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Taurus 2017
North Korea.
Taurus Keynote
“I see and when the Eye is opened, all is light.”
“The Word of the Soul is, “I see and when the Eye is opened, all is light.” The eye of the cosmic Bull of God
is open and from it light pours radiantly forth upon the sons of men. The eye of vision of the individual
man must likewise open in response to this cosmic light.”1
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“Do you really believe, and can you stand practically by that belief, that the Buddha on that day [Wesak],
in cooperation with the Christ, and with the Hierarchy of Illumined Minds, plus the proffered aid of some of
the Thrones, Principalities and Powers of Light [Archangels], Who are the higher correspondence of the
powers of darkness – stand waiting to carry out God’s plans, when given the right and the permission of
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men?”
They gather to receive, literally, the “Word of God”, the new impulse that was released in Aries – and
transmit the annually amended Planetary Plan to Humanity – via their various subjective ashrams of
workers. All this is planned according to ray and astrological cycles, the constantly changing state of the
world, and co-operation with humanity who must be free to determine their own destiny.
The opportunity at any full moon festival is to link and work subjectively in meditation with other co-
workers and groups around the planet. This takes place over five days – 2.5 days either side of the exact
full moon time, but for most participants, the 24-hour period before the exact time is the most potent
period to make a contribution – if not the exact hour.
Wesak is important because it is the only time of the year that the Buddha re-connects with this planet,
almost liberated from his responsibilities here, but still serving an important role in this transition phase
between the zodiacal ages and the rootraces. As the two main groups of Earth Chain and Moon Chain
humanity further integrate, the Buddha’s role will be taken over by his close brother The Christ, marking a
momentous event in planetary history that will have reverberations throughout the solar system.
In the undeveloped individual, Taurus is ruled by selfish desire but with some aspiration, living by the
“light of the earth” – in the sacral centre and the solar plexus, the seat of the astral or desire body. Taurus
ruler Venus is seen here in its more well-known astral expression – ruling sex, desire for food, pleasure,
sensuality, comfort and emotional “love”.
All these desires are still present and expressed in the advanced stage of the disciple or initiate, but
instead of indulging them, there is a gradual relinquishment, to enjoy them as part of the human
experience, but not be used by them.
“Venus connotes in our minds, even if we have only a glimmer of occult truth, that which is mental, that
which concerns final sublimation, that which deals with sex and that which must work out into symbolic
expression upon the physical plane. These are the major concepts which enter our minds when Venus and
Taurus are considered in unison.”4
“Taurus, the up-turned horns of the Bull with the circle below,
depicting the push of man, the Bull of God, towards the goal of illumination and the emergence of the soul
from bondage with the two horns (duality) protecting the “eye of light” in the centre of the Bull’s forehead;
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this is “the single eye” of the New Testament which makes the “whole body to be full of light”.
In Taurus—Desire is transmuted into aspiration, darkness gives place to light and illumination, the eye of
the Bull is opened which is the spiritual third eye, or the “single eye”.6
“The light from the eye of the bull guides the soul
through ongoing revelations and it is constructed by the
aspirant, having a correspondence to the concrete
mind, “with its capacity to interpret environment and
experience … It exists in etheric matter and can also
act as a lens or a light-gatherer from the inner and
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higher worlds”.
Yes, our “sorrowful” planet – ever more so if Humanity does not rise to the occasion to address all the
planetary ills it has created. Taurus, as an earth sign with the moon exalted, is Mother Earth – and she is
currently in a sick and sorry state.
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Age
Taurus is a sign of spiritual illumination and also a sign of
power – through its esoteric ruler Vulcan, co-ruler of the first
ray of will or power. As mentioned in other newsletters,
dictators like Hitler and Saddam Hussein had Taurus
prominent in their horoscopes.
Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Forging the Sword Nibelung. (Nicholas Roerich, 1941.)
“The mineral kingdom is governed astrologically by Taurus, and there is a symbolic relation between the
“eye” in the head of the Bull, the third eye, the light in the head, and the diamond. The consciousness of
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the Buddha has been called the “diamond-eye.””
Oppenheimer was a typical Gemini rising – tall, thin, intense and a chain-smoker. Gemini was also his soul
purpose, which meant developing skills in connecting with people and being a communicator. Gemini’s are
often multi-linguists, and at the age of 24 he visited the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where he
impressed by giving lectures in Dutch, despite being a native New Yorker, having little experience with the
language.
The other synthesising factor with Gemini and Oppenheimer’s soul success was that he “brought together
intellectuals at the height of their powers and from a variety of disciplines – to answer the most pertinent
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questions of the age.” In 1933 at the age of 29, he learned Sanskrit whilst going through his Saturn
return, indicating past deep affiliations with the Hindu civilisation and traditions:
This intuition was developed through Venus, the esoteric ruler of his Gemini rising soul purpose, arguably
the most important planet in his chart. Venus is placed in Aries,
“The power of Venus [mind] is lessened in this sign … when the Sun is exalted [in Aries] and blazes forth
in all its glory, the other lesser luminaries fade out. Just as the personality is lost sight of in the light of
the soul, the solar Angel, so the soul itself disappears and its power and radiance fade out when the
Presence, which it has hitherto veiled, appears and dominates the scene … Mind gives place to intuition
and reason to pure perception.”16
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Aiding the power of Venus in Aries, is its close conjunction to Jupiter, the planet of expansive Love-
Wisdom, reflecting Oppenheimer’s diverse and pioneering efforts in so many fields – like the countless
progeny that Zeus-Jupiter produces in Greek mythology. His Jupiter-Venus conjunction also reflects a
generous nature:
“When his father died in 1937 leaving $392,602 [a huge fortune in those days] to be divided between
Oppenheimer and his brother Frank, Oppenheimer immediately wrote out a will leaving his estate to the
University of California for graduate scholarships.”17
With Neptune rising in Cancer close to his Gemini ascendant, Oppenheimer was a dreamer, mystic and
visionary – inhabiting a “mystical realm of broad intuition”. Through his life’s work and the development of
the intuition, his “bull’s eye” undoubtedly developed a high function.
At the age of 22 he met some of the best minds in Europe while studying
at the University of Göttingen one of the world’s leading centers for
theoretical physics. He made friends with others such as Enrico Fermi
and Edward Teller. He was known then for being too enthusiastic in
discussion, to the point of taking over seminar sessions – a classic
Sagittarian trait – he had Uranus in Sagittarius opposite his ever-curious
Gemini rising.
Uranus is also trine to his Sun in Taurus, so he was very much a Uranian
personality, an “eccentric” scientist, of advanced intelligence. Uranus
rules Aquarius and both planet and sign are connected to exoteric
science, where the hidden side of nature is penetrated by the scientific
mind. Oppenheimer also had Saturn in Aquarius in the ninth house of
academic authority, greatly reflecting his interest (and karma) in
science.
Oppenheimer at 26 with “big hair”!
(His intuition antennae?)
Saturn is also square to his Mercury in Taurus – a mental point of
tension from which he worked in that lifetime; it probably caused him
much frustration at times and may have also contributed to his depression and his intesnity. His spiritual
brother Einstein (See Pisces 2017 newsletter) with whom he met and worked, had the Mercury-Saturn
conjunction, far more harmonious than the Mercury-Saturn square.
Oppenheimer did important research in theoretical astronomy related to general relativity and nuclear
theory, nuclear physics, astro-physics, spectroscopy, quantum field theory and electrodynamics. His work
predicted many later finds, which include the neutron, meson and neutron star and black holes.18
His work on gravitational collapse concerning neutron stars and black holes was considered by some
physicists and historians to be his most important contribution.
Oppenheimer considered his best work on electrons and
positrons; he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for physics three
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times, in 1945, 1951 and 1967, but never won. This latter fact
may have contributed by his “communist sympathies” that
resulted in him being watched by the FBI, and then his
outspoken political activism which developed after WWII, through
a concern for nuclear proliferation. But it was probably mainly
due to the fact that,
He did not direct from the head office. He was intellectually and
physically present at each decisive step. He was present in the
General Groves and Oppenheimer.
laboratory or in the seminar rooms, when a new effect was
measured, when a new idea was conceived. It was not that he
contributed so many ideas or suggestions; he did so sometimes, but his main influence came from
something else. It was his continuous and intense presence, which produced a sense of direct participation
in all of us; it created that unique atmosphere of enthusiasm and challenge that pervaded the place
throughout its time.”21
Here is a good example of Oppenheimer’s Saturn in Aquarius and
group organisation. In the last two critical years leading up to 1945
(when it looked like the Nazis were going to beat them to the atomic
bomb), transiting Saturn was in Gemini – trine to natal Saturn,
conjunct his progressed Sun in Gemini and conjunct his Gemini
ascendant in mid 1944. This really enabled Oppenheimer to maintain
an ubiquitous presence, stimulating also the infectious enthusiasm of
his Uranus in Sagittarius. When the first atomic test was conducted
on July 16, 1945, the Sun was conjunct Oppenheimer’s Moon in
Cancer – his “baby” had been born:
“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the
splendor of the mighty one …” Years later he would explain that another verse had also entered his
head at that time:
“The power of the incoming cosmic rays has called forth the
more easily recognised radio-activity with which modern
science is now concerned. It was three seventh ray disciples
who “interpreted” these rays to man. I refer to the Curies and
to Millikan. Being themselves on the seventh ray, they had the
necessary psychic equipment and responsiveness to enable
Marie Curie in the laboratory. them intuitively to recognise their own ray vibration in the
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mineral kingdom.”
Note the reference to the seventh ray, indicating that they may have been from a seventh ray ashram, a
combination of 7/5. The phrase, “psychic equipment and responsiveness to enable them intuitively to
recognise” – is most important, paralleling Oppenheimer’s intuition. Marie Curie was also aided by a very
sensitive Pisces moon in grand trine formation to Uranus and her Scorpio sun – a water grand trine like
Nostradamus! She had several other planets in Scorpio reflecting her ability to probe deeply into matter,
behind the veil of maya.
Note that Shamballa is the planetary head centre, from where the “will of God is directed” and which is so
prominent at the Wesak Festival during the Taurus full moon period. Indeed, the release of nuclear power
in WW2, represented the “third Shamballa impact” in the 18 million year history of Individualised
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humanity – over three rootraces.
As far as Oppenheimer being impressed – Gemini is one of the most impressionable signs of the zodiac –
and they are good at doing hilarious impressions! But watery Neptune conjunct his ascendant from the
psychic sign of Cancer is perhaps the real key for allowing himself to “become impressed”. The Tibetan
continues describing he dire world situation of that time:
The released energy would have been used first of all to bring about the complete destruction of all
opposing the forces of evil, and then it would have been prostituted to the preservation of an
increasingly materialistic and non-idealistic civilisation. Germany could not be trusted with this
power, for all her motives were … wrong …
“… the first use of this [atomic] energy has been material destruction; this was inevitable and desirable;
old forms (obstructing the good) have had to be destroyed; the wrecking and disappearance of that which
is bad and undesirable must ever precede the building of the good and desirable and the longed-for
emergence of that which is new and better.
I would call your attention to the words, “the liberation of energy.” It is liberation which is the keynote of
the new era, just as it has ever been the keynote of the spiritually oriented aspirant. This liberation has
started by the release of an aspect of matter and the freeing of some of the soul forces within the atom.
This has been, for matter itself, a great and potent initiation, paralleling those initiations which liberate or
release the souls of men.”
“It lies in the hands of the United Nations to protect this released energy from misuse [not currently
happening] and to see that its power is not prostituted to selfish ends and purely material purposes. It is a
“saving force” and has in it the potency of rebuilding, of rehabilitation and of reconstruction. Its right use
can abolish destitution, bring civilised comfort (and not useless luxury) to all upon our planet; its
expression in forms of right living, if motivated by right human relations, will produce beauty, warmth,
colour, the abolition of the present forms of disease, the withdrawal of mankind from all activities which
involve living or working underground, and will
bring to an end all human slavery, all need to
work or fight for possessions and things, and
will render possible a state of life which will
leave man free to pursue the higher aims of the
Spirit.
But, my
brothers, men will fight to prevent this; the reactionary groups in
every country will neither recognise the need for, nor desire this
new world order which the liberation of cosmic energy (even on
this initial tiny scale) can make possible; the vested interests, the
big cartels, trusts and monopolies that controlled the past few
decades, preceding this world war, will mobilise their resources
and fight to the death to prevent the extinction of their sources of
income; they will not permit, if they can help it, the passing of the
control of this illimitable power into the hands of the masses, to
whom it rightly belongs.
Recent sabre-rattling by the respective leaders of North Korea and the USA have not helped the situation,
most likely deliberately, sowing fear and doubt by threatening to nuke Japan, Australia or the USA. The
bluster is truly pathetic – from two leader/schoolkids – are we done measuring yet boys?
The US president’s contradictory comments and mental meandering are also of great concern to many
Americans; it defies logic that he became President – but of course half the nation for voted for him! Yet
the generals, the MIC, the Neoconservatives in Washington, thinktanks and lobby groups, Democrats and
Republicans alike – are all driving foreign policy in North Korea, Syria, Russia and China.
North Korea (Neville Lang rectified version.)
The exaggerations from North Korea have been going on a long time – and are down to the placement of
the moon in “exagittarius” dominating the midheaven of its natal chart. Jupiter is also placed in Sagittarius
square to its Virgo sun, creating greater distortions within its personality expression. Sun square Jupiter is
the classic “bullshit artist” as they say in Australia, puffed up with prideful boasts.
And to throw gasoline on the fire, Donald Trump’s moon in Sagittarius sits right on North Korea’s natal
Jupiter! North Korea has met its match in the realm of extremely stupid and unconstructive statements!
These two leaders might want to make the next version of the movie, Dumb and Dumber! Hence, a war of
words – boring bluster and theatre from very bad actors.
Kim Jong Un
The Sagittarian signature is borne out in Kim Jong Un’s horoscope with a stellium of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus
and Neptune all in this sign! Currently transiting Saturn is passing over his Jupiter on the second of three
hits, no doubt creating some restraint and hesitation in acting out his wild threats – which of course, come
from the state, whilst the leader acts out the tradition. This kind of grand-standing has apparently worked
for North Korea before in terms of bargaining and sanctions.
Transiting Pluto (plutonium) has also been making a trine to North Korea’s Virgo sun and continues to do
so through 2017, giving them some confidence in wielding their power, however far from nuclear capability
they may be.
North Korea has a long and complicated history with occupation by the Japanese (1910-1945) and Russia
(1945-1950). Then of course, it has a long and tumultuous history with the USA after it divided Korea in
half in 1945 and fought the North Koreans from 1950-1953.
What we are witnessing in the world at the moment, is a facing-off between the big super-powers, China,
Russia and the USA. The North Korea issues may be more of a smokescreen for the relationship between
the USA and China, in the dance of global hegemony.
North Korea does have an axe to grind with the USA. Since the massive destruction of 1950’s war, the
nation got back on its feet and a cult was created around their leaders; they are probably the most
fanatical nation on Earth today. Is North Korea a traumatised child that has been treated badly by the
family of nations? The degree of brainwashing and social control upon its inhabitants is much worse than
in the West. The chilling military parades of rockets and goose-stepping soldiers recalls the dark fanaticism
of the Nazi era.
One of the thousands of villages destroyed in North Korea Nevertheless, the following facts bring a perspective
in the 1950’s.
on the phrase “overkill”. From The Intercept, “Why
Do North Koreans Hate Us? One Reason — They
Remember the Korean War.“:
University of Chicago historian Bruce Cumings writes in his book “The Korean War: A History,” “we
carpet-bombed the north for three years with next to no concern for civilian casualties.”
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U.S. planes dropped— 635,000 tons of bombs — and napalm — 32,557 tons — more than during the
entire Pacific campaign against the Japanese during World War II.
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Air Force General Curtis LeMay – “we killed off … 20 percent of the population” .. “We went over there
and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea.”
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More than three million civilians are believed to have been killed in the fighting, the vast majority of
them in the north.
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Secretary of State Dean Rusk: United States bombed “every brick that was standing on top of another,
everything that moved.”
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Douglas … was stunned by the “misery, disease, pain and suffering, starvation” that had been
“compounded” by air strikes. U.S. warplanes, having run out of military targets, had bombed farms,
dams, factories and hospitals. “I had seen the war-battered cities of Europe,” the Supreme Court justice
confessed, “but I had not seen devastation until I had seen Korea.”
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General Douglas MacArthur’s unhinged plan to win the war against North Korea in just 10 days – he
wanted to drop “between 30 and 50 atomic bombs … strung across the neck of Manchuria” that would
have “spread behind us … a belt of radioactive cobalt.”
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Several massacres No Gun Ri massacre, in July 1950. Bodo League massacre of tens of thousands of
suspected communists – “jeeploads” of U.S. military officers were present and “supervised the
butchery.”
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Inside North Korea, according to leading Korea scholar Kathryn Weathersby, “it is still the 1950s … and
the conflict with South Korea and the United States is still going on. People in the North feel backed into
a corner and threatened.”
Yes, North Korea is a little peeved, to put it mildly! These facts put a different slant on history. Especially
as most of the Western world has been fed a diet of sanitised Korean war propaganda via the TV M.A.S.H.
mush for the past 50 years! That program started in 1972, no doubt partly as a commentary on the
Vietnam war of the time, another south-east Asian tragedy created by Western policies.
“When the war [WWII] was over, the forces of darkness were pushed
back but they were not crushed. And ever since then there has been
the possibility of a third world war that would end the whole human
experiment up to date and start us back again as an infant humanity
to begin to learn it all over again. And in 1954, it was established
subjectively and in reality that there will be no third world
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war … 1954 was a great year, a very spiritual significant year.”
Students may dispute the veracity of this statement, but there it is.
If it is true, then obviously it does not mean that workers of the light
can be complacent. Yet there are deeper implications; it means that
a major decision by the Hierarchy was taken around 1954 that would
prevent Humanity from wiping itself out. This is somewhat contrary
to the policy of Hierarchy not interfering with human free-will.
Madonna Oriflamma (Nicholas Roerich)
She holds the Banner of Peace.
Yet the decision around the year 1954 was made in those
intervening years of the atom bomb in 1945. 1954 coincided with
USA’s first hydrogen bomb test in 1952 and Russia’s in 1953, the proxy war in Korea 1950-1953) – and,
the 49-year cycle of the Decision Initiation taken by the Masters in 1952.31
The Earth has already fallen behind in its evolution since the “failure of the Moon Chain” within the Earth
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Scheme, those many billions of years ago. For evolution to fail again within this Fourth Chain would set
back Earth’s evolution even further and, hold up the evolution of the solar system as a whole.
The Earth Scheme would truly merit the label of “laggard” among its planetary brothers and sisters in the
solar system. One could speculate in Foster Bailey’s book, from how “high up” did this “decree” emanate?
Was it from the Solar Logos himself, the One who “intervened” in the Moon Chain and brought it to a
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close?
The Wesak Festival is the ideal time of year to build in group meditation a great defensive shield in subtle
matter, to prevent a nuclear catastrophe from occurring. Not as a quick short term fix, but as a
consolidation upon many previous years that are building for future years. But there is an urgency now,
perhaps even an emergency – there must be a great mustering of light-forces and a potent effort to
overcome personal inertia.
Wesak is where resides the Power of Shamballa, the true spiritual potency and purpose of this planet. We
can all connect subjectively during this great festival, to the Great Ones and our fellow workers around the
globe, in a united effort to consolidate a planetary shield – and to prepare the way for the Externalisation
of the Hierarchy from 2025 onwards.
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