ASTROLOGY PHILIPPINES

By Angela Stuart-Santiago Cover of the author's new book on EDSA All through EDSA, the words of Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and occultist, kept ringing in my mind: “Whatever is born or done this moment of time has the qualities of this moment of time.” An astrological dictum on the significance of beginnings in the context of cycles and recurrence. As the awesome four days of People Power unfolded, culminating in Cory’s oathtaking and closing with Marcos’s flight, I was seeing it as a birth moment for the nation, a new pattern set, of a people breaking out of the old and trying out new ways of being and behaving for the sake of the common good.  [ EDSA Uno. ..page 329] The unexpected display of People Power when Filipinos stopped the tanks in EDSA-Ortigas was mirrored dramatically in the map of the heavens at the time.  The moon stood alone in the eastern hemisphere, while the eight other planets, led by the sun, were gathered in the western hemisphere. In mu...

By Angela Stuart-Santiago Excerpts from “Deconstructing EDSA,” the closing chapter of  the book  EDSA Uno, A Narrative and Analysis with Notes on Dos & Tres (2013)   by Angela Stuart-Santiago .  [ http://stuartsantiago.com/edsa-uno-the-book-in-solidaridad /] February 1986 was a rare time for the Philippines and the planet. From February 3 to 7, six solar flares were observed that gave rise, February 7 through 9, to a very intense magnetic storm, said to be the largest observed in 26 years. [i]   Also on the 9 th , Halley’s Comet, hurtling through our solar system on its 76-year orbit, reached its closest point to the Sun, this as Moon and Sun, seen from planet Earth, exactly aligned. [ii]   A rare confluence of cosmic events that wreaked havoc on Earth’ magnetic fields, instruments rendering off-scale variations said to set off weather and atmospheric disturbances, affecting even electric power grids, [iii] and, no doubt, our b...