"the meanginful coincidence"
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One of my favorite authors, Colin Wilson, has written in his book, The Occult:
"Occult powers seem to be a matter of national temperament. Second sight and telepathy come naturally to the Irish. The Germans seem to produce more gifted astrologers than other nations. The Dutch produced two of the most gifted clairvoyants of the last century: Croiset and Hurkos. Russia tends to produce mages -- men or women who impress by their spiritual authority; no other nation has a spiritual equivalent of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Certainly no other nation has come near to producing anyone like Madame Blavatsky (1831), Gregory Rasputin or George Gurdjieff (1877). Each is completely unique."
The chart we are going to look at is that of Gregory Rasputin with regard to a particular incident described in Wilson's book.
In Russia, the profession of Holy Man or Staretz is as honorable as in India. In 1905 Rasputin, a Staretz, came to St. Petersburg, the spiritual capital of the world. Eventually, he met the Tsarina, whose youngest child, a boy, suffered from hemophilia. This condition had been passed down through his mother's line from Queen Victoria.
In 1907 the Tsarevitch bruised himself badly and Rasputin was able to stop his fever and suffering. Again in 1913, the boy slipped, disembarking from a boat, and Rasputin healed him. In 1915, the Tsarevitch was thrown against the window of a train and suffered from a nosebleed that would not stop until Grigory Rasputin was summoned and walked in to the room.
The Tsarina held Rasputin in the place of a father figure and treated him more or less like a saint. He had tremendous influence of her, naturally, because he became the only person in the world who would stop her son from suffering. (The disease is fatal and the condition was kept secret from anyone but the immediate family members.)
Now I quote again a rather long passage from Colin Wilson, but bear with me. You'll be glad you did. We are going to discover more of God's mind.
"There was one time in which Rasputin may be said to have meddled in politics. He had on two occasions strongly advised the Tsar against going to war about the Balkans, which were claimed by Austria.
In June 1914, as everyone knows, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo by a young Bosnian patriot, and as a consequence, Austria declared war on Serbia. The world's destiny was in the hands of the Tsar, for he now had to make up his mind whether to stand by Serbia and declare war on Austria, or let the Balkans solve their own problems.
This was the point where Rasputin's advice would have made all the difference between war and peace [NANCY'S NOTE: the Tsar was rather easily led -- it is now believed that he and his wife took mild narcotics regularly for "nerves"].
"Unfortunately Rasputin was not around to give advice; he had also been stabbed by a would-be assassin in his home village of Pokrovskoe, and was hovering between life and death for weeks.
"When I was writing my book on Rasputin I noted the coincidence -- that Rasputin and Archduke Ferdinand had been struck down at about the same time -- and tried to find the actual date when Rasputin had been stabbed. The accounts seemed to differ; the most reliable historian [of the times], Sir Bernard Pares, seemed to think it was on Saturday, June 26, 1914. But Maria Rasputin's book on her father states quite definitely that they all arrived at Pokrovskoe on the [sic] Saturday, and that it was the following day, Sunday, when Rasputin was stabbed. This was made even more likely by the fact that he was stabbed after he returned from church. So Rasputin was stabbed on the same day the Archduke was shot. Maria Rasputin gives the time as shortly after two in the afternoon.
"I now looked up the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He had felt certain he was going to die even before visiting Sarajevo, telling his children's tutor: "The bullet that will kill me is already on its way." Shortly after ten o'clock that morning, a homemade bomb was thrown at his open car, but the Archduke and his wife were uninjured. They attended a ceremony in the town hall, leaving half an hour later. It was on the drive back through Sarajevo, at about eleven o'clock, that Gavrilo Princip, a consumptive young student, leaned forward and fired two shots, killing the Archduke and his wife. The carriage was traveling slowly because it had taken a wrong turning, and was now turning back on to its correct route.
"Sarajevo and Pokrovskoe are, of course, on different lines of longitude, so the time in the two places differs. I set out to work out the difference. There are 50 degrees of longitude between Sarajevo and Pokrovskoe. It is a simple sum, because the earth passes through 360 degrees when it does a complete turn in twenty-four hours. That is: 180 degrees in twelve hours, 90 degrees in six hours, 45 degrees in three hours. So to turn through 50 degrees, it takes exactly three hours and twenty minutes. The Archduke Ferdinand was murdered shortly before eleven. Rasputin was stabbed at 2:15 and 10:55 in Sarajevo was exactly 2:15 in Pokrovskoe.
"The man whose death caused the First World War, and the man who could have averted the war, were struck down at the same moment. The coincidence is as extraordinary as any I have come across."
The Occult
by Colin Wilson
pp. 376-382
Rasputin recovered from this attacked and was finally assassinated two years later by Prince Felix Yusapov, a cross-dresser and very influential member of the Russian aristocracy. Though happily married, Felix was believed to be in a homosexual relationship with one of the other assassins, Dmitri, a member of the Romanoff family.
Excerpt: Felix lured him [Rasputin] to his palace with the promise of an introduction to his wife. Arriving at the door to Felix and Irina's apartments, Felix received Rasputin and then led him downstairs via a small, winding staircase which stopped at a dark basement chamber with a big stone pillar in the middle. What happened then is not clear. Felix claims they tried to poison Rasputin with rose cream cakes laced with cyanide and Madeira spiked with the same ....
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Here is Rasputin's Astrology Chart. The chart is from Lois Rodden's AstroDatabank
software program.
Rasputin's
North Node is at 16 Leo in the 10th house
opposing his Mercury at 15 degrees
His name means "Crossroads".
The members of Tsar Nicholas' family, the Tsarina, their four daughters and son all have prominent Gemini and Sagittarius energies, as do their cousin King George VI and his wife, the Queen Mum (see Royals).
Visit the Alexander Palace Time Machine to learn more about the Tsar's family. Look for the mystical effect of their mutable energy.
Perhaps I will have time to do a family analysis, including the position and influence of Rasputin, at some time in the future.
While preparing this website, I realized the prominence of 23 degrees Aquarius (in this and other charts). There was a New Moon at 23 Aquarius conjunct Uranus last week.
At the time when Rasputin was attacked and did not bring influence to bear on the Tsar's decision regarding war with Austria, Rasputin's Mercury had progressed to 23 degrees Aquarius. Uranus was transiting midway between him Sun and Mercury.
The name of the Archduke's assassin was Gavril Princip. The Judge in the Little Girl in the Red Coat was Gavriel Bach ... Gabriel, the ArchAngel of Air/Lovers/Gemini.
Rasputin's name means CROSSROADS. According to Colin Wilson this is a name as common as SMITH in the village he came from.
Recommended books:
Rasputin: A
good biography about this fascinating man.
Romanovs: I
couldn't put it down.
The Romanov Dynasty from 1200s to 1900s
The Last Tsar:
This book is mostly about the last months
in the life of Nicholas and his family
Tsar: Marvelous,
unforgettable photographs of Nicholas and his family (including the hemophiliac
Tsarevich and even Rasputin's dead body pulled from the river) by Peter
Christopher
