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Uranus-Pluto and Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh







Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (born 15 August 1967) is a controversial figure, who has worked as a guru, music producer, singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. He has been the head of the social group Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) since 23 September 1990. On 25 August 2017, a special CBI court in Panchkula, Haryana, delivered its verdict in a sexual assault case regarding a former Dera sadhvi, finding Gurmeet Ram Rahim guilty of two counts of rape. Singh was taken into custody. More than 200,000 people had gathered near the court premises ahead of the verdict in Panchkula, Haryana. Following the conviction, 30 people were killed and another 80 were injured in violent protests in parts of India with reports of widespread vandalism. On 26 August 2017, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the police to seize the properties of the group to compensate for the vandalism caused in protests by his supporters.

In this post we will look at the deeper implication of the news about Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Shown here is the noon chart for 15 August 1967, his reported date of birth. The Sun-Mercury-Jupiter conjunction is an aspect astrologers would easily relate to a guru figure. But more significantly, notice the TNP Hades squares the combination while the TNPs Cupido-Poseidon sextiles it. Hades and Poseidon in fact make a sharp quincunx aspect. Martha Wescott provides the following keywords:

Cupido-Poseidon: Groups formed through ideas, beliefs, ideologies or religion.
Hades-Poseidon: Religions that accent evil; to be aware of religious personnel who are involved in ugly or criminal activities.

In his essay Hades – Yesterday and Today, L. Blake Finley explains how Hades operates:

Hades seems to trigger primal emotions, which can have both negative and positive manifestations. Part of the problem in fully understanding Hades is that it frequently correlates with obscure situations and subtle energies.... and the most frequent purely physical manifestations of it that we see are all too often in situations where subtle or metaphysical realities are neglected, overlooked, or in transition to or from dense physical manifestation.

Hades was often treated as the scapegoat, "bugaboo", or "dustbin of our Solar System".  It certainly can have negative manifestations, just as all other planets can, and it likewise should have positive manifestations which, as responsible astrologers, we should seek to understand if we are to help clients deal with its very high-impact transits and directions.
This does not mean that the energies and issues of Hades are inherently primitive, but they appear crude to cultures that shut such issues and energies out, remain in denial of them, or push them aside as "inferior" or "primitive" issues or behavior in favor of shallow symbols, and do not seek to cultivate them to their constructive potential since their existence is often denied.[1]

However, for our discussion here,  perhaps the more important feature of Gurmeet Ram-Rahim’s  chart is the Uranus-Pluto conjunction [19-22 Virgo]. On 25 August 2017, transit Saturn stationed direct [21 sag] square his radix Uranus-Pluto conjunction. Below we examine the meaning of this conjunction and its current activation.

Historically when Uranus and Pluto have come together revolutionary change has been the result. Richard Tarnas describes well researched historic events centered around what happens with Uranus and Pluto aspects in his book Cosmos and Pysche. Any Uranus Pluto dynamic interaction – through either conjunction, square or opposition – lasts anywhere from 10 to 15 years. The center point of the current Uranus Pluto Square featured 7 exact squares that took place from 2012 to 2015.

Currently we have an unprecedented opportunity to consciously co-create with the intended revolutionary changes occurring now.The Pluto initiation process is intended to create empowerment. The Uranus process is intended to create awakening and freedom. This means that every disempowering belief and fear is being brought to awareness to be transformed. The intent of  Uranus and Pluto together is to create Empowered Awakening and Freedom. This combination often radically changes our perception of this reality and adds to our ability to connect with possibilities we might not have even imagined before now. For this to happen, everything that is not resonating with the empowered evolutionary possibilities of Awakening and Freedom is surfacing to be transformed. This transformative process is often messy and chaotic, as we move from the current fear based patriarchal model that operates in duality and separation.

The extreme cultural and societal events of the mid-1960s were a product of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction and the start of this 138-year Uranus-Pluto synodic cycle. The mid-1960s saw the emergence  of the  hippie movement which appeared concurrently in the midst of a rising sexual revolution, in which many views of the status quo on this subject were being challenged. This was also the period when Bhagwan Rajneesh (Osho) started the Rajneesh Movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher. He advocated a more open attitude towards human sexuality, earning him the sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later international press, although this attitude became more acceptable with time.

The current square occurring is stimulating  dynamic cultural and societal action based upon what was set in motion in the 1960s, radical action that most likely will increase as we fully enter the second quarter of this cycle, from 2015 onward, especially through 2020. Let us also remember that the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the mid-60s took place in the Indian Lunar Mansion Purva Phalguni. About this nakshatra, Dennis Harness writes:

The Shiva Lingam is a symbol of this powerful and creative nakshatra. An incredible zest for life can be experienced through Purva Phalguni. Sensual pleasure, passion, love and affection are found in this asterism. Its primary motivation is kama or healthy enjoyments. It is a lunar mansion of fulfillment, good luck, well being and pleasure that is healing and revitalizing.

In conclusion, we need to ask ourselves whether we can blame Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh entirely for the destruction caused by his followers. Rather we need to ponder on what purpose he serves in the greater scheme of things.


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