The slightly provocative image above is of course made with a bit of tongue-in-cheek, but it is nevertheless born out of a serious situation. Arch-inquisitor Richard Dawkins puts it this way:
186 Top Scientists Dismiss Astrologers as Charlatans
—– I have a lot of material about the anti-astrology community and their (lack of reasonable) arguments, but they can wait. —–
As was the case with the Minsk material, this is far beyond anything that can be found by chance. Astronomically removed. There are three translators and one publisher sharing the fate of Rushdie and be attacked. Igarashi and Capriolo were killed.
Let’s take a larger copy of the chart.
In English, this means that we would have to pull batches with four individual horoscope charts approximately – on an average – 5-600,00 times before we would have a quartet comparable with what we see in the Rushdie chart above.
This is merely to scratch on the surface, though. The next step is to look at the three victims of attacks, where Capriolo and Igarashi didn’t survive:
The entire Rushdie material is a smattering of aspects between Mars, Mars, Mars … and Sun or Mars with Uranus. To get an idea of how frequent the aspects in the overview above are, we can look at the 2130 random charts I have used to compare real people and events, to see how they could produce aspects like those.
I am trying to keep the numbers low, so I don’t choke poor ChatGPT so let’s say that the probability is 4 in 20 (400 in 2000 also including oppositions) to get either a conjunction or an opposition between either Mars/Uranus or Sun/Uranus. Let’s ask the oracle.
As yet another coincidence, we also find Mars at 19°56′ in Taurus when the Satanic Verses are published in the US. So if we finally add this date to the three attacks as seen below, we get more numbers to stun us.
Artificial Intelligence is not always particularly intelligent without human intervention. Training! I have spent an endless amount of time asking for recalculations and the correct output format. To encourage a correct response from Mr Chat, some positive feedback is useful.
It is rather shocking to get a calculation that is clear enough for a mathematically dumb person, like me, to immediately be able to verify on my calculator.
Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American, was threatened with death in 1989, a year after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, when the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his assassination and set a bounty of $3 million for his death. For years, Rushdie lived in hiding and took strict security measures which became more relaxed over time.
Wikipedia: Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
We will probably never find anything like the Rushdie material here. Not in a completely random collection of dates and places. It entirely transcends the methods I have devised to compare reality vs. chance. If I believed in terms like “Planetary Influence” and “In The Stars” I would call this “the Conspiracy of the Stars”! It is an astrological portrait of hate, intolerance, and violence.
But it is also about freedom of speech and the right to follow our own paths without interference (unless we are breaking the law). I am sure Rushdie don’t mind the publication of this material, no matter his opinion regarding astrology. You can never be sure, but I assume he is not very positive.
The chart below is calculated for the time when Salman Rushdie was attacked when he was giving a public lecture in Chautauqua, New York. The Independence hub is still a good reference point. What is very striking here is the Full Moon axis with Saturn in one end in a T-Square to Rushdie’s Mars and the Mars and Uranus conjunction at the time of the attack.
This is very interesting!
—– I have not yet decided where to put the following two paragraphs and image. As I point out at every possible moment I am my own worst editor. —–
A fatwa is a ruling issued by an Islamic authority, be it the Supreme Leader or a mere judge.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT: A fatwa is a legal pronouncement in Islam, typically made by a qualified religious scholar known as a mufti. Originating from the Arabic word for ‘opinion’ or ‘judgment’, it provides guidance on matters of religious observance, ethics, or law, based on the Quran and Hadith. While a fatwa carries significant religious weight, it is not legally binding unless adopted by the legal system in a given country. Fatwas can be issued by various Islamic authorities, ranging from the Supreme Leader in certain countries to local clerics. Their acceptance and influence can vary widely based on the credentials of the issuer and the cultural or political context in which they are given.
It is not really a tongue in cheek statement when I say that the ideological leaders setting the agenda in our society, ruled by a materialistic paradigm, have constantly issued their kind of fatwas with the purpose of pushing astrology away from the public discourse. The New Atheists and less known “skeptics” have been very active since the first frontal assault in 1975 by 186 scientists with a number of Nobel Prize laureates.
186 Top Scientists Dismiss Astrologers as Charlatans
—– I have a lot of material about the anti-astrology community and their (lack of reasonable) arguments, but they can wait. —–
So here we have an amazing collection of “co-incidences”. There are five persons involved in this drama: Rushdie, with serious injuries from the attack. As you could see in the image above, he lost sight on one eye or even lost it.
William Nygaard, the Norwegian publisher of The Satanic Verses, was shot three times outside his home. It took several months of hospitalization before he could leave the hospital. Nothing is reflected by astrology.
The attacks on the Italian translator in was
The intended attack on his Turkish translator was more complex than the other:
It was in 1993 when a frenzied crowd left the mosque in the city of Sivas, in central Turkey, to go to the hotel in which Aziz Nesin and other artists, mostly Alevi, had gathered for an event. The mob attacked the hotel for eight hours without the police intervening, finally managing to burn it. As many as 37 people died in the fire. Aziz Nesin, by then an old man, escaped by climbing down a ladder, but even when he did so the firemen who were supposed to help him recognized him and attacked him.
Salman Rushdie, Aziz Nesin and our Lingering Fatwas
Neither Nesin himself nor the arson have any astrological correspondences. Finally we
I don’t know if it is necessary, but since the quartet charts here are over-loaded, I add only Rushdie and Hitoshi Igarashi combined with the US chart. Hitoshi’s and Rushdie’s charts are very similar, since they were born only 9 days apart. Rushdie “wins” here due to the almost exact New Moon.
This combination of events and persons is in itself a microcosm where probably more pieces can be found. I had to check up the birth chart of Hitoshi Igarishi and found this chart. I have frequently found that lunations, in particular the New Moon, can give impressive results when it takes place on the same day when we lack an exact time.
If we further zoom in and calculate the chart for Tokyo, where the deadly attack took place, instead of Tsukuba, the AC axis has moved to be almost perfectly aligned with Uranus. Not a big deal, though, but interesting.
If I had been observant and a bit smart, I would have looked at the charts for the Hitoshi and Capriolo attacks, as they have Mars very close to each other. I did. The assaults took place just 9 days apart. Again. Sun in opposition to Uranus.
Finally, we can note that also the American publication of the Satanic Verses also have Mars closely aligned to Mars in Rushdie’s horoscope as well as in the chart for the attack. 20°11, 19°56′ and 25°22 in Taurus is indeed very close.
As I write this, I can’t stop my curiosity from demanding further inspection of potentially interesting individual charts. And up came this chart for the very first publication of the Satanic Verses. It took place in the UK and of course used London as the centre of interest. The time 10 AM was chosen as an approximate time when the book stores opened the doors. Rather dramatic, isn’t it?
To get a clear picture of what a random material can offer, I have made 2130 random horoscope charts. They are all compared with the chart for the US Independence with planets in the mutable signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Since the US chart is not in the forefront here, we can ignore the sign positions in Taurus above. If we then look at the table below and see reasonably close placements at 21°11, 19°56′ and 25°22 in the combinations of three random charts and see how many reasonably close matches we find in 330 random quartets similar to the Rushdie publication combination above. None. And then we even have removed the fact that all three Rushdie Mars position were in the same sign (Taurus) something that is considered best here. Apart from the 09°17′ placement in Gemini, chart 4/C 139-141 could be a good example of this. 990 individual charts bundled into 330 Quartets:
We can do it according to the book and introduce an example from the proper material here: The Kennedy assassinations, including Robert F. Kennedy’s killer, Sirhan Sirhan. There you see all Mars positions closely aligned to the US Mars at 21°22′ in Gemini, which is (almost) all there is to look for in this material. Mars. Mars. Mars.
The racist and brutal intolerance of the intellectual godfathers of today’s Christian Reconstructionism is a chilling reminder of the movement’s lust for repression. The Institutes of Biblical Law by R. J. Rushdoony, written in 1973, is the most important book for the dominionist movement. Rushdoony calls for a Christian society that is harsh, unforgiving and violent. His work draws heavily on the calls for a repressive theocratic society laid out by Calvin in Institutes of the Christian Religion, first published in 1536 and one of the most important works of the Protestant Reformation. Christians are, Rushdoony argues, the new chosen people of God and are called to do what Adam and Eve failed to do: create a godly, Christian state. The Jews, who neglected to fulfill God’s commands in the Hebrew scriptures, have, in this belief system, forfeited their place as God’s chosen people and have been replaced by Christians. The death penalty is to be imposed not only for offenses such as rape, kidnapping and murder, but also for adultery, blasphemy, homosexuality, astrology, incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the case of women, “unchastity before marriage.” The world is to be subdued and ruled by a Christian United States. Rushdoony dismissed the widely accepted estimate of 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust as an inflated figure, and his theories on race often echo those found in Nazi eugenics, in which there are higher and lower forms of human beings. Those considered by the Christian state to be immoral and incapable of reform are to be exterminated.
Chris Hedges: “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America”
Capital Punishment
Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical “warfare” is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, “sodomy or homosexuality,” incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the case of women, “unchastity before marriage.”According to Gary North, women who have abortions should be publicly executed, “along with those who advised them to abort their children.” Rushdoony concludes: “God’s government prevails, and His alternatives are clear-cut: either men and nations obey His laws, or God invokes the death penalty against them.”
Christian Reconstructionism – Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence
The chart here is the most dramatic combination of charts I have encountered so far.
Apart from Rushdie, there are four victims of direct attacks: the Norwegian publisher William Nygaard, the translators Hitoshi Igarashi (wrong spelling below), killed (Japan) and Ettore Capriolo (Italy). The intended attack on Aziz Nesin, the Turkish translator, failed, since he was not there. 37 innocent people died in a fire.There are three persons with very strong Uranus aspects. And, finally, the time for the Fatwa and attack on Rushdie.
the Italian translator Ettore Capriolo of The Satanic Verses, the Japanese translator, and the four translators of and two of these have Mars in opposition to Rushdie’s
First of all we have three Mars positions aligned with Mars in the chart of Salman Rushdie. We must then ask How often do we find charts like this when comparing with a random material?
If we take one of the more striking examples from the very large material exclusively inspecting the US chart vs. violent events like war and assassinations.
Here is an example of the beginning and end of the Vietnam war.
As you can see, all Mars positions are in mutable signs, two of the four so-called mutable signs.
“Matching” here means to have all three random Mars positions in mutable signs. As always here, Mars in Gemini and/or Sagittarius and/or a close alignment to the AC, Mars and Uranus chart placements are ranked as best matches. Below is an example beyond all matches in the 264 random chart combinations.
GE-mini, VI-rgo, SA-gittarius and PI-sces = Mutable Signs
There is no random chart combination better than the one marked above with the fourth Mars too far away.
But let us just assume we fund such a good match, when will also find a Mars/Uranus conjunction? Not to mention two, when we also include Ettore Capriolo? The two Sun/Uranus conjunctions shoots everything close to the horizon of probability. Of course something as intense like this will eventually pop up, but when?
The keywords below are mostly used in the context of mundane astrology, but it doesn’t take much imagination to translate it to sudden, unexpected us of force/violence.
Donald Trump is, as usual, kind enough to offer an example of the above when FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago cottage. A totally unprecedented event in the entire history of the United States of America must be called a surprising use of force.
This chart is leaving the confinement of mutable signs, since the raid ‘attacked’ Trump’s AC, MC and Mars positions in Taurus and Leo. The picture gets even more striking if we swap the chart with Trump in the centre. To further add weight to this, the AC/MC at the time of raid are exactly aligned with the US ascendant. The time is from Wikipedia.
