The Battle of the Little Bighorn [1 Attachment]

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Dear Thor,

 

The following is a story and speculative chart for Sitting Bull which I

sent to the list last year.

 

 

Ron

 

 

 

 

I recently read a biographical account of Sitting Bull who was one of

the most renowned American Indians. Being such a giant in American

history I thought it would be relatively easy to find a chart for him.

He was a chief, a great warrior, a holy man and a medicine man-----very

interesting combination!

The chart must reflect the seemingly opposing elements of fighter and

healer.

He was born on the Grand River in South Dakota. The approximate location

is Bullhead SD.

One source has given a birth time of March 1831. There is no certainty

about this date. Historians generally agree on a birth date in 1831.

 

He was a pre-eminent Lakota holy man so the position and strength of

Jupiter is important. In 1831 Jupiter was in its debilitation sign of

Capricorn. It moved out of Capricorn in Dec 1831.

Jupiter gains strength around the period of its stations when it is

moving slowly.

The retrograde station was on 12th June 1831 and the direct station was

10th October 1831. At the direct station Jupiter was also exalted in the

navamsa. A period around 10th October is a possible birth time.

 

Mars was transiting the sign of Virgo from 10th September 1831 to 25th

Oct 1831.

The placement of Mars in Virgo is a very good position for fighting

strategies. It gives an intelligent approach to fighting. Sitting Bull

won many battles against other Indians and European Americans. Mercury

was also transiting Virgo(its exaltation sign) at this time further

enhancing the effects of Mars.

 

The Sun moved into its debilitation sign of Libra on 15th Oct. 1831.

There are some reasons to suggest that the Sun should be debilitated in

the chart of Sitting Bull.

 

1. He was quite modest and accepting by all accounts and was not

overbearing. He had a headdress of over 100 feathers but usually wore

only 1 or 2.

2.He faced humiliation by the government eg broken treaties, exile and

surrender.

3. He gave support and money to the less fortunate.

 

 

Sitting Bull was a leader, a courageous fighter, intelligent and

energetic and was always moving around the country. Several tribes

became united for the first time under his leadership. This would

suggest an Aries ascendant. Do the planetary placements support this?

 

1. Jupiter in Capricorn would be in the 10th house. This is a good

placement giving virtue, renown, high status (a king or equal to a king

or an army chief) and religious.

 

2. The 6th house should be significant as he was a fighter and healer.

This house is quite busy with Mars, Venus and Mercury located here and

receiving the aspect of Jupiter and Ketu. Jupiter’s benefic aspect to

all planets in the 6th house ensures that his fighting and healing was

in accordance with dharma. Exalted Mercury gives healing and medical

abilities.

Ascendant lord Mars is not well placed here. He was assailed by enemies

and after winning some battles (but losing the war) his life was cut

short by his own people.

 

A dual sign in the 6th house(Virgo) supports the fact that he was both a

warrior who would take life but as a medicine man and healer he would

restore life.

 

3. 5th lord Sun is debilitated. His first son died early.

 

4. 7th lord Ve is debilitated in 6th house and conjunct 6th lord

Mercury. His first wife died at childbirth.

 

5. Saturn is in 5th house of the intellect. As a child he was given the

name “Slowâ€. This was not because he was slow in action but because he

would often ponder deeply before taking action.

 

6. On 18th October 1831, the Moon moved into Pisces, the 12th house for

Aries ascendant. Sitting Bull had the ability of receiving prophetic

visions. This position of the Moon seems to support this. It also shows

the loss of his homeland which he struggled so desperately to keep as

well as his time in exile which ended in the humiliation of surrender. I

have taken a birth date of 19th October when Mercury the powerful 6th

lord closely aspects the Moon.

I chose an arbitrary ascendant of 19deg Aries ----19th October 1831,

Bullhead, SD

 

 

This is a purely speculative chart and there is no way of proving it but

the exercise was mainly intended to bring together some of the elements

which must exist in a chart for the person known as Sitting Bull.

 

The 4th house(Cancer) of SB’s chart is weak and afflicted depending on

the ascendant degree.

No surprise that this is the ascendant of a well working USA chart. SB’s

struggle was about home and land--The land that became modern America.

 

 

Sitting Bull Tatanka Iyotake

Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man

 

 

1851? Married

1851-1857 Son born. Wife died during childbirth

Early 20s Became a holy man

1856 Wounded in foot, limps for rest of his life

1857 Became a war chief

1863 -64 Lost several battles with military

25 June 1876 Victory at battle of Little Big Horn

1876-1881 Lived in Canada in exile

19 July1881 Surrendered to American forces

1885 Performed in Wild West show

15 Dec 1890 Death

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmologer wrote:

> Hello list members,

>

> I find a study of US history with the SAMVA USA chart a fascinating effort.

Here is some more information on US-Indian relations from the middle of the 19th

century. The problems of the Indians were no way over. The Battle of the Little

Bighorn was a big setback for the US Army and has become legendary in US

history. I hope you are enjoying the results of this inquiry as well.

>

> Indian reservation

> In 1851, the United States Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which

authorized the creation of Indian reservations in modern day Oklahoma. Relations

between settlers and natives had grown increasingly worse as the settlers

encroached on territory and natural resources in the West. By the late 1860's,

President Ulysses S. Grant pursued a stated " Peace Policy " as a possible

solution to the conflict. The policy included a reorganization of the Indian

Service, with the goal of relocating various tribes from their ancestral homes

to parcels of lands established specifically for their inhabitation. The policy

called for the replacement of government officials by religious men, nominated

by churches, to oversee the Indian agencies on reservations in order to teach

Christianity to the native tribes.The policy was controversial from the start.

Reservations were generally established by executive order. In many cases, white

settlers objected to the

> size of land parcels, which were subsequently reduced. A report submitted to

Congress in 1868 found widespread corruption among the federal Native American

agencies and generally poor conditions among the relocated tribes. Many tribes

ignored the relocation orders at first and were forced onto their new limited

land parcels. Enforcement of the policy required the United States Army to

restrict the movements of various tribes. The pursuit of tribes in order to

force them back onto reservations led to a number of Native American Wars. The

most well known conflict was the Sioux War on the northern Great Plains, between

1876 and 1881, which included the Battle of Little Bighorn. Other famous wars in

this regard included the Nez Perce War.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation

>

> The Battle of the Little Bighorn

> The Battle of the Little Bighorn —also known as Custer's Last Stand and, in

the parlance of the Native Americans involved, the Battle of Greasy Grass

Creek—was an armed engagement between a Lakota–Northern Cheyenne combined

force and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. It occurred on

June 25 and June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana

Territory, near what is now Crow Agency, Montana. The battle was the most famous

action of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 and was a remarkable victory for the

Lakota and Northern Cheyenne, led by Sitting Bull (TÈŸatȟáŋka Ãyotake). The

U.S. Seventh Cavalry, including a column of 700 men led by George Armstrong

Custer, was defeated. Five of the Seventh's companies were annihilated and

Custer himself was killed as were two of his brothers, a nephew, and a

brother-in-law. This battle did not inflict the highest number of casualties by

Native Americans against U.S. forces,

> however. That happened in 1791 at the Battle of the Wabash when the U.S army

command suffered over 600 casualties. Nevertheless, the battle reassessed

American outlook on Native American fighting abilities, as well as public

perception of the Great Sioux War. The battle, and Custer's actions in

particular, subsequently came under historical scrutiny.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Little_Bighorn

>

> The attached chart shows the following for June 25, 1876:

> Venus-Venus period had started, which can bring problems for communal harmony.

> -transit 6th lord Jupiter at 0° 49' Scorpio/H5 was conjunct natal Jupiter and

aspected by transit Rahu at 1° Pisces/H9

> - transit 8th lord Saturn at 15° 54' Aquarius/H8 was afflicted by natal Ketu

at 17° 47' Libra/H4. The placemen of Ketu in the SAMVA USA chart is uniquely

explaining race relations in the USA.

>

> We can also see the stationary influences involving Saturn.

>

> Sun Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu Ketu

> 27.1.1876 14°Cp19' 15°Pi13' 2°Aq33' 6°Sc06' 14°Aq33' 3°Aq50' 8°Pi10'

8°Vi10'

> 26.2.1876 14°Aq38' 6°Ar31' 22°Cp50' 9°Sc11' 21°Pi07' 7°Aq26' 6°Pi55'

6°Vi55'

> 27.3.1876 14°Pi33' 27°Ar22' 21°Aq50' 9°Sc44'R 26°Ar22' 10°Aq54' 6°Pi56'

6°Vi56'

> 26.4.1876 13°Ar57' 17°Ta41' 18°Ar00' 7°Sc37'R 29°Ta07' 13°Aq44' 6°Pi24'

6°Vi24'

> 26.5.1876 12°Ta54' 7°Ge33' 4°Ge45' 3°Sc57'R 26°Ge21' 15°Aq31' 4°Pi16'

4°Vi16'

> 25.6.1876 11°Ge34' 27°Ge02' 29°Ta09'R 0°Sc52'R 8°Cn12'R 15°Aq54'R

1°Pi12' 1°Vi12'

> 25.7.1876 10°Cn11' 16°Cn17' 28°Ge00' 0°Sc03' 24°Ge12'R 14°Aq53'R

28°Aq48'D 28°Le48'D

> 24.8.1876 8°Le59' 5°Le24' 25°Le56' 1°Sc51' 27°Ge46' 12°Aq50'R 27°Aq51'D

27°Le51'D

> 23.9.1876 8°Vi09' 24°Le30' 3°Li51' 5°Sc52' 22°Cn03' 10°Aq41'R 27°Aq42'

27°Le42'

> 23.10.1876 7°Li48' 13°Vi41' 21°Vi32' 11°Sc26' 23°Le55' 9°Aq22'R

26°Aq54' 26°Le54'

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