Green Comet

Thats a good question.

The old Vedic books related the term "Ketu" to comets and seem to see them as omens of misfortune.

I am thinking the association of a comet with a calamity or misfortune may have come from an ancient memory, stored within generations of ancestral lore, of what can happen after a comet strikes earth. After seeing this great "fish in the sky", a deluge, or flood, or some world-wide cataclysmic reset followed which brought an end to many lives and civilizations. The end of an earth age and beginning of another.

This might also point to an association with the fish Matsya, the avatar of Ketu as the shadow graha. Some historians or linguists trying to decipher the Indus script have discovered that the stars may have been referred to, or seen as, the glints of fish swimming through the cosmic waters or dark celestial oceans as they move from horizon to horizon at night. The term min or meen may have referred to both fish and star and could be related to the later sanskrit term/name Mina/Meena.

A comet, which looks like a conspicuous and relatively large fish (or also a banner or flag) in the night sky, could have appeared to have grown larger and larger as it passed by(like the growth of Matsya), nearing closer to the point where it strikes earth. Then the great deluge and climate disasters happened, ending a world age and its civilazations. This points to Ketu's association with finality, moksha, endings, and new beginnings. Notice Pisces at the end of the zodiac, the sign of water, fish, and moksha or end of a cycle.

Since this green comet won't strike the earth, perhaps it doesn't portend misfortune in and of itself. Could be something related the themes of Libra since Libra rules green color. Could definitely use some balance, justice, and healing!

I've been having several omens or coincidences related to the color green within the last month or so.

S.

Hi dear friends,

Thank you for such valuable information.

On the 6th of February, 2023 around 04:17 there was a powerful earthquake in Turkey and almost wiped out 10 cities, in terms of functionality, from the map.

Ketu as you mentioned is the flag and related to comets. As he is currently in Scorpio, related to underground and tectonic plate activities, I was wondering whether or not this could be related with after 4 days the comet’s being visual to the eye?

Yes, the comet is not hitting the Earth which surely is a good omen and it’s being green is nice in terms of balance, but I’m still wondering about it’s relationship to this catastrophic event.

I don’t have much experience regarding comets being related to such significant earthquakes, as I am more used to looking into the eclipses for that.

What are your opinions? I would like to know.

Thank you

Zumrut

That's a good point about the earthquake and comet and I don't have a clear opinion about the connection.

Is is very close, as the quake was early morning of the 6th and the comet is most visible to everyone on the evenings of the 7th and 8th. But since the ancient omen branch of Jyotish is observational, it seems that if the comet were meant to be an omen, it would have been most seen before the catastrophe and not after.

But I don't know anything about the objective history of disasters coinciding with the appearance of comets. I also don't know how comets would affect the electromagnetic balance around the earth, if at all. But the quake did occur around the time of a full moon.

And this is not Ernst's translation, but one of the translations of Ashlesha's "basis below" is; "agitation and trembling". And the full Moon was in Ashlesha during the quake, according to the average ayanamsha.

And in Ernst's ayanamsha, it was in Magha, where the basis above and below are "crying" and "the falling down". This seems appropriate as there were many deaths mourned and many fallen buildings.

I think Mula may have been rising at that time and place as well but I'll have to check.

It would be interesting to find the actual astrological location of the comet itself at the time of the quake as well!