Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) was discovered at 5:15 am on September 21 2012 by Artem Novichonok and Vitaly Nevsky at the ISON-Kislovodsk observatory in Russia. The astronomers on their blogs and forums are saying there is a good chance that this will be a big one, very bright around the end of 2013. That is so long as it doesn’t break up like comet Elenin, and even though the discoverer titled his blog post “GREAT COMET FROM RUSSIA“, he does say “any optimistic forecasts should be treated with caution…its core can be very fragile and may not survive the comet perihelion.” I hope that comet ISON holds together and gives us a good show following the disappointment of Elenin. I’m sure that either way we will soon be hearing about ascension, doomsday or some aliens riding the tail in. I’ll start that ball rolling by looking into some old and new astrological methods for interpreting the meaning of comets.
Comet ISON Astrology Chart
Robson says the effects of comets are influenced “through the constellation in which they appear, and also through the zodiacal sign and degree to which their position corresponds. They are said to cause inordinate heat, pestilence. sterility of the earth, wars and changes in kingdoms, winds, earthquakes and floods, and are assigned to the planets according to their colors.” We will have to wait to see what color this comet is.
Comet ISON first appeared through a telescope at 29°25′ Cancer between constellations Gemini and Cancer. The comet aligned with alpha Monoceros, the brightest star in the Unicorn constellation. The two longest solar eclipses in the last two millennia fell on this star. The eclipse of 26 June 363 AD heralded the end of Paganism and the rise of Christianity through the Church of Rome. The last pagan ruler or Rome, Emperor Julian the Apostate died the day after the eclipse. He was succeeded by the Christian emperor Jovian. The solar eclipse of July 22 2009 coincided at the height of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. Monoceros rules the Catholic Church, Germany, Ireland, Israel, equality, communications and aviation.
Throughout the history of astrology, the appearance of comets was a sign of upheaval for humanity, effecting agriculture and the weather. Comets were also seen as heralding the rise to power of an “agent“, a military or religious leader, or a reformer. [Jonathan Flanery].
Today we can use a more modern method because we have an exact time and place for the first sighting of this comet. That means we can look at the discovery chart for clues. The star culminating on the Midheaven is Menkib in constellation Perseus “indicative of events effecting large numbers of people, especially those events caused by major meteorological phenomena”. Mercury stands out in the discovery chart being square Uranus and opposite Pluto. Perhaps the message from this comet has to do with the big evolutionary changes that Uranus square Pluto is bringing. The discovery came just 2 days after the second exact square, and the closest approach to the Sun comes at the peak of these squares in November 2013.
The rising star in the discovery chart is Thuban, the brightest star in constellation Draco the Dragon. “It was said by the Ancients that when a comet was here poison was scattered over the world.” Comet ISON should be visible to the naked eye from early November 2013 to mid-January 2014. It makes its closest approach to Earth on December 26. Comet ISON passes through constellation Draco from December 26 2013 to January 3 2014.
For several days around January 12, 2014, Earth will pass through a stream of fine-grained debris from Comet ISON…The shower is going to hit our planet from two directions at once…In my experience, this kind of double whammy is unprecedented. Comet ISON Meteor Shower
comets are an ideal vehicle for sustaining and transporting a variety of microbes, including viruses, from planet to planet and even from solar system to solar system. In consequence, when these organisms are deposited on a world already thriving with life, genes may be exchanged, the evolution of new species may ensue, or conversely contagion may be unleashed, and disease, death, and plague may spread throughout the land. Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space.
Another great source of information: The Spectacular Arrival of Comet ISON: The Astronomy and Astrology 2013
Yes it is Susan, I added this to the post, quotes from the NASA website:
Hubble Captures Comet ISON http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/ison-view.html
I’m staggered NASA are still going with the “dirty ice” model! Its not warming (ice would melt!) its picking up charge – so the tail is a highly charged plasma trail (hence the gas). The already learned when they tried to take a lump out of Tempel that it has an elecric charge. If only we knew how it is policed – this will dictate how it interacts with Earth/Sun etc
NOT POLICED – POLARIZED!!!! (damned spell check)
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do you reckon that the comet can correlate with man’s behavior as astrology does? for example, the idea of a comet spreading physical poison. there’s many theories that govt are spreading disease/flus etc.. this would be flue season. there’s talk of armageddon, and in the bible there’s the prophecy about something alien crashing into earth and spreading disease to all 4 corners. might this be symbolic of what man does, as oppose to the comet itself putting out the debris that can cause illness? as a fellow virgo i’d think you’d understand my interest in this.. lol.
* Physicist James McCanney on Comet Ison
Published on Mar 14, 2013
Maverick physicist James McCanney spoke about the coming of Comet ISON in 2013, which is predicted to be 15 times brighter than the full moon by November, and could be immense in size. Though there is no danger it will hit Earth, he noted, it may have some effect on weather.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogzgESEUEY8
revelation everyone!
I have been looking at the approach of ISON and notice there is a conjunction with Mars on Oct 2 2013. The comet will conj all the stars of Ursa Major on its approach. Those of you who are familiar with esoteric or soul evolutionary astrology will know Ursa Major is of great importance to humanity now. (as mentioned by Alice Bailey/Djwhal Khul)
The chart shows a yod with SAturn and the Moon at the base pointing to Uranus. I can’t add it as a jpeg here but obviously just draw it up on the astrodentist (astrodienst) – with midday at Greenwich.
ISON will cruise through all the stars of Ursa Major so its worth a look at the mundane meanings of them – e.g Phecda
“The power of this fixed star is a distinct one in mundane astrology, Elsbeth Ebertin noted that when the assassination in Serajewo of the Austrian heir to the Crown took place, Mars had just transited this fixed star. When the Justizpalast in Vienna was overrun, 20-24 July 1927, Mars transited Phacd and in other places too, riots took place. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.53, under the name Phacd.]
Well ISON will be conj Mars and although Phecda is at 0 Virgo and thus conj Regulus. Phecda is wide of Mars on that day – however, since it conjuncts all the stars of Ursa Major in its passage I think its safe to say the influences will be picked up. (although Mars apparently has no magnetosphere!!??)
I’m also intrigued by a little “linguistic” sign in the star Alkaid (Benetnasch)
Arabic is not a language which translates exactly to English but English spellings are made phonetically – so Alkaid is a phonetic of Alqaed. The ‘d’ often gets an extra phonetic ‘a’ in English as the sound is exaggerating in Arabic pronunciation.
Does anyone else see this – or was I the last to get it??? ANyway –
The last star in the Great Bear. Benetnash (Alkaid) means ‘hired mourners’. If the influence of this star is exercised, an influence of a Mars-Uranus-Saturn nature is present. Experience has shown that many human lives are to be mourned. Reinhold Ebertin made a survey of this fixed star covering centuries when associated with transits of the major planets over this degree. The results have been recorded in the 40th yearbook for Cosmobiological Research 1969. In accordance with adopted belief of ancient times, this fixed star is supposed to be bound up with the realm of the dead and is therefore associated with death and mourning. In an important position in a mundane map, Benetnash will claim human lives in calamities such as mine accidents, collapse of houses and bridges, mountain slides, earth tremors and catastrophes caused by weather. Uranus was in exact conjunction with Benetnash at the end of July 1969. This time was marked with extreme tension between Prague and Moscow, followed later in August by the Russian takeover of the USSR. The Czech reformers in Schwarzau on the Theiss fought for the freedom of their nation on the 30th July with the Russian political bigwigs. The Soviets widened their ‘maneuvers’ in Poland. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, no.46, p.57, under the name Benetnash]
Alkaid was known as “the destroyer of nations” by Islamic astrologers. [Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, George Noonan, 1990, p.5.]
Is this a coincidence? And as Jamie says – is ISON going top be a real changer? I’m going to do more charts for its passage.
p.s conventional translators say alqaed mean the “base’ – well its the base or the end of the constellation being the last star in the tail of the bear.
“Alcaid, Alkaid, and Benatnasch are our present titles, from Ka’id Banat al Na’ash, the Governor of the Daughters of the Bier, i.e. The Chief of the Mourners. Some of the Arabic poets wrote that these Daughters — the stars epsilon (ε Alioth), zeta (ζ Mizar), and this star eta (η Alkaid) — were “Good for nothing people whose rising and setting do not bring rain.”
So whatever your persuasion is re 9/11 it might be that the actual essence is a revolutionary force sent from this constellation – whoever picks up the baton to channel the force is irrelevant really – its the effect which is important.
Also maybe confused in translation is the word bier meaning the stand for a coffin before burial – the” Bear with her train” is the bier with her followers of mourners.
Another date to look for – the November 3 eclipse – ISON approaches Spica and Arcturus – a nasty yod on the eclipse date of Saturn and Mars to Uranus. ISON is conj Spica and Arcturus on the 17th Nov.
You’re well ahead of me with your research! Interesting that the troops will be out of Afghanistan by that time too. I have started looking at some charts but only did up the closest approach of comet ISON to Mars, it has Moon on Regulus. http://astrologyking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ison-mars.gif
From Nick Anthony Fiorenza – “ISON exactly conjoins Dschuba of Scorpio in both ecliptical longitude and latitude on November 27, a day before it whips around the Sun. Dschuba is the Head of the Scorpion. Dschuba impels us to become responsible cocreators and in how we use our creative power, and to take responsibility for our life experience rather than being a victim of it.
ISON and the Sun conjoin at the foot of Ophiuchus, where ISON is pulled around the Sun. Here it also moves from south of the ecliptic plane back northward, a day later on November 29. ISON now heads in its new direction to Yed Ophiuchus, the Hand of Death, where it arrives on December 6.
In our orbital view (shown in the movie above), ISON is now on its way out of the inner Solar System, heading toward Earth. ISON moves further northward through the heavens from our view, up along the Neck of the Serpent. It makes passage by the star Marsic of Hercules on December 16, where it then moves through and over Corona Borealis (The Northern Crown) and into Hercules. It makes its passage by Earth on December 26, 2013 at a distance of 0.43 AU from Earth—leaving us a tremendous message and stimulating energetic.
here’s the link for the movie and the maps
http://www.lunarplanner.com/Snippets/13.11-Comet-ISON/
Looking at a chart for the 28th Nov there is also a yukky fateful yod of N node with Alioth to Uranus. The Moon is opp Uranus too.
I can’t see this being a day at the beach…!
thanks for this. is there a website where I can find Ison’s position in 1975? I tried astrodienst but nothing. there are other comets but Ison is not listed there yet. any info is appreciated.
actually what I saw is an asteroid not a comet lol but I found Ison’s path. thanks for sharing so much info everyone