Phillip Neri raises the dead
Astrology of a resurrection
There are numerous instances of saints raising people from the dead. This is not a miracle left to only Biblical accounts. Jesus said his followers would perform more and greater miracles than he did. This happened. Previously, I charted a headless man walking. That was a cephalophore: A beheaded man living. Like that instance, this is the only instance of a resurrection I can find a date for (other than Jesus’), though the accounts of saints raising the dead are numerous (St. Nicholas was said to have raised the dead, for example). This resurrection has a commemorative mass celebrating it every year, which is how I got the date for it.
St. Phillip Neri was saying a mass when he was called to see a dying boy before the boy was to die. St. Phillip could not leave the mass, so another priest had to give the boy Xtreme Unction. As soon as the Mass was concluded, St. Philip left to attend to Paolo. Don Fabrizio, weeping, met him at the top of the stairs and said to him, “You are too late. Paolo is dead.”
St. Philip replied, “And why didn’t you send someone to call me sooner?”
“We did,” rejoined Fabrizio, “but Your Reverence was saying Mass.”
Philip then entered the room where the dead body of the youth lay. Setting himself at the edge of the bed, he prayed for seven or eight minutes with the usual palpitation of his heart and trembling of his body. He then took some holy water and sprinkled the boy’s face, and put a little in his mouth. After this he breathed in his face, laid his hand upon his forehead, and called him twice with a loud and sonorous voice, “Paolo, Paolo!”
The youth immediately awoke as from a deep sleep, opened his eyes and said, as in reply to Philip’s call, “Father! I wanted to see you. I forgot to mention a sin, and I would like to make a confession.”
The holy priest ordered those who were round the bed to retire for awhile, and putting a crucifix into Paolo’s hand he heard his confession and gave him absolution.
When the others returned to the room, Philip began to talk with the youth about his sister and mother, who were both dead, and this conversation lasted about half an hour. The youth conversed naturally with a clear distinct voice, as if he were in perfect health. The color had returned to his countenance, and to all who looked at him it seemed as if he had no ill heath at all.
At last St. Philip asked him before his father and all the others in the room if he would die willingly; he replied yes. A second time Philip asked him me if he could die willingly. He replied, “Yes, most willingly; especially so that I may go and see my mother and my sister in Paradise.”
Philip then gave him his blessing, saying, “Go, be blessed, and pray to God for me.“
Immediately with a placid countenance and without the least movement, Paolo expired in Philip’s arms.
Witnessing all this were Fabrizio with two of his daughters who were nuns in Santa Marta, his second wife Violante Santacroce, the servant Francesca who assisted Paolo in his illness, and several others.
The time is unknown. We can infer it was during the day from St. Phillip having celebrated mass, but that’s it.
Natally, St. Phillip Neri has a Uranus-Saturn quincunx: “Resurrect (Uranus) Dead (Saturn).” And Juno (Saturnian) is right next to this aspect, as well, emphasizing it.
Uranus and Sappho are conjunct in transit. Sappho is a Venusian object. “Resurrect (Uranus) Child (Venus).”
Sun conjunct Venus in transit in late Pisces trining Juno in late Scorpio (Uranus). “Day (Sun) Dead (Juno) Child (Venus) Resurrected (Uranus).” The Sun-Venus conjunct in late Pisces adds Plutonian themes to the aspect. Pluto brings mystery, illness, and other ill themes. It can be “Resurrect Sick (Pluto) Child from Dead.” Of course, Sun and Venus already square Pluto for that.
ECLIPSE
Eclipses cause a disruption in the earth’s energy. It’s like someone temporarily turning off the power supply (the Sun or Moon). For miracles, there will always be either an eclipse or a powerful station of an outer planet causing this disruption. On the day of the boy’s resurrection, Neptune is 12 days from stationing direct. The gas giants’ stations are felt many days before the day they station, and after. Astrologers have various takes on how many days, just as they do orbs for aspects.
The eclipse is conjunct the transit’s Neptune. Cancer is Martian. So, this would signal “Raise (Neptune) Male (Mars) [who is] Bedridden/Diseased (Pluto).” Or: “Raise Male [from] Hades (Pluto).” This is using Johndro’s Astrological Dictionary strictly. However, I often see Pluto involving the dead. Johndro’s dictionary has “corpse” in Saturn, but I think it should be in Pluto, where all the other gross things are, and let Saturn keep “dead.” If we do that, we get: “Raise Male Corpse (Pluto).”
There was also an eclipse on the prior Christmas. The eclipse’s Venus is conjunct Neri’s Moon in Sagittarius. Sagittarius is ruled by Uranus. The rulerships at 15-16 Sagitarius can read: “Child (Venus) Resurrected (Uranus) at Home (Moon) from Death (Saturn).”
Unfortunately, we do not have the boy’s chart. We would expect the eclipses to show not only his death, but also miracle (Uranus) about it. Based on Johndro’s electric phase technique, it would likely be a transit at 25 Aries.