Silence Day

Of all the events in Meher Baba's life, it is the day that he began his lifetime of silence that is perhaps most remembered by posterity. In this post, I've looked at the transits on that day, July 10th 1925, and there are two that stand out:

• transiting Saturn's conjunction with his natal Moon
• transiting Uranus's conjunction with his natal Mercury

Let me say from the outset that all my comments about Meher Baba and his natal chart are from an exterior viewpoint, meaning the way the world perceived his actions. In no way am I trying to delve into what Meher Baba was thinking or feeling. Neither I nor humanity, then or now, can comprehend his interior life. In Astrology, the Moon represents the public and, in a natal chart, its placement and aspects reflect the way a person responds to the public and how it in turn perceives him (or her). Saturn represents limitation and so the transit of this planet across his natal Moon aptly reflects the restricted way in which Meher Baba could now react to humanity and how it turn would perceive him.

Mercury represents communication and the conjunction of transiting Uranus with Meher Baba's natal Mercury again aptly reflects the sudden and drastic change in the way he communicated. His mandali (close followers) thought that he would maintain this silence for perhaps a few days or weeks. None suspected that it would last for the rest of his life. The annotated chart that I've attached to this post highlights the heavy aspects to his natal Moon and reminds us how defining this silence was on the world's perception of his Avatarship.