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History in the Stars – the Armenian Genocide



The Sword of Orion


The Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն, "Great Crime"), was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the present-day Republic of Turkey. The number of victims is estimated at between 800,000 and 1.5 million.The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

Major events in history like this one are rarely without an astrological signature. On Feb 27, 1915 Saturn-Pluto began a new synod with three geocentric conjunctions between October 4, 1914 through May 19, 1915.

Pluto embodies the primordial forces of destruction and regeneration, the violent and the demonic, the fiery and volcanic, the elemental energies of nature. When Saturn aspects Pluto there is a  feeling of being caught helplessly in the grip of overwhelming, powerful, and often dark forces, of being the victim of large ruthless impersonal forces of nature or of history that are both destructive and imprisoning. The powerlessness of the entrapped and suffering victim is usually matched by an obsessive drive for control, power, and domination by the perpetrator.




The Lunar Eclipse of September 4, 1914 had the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in hard aspect to the MC at Istanbul. The descendant  of the chart  was conjunct Castor, alpha Geminorum. The Twins represent the brotherhood-sisterhood of all humankind, their Alpha star marks the struggles between the polarities of cold hatred and intolerance vs  crusades for human rights.  When the former dominates there are persecutions, massacres  and similar events.


This was Pluto of religious cult leader Jim Jones perpetrator of the Guyana Massacre. These stars were transited in 1099 CE when Crusaders took Jerusalem in a ghastly massacre of Muslims and Jews; in 1844 when Mormon prophet was murdered by a mob; in 1933 at the opening of  Dachau, the first Nazi concentration that killed millions of Jews; in 1935 when Hitler announced the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Racial Laws “for the protection of German blood and honour”; at the US Supreme Court’s 1954 decision outlawing school segregation; at the adoption in 1948 by the UN General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and many others. [1]




If we now progress the eclipse chart to 24 April 1915, when the Ottoman authorities began the arrests that led to the massacre, we have Saturn-Pluto conjunct the progressed MC. Let us also note that here Pluto is conjunct stars in the sword of Orion – an appropriate position indicating the genocide.


[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.422-433)

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