#natal chart rectification

About the stunning, unusual timing of YOSHIKI’s recent loss… both hide (years ago) and now YOSHIKI’s mother passed roughly within a week or so of each other.

In astrology, it’s something that you discover is actually quite normal for people, not an exception. Events connected to loved ones and people very important to you tend to cluster in hot spots on your chart, like a big speed bump in the road. I call these hot spots “whump spots” (taken from the fanfic term “whump”). These whump spots are so active and intense, they seem to echo year after year, but it’s actually that your natal chart is round, representing an annual a cycle, so it’s pretty much a guarantee that there’s going to be cyclical patterns in your life.

Whump spots are typically time period windows of about a week (before or after), where there’s birthdays, deaths, marriages/anniversaries, and significant events that overlap (usually painful, but not always). It’s like a heat seeking missile of stuff targeting a specific window of time on your chart. These event whump spots are actually one of the major markers you look for when you’re rectifying someone’s natal chart (Natal chart rectification is the process of calculating for someone’s exact birth time when their birth time is unknown. It’s eerily accurate to the minute, I can vouch for it first hand… I’ve rectified my own natal chart as well as musician’s charts.)

X JAPAN and YOSHIKI are such significant figures of Japanese Visual Kei, that his/their whump spots echo with other important Visual Kei artists/bands too. Here are some notable examples:

•「BLUE BLOOD」, the album that actually is responsible for the naming of the musical genre Visual Kei, was released April 21, 1989.

•BUCK-TICK’s landmark concert, 「SWEET STRANGE LIVE」 was filmed the 8 or 9th of May, only one week after hide’s passing.

•The GazettE is celebrating their 20th anniversary, and just held their first concert for their anniversary tour. Their first single was released April 30th, 2002.

•L’Arc~en~Ciel’s first album was released April 27, 1993, and they’re holding their tour final for their 30th anniversary in one week from now.

In life, when you notice these patterns, particularly when you’re dealing with losses, though it’s difficult navigating the process of mourning, recognizing whump spots… can actually help. It’s a spot of strong significance for you, and it can verify how important these people are in your life, like a massive astrological memorial was set up since the very beginning. Whump spots get activated by other intense events also, which is incredibly comforting and validating too, when you’re feeling like the world doesn’t recognize how bad or significant that “something” is to you… it’s like the cosmos itself agrees.