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The Third Secret of Fatima
By Lina Accurso
FATE :: December 2002
Seldom do I write about my accurate predictions…because I don’t make many! My astrological interests lie in character delineations and synastry (the cross-matching of charts for compatibility), in historical events, and in the solving of crimes. Moreover, I believe in free will and that, with God’s guidance and informed choices, we can change or at least diffuse our “fates.” I cringe whenever supermarket tabloids trumpet celebrity predictions that are usually outrageous, almost always wrong, and make the rest of us astrologers look silly, if not downright fraudulent.
But for this rare occasion, I am writing a follow-up story about an accurate prediction I made in Dell Horoscope in 1997, not so much to pat myself on the back but to point out an even more astounding prediction on the same topic, made by someone else when I was still a child. As I did more research for this article, I am coming to the conclusion that we may actually be living the outcome of this last prediction.
The May and June 1997 editions of Dell Horoscope ran my two-part article about the event that has become known as “The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima.” For those who did not see or don’t recall it, the facts are these. The article astrologically described six visions received by three Portuguese peasant children on the 13th day of each month, beginning in May 1917 and ending in October. The children saw a lady from heaven who gave them three predictions in July and a miracle in October. Though only the children could see and hear the Lady, the final miracle was witnessed by about 60,000 people and the secular (and cynical) press of the day. One of the children, Lucia dos Santos, is still alive at this writing (she was born in 1907) and is a nun.
Even more astounding than the Lady’s final celestial fireworks display were her three predictions, two of them revealed soon after she made them. The Lady of Fatima first predicted that the still-raging World War I would end soon, but that a worse war would follow. Next, she said that Russia (which was in the first throes of revolution but not officially Communist) would be the source of much worldwide sorrow and error, but would eventually be converted. This second prediction would be much remembered and discussed in 1991, when Communism in Russia and almost every other Eastern Bloc nation collapsed with breathtaking speed.
And then there was that third prediction. The Lady told the three children that two of them (Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta) would soon die, which they did in 1919 and 1920, respectively, during the worldwide flu outbreak that followed the war. But she said that Lucia would stay behind and that it fell to her to reveal the third secret, either just before her death or in 1960, whichever came first. To that end, she told the illiterate Lucia that she must learn to read and write. During a severe illness in the 1940s, Lucia wrote the secret. It was placed in an envelope and was eventually delivered to the Vatican, the seat of the Roman Catholic Church.
The year 1960 came…and went. I was a little girl in Catholic school at the time, and I still recall the excitement of the adults in 1960 and their disappointment when the Vatican announced it would not reveal the secret. What was most surprising was that the Pope who had made this decision was the usually candid John XXIII. Lucia, a nun who had taken a vow of obedience, was said to be upset but would not publicly challenge the head of her Church. Others had the same reaction: disappointment without defiance.
However, between 1960 and the publication of my article in 1997, the world changed. Not only were all organized religions being openly questioned and challenged, but the Fatima revolt was mounted by the most devout and often conservative Catholics, who said that the Vatican had no right to overrule the Mother of God. They formed groups and published books charging that the Vatican was trying to stifle the secret, which predicted the end of the Church, the end of the world, or both.
At the end of my article, I compared the chart for the day that the secrets were revealed to the children (July 13, 1917) to current transits. I then wrote, “…it is more likely that we will finally learn the contents of Lucia’s letter in the next few years than it was at any time in the previous seventy- nine years…. Even if we get through 1997 without the prediction, it is next to impossible that Uranus will finish its transit of Aquarius without the secret being spilled either accidentally (Uranus rules accidents) or rebelliously (Uranus is independent). If the secret is once again forcibly suppressed in 1997, it won’t remain a secret much longer than that.”
The secret was indeed finally revealed while Uranus was still in Aquarius. It wasn’t by accident or rebellion, but by another Uranus specialty: surprise ...
Read the rest of this article in the December 2002 issue of FATE
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