. One had Uranus in
Capricorn and Pluto in Scorpio as its base, indicating monumental
worldly fueling pernicious messianic fervor and vice versa. Yet both
these energies were quincunx with the Sun, the natural order of things,
and perhaps something needed to shift to another level, another epoch,
the Twin Sun, the Hidden Light, that which can be revealed only in the
absence of the leader and in the shattering of the light of the leader
into thousands, millions of sparks of light in the souls of all who he
had touched, all of whom become lightbearers, invigorated if by nothing
but deep remorse and longing to use the small flame inside themselves
that had been lit to illuminate further corners of darkness, which light
can so often attract and find itself painfully in. The second yod had
as its base the node or karmic destiny in Scorpio or the messianic
yearning, and Neptune in Capricorn, indicating that perhaps there was
also a personal breaking point, echoing what the Rebbe had said a decade
earlier, "I have done all I can do to bring Mashiach; now it lies in
your hands". Both of the yods pointed, or drove pressure, towards the
Rebbe's very own Pluto in Gemini, the other-worldly axis of his own
grand cross, in the 8th house of reincarnation and transitioning. It was
as if the Rebbe was being called, just as the logs of the energies he
had cultivated in this world and global events were producing enough
sparks to tilt the scales, it was time for the instigator to move from
seen to unseen, and bring the entire process to a new level.
*
At the time the Rebbe departed there was also a Grand Water Trine
between Saturn in Pisces, Jupiter in Scorpio, and Mercury in Cancer,
indicating that there was some resilient if not solid structure which
was being left behind, built from the long-standing chain of tradition
transcending time and space that would not cease, the agents of
redemption that stood ready to deploy to their next task, and the
ancient brilliance of the indwelling presence of G-d and spirit of
prophecy that no longer lay bounded in a patriarchal and hierarchical
power structure. The power of the movement now lay in the emissaries
stationed around the globe and in any man or woman who chose to
represent the Rebbe through his teachings and ideas and even dare to
introduce new teachings in the prophetic tradition that had been through
death and rebirth so many times, there was almost an indication that
with such a loss as this at such a potent time as this, the words "she
has fallen and will not rise again" would be read rather as they are in
the Zohar: she will not fall again; now, rise up
* Seeing as
the yods in the Rebbe's birth chart with passing transits point towards
the 8th house of reincarnation it could be suggested that the soul of
Mashiach which the Rebbe carried was returning to its celestial house of
study, preparing for its next incarnation. The culmination of the story
then lies in the point opposite the apex of the yod, which can be found
in the degrees between Sagittarius and Capricorn, which is the site of
the Dark Rift and the origin of the cosmos. When the world as we know it
was formed, we are told the spirit of Mashiach already existed; the
destiny of rebirth and the eternal golden age existed even before the
fall; the power of return is the power on which the world is based. In
this sense the departure of the Rebbe and his transition to the world of
the unseen was a milestone of experience for his flock that that would
culminate shortly in the realignment of the cosmos with its own birth
point, now infused with self-consciousness, now ready as an awakened
being colored by history and knowledge to experience the dream which had
eluded it as an infant creation, as it must have been: now, with da'at
(knowledge through experience), it would re-encounter the tasting of the
Tree of Life, on the eve of Sabbath, in the garden of Eden, amidst
peace and brotherhood between all Life, and the full activation and
aliveness of all human and natural faculties without any weakness or
death. Just as the Rebbe departed through the transpersonal 8th house,
the universe will realign with its own zero point.
Tonight,
Gimmel Tammuz, marks 19 years since the Rebbe's passing. Nineteen years
is a sacred number in the history of the Rebbe's lineage, and the 19th
of the month of Sagittarius (Kislev) is new year's day for the new inner
revelation of scripture that is birthed each solar year. Tonight there
are three grand water trines in the sky to celebrate the resilient flow
of prophecy that echoes in the Rebbe's chilling absence. They are led on
one side between Neptune in Pisces and Saturn in Scorpio, creating a
harmony between the inner self-direction of the soul and the authorities
that must sanction the arrival of the long-awaited age. On the other
the deep wounds of Chiron in Pisces, the absence of the leaders and the
leaderless flocks, are galvanized and alchemized into miraculous
self-healers and miracle-workers, led by the nodal scorpio, the
messianic tug within each soul which awakens in the hour of need when
the flock must heal itself and when the darkness itself must illumine,
because this is how the system was built, that no darkness could be
impenetrable, since darkness itself has always contained light, since
darkness is destined to give light, but only when it must, only when, we
are left 19 years after with no other way, with no other consolation,
other than the alchemizing of wound and loss into scars, and scars into
reseviors of self-illumination and beacons of light.
This is
the deeper meaning of the seating of the Rebbe in Brooklyn, at the gates
of Romi, the perch of the self-healer at the precipice between exile
and redemption, removing but one bandage at a time from his many wounds,
so that, if the moment comes when it is time, he will not have to
reapply the bandages all at once, but will have only one to reapply and
will thus not tarry. If we are to understand the many wounds of the
healer of the generation as the sufferings he experiences as penitence
for the generation out of his great natural love for closeness between
humanity and G-d, and the wounds of the generation as they reverberate
through the collective soul as Chiron, which holds as well the potential
for alchemizing wound into self-illumination and the drawing down of
all G-dly powers into the flesh, we see that the application of the
bandage is the discovery of the self-healing and Godly rivers within the
soul, which, once they begin to flow, are infinite and therefore ready
to heal all wounds of self and other, which are one and the same.
Because all wounds result from the disconnection between the infinite
and finite, and the reconnection of the link between the two found
through the wounds of the healer are enough to ignite the connection for
the soul of humanity as a whole. This is the importance of the soul of
each generation which has within it the blueprint of all souls, and of
the spark of each soul which is united in the collective soul. When the
darkness of the collective souls illumines, the white fire behind the
black fire of the letters of the Torah shines and the root of all people
in Torah is revealed, and new waters of the miracle of the soul, of
knowledge, of wisdom, of humanity and of creation flow down onto the
world and onto the souls of all who desire wisdom, all who have reached
the point at which such a revelation is inevitable, built into the very
structure of the universe, instigated by the removal of the last beacon
of light, and the dawning of the revelation of the great ones as never
before.
Planetary positions for today can be seen here.
