The Virgin
and the Raven
Richard Wilhelm, Chinese scholar and theologian, told the
story of the Rainmaker to Carl Jung while at a gathering of the Psychological
Club in Zurich in the 1920s. It is a story that so impressed Jung that
throughout the rest of his life he repeated it as often as he could, sometimes
annoying his audience with the endless retelling. But good stories should be
retold, over and over, penetrating our dim consciousness a little deeper each
time. I ask my readers to bear with me for a while as we go through this story
and see its relevance to the current situation in the US.
There was a
great drought where the missionary Richard Wilhelm lived in China. There had
not been a drop of rain and the situation became catastrophic. The Catholics
made processions, the Protestants made prayers, and the Chinese burned joss
sticks and shot off guns to frighten away the demons of the drought, but with
no result. Finally the Chinese said: We will fetch the rain maker. And from
another province, a dried up old man appeared. The only thing he asked for was
a quiet little house somewhere, and there he locked himself in for three days.
On the fourth day clouds gathered and there was a great snowstorm at the time
of the year when no snow was expected, an unusual amount, and the town was so
full of rumors about the wonderful rain maker that Wilhelm went to ask the man
how he did it.
In true
European fashion he said: "They call you the rain maker, will you tell me
how you made the snow?" And the little Chinaman said: "I did not make
the snow, I am not responsible." "But what have you done these three
days?" "Oh, I can explain that. I come from another country where
things are in order. Here they are out of order, they are not as they should be
by the ordnance of heaven. Therefore the whole country is not in Tao, and I am
also not in the natural order of things because I am in a disordered country.
So I had to wait three days until I was back in Tao, and then naturally the
rain came."
In his commentary on
Richard Wilhelm’s story of the
Rainmaker [1], Jung wrote:
“…but if one thinks
psychologically, one is absolutely convinced that things quite naturally take
this way [speaking of the rainmaker’s ability to create rain]. If one has the
right attitude then the right things happen. One doesn’t make it right, it is
just right, and one feels it has to happen in this way. It is just as if one
were inside of things. If one feels right, that thing must turn up, it fits in.
It is only when one has a wrong attitude that one feels that things do not fit
in, that they are queer. When
someone tells me that in his surroundings the wrong things always happen, I
say: It is you who are wrong, you are not in Tao; if you were in Tao, you would
feel that things are as they have to be. Sure enough, sometimes one is
in a valley of darkness, dark things happen, and then dark things belong there,
they are what must happen then; they are nonetheless in Tao”.
What this story tells us is that outer events are always a
reflection of our inner state. The crisis in the US over the Kavanaugh
confirmation disturbs the nation’s “chi”.
Hurricane Michael is simply a synchronistic reflection of the nation’s
inner state.
Let us see if we can understand this better with the help of
astrology.
The chart for the current New Moon at Washington DC is shown here. Notice that it is square the horizon axis and Pluto linked to upheavals both natural as well as man made. Moreover, the New Moon [15li] falls on the US Sibly Saturn [14li] in the 10th
house amid the stars of the Virgin and
Corvus, the Raven so that recent events (Democrats
vs. Kavanaugh) show the contrast between the lying and deceitful Raven [2]
and the truth seeking Virgin. About these stars, Diana Rosenberg writes:
Poor judgment,
weakness of character, suspicion and fear of being victimized may lead many to
go on the attack, becoming nasty, destructive, even malevolent…Restless,
feisty, quarrelsome, quick to blame others for their failures, problems or
disappointments…may turn spiteful, lashing out with accusations, destroying
relationships. The worst of them are
greedy, scavenging, dishonest and exploiting opportunists. The best of them,
however, longing for tropical Libra’s
sense of balance, hear the Virgin’s call and through religion, personal
suffering and sacrifice, climb above anger and selfishness, developing
integrity and honor.
About events connected
with stars conjunct the New Moon, Diana Rosenberg goes on to write:
These stars were part
of an archaic Chaldean lunar mansion whose patron god was Im-dugud-khu, “The
Great Storm Bird” or “Storm Bird of the Evil Wind” and China’s
Celestial Chariot T’ien-Tche governed wind. Records show that they were
transited at the 1864 Bay of Bengal
cyclone that killed 50,000, the 1881 typhoon that hit Haipong, China,
killing thousands; at the Winter
Solstice of 1886, the beginning of a terrible North American winter that caused
“The Great Die-up”, hundreds of thousands of cattle, buried in blizzards froze
to death; at New York city’s record snow of 1947; in 1970 when a huge cyclone
hit Ganges delta with winds upto 150 kmph and a 50-ft high sea wave : about
300,000 to 500,000 were killed, thousands more died later of typhoid and
cholera; in 1977 when after 4 snowstorms in 2 months, Buffalo, NY was hit by
the the 17-hour “Great Blizzard of 77;
in 1979 when 3 twisters combined into one giant tornado and hit Wichita
Falls; in 1991 when “Tornado Alley” was hit by several twisters some with winds
clocking 450 kmph and many others [3].
I hope readers can see how the New Moon brings a connection between Hurricane Michael
and the events surrounding the Kavanaugh hearing - the US “chi” is deeply disturbed!
[1]Synchronicity and the Self: the Rainmaker Story
[3] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg
(v.2, p.82)
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