THE FINGER OF GOD

By Baris Ilhan

The world is shaken with the cartoon crisis. Because of the cartoons that satirize the prophet Muhammed, the Islamic world stood up with protests and attacks. Many countries are stirred up, people are burning the flags and the consulates. If we are to investigate the indicators of these events in the symbolism of astrology, which researches the connection between the movements of the celestial bodies in the sky and the events on the earth, first we need to look at the symbols of religion, then the representatives of cartoons, anger and fire as the triggering factors.

The representatives of religion and belief are the planet Jupiter and the sign Sagittarius. Pluto which symbolizes the dark side of the life, our own shadows, the masses, transformation, destruction and rebirth is moving at Sagittarius since 1995 and will stay there till 2009. It is no surprise that in the background of most of the different events in recent years, we see the religious factors. The ones that attrack our attention immediately are 9/11 and Turkey’s (the first Islamic country) joining the EU. These two forced the western world to learn more about Islam, after 9/11 Quran became a best-seller in USA. On the other hand, the Islamic world is fighting with the image of the Islam which is closely connected with terrorism. Eventually, towards the good or the bad, the religious beliefs are reviewed and scrutinized. Of course we can add to these, the popularization of the Eastern philosophies and people trying to become more spiritual with the help of New Age currents. At the end, inevitably, our religious views will be transformed and the religions will be reformed.

Recently, the background that I briefly summarized, is triggered by the cartoon crisis. The cartoons are represented by Venus1, the masses by Pluto, anger and fire by Mars.

In astrology there is a planetary model called The Finger of God. In this model, three planets are connected to each other by aspects. You can think of it as a long triangle or the letter “Y”. The planet at the far midpoint of the model attracts the energy and becomes a focal point. This planet is referred as the Finger of God, and the model shows fatality. We can also call it the finger of fate. In a way it symbolizes invisible tensions that can explode unexpectedly and unpreventably. Just as, the ones who caused this crises said that they couldn’t foresee this to be a huge issue. And now the events are spreading all over the world and becoming more intense.

On October 1, 2005 this finger of God was ‘perfectly’ formed in the sky by the planets Jupiter (religious beliefs), Pluto (masses) and Mars (anger and fire). In a way, a fatal web was sewn in the sky. The only planet we can’t see in this model is Venus (cartoons), that on that day Venus opposed Mars and trigged the finger of God. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten first published the 12 cartoons on Sep. 30, 2005. That is, on that day the finger of fate had pointed out these cartoons will create a crisis.

Now, we can ask why the crisis didn’t become so intense on these days. The answer is, Mars had started its retrograde motion the next day, Oct.2. The intense and violent energy of Mars had withdrawn from the outer world till December. In February, with its direct motion, Mars reached the exact degree of the finger of God and triggered the manifestation of this fate.

The astrologer Wayne Moody, who visited Turkey in December for a workshop, issued an international “red alert” in Sep. 2005, pointing out a complete Yod waxing to a high degree of perfection on Oct.1. He said “Mars stationed retrograde on the ‘unfortunate’ fixed star Zaurak and returned there when the cartoon crises burst across the globe. Now Mars is approaching the notorious ‘very unfortunate’ fixed star Algol” on Feb. 10-11.

In Turkey, besides the protests, the only violence was the homicide of the priest of a church in Trabzon. In Turkey’s chart Mars is positioned at the area which symbolizes home and country, so the anger and violence were directed inside.

One way of dealing with this crisis is using the constructive energies of the planets that formed the Finger of God. Venus is peace, Pluto is win-and-win situations, Mars is asserting your rights and Jupiter is tolerance. So we can say, create win-and-win situations while asserting our rights with tolerance for peace.

Feb. 12, 2006

Published in daily newspaper Radikal 2

1 Venus=cartoons from The Rulership Book, Rex E. Bills, AFA

*My friend astrologer, AstroCartoGrapher Wayne Moody had drawn my attention to this Yod in September. Thank you Wayne.

The newspaper and Wayne’s article can be read from the links:

NEWSPAPER         WAYNE MOODY'S ARTICLE