The Galactic Centre Galactic Astrology

Cause of Eruptions Vesuvius and

Predicting „The EnD of the World“ IN 2012
Pt 1.

Susan Seymour Hedke August 2009

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic

eruptions, climate disasters,
plagues and famines. Is that
what awaits us? Not a pretty
picture, yet these and similar
disturbing events have already
begun to change our world.
I made the discovery of what
was causing the climate
changes, the polar melting and
other disasters after the
Indian Ocean Tsunami of
December 2004
I drew up an astrological chart
for the disaster and compared
it to other similar disasters
like the eruption of Krakatau
in August 1883 and I came up
with a repeating pattern for
disaster in general: the Moon
or some other body was often
placed close to the summer
solstice in the June position
of late Gemini or early Cancer.
There seemed to be little
reason for this, and astrology
gave me no clue. So I
questioned why two major,
deadly earthquakes had occurred
on the same date in two
consequetive years: December 26
2003 and December 26 2004. I was looking for a missing piece
that would explain these things. I remembered Graham
Hancock's writing in Fingerprints of the Gods about the Mayan
Prophecy of the „End of the World“ coming in a future
December and I read John Major Jenkins How and Why of the
Mayan End Date in 2012. That was how I found out that the
reason for this prophecy was the coming alignment of the
centre of our Milky Way galaxy with the winter solstice Sun.
It seemed, on further research, that hundreds and even
thousands of years ago, there were people who knew about the
centre of our galaxy 26,000 light years away, that we only
„discovered“ a few decades ago.They built this knowledge in
to their holiest symbols, artwork and religious treasures.
Yet to nearly all I fear the meaning has become a mystery.
How could we „lose“ such a vital piece of information, the
very centre of our whole galaxy?
The Galactic Centre is placed in the tropical astrological
chart at 27° Sagittarius in 2010, but motion of the tropical
year leads to a seeming progression of the Galactic Centre
through the signs so that in 250 years time the Galactic
Centre will be in the sign Capricorn. This seeming procession
takes the same amount of time as the precession of the
constellations over the vernal equinox (1°in 72 years or
1°24'in 100 years) and is part of the same Great Year cycle
of over 25,000 years1, I explain all this in more detail in my
book:
THE GALACTIC CENTRE 2012 and the Great Waves Coming in
December.

This means anyway that 2000 years ago the Galactic Centre was
apparently just entering the tropical sign of Sagittarius and
is now, when it crosses the winter solstice in the next 250
years, ending a Great Year.
According to tropical calculations the Galactic Centre is not
yet in perfect conjunction to the winter solstice, though
other other researchers are suggesting it is perfectly
aligned in 2012. However, if it is not a perfect alignment,
were there perhaps additional reasons why the Maya saw this
as the end of the calendar? Further astrological research
showed that the aspects occurring in the years between 2010
and 2013 have not been possible before in the last Great Year
cycle. The alignments occurring in these years with Uranus
conjunct the spring equinox squaring the Galactic Centre
conjunct the winter solstice conjunct Pluto conjunct and
Neptune also aspecting, so that all known outer bodies are
aligning, not in a straight line as someone suggested, but
certainly all in aspect is very powerful – in fact its
dynamite. If you look through history as far back as
possible, as I have been doing the last five years, you see
how just one of these aspects mentioned can caused disasters,
but all together could certainly mean some very big disaster
and I think anybody who knew our planet and would fly over it
today, as a documentary film has done showing the wild animal
1 The Great Year is usually claimed to be 25,920 years: 12 X 2,160 ages, but
this is I feel too long.
s forced from their homes, the loss of glaciers and polar
ice, the destruction of forests, seeing the floods and the
poverty in which many millions of people live, I think you
would have to admit that something big must be „about“ to
happen. If you are informed over all the changes going on in
the whole solar system now, you may be quite unable to avoid
this conclusion. It is just a question, as the film The Day
After Tomorrow put it, of whether it will come tomorrow or
later. As to what form it may primarily take, that is what I
am dealing with here.
A similar mix of aspects did occur on Pluto's last transit
over the Galactic Centre c. 250 years ago. That was a time
when the Galactic Centre was in c. 23° of the sign
Sagittarius. Then the Galactic Centre and Pluto were involved
in a wide square to Uranus as Uranus entered Aries over the
spring equinox in 1762.
A number of disasters occurred as the square began,while
Uranus was still in the water sign Pisces, like the All
Saints Day Earthquake and Tsunami in Lisbon on November 1
1755.

In 1761-2 as Uranus moved from the water sign of Pisces to

the fire sign of Aries, volcanoes erupted causing in China,
America and other places a mini ice age. Uranus will enter
Aries in 2010. The near aspect in 1762 only lasted for a
short few months and was not exact yet a number of violent
human and natural disasters were connected to it, including
the Seven Year War and the Sikh Holocaust. This period gives
us a warning, as do the events of the 1920s to 30s which
brought the Great Depression and marks Uranus last transit
over the spring equinox into Aries, which also caused a
number of natural disasters and Hitler's rise to power. Also
large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occurred, yet at
this time Pluto was not in aspect to the Galactic Centre at
the same time as Uranus aspected the Galactic Centre back in
the 1920s to 30s. Nevertheless, from 1927 to 28 Anak
Krakatau, at least one Mexican volcano, a Russian volcano
called Sarychev Peak erupted and is now erupting again this
July, in 1928 one of the worst eruptions of Mount Mayon in
the Phillipines also occurred and in November 1928 Ätna
erupted. This is just a partial list of what was going on
last time Uranus entered Aries.
Let us look at the charts of some of the worst volcanic
eruptions in history for this is what is also predicted for
the end time in the Bible's Revelation. It is warning us of a
massive volcanic eruption, as also telling us of the happy
end, or should I say new beginning which comes after. For in
the cyclic understanding the omega or end of the Great Year
leads to alpha the birth of a new Great Year. the new Earth
that will be created through these massive events. This is
also how I interpret the pieces discovered that make up the
Mayan Prophecy and the the Aztec Codex turned into a book by
John Major Jenkins in „Pyramid of Fire“.All await the return
of volcano gods: Tezcatlipoca; the Smoking Mirror (made of
obsidion from the volcano) who will rise tiger like out of
the ocean and chew up and swallow the Earth at the End.
(Chronicles of Akakor).
This understanding of the volcanic return is given in all the
ancient prophecies the world over, about the freeing of
giants from their chains and bonds, sometimes they rise as
beasts- the wolf Fenrir or as part leopard ,lion or tiger.
Yet as the fire of life has been burning low and the
volcanoes have slept we have forgotten the gods.
What has been forgotten is the elementary association in the
Great Year cycle and therewith also the volcanic association
which is the root of a deeper spiritual meaning, for in fact
the volcano and later the pyramid represented not only the
human body with its chakras and kundalini power but also the
whole galaxy as a larger unit in which the Galactic Centre
played a central role as the source of the kundalini- the
muladhara-root chakra of the whole galaxy. She created from
her womb in an explosive way like a volcano. The earth and
heavens reflected the same pattern as the galaxy and the
human body so that the Earth too had a womb through which the
Sun god was born, created through the volcano. The volcano
was the creator god/ goddess married in one aas Shiv-Shakti,
Yin aand Yang the two polarities were united through a third
force which turned it into a holy trinity, and so all our
demi-god figures were originally shown with snake bodies
often tied to a partner of the opposite sex. They were
associated with volcanoes and their copy the pyramid, this
includes Jesus and Osiris and the legendary emperor Fu Xi and
Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan down which the snake is seen to
run.

Left: Picture of Nuwa

the original goddess
later wife-sister of
Fuxi another of those
nagual pairs. They
married on a mountain - she his sister. They
represent the chakras of each body, the
volcano and the galactic axis from the
Pleiades, Alcyone and Orion and the Yang Sun
power above, to the Galactic Centre and the
Full Moon below at root. The skirt of Fuxi and Nuwa combined
shows the volcanic connection as it is formed like a mountain
out of which their reddish flaming bodies arise, and the
mountain skirt is decorated with lava. The form of the lava
is curled like the smoke rising from the central American
engraving of the volcanic eruption. This I believe is the
origin of the so called jaguar paw motif in Mayan art which
is shown aslo in many crop circles connected to volcanic
themes and placed near sacred mountains. In legend Fuxi and
Nuwa were married in the Kun-lun mountains under rather
eruptive circumstances, perhaps in the same way that Jesus
will marry his bride and birth the new Earth. K'un is also
the name of the Sagittarius (galactic root-serpenttail) area
in the I Ching and Kun is the root of words like kunt- cunt a
hollow place- womb.
Above far right you see the volcano and the astrological
cycle with the Galactic Centre at base and root in the
kundalini womb of the Earth. The whole cosmology and mythical
reality was based on this cosmic understanding of the
volcano. So the entrance to the underworld was in caves close
to a volcano, so the river styx was envisaged to begin at 8°
Libra etc, so we see how the signs of winter are associated
with the underworld and the signs and houses of day and
summer were originally and correctly associated with heaven.
The peak of heaven was in the Gemini area. Aries the first
son of God, the first born Ram was the volcano as it first
erupted, as the solar power first ascended out of the
underworld. The higher gods reigned on top of a mountain but
the root creator elements might live at the base.
Astrology has been terribly handicapped by its loss of
knowledge of the Galactic Centre. It has been like playing
chess against a scientific adversary when one has lost one's
queen. Of course this hysterectomy on astrology has also cut
us off from any possibility of conceiving what our ancestors
understood in their myths. Let us look at some of the worst
eruptions in history and replace the galactic womb area in
the chart.

THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS AUGUST 79 AD

Look at the chart of the eruption of Vesuvius back in 79 AD.

I found this chart, which I had long been curious about, on
the blog of a fellow astrologer called Valerie Lavina, with a
really excellent interpretation, emphasizing correctly the
importance of Mars conjunct the South Node (Ketu) in Aries,
and Saturn in Aquarius. Yet how empty and directionless this
chart now looks to me when compared with the chart showing
the missing piece of the puzzle, the Galactic Centre, in c.
3°i of the tropical sign Sagittarius. You can see how the
picture is changed by the inclusion if you look below.

In the above chart we can now see that the Moon is conjunct
the Galactic Centre and the ascendant of the chart. Also it
is opposite Jupiter and in fact the Galactic Centre makes a
grand cross with the Moon and the other most important body,
our Sun, as also Mercury and Uranus and all this occurs on
the angles of the chart. Now we have three „bows“ in the
chart, one to Mars (the Lesser Malefic) conjunct the South
Node, and two new ones:one to Saturn (the Great Malefic) and
one to the Galactic Centre. The constellation Sagittarius
where the Galactic Centre is found is associated with an even
more malefic area in Vedic astrology. This is where the
disastrous South Node Ketu is given his true home. He is
shown as the tail of a snake.
Below is the full adaptation of the chart in colour including
the Galactic Centre with what I call a bow and arrow aspect
pointing at the Galactic centre, as also at Saturn and at
Mars in the fire sign Aries conjunct the
South Node.
This mixture of a grand cross or T square
and then with a bow and arrow or partial bow
and arrow pointed at the Galactic Centre is
one of the most lethal signs one can have
for disasters, so it is interesting that
Sagittarius, the sign and constellation in
which the Galactic Centre is placed, is also
given such a bow and arrow pointing towards
the Galactic Centre and the deadly scorpion
whose sting is close to and below that
centre.

Pluto was not included in Valerie Lavina's chart but would

have been at the end of Aquarius closing on Uranus opposite
the Sun and square Jupizter and the Ascendant with the GC, so
exaggerating the grand cross.

This chart above, of the 79 AD eruption, is quite a typical

chart for a major disaster. Compare it with the Tsunami 2004
below in which there is also a bow and arrow to the Galactic
Centre and a grand cross.

The Earthquake and Tsunami occurred as the Moon was opposite

the Sun conjunct the Galactic Centre and a bow and arrow
forms.

It has also been claimed that the earthquake that caused the
Tsunami 2004 was a typical volcanic earthquake and that the
flanks of Mount Toba beneath the seas rose by many meters
during the earthquake. Certainly afterwards, in January and
again in April 2005 a number of volcanoes erupted. The North
NOde of the Moon(Rahu) was then travelling through Aries.
Mars was square Uranus as the earthquake occurred, however
there was no bow pointing at Mars or Aries, or essential
involvement of these signs, to suggest that this disaster
would be a volcanic one as there had been by the 79 AD
eruption.
The most famous eruption is perhaps that of Krakatau in 1883
and here again you can see a similar involvement of planets,
especially Uranus in a T square, just as it was by the
eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii, Stabiae and
Herculanum, killing about 30,000 in 79 AD. Krakatau's
eruption and calderic collapse caused a tsunami with over
36,000 deaths. By Krakatau Mars was opposite the Galactic
centre with the Moon. This conjunction is very explosive.

VOLCANO KRAKATAU ERUPTS 1883

By this eruption Mercury is conjunct Uranus in a T square and

the North Node in both cases is involved in a bow to the GC.

VOLCANO TAMBORA
ERUPTS 1815

The worst eruption in

recent times of the
Indonesian volcano
Tambora, caused the
deaths of over 90,000
directly and led to
famine and weather
anomalies in the
following year all
over the world. In
June 1816 New
Hampshire, USA
experienced snow and
the crops failed.
 Here again we see
the involvement of Uranus, this time conjunct the Galactic
Centre in the fire sign
Sagittarius. The Sun and
Moon are in the fire sign
Aries. Looking at all
eruptions (ie of Krakatau
and Vesuvius) you will
notice that the fire signs
and particularly Aries are
significant, as also the
placings of Mars, and the
Nodes of the Moon.

Volcano Pelée erupts 1902

On May 8, 1902, the

volcano Montagne Pelée on
the Caribbean island of
Martinique exploded
sending pyroclastic flows
and surges that went
directly into the city of
Saint-Pierre, then the
capital of Martinique. The
city was completely devestated killing all but one of its
estimated 30,000 inhabitants.

Nevado del Ruiz,

Colombia
On November 13, 1985,
the glacier-covered
volcano in the
Colombian Andes Mountain
awoke. The small
eruption sent and
pyroclastic flows across
the glacier and
snowfields, generating a
great flood. The
resulting mudflow swept
down the valleys. The
town of Armero was
struck at night, when
most of the town’s
inhabitants were
sleeping, and it was
buried. An estimated 23,000 people were killed.
Having seen the involvement now of Uranus aspecting the
Galactic Centre, as also various other typical involvement of
the fire signs, Aries etc, one should not be surprised that
in the coming years when Uranus enters Aries aspects both the
Galactic centre and Pluto and is often involved in powerful T
squares and grand crosses there will be large volcanic
eruptions.
End Part I

© Susan Seymour Hedke 5 August 2009

iThe Galactic Centre has always been astronomically (or sidereally) at the
beginning of the constellation Sagittarius and here in 79 AD was also tropically
in the same area.