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Pope John Paul letters reveal 'intense' friendship with woman



Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II's close relationship with a married woman, which lasted more than 30 years, have been shown to the BBC. The letters to Polish-born American philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka had been kept away from public view in the National Library of Poland for years. The documents reveal a rarely seen side of the pontiff, who died in 2005. Feb.15  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35542708

Pope John Paul II's horoscope is available at Astrodienst [1]. The Sabian symbol of his radix Sun [27ta21] is “A mature woman past her change of life awakened to a new romance”  sums up quite appropriately his involvement with Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. The friendship began in 1973 when Ms Tymieniecka contacted the future Pope. In the Pope’s chart, solar arc Venus was conjunct Pluto in the 9th  trine Uranus in the 5th house.

The passionate heat of total emotional engagement: that is a basic human need , symbolized  by Pluto. Much of this Plutonian truth is held in check by social programming. That programming takes two forms, each equally potent. The first is our internalized often unconscious, training in “goodness” or “normalcy”. The second is the present  web of interpersonal or communal constraints that bind us. When Uranus enters the picture, the power of that social programming  diminishes.  Plutonian truths begin to surface quickly. It is a season of rapid personal evolution and sudden circumstantial changes driven by a rising realizations of one’s actual desires and emotions. With Venus  involved, relationships “cross lines of taboo” [2].





But that was in 1973 in the Pope’s chart, why has this news come up now.The chart for the upcoming solar eclipse of March 9 at London will help explain this news. Notice three significant features of the chart (a)  the eclipse is conjunct the star Achernar (b) the eclipse makes a T-square with Jupiter-Saturn that straddles the horizon (b)  Uranus-Pluto and the meridian form another T-square that is anchored to the eclipse T-square.

The eclipse is placed in the 3rd house which rules “the press” [3] while Jupiter is in the  9th which rules “religion and clergy of any kind and affairs of the church”[4]. With the meridian in aspect to Uranus-Pluto, the news is further narrowed down to the expression of desires and emotions that  cross taboo lines.

Alpha (α) Eridanus, Achernar, is a white star situated in the mouth of the River.  “Achernar is credited with bestowing high offices in the church”. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.80.]






Finally, notice that  if we converse progress the eclipse chart to Feb.15, the date of the news, the eclipse T-square aligns with the meridian triggering the event.

[2] The Book of Pluto; Steven Forrest



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