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May/June 2018 | the Fate Issue infinity astrological magazine IAM #19 May/June 2018 The Fate Issue by Smiljana Gavrančić IAM INΦINITY | 01 May/June 2018 | the Fate Issue About Us IAM – Inφinity Astrological Magazine is a bimonthly online magazine that was born in 2015, in Kikinda, Serbia and was reborn in 2017, in Athens, Greece. IAM is for professionals astrologers, students of astrology and for all astrology lovers. Serbian astrologer Smiljana Gavrančić is the founding editor and owner of IAM. She specialises in exploring significant degrees in Mundane Astrology and her writings have appeared in the Astrological Journal, in The Mountain Astrologer blog and in ISAR‘s International Astrologer. As of November 2016, all issues of IAM have become part of Alexandria iBase Project, a digital astrological database and as of March 2017 articles in IAM are featured regularly on astro.com in the section ’’Understanding Astrology’’ along with The Astrological Journal and The Mountain Astrologer. IAM is associated with most relevant schools, journals and people in the astrological field. Victor Olliver (associate from The Astrological Journal, The Astrological Association GB) Tem Tarriktar (associate from The Mountain Astrologer) Frank C. Cllifford (associate from the London School of Astrology) Sharon Knight (associate from APAI) Wendy Stacey (associate from Mayo School of Astrology and The Astrological Association GB) Jadranka Ćoić (associate from The Astrological Lodge of London) Mandi Lockley (associate from Academy of Astrology UK). Special members are Melanie Reinhart (The Faculty Of Astrological Studies), Roy Gillett (the president of The Astrological Association GB) and Athan J. Zervas (astrologer and Critique Partner/Associate for Art & Design for the magazine). All of IAM issues are non-thematic and in every issue there is a cryptic phrase on the cover that refers to either the essence of the skies for the two months ahead or to a main article. But there is more to it! All cryptic phrases, when read together in a sequence, reveal a story in progress. It is like a puzzle and every issue adds one more piece to it. From the standard 70 pages of the inception issue (the cryptic phrase was The #782 Issue), today the magazine counts circa 160 pages per issue with the firm intention to grow even more in the future. About 60 astrologers from all over the world write in the magazine and more are always welcome. A future goal for the magazine is to organise conferences about astrology all around the world. www.infinityastrologicalmagazine.com IAM INΦINITY | 02 May/June 2018 | the Fate Issue IAM INΦINITY | 03 May/June 2018 | the Fate Issue Contents 005. The editor’s letter is total death 015. Petros Eleftheriadis says that everything is written in the stars 019. Alexandra Karacostas about character and destiny 024. All about AJ by Victor Olliver 030. Why is AA so sensitive? Smiljana knows where it hurts 034. The Persian Empire and Uranus by Smiljana Gavrancic 044. A match made in Heaven by Wendy Stacey 049. It’s not only Facebook, Frank Clifford collects your data too 056. The seventh house by Margaret Gray & Armand Diaz 060. Mandy Lockley puts Saturn, help, and heart in the same sentence 063. Chiron, the outsider by Rod Chang 070. Chiron on the degree of humanity gets a treat by Nona Voudouri 073. Alan Oken looks through the looking glass 077. Tania Daniels had some problems in her life but nothing compared to Frida Kahlo’s 084. Will my sister survive? Horary by Tania Daniels 091. Two women under the same roof: Is it always bad news? Smiljana on Kate & Meghan 101. Ethereal Woman vs. Material Girl and Christina Rodenbeck in the middle 107. Jessica Adams reads the papers. Paradise Papers, Panama Papers 111. Mark Zuckerberg’s moment of truth by Jessica Adams 117. The secret space program by Marguerite dar Boggia 121. How about some Indian money? Vedic Astrology by Metin Özenbaş 125. Meskalila Nunzia Coppola is in a meditative mood while doing her sacred geometry exercises 137. Teaching events with Alan Oken 146. Nona Voudouri talks to the Moon. Lunations, lunations! 151. Anne Whitaker puts the Tarot on the couch 156. Lars Panaro takes on a foolish journey 161. Tara Aal spins the tarotic wheel 164. Kim Buckley spins some more wheels Are you dizzy already? IAM INΦINITY | 04 May/June 2018 | the Fate Issue Horoscope of Death – Charles E.O. Carter Death Is Not the End Smiljana Gavrančić Water is the structure death, birth and conception happen in – the end of one and the beginning of the other… The thing that the first breath i.e. the start of life and the last breath i.e. the end of life have in common is – the same ruling planet. From the perspective of tropical, modern astrology, Mars is the ruler of Aries and Scorpio, i.e. the first and the eighth sign within Zodiac. In the first sign (Aries) we take the first breath, and in the eighth sign (Scorpio) our last breath happens, the death. From the perspective of traditional astrology, using the so-called Chaldean system of planet motion (from the slowest to the fastest, i.e. from Saturn to Moon) - the first (Ascendant – the first breath, the start of life) and the eighth house (the last breath, the death, the end) of the horoscope are ruled by the same planet – Saturn! It is interesting that from the perspective of karmic astrology then Mars is today’s Saturn or more precisely – action (Mars) creates the consequence (Saturn). Today’s Saturn in one’s chart depicts the actions from the previous life. In other words, the position of Saturn at the end of life is very important for it shall point out what is it pulling the Soul, where is the gravity pulling it. And what is gravity or Saturn if not falling? IAM INΦINITY | 05 May/June 2018 | the Fate Issue We start with Mars – we throw something and it goes and falls, and when it has fallen it is the end. It is necessary to assess how the fall went: was it clean, easy fall or was it pulling something else along (if Saturn or its dispositor has challenging aspects with something). We are primarily interested in the quality of that Saturn in the moment of death – how much damage it made, for that implies the remaining debt, that the person did not fulfill what he should have or could have. Also important is the mundane position of Saturn in the moment of death: how favorable it is, if it is more favorable than the position of natal one. From the position of Saturn we assess evolution, one’s further road, where one is going and what will happen in the sense of the next incarnation, for the end of something is the beginning of something else. Water is the structure the death, the birth and conception happen in – the end of one and the beginning of the other. So, the end in one life is very much connected to the beginning in the other life, and the horoscope of death describes the general atmosphere in which one leaves this and enters another life. When Charles Carter died, Mercury just started its retrograde motion on that day from 1º Scorpio 10’ (October 4, 1968, 04:30 pm, London, UK– the source for death chart is www.astro.com). Asc was at 9º Aquarius 15’. My natal Sun is at 9º Aquarius 16’, the ruler of the intercepted Leo in 9th house (foreigners) and it is in my 3rd house (writing). This was the first thing that got my attention, except the fact that he has a birthday one day after mine (his was on January 31, mine is on January 30), and we were not born on the same year, of course. Also, we both have the South Node at the end of Aquarius, his being at 28º Aquarius and mine at 29º Aquarius. But, at 27º Aquarius there is Asc of Victor Olliver (the editor of The Astrological Journal). Very close to that, or more precisely at 26º Aquarius, there is Carter’s Venus. When somebody puts his South Node on your Ascendant – that person came in this life to change you and give you a great lesson. The South Node has the symbolism of the series 11, the sign of Aquarius, Uranus, 11th house and it always describes the incarnation before the last. The South Node simply “swallows” and changes the person. Further on, my Moon is at 15º Cancer, and the Moon contains all memories of the Soul, while Carter’s Saturn is at 17º Cancer. Whenever somebody puts the Saturn on one of yours personal planets or lights, you should know that you owe something to Saturn’s owner. At the same time, you have the strong need to give. So, I have a karmic debt to Carter, for sure. What about transit Saturn on the day of his death? As we can see, it was at 22º Aries and it was retrograde, exactly squaring his MC at 22º Cancer, and also his IC at 22º Capricorn. In other words, it was squaring the axis 4/10, indicating that at the time of his death Carter left something unfinished related to his carrier, something that was interrupted half way through… IAM INΦINITY | 06 May/June 2018 | the Fate Issue Dispositor of that retrograde Saturn at 22º Aries is Mars at 8º Virgo – the position of my Jupiter on my MC! Did this man somehow indebted me from the start? My Jupiter line goes through the city I love very much, through Athens, and recently I used the name of goddess Athens when founding my astrological association.