This Iranian protest group in Paris, left, has caught the essence of the archtypal basis of the following prediction, i.e. the Earth element in Chinese pentology. Yellow is the color of the Earth element, particularly in peasant garb on a pretty woman.
This prediction is only partly based on Astrology. What it is based on is part of what the Chinese call “fate-calculation,” which is a mixture of Astrology and numeric cycles, for the same reason that Vedic astrology is such a mixture – the crude celestial positions of the planets does not completely describe their functions as archetypes.
In the Chinese Sixty Year Cycle (hereinafter “CSYC”) which is based on the position in the heavens of the planet Jupiter, last year 2008 was the year of the Earth Rat, the beginning of one of the 12-year sub-cycles of the CSYC which are each founded on one of the Chinese five elements. The Earth cycle beginning with Earth Rat was preceded by a Fire cycle beginning with Fire Rat in 1996 and ending with Fire Pig in 2007 (Fire produces Earth). In the previous CSYC this transition between the Fire sub-cycle and the Earth sub-cycle happened in 1947-1948. The second year in the new Earth sub-cycle, the year of the Earth Ox (1949, 2009), is also an explicitly Earth year, and for the processes considered here, it can be considered the Yin extension of the Yang Earth Rat year.
One of the things that these 12-year sub-cycles govern is the fundamental tone of governmental institutions. In the modern era, because our entire civilization is fire-heavy, things tend to get out of hand in the fire sub-cycle. We saw that with WWII in the previous CSYC, and with the 9-11 catastrophy and Geo. W Bush’s military adventurism secondary to it in this one. The transition to the earth sub-cycle produces the drawing down of this fire extremism to the more ordinary, relevant, and productive processes of normal life on this planet. This transition can come about by processes as peaceful as Ike’s disempowerment of the military-industrial complex circa 1948 and the election of Barak Obama in 2008. But it can also come about by processes as dramatic and violent as the final hegemony of the Communist Revolution in China in 1949, and the current unrest in Iran.
Based on all these archetypal considerations, here is my prediction for the outcome of the current political unrest in Iran: This is exactly the wrong time for the continuation in power of a fire-converted piece of work like Mr. Ahmadinejad, and his terrorized tool, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Both of these figures will lose power. Because it is a yin year, it is very likely that one or both of them will continue as empty figure-heads. But the Iranian peole will strip them of power by this unrest. The type of person who is likely to rise to power in Iran is the pragmatist former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The current opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi may or may not succeed. But in any case, the current Iranian political system will be completely revamped to reflect the will of the Iranian people.
Iran, what used to be called Persia, is heir to the oldest literate civilization on earth, older than China. The Iranian people are a race upon which the mantle of God’s grace has long since fallen, resulting in an ancient line of Perfect Spiritual Masters, within several traditions of esotericism. When I see footage of what the Iranian people are doing today, my heart swells with pride for their spiritual power. This is from God, and against God, no one shall finally prevail, not even a corrupt Ayatollah. Allah-hu Akbar!
An enlightened government in Iran is something for which every citizen of this planet with his or her head screwed on must hope and pray. As goes Teheran, so goes the Muslim world. Iran undoubtedly has a greater geopolitical influence than any other country in the region. Greater than Egypt. Greater than Israel. Yea verily, greater than Saudi Arabia.
Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping, 20 Jun 09
