When we turn our eyes on Britain, we have the Coronation of William the Conqueror as the Foundation Chart for what is today the United Kingdom. (We will take up the most-used chart, that of the Unification with Ireland on 01 Jan 1801, at another time.) The coronation of William the Conqueror was at noon on 25 December 1066 at Westminster Abbey. The Sun is the most elevated planet, and participates in the tightest aspects, a quadruple-parallel involving Sun, Midheaven, Pluto and Uranus! Other prominent aspect patterns include an Arrow Yod[1] with Jupiter as the focal planet in quincunx to Moon and Mars and opposed by Pluto. Also featured is an Earth Grand Trine of Mercury, Saturn and Neptune. That Earth Grand Trine is also part of a Kite pattern because Saturn is opposed by the Moon.
William the Conqueror was born in Falaise, France at 4:45 pm local time on 20 October 1028. Until he conquered England in 1066 at age 38, he was known as William the Bastard, due to his illegitimacy. William’s chart features a prominent Sun, closely conjunct both the Moon and the Descendant in Scorpio. Another indication of eminence is Pluto widely conjunct the Midheaven, and in a Kite[2] pattern, a conjoined Kite pattern, with the mixed grand trine of Neptune, Uranus, Sun and Moon. William’s horoscope also features a Scorpio stellium, two yods, and a Grand Air Trine of Jupiter, Mercury and Neptune. The tightest aspects are Uranus’s contra-parallel and opposition to Pluto, and Jupiter’s contra-parallel to the Midheaven.
What does all this mean? Why is it useful today? First, the sign Leo and the Sun, its ruler, do signify kings and people who are highly influential “like” a king. Second, the house positions and degrees in the charts discussed are important to keep in mind when looking at current events and predicting future events. Great Britain, in particular, has a pronounced Leo-Capricorn bias. The US and Canadian Suns are opposed, very closely, to the Sun in both of the widely used charts for the United Kingdom, our father-country.
What else can you learn? Parallel aspects, in which both planets are at the same (or opposite) declinations, are important. They also are frequently hidden by the standard way of looking at chart aspects by longitude. Further, aspect patterns, in which three or more planets form a pattern by aspect, also seem to coincide with important events and important people.
While Britain has the Leo-Capricorn bias in successful ruler’s charts, other countries probably have different signs which better describe prominent people.
You, as an individual, may feel a greater or lesser connection to the British Isles. Most likely your horoscope, and especially if you have a harmonious relationship with the sign Capricorn, will indicate your affinity to Britain. Perhaps in the future we can look at a widely different national horoscope.
These remarks, above are excerpted from a presentation I gave to the Knoxville, Tennessee, Astrology Meet Up. Go to www.meetup.com for information about the Knoxville group or other groups in your local area.
Lalia
[1] An Arrow Yod has an opposition to the focal planet of the yod. Thus the focal planet has three planets (or more) arrayed against it, two by quincunx (150° aspects) and one opposition (180°).
[2] A Kite pattern is a grand trine with another planet opposing one of the three trine planets and sextile both the remaining planets. The grand trine planet with the opposition is the focus planet of the kite pattern.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Love, Truth and Power in Astrology
One way to look at the planets is to see them as indicating Love, Truth or Power. Each of these can be viewed as primitive (self and physical body focused), average (working within your social network) or transcendent (where you desire this for all).
In Western Astrology we typically use 10 planets (we include the lights—the Sun and Moon). With three categories, and three levels, we have one planet left over. That would be the Sun, which is seen to be the self. Ultimately the Sun is the enlightened or integrated self, the goal of the spiritual seeker. Thus the goal of enlightenment is to know and make peace with your other nine major planets—Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto!
Let us begin with Love. Love = Moon + Venus + Neptune. The most primitive expression of love is the Moon. The Moon is about our comfort level, our bodily comfort, nurturing those with whom we have a body-tie. Thus the natal Moon indicates our relative ease with up-close and personal expressions of love. Within our network, Venus is the planet of love. Venus expands beyond family and kin to flirt and attract “new blood.” Often in the literal way of expanding the gene pool. Again, the condition of natal Venus says much about your expression of love in social interaction. Finally Neptune is spiritual love, love for all beings, love for the soul of all.
Briefly, having the Moon adversely aspected[1] indicates a lack of nurturing in your infancy and youth which interferes with your accepting and giving love later in life. Having Venus adversely aspected indicates early peer group problems that cause problems in social interactions later in life. The adverse aspects of Neptune can mean taking Neptune’s “Low Road” in life—primarily addictions. Please note that having any planet unaspected[2] may be as difficult as having it adversely aspected as it indicates a lack of connection and integration of that planet’s energy into your conscious life.
Let us look at Power. Power = Mars + Saturn + Pluto. The most primitive expression of power is Mars, the strength and assertiveness to make your needs known and to force others to serve those needs. Saturn expands your power into the community to create systems—Law—that insure that your needs are met. Finally Pluto creates world conditions that require balancing everyone’s needs. Pluto requires that the higher needs are met without consideration for any individual or group. Problems with Mars mean either avoiding asserting yourself, or over-doing it. Problems with Saturn mean either thwarting the rules, or overdoing them. Problems with Pluto may put you as an unwitting agent of Pluto or a victim…
Moving on to Truth. Truth = Mercury + Jupiter + Uranus. Mercury is the most primitive form of truth. Mercury jabbers away indiscriminately, talking in superficial, unexamined ways about every subject, including subjects others wish to avoid. Jupiter looks more closely and more deeply. However Jupiter represents established wisdom, he does not move into new territory. So Mercury can be glib and thoughtless, while Jupiter can expound on platitudes. Uranus is plugged into the mental realm and able to access new information. Uranus is the transcendent expression of Truth.
A badly aspected Mercury can mean you lack the ability to express yourself, or you are too expressive. Mercury does not care overly much about the Truth; in some cases Mercury indicates thieves and white collar criminals. Jupiter is concerned with ethics and moral systems. If badly aspected it can go either way—being too concerned with community morals and not necessarily taking care of individual behavior. Not following the precepts that you are teaching. Uranus in bad aspect is totally outside societal conventions—thus the association of Uranus with the gay movement, revolutionaries, and others outside conventional society. The squelched expression of Uranus is to be totally closed to new ideas, and totally conventional.
Let’s look at some example charts.
Love: The triple conjunction of Moon, Venus and Neptune is shown in the chart of Robert Redford with those planets in Virgo in the sixth house of habits. The grand trine of the three love planets is illustrated in three charts—Walt Whitman, Sri Aurobindo, and Ted Haggard—showing the various ways this can be expressed.
Power: the triple conjunction of Mars, Saturn and Pluto is shown in the chart of Al Gore, former Vice President, where they lie in Leo in the 1st house trine his Sun. The Grand trine is shown in the chart of Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, where two planets are in water, the third in fire, occupying the houses of communication: 3, 7 and 11.
Truth: the Grand Air Trine of Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus is in the chart of Poet Omar Khayam, still popular after 1000 years! Note that Pluto figures into this configuration.
[1] Adversely aspected, meaning the preponderance of aspects is negative: squares or oppositions with any planets or conjunctions (and sometimes trines) with Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
[2] Lacking these aspects: parallel or contra-parallel within 1.25°, conjunction or opposition within 8°, trine or square within 6°, sextile within 3°, quincunx within 1.5°.
In Western Astrology we typically use 10 planets (we include the lights—the Sun and Moon). With three categories, and three levels, we have one planet left over. That would be the Sun, which is seen to be the self. Ultimately the Sun is the enlightened or integrated self, the goal of the spiritual seeker. Thus the goal of enlightenment is to know and make peace with your other nine major planets—Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto!
Let us begin with Love. Love = Moon + Venus + Neptune. The most primitive expression of love is the Moon. The Moon is about our comfort level, our bodily comfort, nurturing those with whom we have a body-tie. Thus the natal Moon indicates our relative ease with up-close and personal expressions of love. Within our network, Venus is the planet of love. Venus expands beyond family and kin to flirt and attract “new blood.” Often in the literal way of expanding the gene pool. Again, the condition of natal Venus says much about your expression of love in social interaction. Finally Neptune is spiritual love, love for all beings, love for the soul of all.
Briefly, having the Moon adversely aspected[1] indicates a lack of nurturing in your infancy and youth which interferes with your accepting and giving love later in life. Having Venus adversely aspected indicates early peer group problems that cause problems in social interactions later in life. The adverse aspects of Neptune can mean taking Neptune’s “Low Road” in life—primarily addictions. Please note that having any planet unaspected[2] may be as difficult as having it adversely aspected as it indicates a lack of connection and integration of that planet’s energy into your conscious life.
Let us look at Power. Power = Mars + Saturn + Pluto. The most primitive expression of power is Mars, the strength and assertiveness to make your needs known and to force others to serve those needs. Saturn expands your power into the community to create systems—Law—that insure that your needs are met. Finally Pluto creates world conditions that require balancing everyone’s needs. Pluto requires that the higher needs are met without consideration for any individual or group. Problems with Mars mean either avoiding asserting yourself, or over-doing it. Problems with Saturn mean either thwarting the rules, or overdoing them. Problems with Pluto may put you as an unwitting agent of Pluto or a victim…
Moving on to Truth. Truth = Mercury + Jupiter + Uranus. Mercury is the most primitive form of truth. Mercury jabbers away indiscriminately, talking in superficial, unexamined ways about every subject, including subjects others wish to avoid. Jupiter looks more closely and more deeply. However Jupiter represents established wisdom, he does not move into new territory. So Mercury can be glib and thoughtless, while Jupiter can expound on platitudes. Uranus is plugged into the mental realm and able to access new information. Uranus is the transcendent expression of Truth.
A badly aspected Mercury can mean you lack the ability to express yourself, or you are too expressive. Mercury does not care overly much about the Truth; in some cases Mercury indicates thieves and white collar criminals. Jupiter is concerned with ethics and moral systems. If badly aspected it can go either way—being too concerned with community morals and not necessarily taking care of individual behavior. Not following the precepts that you are teaching. Uranus in bad aspect is totally outside societal conventions—thus the association of Uranus with the gay movement, revolutionaries, and others outside conventional society. The squelched expression of Uranus is to be totally closed to new ideas, and totally conventional.
Let’s look at some example charts.
Love: The triple conjunction of Moon, Venus and Neptune is shown in the chart of Robert Redford with those planets in Virgo in the sixth house of habits. The grand trine of the three love planets is illustrated in three charts—Walt Whitman, Sri Aurobindo, and Ted Haggard—showing the various ways this can be expressed.
Power: the triple conjunction of Mars, Saturn and Pluto is shown in the chart of Al Gore, former Vice President, where they lie in Leo in the 1st house trine his Sun. The Grand trine is shown in the chart of Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, where two planets are in water, the third in fire, occupying the houses of communication: 3, 7 and 11.
Truth: the Grand Air Trine of Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus is in the chart of Poet Omar Khayam, still popular after 1000 years! Note that Pluto figures into this configuration.
[1] Adversely aspected, meaning the preponderance of aspects is negative: squares or oppositions with any planets or conjunctions (and sometimes trines) with Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
[2] Lacking these aspects: parallel or contra-parallel within 1.25°, conjunction or opposition within 8°, trine or square within 6°, sextile within 3°, quincunx within 1.5°.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Confessions
I've been thinking about various topics to pursue here, versus in my newsletter or in my list group.
Here are some possible topics. Let me know if any of these seem more suited to one venue over another:
The Saturn-Uranus opposition after this last impact.
Health and Astrology--am presenting this Sunday.
Astrology and weight issues.
Looking at the sequence of degrees in the horoscope, i.e. what is the earliest planet by degree in any sign? What's the latest? This relates to how we interact with our environoment. Part B is, naturally, do we count Chiron, the Nodes, the big four asteroids, ALL the asteroids--I only have 600 something on my program...
Anyway, do any of those topics grab you?
L
Here are some possible topics. Let me know if any of these seem more suited to one venue over another:
The Saturn-Uranus opposition after this last impact.
Health and Astrology--am presenting this Sunday.
Astrology and weight issues.
Looking at the sequence of degrees in the horoscope, i.e. what is the earliest planet by degree in any sign? What's the latest? This relates to how we interact with our environoment. Part B is, naturally, do we count Chiron, the Nodes, the big four asteroids, ALL the asteroids--I only have 600 something on my program...
Anyway, do any of those topics grab you?
L
Thursday, December 25, 2008
One Origin of Christmas
Greetings and Merry Christmas!
One of the origins of Christmas is the pagan holiday of Yule. And Yule is one of the eight sacred days of the year... all of which correspond to the Sun being at 0° of a Cardinal Sign or 15° of a Fixed Sign.
The Cardinal Signs are Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra. Respectively, for the northern hemisphere, the zero degree is the Winter Solstice, the Spring Equinox, the Summer Solstice, and the Fall Equinox. (Reverse the seasons for the southern hemisphere.)
Fifteen degrees of the Fixed Signs are the Cross-Quarter days, that is the days that are halfway between the beginnings of the seasons.
Each of these eight days--all about 45 days apart--was a sacred day in the religion practiced in Europe before Christianity. When Christianity arrived in Europe, the sacred days were introduced into the Christian calendar.
Yule, then, became Christmas, and corresponds to the entry of the Sun into the sign Capricorn. It is actually a couple of days off, which may be due to calendar adjustments over the centuries.
I'll take up the other seven sacred days as they come along. But we have one more vital point about these eight days. These degrees, 0° of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, as well as 15° of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, are important more than any other degrees because they indicate connections to the entire world.
Thus astrological phenomena that occur at these degrees are much more important than those that happen at other degrees--giving an orb around these degrees of plus or minus 2°.
That is why astrologers predict events with charts for the ingress of a planet, usually the Sun, into the Cardinal points (especially). And that is why people with Personal Planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) or Personal Points (Ascendant or Midheaven) at these degrees are fated to impact the world in some way.
Best of the Season to you!
One of the origins of Christmas is the pagan holiday of Yule. And Yule is one of the eight sacred days of the year... all of which correspond to the Sun being at 0° of a Cardinal Sign or 15° of a Fixed Sign.
The Cardinal Signs are Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra. Respectively, for the northern hemisphere, the zero degree is the Winter Solstice, the Spring Equinox, the Summer Solstice, and the Fall Equinox. (Reverse the seasons for the southern hemisphere.)
Fifteen degrees of the Fixed Signs are the Cross-Quarter days, that is the days that are halfway between the beginnings of the seasons.
Each of these eight days--all about 45 days apart--was a sacred day in the religion practiced in Europe before Christianity. When Christianity arrived in Europe, the sacred days were introduced into the Christian calendar.
Yule, then, became Christmas, and corresponds to the entry of the Sun into the sign Capricorn. It is actually a couple of days off, which may be due to calendar adjustments over the centuries.
I'll take up the other seven sacred days as they come along. But we have one more vital point about these eight days. These degrees, 0° of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, as well as 15° of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, are important more than any other degrees because they indicate connections to the entire world.
Thus astrological phenomena that occur at these degrees are much more important than those that happen at other degrees--giving an orb around these degrees of plus or minus 2°.
That is why astrologers predict events with charts for the ingress of a planet, usually the Sun, into the Cardinal points (especially). And that is why people with Personal Planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) or Personal Points (Ascendant or Midheaven) at these degrees are fated to impact the world in some way.
Best of the Season to you!
Monday, December 22, 2008
The Jolly Santa and the Bah Humbug of Christmas
We have just passed the Solstice, the change from the Sun passing through the sign of Sagittarius into the sign of Capricorn. These two signs, and their rulers, show the wide responses to Christmas.
Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, is seen as jolly, magnanimous, generous in all his activities. Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, is seen quite differently—as stingy, self-serving, withholding love, gifts and affection.
One view is Santa versus Ebenezer Scrooge. This is an unfair comparison to me. Jupiter has a down side and Saturn has an up side.
So, Jupiter can be Jolly Old Saint Nick, but he can also be unaware of how his gross style of humor and affection affects the more sensitive of us. Saturn is not just a stingy old person, it can also represent anyone who has taken years to master something to become an authority.
This year, as the Holidays are upon us, and we flow from Sag to Capricorn, let us flow, not be overcome with the burden of the season. Don’t go there! Let yourself enjoy the season.
Instead of social obligation, see the joy in being around others. It can be fun!
May you find the joy that is possible for each of us!
Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, is seen as jolly, magnanimous, generous in all his activities. Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, is seen quite differently—as stingy, self-serving, withholding love, gifts and affection.
One view is Santa versus Ebenezer Scrooge. This is an unfair comparison to me. Jupiter has a down side and Saturn has an up side.
So, Jupiter can be Jolly Old Saint Nick, but he can also be unaware of how his gross style of humor and affection affects the more sensitive of us. Saturn is not just a stingy old person, it can also represent anyone who has taken years to master something to become an authority.
This year, as the Holidays are upon us, and we flow from Sag to Capricorn, let us flow, not be overcome with the burden of the season. Don’t go there! Let yourself enjoy the season.
Instead of social obligation, see the joy in being around others. It can be fun!
May you find the joy that is possible for each of us!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
The Chart for this Blog
It occurred to me that the chart for the blog might be that set for when and where I was--Oak Ridge, TN, at 9:25 ET--or for the location on the West Coast where Google is headquartered--Mountain View, CA, at 6:25 am PT.
The charts are different. The ET chart has a Scorpio Midheaven (14°58') and Capricorn rising (24°10'), with Jupiter conjunct the Ascendant and the chart ruler, Saturn, in the 8th House.
For Mountain View, CA, the chart has a Libra Midheaven (05°07') and Sagittarius rising (17°04') with Mars conjunct the Ascendant and the chart ruler, Jupiter, in the second house.
Do you have an opinion about which chart will be more important? Why?
The charts are different. The ET chart has a Scorpio Midheaven (14°58') and Capricorn rising (24°10'), with Jupiter conjunct the Ascendant and the chart ruler, Saturn, in the 8th House.
For Mountain View, CA, the chart has a Libra Midheaven (05°07') and Sagittarius rising (17°04') with Mars conjunct the Ascendant and the chart ruler, Jupiter, in the second house.
Do you have an opinion about which chart will be more important? Why?
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