A few weeks ago on this page - and in my Winter Newsletter - I wrote about Alexandra Burke, latest winner of the TV show The X- factor. The winners song for this programme was the Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah and not only has this now become the fastest selling record by a female solo artist, but it has revived sales of the original song and other cover versions of the single - notably those by the song's writer Leonard Cohen and the singer Jeff Buckley ( pictured).I'd like to say that there is some perfect correspondence with the release a song with a title which translates to Praise the Lord just before Jupiter enters the sign of Aquarius, (which, as I said in my previous post relates to the Jupiter/Uranus aspect) because JU/UR is known in astrological circles as the Thank or Praise the Lord aspect. However, the single was released before Jupiter entered Aquarius today, so it is stretching things slightly. What is more perfect correspondence is that Leonard Cohen ( 21 Sep 1934) has a natal Jupiter Uranus aspect. His art mirrors his intrinsic natal energies!
What has really caught my attention though, and what I want to point out today, is that we are currently in the opposition phase of Saturn and Uranus and, as I have repeatedly mused, major life events always seem to occur with the unfolding of our natal outer planetary aspects. So for example I have a Mars/Saturn opposition and major events always tend to occur for me whenever Mars and Saturn come to conjunction, opposition, square or to some extent any of the 8th harmonic i.e the hard aspects. I have found this 'rule' plays out for almost everyone.
Alexandra Burke was born with a Saturn/Uranus conjunction and here she has been propelled to sudden, stratospheric (Ur) fame in her career (Sa) at one of the major 8th harmonic phases - the 180 opposition, but what is even more 'proof', if proof be needed is that Jeff Buckley (17 Nov 1966) has the Saturn Uranus opposition too.
I say has the opposition but, as many of you may know Jeff drowned in 1997* so we maybe should say that he had the opposition. Actually though, this is a very unexplored area of astrology but for some reason your chart will live on after you. In other words it continues to respond to events that happen after physical life has ended. This opens up the question; Does one's birthchart inform us of all previous lives and future lives - assuming reincarnation?
I've noticed this phenomenon over the years with people like Princess Diana. Whenever a big news story was released, or a new book, or even her husband's subsequent remarriage, it has been possible to look at her chart and see the relevant transits to her natal planets, exactly as one would when looking at a chart with any person still alive.
With Jeff Buckley, whose albums are now being restocked, we find this is happening not only at the Saturn/Uranus phase but as Saturn comes to his Mars/Uranus, an aspect associated with surprising revival (although obviously, sadly, not of him physically). Additionally tr Uranus is at the 18/19 Pisces and Pluto in Cap that occurred earlier in 2008 when his recording of Hallelujah was repeatedly downloaded and topped the digital charts after being sung by Jason Castro on American Idol. To complete the interweaving, Jason also has a Saturn/Uranus conjunction and tr Saturn at 21 Virgo is presently squaring this natal 21 Sag Saturn - conjunct Uranus.
In Leonard Cohen's chart Saturn is now at the midpoint of his Sun and Venus.
So what does all this tell us? Well not a lot more than we metaphysicians already knew really, and that is that we are in a system that connects everything without the barriers of time and space. Or as the book I read over Christmas calls it, it is all part of - G.O.D. A Guiding. Organising. Designing process!
If you are interested in G.O.D., please read on to the post below.
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* Of course it is also interesting that Jupiter was last in Aquarius in 1997
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