Bright stars on head of
the whale is the Arabic asterism, Al
Kaff al Jidmah
A monk
in Thailand chopped off his own head using a guillotine as an offering to
Buddha in the hope he would be reincarnated as a 'higher spiritual being'.
Thammakorn Wangpreecha, 68, had reportedly been planning the bizarre ritual
sacrifice for more than five years. The monk believed that making the offering
to the deity would bring him good luck in the afterlife - a belief known in
Buddhism as 'making merit'. The monk was found dead on April 15 at the Wat Phu
Hin temple in Nong Bua Lamphu province, in north-eastern Thailand. April 19 https://bit.ly/3xa6hhp
The Annual “Capsolar” (sidereal Capricorn ingress chart of the Sun) carries a very prominent Grand Cross that aligns very significantly with the angles at Nong Bua Lamphu. Contained in this is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction aligned with the angles.
Saturn/Pluto alignments often manifest as a yearning for regression, to restore society to an idealized, past era of simplicity, stability, and control. Saturn is the glorified tradition in religions which suppresses and represses and denies the underworld of Pluto – the animal like instincts from which healing, wholeness and higher consciousness can ultimately emerge. In the extreme case, as in the news here, the authoritative structure of religious beliefs, can become the guillotine of the ascetic seeking to punish the body in the hope of salvation.
If we endure the tests of Saturn and Pluto, we can descend within to explore our inner shadow and unconscious complexes rather than overly focusing on external or traditional ideas of achievement. Saturn and Pluto brings the necessary confrontations with cultural issues from which we need to dissociate or even alienate ourselves to find our unique way in the world. Pluto's archetype is destructive, but sometimes, destruction is necessary for the seeding of new life.
The Saturn-Pluto conjunction is square Mars-Uranus. In his book, The Combination of Stellar Influences, Ebertin provides the following key phrases for this combination
Hard struggling for success; self-destructive energy; a person unafraid of brutality or violence; sudden acts of violence.
More specifically, Mars [4ta] – Uranus [7ta] are amidst stars the ancient Arabic asterism, Al Kaff al Jidmah – the head of Cetus, the Whale [1]. Diana Rosenberg notes: Hamal, alpha Aries [8ta] with Sharatan [3ta] was the hilt of an archaic scimitar (guillotine?) Robson wrote that Hamal is called “The Death Wound”.
On April 15, the progressed angles realign with the powerful Grand Cross, giving rise to the tragic event.
Thammakorn Wangpreecha committed suicide by lopping off his head on his birthday to honour Buddha, Metro writes. Since this was his 68th birthday, his date of birth would be 15 April 1953. A noon chart for this date is quite revealing.
The Sun is conjunct the TNP Admetus opposite Saturn-Neptune. Pluto has been transiting square this combination. So we can see the pressure of Pluto-Saturn working in the monk’s birthchart. For transit Pluto to natal Admetus, Martha Wescott writes:
To come to recognize
what can no longer be endured – and to deal with the accrued consequences of
having pushed the self too far; having delayed elimination of intolerable
problems, one faces confrontation and experiences a need to return to integrity
– a need to know where one stands (and then to decide if one is willing to
stand there!)
Finally, we note that the New Moon of April 12 [22ar] fell right on top of the monk’s radix combination, thereby triggering it.
[1] https://www.starink-world.net/universe/10%20Whale's%20Head.pdf
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