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India’s chart and the Yakub Memon hanging






Hercules battling the Hydra





India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed. Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur at 6:35 am on July 30. As expected the execution has polarized India on communal lines.  Many commentators have linked the Mumbai bomb blasts to the Mumbai riots following the demolition of the Babri Masjid  by right wing political outfits. The action-reaction attacks and counterattacks have plagued India since its partition in 1947.








To analyze the event let us begin with the chart for the hanging of Yakub Memon [ July 30; 6:35 am IST; Nagpur].  On the Ascendant [16le] is Mercury [13le] which aligns perfectly with the Saturn-Pluto [13le] conjunction in India’s Independence Chart. 









What follows below is an abbreviated extract from Nick Fiorenza’s excellent article  “The Saturn-Pluto Synodic Cycles - A Historical Exploration 1851 – 2020” [1]. Here we are interested in the Saturn-Pluto synod that occurred on Aug 22, 1947, just a week after India’s independence. Moreover, since the synod[13le] is placed on the 4th house cusp of India’s chart. The 4th house is linked to “nationalism, cultural roots and history of a nation” [2].

A Saturn-Pluto synodic cycle  can also initiate a dismantling or destructive process of long-standing established systems of belief so that we can evolve our societal structures. In the process, this can articulate as power struggles, wars and the like; but Saturn and Pluto will ultimately demand we take responsibility for the discord and destruction we have created.

Aug 22, 1947 – Saturn-Pluto Synod
Geocentric conjunction: 1 trigger - Aug 10, 1947
Primary stars: Acubens of Cancer; Zeta Hydra, Dubhe of Ursa Major. This is also the exalted location in the ecliptic for Pluto.

Synodic Theme (abbreviated):
Acubens, Alpha Cancer, indicates entrapment in dogma. This can be the current political / religious beliefs of the times, as well as that created by our personal belief structures--the ideas we have about our lives and experiences we have in our lives. Acubens indicates a tenacious hold and stubborn resistance to release the patterns we hold that keep us entrapped in our limiting life scenarios.

Zeta Hydra lies immediately south of Acubens. Delta through Zeta Hydra and Pulsar CP0834 (which conjoins Gianfar of Draco, the poisoned place) create Hydra's head. Zeta Hydra and surrounding stars indicate a multifarious undermining source of destruction (every time Hercules took off one the Hydra's heads, it immediately grew another). The conjunction of Acubens and Zeta Hydra reveals that the repetitive undermining experiences in our lives are manifest from our own tenacious belief structures.

Associated Quasar 3C206 of Hydra, one of the brightest & closest quasars, suggest that although our dogmatic beliefs can take rather strange and unexplainable forms, they are not outside the realm of our own creation. They are however laser-like in their power. Quasar 3C206 reminds us to not be naïve to the powerful momentum of our beliefs and the undermining behavioral patterns they can create. This quasar tells us to not turn our backs on that momentum, to know it may take more than one attempt to overcome our dogma's hideous tenacity. Dubhe asks us to emerge from the collective and our own personal dogmas (our belief structures) and our limiting life patterns that keep us bound in life scenarios that are less than those we truly want. Dubhe supports us to strive for a new and better future rather than merely staying reactive to the limitations we have already created and reinforce with our existing beliefs.


Having understood the basic issues that the Saturn-Pluto synod in India’s chart highlights, the question arises how the synod is activated right now.  Well, there is both a slow moving trigger in the form of transiting Pluto [14cp] in a quincunx aspect to the radix synod position [14le] and a fast moving trigger with Mercury [14le] moving over the synod on the very day of the execution!


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