A hundred and fifty years ago, under the auspices of Abraham Lincoln, the American government abolished slavery. According to jyotish (this is not your average Sun Sign/newspaper horoscope, people!) astrology, a hundred and fifty years ago, Saturn was exalted in Libra. Rahu, the force of sudden and revolutionary change, was sitting next to Saturn. Saturn is a signifier for government. Rahu is the force that sneaks upwards into the echelons of privilege to disrupt and change the established order. From November 11, 2011 to November 2, 2014, Saturn is again exalted in Libra. And as 150 years ago, Rahu is next to Saturn from January 2013 to July 12, 2014. What happened in these months is well known. The Snowden revelations came to light, showing the American government was engaged in mass surveillance of virtually the entire world. The sense of impunity that they were entitled to spy over, and look at people’s private lives, closely approximates what happens in a system of...
The civil wars of the twenty-first century: Sushma Joshi's slightly twisted perspective of the universe.