(Bruce Note: Mars passed by Earth at its' closest in 2003. It is set to return in June 2018. It is interesting to note that cultures globally are fixated on doom and gloom, the heavenlies, and this new world order they crave.)
There are a not inconsiderable number of readers who buy the newspaper only to look at the day’s horoscopes. Whether you believe in horoscopes or not, the fact remains that these somewhat ghastly harbingers do cast a looming shadow of sorts, and that not only on persons of a sensitive temperament. Our neighbours across the border to the east are, of course, the real believers in the astrological marvels. Nothing is supposed to take place without clearance from the chap who dabbles in this occult science. Even such otherwise resolute leaders like the late Indira Gandhi, one is told, allowed their actions to be swayed by their favorite soothsayers. Many in the Western World, motivated though it is by the scientific spirit, still are not fully immune from the influence of those who read into the influence of movement and juxtaposition of the planets.
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When those, who had something to do with Roman mythology, designated Mars as the god of war, they had no way of looking into the future, the Oracle notwithstanding! In particular, they could have had no inkling at all about either nine-eleven or, indeed, the ill-starred Iraq campaign. But such is the way of nature, in the topsy-turvy world of today, beset as it is with such pestilences as globalization and the like, the two appear to have come in juxtaposition somehow. If the aforementioned does not make sense to the reader, one must hasten to explain that it is not meant to. Who said that the New World Order was ever designed to make sense to the layman anyway? This diversion aside, time now to come back to the subject of this piece! One craves the indulgence of the reader to recall a stinging news item of several months ago, datelined Phnom Penh, which conveyed the earth-shaking news that soothsayers from the hosts, India and Hong Kong, meeting in a tent outside a temple in the heart of Cambodia’s capital had declared that a close encounter with Mars, the red planet, would spell disaster – natural or man-made – to the good Earth. There you have it in a nutshell, as they say!
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It appears that sometime after the doomsday prediction in question, Mars, the red planet, was to pass closer to Earth than at any time in the past sixty thousand years. “This is not good,” a Cambodian soothsayer was reported to have averred, “When they come close, it suggests some sort of clash”. He predicted “something” within a matter of 24 hours of this happening. A Hong Kong expert mercifully appeared to have taken a longer-term view, though he too predicted disaster. “There is an impact on the magnetic field, mainly in the month to and three months after the phenomenon”.
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Before one goes all to pieces at this momentous bit of news, one needs must take a good look at the nuances of the pronouncements. It is obvious that the soothsayers too have moved with the times and have adapted themselves to the ways of the New World Order. One draws the attention of the reader to the fact that the soothsayers too have taken to hedging their bets just like the researchers of the modern era. So one notices that though predicting a disaster, they hedged their bets by being somewhat vague about the timing – with one honorable exception – and by leaning equally towards the possibility of it being of the natural or man-made variety.
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