Eclipse Surpanakha will be seen throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, India and Australia. The lunar event occurs in the sign of Gemini, an air sign, which indicates a likelihood of headlines announcing a higher occurrence of air disasters than usual. Since eclipses “electrify” the atmosphere with tension, disasters can erupt at any point during the cycle and for weeks following it. As an example of this, the nakshatra (zodiac sign) sullied by an eclipse is generally forbidden for yagnas (ritual) for an entire year following an eclipse. From the worldview, fighting and wars will intensify in the atmosphere of increased hostility, and there might be an instance of air piracy or hijacking. Armed conflicts will spark at higher altitudes, in mountainous regions, such as along the Hindu Kush ranges of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Communications networks will be upset as the Web goes down here and there. Disastrous fires and freak accidents will grab the headlines. Incidents of savage “serial killers” roaming the streets in American cities will increase, along with gangland activities. Mob violence will rise in places like Africa or Indonesia. Windstorms may strike at random. Conflicts involving armed “liberation” movements for places you’ve never heard of will spring to prominence for a short time.
Eclipse Jagai—Solar Eclipse in Capricorn Jan. 15, 2010 Makara Sankranti, the day that the Sun turns from his southern course and heads north occurs on Jan. 14. Makara translates as Capricorn. Sankranti means “change” or even “revolution.” Thus, Makara Sankranti is the date when the Sun “changes” from Sagittarius and moves into Capricorn, as well as also turning north. By Vedic wisdom, an eclipse at this time is not a welcome augury. This year, when the Sun is barely one degree into Capricorn, there will be an annular solar eclipse in Capricorn. One degree means the distance the Sun travels in one day, so the eclipse occurs the day after Makara Sankranti. This eclipse of the Sun, called Eclipse Jagai, will be visible throughout Asia. Capricorn is ruled by the greater malefic, Saturn or Shanideva. This year, Saturn (in the sign of Virgo) actually stops moving in the heavens from Jan. 9 until Jan. 19. Hence, Saturn or Shanideva, the planet of karmic retribution and sweeping social changes, will also be stopped dead in his tracks at the time of sankranti and the eclipse. Saturn will be just sitting above pouring the results of past accumulative misdeeds upon the great nations of the Earth. And Capricorn is a co-ruler of India and the sign under which America was founded. India’s primary sign is Virgo, where Saturn sits in judgment. So the picture that emerges from the scene is not a rosy one for either America or India. Regarding America, it should not be forgotten that this “friend of the world” was founded on war. Neither have the unmitigated sins of the country’s savage beginnings been expiated. America’s karmic visitation is overdue. Since America has grown from atop the slain bodies of the land’s original inhabitants—the slaughtered “Indians” who taught British “pilgrims” how to grow crops and live in their new “free world”—war has been the fuel that has kept “the land of the free” running for hundreds of years. Considering themselves as free in a fool’s paradise, American slaves to debt sit in huge traffic jams on the way to work. There, they sit hypnotized by six-speaker stereos to pay off the interest to the banks for the very cars they are locked inside. What happens when those banks—and even the companies that made those fancy cars—go bankrupt? We are sure to find out more after the two forthcoming eclipses, with the continuing domino effect of corporations and banks becoming swallowed by larger ones in a vicious cycle of ongoing corporate bankruptcy. Eclipses are times when the real leaders of the Earth, the demonic elements that operate behind the scenes, emerge from their smokescreens. With ever grander schemes to increase their endless wars and create more global subservience to artificial financial strategies, they offer ever-fresh promises of economic security in a rehearsed stage-play of pretended compassion for the common Earth Odyssey • www.EarthOdysseyOnline.com
Photo courtesy NASA The Hinode satellite observing our sun captured images of the moon traversing the face of the sun during a solar eclipse. American. A generation ago Shrila Prabhupada warned, “It is not democracy, but demon-crazy.” And it is worse now, much worse. America and India are not the only places on Earth that will suffer the ravages of Eclipse Jagai with Saturn stalled like a million-ton lead weight overhead. Saturn is the planet of the people. Rioting mass movements that seek to topple Third World governments in Africa and Asia will face harsh opposition. India can look forward to tribal rebellions and the border areas will grow increasingly tense. Random acts of terror will again raise their ugly visage in the “free world” and many police forces will be sent into high alert against clandestine plotters. Governments, informed about the terrible situations at hand, will continue to sing soft lullabies to their subservient masses through their deputies in the news media, though the public is buying their sanitized stories less and less. In any battle there are losers and winners and eclipses can have a bright side, too, though we should always keep in mind the dangers they foretell, protecting ourselves by remaining karma-free and transcendental. January 2010 • Page 23