Israel, Saturn and Pluto


Holger Stravnsbjerg

I think there is a connection between the cycles of Pluto and Saturn and the Jewish race, because Pluto transmits the first ray soul of the Jews and Saturn their third ray personality.

When Israel was formed May 14. 1948, Pluto and Saturn were in conjunction in Leo in the tenth house, with Saturn in conjunction with Dubhe, a first ray star in the Great Bear, connected with the will of the personality in its involutionary path (EA196). In 1982, when the Jews invaded Lebanon and Ariel Sharon was responsible for a massacre in a Palestinian refugee camp, Saturn and Pluto again formed a conjunction in Libra.

In 2001 Pluto is in Sagittarius in opposition to Saturn in Gemini, which has affected the peace process badly in Israel this summer.

According to Rudolf Steiner Jahve is connected with Saturn, and because Islam is a product of the old Jewish religion, Allah may have the same Rays as Jahve: Ray 3: (Saturn) and Ray 1 (Pluto and Vulcan), which is the personality and soul Rays of the Jewish people.

The Tibetan confirms the suggestion of Rudolf Steiner: "Jehovah was identified with Saturn and Vulcan". Vulcan and Pluto both transmit Ray 1 and rules the 1.initiation. (EA 675 , 70).   

Pluto, connected with the CIA, Pentagon, capitalism, terrorism and destruction in its lowest form, is from 1995 to 2009 in Sagittarius, the Sun sign of Washington. Pluto is now in the second decanate of Sagittarius connected with the collective astral body, and ruled by sixth Ray planet Mars.

When Pluto went into the second decanate in 1999, we had the Kosovo-war on Balkan. 

Mars is connected with the sixth Ray personality of USA, with New York, that perhaps is the solar plexus of the Planetary Logos, but also with Christianity, Islam and holy war.

Saturn, the strongest of the four Lords of Karma, is now 14 degrees in Gemini, the Sun sign of The United States. Saturn is also in the second decanate of Gemini, ruled by sixth Ray Mars.

The opposition between Saturn and Pluto is for all of us an encounter with karma connected with our use or misuse of power and what we have said and done concerning our personal beliefs and religious and political convictions in the past or in past lives.

This opposition strongly affect the sixth Ray personality of America, because the opposition of those two powerful planets of discipleship, takes place in Sagittarius and Gemini, two signs that rules the personality of Washington and USA.

Last time Saturn was in Gemini was in 1971-73/4, under Watergate and the end of the Vietnam war. In 1971 the planet of idealism, scandals and illusion, Neptune, went into Sagittarius, Sun sign of Washington. 

The opposition between Saturn and Pluto, connected with Mars and the astral body of Mankind, is well suited for the obstructionist forces, because they largely work on the astral plane. The opposition is also connected with our often unconscious shadow side, and negative or positive karmic results of use of power and relations with foreigners in the past. It is a perfect energy to project negative sides of ourselves unto foreigners or on people or foreign countries that has another colour, belief and political system than our own. I guess Pluto and Saturn was in opposition in the chart of the Klux Klux Klan and in the chart of the 20th century.

But it can also destroy or transform (Pluto) the old capitalistic system (Saturn and Ray 3) and the World Trade Centre in New York (3 Ray personality) was an important symbol of western capitalism.

It is a good aspect in the chart for the masters that are to take the Great Decision at the full moon in Libra this year, if they plan to change the economic system in the world. Saturn is hierarchical ruler in Libra, which reveal the monadic purpose.          

THE CHARTS OF WASHINGTON, NEW YORK AND USA

The opposition between Saturn and Pluto took place on the MC/IC axis of the horoscope of Washington from April 15. 1791, 3:15 PM.

Uranus and Pluto is another dangerous combination concerning flying and atom-bomb terrorism. Uranus was in conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius in the sixth house in the chart of Washington, when Pentagon (Pluto) was destroyed by the crashing airplane (Uranus).

Pluto was in opposition to Pluto in the chart for New York January 1, 1898. 00:00 Am, when five parts of New York were united.

At the same time the opposition between Saturn and Pluto took place on the Ascendant at 12 degree Sagittarius in the Sibly USA chart 4 July 1776 in Philadelphia, 5:10 PM. It means that Washington and USA had to face the consequences of their Middle East policy and support to the Jews and Israel for decades. 

Jupiter, that transmit the 2.Ray soul of love/wisdom of America, New York (ruled by Cancer), The West and Planetary Logos, is now in Cancer, the Ascendant of Washington.

That position gives spiritual and intuitive leaders in the capital a chance to work to solve the crisis with wisdom and understanding, and perhaps reconsider the nation’s Middle East policy. It is also a positive healing energy that can help New York and Washington to a quick regeneration.

Pluto in the personality sign of Washington, in the dangerous second decanate of Sagittarius, ruled by  sixth Ray Mars, creates a strong temptation to be very devoted to the sixth Ray personality work along the line of least resistance and to use military power impatiently (Mars and Pluto). 

The test for Washington, with Saturn on its MC, is to use the second ray soul of America to solve the present world crisis with wisdom in combination with the higher aspect of its sixth Ray personality, which is devotion and true idealism.