Astrological Analysis of Luther and Christ's Horoscope by Cardano
conjunction of all planets in the ninth house, that of religion, thus giving a completely negative interpretation to the chart: The conjunction of five planets in the sign of Scorpio in the IX house, which the Arabs attributed to religion, is peculiar and frightening. It made him impious, heretical, a bitter enemy of the Christian religion, and rendered him worldly. Through direction, the ascendant, the conjunction and Mars, the unbeliever went to ruin. His base soul went to hell, where it will be tormented eternally by Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera.
This astrological ferment around Luther's figure nevertheless gave birth to a movement of astrological and astronomical rebirth around the city of Wittenberg, where another important character taught mathematics and astronomy for another kind of reform: Georg Rheticus, the first editor and advocate of Copernican theories.
Christ's Horoscope and the Action of Christ's Consciousness in Man
From the confessional wars, the Church began to question the advisability or not of promoting astrological knowledge, and Cardano was the first to sense this. Thus, at the cost of his own life, Cardano decided to implement the most desperate of countermeasures: the drafting of Christ's Horoscope.
To understand the problem behind Christ's Horoscope, it is necessary to understand the theological principle behind it:
- The horoscope describes the natural course of events: the giving and receiving, the retribution, action and reaction, karma.
- The grafting into the human race of the Son of God is an extra event that inserts into the Soul of the World a new and divine element that revolutionizes the course of human history.
- Making a horoscope of Christ could be interpreted as describing Jesus Christ as a man, as a natural event.
- Cardano instead makes another discourse: he knows well that the grafting of Christ has consequences in the course of human evolution; what he wants to highlight is how God acted in accordance with the instruments he himself created and in conformity with precise cosmic cycles operated the descent and incarnation in Man as he himself had predetermined.
What Cardano says, however, is that even from a purely astrological point of view, Christ's birth has 10 extraordinary peculiarities that presaged divine intervention. It is therefore Christ's own divinity that authorizes Astrology.