Astrology of the Current Situation between Israel and Palestine

For some readers, particularly Jewish, traditionally, and even the metaphysically inclined, the words of the Master D.K. have often been accused as anti-semitic. This is a reactionary attitude, as it can be seen by those students who care to read his comments about races and nations in general, that he treats all with equanimity, delivering praise and criticism where due.

Disclaimer: The following essay is not intended to be anti-semitic in any form of meaning. The author sees the Jewish Race as representative of the greatest genius, yet also the some of the worst traits in humanity. They are therefore, Humanity in microcosm. When the Jewish 'problem' is solved, it will parallell many advances in the rest of Humanity in general.

Brief History of the Israeli and Palestinian Conflict

Ancient History

“The personality ray, the material form ray of the Jewish people, is the third ray. Their egoic [soul] ray is the first. Their astrological sign is Capricorn [Sun], with Virgo rising. Mercury and Virgo play a prominent part in their destiny.” (EP1-394)

Hence the Jewish Race is conditioned at a soul level by the first ray of Will or Power:

“The true first ray personality who works in response to this Shamballa influence will have the ultimate good of the group deeply enshrined in his consciousness and heart; he will think in terms of the whole and not in terms of the part. That is the thing which he will endeavour to impress upon the racial consciousness. This may lead at times to ruthlessness and cruelty if the personality of the individual is not yet controlled by soul impulse. Such cases can frequently be seen. An instance of this can be noted in the history of the Jews as found in the Old Testament [1087BC according to the Bible]. When the first ray was in control and passing through one of its rare cycles of activity we read that they butchered and slaughtered all their enemies — men, women and children, putting them to the sword. The sword is ever the symbol of the first ray force just as the pen is of the second ray influence.” (DON15-16)

Aries The Ram is a primary carrier of Ray 1 force, and that zodiacal age spanned approximately 2203 BC-43 BC. In 1087 BC, Ray One co-ruler Pluto, was in the 18^th degree of Aries. Pluto is of course the destroyer, providing a point of least resistance for Ray One soul energy - pouring through upon the unredeemed personality nature of the Jewish Race. The event to which DK refers is in the Old Testament, Samuel I, 15:1-9:

“Samuel also said unto Saul…now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass…And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah …and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.… every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.” (King James Bible)

Of course the justification was that the act was ‘God-directed’:

“Their history [Jews] is symbolic of the history of all aggressors, rationalising themselves into the belief that they are carrying out divine purpose, wresting away from people their property in a spirit of self-defense and finding some reason, adequate to them, to excuse the iniquity of their action. Palestine was taken by the Jews because it was "a land flowing with milk and honey," and the claim was made that the act was undertaken in obedience to divine command.” (EH263-4. Author’s italics)

Of course there were probably many massacres by both sides in those days. Other acts of infamy were in the day of Joshua, “Son of Nun”, (who some students of the Ageless Wisdom will recognise in another guise):

“…the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. (Joshua 6:21-2)

“And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.” (Joshua 8:23-26)

”Joshua returned to the camp at Gilgal, master of half of Palestine. He defeated the Canaanites under Jabin king of Hazor. In six years, six tribes, with thirty-one petty chiefs, were conquered.” (Smiths Bible Dictionary)

One can only be incredulous at the list of ongoing slaughters and conquests described further in Joshua 10; of course no different to many other nations in history – many have expressed this degree of ruthlessness.

Recent History (Mostly paraphrased from Britannica CD ROM 1998)

Israel/Zionists

The Zionist movement was based in creating a Jewish state in Palestine. It was an outgrowth of hundreds of years of nationalist sentiments about returning to the ancient homeland of the Jews.

Around the 16^th and 17^th centuries some Jewish leaders urged return to the homeland, yet in the 18^th century the Jewish Haskala urged assimilation into European culture. Eventually, because of a rising anti-semitism in Europe and Russia, Haskala died out. Paradoxically, Haskala’s values on the study of Jewish history and Hebrew language merged with Zionism, a movement at the opposite end of the spectrum.

At the end of the 19^th century, assimilation was regarded by some Zionists as most desirable, but because of anti-semitism, impossible to achieve. Hence Jews could only lead normal lives if they all lived in one land, and in 1882 the first Zionist settlement was established in Palestine.

There followed the convening in 1897 of the first Zionist Congress at Basel, Switzerland, whose stated intention was “to create for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law." Some of the most powerful Zionists were based in Austria and Germany, the base of the future persecutors of the Jews en masse.

Request for Palestinian autonomy was eventually found in Great Britain, who in 1903 offered them a large tract of land in Uganda which was refused by the Zionists.

Gradually, as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and associated Jewish represssion, many Russian Jews emigrated as pioneers to Palestine. The population of emigrants built up gradually, until by 1914 there were 90,000 Jews in Palestine.

Then Zionist leadership passed to two Russian Jew leaders living in England, who in 1917 were instrumental in securing the Balfour Declaration from Great Britain. It promised support for a Jewish state in Palestine and made it into Britain's League of Nations mandate over Palestine in 1922.

Zionists continued to build up Jewish settlements in Palestine, consolidating Jewish cultural life, and by 1925 the Jewish population in Palestine was around 108,000. By 1933 it had risen to about 238,000, about one fifth of the Palestine population. With the rise of the Nazis in the 1930’s, Jewish immigration increased ever more so, right up into the early 40’s, the start of the Holocaust in Europe.

The Arabs

The Arabs never wanted a Jewish state and vehemently opposed it from the start. They all voted against partition and wanted Palestine to achieve independence and autonomy as an Arab state.

There were several Arab revolts in 1929 and 1936-39. When the State of Israel was declared on May 14 1948, several Arab states attacked Israel, but were beaten in a few months. Israel ended up with 50% more land than it had been allocated by the UN, and the 800,000 Arabs who were driven out by the Israelis became known as Palestinians. As a result, Israel has been surrounded by hostile Arab nations and terrorist groups ever since.

Britain, the United States and the United Nations bear much of the responsibility for the formation of Israel just after World War II.

Britain

“After World War I, Palestine was administered by Great Britain under a mandate of the League of Nations; the mandate incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which obligated the British government to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine (west of the Jordan River). Britain governed Palestine until 1948; its administration, however, satisfied neither the majority Arabs nor a growing population of Jewish immigrants.

Weakened by World War II and eager to decrease its military expenditures, Britain referred the Palestine question to the United Nations. On Nov. 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted a recommendation for the establishment of two separate Arab and Jewish states in Palestine. Soon after, civil war broke out in Palestine between Arabs and Jews. On May 14, 1948, shortly after the last British officials had left the region, the State of Israel was proclaimed.” (Britannica)

Because the main goal of British policy (post WW2) was to secure strategic interests, cooperation of Arab states was considered essential, hence Britain opposed Jewish immigration and the foundation of an independent Jewish state in Palestine. There was also a lot of anti-semitism in Britain, which influenced government decisions, and the same situation existed in the USA at the time.

Exhaustion from its WWII victory was the most likely reason that Great Britain was unwilling to implement a policy that was not acceptable to both sides and its refusal to share the administration of Palestine during the transitional period. Hence Britain referred the question to the U.N., and set May 15, 1948, as the date for ending its mandate.

United States

The U.S. basically supported the British, however President Truman was determined that Jews dislocated by the war were allowed to enter Palestine. In 1948 the British mandate (of 1917) collapsed, no doubt under extreme pressure from American Zionists.

In 1945, through Foreign Secretary Bevin, the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended that Jewish immigration continue at a monthly rate above previous recommendations. At the same time thousands of unauthorised refugee immigrants gained entry, much with the assistance of the terrorist underground forces of the Zionists – the Irgun. Their actions culminated in 1945 with the blowing up of the King David Hotel in which 91 lives were lost, many of them British.

Of course there was an urgency and a need for security without persecution, that pushed the Jewish immigration, fuelled by the recent Holocaust in Europe.

Although America favoured emigration into Palestine of the Jews, she did not want to receive any more Jews to her shores at the time of the suggested Palestine partition. There was also much anti-semitic sentiment in USA, as in Britain after WW2, despite large scale sympathy for the Holocaust victims. This seems to be a major factor which could have turned attitudes of other nations into also receiving Jewish emigrants, and therefore bypassing the need for a Jewish state.

United Nations

A UN Special Committee on Palestine recommended the partition of the country into an Arab and a Jewish state, and a two-thirds majority was adopted by the UN General Assembly on Nov. 29, 1947. The decision came about because of partition agreement between super powers United States and the Soviet Union, but also because of pressure on some small countries by Zionist sympathizers in the United States.

The United Nations was a young organisation at the time and made some fundamental mistakes of admitting totalitarian regimes such as Russia.

Commentary by the Master DK on the Jewish situation in 1949

“Today the Jewish people are engineering trouble, and it is interesting to note that the main contention … today of the Jews, is territory, thus evidencing a most distorted sense of values…They were also, during the years immediately following the war, under the control of a glamour imposed by the Zionist Dictators, who were attempting (somewhat unsuccessfully) to be to the Jewish people what Stalin and his group, and Hitler and his gang, have been to their people.

They worked through the same methods—terrorising, withholding information, browbeating their opponents, making false claims and bribing and corrupting. They were and are a minority, but a powerful minority because of their great wealth and their being in positions of power.

They are claiming a land to which they have no possible right and which the Jews have ignored for two thousand years. Their attitude is perhaps the culminating aggressive action of the age and marks a climaxing point; it has produced a serious world tension, but out of this good may come and a "point of emergence for mankind" be reached. The issue of aggression can be more clearly seen because of their activities.

Very few lands today are in the possession of their original inhabitants, and if restoration is made to all original inhabitants (which is not possible) an impossible situation would be brought about just as legitimate as the Zionist position. If the Zionist claims are to be considered (and they have been) they in their turn should realise that (if The Old Testament is to be believed) they originally took the land of Palestine away from its original owners nearly three thousand years ago, at the point of the sword and through an unprovoked aggression.

I have enlarged thus upon the Jewish conflict because it is the symbol of all past conflicts in human history, based upon universal selfishness and the greed of undeveloped humanity, and because the crucial test of the nations and of the United Nations Assembly is to be found in the decisions which they made and may make concerning Palestine.

The test, as far as the nations are concerned, lies in their willingness to give refuge to the Jews, and such a refuge would have been offered if the partitioning of Palestine had been refused. The unwillingness of the nations to admit the Jews (though many have willingly offered), and particularly the refusal of the United States to admit them, is separative, wrong and based upon political expediency. The test, as far as the United Nations is concerned, was whether they would endorse partition, and thus perpetuate the spirit of aggression and territorial greed, against which the Forces of Light were arrayed in the last war.

The United Nations has already made a major mistake by their original admittance of Russia—a totalitarian power, as was Germany—to their councils. Now they have made another. In the first mistake they precipitated into the United Nations the element of conflict and that spirit of "fanatical imposition" which is distinctive of the totalitarian ideology; in this second case, through the endorsement of partition, they perpetuate the ancient technique of taking what is wanted (with force of arms, if necessary) from the rightful owners.

It was a test for the United States, for it is the American Jews who have created the situation, with relatively little help or endorsement from the Jews of other nations. The United States, urged by expediency, by the financial weight of the Zionists, and by the strategic position of Palestine, have thrown the weight of their influence into the conflict on the side of aggression and of territorial theft. They could have worked for the Principle of Harmony and permitted time and the non-separativeness of the nations to adjust and solve the Jewish problem.

This conflict which the Zionists have precipitated is basic and useful. It constitutes a test case, being based upon physical plane aggression, being fought with the most violent emotional disturbance and being founded upon completely illogical premises. The Jew has ever been (could he but usefully remember it) the symbol of humanity—evolving, seeking, restless, materialistic, separative and greedy. He is the symbol of the mass consciousness, presenting this consciousness in an exaggerated form; he is ever seeking and searching a home and is the true Prodigal Son of The New Testament.

Curiously enough, the Jews have never been a fighting race since the time of the sorry story of the conquest of the early tribes in Palestine; they have been persecuted and repudiated down the centuries, but have retaliated simply by moving on—the wandering Jew seeking a home, wandering humanity, saying always, "I must arise and go to my Father."

The motive given to the Prodigal Son in the Gospel story is a strictly material one, and we have here an outstanding instance of the prophetic knowledge of the Christ.” (RI634-6)

Phillip Lindsay © April 2002

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Astrology of the Situation
between Israel and Palestine April 2002

Disputes over land, borders and territories is particularly the province of the sign of acquisitive Taurus. Taurus is prominent in the charts of some of the main protagonists:

Israel is a Taurus sun and both Ariel Sharon and Yassah Arafat have Taurus moons very close to the degree of the Israel sun. Sharon’s progressed Sun is closing to an exact conjunction with Arafat’s moon over the next two years. The Palestine Autonomy chart of 1994 is a Taurus sun and the progressed Sun is within a degree of Arafat’s moon.

The Taurean influence also seems to hearken back to the Age of Taurus from approximately 4,000 to 2,000 BC:

"… the sin of the children of Israel in the wilderness was their reverting to a dispensation and religious ritual which had passed and gone (the religion of the people in the time of Taurus, the Bull, symbolised by their falling down and worshipping the golden calf)” (RI534)

It is said that the Jew is a ‘symbol of mass consciousness’, and with the disputes over territories, certainly demonstrates Taurus at the mutable cross stage of expression.

The polar opposite expression in Scorpio is generically at a mutable cross level, with constant revenge by both sides, an ‘eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ attitude.

When will the darkness of the Scorpio experience give way to the illumination of Taurus? When will the Love-Wisdom impress of the fixed cross bring about a ‘reversal of the wheel’ for these nations, moving them from the mutable to the fixed cross? In other words, onto the Path proper?

Libra is currently prominent in the planetary horoscope and is helping bring about that reversal. Saturn, the Law and Lord of Karma, is exalted in Libra.

The Jewish Race is collectively a symbol of mass consciousness, embodies the planetary solar plexus (EOH85), and in microcosm is the seat of the personality expression for Humanity, including all its unredeemed features, i.e. the shadow or Dweller on the Threshold. Saturn is also said to embody the planetary ‘dweller on the threshold’:

“From certain angles, Saturn can be regarded as the planetary Dweller on the Threshold, for humanity as a whole has to face that Dweller as well as the Angel of the Presence, and in so doing discover that both the Dweller and the Angel are that complex duality which is the human family.” (EA164)

Humanity has been undergoing the First Initiation en masse, ever since World Wars I & 2, where the Dweller and Angel faced off against one another in a recapitulation of the ancient Atlantean conflict. It is here too where the Jewish Race was sacrificed as a ‘karmic clearing house’. (See EA167)

“Clearing house” is a term applied to the solar plexus (which the Jewish Race embodies at a planetary level) because of a re-orientation of the life force that takes place within the personality, as a result of ‘reversal of the wheel’. The aspirant moves into an increasing heart awareness as the First Initiation is approached. This occurred to many caught up in the World Wars as the cry of human suffering brought forth a response of love and compassion.

As Humanity is being almost forced through the door of the First Initiation (kicking and screaming), the old Piscean values still hold sway.

Arafat, (Virgo sun) is besieged and experiencing Virgo’s Piscean polarity: Captivity and bondage - which he is willing to allow to lead to his own sacrifice and death. Arafat was reported as uttering repeatedly “martyr, martyr, martyr”. This is an easy thing for which he can identify, as the Moon (and Saturn) of the Palestine Autonomy chart is in Pisces opposite his Sun. Whether Arafat actually embraces the martyr role or plays up to it politically is unclear. His people certainly do and the wave of almost daily suicide bombings are seen as the only solution for a people desperate beyond measure.

The Palestinians of course have legitimate rights to their land. Contemporarily: The Arabs never wanted a Jewish state and vehemently opposed it from the start. They all voted against partition and wanted Palestine to achieve independence and autonomy as an Arab state. When the State of Israel was declared on May 14 1948, several Arab states attacked Israel, but were beaten in a few months. Israel ended up with 50% more land than it had been allocated by the UN, and the 800,000 Arabs who were driven out by the Israelis became known as Palestinians. And historically,

“[The Jews] originally took the land of Palestine away from its original owners nearly three thousand years ago, at the point of the sword and through an unprovoked aggression… They are claiming a land to which they have no possible right and which the Jews have ignored for two thousand years… through the endorsement of partition, they [the U.N.] perpetuate the ancient technique of taking what is wanted (with force of arms, if necessary) from the rightful owners.” (RI634-6)

The world is paying the price for the founding of an Israeli state 54 years ago. The current crisis has the potential to drag the world into cataclysm. Russia, France, Britain and many others all bear some responsibility in the matter:

“The test, as far as the nations are concerned, lies in their willingness to give refuge to the Jews, and such a refuge would have been offered if the partitioning of Palestine had been refused. The unwillingness of the nations to admit the Jews (though many have willingly offered), and particularly the refusal of the United States to admit them, is separative, wrong and based upon political expediency.” (RI634-6)

The United States has probably the most to answer for and hence her responsibility now in rectifying the situation:

“It [1948 UN vote] was a test for the United States, for it is the American Jews who have created the situation, with relatively little help or endorsement from the Jews of other nations. The United States, urged by expediency, by the financial weight of the Zionists, and by the strategic position of Palestine, have thrown the weight of their influence into the conflict on the side of aggression and of territorial theft.” (RI634-6)

All these processes have been accelerated since September 11^th 2001, where New York (speculatively the solar plexus of the five major planetary centres), ‘hosted’ a karmic clearing of sorts. There was a huge response of compassion and a noticable lack of reactivity and revenge which took place. This event had its reflex action in Afghanistan, but more so in the Middle East where final conflicts and resolutions will play out; the area is the major source of terrorist activity directed toward America and many terrorists’ gripes were directed toward Israel and USA.

“These Forces of Evil work through a triangle of evil, one point of which is to be found in the Zionist Movement in the United States, another in central Europe, and the third in Palestine. Palestine is no longer a Holy Land and should not be so regarded…The area of difficulty—as is well known—is the Near East and Palestine. The Jews, by their illegal and terroristic activities, have laid a foundation of great difficulty for those who are seeking to promote world peace. As a Jewish member of my Ashram pointed out (and I commend him on his soul vision), the Jews have partially again opened the door to the Forces of Evil, which worked originally through Hitler and his evil gang. The "sealing" of that door had not been successfully accomplished, and it is the part of wisdom to discover this in time.” (RI430)

The other Zionist power base referred to may be in Vienna or somewhere in Austria, as this was their stronghold in the late 1800’s. This is most ironic when we consider this area as from where both Hitler and Bismark emerged.

Let us return to the current situation and the main protagonists, and be reminded of the extraordinary synastry:

The United States has a major opportunity now (April 2002) to do something about this situation, which befits both its Aquarian soul, and Aquarian Moon in the 1776 Independence horoscope. The precise line-up of progressed Sun in Aquarius conjunct USA Moon, with transiting Uranus also conjunct, is most potent, and has the potential of lasting humanitarian assistance. Some other interesting line-ups:

The United States has ceased its procrastination (Cancer Sun square Libra Saturn), and has sent in Secretary Colin Powell (Aries Sun), and much rests upon him.

Powell’s visit was an initiative that took place on the new moon of Aries (He described his agenda as ‘taking aggressive political action’), and may have its outcome by the full moon of Taurus (Wesak).

With all the Leo placements above, pride is one theme that comes to mind, particularly in the Moon position, representing all that is unredeemed within the personality: Blind pride, arrogance, tyranny, despotism – all traits of the king who is not master of himself, as opposed to the ruler who has achieved true self-Sovereignty, and serves his subjects with humility and a magnanimous heart.

With transiting Neptune opposite these Leo points at the moment, there is a possibility of accessing its soul rulership of Leo – expressed as selfless love, compassion, vision and generosity. Leo rules the first initiation which these nations have the possibility of taking, as they go through their major testings in ‘reversing the wheel’. Yet exoterically it could quite easily manifest as deception and subterfuge by some or all parties, resulting in extreme confusion or endless wool-gathering.

Still on the Taurus theme, the Wesak full moon falls on April 27 and a chart for this time, set in Jerusalem, shows early Taurus rising with Sun on the ascendant. Sun and Moon create a T-square to aforesaid Neptune – most elevated and in the tenth house. There will be high hopes, vision and idealism, yet inherent dangers as earlier discussed. Several planets in Gemini bode well for dialogue and discussion, and trine Neptune, particularly Saturn, helping to manifest the vision of a Palestinian state in form.

Wesak Mercury is exactly on Sharon’s Moon and square to Wesak Uranus, providing a major challenge around creative and innovative dialogue. With the inertia and stubborness that Taurus sometimes exhibits, talks could be tedious and slow, with neither side backing down or seeking compromise.

As Wesak Uranus is dangerously opposite Israel’s Mars, it seems that Powell’s dialogues with Sharon may be particularly delicate. Sharon was predictably obstinate with Powell, according to CNN.com. Wesak Mercury and Sharon’s Moon are at the point of a T-square to Wesak Uranus and Israel’s Mars. Add to that transiting Uranus’s line-up with USA Moon and progressed Sun, something will have to give.

Taurus is the ‘mother of illumination’ and wisdom, the highest possible expression that can emerge from the current situation. The soul ruler of Taurus, Vulcan, if invoked, has the potential to forge a lasting peace through the creation of a new Palestinian state. A sobering reminder of the destructive force of Taurus and how it could dash any dialogue hopes, is Mars in the first atom bomb explosion chart (New Mexico): 25 Taurus 15.

As an addenda to the above, Palestinian leadership has had its infrastructure torn out and severely disabled, leaving the situation potentially even more dangerous. What can the Palestinians do now? Anything could happen: Sympathetic Arab states could back Palestine in a war, anti-semitism is running high in Europe, and the USA still has much to play out.

The energy of Ray One is increasing, more in its destructive and forceful expression, as the world witnesses the ongoing rise of facism in Europe, most recently France.

The Shamballa force will probably pour through the Taurus full moon of 2002 very strongly, creating great potential for large scale change.

Phillip Lindsay © April 2002

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