Travel to Ukraine?

BY: PATITA PAVANA DAS ADHIKARY

Mar 07, 2014 — BLAGOEVGRAD, BULGARIA (SUN) — Response to a Letter to the Editor of The Astrological Newsletter.

    Dear Prabhus,
    I was thinking of traveling to the Ukraine in March and April. What do the planets show for the situation there?
    LG (Warsaw)

No, don't go, or even think about it. Problems have erupted all over the world due to Saturn (the planet of the masses and workers) going into exaltation with Rahu (planet of outcastes and barbarians) for over a year. These tensions have been these simmering for over a year now. Next, problems came to a head as the violent Mars entered Libra and joined the other two malefics Mars and Saturn there. These three malefics in a movable air sign appropriately describe what happened in Crimea: The "Reds" (Mars) landed at the airport (air sign) to quell the unrest caused by the "people" (Saturn) and incited by the shadow governments (Rahu) who are inciting the "protestors" from behind the scenes. Mars joined Saturn and Rahu in Libra 3 Feb. and went retrograde on 1 March while Saturn was stationary, a very bad omen. Saturn turned retrograde the next day.

The word the Bhagavata uses to describe retrograde is vakra, or moving in a "crooked" direction. Therefore, on the authority of the Bhagavata, retrograde malefics are extremely ominous. The problem might turn very violent at any moment now that Mars and Saturn have both turned retrograde. This is very unusual, that Saturn and Mars meet while Saturn is exalted in Libra with Rahu (who is always retrograde) and then turn backwards almost simultaneously. We cannot ignore that Saturn, the old man of the zodiac, was in the "oldest" portion of Libra, the very last degree, when he turned around and went back for what he felt was his due. This is exactly like a country returning due to a feeling that there is some unfulfilled debt, and now come back to make good on the collection.

This situation is very similar to the verse given in the Bhagavata 3.17.14 regarding the birth of the two demons Hiranyaksha and Hiranykashipu:

    "Ominous planets such as Mars and Saturn shone brighter and surpassed the auspicious ones such as Mercury, Jupiter and Venus as well as a number of lunar mansions. Taking seemingly retrograde courses, the planets came in conflict with one another."

    Bhaktivedanta Purport: The entire universe is moving under the three modes of material nature. Those living entities who are in goodness are called the pious species—pious lands, pious trees, etc. It is similar with the planets also; many planets are considered pious, and others are considered impious. Saturn and Mars are considered impious. When the pious planets shine very brightly, it is an auspicious sign, but when the inauspicious planets shine very brightly, this is not a very good sign. End of Purport

Mars will leave Libra and will return to Virgo in retrograde motion at the end of March. He will continue to be vakra during the whole of April when two very ominous eclipses will be happening. Thus the "Martian effects" will be carried from Libra back into Virgo. Virgo, being an earth sign, is connected to land. It is quite possible that Ukraine would be divided during this time.

Crimea has long been an important strategic area due to its location as a port for entering both Europe and Asia. Uncountable wars have been fought there, and this conflict likewise has every chance of also becoming more violent. The soothing influence of Jupiter's aspect to Libra could give the possibility of saner minds cooling down the situation. But with two eclipses on the horizon in April, times of darkness loom overhead and those in power lose any sort of rationality. The danger of a localized war in the Ukraine is very real.

Wiki lists some of the invaders who have fought for control of Crimea and it would take an entire subject (Crimeology?) to understand it.

    From Wiki: "Throughout the later centuries, Crimea was invaded or occupied successively by the Goths, (AD 250), the Huns (376), the Bulgars (4th–8th century), the Khazars (8th century), the state of Kievan Rus (10th–11th centuries), the Byzantine Empire (1016), the Kipchaks (Kumans) (1050), and the Mongols (1237). In the 13th century, the Republic of Genoa Republic seized the settlements which their rivals, the Venetians, had built along the Crimean coast and gained control of the Crimean economy and the Black Sea commerce for two centuries."

The effects will spread into the summer when Mars will leaves Virgo and returns to Libra. So the entire conflict will be carried from now to the end of the year (at least till early to mid November) when finally Saturn will finally exit Libra. The first (lunar) eclipse on April 15th happens in Libra in the nakshatra of Chitra ruled by warlike Mars. The second (solar) eclipse on April 28th happens in Aries, also ruled by Mars. The first eclipse occurs one day into the solar new year, so it does not bode well for the year ahead. Everything is about Mars and Mars is about hostilities, war and conflict. You should keep away from Ukraine and advise other devotees there to take appropriate refuge in safer areas. That appears to be the situation in a nutshell. –Ed.


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