Written in the Sky* Rise of the Wadjet Witch (11 page)

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Authors: Juliet C. Obodo

“
I told you not to call me that,” Jill scolded him. “This is Memphis. She will be your part-time desk mate. She’s an astronomer working on her PhD at Columbia. She’s going to be writing horoscopes for us.”
“
Hello, Memphis.” He cocked his head; he seemed to know her too. Before he could place her, Memphis grabbed his hand and pumped it vigorously.
“
Nice to meet you!” she said loudly.
“
Em, honey, Lawrence isn’t deaf. That’s Charles. I introduced you to him earlier.”
“
Oh, yes, sorry, I forgot,” Memphis covered. “So, Jill tells me that you covered the Third Eye murders.”
“
Yes, I’m reporting on them. There have been two more homicides; they found a body last week in the Bronx, and another woman in Queens.”
“
Outer boroughs,” Jill mumbled, wrinkling her nose.
“
Excuse me, but I live in Queens! Maybe if I got a raise I could actually live on the island,” Lawrence chided.
“
That’s terrible,” Memphis commented.
“
Queens isn’t that bad.”
“
No, Queens is great. They have the best arepa café on 36
th
Avenue. I was referring to the murders.”
“
Oh yeah, I know the one. Those arepas are great. But yes, it is terrible.”
“
Were the other victims teachers, too?”
“
No. One was a stockbroker and the other was unemployed, but get this: she was last month’s mega jackpot winner.”
Memphis suddenly felt as if there were a pit in the middle of her stomach.
“
Coffee is here!” Jill handed her a cup.
“
Lawrence, what did the lottery winner look like?”
“
Look like?” He seemed puzzled, but then his face brightened. “Wait, I have a picture. My sister’s a police officer in Queens; she sent me the victim’s mug shot. This woman was convicted for a bunch of petty crimes, but when she won the lottery, it looked like she would never have to steal again. She was on the front page of the mainstream papers—a real rags-to-riches story. I have it here somewhere. He searched his desk. Here it is.” Lawrence held up the mug shot.
Memphis had a feeling it would be the woman from the newspaper shop, but that didn’t stop her from dropping her cup of coffee in surprise.

 

 

 

 

 

Despite the serial killer on the loose, the rest of Memphis’s first week at work went well. She turned in her first set of horoscopes and they ran that Wednesday. They were very well received by the readers. She decided to break her predictions into two parts: the first twelve for the old-fashioned, and then she added Orion and Ophiuchus as bonuses.

 

• Sagittarius 12/18 – 1/18
• Capricorn 1/19 – 2/15
• Aquarius 2/16 – 3/11
• Pisces 3/12 – 4/18
• Aries 4/19 – 5/13
• Taurus 5/14 – 6/17
• Orion 6/18 – 6/23
• Gemini 6/24 – 7/20
• Cancer 7/21 – 8/9
• Leo 8/10 – 9/15
• Virgo 9/16 – 10/30
• Libra 10/31 – 11/22
• Scorpio 11/23 – 11/29
• Ophiuchus 11/30 – 12/17

 

She referenced data from Virgil’s research to explain their presence:

 

Six thousand years of history is encoded within the stars, and a true astrologer can peek into the stars and foretell the future. In astrology, the position of a star—even of an entire constellation—is irrelevant. All that matters to western astrologers is the position of the Sun, the Moon, and planets along the ecliptic. Only the longitude, the latitude of a celestial body, doesn’t matter and is often overlooked. Other aspects and constellations below and above the elliptic plane were hardly ever considered. The real important aspect is the ecliptic plane, and the astronomical background may have value only when speaking of Astrological Ages.
There are at least thirteen constellations traced by the ecliptic—the thirteenth constellation being Ophiuchus—and the constellation of Orion practically touches the ecliptic. The Sun enters the constellation of Orion between the eighteenth and twentieth of June, and Ophiuchus on the twenty-ninth of November under the Egyptian sign of Wadjet.
The Greeks needed to remove one of the original fourteen constellations from the zodiac—the constellations on the elliptic and through which the Sun passes in the course of a year—in order to accomplish their desire to have each sign rule for an even thirty degrees of sky.
Orion is opposite to Ophiuchus, making the transition from twelve-sign astrology to fourteen-sign astrology easier and more straightforward.
The true Astrological Zodiac begins with Aries, but includes some celestial bodies other than the Sun, the Moon, and the planets, and these inclusions are quite rational from an astrological standpoint. True Astrology eliminates the dual rule of Venus in Taurus and Mercury in Virgo and makes the asteroids of Ceres and Vesta the new rulers of Taurus and Virgo. Orion and Ophiuchus have unique rulers in Pallas and Chiron. They are the gates to the higher world. This makes more sense and is a true reflection of the heavens.

 

Memphis created a chart to better see the differences between the two zodiacs.

 

Zodiac Sign
Planetary Ruler
Capricorn
Saturn
Aquarius
Uranus
Pisces
Neptune
Aries
Mars
Taurus
Ceres
Orion
Pallas
Gemini
Mercury
Cancer
Moon
Leo
Sun
Virgo
Vesta
Libra
Venus
Scorpio
Pluto
Ophiuchus
Chiron
Sagittarius
Jupiter

 

As the Earth slowly wobbles, its tilt changes and affects our view of the constellation the Sun is in at a given time. With time, as the Earth tilts, the constellation Ophiuchus seems to hit the elliptical path. The Sun spends more than half a month’s time in Ophiuchus. The sign opposite Ophiuchus is Orion. Now the Earth is tilting to the other side of the sky. Orion is on the side that Earth is now tilting toward. Today, our Sun actually rides the cusp of Orion two to three days out of the year and the Sun is just a couple degrees away from entering Orion.
Ophiuchus sits in the general direction toward the center of our galaxy, The Gate of the Gods. Orion sits in the opposite direction in the anti-galactic center, The Gate of Man.

 

The Gate of Man; The Gate of The Gods. The phrases struck a chord. She’d heard or seen them before but she couldn’t remember where.
Memphis saw the ties to Egypt in Virgil’s research and began to delve deeper into the country’s history for more answers. There was a great deal of material on the subject.

 

According to Egyptologists, the most important constellations in ancient cosmology that were used in certain cults and religions revolved around four important figures in Egyptian mythology: Isis, Osiris, Horus, and Seth. Osiris was the Egyptian god of enlightenment and wisdom who helped the Egyptians evolved from barbarism to a civilized society. Isis was the sister and wife of Osiris, and represented motherhood and education. Seth was the evil brother of Isis and Osiris who schemed and succeeded in killing Osiris and taking control of ancient Egypt. Horus, conceived by Isis from the deceased Osiris, would grow up to defeat Seth and restore ancient Egypt to its rightful rulers.
The constellations, planets, and stars that correspond to the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses are as follows:

 

Osiris-Orion-Moon
Isis-Sirius-Earth
Seth-Taurus-Mars
Horus-Leo-Sun

 

Mars is a god of war and truly fits the image of Seth bringing chaos onto the world.

 

As Memphis unearthed more information, she began to see signs that these “myths” might actually be facts. For example the Great Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt had mathematical, geometric, and astrological connections to the planet Mars and to the first monuments erected to the Gods in the solar system. These monuments were located in Cydonia, which is on Mars.

 

Located in the region of Cydonia are large four and five-sided pyramids that have geometric alignments—a hallmark of design by any intelligent life form capable of constructing buildings. The most obvious and talked about feature at Cydonia is “The Face.” Several people have noted similarities between the “The Face” and the ancient Egyptian visualization of Horus, who would avenge the death of his father by defeating the evil Seth.

 

This information was amazing and too much to be a coincidence. She really wished she could discuss it with Virgil.
Memphis had already begun to receive fan mail—a total of five e-mails. Two of them were from the same person, but it felt great to be appreciated. She refreshed her screen in hopes that another individual found her to be creditable for the management of their week. The red circle on the left side of the mailbox icon popped up, indicating she had new mail. Excited, Memphis clicked on it to access her inbox.
She had one e-mail from human resources about her health insurance, and another from a
[email protected]
.
She opened the message and discovered that it was from Virgil White—he’d finally replied to her inquiry from last month. It seemed so long ago. He wrote that he would be happy to create her natal chart and if she already had one, he could help her decipher it. He would just need her birth information and a copy of the chart to review. Luckily Memphis had been carrying around her chart since she rediscovered it.
She ran to the copy room, scanned the chart, and ran back to her desk to send him the e-mail attachment. Lawrence looked up and gave her a curious smile. He’d been treating her like a newly released psych patient since the coffee incident on her first day. She didn’t tell him or Jill that she’d spoken to the third victim, Vanessa Cobbs; she hadn’t wanted to draw attention from the police on her first day of work. It wasn’t as if she had much evidence to provide. She gave her some lotto numbers that just happened to be the winning ones. It couldn’t have been the reason she died. If it was, then the murders would be called “the Lottery Winner Killings.” She was guilty of nothing but helping a sista out.
She ignored Lawrence and focused on composing an e-mail response to Virgil. She explained that she was an orphan and her foster parents gave her a box containing her natal chart. It would be great if he could shed some light on its origins. She didn’t have an actual birth certificate; she was left at the hospital after some sort of accident and then placed in foster care after no one claimed her. She attached the scan and hit send.
Well, that was that. Hopefully he wouldn’t take another month to respond. She began to work at reviewing aspects for next week’s horoscopes when she saw she had another e-mail. Virgil had already replied, and he was requesting a meeting with her. She was just about to respond and suggest that they meet that evening when Jill came over and enveloped her in a hug.

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