Justice for Venus in detriment
What the Moon in Aquarius, annual profections from India’s MC, and revisiting 2022’s Venus in detriment, have to say about the Shraddha Walkar murder case.
CW: mentions of violence against women, murder, Islamophobia.
The waxing crescent Moon — signifying the common masses, or whom we refer to as the आम आदमी ām ādmī, here in India, women and non-masculine people, children, those who are going to be most affected by the tides of national and international change, i.e., the poor and the working class — is now applying to a conjunction with Saturn — signifying the State, referred to as the सरकार sarkār, state officials and employees, lawgivers and keepers of the land and related jobs — on top of India’s MC in the ninth house in Aquarius.
The larger national consensus on topics of religious institutions and religion, the law society and legislation, and science, philosophy, and higher education, is likely to remain in line with the messaging put forward by the conservative right-wing NDA government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) currently in power in India.
This is not to say that the consensus will remain universally the same. Mars is retrograde in India’s first house in Gemini, and a freshly direct Jupiter in India’s tenth house in Pisces is squaring India’s natal Mars in the second house in Cancer. The agreement between the parties involved in the 2020-21 Farmers’ Protest in India is breaking up, and with Saturn opposing India’s natal Sun in Leo and Jupiter’s impending ingress into Aries in December 2022 pushing the square with India’s natal Mars to an exact degree, the Farmers’ Protest may very well resume with fresh energy and urgency. Caveat: I think it may take until Mars turning back direct in January 2023 for the movement to really gain traction1.
Things to note here:
India’s present profection year activates it’s fourth house, the zodiacal sign depending on the angle from which the chart is being profected. India’s natal houses experiencing the most long-term activity at present are the first, the ninth, the tenth, and the eleventh. The common people, in association with religion and legislation, the administration and bureaucracy, particularly legislation that is begun or revised at this point in the Lower House of the Parliament, will be particularly important. In terms of activism and organisation, going by Emily Hall’s redefinition of the twelve houses of the chart, revisitations of identity, immigration, direct action, and organisations and political parties, are going to be highlighted.
The start of the Winter session 2022-23 in the Lok Sabha (equivalent to the House of Commons in the UK) in December coinciding with the Winter Solstice and the Sun’s ingress into Capricorn, activating India’s eighth house (the zodiacal sign, again, depending on the angle from which the chart is being profected), will likely not solve these intersecting problems, although it might signify a temporary lull.
With these factors in mind, and with the waxing crescent Moon in Aquarius highlighting India’s MC in Aquarius, it would be pertinent to take a look at what annual profections from India’s MC would have to tell us.
As mentioned above, India’s present profection year activates it’s fourth house. Profecting from the MC, we find that India is in a Taurus year, activating it’s twelfth house, ruled by Venus situated in India’s third house in Leo, separating from a conjunction with Saturn. This indicates that crime and the prison system, the marginalised and the alienated sections of the demographic, underground movements and terrorist activity, will be particularly revealing this year. To refine the results of this exercise, I’m going to apply Dan Waites’ method of finding out when the ruler of the year will be activated and the promise of the year will manifest.
Since Venus, the ruler of the year, is in Leo, we can find out when the monthly profection comes to Leo. This turns out to be November 15, 2022. We are living through the most important month of the year right now. Let’s look at some of the relevant news till date:
The Supreme Court of India tells the Centre that ‘forced conversions’ may affect national security, and, consequently, freedom of religion — November 14, 2022.
The murder of Shraddha Walkar by Aaftab Poonawalla — November 15, 2022.
The University Grants Commission has somehow found an equivalence between the loktantra traditions of ancient India and modern-day democracy and wants universities to lecture on it — November 16, 2022.
A senior RSS leader has condemned an anti-India ‘ecosystem’ including Marxists and social media sites — November 17, 2022.
Varanasi court declaring the suit filed by Hindus regarding the Gyanvapi Mosque maintainable — November 17, 2022.
Among these news items, the one that has most grabbed the national attention at present is the Shraddha Walkar murder case. Interestingly, the actual murder took place on May 18, 2022 — which, profecting from India’s ASC, would be a Taurus month, activating India’s twelfth house. Another point of note is, since Venus is being activated during both periods, the real-time position of Venus both during the time of the actual murder and the time of the news breaking. May 18, 2022, Venus was in Aries, ruled by Mars. This period coincided internationally with the US Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade being leaked, and the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. November 15, 2022, Venus was in Scorpio — again, ruled by Mars — and the US announced an investigation into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. Mars is retrograde at the moment.
If I had to make an objective guess, looking at annual profections from India’s MC again and refining the date further using zodiacal releasing, I would presume the trial of Aaftab Poonawalla for the murder of Shraddha Walkar would begin sometime around January 23, 2023, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, when the monthly profection would have come to Libra, another Venus-ruled period. It may coincide with Republic Day celebrations in India, usually a period of heightened terrorist activity in India, when the government might decide to put out a message to the nation about it’s tough stance against criminals who also happen to be Muslim. Transits for January 23, 2023 show that Mars has newly turned direct in India’s first house in Gemini, Venus has begun to separate from her conjunction with Saturn in India’s ninth house in Aquarius, and Jupiter would be in India’s eleventh house in Aries, likely stepping up legislation related to crimes associated with what the proponents of Hindutva in India call ‘love jihad’2. If the Farmers’ Protest and the Anti-CAA protests have, indeed, entered a Phase Two by then, we can expect this case to further aggravate the issue(s).
However, if I had to take a less than objective look at the subject, I would ask: what does the Shraddha Walkar murder case reveal about India’s ninth house in Aquarius and twelfth house in Taurus, and, thereby, the collective psyche of India? The obvious thing to note would be that there is very little differentiation between the State and what might have been the Church in the US, but may be called the Temple in majoritarian Hindu India, to the extent that the police van carrying Aaftab Poonawalla has been attacked by Hindutva vigilantes, possibly with the expectation that these Hindutva groups have a right to seek vengeance on behalf of Shraddha Walkar because she was a Hindu woman, and thereby to assert a claim on the legacy, the post-symbolic body, of Shraddha Walkar. What Saturn, transiting India’s ninth house and opposing India’s third house, has been doing is, among other things, bringing up the fraught condition of Venus. With Venus ruling India’s house of the marginalised, Muslim crimes, and by association Muslim lives, are politicised with a specific intent to dehumanise and monster the Muslim body, with their hungers and weaknesses. Unsurprisingly, the Shaheen Bagh protest of 2019-20 was led by Muslim women — this movement, a potent intersection of issues such as State violence against the non-masculine (also, non-Savarna, non-Hindu) body and State-sponsored humiliation of Muslim women, should be a prime example of what happens when Venus in Asia becomes explicitly political.
There will be a future article on the astrology of the 2020-21 Farmers’ Protest in India, which subscribers may expect to read in May 2023.
There will be future article(s) on the legacy of (right-wing) masculinity in India and the impact of Mars on India, which subscribers may expect to start reading in February 2023.