tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49564735382078616992024-03-05T19:09:35.696+01:00~ dubbhism ~free will is for losersTony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comBlogger469125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-3025102967196704492022-08-12T14:01:00.011+02:002022-10-03T12:59:25.648+02:00How cartomancy and astrology actually work<p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mDCRdPwSVDM" title="YouTube video player" width="400"></iframe></p>This video is based on Bernardo Kastrup's book 'Decoding Jung's Metaphysics'. It goes on for 42 minutes so it's kinda epic. Highly recommended if you want to know 'what's really going on'. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYMoWRJIKn95mbV2pSssRaw/featured" target="_blank">Check the Youtube channel</a> for more DEEPsee video's.<br />Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-36692066203191655082022-07-06T13:20:00.242+02:002022-11-15T11:38:17.709+01:00A Philosophy of Astrology #8 ~ The Symbolism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3wdO4Kw-Ae35BLt-9_qxOk0aLeI9X6r7N7rAZ4R2T2yHTzqF-sbSg4qfYZFgJrWPDZ1tagsQb7QvCr6J0HIYkS8fhwu0p6DWSnPmokuiASnXq5x3dPLA-yjWyXvDMOo8bPg8PevmyvkKwMqM0D1zfl7GKMYHFn-oyHdjvJ6X8lgnW8IIW5Z0bLxWnQ/s16000/symbol.jpg" /></div><p>In <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2022/07/a-philosophy-of-astrology-6-key.html">part 7 of this series</a> we saw that in the Jungian synchronistic worldview, both the internal world (thoughts, dreams etc.) and the external world are amenable to symbolic interpretation. In this post we'll take a closer look at the nature of astrological symbolism.</p><a name='more'></a> <b>Materialism</b><br />In philosophical terms, the Jungian worldview can be thought of as <i>idealist</i>, while the current philosophical fashion in academia is known as <i>materialism</i> or <i>physicalism</i>. Put simply, idealists think of Nature as fundamentally mental, while physicalists defend the position that consciousness is an inexplicable epiphenomenon of matter, and matter is all that <i>really</i> exists. Bernardo Kastrup, whose interpretation of Jung is crucial for my own
views on astrology, has written a useful book about materialism with
the provocative title <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Materialism-Baloney-Skeptics-Everything/dp/1782793623" target="_blank">Why materialism is baloney</a>. <br /><br /> In 20th century 'scientific' astrological research the influence of physicalism is strong. Scientific astrologers like the Gauquelins, Theodor Landscheidt and Percy Seymour started with the (implicit) assumption that astrological phenomena must have <i>physical causes</i>. And so electromagnetism became a popular causal scapegoat. Unsurprisingly, the explanatory power of this approach turned out to be limited. Altho changes in Earth's electromagnetic field are definitely related to all kinds of interesting processes, and even to changes in behavior, this mechanism can't account for many subtle astrological phenomena that would seem to be related primarily to non-material, non-quantitative types of mental associations (symbols, metaphors). To be blunt: asteroids don't do electromagnetism.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6xEszbt1gJl4-ABuR2AfQ5bYdq0uFwQqLMJzYQ_DwDkdruAQMIaJ9vMtYw0Yb1VL5EJl3B6eJmkENg86IWv6_3nfzwP-BifCxYQjy02qc-9TCvl9nA5MBQyd_mc4xLy00NyNX6KAcSjTRUrEZHaTRaq-SxUMpa04k8XvoyGjDVrMoTaWdVI6xuSTlA/s16000/electro.jpg" /></div><p><b>Michel Gauquelin</b><br />The work of Michel and Françoise Gauquelin put scientific astrology on the map in the 20th century, and for that accomplishment they deserve respect. But the Gauquelins did not care too much about astrological symbolism. In fact, they completely dismissed it with what we might call 'typical materialist disdain'. In the epilogue of his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Clocks-Astrology-Modern-Science/dp/0917086422">The Cosmic Clocks</a>, titled 'From Light-Gods to Planetary Clocks' Michel Gauquelin writes: <br /><br />"The sky is not a magic mirror in which our pleasures and pains are reflected. But science does teach us that the whole universe is reflected in a drop of water, that the cosmic rhythms are necessary to the survival of life. Thus we begin to see that our bodies are in fact tied with invisible strings to the cosmos, as was dimly realized in the past. But these strings are not held by planetary gods who make us perform like puppets;<i> they are fields of force known as electricity, magnetism and gravitation.</i> [...] It would be presumptuous to insist that man never gained a glimpse of the truth in six thousand years of astrological investigations. [...] We have seen that glimmers of truth have been prematurely interpreted and distorted and that the early correct intuitions about the cosmic influences on man have <i>degenerated into myth and superstition</i>. Science today reveals and explains cosmic influences to us in new terms, <i>divorced from magic and astrology.</i>" <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG0F1bpR6N8bQ6C-kL6T7TnHPiLsVCVLD_gDIg0kJiNeAjQcX55KcRO2VX--150g4gFSn0MNjFF23DxzkRU1lpEC1K724sns7s530n3hY3JM7Q1RhA1d6pfFNkrhFpxA7ITdINWr3R5nqO1LHcIRkywqeZfDnF_RMiWsQ6tWhL3vMjSBY7JcEsjbWRTw/s16000/gauque.jpg" /><br /><br />According to Mr. Gauquelin only cosmic influences with physical causes are real, myth is a degenerate form of superstition, and astrology, insofar as it's based on non-physical factors like metaphor and symbolism, is baloney. Of course there's a very fundamental issue here that's being swept under the rug by Mr. Gauquelin: how can <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tenacious-Mars-Effect-Suitbert-Ertel/dp/1871989159" target="_blank">the birth charts of eminent athletes be related to Mars</a>, but not to Jupiter or Saturn? In other words: how do the planets get, or exert their specific sets of qualities? How can we account for the qualitative differentiation that Gauquelin's work demonstrates? </p><p><i>But of course... electromagnetism!</i></p><p><b>Theodor Landscheidt<br /></b>It's quite impossible to characterize the High Court judge, philosopher, astronomer and astrologer Theodor Landscheidt as a staunch materialist. When it came to astronomy and scientific astrology, Landscheidt was pragmatic in the sense that this part of his work was unambiguously materialist (think electromagnetism, gravity, Sun-cycles). On the other hand, this self-confessed mystic wrote a book titled <a href="https://books.google.nl/books/about/Wir_sind_Kinder_des_Lichts.html?id=dwlKAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y" target="_blank">Wir sind Kinder des Lichts</a> (We are children of the Light). Clearly, there are at least two sides to the great, but unfortunately almost forgotten Theodor Landscheidt.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjSeZ53-nVvCJ5fvlhBsWgFdkYjCfVjetB2zU99jKZ68VZBW4JQIbFR6EQQJtgys-wc3SI4K0nk9PWx845BFSHRIHuhKtgZkbKhYaxzGvqsGJEXRQyTAtca4VNH_Ulq8M-SD_yXBXegpKt0GRVme7oplLT6A32iRbM69ynvX17DAx6M3LHEr2G9QPlPQ/s16000/XIII.-Imago-Mundi-Kongress-1991-Innsbruck-Dr.-Theodor-Landscheidt.jpg" /></div><p></p><p>In my opinion, his <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/search/label/golden%20ratio%20aspects" target="_blank">Golden Aspect</a>-research is Landscheidt's most important contribution to astrology. It reveals that the 'regular' harmonic aspects known to every modern astrologer have a golden ratio-based counterpart. Unfortunately, most astrologers are either unaware of, or in deep denial about the Golden Aspects, which for example explain the 'funny' shape of the so-called <a href="https://www.uraniatrust.org/astrology/gauquelin-plus-zones-confirmed" target="_blank">Gauquelin plus-zones</a>. Landscheidt conceptualized the Golden Aspects as physical forces that balance out, or dampen the orbital disturbances created by harmonic aspects. When meditating on the fact that harmonic aspects are based on simple (Pythagorean) whole number ratio's, while 'Golden' aspects are based on <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/golden-ratio-phi-irrational-number-ellenberg-shape.html" target="_blank">the most irrational number</a> in mathematics, Landscheidt comes close to the Jungian idea that numbers are archetypes of order, but he holds on to physics:<br /><br />"If we step back and scan the bigger picture, it becomes evident that astrological aspects have deep roots that go down to <i>the Platonic realm of mathematical structures</i> encompassing as abstract features as the polarity of rational and irrational numbers. And who would have thought that valid aspects are based on a physical principle that guarantees the stability of dynamical systems including the solar system, our cosmic home."<br /><br />In 'Wir sind Kinder des Lichts', Landscheidt is more open about his worldview. He wants us to know that in contrast to the materialist point of view, in a very important and deep sense, the cosmos is indeed a place full of meaning. He talks about cosmic consciousness but symbolically he doesn't stray from the Christian image of <i>God as</i> <i>Light</i>. The pagan Gods of astrology are ignored.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BmGeGIb-FH0" width="400" youtube-src-id="BmGeGIb-FH0"></iframe></div><b><br />Percy Seymour</b><br />Astrophysicist Percy Seymour is an academic who actually had the courage to become a 'mad scientist'. He followed the same, strictly materialist line of reasoning as the Gauquelins and the scientist Landscheidt. And again, this position confined him to writing about certain topics that are somewhat related to astrology, without capturing the essence. Think clocks, calendars, electromagnetism. <br /><br />Seymour's criticism of traditional astrology is more nuanced than Gauquelin's blunt rejection. One of his more frivolous metaphors is the <i>magnetic melody</i>, a reference to Kepler's Harmony of the Spheres. In chapter 11 of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Proof-Astrology-Percy-Seymour/dp/0572029063" target="_blank">The scientific proof of astrology</a> Seymour speculates that thousands of years ago, humans may have been more sensitive to 'planetary melodies' and he entertains the possibility that combative people were tuned into Martial music while happy people listened to radio Jupiter, which is cute but far from convincing. But at least Seymour didn't try to sweep qualitative differentiation under the rug like the more 'hardnosed' Gauquelins have done. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmB6H47STCX6khBieLS5JrH2mksSryiXnckJUs-cQbKil0aVhxra4yX9eAb_f8fbj4NSrUOKWYP3RbkHPbOjeJbc_Wgwsr6L0yRDYMvcIq98haPU3vATJsu-T0agNOKnq9iXdyhnR7_01FG-gtwm8xwMzT_OtxeBsbFaeBEi1wMldNiWQxSBjV8z8U8g/s16000/ur.jpg" /></div><br /><b></b>In essence, astrology isn't about physical chains of cause and effect. According to Jung's post-scarab-beetle theory of synchronicity, it's about association by similarity on a deep level, preceding spacetime. <br /><br />Scientists are only interested in things that are measurable. While some astrological phenomena are <a href="https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/results-for-minor-planet-names-in-google-news-refreshed-daily#/" target="_blank">very measurable</a>, we can only study them in a coherent way if we start from a clear philosophical position and use a general theory of astrology that allows the symbols, metaphors and meanings involved to play their proper parts ~ not censored by unexamined physicalist groupthink.<br /><br /><b>From simple sign to complex symbol</b><br />If we take a purely pragmatic approach, astrological meaning, metaphor and symbolism can simply be categorized according to the amount of interpretational wiggle room they allow for. Let's try a basic categorization, going from simple, relatively unambiguous <i>signs</i> to more ambiguous and complex <i>symbols</i>.<br /><div><br /></div><div><i>1. Simple, relatively unambiguous signs</i></div><div>Name-asteroids or 'significators' are one of the great gifts of asteroid astrology. In the realm of astrological meaning, this is as unambiguous and literal as it gets. Think asteroids named after people, cities, countries, rivers, volcanoes etc. Some examples:<br /><br />170 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=maria">Maria</a> (A877 AA)<br />182 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=elsa" target="_blank">Elsa</a> (A878 CC)<br />265 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=anna">Anna</a> (A887 DA)<br />334 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=chicago" target="_blank">Chicago</a> (A892 QB)<br />434 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=hungaria" target="_blank">Hungaria</a> (A898 RB)<br /><br />Note that ambiguity can't be separated from context. In a biblical context for example, Anna could be the mother of Maria, who then could be the mother of Jesus. And both Elsa and Anna have acquired new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-of-mind_awareness" target="_blank">top-of-mind</a> associations after the Disney movie Frozen. <br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKl_KdxVmJmkv24LBqz4Sqe4aAnSlUSi41n7LdHf7tWfiVx9w5hGlzOdscmGYceJ2HgiEeDhYDCsAOxppwk78BvvnCYQtQbOoIB0V3k_Rrz2atvu__HfGQDV1bfm-YlDCqHkGunIkWLUPlpYkod9PcFvFIydG513cUR_owijmaUq6kWWLTWxHjq9Btw/s16000/elsa-frozen.jpg" /></div><br /><div>The same thing is true for 11421 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=cardano&view=OPD" target="_blank">Cardano</a> (1999 LW2), named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerolamo_Cardano" target="_blank">Gerolamo Cardano</a> (1501-1576). In a 21st century context Cardano will primarily be associated with a big <a href="https://cardano.org/" target="_blank">blockchain/crypto project</a>. <br /></div><div><br />A good example of a very limited amount of interpretational wiggle room would be 23238 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=ocasio-cortez">Ocasio-Cortez</a> (2000 WU111), named after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez" target="_blank">American congresswoman</a>. Having said that, we should also expect 54 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=alexandra" target="_blank">Alexandra</a> (A858 RA) to function as a personal significator, even tho her first name is Alexandria. (The principle at work here is simple: associative strength trumps correct English spelling.)<br /><br />Let's look at a practical example: in the <a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Cash,_Johnny" target="_blank">birth chart of country legend Johnny Cash</a>, the name-asteroid 10683 <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=carter&view=OPD" target="_blank">Carter</a> (1980 LY) is exactly conjunct the Moon. Of course, June Carter was the name of his second wife and considering the modern, canonical symbolism of the Moon, this makes a lot of symbolical sense (click to enlarge). <br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivaWzBN6EHxKeuKYc6qWs6-POHGzOo_SUXz-WmNWje24u7ry1kXuI8jn-KUD1a2wgfuuBXoeTag4caXayAqUxdIuc-nnijukPbN7j9shqC47pUQ22YY4hiv-g7VpELlefUAFjV_7fhWpvarbUT6S4Z6FzK_o5MJF3KGw-7hguH75s4cRWnRWtoKxGU3w/s925/cash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivaWzBN6EHxKeuKYc6qWs6-POHGzOo_SUXz-WmNWje24u7ry1kXuI8jn-KUD1a2wgfuuBXoeTag4caXayAqUxdIuc-nnijukPbN7j9shqC47pUQ22YY4hiv-g7VpELlefUAFjV_7fhWpvarbUT6S4Z6FzK_o5MJF3KGw-7hguH75s4cRWnRWtoKxGU3w/s320/cash.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div></div><div><i>2. Simple, but ambiguous symbols<br /></i>Personally, i would think of harmonic aspects as relatively simple geometrical signs/symbols. But perhaps more importantly, this middle category contains asteroids that can be interpreted quite easily, altho they're a bit more ambiguous, or less literal, than name-asteroids. These asteroids refer to simple concepts like friendship (<a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=amicitia" target="_blank">Amicitia</a>), trust (<a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Fides" target="_blank">Fides</a> and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=fiducia" target="_blank">Fiducia</a>), all things related to photo and film (<a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Photographica" target="_blank">Photographica</a>) and so on and so forth. <br /><br />We could also include 'morphologically adventurous' associations like <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?des=7645" target="_blank">Pons</a> (Ponzi scheme) or ambiguity caused by differences between languages, as an asteroid name can have different meanings in different languages. <br /><br />Of course, these more ambiguous symbols can be misinterpreted more easily. For example, Fides or Fiducia could point to a <i>lack or crisis</i> of trust. The central theme is stated positively, which can be misleading. Another complicating factor is that many asteroids have overlapping meanings. For example, <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Pinocchio" target="_blank">Pinocchio</a>, the character associated with the nose that would grow when he lied, can <i>also</i> point to lack of trust.<br /><br /></div><div><i>3. Complex ambiguous symbols</i></div><div>In the third category we find stars, planets and complex asteroids like Chaos or Ixion. Any object with a name derived from mythology or fiction is in this category, as stories can generate many different kinds of associations. Having said that, many objects in this category also have canonical 'core' meanings. <br /></div><div><br />Zodiacal systems, house systems, planetary nodes and midpoints are also in this category. These too can have, or generate a broad spectrum of meaningful associations.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6RMxSisF_h-uZBr_GSsebFSo-EeY1Cit36vVykC7FCcBa2Jx1i9Qk3zc_lFHYA8mEknjeAz1kLjClVqnojDem_HqFIbuq1GbEb859Vew1cK-Dm-stbrwxLifjKDdD1YWif-9RXQkr7gSWc_ehKcS2lu3P9B58X0PDw2umfxKasZActckIcK34Eqd5w/s16000/cosmic-brain.jpg" /></div><br /><b>Mapping the cosmic mind<br /></b>Remember the Jungian cosmic mind-metaphor in the previous episode? It's a <i>really, really big astrological symbol</i>, the most complex one i can think of, and i'd also say that it can be mapped in various ways. For example, when looking at the solar system we can think of the Sun as the most primitive brain, dealing with life and survival in a purely instinctive way. The Moon would then introduce emotion, and Mercury would point to the processing of information by the newest parts of the human brain. Another way to look at it would be to map the conscious/unconscious distinction on the solar system, so that the 'inner' planets and asteroids represent the conscious part, and the 'outer' planets and asteroids represent the (collective) unconscious. We can even think of aspects between celestial objects as <i>astrological neurons</i> that enable (temporary) associative links, colored by the quality of the particular aspect. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Is astrological symbolism inevitable?</b></div><div>The incredible complexity of the 'cosmic mind' and its clockwork-like qualities provoke a deep question: should we think of the symbolic language of the firmament as elaborate semantic ornamentation, or is cosmic communication of astrological order in some sense inevitable or necessary? Let's call that <i>the hard problem of astrology</i>.</div>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-87544315492678609152022-07-03T14:11:00.121+02:002022-11-15T12:43:59.367+01:00A Philosophy of Astrology #7 ~ The Key<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTr3_XSt4ZUeDLND_U0rGuPDHdLvFTUz0B4hZt1WOuBUjIof2py4WQrHtct-O7S_UjfyRVtbC7StBFdEHf_VI9tCd1GqRjmzOYis3GYuEEeZVzKzryvpaDmfahS3UqaLNDJ1_DX0t7CXOJzUn7rhZUzZYsfJ3rs--aC856jSqqY2y5bHyn52rU5rFklQ/s16000/jung-pauli.jpg" /></div><p>When Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli discussed synchronicity, they were not just looking for a way to explain extraordinairy meaningful coincidences. The real goal was to come up with a theory that allows for the integration of matter and meaning, or physis and psyche.</p><a name='more'></a>In this post i'll propose that we can think of astrological order in terms of Jungian synchronicity. In fact, in its broadest conception, Jungian synchronicity could account for astrological structures in Nature <i>and</i> for many other so-called 'anomalous' phenomena. Below, synchronistic similarity is presented as a deep ordering principle that precedes spacetime, causality and the 'laws' of physics. <br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2E500ELKYKE" width="400" youtube-src-id="2E500ELKYKE"></iframe></div><br />This post relies heavily on Bernardo Kastrup's lucid, compact analysis of Jung's theories in <a href="https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/iff-books/our-books/decoding-jungs-metaphysics" target="_blank">Decoding Jung's metaphysics</a>. Disclaimer: Kastrup doesn't seem interested in astrology. In fact, he has used a popular variety, the sun sign column, as an example of vagueness and he avoids references to Jung's (flawed) astrological experiment as described in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Extracts/dp/0691150508" target="_blank">Synchronicity: an acausal connecting principle</a>.<div><br /></div><div>Besides Kastrup, there are a few more authors who deal with the expanded 'post scarab beetle' version of synchronicity. I'd recommend <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pauli-Jung-Conjecture-its-impact-today/dp/1845406680" target="_blank">The Pauli-Jung Conjecture</a>, edited by Harald Atmanspacher and Christopher A. Fuchs and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Innermost-Kernel-Suzanne-Gieser/dp/3540208569/ref=sr_1_1?crid=R9W317LPRK4A&keywords=The+Innermost+Kernel&qid=1656851063&s=books&sprefix=the+innermost+kernel%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C136&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Innermost Kernel</a> by Suzanne Gieser. Most importantly, the letters of Pauli and Jung on synchronicity have been published in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Atom-Archetype-Letters-1932-1958-Updated/dp/069116147X" target="_blank">Atom and Archetype</a> by C.A. Meier. <br /><br /><b>Relationships of meaning</b><br />According to Kastrup, the key claim of Jungian synchronicity is that "in addition to chains of cause and effect, the physical world organizes itself also according to <i>archetypally determined relationships of meaning</i>". <br /><br />After a discussion of causality in classic physics and quantum physics, Kastrup suggests: "For all we know, instead of accidents, quantum events conform to subtle, non-local patterns of organization corresponding to a yet-unacknowledged metaphysical ordering principle, different from causality. <i>This is what Jung bets on.</i> Perhaps the structure of the entire universe - from galaxies to strands of DNA - which we today attribute to mere chance, arose in fact as a result of such unrecognized global patterns."<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KXG8JI3JRnA" width="400" youtube-src-id="KXG8JI3JRnA"></iframe><br /><br /><b>Randomness and reservations</b><br />So maybe, randomness isn't quite as random as most scientists think it is. Kastrup gives us a wonderful quote: "As Jung puts it, 'Within the randomness of the throwing of the dice, a <i>psychic</i> orderedness comes into being.'" Of course, this line of thinking opens the door to the 'creative' use of randomness in mantic procedures. But Kastrup hesitates, and notes that "we cannot induce these acausal events at will. The best we can do is to pay attention to the world around us, in the hope of noticing one of them as it spontaneously unfolds".<br /><br />It seems to me that here, Kastrup doesn't take into account that in some sense, oracles like the I Ching and Tarot create synchronicities at will. Kastrup has said repeatedly <i>(see video above @ 50:00)</i> that regular consultation of oracles leads to banalization. While there is some truth to this i think Kastrup's habit of consulting the I Ching just once a year, at the beginning of a new year, says more about his personal reservations than about oracles per se.<br /> <br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mDCRdPwSVDM" title="YouTube video player" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><b>Idealism</b><br />Bernardo Kastrup defends a philosophical position that he refers to as 'analytical idealism'. He claims that Jung was also an idealist. When he discusses the breakdown of the barriers between matter and mind, Kastrup emphasizes that "Jung's writings on synchronicity are peppered with subtle suggestions that this unifying metaphysical ground underlying both psyche and physics is <i>experiential</i>." While discussing the role of archetypal templates as ordering principles, he makes the crucial point that "In an important sense, what Jung is saying is that our physical, waking reality is amenable to symbolic interpretation, just as our dreams are."<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T6OE0ZY2EL8" width="400" youtube-src-id="T6OE0ZY2EL8"></iframe><br /><br />To remove any doubt about Jung's position, Kastrup adds this quote: "It not only seems so, it simply is so, that the archetype fulfills itself not only psychically in the individual, but objectively outside the individual." According to Kastrup this claim leads to the conclusion that the physical world arises from the collective unconscious: "For Jung, the collective unconscious underlies and permeates the whole of space in a non-local fashion. This means that the expression of the archetypes in the physical world is global, instead of being restricted by the locality constraints of causality, such as the speed of light limit. In other words, <i>archetypal patterns organize the world instantaneously across space, operating within the degrees of freedom left open by the indeterminacy of quantum-level events.</i>"<br /><br /><b>Similarity</b><br />Kastrup notes that Pauli and Jung were "keenly aware" of how far the explanatory power of synchronicity could coherently be taken. After some years of collaboration, they expand the concept to "all acausal events in nature, not only those accompanied by a semantically equivalent psychic state." The basic idea being that a correspondence of meaning is just an instance of <i>similarity</i>, which isn't only about ~ for example ~ similar shapes, but about many kinds of similarities.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCbOEfiAW807XKuQUDw5LBds9NqFWV6MaqnsatuRO8PmHy_bvi9ruCPZfAZly9YX36Paf5p6ACJw3XZ4aJYWGNvVVguKM5QeAADjFBByBwq5m2eJzjk0wqHgw1x2Z12Ujbm-MOsvVgd4WOXOJEkxWg1RDoUNcUECy7UeL4D-TB6S0wgzLaMQP3U5FtA/s16000/simile.jpg" /></div><br />Kastrup says that ultimately, Jung extends the definition of synchronicity as follows: "Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which 'similar' things coincide, without there being an apparent 'cause'." According to Kastrup, the implication is that "all quantum events, at a microscopic level, must be structured according to some global pattern of similarities. We don't ordinarily recognize this global pattern because its non-local character renders its repetition and study under controlled laboratory conditions impractical. It follows from this that synchronicity - insofar as it defines the structures or tendencies underlying all quantum events - is the only metaphysically real ordering principle in nature. The laws of nature we are familiar with in our daily lives become mere epiphenomena of archetypal synchronicities. [...] Under this broader view of synchronicity causality isn't a fundamental ordering principle, but a regular compound outline of many microscopic synchronistic events."<br /><br />So there we have it, the outlines of a speculative but coherent theory of synchronistic order, developed by two of the most brilliant scientific minds of the 20th century, and re-interpreted by one of the most brilliant philosophical minds of the 21st century, allowing for astrological order, cartomancy, telepathy and so on. We've moved from strange incidents involving scarab beetles to the deep roots of the Unus Mundus, a Jungian term for the whole of reality. Similarity, association and maybe some version of 'symbolism' become the primordial glue. While similarity and association are relatively stable, unambiguous concepts, any definition of a 'symbol' as it pertains to this primordial layer will probably be recursive to some extent. I mention this because Pauli, whose views sometimes differed considerably from Jung's, has suggested the symbol as a new fundamental unit of reality ~ not in the last place because mathematics is symbolic. See Suzanne Gieser's excellent article 'Jung, Pauli and the symbolic nature of reality' in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pauli-Jung-Conjecture-its-impact-today/dp/1845406680" target="_blank">The Pauli-Jung conjecture</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRqSxz8zeDre8f8eq9tCbKlFBBvv_d8VKhXjaxBQHdNIEj3B-jr_cvzZTQo2-xdSto0p-QUuNzcxLwwpHesBvsoN2kBiazJfPyr2TVrokLiX8yMR-ld1_WsuKHl0OFXMd3MuA4ySVebJpHlYQuCY7p_mvDhw-4IdNEqW0sTGvg_3ttNut45yN6BGgqA/s16000/mind.jpg" /></div><br /><b>Cosmic mind-metaphor</b><br />In the last paragraph of his chapter on synchronicity, Kastrup writes: "Notice what Jung is doing: he is extrapolating the natural basis for cognitive associations in the psyche to a universal basis for the organization of all events in nature. He seems to regard the whole universe as a supraordinate cosmic mind - a 'greater and more comprehensive consciousness' - operating on the principle of association by similarity, just as the human psyche does."<div><br /></div><div>This Jungian cosmic mind-metaphor is of course tailor-made for astrological use. Imagine the firmament as a psychophysical network made of geometrically modulated signs and symbols, with stars, planets and asteroids acting as rocky neural nodes, and we've got the 'above' part of the astrological worldview in place. The 'as above so below' similarity then pulls this cosmic mind down to Earth.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qr0Qm9ntptk" width="400" youtube-src-id="Qr0Qm9ntptk"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Astrologers and synchronicity</b></div><div>This is not the first appeal to synchronicity as the basis for astrology. In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Psyche-Intimations-World-View/dp/0452288592" target="_blank">Cosmos and Psyche</a>, philosopher-astrologer Richard Tarnas discusses synchronicity before introducing purely astrological concepts: "In his later work, and most explicitly in the context of his analysis of synchronicities, Jung moved towards a conception of archetypes as autonomous patterns of meaning that inform both psyche and matter and provide a bridge between inner and outer: 'Synchronicity postulates a meaning which is a priori in relation to human consciousness and apparently exists outside man'. Jung's later work thus intimated the ancient understanding of an ensouled world, of an anima mundi in which the human psyche participates and with which it shares the same ordering principles of meaning."</div><div><br /></div><div>On the other hand archetypal astrologer <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Archetypal-Cosmos-Rediscovering-Science-Astrology/dp/0863157750/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1HGXZ7BZX3W7W&keywords=keiron+le+grice&qid=1657305653&s=books&sprefix=Keiron+le+Grice%2Cstripbooks%2C328&sr=1-3" target="_blank">Keiron Le Grice</a> sticks to the limited scarab beetle-concept of synchronicity and characterizes it as a rare phenomenon with limited explanatory power, altho at the end of this quote, to his credit, he also speculates about a 'special type of enduring synchronicity': "However, there remain important differences between astrology and synchronicity, differences often overlooked when synchronicity has been uncritically cited as an explanation of astrology. In contrast to the specific personal nature of synchronicities, astrology relates rather to the archetypal background to such cases, to the wider framework of meaning in which synchronicities occur. And unlike synchronicities, which occur sporadically, unexpectedly, only at specific moments in time, astrology is based upon a relatively constant correspondence of an inner meaning and an external planetary pattern. In this sense, <i>astrology is based on a special type of enduring synchronicity as it were</i>, one that is inscribed in the celestial planetary patterns." </div>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-86713251229992712602022-04-21T14:57:00.127+02:002022-04-24T12:24:53.135+02:00Oscar Wilde or the anatomy of the Big Slap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTLRebZ1_0KYkuuT5kjgG_mUC-1eKYUfBaXJ9Ti2KM-etW_xQAsz6LIm4755tFvZsDRbfd2fsMiTNdPdmm_emZEAssEy08_sqF4Tr0cglGQpoY2fXt9XmG3MMqH8CioCe9n75J0l7nLBEyQg8bNY3M0cEbI-nfwWedJ7gksDbWgmkFt47QN4mQjgdMZA/s16000/slap.jpg" /></div><p>When something remarkable happens, the kind of thing everybody talks about, there's a 99% chance that the
asteroids have something to say about it too. The big slap during
this year's Oscars is a classic. </p><div><span><a name='more'></a></span></div>
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<div>On March 27th 2022, around 10 PM local time (Los Angeles, USA) American actor Will Smith slapped his colleague Chris
Rock in the face after Rock made a joke about the hairstyle of Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith's wife. Live on tv during the Oscars ceremony. <br /><br />After the incident, astrologers immediately
<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/will-smith-chris-rock-birth-chart-zodiac-sign/" target="_blank">checked Will Smith's birthchart</a> and they pointed to the difficult
transits he's going through. Excellent, but it's not the whole
story. How would an asteroid detective handle this case? Activate your inner <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=sherlock&view=OPD" target="_blank">Sherlock</a>.<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWok8FkMvGrRtQ8c7PZsWnFjdQ0V0x-XhC4HSuokTErP7lK1jF-y-du4rbgedXSaWzq9tb1tTAI_l-rQNlAQg2pLEKY37F1SfRdD0UJATlWoiWPykrhLN_I-vaBqvzw6NhUIfWl942On4kXz2mifRWcxrfO18IG7PPYvQ1-6PcvW3las7EY878z_wetA/s16000/foto.jpg" /></div><br />
<div><b>Elementary stuff</b></div>
<div>We can start by going through the list of thousands of named
asteroids, the asteroid phone-book so to speak. The clues we're looking for are asteroid names that are (somewhat) similar or related to keywords describing the event.</div>
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<div><i>The</i> <i>dramatis personae</i>: <br />Will Smith, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett, Denzel Washington. <br /><br /><i>The keywords:</i><br />Oscar, joke, hair, bald, alopecia, GI Jane, slap, punch, devil, Dolby (name of the theatre).<br /></div><br /><b>Oskar = Oscar</b><br />Let's start with asteroids that have <i>Oscar </i>in their name. We don't want to be too picky, because altho <i>Oskar</i> isn't exactly the same as Oscar, it turns out that the Universe doesn't care about perfect English spelling. Phonetic or partial name resemblance or association is good enough for asteroids to start resonating. There are only a few asteroids with Oscar in their name:<br /><br /><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=oskar&view=OPD" target="_blank">750 Oskar (A913 HF)</a> was discovered on 28-4-1913 by J. Palisa in Vienna.<br /><br /><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=oscarsaa&view=OPD" target="_blank">105222 Oscarsaa (2000 OS69)</a> was discovered on 31-7-2000 by M. W. Buie at Cerro Tololo. It is named after Oscar Miguel Saa Martinez (1942-2013) who managed telescope operations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory from 1982 to 2010, and kindly mentored generations of observatory staff and astronomers.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWshEDK2VPDnb5rEHJLaIjtFsRsD5bjZdRfdqFBhvSD5h7wJZLy8_qbCOFP5HJm8cHDQbWIJ5HlNHcLeX2SsTb1CjCC45KO50dfx5wfrXOFL7fIPIwzuRKj90PxsJXqfFX8o6xdOeoanF3nVumDXnOKAHLIC5KaYkAclfU-eEo2i3jXOcGoFLsrd7-_Q/s16000/oscar-wilde.jpg" /></div><br /><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=oscarwilde&view=OPD" target="_blank">12258 Oscarwilde (1989 GN4)</a> was discovered on 3-4-1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. It is named after the Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). According to the JPL Small-Body database, he will always be remembered for his line "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".<br /><br /><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=oskarvonmiller&view=OPD" target="_blank">59389 Oskarvonmiller (1999 FF21) </a>was discovered on 24-3-1999 by L. Kornov and J. T'oth at Modra. Oskar von Miller (1855-1934) was a German engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum München. He managed and built the then-largest high pressure hydroelectric power station and proposed the world's first projection planetarium.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfXYwT3NN_EMX9Sqdp_KZE34WFa4uAsO0IVHIpEJDCmuXuOg13DLGqEyNOW164Ku2MknjbKwgqPfzZpYDLxKHwl79h5D75uKE_ziqCNU9DMtgd5-r1LJr-41ToljmumHGVIeBfVKBEMlrNnOU0F7JL71Q5v1_kFHUhbm8qQLMNbmsDDH8FidyYs1EZA/s928/oskar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="928" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfXYwT3NN_EMX9Sqdp_KZE34WFa4uAsO0IVHIpEJDCmuXuOg13DLGqEyNOW164Ku2MknjbKwgqPfzZpYDLxKHwl79h5D75uKE_ziqCNU9DMtgd5-r1LJr-41ToljmumHGVIeBfVKBEMlrNnOU0F7JL71Q5v1_kFHUhbm8qQLMNbmsDDH8FidyYs1EZA/s320/oskar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Right away we notice two interesting oppositions: Oscar Wilde opposite Mars (aggression, slap) and Oscar Saa opposite Mercury (newsworthy, but also conflict or negativity). This is looking good.<br /><br /><b>'Wild' Wil Smither</b><br />Let's move on to Will Smith. There are some actors who've had an asteroid named after them, like <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=streep&view=OPD">Meryl Streep</a>. Will Smith is not one of them. That's why we have to look for names resembling Will or Smith.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLs0LB7xXSE1Q5pEcmcMT3Cl_oQiBztKgkts3qAx8mcRjyoKKufqawNG3dKsJcxqwxzbGF8ptuOvnuTWhUmajcS60fCH7tSCqqH0j_F95u0gMID0Lgnw0nxzwA4LqlEu8Sx6i5phMBV_XJ__Ve0r4-XQSJrQ-fbYB5_1eS7Tmb3FkUhngcvCzfMs4Y4g/s925/smither.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLs0LB7xXSE1Q5pEcmcMT3Cl_oQiBztKgkts3qAx8mcRjyoKKufqawNG3dKsJcxqwxzbGF8ptuOvnuTWhUmajcS60fCH7tSCqqH0j_F95u0gMID0Lgnw0nxzwA4LqlEu8Sx6i5phMBV_XJ__Ve0r4-XQSJrQ-fbYB5_1eS7Tmb3FkUhngcvCzfMs4Y4g/s320/smither.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Elementary, dear Watson! <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=wil&view=OPD">Wil</a> and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=smither&view=OPD">Smither</a> conjunct Oskar, Oscar Wilde trining that obvious hotspot, and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?des=3351&view=OPD" target="_blank">Smith</a> trine Oskar von Miller. Makes you wonder why people are sceptical about astrology.<br /> <br />There are many asteroids named after people with surname Smith. No need to check them, as we already have the exact match Smith with a nice trine to Oskar von Miller. But it won't hurt to include a few extra names that resemble Will. While this isn't exact science, it seems obvious that besides Wil, we can include <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=wilke&view=OPD">Wilke</a>, because of the sextiles to both Oscar Wilde and Wil/Smither, and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Wiles&view=OPD" target="_blank">Wiles</a> for the square to Oscar Wilde. A bit less obvious is <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?des=1941&view=OPD" target="_blank">Wild</a> (what's in a name, see Oscar Wilde) and perhaps even <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=wilber&view=OPD" target="_blank">Wilber</a>, based on name similarity only. In this first phase we try to find everything this chart has to offer. If certain asteroids turn out to be unimportant, like perhaps Wilber, they can always be removed.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYlofqzbKvV0ZvP0lZl-pNEnIMvUms2TderCiY71SFO3XvV2LZ3IHrK8zxAuaj5gEzhS9IClYDD-Ff2P76Ze5WjT7HO0LAjWUsCy9y0neN5_d0VxRa6uWHdnRnOJ3RSqi3K1dbIpwN-NKvSviN1J9_a0Vlg7N4bINU2LyxhmHypmGNmVAPRsBZQKEtRA/s16000/rock.jpg" /></div><b><br />Christian Rock 'n Roll</b><br />OK, what about Chris Rock? There are lots of asteroid names starting with 'Chris'. To keep it simple, we'll only include Chris-asteroids that are actually first names. These could be either feminine or masculine. Again, as with spelling, the Universe doesn't care about getting every detail right. <i>Association</i> is the name of this game. <br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUimTJnXtsK07sBvZ6zoGwn5CcVcfAa7-vYFei6l1wxqywuEvOMNl-HTBgVNdFGGyeR42k9AuWfuAlSRocTvM5a3bdHbuwe7FT6L5wCpxHrPnqoxsPO2DnsYChGhlkUhq7xcSxjjKv7LBtP_cs_TzN3ZCP_Yh-sl6fSFg5RFriUHv-Vacqtve0K2m28Q/s928/rock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="928" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUimTJnXtsK07sBvZ6zoGwn5CcVcfAa7-vYFei6l1wxqywuEvOMNl-HTBgVNdFGGyeR42k9AuWfuAlSRocTvM5a3bdHbuwe7FT6L5wCpxHrPnqoxsPO2DnsYChGhlkUhq7xcSxjjKv7LBtP_cs_TzN3ZCP_Yh-sl6fSFg5RFriUHv-Vacqtve0K2m28Q/s320/rock.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />We get <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=christine" target="_blank">Christine</a> square Mars (aggression), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Christa" target="_blank">Christa</a> (nothing yet), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=christophe" target="_blank">Christophe</a> (nothing yet), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=christoffel&view=OPD" target="_blank">Christoffel</a> (opposite Center of Galaxy), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Chrismith&view=OPD" target="_blank">Chrismith</a> (combination of Chris and Smith, also quintile Wiles) <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=christy&view=OPD" target="_blank">Christy</a> (sextile Oskar and quintile Mercury) and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=christian&view=OPD" target="_blank">Christian</a> (trine Wild).<br /><br />Rock-asteroids turn out to be more compelling. We get <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=roche&view=OPD" target="_blank">Roche</a> (conjunct Sun), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=roka&view=OPD" target="_blank">Roka</a> (square Venus/Saturn and trine Jupiter), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=rockholt" target="_blank">Rockholt</a> (<i>exactly</i> conjunct Mercury), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=rocknroll&view=OPD" target="_blank">Rock 'n Roll</a> (trine Wild and sextile Chrismith), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=rockchic&view=OPD" target="_blank">Rock Chic</a> (sextile Mercury/Rockholt, trine Oscar Saa and square Wild) and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=rocknowar&view=OPD">Rock no War</a> (conjunct Mars, opposite Oscar Wilde, sextile Wil/Smither/Oskar, trine Wilke, square Wiles). <br /><br />Here's some detail: Christian and Rock 'n Roll almost conjunct (1°10').<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFS5pXaKUDMonakF3LUpMdvefLBz3SfoD4h_mJv9LDD9Q3XUO1EBHTtr1mpSZpobnGFC3wkE8AKs9N6-uoOg4valikdyvD79qV6InzetYtuYZGg9V7k5cRyXL9G79_0EzRVSYAj4i98adHNFijjVzm1qXPViB23J6xU4zFSU_2hwlFcFQVveO0uu-lOQ/s1312/rock%20detail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1312" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFS5pXaKUDMonakF3LUpMdvefLBz3SfoD4h_mJv9LDD9Q3XUO1EBHTtr1mpSZpobnGFC3wkE8AKs9N6-uoOg4valikdyvD79qV6InzetYtuYZGg9V7k5cRyXL9G79_0EzRVSYAj4i98adHNFijjVzm1qXPViB23J6xU4zFSU_2hwlFcFQVveO0uu-lOQ/s320/rock%20detail.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><b>Jana 'Balduinus' Pinkham<br /></b>Yes, the picture is getting a bit crowded. It's almost time to prune these results but we're not done yet. Jada Pinkett Smith and Denzel Washington were also part of the story. And what about the joke that angered Will Smith? It was about baldness (caused by alopecia).<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDqDfBw5W1NWAJIgkVNtBqUNR0OfYQ4V-vIyCzj6eigHn0vyHiUQuZWQ0vBuyNVboE-ALlMmQGqnJBZ3S8T2vAtqymcCDn7DmMef_Qy4JA2Hdc73BfQ3gHHGjkJlCHgGu2aApCHSF-kczRdd--Z9y2Va6woqyWNXG1hMgCKKe0Fr3KItcXeHKNoH-Yw/s928/bald.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="928" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDqDfBw5W1NWAJIgkVNtBqUNR0OfYQ4V-vIyCzj6eigHn0vyHiUQuZWQ0vBuyNVboE-ALlMmQGqnJBZ3S8T2vAtqymcCDn7DmMef_Qy4JA2Hdc73BfQ3gHHGjkJlCHgGu2aApCHSF-kczRdd--Z9y2Va6woqyWNXG1hMgCKKe0Fr3KItcXeHKNoH-Yw/s320/bald.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The best match for Jada seems to be <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=jana&view=OPD" target="_blank">Jana</a> (conjunct Oscar Wilde, 1°08'). There are two asteroid-names starting with Pink: <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=pinkham&view=OPD" target="_blank">Pinkham</a> (opposite Pluto, quintile Wilber) and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=pink%20floyd&view=OPD" target="_blank">Pink Floyd</a> (sextile Christa). <br /><br />There are a few asteroid-names that start with 'bald', like <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Balduinus&view=OPD" target="_blank">Balduinus</a> (conjunct Mercury), <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=balder&view=OPD" target="_blank">Balder</a> (trine Venus) and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=baldwin&view=OPD" target="_blank">Baldwin</a> (quintile Mars/Rock no war, square Pinkham, square Pluto, sextile Christoffel).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxSCOOMVtJCJdiBclB-qq6OHactQTt9fq16eEYEM32avCEQllIRXd3FI1aaqw2EUDh3La88Iev0CMhRlt1BpKROm0sML8KWu6tBDXh1JW9g0L4sLNI6XQKNrbOIwpU3m98k1H501dLOT3HO17FrnDEb82DvwRn2klWwxQDxsiE9j6QnQyn27vHrmCgQ/s16000/denzel.jpg" /></div><p><b>Denzen Washingtonia</b><br />Denzel Washington played the role of wise old man in this story. The most appropriate asteroids signifying him are <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=denzen&view=OPD" rel="nofollow">Denzen</a> and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=washingtonia&view=OPD" target="_blank">Washingtonia</a>. Denzen has the most aspects to asteroids already selected: quintile Sun/Roche and quintile Wild, trine Venus/Saturn and Balder (forming a big trine) and square Jupiter. Washingtonia is opposite Christian/Rock 'n Roll and sextile Wild. <br /><br />OK, deep breath, and the winner is...<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN6FJKoNjkKXup7FWX8FkVCdgleaxONEcERZBDNFMVNeeoIT2H16AS4ueAYCLA8vuQ_o4iBCbtbFVQlEIeT-hJw83XpCizsbXjDlF52MJfxyg4_5XnldHCMZYCXxPr3yMVOuofxhYHArVvcYEv-6vf7qiItC3wQkQFAVSmbxkcfyF0_b3sub764YLC0A/s928/final.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="928" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN6FJKoNjkKXup7FWX8FkVCdgleaxONEcERZBDNFMVNeeoIT2H16AS4ueAYCLA8vuQ_o4iBCbtbFVQlEIeT-hJw83XpCizsbXjDlF52MJfxyg4_5XnldHCMZYCXxPr3yMVOuofxhYHArVvcYEv-6vf7qiItC3wQkQFAVSmbxkcfyF0_b3sub764YLC0A/s320/final.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />(Unfortunately, the name Baldwin is hidden behind Christian and Oskar is hidden behind Wil, but this is more or less complete.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9317R3kDy6_7d-LibpypgYkzz_kf1DvKcLYGps-wzzvALwy0tASqngoZGO7X4K2kVlL0VG_ruhL2EbA2vRLKB36Uh2_ubbdtFfG7qR_uuRnl65q6E9Zb94Bjvh2mmsFQriYAaL0BXeSjr6OtW2qsZlwL9fKLNWyYLfDaBz6s6ogE4FduC6Rp9CNkT2Q/s16000/saturn.jpg" /></div><br /><b>Interpretation<br /></b>The Venus/Saturn conjunction is the only remarkable planetary aspect in this chart. This brings us to the content of the joke. Clearly, we have Saturn in the role of a radical <i>coiffeur</i> or even a sharp razor blade, cutting Venus' locks. This aspect lays the foundation and asteroid Balder, trining this conjunction, adds the baldhead theme. Roka (signifying Chris Rock) squares the conjunction with the joke. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpAZC02XVQi0DVJRuq_d16HZ4m8PqmJKqYRw47p-hOrTXuyV54fghyt4cQABOauh0Q5T3GW2Pi2dj3gxSTYpuCCoBYqJn8mBvqIKy6wDH7DM0XDm-XAwguz0JwplPFH3n09vRB7agg6AwagK_RhUXDvPA9DFZ_bELCvraXxQNeIcQmAEgf-ExLGDA7w/s925/morebalder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="925" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpAZC02XVQi0DVJRuq_d16HZ4m8PqmJKqYRw47p-hOrTXuyV54fghyt4cQABOauh0Q5T3GW2Pi2dj3gxSTYpuCCoBYqJn8mBvqIKy6wDH7DM0XDm-XAwguz0JwplPFH3n09vRB7agg6AwagK_RhUXDvPA9DFZ_bELCvraXxQNeIcQmAEgf-ExLGDA7w/s320/morebalder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The T-square involving Baldwin, Pinkham and Pluto adds aggression to the mix and makes it personal so to speak: how dare you make a joke about Mrs. Pinkett Smith's baldness? Off with your head! <br /><br />Balduinus conjunct Mercury adds more fuel, and Jana conjunct Oscar Wilde is the smoking gun so to speak. Note that the involvement of Mr. Oscar Wilde, the playwright, is interesting in and of itself. It tells us more about the way asteroids 'work together' or associate.<br /><br />The triple conjunction Wil, Smither, Oskar sums up a thing that's unique for asteroid astrology: the need for interpretation can sometimes be close to zero. These rocks can speak for themselves. Maybe the conjunction underlines that these Oscars were all about Will Smith, as he also won an Oscar for best actor. (There's actually an asteroid called <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=actor&view=OPD" target="_blank">Actor</a> but it's not playing a big role.)<br /><br /><b>The Devil is in the details</b><br />Denzel Washington said something to Will Smith during the commercial break. Something about <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2022/04/02/denzel-washington-for-whatever-reason-the-devil-got-ahold-of-will-smith-on-oscars-night/?sh=194f331a4519" target="_blank">the Devil</a>. See if you can figure this one out for yourself...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhuU6_j8hCCGlv5tdgCCSh6c_hsXQ32qSbNITRg_9xwxtq7N7uwV65f9JwmRDsIoJbIYJS7tWTT1o5BZ7i_Tuus_aEkC00TUjdB8-TeOas0NDEc39x9NJFBvrf4-SAZV8rXgBWD7XCPJh3cl7fMGWHnpUNrlKoTi5Q6lhWca96epWhID-TwdhUP7QGA/s924/lucifer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhuU6_j8hCCGlv5tdgCCSh6c_hsXQ32qSbNITRg_9xwxtq7N7uwV65f9JwmRDsIoJbIYJS7tWTT1o5BZ7i_Tuus_aEkC00TUjdB8-TeOas0NDEc39x9NJFBvrf4-SAZV8rXgBWD7XCPJh3cl7fMGWHnpUNrlKoTi5Q6lhWca96epWhID-TwdhUP7QGA/s320/lucifer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><br />Layers of asteroid astrology<br /></b>If we check the transits in Will Smith's birth chart for the asteroids we've looked at in this article, the Oskar/Wil/Smither triple conjunction isn't really in an interesting place. Transiting Oscar Saa conjunct natal Uranus is probably the most salient transit. This tells us that the kind of asteroid astrology we've been doing in this article produces a somewhat autonomous 'layer' of meaning that can be added to the 'popular planetary astrology' layer (or to information we get from any other specialized branch of astrology for that matter).<br /><br />Note that even in asteroid astrology, we can have different approaches. If we look at the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Centaurs-Damocloids-Scattered-Asteroids-Astrology/dp/949235540X" target="_blank">encyclopedic work</a> that was done by Benjamin Adamah, the emphasis is on the deep psychological side of asteroids, especially the Centaurs, Plutino's, SDO's, TNO's etc.<br /><br />The 'morfological' approach used in this article again produces a different layer of meaning; more situational than psychological. Of course, it's possible to combine these layers of asteroid astrology.<br />Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-57169400950704401702022-04-19T15:14:00.046+02:002022-04-20T10:04:28.699+02:00Asteroids and volcanoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVA0VjJE7qQPjBqgiYLK9qAqvizTLuig97uGzJmtZUbRnbdE96DvpYwa22GrEb3M5MOQDupoV8xUtKDbV4BGcrxi8Rp_WVp7eWUgTinlhbYBr5FtrWOFDCHkSth6ybM2dPvivyEbFlML6ir_MGCcoPzxoxYNtcvbdDrIligTF_gNHtcRBOeWWwzHyV1g/s16000/etnacover.jpg" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In this post we’ll look at <a href="https://volcano.si.edu/search_eruption.cfm" target="_blank">‘confirmed’ volcanic eruptions in Italy</a> in the
16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> century with a known start date.
In the astrological chart for each eruption the positions of asteroids Vulcano,
Etna, Vesuvius and Stromboli are of special interest.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br />
Asteroids Vulcano, Etna, Vesuvius and Stromboli are named after Italian
volcanoes. These volcanoes are of course very, very old. The asteroids, that are
orbiting the Sun, are also very, very old. But what about the metaphysical
connection between volcano and asteroid, via <a href="https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/documentation/NamesAndCitations.pdf" target="_blank">the official IAU name</a>? How old is that connection really? <br />
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Asteroids can’t be seen with the naked eye. That's why their discovery started in the 19<sup>th</sup> century, using telescopes and other modern techniques.<br />
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Stromboli: discovered 24-9-1960 on Palomar Schmidt plates<br />
Vulcano: discovered 11-10-1966 at Nauchnyj <br />
Etna: discovered 24-3-1971 on Palomar Schmidt plates<br />
Vesuvius: discovered 20-9-1973 on Palomar Schmidt plates<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Bbl_kItD0_b-xYopu2ULoivomxIkKDKMiZCO6oG-A7ZtB6vob1Jb0D490bOC4B_aA_ph69rwRxreBcxgvDzR-TC5LInhtwzZkReQ4UvNaXdbp6uRY50LRObeoI8TfUolKIW0aTV5XwhRJwsXPLrPTEqDAuuoipCu2o6Jp5olgUki_e1u9a6so8T9qw/s16000/etnapic.jpg" /></div><br />
<b>Retroactive effect</b><br />
Perhaps the most baffling aspect of asteroid astrology is the <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/10/a-philosophy-of-astrology-3-coherence.html" target="_blank">retroactive effect</a> of asteroid (or minor planet) names. Most asteroids have been
discovered in the last 100 years. But if we want to retrace certain astrological
correlations involving asteroids, we can actually go back in time much further, although there is a practical
limit because of the precision of the calculated
orbits. <br />
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A collection of 21 volcano eruptions in Italy in the 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup>
century illustrates the retroactive effect anecdotally. The charts
are actually meant to illustrate two things:<br />
- the retroactive effect of asteroid names;<br />
- asteroids with similar potential meanings (in this case volcanic eruptions in Italy) can work
together as a team.<br />
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This analysis focuses on the planets (including Chiron and the Galactic Center),
four volcano-asteroids and six harmonic aspects: conjunction, opposition,
trine, square, quintile and sextile. The idea is that eruptions correlate with
relevant clusters of precise harmonic aspects (within 1 degree). <br /><br />If a planetary pattern looks unstable or explosive, we might think of the vulcano-asteroids as elements that tip the balance or light the fuse. That's why a square between a vulcano-asteroid and Mars would be more significant than a sextile to Neptune. <br /><br />A very simple
and subjective qualification (weak, medium, strong) gives some idea of the strength
of the correlations.<br />
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<b>Correlation score (total 21 charts)</b><br />
Strong: 11 charts <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span>Medium: 3 charts<br />Weak: 7 charts<br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfoYbRMRggKdkUSu3G-ue9TP8zIt-ckr4sNeUHPqDkSJ2ksvDHjNa1sRWyncUrbqdd0HmpFHgSemDDEY7VwD8uQH1HS3ZBIlG_AKeOtRL7WJG0P6ivvWLm7bDGHreRjnIbrEOtbNwiQItFuSJ5615jllM_wxt2H-EuQ_2ffAsJRBv4pAiemN6OIpKtQ/s536/lava.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfoYbRMRggKdkUSu3G-ue9TP8zIt-ckr4sNeUHPqDkSJ2ksvDHjNa1sRWyncUrbqdd0HmpFHgSemDDEY7VwD8uQH1HS3ZBIlG_AKeOtRL7WJG0P6ivvWLm7bDGHreRjnIbrEOtbNwiQItFuSJ5615jllM_wxt2H-EuQ_2ffAsJRBv4pAiemN6OIpKtQ/s16000/lava.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
The chart of every ‘confirmed’ 16<sup>th</sup>
and 17<sup>th</sup> century volcanic eruption in Italy with known start date is show below, mentioning the aspects involving asteroids. These are noon-charts for Rome, Italy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i>Etna 22-3-1536<br />
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Etna conj Vesuvius (0°56)<br />
Etna opp Jupiter (0°19)<br />
Vesuvius opp Jupiter (0°36)<br />
Correlation: strong<br />
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<i>Etna 1-11-1566</i><br />
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Vesuvius squ Mars (0°39)<br />
Vulcano tri Chiron (0°48)<br />
Correlation: strong<br />
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Etna 9-9-1579<br />
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Vesuvius sext Stromboli (0°32)<br />
Vesuvius sext Chiron (0°03)<br />
Stromboli tri Chiron (0°35)<br />
Correlation: strong<br />
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Etna 28-6-1607<br />
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Stromboli squ Neptune ( 0°35)<br />
Correlation: weak<br />
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Etna 6-2-1610<br /><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL0FFD785TNxS5Xz5cjyjFSwGCVZwge5J0PfcV0lkrTNyIJBsMP1ZifS44hNNVLu9bKPXo5qfB-CJM3W_3THFtJ91Zb_gzWFGyabiJSYlyr2Us1uYytygOXz5QKhNeS42joi8emhPm6hkxUsBBLUqC7RZfnoypK_av0sXI6WM4HPy6nnLiYIt9Qajf5g/s925/etna%201610.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="922" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL0FFD785TNxS5Xz5cjyjFSwGCVZwge5J0PfcV0lkrTNyIJBsMP1ZifS44hNNVLu9bKPXo5qfB-CJM3W_3THFtJ91Zb_gzWFGyabiJSYlyr2Us1uYytygOXz5QKhNeS42joi8emhPm6hkxUsBBLUqC7RZfnoypK_av0sXI6WM4HPy6nnLiYIt9Qajf5g/s320/etna%201610.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br />
Vesuvius sext Saturn (0°16)<br />
Vulcano opposite Chiron (0°46)<br />
Vulcano sext Pluto (0°26)<br />
Stromboli sext Neptune (0°41)<br />
Correlation: medium<br />
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<i>Etna 1-7-1614<br />
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Etna qui Mercury (0°36)<br />
Correlation: weak<br />
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<i>Vesuvius 16-12-1631</i><br />
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Vesuvius qui Sun (0°15)<br />
Vesuvius sext Mercury (0°08)<br />
Vulcano conj Stromboli (0°43)<br />
Vulcano squ Pluto (0°02)<br />
Stromboli squ Pluto (0°41)<br />
Vulcano tri Center of Galaxy (0°35)<br />
Stromboli tri Center of Galaxy (0°08)<br />Correlation: strong<br /><br /><i>Etna 19-12-1634</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqk6OVBgQSE0NCxeno10yF-1ChkwxQhhbQhDZzGiVMK09cc3Fj_bWDIBwpc_UVj4sc3_5Lc5Nc1pUwXLUb21OMQcrDocRLV--jJeCfx0EtbbAYbEEwuqOPcdyreAknOy2dq-d_Ikytdk7uJy2oJaiGTcDydugtKL6N-_SHK_KCgl4SLDnlxXtxC7RVg/s927/Etna%201634.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="927" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqk6OVBgQSE0NCxeno10yF-1ChkwxQhhbQhDZzGiVMK09cc3Fj_bWDIBwpc_UVj4sc3_5Lc5Nc1pUwXLUb21OMQcrDocRLV--jJeCfx0EtbbAYbEEwuqOPcdyreAknOy2dq-d_Ikytdk7uJy2oJaiGTcDydugtKL6N-_SHK_KCgl4SLDnlxXtxC7RVg/s320/Etna%201634.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Vulcano tri Mars (0°22)<br />Etna squ Mars (0°40) <br />Vesuvius squ Chiron (0°58)<br />Correlation: strong<br /><br /><i>Vesuvius 1-7-1637</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="925" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXdCbcAz4ZGmqk1kGvURD81josNYJFbo8sRSW7ywemDHtTMAdkv3aqGVzfa0Vowrd5SuWT1zXFm6srT4PBNIQsvJe-juS7NAFMzLnKGgEqxMrdd80XfB4wq868Dag0mBkcMzuOt5xgeKw5GCSRllVnSFbE5M1fKjpraxsCDNzENKg2LBZcIg3PuNf2SA/s320/etna%201643.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Vulcano opp Venus (0°49)<br />Vesuvius squ Mars (0°59)<br />Correlation: strong<i><br /><br />Etna 20-11-1646<br /><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidoFcZMMEa9OMUIFhqD1Q8D3VFV0Xh94_60r1AHosKCkSBPzit7D6QG8XaoLxfG_S8ElSwBS-IFZQRDd_OQZlUT-lSHKkricvsOWczRra9kNtwMb3ygF7aEAbgpkKh93q9Ho-RdEzEDcfGmkrXpUSrpRnUVWrQVEYHSwajd95wG_N5tqok5QYN0jwV1g/s925/etna%201646.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidoFcZMMEa9OMUIFhqD1Q8D3VFV0Xh94_60r1AHosKCkSBPzit7D6QG8XaoLxfG_S8ElSwBS-IFZQRDd_OQZlUT-lSHKkricvsOWczRra9kNtwMb3ygF7aEAbgpkKh93q9Ho-RdEzEDcfGmkrXpUSrpRnUVWrQVEYHSwajd95wG_N5tqok5QYN0jwV1g/s320/etna%201646.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Etna qui Vulcano (0°36)<br />Etna squ Stromboli (0°54)<br />Vesuvius sext Chiron (0°10)<br />Correlation: medium<br /></p><i>Etna 17-1-1651</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="925" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxCtzTmsf4AbhQXSID_hSkVL_UEiRlygA78p7d7TWcSNXVQCup7U5CZOH1xIdW15z4EAI4YUVJZmWTaZkuh-ifPbeA55zR6YeI1aTJt2w8-ezJCkXOcvuzDqNfoK1juN_GNyCkBHWfoohfHchH1i6uwcdteYLz-3Hz6tgmHsrHID0gq5EEmIIQbOtcg/s320/etna%201654.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Vesuvius conj Saturn (0°37)<br />Vesuvius qui Pluto (0°43)<br />Correlation: medium<br /><p></p><p><i>Vesuvius 25-2-1654</i><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifd-S1qM9H3FUREAmFrP2nezclTJBw1jHn6MJuihVYPQ6O42VY-rtH7zggrWKXO_TK7Jj0WOXrDXcCNTISV8oZcIYOYwqYHd5N5AbpztpR9qX659XEzDGmLw4o8LLVzzabcIdk6p7bHQOEipfrVnhG0AuU0g3bxPtcon2_j6BrvHY5i83UrjNx_IFuow/s924/vesuvius%201654.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifd-S1qM9H3FUREAmFrP2nezclTJBw1jHn6MJuihVYPQ6O42VY-rtH7zggrWKXO_TK7Jj0WOXrDXcCNTISV8oZcIYOYwqYHd5N5AbpztpR9qX659XEzDGmLw4o8LLVzzabcIdk6p7bHQOEipfrVnhG0AuU0g3bxPtcon2_j6BrvHY5i83UrjNx_IFuow/s320/vesuvius%201654.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Vesuvius tri Mars (0°45)<br />Vesuvius squ Stromboli (0°58)<br />Etna squ Pluto (0°49)<br />Etna sext Chiron (0°03)<br />Stromboli qui Sun (0°21)<br />Correlation: strong<br /><br /><i>Etna 11-3-1669</i><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsviqljBISUgrqIUuPZMLwZtplUgZg4oG9YFoCnLB8ZXuNOY3ViQRybwRVl9g9RhgyyPzT2M-lW_ldX2mp11mwkik-SprgRiu8Q7og8wsrAWaqxTpiY5Xvd_C-MovSnyy-nrnacPo_Z4PFU29A2Iqc3FawfsFeLx81SRnKlh3ov3RPOdcghnIlSFQEmQ/s924/etna%201669.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsviqljBISUgrqIUuPZMLwZtplUgZg4oG9YFoCnLB8ZXuNOY3ViQRybwRVl9g9RhgyyPzT2M-lW_ldX2mp11mwkik-SprgRiu8Q7og8wsrAWaqxTpiY5Xvd_C-MovSnyy-nrnacPo_Z4PFU29A2Iqc3FawfsFeLx81SRnKlh3ov3RPOdcghnIlSFQEmQ/s320/etna%201669.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Vulcano conj Sun (0°07)<br />Vulcano squa Center of Galaxy (0°41)<br />Vulcano tri Vesuvius (0°55)<br />Stromboli squ Neptune (0°33)<br />Stromboli sext Pluto (0°01)<br />Correlation: strong<br /><br /><i>Vesuvius 12-8-1682<br /></i><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjGCubszjD8lyd0f_1oQuUwMhkb7jNYqmWPc-aoK74DZIIw7tcq9zZvPng-UILQSM0NoLqfFYr8QiXnmRec97FnG1zDfMcT8rvObBQXF37W2izooizDoKhbWPLPgVw_Uq19u4Vo_2uNaDdo5-DalA5Hg0ClGRzQmzgGpVtByA0vSan_L5fAXi2LwK-g/s925/vesuvius%201682.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="925" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjGCubszjD8lyd0f_1oQuUwMhkb7jNYqmWPc-aoK74DZIIw7tcq9zZvPng-UILQSM0NoLqfFYr8QiXnmRec97FnG1zDfMcT8rvObBQXF37W2izooizDoKhbWPLPgVw_Uq19u4Vo_2uNaDdo5-DalA5Hg0ClGRzQmzgGpVtByA0vSan_L5fAXi2LwK-g/s320/vesuvius%201682.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Etna qui Jupiter (0°53)<br />Vesuvius qui Vulcano (0°56)<br />Correlation: weak<br /><br /><br /><i>Etna 1-9-1682</i><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jW6jVCwwjye8JgB31AMXnVU3q_1lqPWLsLph2YfE0iwsOykWTyP2wBYePqZZiBn6pYVTomQKoVGFue4JFgxoHyKv97-wT2K9M5lzJatU7c4CyWkOpNSS76rzItE6v5MWD_MqeyOWfH7E_4WnjaSc-wIEhBKJZj9CRKwS7Z5VW71lLxvGRgNF8Gorxg/s927/etna%201682.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="925" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jW6jVCwwjye8JgB31AMXnVU3q_1lqPWLsLph2YfE0iwsOykWTyP2wBYePqZZiBn6pYVTomQKoVGFue4JFgxoHyKv97-wT2K9M5lzJatU7c4CyWkOpNSS76rzItE6v5MWD_MqeyOWfH7E_4WnjaSc-wIEhBKJZj9CRKwS7Z5VW71lLxvGRgNF8Gorxg/s320/etna%201682.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><p><br />Etna squ Neptune (0°36)<br />Vulcano tri Venus (0°48)<br />Vulcano opp Saturn (0°46)<br />Stromboli opp Mars (0°37)<br />Correlation: strong<br /><br /><i>Vesuvius 3-10-1685</i><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibOUnJlBEEChi5x39yIIXC7bi12nNjBeGBScJGlb_NX59ZkrshzF01hJsX2zDBIxrr2n_D5f9D6YSy9vrkRqcSvrerH_ewoH_abgmICcE46OLEiKk9pRN7C8wAWYLMLWRktz9S5wrfm1bCvDDm-Dnk1Ci-8ef3FEMigrWIGtRMss7zkz1CPM380y14Q/s925/vesuvius%201685.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="925" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibOUnJlBEEChi5x39yIIXC7bi12nNjBeGBScJGlb_NX59ZkrshzF01hJsX2zDBIxrr2n_D5f9D6YSy9vrkRqcSvrerH_ewoH_abgmICcE46OLEiKk9pRN7C8wAWYLMLWRktz9S5wrfm1bCvDDm-Dnk1Ci-8ef3FEMigrWIGtRMss7zkz1CPM380y14Q/s320/vesuvius%201685.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Vulcano opp Jupiter (0°44)<br />Vesuvius qui Stromboli (0°07)<br />Stromboli tri Mercury (0°50)<br />Stromboli tri Neptune (0°41)<br />Etna tri Uranus (0°21)<br />Correlation: strong<br /><br /><i>Etna 14-3-1689</i><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP270HecpMNUZZPXPkU50WNvQKzx0TUZdZOpncqY10x0Y98ImzDnIWbtcVr6oRfgez4kdn8YccgHigulnhykyNtm9V86vY62dor6DaZuY-fhevjPWTsrGdMBE6tADhfX4ZbvxSvvesiWBfuNMwmcBThvPK2nYcWHZEzLyFK4DMpK99lwCBedtUP5JCPg/s924/etna%201689.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="923" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP270HecpMNUZZPXPkU50WNvQKzx0TUZdZOpncqY10x0Y98ImzDnIWbtcVr6oRfgez4kdn8YccgHigulnhykyNtm9V86vY62dor6DaZuY-fhevjPWTsrGdMBE6tADhfX4ZbvxSvvesiWBfuNMwmcBThvPK2nYcWHZEzLyFK4DMpK99lwCBedtUP5JCPg/s320/etna%201689.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Vesuvius squ Saturn (0°38)<br />Correlation: weak<br /><br /><i>Vesuvius 31-7-1696</i><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFpppDn-SBOGugT2HADhjojaNblM4YfNo4JtXp-F_CzMWi3DxbA-45mUCNFpkTbl4YjjPC2cNM__Fdj421yXisivVxGyo6oR_x2u4PBxQyF2d0Bx3KuAQZkTgLZcGbB2s-ETWMG_yIql3rfDsYN6-s-PxMlU786_47S-w8sVzAPfSZKDSBtjhVaawXfw/s925/vesuvius%201696.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="925" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFpppDn-SBOGugT2HADhjojaNblM4YfNo4JtXp-F_CzMWi3DxbA-45mUCNFpkTbl4YjjPC2cNM__Fdj421yXisivVxGyo6oR_x2u4PBxQyF2d0Bx3KuAQZkTgLZcGbB2s-ETWMG_yIql3rfDsYN6-s-PxMlU786_47S-w8sVzAPfSZKDSBtjhVaawXfw/s320/vesuvius%201696.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Etna sext Mars (0°04)<br />Correlation: weak<br /><br /><i>Vesuvius 15-9-1697</i><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzipwrM1vUstaOf3-7E2u6mrhpMTzEAuA-k1p2JLZSn5cZOnMZ1KSW9emXJWzN5pqp2vofz1H8PofYEKKij9m16RKRf39jkFzXkrr_pTfnLNpxIt4Jwh-BCXRnjVnMxiGQ5ItRRRWUBDXS7lHrVDAvliwaaAnbHq_-aCQtoIfeo2pMuNkxeDKALTGoag/s931/vesuvius%201697.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="931" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzipwrM1vUstaOf3-7E2u6mrhpMTzEAuA-k1p2JLZSn5cZOnMZ1KSW9emXJWzN5pqp2vofz1H8PofYEKKij9m16RKRf39jkFzXkrr_pTfnLNpxIt4Jwh-BCXRnjVnMxiGQ5ItRRRWUBDXS7lHrVDAvliwaaAnbHq_-aCQtoIfeo2pMuNkxeDKALTGoag/s320/vesuvius%201697.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Stromboli squ Neptune (0°25)<br />Correlation: weak<br /></p>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-8188219374048306362022-04-19T09:56:00.099+02:002022-07-02T19:19:47.802+02:00A Philosophy of Astrology #6 ~ The Science<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<div><br />For most people with a scientific background it's simply common sense that all things astrological are nonsense, when in fact,
there's solid quantitative research to back up various astrological
claims. Very few professional scientists have reviewed it.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>In principle, science, mathematics and statistics are
worldview-independent. But in the scientific community some worldviews
are more popular than others. That's just the way it is. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><b>Astrological worldview</b></div>
<div>The astrological worldview can be summarized by the famous hermetic
aphorism <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_above,_so_below" target="_blank">'as above so below'</a>. We can take away a few things from this
aphorism. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>First, it points to the interconnectedness of two realms. Above can
be thought of as the heavens, the sky, stars, planets etc. while below
is about everyday life on (planet) earth. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Second, if the movements of stars, planets etc. are meaningfully
connected to life and everything else that's going on here on earth,
then nature is somehow capable of producing an orderliness that
seamlessly integrates matter and meaning. Call it <i>astrological order</i>. <br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_4ASesyBF79d5dZdRtLqbvSrJkTmoBwATACNIS3IhkJVYCeA7DodgAxswlgdZ2mXOzaJwcsAxZBfLocyUyUighmi6XPlWhmESfXMSgYmjQOZAkg8F5N4O8N9DaHlgS2ft37XF6gFiLby6rTaxAExKPHqfP6eaWLT38xJI51KCNvOtB8KnjSNI-oRHoQ/s16000/jupiter.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div>
<div>Astrological order builds on astronomical order, particularly on
the predictable movements of a stable solar system, which is part of a
galaxy, and so on. Unlike astronomical order, astrological order also
includes, or adds 'layers of' meaning, metaphor and even myth.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>For an astronomer looking at Jupiter, the actual name of the
planet is irrelevant at the end of the day. Any unique identifier would
do. But for an astrologer looking at Jupiter, the name and its connotations or associations actually
have meaning. While most astronomers respect the Standard Model of
physics so to speak, astrologers go beyond its jurisdiction to look for
meaning-based correlations between celestial events (above) and events
on earth (below). In doing so, they introduce the bigger philosophical
idea of a meaningful universe.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQsmCrDi5LtVI3b_ioc5--dNvpdMwRp0CGcNjgAkRdLrjtvsNyv34MZzzyXBxgDA46Zu5iVD3NRWXYNNmPuGtx8PaDYiztMRa-nm5Ciim25FXQba6RR3kUQ41JEh5i7Vgn6dWASsk9Hmb9vFNR8tHvGAsTp1NDk6jkoj7aJG7ZPmHU_BSX-fZzNScA1Q/s16000/jupiter-zeus-francois-verdier-1651-1730-23312936.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><b>
</b><div><b>Subjective interpretation</b></div><div>The methodology of popular astrology relies heavily on subjective
interpretation of all kinds of celestial signs (in a
semiotic sense). Interpretation is not straightforward, as many
signs modulate each other's meaning. Of course, there are also
various (conflicting) opinions about what the actual meaning, or semantic potential
of a certain sign might be. The popular approach isn't solid enough for scientific purposes.
Ideally, we would like to eliminate subjective interpretation
altogether. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><b>Astrological framework</b></div>
<div>In order to formulate testable astrological hypotheses, we must
do some metaphysical speculation first. At a minimum, we need a
theoretical framework that says something about the basic structure of
the astrological sky (above) and about the way astrological correlations
can be recognized on earth (below). We also need to clarify the
interaction between celestial signs. A theory that accounts for the integration of matter and meaning, which is at
the heart of the astrological worldview, will have to wait.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>The construction of a 'universal' theoretical framework is not easy,
simply because different cultures have come up with different ideas
about particulars of the celestial sign-machine. For example, the
semantic potential of the Moon might be related to masculine themes
according to some cultures, but related to feminine themes in other
cultures. While aiming for consensus seems useless, we can still try to get an impression of what a basic theoretical framework for scientific research of astrological structure might look like.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyFv2G3lfFx3MjbTY4HyDxVOzPY1GhXYAKlxGheamGYmXoaG9_JvLUX1y9ho94QvAopTgh5Y-urNdxzKOHmmpjYGtmycWcpkNeQWiRDnva7n_apRGn5TH-kHQLtK-UIZr52j7JS-tlk34AhNBLmVcTmr7LP_7oSNpkiWC_lyr6S630CyjnORgQtaUaRQ/s16000/sunmoon.jpg" /></div><br />
<div><b></b></div><b>
</b><div><b>Embodied metaphors </b></div>
<div>Astrologers have their own way of looking at the sky. For example,
they have a keen interest in embodied metaphors. We can think of
visibility, luminosity, size, orbital characteristics etc. as objective
measures, but for astrologers they are also embodied qualities that can have
metaphorical use. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Following a symbolic style of observation and reasoning, all
ancient astrology-minded cultures have recognized the Sun and the Moon
as very important players in the astrological meaning-game because of
their luminosity and size from a geocentric point of view. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Let's postulate this as a principle:</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><i>PR 1: Luminosity and relative size of the Sun and Moon indicate their relative symbolic 'weight' or importance.</i></div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Celestial objects that are visible with the naked eye are more
important than invisible objects. Big, bright objects are more important
than small, faint objects. This is true for the Sun and the Moon
relative to the visible planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn, but also for the stars. A bright star is usually thought to be
more important than a faint star. We could say that in astrology, the
Sun and the Moon are the most important celestial bodies.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrLkFLzj2JZZgeiD3C9jn1BF22-jAn9wwJSOdu34xKsqBVP32SqwTvpz5s2UaVfzchCBeDD3m60G7CHRQ1SWrXUQxJQrjUejwyPmJpy2wTcqiUN8B29q1w-Q-m8CMZVry7ZAmAd2IHSAfvv1T5bgJqncUjGpcNlsfIrauvdF85nodPVuQTL7cqYpkiaA/s16000/helder.jpg" /></div><br />
<div><b>Semantic potential</b></div>
<div>For astrologers, each celestial object (star, planet
etc.) is somehow seamlessly connected to a unique field of potential
meanings, its 'semantic potential'. It's a kind of
fingerprint. For example, the planet we call Mars is often related to
the more assertive aspects of the <i>struggle for life</i> like fights,
ambition, physical fitness and so on. Its red color has been associated
with blood. On the other hand the planet we call Venus is associated
with the finer things in life and the accumulation of socio-cultural
capital.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>The semantic potential of a celestial object can be
related to notable embodied metaphors which are rooted in the
physical domain, but also to the (official) name of the object, which is
a metaphysical property. Mars is named after the ancient Roman God of War,
Venus is named after the Roman Goddess of Love and so on. Note that certain aspects of <i>myths</i> associated with these mythological characters can also be part of the semantic potential. More generally speaking, the symbolic or associative potential of names can be relevant.<br /><br />The planets all have lofty names, but when
it comes to asteroids it's a mixed bag. Official IAU-approved asteroid
names are often mundane and sometimes silly. (This is a good thing as it
allows us to work with a wide variety of semantic fingerprints.)</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Let's postulate another principle:</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><i>PR 2: The semantic potential of a celestial object is usually
related to notable embodied metaphors, to its name, and to the symbolic or associative potential of the name.</i></div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><b>Geometry of meaning</b></div>
<div>Most objects in our solar system orbit around the Sun. If, for
example, we would project the positions of the visible planets on a flat
plane, we could look for changes in geometrical relations
and see triangles, squares and other geometrical patterns pop up. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Astrologers are especially interested in the (longitudinal) angles
between celestial objects. Certain angles have names. For example, an
angle of 0 degrees is known as a conjunction, 180 degrees is called
opposition, 120 degrees is a trine, 90 degrees is a square, 72 degrees
is a quintile. These angles should also be thought of as harmonics.
Conjunction is the first harmonic, opposition the second harmonic, trine
the third harmonic etc.<br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGD-vhQ8CYpoEdgnaiJB1Iby-k6Chgri4x9CYtGVh14IuWc7jCKFwqMstvEsu-4uXWyhYQPrCHXznCJCl1c4aiSlVSe20XZXbK0wpPDGI0dFomlIPLBSF_SAaBrQlmRp8qI8cnsEXnq8TtexQYVG4JPO-iNf2xRxNIp4X5_1gC9pYSo9gMjVC3BIwWw/s16000/mars%20venus.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<div></div>
<div>When Mars and Venus are conjunct, their semantic potentials modulate
each other in a certain way. If they are in opposition, their semantic
potentials modulate each other quite differently. A dynamic geometry of
meaning seems to be at work here. Angular or semantic modulation is a continuous process, in the sense that its 'effect' is
thought to be most noticable when the harmonic angle between two bodies is exact
(exactly 0 degrees, 180 degrees etc.) but it is already, or still,
noticable when the angle is off by a few degrees.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><i>PR 3: The semantic potential of a celestial body is continually
being modulated by the semantic potentials of other celestial bodies.</i></div><i>
</i><div><i><br /></i></div><i>
</i><div><i>PR 4: Exact harmonic aspects between celestial bodies point to peak levels of semantic modulation and stronger 'effects'. </i></div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Each harmonic angle, or 'aspect' as they're usually called, has a
unique quality which again, to a certain extent, is metaphorical. This
is especially true for conjunctions and oppositions. A conjunction has a
fusing quality, while an opposition has a polarizing quality. For the
other angles the metaphorical case is less strong. Traditionally, the
trine stands for an absence of friction, while the square stands for a
certain amount of friction, but these qualities are not as easily or
intuitively derived from a simple projection on a flat plane.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><i>PR 5: Each harmonic aspect has its own semantic flavor or modus operandi.</i></div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Note that we must choose between a geocentric perspective and a
heliocentric perspective when dealing with aspects. Traditional
astrology is mostly geocentric. A change of perspective would imply
certain semantic changes, which we will not go into. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>We now have a very basic framework describing the above-part of
the astrological realm. It's based on simple geometrical relations
between celestial bodies, and it gives some rules of thumb when it comes
to the semantics. Other celestial signs, like the popular houses,
zodiacal signs, midpoints etc. are ignored for now to keep things
simple.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJBRQwJC7YS4qlgW3Y5wHksd0Q4bIjCZ54VCcjPfPT7J7pAsupz1P38JZPCZfIEYE3eBvo3AsK10wOmvWN7yho8dof7KAmUVKmYpFKNlXz9qjYlyN0N_zCspqLJMV45Xlk6W4QA947ub2V3PiW9Wbte4mn0ymZwM_crL3Vr2L7vlpqtiiLtu7R3MVIug/s16000/trees-with-roots.jpg" /></div><br />
<div><b>So below</b></div>
<div>Now let's look at the below-part. How can we establish that
certain earthly events are in some sense related to the specific
qualities of the current astrological weather? How can we link characteristics of the below-state to characteristics of the
above-state?</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>First, earthly events that 'resonate' with the current astrological
weather may come in many forms, from purely physical to purely mental.
Very different kinds of 'resonating events' might be happening
simultaneously. Most would probably be hidden from the public eye but
some should be very visible. From earthquakes and erupting volcanoes to
medical conditions or political events, astrological correlations can potentially be
found everywhere. The branch of astrology that (roughly) looks at more physical kinds of events can be called mundane, forensic or situational. Mental types of events are studied mostly in psychological branches of astrology. <br /><br /><b>Big data</b><br />For scientific research this means that we have to be pragmatic. Let's start by
ignoring all anecdotal stuff. Whatever it is we're looking for, it should come in the form of
consistent patterns, allow for large samples, plenty of data points and
high precision. Mundane events can be easier to measure than psychological events. Another thing to consider is time. Celestial bodies are
always on the move, from one salient spot to the next. If we want to
model these movements, we must select earthly events that can have
reliable timestamps. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div><b>Semantic precision</b></div>
<div>The patterns we're looking for must be precise. Some celestial
signs have a broad semantic potential so 'source
material' should be selected with care. When it comes to semantic precision, we can for example differentiate between stars, planets and asteroids.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Stars ~ and black holes for that matter ~ are outside of our solar
system. There are various approaches to star astrology, but harmonic
angles are not necessarily the best tools.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>For all planets, including Sun and Moon, we have a canonical set of
core concepts used by most astrologers. These can be quite
general.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Asteroids are a relatively new category, so to speak. There are
thousands of officially named asteroids, and their semantic potential
can be very limited which is good for precision.<br /><br />It would be nice if we could analyze the semantic potential of celestial signs in isolation, but in many cases this would be too difficult. However, registering the interaction between two signs or objects should be doable in many cases. In general, the interconnectedness of celestial signs and the fluidity of symbolic association make it harder to use reductionist strategies.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVizsfZsyjTvTZw37Pv8N6qg0q3-xxFgOY9PzeKB8LZ2IHj-7uY3nBv2tnFkZIyu9ip_e3zBm11MNEUBVZf0OATi8qSkQewmneG0qoC4jjcIcsRVTNOErNeY3N2e3TBgg9s8mCtTB76uR-rlaIx9RLkQOPd07yxO4B2lD6_Lj36a5KPrHgCB_ImG8Dg/s16000/news.jpg" /></div><br />
<div></div>
<div><b>Example: asteroid names in news items</b></div>
<div>Let's finish with an actual research example. Renay Oshop
(<a href="http://ayurastro.com" target="_blank">ayurastro.com</a>) has used her deep knowledge of astrology, mathematics and
statistics to design an experiment that bypasses subjective
interpretation and leverages the precision of asteroids. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Here's the general idea:</div><ol><li>Look at the angle between the Sun and an asteroid. (In fact, look at 1211 asteroids);</li><li>Go to Google News and count the number of news articles that have the name of the asteroid in it;</li><li>Repeat on a daily basis and keep doing this for 5 years.</li></ol>
<div></div>
<div>The hypothesis being that the angle between the Sun and the
asteroids is related to the number of news articles counted. So far the
results are satisfying. P-values are in fact extremely
small, especially when compared to other astrological research. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>The project is open source. All code and data will be made available. Daily updates of the results <a href="https://www.ayurastro.com/articles/results-for-minor-planet-names-in-google-news-refreshed-daily#/" target="_blank">are available over here</a>.</div>
Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-42596641118984895042021-06-12T10:19:00.037+02:002022-04-19T13:00:27.667+02:00Cryptocurrency astrology #2 ~ Manipulation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwPL9vb7QQXbpiFjL9m6PrIaUg-5qtT6uRR96RrCCm2X5UW1Y5dmNqP4n1BYZDsQc9gsH9RXgW9h6JNRBVJoHJh4hCrz3xhQWFduCua639SXSOZHY6zFXLi620BuN4X4rTZaf92uhXuwvG/s16000/manipulate.jpg" /></div><br />Markets are subject to manipulation. Big institutions, big media, trolling billionaires, governments, central banks and regulators have the power to move markets. But what's moving those movers and shakers? Or to quote Robert Anton Wilson: <i>what's really going on?</i><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><br />A common joke about technical analysis of market movements is to compare it to astrology, or reading tea leaves. Hmm..<br /><br /><b>Asteroids as market indicators<br /></b>Momentum and volatility are important variables in technical analysis; they can point to upcoming risks and opportunities. There are <a href="https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/5-essential-indicators-used-in-technical-analysis" target="_blank">lots of interesting indicators</a> like Average True Range, Bollinger Bands and MACD. Simple formulas that use data from the (recent) past to visualize and predict where the market is going.<br /><br />Planets and asteroids can also point to (market) volatility. Uranus for example is very much about volatility. Mars and Pluto can indicate <i>agressive</i> movements. When it comes to asteroids, there's a long list of volatility indicators. Some of the more obvious and powerful ones would be Pholus (domino effect), Sedna (hitting rock bottom), Phaeton (ride like lightning, crash like thunder) and Icarus (fall). Then there are FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) indicators
like Damocles, Chaos, Dufault, Apophis (fear), Lie and Swindle, and even FOMO-indicators like Hybris, Achilles and Xanthus (blonde).<br /><br />On the other hand, asteroids can also point to stability, growth and making money, for example in the classic sense of <i>harvest time</i>. Think Ceres, Juno, Crescentia, Lugh, but also Rockefellia, Midas (golden touch), Goldberger and so on. Venus and Jupiter can amplify their themes. Finally, there are more literal indicators for bull and bear markets, like Toro, Turnbull, Ursa and Standing Bear.<br /><br /><b>Deep learning finds correlations</b><br />I'm not going to link to excel sheets or models here, but i'll point out that it's quite easy to create deep learning models for predicting bitcoin price, using nothing but historical bitcoin price data and a 'smart' selection of orbital data. You may see an <span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb"><span class="hgKElc">R<sup>2</sup></span></span> of 0.25 or better. (<span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb"><span class="hgKElc">R<sup>2</sup></span></span> being a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination" target="_blank">measure of correlation</a> that can vary between 0 and 1.) While that 0.25 score provides solid quantitative support for a <i>general</i> <i>astrological hypothesis</i>, the practical value is low. The output isn't good enough to inform trading decisions. To obtain actionable information, qualitative astrological analysis is a must.<br /><br /><b>The Wyckoff method</b><br />Let's say ~ for the sake of the argument ~ that astrology can get you good information. Even if for some people that might sound like a conspiracy or metaphysical market manipulation. Now for contrast, let's check out an actual manipulation strategy: <a href="https://school.stockcharts.com/doku.php?id=market_analysis:the_wyckoff_method" target="_blank">the Wyckoff method</a>.<br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lhf_2gJJS1I" title="YouTube video player" width="400"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U5zy_t_DYkI" title="YouTube video player" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />If you want to be able to follow the rest of this post, watch the videos. The oversimplified version is that institutions, or professional traders, have come to bitcoin and now <i>dumb bitcoin</i> is paying the price. So-called whales influence medium-term price action in such a way that inexperienced traders fall victim to their emotions ~ first greed, then fear. It goes like this: first the whales make inexperienced traders buy from them at a relatively high price and then they scare the so-called <i>weak hands</i> out of their investments by creating a huge dip, so they can buy it all back at a discount. Smart! The videos show how the pros have perfected their game. Wyckoff's theoretical pattern and the actual price of bitcoin in the first half of 2021 are almost identical. Definitely smells like market manipulation.<br /><br /><b>Who is being manipulated?<br /></b>All this begs a philosophical question. If the price of bitcoin is being manipulated, and at the same time certain 'manipulated' events are predictable using astrology, who is <i>really</i> being manipulated? Since the astrological argument is backed by the precision of orbital mechanics, it would seem that professional traders are playing a game that's embedded in long term astrological weather conditions.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1buLqWnN2mgqm64nSfGfxmQSwD71TG7YOQNO-HnI2XA0_mHrwLUeUHL2MwALvZ4Uta9N_SoXqhpIQKedXb5nnq-0Eb3an9Gs9dwCq9HUpFgg0uuWMqSTZTVw9IeCGa47KpySNO89vLM2a/s16000/rekt.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Whale-astrology</b><br />For context, let's take a look at some of the key moments in the bitcoin price chart for the first half of 2021. We'll look at the Elon Musk/Tesla-significators and the <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2021/05/cryptocurrency-astrology-1-bitcoin.html" target="_blank">Bitcoin significators</a>. Research into the astrology of the Wyckoffian method suggests we should also keep an eye on asteroids 15304 Wikberg, 16947 Wikrent and 29845 Wykrota. They seem to point to manipulation of financial markets. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD32pZARVzTIWDtquIsZk0kTXsg9ovesTPOmdtSxuLPbCsPhMsG0J4O_BdcETwaNkFzcCJnlZxVDqk1t7PC_h-c8fKn9O2n8w2_Ztb0qjnRVX-gQ-vdBpsanhvW73cMN6DyAkmjiyHgqif/s925/tesla1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="921" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD32pZARVzTIWDtquIsZk0kTXsg9ovesTPOmdtSxuLPbCsPhMsG0J4O_BdcETwaNkFzcCJnlZxVDqk1t7PC_h-c8fKn9O2n8w2_Ztb0qjnRVX-gQ-vdBpsanhvW73cMN6DyAkmjiyHgqif/w399-h400/tesla1.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><i><br />8 february<br /></i><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1point5-billion-in-bitcoin.html" target="_blank">Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment</a> <br /><br />Sun conjunct Mercury<br />Wikberg (Wyckoffian manipulation) conjunct Jupiter<br />Wikrent (Wyckoffian manipulation) square Elowitz (Elon Musk), trine Galactic Center<br />Tesla square Sun/Mercury, trine Neptune, conjunct China<br />Refugium (shelter) conjunct Neptune<br />Bitias (bitcoin) trine Varuna (expansion, growth)<br /> Damocleid 2008 SO 218 (crypto) conjunct Lie, Pandora<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YId66V08djh22FzmM6rMjkixxSn12GAebCwNxkYsIGGUz6HL7U6fjtKxuPORCtbkPzuh3B4ABSzYk3WAAlXCTIQ6zu_0BqsePQZhm7jgHy48ZXHwORsRqFpXhfUY_V74FEoT8FTD3BLu/s924/wyck3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="922" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YId66V08djh22FzmM6rMjkixxSn12GAebCwNxkYsIGGUz6HL7U6fjtKxuPORCtbkPzuh3B4ABSzYk3WAAlXCTIQ6zu_0BqsePQZhm7jgHy48ZXHwORsRqFpXhfUY_V74FEoT8FTD3BLu/w399-h400/wyck3.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><br /><i>24 march</i><br /><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/elon-musk-says-people-can-now-buy-a-tesla-with-bitcoin.html" target="_blank">Tesla accepts bitcoin as payment for its cars</a><br />Sun conjunct Venus<br />Bittesini conjunct Uranus<br />Wykrota square Uranus, Bittesini<br />Elois trine Uranus, Bittesini<br />Tesla, Elodie, China trine Neptune<br />Tesla, Elodie, China square Jupiter<br />Tesla, Elodie, China quintile Banks, Whalen<br />Elowitz quintile Damocleid 2008 SO 218<br />Elois square Bitias<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjewP7rF65xcKsnnetAfvzR-Y8vgBwo-jIbZYspiLOyQB25wTl6d84vzMXlc1ChnEELcK8adPdYEVI-DZakwfDTXXgjQNF1dy_xJF1rdxMBvuY8tKGNaYIWvkfXnrrog0zBQR_BrljFaR7S/s922/wyck2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjewP7rF65xcKsnnetAfvzR-Y8vgBwo-jIbZYspiLOyQB25wTl6d84vzMXlc1ChnEELcK8adPdYEVI-DZakwfDTXXgjQNF1dy_xJF1rdxMBvuY8tKGNaYIWvkfXnrrog0zBQR_BrljFaR7S/w399-h400/wyck2.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><i><br />15 april</i><br /><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/coinbase-coin-climbs-11percent-in-premarket-after-nasdaq-debut.html" target="_blank">Coinbase's landmark Nasdaq debut</a><br />Whalen (whales) and Banks (banks) conjunct Saturn<br />Wykrota (Wyckoffian manipulation) opposite Saturn<br />Wikrent square Bittesini<br />Elowitz (Elon Musk) conjunct Bitias (Bitcoin)<br />Elois (Elon Musk) opposite Coyne (crypto)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiejSWvKr7-UqtZMZ68nVTwXo5V9L5iN9RX5e_5HJH3C0_zz0quQjZZLzPBnznwlj3tc2W9ql9qwb4xE5ISVvG1b8kQu-vHwTYwQHWOov0hGTmRULbiZ_u2uwVdsn7mcGK0TfS2SToQWYBi/s925/wyck4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="925" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiejSWvKr7-UqtZMZ68nVTwXo5V9L5iN9RX5e_5HJH3C0_zz0quQjZZLzPBnznwlj3tc2W9ql9qwb4xE5ISVvG1b8kQu-vHwTYwQHWOov0hGTmRULbiZ_u2uwVdsn7mcGK0TfS2SToQWYBi/w400-h398/wyck4.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><i>12 may</i><br /><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-stop-accepting-bitcoin-for-car-purchases.html" target="_blank">Tesla no longer accepts BTC over environmental concerns</a><br />Wykrota conjunct Wikrent<br />Wykrota, Wikrent opposite Whalen<br />Wikberg conjunct Neptune<br />Elowitz conjunct Bitias<br />Tesla, Elodie square Saturn<br />Bittner conjunct Venus<br />Bittner, Venus opposite Elowitz, Bitias<br /><br /><b>Conclusion<br /></b>Asteroid analysis can point to various 'influences' that move the markets. In this post the emphasis is on the Tesla/Elon Musk significators interacting with Whalen, Banks and the Wyckoffian significators. This is not the whole story. Volatility-indicators like Sedna, Phaeton or Achilles can also be studied in relation to price action. Those correlations can be as strong as the ones shown here. <br /><br />So does this mean that astrological analysis is superior to technical analysis, as it factors in manipulation? Not necessarily. Look at Bitcoin. While lots of emotion-driven newcomers in this market will get rekt, there are also lots of smart people in the community. Smart Bitcoin learned about the details of the Wyckoff method very quickly. Therefore it's less likely that the pros can get away with such a blatant trail of evidence a second time. At any rate, lots of small traders will now notice this game and be able to make money off it.Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-30641579103075210752021-05-22T18:17:00.312+02:002022-04-19T13:27:01.076+02:00Cryptocurrency astrology #1 ~ Bitcoin basics<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBXPgjhu8yTraf2nxLp7o55moWZFBh7k1faacYeCrEAHQYoJMmzOtKUiCPenbDABDPyrMTeO3N-b49eSTh1kH-o2CqLpK47sF_-ruu8ZqyxNmxlKVQJjhnskoR-A34tSH-k_L1RcsYf7u/s320/bitcoin.jpg" width="400" /></div><br />Cryptocurrencies will be an important part of future money. Some people think of Bitcoin as digital gold. But whatever your opinion might be, cryptocurrencies are also interesting from an<i> </i>astrological point of view: lots of timestamps and significator asteroids. <span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><br />Bitcoin wasn't the first attempt at creating digital money but it's the most successful one so far. While we know a lot about the history of Bitcoin there's also a big mystery: the identity of the creator(s). Their pseudonym is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto" target="_blank">Satoshi Nakamoto</a>, but Satoshi has disappeared. Also, we have lots of historical documents and events with accurate timestamps but no certain location. Therefore, traditional astrological methods that rely on signs, houses and angles (ascendant etc.) are at a disadvantage. Asteroid astrology on the other hand can be accurate enough, using only timestamps.<br /><br /><b>What is Bitcoin?</b><br />Before we start looking at charts, we should know what it is we're looking at. Bitcoin is a new phenomenon when compared to traditional money or gold. It's many things at once, like for example:<br /><br />- central banks killer;<br />- political ideology;<br />- (sub)cultural phenomenon;<br />- robust technical protocol;<br />- decentralized electronic network;<br />- cryptocurrency;<br />- relatively volatile store of value;<br />- hedge against inflation;<br />- etc.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoMDziMZkD5YoQRQe2A4uJG2shJFqWD6VHZEvlTXzFRU_dFx4Jtn3l3sOCBcs7CDBkKVpW9WrkcJZC9ezzTb5iEbzYH7jTJbFLAuG1vj4fkgTO1Wo7dxf_9me6tn2oVF1M3Zxu-Wifvd46/s16000/640px-Bitcoin-Genesis-block.jpg" /></div><b><br />Bitcoin data</b><br />The first thing we need for an astrological analysis of the Bitcoin-phenomenon is a handful of important dates. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> provides a few, and for a deeper dive there are rich sources like <a href="https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/" target="_blank">The Complete Satoshi</a> which includes timestamped emails, forum posts and so on. Here are some dates from the early days:<br /><br />- On 18 August 2008, the domain name <a href="http://bitcoin.org" target="_blank">bitcoin.org</a> was registered.<br />- On 31
October, a link to the all important paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, titled <a href="https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/" target="_blank">Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System</a> was posted to a
cryptography mailing list.<br />- On 3 January 2009, at approximately 18:15:05 UTC the bitcoin network came into existence with the mining of the <a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/a-deep-dive-into-satoshis-11-year-old-bitcoin-genesis-block/" target="_blank">'genesis block'</a>.<br />- The <a href="https://academy.bit2me.com/en/the-first-bitcoin-transaction/" target="_blank">first trade</a> took place on the 11th of January at 23:00 UTC.<br />- On 15 August 2010, a <a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-history-part-10-the-184-billion-btc-bug/" target="_blank">major vulnerability</a> was discovered. <br /><br />The 3rd of January 2009 is the most important date. This provides the widely used Bitcoin chart. And it's a beast, especially the Mars-Pluto conjunction which is the mark of a determined fighter. Also note Uranus opposite Saturn (innovation vs. conservative power-structures), Venus (money) sextile Pluto (rebirth) and Uranus quintile Mars (powerful iconoclast). <br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtQY54xDi4yyTgVV_UDE2Xiuz59DdlG6g7bR8sqlBlsuc_S8cBlZt17iL6Y_vvT1WFc59059RmmPLUO3R63v6VJwyLtc14cwh6sNozypDgTQuQjToGx1tdhOUaDX3vV4mfhaXmR-l-AdLL/s926/bplanet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="926" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtQY54xDi4yyTgVV_UDE2Xiuz59DdlG6g7bR8sqlBlsuc_S8cBlZt17iL6Y_vvT1WFc59059RmmPLUO3R63v6VJwyLtc14cwh6sNozypDgTQuQjToGx1tdhOUaDX3vV4mfhaXmR-l-AdLL/w400-h399/bplanet.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><br />Find the significators</b><br />For a solid asteroid-based analysis, the next step would be to find the most important Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-significators. In general, significator asteroids point to specific people, places, subjects, qualities and so on. Most significator asteroids are organized in <i>loosely defined groups that travel along synchronistically coupled trajectories</i>. Groups can be name-based, meaning-based or both. <br /><br />In practice this means you'll be tracking multiple significators to get a broader picture. This can get complicated as some significators are more important than others. Significators may or may not be in some harmonic relationship like conjunction or opposition. When they are, they usually become more relevant. If one or more important significators are contacting the Sun (1 degree orb) while other planets, dwarfs or significators are also being activated, there's a higher probability that something significant will happen. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWBBBJAHTBvy2yOq30WkzyRfUrp7mtPnv1fJFXffOJpmyK2Lr4mstPxwXsxKGJuUHvqfEvVtstFCxXD-DGnB2OLuImtIQxJGLAiJzO7Mzg8q_Gdol2CkJgQRH7PYxca5MubQNQBqPtEM2/s949/blue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="949" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWBBBJAHTBvy2yOq30WkzyRfUrp7mtPnv1fJFXffOJpmyK2Lr4mstPxwXsxKGJuUHvqfEvVtstFCxXD-DGnB2OLuImtIQxJGLAiJzO7Mzg8q_Gdol2CkJgQRH7PYxca5MubQNQBqPtEM2/w400-h390/blue.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Here's an overview of 4 groups of potential Bitcoin significators. As you can see, the (phonetic) structure of the name is relevant. <br /><br /><i>'Bitcoin' based names<br /></i>Bitias (5120)<br />Bittesini (5299)<br />Bittner (6596)<br /><br /><i>'Satoshi' based names <br /></i>Setouchi (3392)<br />Sats (5300)<br />Satoru (8485)*<br />Satotoshio (14499) <br />Satoshi (14927)<br />Sathish (33621)*<br />Satovski (212929)<br /><i><br />'Nakamoto' based names</i><br />Nakano (3431)*<br />Nakamura (4219)*<br />Nakamuraminoru (13605)*<br />Nakamurahiroshi (14028)<br />Nakamurayoshi (21036)*<br />Nakamatsu (27930)<br /><br /><i>other</i><br /><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008+SO218" target="_blank">Damocleid 2008 SO218</a> (330759)<br />Coyne (14429)<br /><br /><b>Relative importance</b><br />Obviously this list is a bit too long. So how do we filter out the most important significators? Experience teaches that: <br />- the Bitcoin-based names are very important;<br />- the Damocleid is also very important; <br />- Coyne is also quite important.<br /><br />This leaves the 'Satoshi' group and the 'Nakamoto' group. They are not important for the analysis of price action. Having said that, the Satoshi-based names are generally more important than the Nakamoto-based
names. That's because 1 satoshi <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_(unit)" target="_blank">(the unit)</a> equals one hundred millionth of 1 bitcoin (0.00000001 BTC). Nakamoto is more connected to the creator, not the currency. The asteroids marked with * are conjunct planets or
nodes in the Bitcoin-chart and are therefore probably more important than the others in their group.<br /><br />By the way, Bitcoin isn't the only digital currency that has significators. Asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=cardano;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery" target="_blank">Cardano</a> (11421) for example is a significator for the <a href="https://cardano.org/" target="_blank">Cardano ecosystem</a> and its ADA currency. But note that there is an important difference between Bitcoin significators and significators for other cryptocurrencies. The Bitcoin significators can also function as significators for<i> digital currencies in general</i>. For example in the case of Cardano, the main Bitcoin significators are just as relevant as its most important 'native' asteroid, the namesake Cardano. <br /><br />Damocleid 2008 SO218 is also a significator for digital currencies in general. This was discovered by dutch astrologer and asteroid specialist <a href="https://adamahblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/damocleiden/" target="_blank">Benjamin Adamah</a>. Coyne is yet another crypto generalist. <br /><br /><b>Similar names, different meanings<br /></b>The structural (phonological and morphological) similarities between for example Satoshi, Satoru and Satovski are obvious ~ unless you insist that the Universe doesn't know how to spell. But these similarities can obscure certain nuances. In other words: similar significators may have different meanings. So how can we get a grip on the different meanings of fairly similar significators? <br /><br />To find out what part or aspect of Bitcoin-as-a-whole is signified by, say, Bittesini, two sources of information are very helpful:<br /><br />1. The discovery chart of the asteroid; <br />2. The position of the asteroid in the Bitcoin chart.<br /><br />If the information from both sources can be matched in a meaningful way, and if the established nuances actually 'work' in practice in a variety of charts, your significator game is improving significantly.<br /><br /><b>Differences between the bitcoin-based significators</b><br />As an example, here's how we can differentiate between Bitias, Bittesini and Bittner based on an analysis of their discovery charts. (This kind of analysis can be done relatively easy using <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Asteroiden-gids-astrologische-betekenissen-Damocleiden-Neptunus-resonanten/dp/9492355191" target="_blank">Benjamin Adamah's 'Asteroïden Gids'</a>.)<br /><br /><i><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=bitias;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery" target="_blank">Bitias</a>, 13-10-1988, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palomar_Observatory" target="_blank">Palomar Observatory</a><br /></i>The Bitias discovery chart is dominated by a Saturn-Uranus-Galactic Center conjunction. The position of asteroid Bitias in its discovery chart points to an extreme kind of purging (conjunct Plutino 2002 VE95, Plutino 1996 TQ 66 and SDO 1995 TL8). There's a deep impulse or desire to overthrow an old system but the process, or struggle, doesn't look pretty and it's not easy. <br /><br />Fundamental characteristic: painful struggle <br /> <b><br /></b><i><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=bittesini;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery" target="_blank">Bittesini</a>, 8-6-1969, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoncito_Astronomical_Complex" target="_blank">Leoncito Astronomical Complex</a><br /></i>The most remarkable thing about the Bittesini discovery chart is the fact that Bittesini itself is conjunct Mars. Bittner is also <i>very</i> close to this conjunction, within 1,5 degree, and the explosive asteroid Bomben makes this conjunction even louder. Jupiter is conjunct the South Node, Bitias is quintile the Damocleid. Let's just say that this chart is extremely agressive from the Bitcoin-perspective.<br /><br />Fundamental characteristic: explosive, agressive <br /><br /><i><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=bittner;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery" target="_blank">Bittner</a>, 15-11-1987, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementinum" target="_blank">Klementinum Observatory</a><br /></i>Bittner's discovery chart is less agressive, although asteroid Vipera (killer instinct) is conjunct Bittner. Centaur 2007 DU112 is also conjunct Bittner and according to Benjamin Adamah this points to convergence, synergy, a (slow and steady) overwhelming climax, or being at the right place at the right time.<br /><br />Fundamental characteristic: "I love it when a plan comes together" (Hannibal Smith)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxIUlw_oF5onXDWIwhVgF5GoN3XN6AuUSQH34TFQTk0KLTcE99ZDH8VMWXRPwTwkXTtzI9XPaKSvgH5p1FLPJ0H-Ay8duCpbPnHsfvl2yUz4z0gNLzhsDTLWnzK15IrweXvoRv393RHYnp/s16000/ateam.jpg" /></div><br />A relatively easy and powerful way to get a grip on significators in <i>any chart</i> is to focus on the degree they're in, and list all other important asteroids within 1 degree orb. The next step could be to look at the first five harmonics, up to quintiles, but keep in mind that conjunctions are often the most important. Let's look at the conjunctions for Bitias, Bittesini and Bittner in the Bitcoin chart.<br /><br /><i>Bitias</i><br />The asteroids in Bitias' region are polarized, which is fitting if we think of the difficult struggle in the discovery chart. On the one hand we have Virtus (heroic courage) and Reasoner (clear thought). On the other hand we have Neptune Resonant 2002 GX32 which, according to Benjamin Adamah points to hybris, failure and greed.<br /><br /><i>Bittesini</i><br />By far the most important asteroid in Bittesini's region is Nessus. This infamous asteroid is relatively powerful, and related to problems with borders and <i>invasions</i> in a very broad sense. Add this to the agressive discovery-chart and you've got enough metaphysical firepower to scare the petrodollar. Heisenberg is also interesting, pointing to both subjectivity and uncertainty (the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle" target="_blank">uncertainty principle</a> and also FUD). Asteroid Lugh is also important. According to Benjamin Adamah it points to harvesting. Fun facts: asteroids Keynes and Adam Smith, named after the economists are joining Bittesini. Keynesian theory is used to rationalize inflation, so that makes sense. Adam Smith is sometimes referred to as the <i>Father of Capitalism</i> because of his naive ideas about the 'free market'. Hmmm... <br /><br /><i>Bittner</i><br />Bittner is again quite polarized, combining Chaos, Fruits and two power-hungry Plutino's. 1998 WW24 points to striving for autonomy and breaking through resistance, while encountering problems because of rejection. 1998 WU31 is very similar to 1998 WW24, but with a stronger accent on the will to power and manipulation, again according to Benjamin Adamah. Another fun fact: asteroid Weimar is also present, pointing to the Weimar Republic, which is virtually synonymous with hyperinflation. Yep, asteroid astrology is fun! <br /><b><br />A closer look at two charts</b><br />Now that we have a basic idea of the differences between Bitias, Bittesini and Bittner, we can start to analyse Bitcoin-related charts with more precision. Let's take a look at two charts. One is about vulnerability, the other about price action.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh431yAUsYjYhMyeYls85sMYVv-3_3nrR9Y5PML8AxSJsKN_KBrrqZ2HOcj34lSi3PDHFN1vvs6P5SYGDm863ewHYu5ATANq3ecpx1sa2QLF8PIdHCuB6al-Smu_ERnlCAgVWVh-0HROtMA/s946/mera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="946" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh431yAUsYjYhMyeYls85sMYVv-3_3nrR9Y5PML8AxSJsKN_KBrrqZ2HOcj34lSi3PDHFN1vvs6P5SYGDm863ewHYu5ATANq3ecpx1sa2QLF8PIdHCuB6al-Smu_ERnlCAgVWVh-0HROtMA/w400-h390/mera.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i><a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-history-part-10-the-184-billion-btc-bug/" target="_blank"><br /></a></i><a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-history-part-10-the-184-billion-btc-bug/" target="_blank"><b>The integer overflow incident</b></a><b><br /></b>Bitcoin had already seen a few major bugs (or vulnerabilities) prior to the <i>integer overflow bug</i> that led to 184 billion BTC being created out of thin air on the 15th of August 2010. On that day Jupiter was conjunct Uranus and Neptune was conjunct Chiron. Vulnerability also points to asteroid Achilles (quintile Jupiter/Uranus) and the asteroids that are conjunct Achilles are indeed telling a part of this story. <br /><br />Bittner, Bittesini and Achilles have asteroid conjunctions that point to aspects of blockchain technology. Mining <i>hashrate</i> is a key security metric. Asteroids Haswell and Hasslacher point to this. Kettering simply points to blockchain technology (Kette is a German word meaning <i>chain</i>). <br /><br />Bitias is conjunct Schubart. This asteroid is a difficult, anarchistic energy: impulsive actions, revenge, or a fuck the system-philosophy. Asteroid NOT neutralizes this energy. Swindle is also very close.<br /><br />Bittesini faces Damocleid 2002 XU93. Benjamin Adamah suggests the name <i>Serpent Eye</i> for this one. It points to conflict, and 'seeing through the mistakes made by the creator'.<br /><br />Bittner is conjunct Mars: the strategic significator is under attack. There's an erotic touch here with Eros (passion) and Sirene (attraction, getting into trouble) and the orgasmic asteroid Mera (overflow) points to the technicalities of the exploit. Toutatis is about getting oneself into trouble, ruining things and a brutal attitude. <br /><br />Also, asteroid Hack is trine Flood, Siwa (another orgasmic asteroid) and Bratfest (youngsters playing around and getting into trouble).<br /><br />For this chart, knowing the differences between Bitias, Bittesini and Bittner actually helps. If we say that the Mars-Bitias conjunction is the most important one, Nakamoto's strategy for the survival of the bitcoin protocol gets a stress test (Mars) on the 15th of August 2010.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWr8mS-LP0mfZtPRKFh9uMGpsdnisU_k2pxy_C9XMUX9JmoJ8nCvSFKa4f5n7SoekK21CkKCc4zJDGGHvfWSXoKZQf-HWfXZUtCJwgQHnC3jr4N_dHh0E7caK5yFfXqeyQgponhyphenhyphentGtHuH/s16000/23.jpg" /><br /><b><br />A big drop in price</b><br />Now let's look at an example about price action. When it comes to price, it's relatively easy to predict volatility using asteroids, but the direction of the price can be a challenge. Knowing the differences between Bitias, Bittesini and Bittner can help you a little bit.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM_xz4CN45N5rUISqdnDHF8A64GEhfBUghNXnN0905R19f9Grl8H0LfNYwnD8B6S5QqLEmFon_YMWluBQJq6UJUHXa8_yWzwL_0KVwjW-R6qTA628FL4Yj6hy68DF7MSQNp-zWnVxgh7w/s932/price.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="932" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM_xz4CN45N5rUISqdnDHF8A64GEhfBUghNXnN0905R19f9Grl8H0LfNYwnD8B6S5QqLEmFon_YMWluBQJq6UJUHXa8_yWzwL_0KVwjW-R6qTA628FL4Yj6hy68DF7MSQNp-zWnVxgh7w/w400-h396/price.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />On the 23rd of May 2021 the price of bitcoin dropped significantly. Bittesini, the agressive one, was conjunct Sun, together with Etheridgea which is one of the two main significators for Ethereum. (Ethel is the other one.) At first glance Bittesini conjunct Sun might look like a good day for bitcoin. Aggressive price action doesn't sound bad. But we know that Bitias is about struggle and unfortunately Bitias is opposite Sun and Bittesini. That changes the picture. On the 23rd of May, the price of bitcoin is struggling against itself so to speak. Meanwhile Ethel is opposite Pluto, which is less important but also a repetition of the same theme. Damocles conjunct Jupiter and Venus square Coyne and Rockefellia suddenly seem quite unattractive. But the most important clue is Bitias opposite Bittesini.<br />Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-38822969522107669462021-03-23T16:18:00.040+01:002022-04-25T08:55:15.991+02:00Jacob Collier's astrological muses<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9d4-URyWEJQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />A week ago Jacob Collier won his fifth Granny. Not bad, considering that he was born on the 2nd of August 1994 (in London). Collier has Mozartian levels of musical skill, and he knows how to use <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtmY49Zn4l0RMJnTWfV7Wsg" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. Watching him perform is a humbling experience for most musicians. <span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><b><br />Muse-asteroids</b><br />Since Jacob Collier is a musician and a composer, the <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2018/03/musicians-and-muses-astrological.html" target="_blank">astrological muses</a> are our first stop. And.. bingo! Two muse-asteroids are conjunct Jacob's planets: Erato, the muse that bestows the gift of supreme lyrical sensitivity is conjunct his Sun. And Polyhymnia, the muse of religious music is conjunct his Pluto, which is quite fitting for a musician who has a natural love for both American gospel music and the intonational acrobatics of great Renaissance composers like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Vicentino" target="_blank">Nicola Vicentino</a> and Carlo Gesualdo. Their radical vocal harmonies have shaped some of the most sacred sounding music ever written.<br /><br />Using the golden aspects/<a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html" target="_blank">sieve technique</a> (2.5 degree orb) we find that Euterpe (songwriting) and Harmonia (duh...) are the high scoring muses from the geocentric perspective (exterior, every day life). The heliocentric picture (interior, soul, karma) is less sharply defined. Thalia, Euterpe, Harmonia, Terpsichore, Klio and Loreley all have the same heliocentric high score. But since Euterpe and Harmonia have high scores across the board, we may conclude that songwriting and unusual harmonic development are strong astrological influences. <br /><br />There are more clues if we look at the asteroids, like Photographica conjunct Sun (making video's and doing successful live-streams), and quite a few asteroids that hint at strength, passion, stamina, sensitivity and technical breakthroughs. But let's not dive in too deep - after all, we should also respect the privacy of our musical hero. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-t05KFSV-r-HM3rGYS86ppJHJzozuY7oSoYfS2057eCq-eAS-iLwVzdbhlJhglukynQ3YQwnhTmShpURiETlnJBA63eqAMpVlgGZnxsFltbnckAUrMZL1KQLLCniYRB0NVGQiHyM5_bw/s928/jc2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-t05KFSV-r-HM3rGYS86ppJHJzozuY7oSoYfS2057eCq-eAS-iLwVzdbhlJhglukynQ3YQwnhTmShpURiETlnJBA63eqAMpVlgGZnxsFltbnckAUrMZL1KQLLCniYRB0NVGQiHyM5_bw/s320/jc2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>The planets</b><br />A quick look at the planets is also revealing: Uranus is conjunct Neptune, great for imaginative genius. This conjuction is trining Venus, with Pluto sextiling both Venus and the conjunction. That's a powerful pattern for creative breakthroughs and beautiful music! <p>Jacob Collier is a beast when it comes to the
formal structure of music (Saturnian) and a great teacher. On a more speculative note, i'm inclined
to look at Chiron for at least some part of his teaching qualities, especially because of the
relation between Saturn and Chiron (opposition), and
their relation to significator asteroids Collier and Jacoby. But Chiron does not account for all of his talents and gifts as a teacher/communicator. The millennial-effect (computer and social media literacy) for example is also a big part of that.<br /><br /><b>Coda</b><br />Finally, here's some extra info for those of you who are intrigued by the just intonation tricks that Jacob Collier performs so effortlessly. <br /></p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XhY_7LT8eTw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F9Zv6MGdh7Y" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br />Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-28530025722460626452020-10-24T13:47:00.095+02:002022-07-02T17:46:15.030+02:00A Philosophy of Astrology #5 ~ The Numbers<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdw1WZMPX-yhjhQbGfZaJHAYfh39t-BE2sF4cdUa5e63339ob_vffMm35zKa5cXVqkYF0pIgFffp97UnnGjtG-ptTLCfKcw1fO45WSC83J48bMAv-44LDhp1fvVpf_f18WchOhjyQfKSZC/s16000/saturn.jpg" /></div><br />Cosmic objects often arrange themselves in a plane. Our Solar System is
relatively flat. Saturn's rings are flat too. Pluto and Damocles may have dramatic
orbits, but most rocks prefer to dance around in a
tightly choreographed
disc-like formation. Aspects like conjunction and opposition contribute to the shaping of disc-like structures.<p></p><a name='more'></a> <b>Two kinds of aspects</b> <br />Every astrologer is familiar with 'regular' aspects, like conjunctions, trines and squares. These are also known as <i>harmonic</i> aspects. Very few astrologers are aware of a second family of aspects, based on the <i>golden ratio</i>. <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html">According to astrologer Theodor Landscheidt</a>, harmonic aspects and golden ratio-aspects have a complementary relation, both in a physical and in a metaphysical sense. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXBuVotS0fDs7c6b43DETNbJaVa2D9zuEbXw-MFea2ISoihAQ1SPHnNzWg2lYLtWpxgBITlUE1HwF3snab8mPRxvKvRnSm_vHsqZ1YhYo4pJO1b29Y7kOe2L7KhzRUaUYR5tjKW7o07lUR/s1600/exo.jpg" /><br /><br />From the physical point of view, harmonic aspects produce disturbances in the orbits of planets, moons and asteroids as as result of gravitational forces. The long term arrangement of objects in our solar system, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance" target="_blank">regular pattern of fixed distances and orbital periods</a>, is the result of a complex self-organizing process. The harmonic aspects are nudging the trajectories of objects toward some kind of equilibrium while golden ratio-aspects function as stabilizing influences that dampen orbital disturbances. Together, the two kinds of aspects help to shape the physical relations between objects. <br /><br />Maverick scientist and mystic Richard Merrick has studied the relation
between harmonic and golden ratio-based forces deeply. In his <a href="http://www.interferencetheory.com/" target="_blank">free book INTERFERENCE</a>
he writes: "By spending only a small amount of time looking at the
orbit of each planet, a familiar pattern begins to emerge. The average
orbital spacing is equal to the golden ratio, suggesting the calm
damping rings on a vibrated Chladni plate."<br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CGiiSlMFFlI" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />From the symbolic point of view the harmonic aspects point to the well known <i>qualities</i> associated with conjunction, opposition, trine, quintile, septile and so on. The golden ratio-based aspects on the other hand ~ unsurprisingly ~ point to an overall quality of stability. But more importantly they have a <i>quantitative</i> use. The number of golden ratio aspects a planet makes indicates its relative influence or strength in a chart. As a simple example, in a birth chart, 6 or 7 golden ratio aspects to the Sun could indicate a strong sense of identity or big ego, while just 1 or 2 golden aspects to Mars could point to a low energy, non-aggressive person. I've written a few posts on <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/search/label/golden%20ratio%20aspects">operationalisation of golden ratio aspects in the birth chart</a>. <br /><br /><b>Prime harmonics<br /></b>Returning to the harmonic aspects, recent work by Hans-Jörg Walter and
David Hamblin has given some new insight into the nature of harmonic aspects: prime
harmonics have unique qualities. Quintiles (5), septiles (7) and so on have
their own qualitative flavors, while the quality of the sextile (6) for example is really a kind of 'multiplication' of opposition (2) and trine (3) flavors. Higher prime harmonics, even really high ones above ~ say ~ 31
can be very relevant, but in my experience the effect is 'subtle' in most charts. <br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbsiR0ZEX1mdY526crtGBkGPwrvbd-2u0ZB6eTtv4Nn3SlpJC4tYLIROVSu_YavQ6-Tk3Of07wJe8X3f_QmjdbjdHYxbVb8V_9de9BhGQlKnHfZAQrfqui7XJnJEmjWuEc0T68RvyRByTE/s1600/pythagoras.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Music in the bones</b><br />We've all heard the story about how Pythagoras discovered the octave ~ which is the sonic equivalent of the astrological conjunction. Even today this hagiographic fairy tale is repeated ad nauseam. In <a href="https://ernestmcclain.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/mythsofinvariance_sanscartoonsoptimized.pdf" target="_blank">The Myth of Invariance</a> Ernest G. McClain writes: "From what we know at the present time it seems likely that the octave invariance was recognized in India, Sumer, Babylon, Egypt and Palestine well before the variant cycles of sun, moon, and planets ~ "wanderers" all ~ were coordinated with even modest accuracy. Calendrical periods of 30, 60, 360 and 720 units and their multiples belong to the essential arithmatic of a systematic mathematical harmonics. Their source was not astronomy though they found a ready application in early astronomy, which knew them to be unsuitable for its own cycles."<br /><br />There's also a story about Johannes Kepler being the first astrologer to consider the quintile a valid harmonic aspect. Altho Kepler’s love for quintiles is fact-based, it seems highly unlikely to me that in the musi-mathematical Greece of Pythagoras, Plato, Aristoxenus and Archytas of Tarentum, the quintile wouldn't have been considered. We'll probably never know. At any rate, the number 12 remains a strong force in 'post-Keplerian' astrology. <br /> <br /><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvyOMChHUTlXWdI8k5dJOTL6soYTm2EYeT5JL-n4r8xI7iksDes8DcORb9AiCAiVBA5wRqcgGAZ8D4tQz1Ka_Ma-Tdr3xOXPEfIOh4hlhgy9vfw4XK1LrLEyQsZzeNKvTKyEH2V2WpyX_C/s1600/harmony.jpg" /><br /> <br /><b>Dangerous numbers</b><br />There's another myth about the hater of beans, cult leader and whole number ratio-fetishist Pythagoras, which is more instructive than the octave story. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus" target="_blank">Hippasus of Metapontum</a> was a follower of Pythagoras. As the story goes, he was murdered by fellow Pythagoreans for revealing a most terrible mathematical secret. The secret involved a dangerous number. It wasn't 666. It was in fact the square root of 2. <br /><br />The Pythagorean's motto, carved above the entrance of the school, was <i>All Is Number</i>. Pythagoreans believed that the universe was built around a harmony of whole number ratios. But poor old Hippasus found out that there are other kinds of numbers as well. Some of these are literally called 'irrational numbers'. And guess what: the golden ratio, mathematical shorthand for <i>the most stable and beautiful</i> proportion imaginable, also happens to be <i>the most irrational</i> of all irrational numbers. Isn't that someting? <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeJOONSNWhVzTEGiM2FcU5CsHa_cOEkuK_Oqn0y-dGsXXTwQesaYoPC_faWLr5jPnig1rxRtjbJdctIYeqea1KSMAH5OBQfNdiKumZ_Dbsqg6t-tvNfasD6ZMRFICX7MNkK7M-2EwmgMF/s16000/spiral.jpg" /><br /><br />But since orthodox Pythagorean numerology was (and still is) very influential in European culture, the golden ratio, which is also related to the number five (as in quintile) and the pentagram (say hello Venus) was eventually associated with the Christian devil and bad and dangerous things in general. Nowadays we only have to take a casual look at a photo of a spiraling galaxy to grasp how irrational that is.<br /><br /><b>Music in the stones</b><br />The art and science of musical tuning systems revealed to the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians and Indians the clear and 'eternal' relations between the aesthetic and mathematical, between the qualitative and the quantitative. The Music of the Spheres is still one of the most powerful metaphors science has ever come up with. Johannes Kepler believed that our solar system was humming a G major chord but
if we examine his calculations using modern data
we have to conclude that this idea was a bit too fanciful. <br /><br />Musician/philosopher <a href="http://siementerpstra.com/earlygreekphilosophy/" target="_blank">Siemen Terpstra</a>
has literally 'debunked' the Keplerian version of the Harmony of the Spheres for reasons of tuning
precision (see his study <a href="http://siementerpstra.com/planetarymonochord/" target="_blank">The Planetary Monochord</a>). In a paper titled <a href="http://siementerpstra.com/octavelaw/" target="_blank">The Law of the Octave and Natural Resonances</a> Terpstra finds that a 53 tone equal temperament (a tuning that divides an octave in 53 equal parts) would fit our solar system much better. Oh well.
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On that note, the last word is for the scientific astrologer and mystic Theodor Landscheidt. Here's a quote from a completely forgotten article published in <a href="http://www.astrologicalassociation.com/pages/publications/journal.php" target="_blank">The Astrological Journal</a> in May 1998. <br />
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<i>Kepler was the first and last astronomer who looked seriously at ratios of distances of the planets from the Sun. In his "Mysterium cosmographicum" he related the distances of the planets to the Platonic solids. The attitude of modern science towards such an approach was correctly expressed by Nobel prize recipient Weinberg: "Kepler went wrong in supposing that the planets are important. We now understand that the planets and their orbits are the result of a sequence of historical accidents and that there is no reason to expect any relations among the sizes of their orbits that would be mathematically simple and beautiful." <br />
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Yet it was Kepler who turned out to be on the right track. When I investigated the ratios of distances from the Sun of pairs of neighbouring planets - Mercury's distance to Venus' distance. Venus' distance to Earth's distance and so on including the mean distance of the planetoids - and calculated the mean of these nine individual ratios to get a quantity that characterizes the solar system as a whole, I was astonished to find that this value 0.62 is close to the Golden number 0.618 when the perihelion distances are taken. The very small difference 0.002 might be looked at as a stability parameter that indicates how far the actual structure of the planetary distances in the solar system deviates from the ideal state defined by the Golden section. [...] Thus we can see how the stabilising function of the Golden section governs the distance structure of the planets and thereby counteracts chaos in the planetary orbits caused by resonance amplification of mutual disturbances. In the end, this balance of potentials of stability and instability preserves the solar system's structure over billions of years. [...] If we step back and scan the bigger picture, it becomes evident that astrological aspects have deep roots that go down to the Platonic realm of mathematical structures encompassing as abstract features as the polarity of rational and irrational numbers. And who would have thought that valid aspects are based on a physical principle that guarantees the stability of dynamical systems including the solar system, our cosmic home.</i><br />
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<img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIowVSHxljKPSlIpr_MQtZ_NQHWs9QV8byi05Ym0vgnlTlMRdyQQEaIk68DhFrlB_kixnTISPVXI_oPcZaRy839gDtHts8btP_1nratLJ2NTfy5lmXOhXCknHS4jgmjbrLhL6l23QCAUEo/s1600/stars.jpg" /></div><br />In the next episode we'll look at <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2022/04/a-philosophy-of-astrology-6-science.html">scientific approaches to astrology</a>.<br />Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-91518466431929365022020-10-21T14:26:00.127+02:002022-07-02T17:37:18.712+02:00A Philosophy of Astrology #4 ~ The Subjectivity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsoh9OL-wkvNTA2Lj7o5Ho2u4Ff-bwm5QdtRiwtkhf6trPn5b40v5xe7OHDletp5Is6mpp3ELZ2jjob6uqx49lz8I_Dnz6Qi_mcdQJkwg17TAbzYPiTymhvAtKN5wQwfoRjmc4CG4zdAMp/s16000/subjectivity.jpg" /></div><br />The astrological realm is filled with signs, symbols and stories. Each (semiotic) sign points to a field of potential meanings. Interpretation of signs happens inside the heads of astrologers. They all think differently, and interpretation is a subjective business.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>What could possibly go wrong?<br /></b>1. Interpretation of (semiotic) signs or symbols is a complex process, involving both conscious thought and unconscious 'brain activity'. The outcome may be influenced by personal biases, blind spots, projection, wishful thinking, cultural conditioning and so on. <br />2. Arguments about the validity of widely used techniques, like for example the tropical vs. sidereal zodiac-debate, demonstrate how hard it is for the astrological community to reach broad consensus.<br />3. Uncritical use of the popular 10-planets-12-signs-12-houses-template leads to flat interpretations, or worse: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation">map-fallacies</a>.<br />4. Bad data, looking at the wrong chart and so on.<br />5. Predicting the future is not easy at all.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJYKLwuZA0NnDFhO0jkEsWItw3gkKFuMT0j8ljchyphenhyphenfiIWEv1kAYNEpqw2W5UPAnZaGWw0gliCjUnuaJRi_JyJbl3qBXfDY7zvr8XlKtOp8Td6lEyJk0zBLP1LT6I0t9ceBVEJ7kXA_xER/s16000/horoscope.jpg" /><br /><br />Professional astrologers have a pragmatic mindset. They want useful results that are good enough, and they want to get them in a limited amount of time. You can spend 2 minutes, 2 hours or 2 days analyzing a chart. The economic optimum would be to spend a certain number of hours, not days. Analyzing all available astrological information, including fixed stars, asteroids, midpoints and perhaps a few less common techniques will actually take days. That's why many astrologers prefer to stick to a trusted basic repertoire that produces reliable results in a relatively short time. Fair enough. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOy8jP5D38c0EA4M4jBDU204XF95ebY6-jFIswT48xCP89t81tD-sPnEGpLk_jKF2UwlFSj8kXAExgh7k99cXFoK2eWwpTDuinj3srxzStsnGWAS-igg1rMsUF7bY9zYNb_1ELFVcn0LJw/s16000/intuition.jpg" /></div><br /><b>Intuition<br /></b>Certain individuals with 'high sensitivity' or a strong intuition have a special talent for the correct interpretation of astrological symbolism. From a pragmatic point of view that's fine. But we have to keep Carl Sagan's aphorism in mind: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Like a track record of succesful predictions.<br /><br /><b>Ambiguity vs precision<br /></b>Astrologers work with a mixed bag
of tools. Some are precise, others are relatively
ambiguous. In the popular, simplified Western approach the 10 planets,
12 signs and 12 houses all have a fairly broad and somewhat overlapping
field of potential meanings. Each planet has a special relation with
certain signs and houses that 'resonate' with it. This means that most
symbolic ingredients can enter the story via multiple routes,
leaving quite a bit of interpretative wiggle room.<br /><br />On the other hand, most asteroids have a more limited field of potential meanings. If
asteroid Lie (26955) is conjunct the Sun in a birth chart, this can
roughly point to either a special talent for dishonesty, or being
allergic to lies. It would be relatively difficult to discern these qualities using only the popular Western model, even tho
Mercury is known for it's ability to speak with a double tongue, and
Jupiter has a special talent for bragging and boasting. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9ZpVr7DQ3cUZ4hwGbVWYihNpV1dnRym9Ufm-t_jf26Uo2bse1Od_dGESgr1npuIeccmGCGAF3y9jHZ4ZOb68tUFXZjG3v99EJj8R2a4zFsxSrzrnuoZc9c3Oqr5SBsssBDzqBsZYcFof/s16000/map.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Map-fallacies</b><br />Some astrologers are obsessed with exact birth times. No problem. Basically they're trying to collect reliable data in order to eliminate certain errors. Others are obsessed with the peculiarities of their preferred map. This can lead to unrealistic claims. For example, the graphical design of a chart may suggest that zodiac signs and houses have clear, unambiguous, straight borders. But unfortunately, one's favorite graphical representation (the map) doesn't necessarily equal astrological reality (the territory). A chart is just a convenient graphical tool for quick assessments. We have 12 equally proportioned signs for ease of use, or perhaps for cultural or numerological reasons. At any rate, treating the graphical borders of houses and signs as meaningful is a potential case of mistaking the map
for the territory. (Also, there is no consensus about a preferred or 'correct' sign-system or house-system.) I'm guessing that this kind of reasoning may be a symptom of losing the connection with the sky.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT394b2-f7sVFh3WlvmmW1TzdxTOcQHVTj3B4pvp1xNjoFKPB_-YPlLmaZk5wCloQ3946TNHK3Nb2wEhLW-SpUko-CJBi6EBVgt4PqD9CnMXvYKxOiG9N7TRv0nkHIAvlvHcXEmwWXy24d/s16000/night+sky.jpg" /></div><br />Nowadays, because of light pollution, horizon pollution and so on, most astrologers stare at computer screens instead of observing the sky at night. It seems that something important has been lost. In my opinion <i>astrological order</i> is primarily rooted in physical reality, and secondly in extremely simple mathematical projections (that avoid duodecimal fetishism... 12 is a great number but it has it's limits). I think the visual tradition is very important. As Bernadette Brady has demonstrated, it's perfectly possible to do great astrology using techniques of the Egyptians and the Sumerians. The Hellenistic toolkit is also still valid (altho i suspect that nowadays, Vettius Valens would consider himself a siderealist). And we can tap into the deep wisdom of the Jyotish tradition and get amazing results. But modern city-dwellers who have never actually seen the Milky Way can get lost in digital maps of the cheesy cultural cliches that fuel social media. <br /><br />Next time we'll look at <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/10/a-philosophy-of-astrology-5-geometry.html">some geometrical aspects of astrology</a>.<br />Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-33621678870271133802020-10-17T15:20:00.208+02:002022-07-02T17:33:00.057+02:00A Philosophy of Astrology #3 ~ The Coherence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDrFQUaHwRA5V8RB9D8l-dNB14gNEg03u8HA7qYVrm3ZFFCrfQdIr1Dao-cvq4kajIu4hzI_KBUb-UrzjGpqhiTiEvpM9CFYbua8cSeD-8Ej5_wlvgYd7O2v5Tjmy4XMzJvkhOwfSdt0R/s16000/telescope.jpg" /></div><br />For thousands of years, astrologers worked with the Sun, the Moon and the visible planets from Mercury to Saturn. A relatively small selection of stars, often the brighter ones, was also considered. Nowadays new asteroids, stars and black holes are discovered automatically on a daily basis. Some are relevant for astrology.<p></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>Relevance of new objects</b><br />Asteroids are by far the most interesting group of new objects. But some asteroids are more interesting than others, so what is it that makes an object interesting? The pragmatic answer would be that astrologers can only work with it if it points to clearly discernable patterns of events or psychological states with a distinctive symbolic fingerprint. When we search for symbolic traces of new asteroids, some rocks are easy to spot while others remain obscure. There are several reasons for this. For example, the potential impact or salience of objects (measured in isolation as it were) can vary. <br /><br />When we examine newly discovered asteroids, it's important to consider both their physical and metaphysical properties. Metaphysical properties include the name and its various associations, sometimes mythological themes, and also certain qualities that are related to the moment of discovery. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAjMzYegjutTF4iWjHT5Y3LxPT7tYdyoRHAJZelwDNd8JaBqhG8TSySpWeSXu4fV8jXi4_oB1gZBpV-yxIhVlk5kZmHM-0qMjwKAT6sU6lcaPy_l1qkzx0XEI4XfHfZsQl4scMmIb1G7l/s16000/sun.jpg" /><br /><br />The Sun has a lot of physical impact. Just look at its mass, its central position in the solar system and so on. The metaphysical impact of the Sun is also strong, as its symbolism is said to deal with the fundamentals of the individual life: the will to be and to express oneself, and the sense of personal identity at an instinctive level. But what about Pluto? In astrology this dwarf is overall remarkably potent, but physically speaking it's very unimpressive compared to the Sun. However, in the case of Pluto a relatively weak physique is compensated by a symbolic range of expression that centers around 'very big' themes like death and rebirth, power, sex and the unconscious mind. Using this kind of accounting, it shouldn't be surprising if new objects that are physically unimpressive turn out to have a relatively strong impact because of certain symbolic properties. (Centaurs like Pholus and Nessus come to mind.) <br /><br /><b>Symbolism of new objects<br /></b>In <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/10/a-philosophy-of-astrology-2-web.html">part 2 of this series</a> we noted that astrologers pay special attention to the place-and-time coordinates of new beginnings, like the birth of a child or the official registration of a new company. In the same way, the exact moment a new celestial object is discovered is also important. Every celestial object that has been discovered after the Galilean revolution has a discovery chart, containing information about its symbolic fingerprint. Note that this kind of information was not available before the 1600s. For asteroid astrologers discovery charts are crucial. Additionally, physical properties (all kinds of material and orbital details) can be useful, when translated into salient 'embodied' metaphors. For example, the orbits of Damocles (wild and unstable) and Sedna (in some sense all encompassing) can be seen as embodied metaphors. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy16BjYpJJnjo12zNK4tQUuQrwt7PDib8gHui7up8hsSGbWijtOLiSAvJRcM1bQocgEyHDi_PTcfi0ZoDRM0n-UxmvNfLte11yS3a3GXO_3y57zHg3yw56An7MAHbXF8H-COHCXfNqwUyN/s16000/prometheus.jpg" /><br /><br />If/when an asteroid is officially <a href="https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/" target="_blank">named by the IAU</a> this also gives extra hints about the symbolic fingerprint, but some official names are more 'symbolically correct' than others. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tarnas" target="_blank">Richard Tarnas has argued</a> that Uranus should really be called Prometheus from the mythical point of view. On the other hand there's a strong tendency for names of dwarf planets and asteroids to be quite right, or even exactly right. To be clear, celestial objects don't need an official IAU name for them
to be symbolically
'active'. For example, the unnamed asteroid 15874 (1996 TL66) is
associated with winning a large
sum of money in a lottery. <br /><br /><b>Rocks named after smart people</b><br />The majority of the thousands of asteroids named after award winning students and career
scientists are relatively unimportant for general astrological analysis. Asteroids named after the first + last name of smart people, like
Aaron Ammons (129100) and Aaron Burrows (22656) are especially likely to have limited relevance. Asteroids named after the last name of scientists with 'interesting' last names are a different story. Beer
(1896), Lie (26955) and Swindle (8690) come to mind. These suggestive, simple, down to earth names lack the mythical scope of planet names. They behave like fairly autonomous signs (in the
semiotic sense) with no relation to their name giver. In the case of Beer, Lie and Swindle, or less obviously <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/09/predicting-american-elections-using.html" target="_blank">Bida and Donald Duck</a>, phonological, morphological and symbolic properties of the name itself are relatively important. <br /><br />As the symbolic profile of a new object becomes more clear, it can be used to create richer, more accurate and more precise astrological interpretations. Dwarf planets and asteroids can also offer us a little more insight in the design of the great astrological clockwork, because of their systematic lack of respect for billiard balls causality.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAgwjO8HfrC-TSIUM9P5btqM8bCVDpcVjzl-rwqyrjcd4P9Z3LJZ_hgjiRENR6VLuZhCDtoTnD1VCxGazKHeFKn3tLucFVyZGVtBkXro1T27Zy2yfM5ZypVvCEPumBJx_KmsezEzQyqlPn/s16000/billiards.jpg" /></div><p><b>The retroactive effect of new names <br /></b>The recent avalanche of newly named objects has given astrologers new insight into the fundamentals of <i>astrological order</i>. There are all kinds of new phenomena to be studied, like for example significator-asteroids. It turns out that a person named Diana can have a special relationship with asteroid Diana (78) and a person named Anna can have a special relationship with asteroid Anna (265). Significator asteroids make life easier, as interpretation is straightforward and simple. On the other hand, the philosophical implications are <i>deep</i>.<br /><br />If we examine the interaction between Uranus and asteroid Hannibal (2152), named after the famous Carthaginian warrior, we <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/01/star-wars-1-hannibal-vs-rome.html">find that in 218 BC</a> during the winter solstice, they were in a significant conjunction. Significant as in: right at that dramatic moment when Rome got its first taste of the actual Hannibal and his army in the 2nd Punic War. The Roman army lost some 30.000 men in the Battle of the Trebia. Their largest defeat since the war against the Gauls 125 years earlier. Of course, both Uranus and asteroid Hannibal were discovered and officially named long after the Punic Wars. <br /><br />Going back to 218 BC is stretching it. We don't have many accurate sources of places-and-times, and most calculations of orbits aren't even good enough to examine the Middle Ages. So a detailed analysis of the Punic War isn't an option. But we can definitely take a look at more recent data. Why not analyze one of Carl Jung's dreams?<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The death of Siegfried<br /></b>Chapter VII of Carl Jung's famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)" target="_blank">Red Book</a> is titled 'Murder of the Hero'. The symbolic murder takes place in one of Jung's dreams. The date is December 18, 1913. The victim is Siegfried, a mythical hero who in the dream represents Jung's ego. The death of Siegfried is a key moment in Jung's personal mythology. In Jung's birth chart transiting asteroid Siegfried (15147) is crossing Jung's natal Mars around this time. That's a symbolic <i>direct hit</i>. Asteroid Siegfried was discovered on the 11th of March 2000 and named after Ray Siegfried, chairman of the board of the aerospace NORDAM Group. <br />
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<b>Losing one's head</b> <br />Asteroid Red Queen (17518, December 18th 1992) is often prominently placed in charts of people who lose their head, as in decapitation or irrational behavior and loss of self-control.
For example, an important aspect in Queen Consort Marie Antoinette's birth chart is her Sun-Venus-Red Queen conjunction.
<br /><br />On January 3rd 1889 the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suffered an epic mental collapse.
In Nietzsche's birth chart Red Queen is conjunct Mercury (0°08). Asteroid Nietzsche (7014) is also active in his chart, trining (120 degree angle) asteroids Sisiphus (endless task, persistence, refusal to admit or accept defeat, 0°31) and Aeternitas (eternal fame, 0°38). Asteroid Nietzsche was discovered on April 4th, 1989. <br /><br />Jihadi John (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihadi_John" target="_blank">Mohammed Emwazi</a>) is seen in videos of extremist group ISIL that show the beheading of captives.<b> </b>Jihadi John was born on August 17th 1988 in Kuwait. Red Queen is conjunct Venus in his birth chart, suggesting that in some sense he was into decapitation.<br />
<br /><b>Coherence</b><br />We could evaluate more anecdotal evidence of this phenomenon but for now these examples should do. The point is that this retroactive property of official names can be thought of as another symptom of the comprehensive physical~psychical coherence that seems to be implied by <i>astrological order</i>, as discussed <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/10/a-philosophy-of-astrology-2-web.html">in the previous post</a>. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfifxrA-uwm4ez3lcWWFFSYpmYRJJ2P7Xb8oNBHTtFmMQ6HvqT0vUtGOAA8WgQqehPOjoJwhHSs7ctvoQpFNioxa0hCv2TC4mMLYTOY4ksBMRJZUmGWa4bplPcp_9soM1IcJJ9i8j5Kcc/s16000/map.jpg" /><br /><br />Some readers might want to discuss this causal 'anomaly' in terms of quantum-mysticism, a high tech simulation or singularity, or even a cosmic conspiracy involving aliens. That's all fine with me, enjoy. <br /><br />Personally i'm reminded of the can of worms that was opened by theoretical physicists John Barrow and Frank J. Tipler when they wrote <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218097.The_Anthropic_Cosmological_Principle" target="_blank">The Anthropic Cosmological Principle</a>. The legacy of this book shows how cosmologists grapple with unexpected quantitative 'signs' of an almost intentional seeming, and therefore <i>suspicious</i> integral cosmic coherence that's conducive to the development of biological life. Of course Mr. Tipler messed up pretty badly when he also wrote a deeply confused rationalization of literal interpretations of the Christian Bible in his sadly hilarious book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/746885.The_Physics_Of_Christianity" target="_blank">The Physics of Christianity</a>.<br /><br />I'd say that the astronomical/astrological name game, that has somehow produced lots of symbolically accurate, retroactive, IAU approved object names can be thought of as a linguistic variation on the numerical riddle of the anthropic principle, as discussed by physicists and cosmologists. Like i said previously: this causal 'anomaly' suggests to me that both <i>astrological order</i> and <i>numerical order</i> in some sense precede time and billiard balls causality.<br /><br />Next time we'll focus on <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/10/a-philosophy-of-astrology-4-subjectivity.html">the subjectivity of astrological interpretation</a>.<br /><p></p>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-51942741021286582342020-10-13T19:03:00.305+02:002022-07-02T17:02:14.973+02:00A Philosophy of Astrology #2 ~ The Web<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9Xl0EWz5wFWzH5mnx5vWu3gLIDUB9iytYn51Z0gUFRHEm9oO0SWGv7OkAK2RvlOP1yZs2WCzP2UJhyphenhyphenl4k2jFHq2xWUa4NapVJSJRPRH3fHYMpH2PM0uO_plPYV3XA5Xd60jXSPJH3bRo/s16000/web.jpg" /></div><br />If we take the astrological claim serious, we assume that reality as it appears to us and life as we know it are in some sense synchronized by symbolic processes, that somehow transcend the physis~psyche duality. Call it a web of meaning, or even <i>astrological order</i>.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />In astrology, each celestial body is thought to represent its own unique symbolic content (or flavor). For example, the planet we call Mars is named after the Roman God of War, and it's core astrological symbolism is roughly related to the more assertive side of the struggle for life (survival of the fittest). On the other hand, the planet we call Venus is named after the Roman Goddess of Love, and it's symbolically related to nice things and accumulation of socio-cultural capital. And so on and so forth. If we include stars and asteroids, there are thousands of celestial bodies that have their own, fairly unique symbolic fingerprint. <br /><br /><b>Dynamic symbolism </b><br />The symbolism of Mars and Venus interact with each other. As the celestial bodies move along their orbits, the quality of the symbolic interaction changes. This continuous process of symbolic modulation is usually thought to be mostly based on harmonic principles. These play out most clearly in the form of a few easily observable and measurable geometric relations ~ most importantly longitudinal angles. Relatively strong and notable modulation of 'symbolic potential' occurs when from a geocentric perspective, two celestial bodies are conjunct (fusion-quality, 0<span>°</span> longitude) or in opposition (tension or conflict-quality, 180<span>° longitude</span>). When Venus and Mars are conjunct, their symbolic contents fuse and even make love so to speak. When the planets are in opposition, their symbolic contents are in some sense fighting each other. Higher harmonic angles all have their own specific qualities like absence of friction (1/3), friction (1/4) and formation/creation (1/5).<br /><br />In other words: in astrology celestial symbolism gets 'mixed' just like sounds, colors or
herbs and spices can be mixed. Movements in the sky modulate the symbolic potential and when we add it all up we get the <i>symbolic flavor of the moment</i> or the <i>astrological weather</i>. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfE0RRpTFK4i8-lU0tDK2cdtRlsLfgtTM69pQ46WMTa_EgsjmV_DIap6JV8AvbWliO9nVJQii8Vhi1ImVz8Lrrm0l3iz5MVJaRwAk9qdZK1RfpcZ3h1QT2P4Rk8T8gyMYDUTOmYWanp53H/s16000/map.jpg" /></div><br /><b>Territory or map?<br /></b>Here's some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation" target="_blank">Wikipedia-wisdom</a> for you: "Alfred Korzybski remarked that 'the map is not the territory' and that 'the word is not the thing', encapsulating the point that an abstraction is not the thing itself."<br /><br />Now, it seems obvious that we can't have a complete, detailed, meaningful <i>map</i> of the entire Universe. In fact, we can't get a good impression of the actual celestial <i>territory</i> either. When we look at the heavens, with the naked eye or aided by a telescope, we essentially look into the past because of the speed of light. <br /><br />When astrologers draw a celestial <i>map</i> (snapshot), they add stars, planets and asteroids. What exactly are they referring to? The locations of physical bodies? Or perhaps metaphysical qualities? In the same map or chart, they will also add more abstract stuff like an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendant" target="_blank">ascendant</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(astrology)" target="_blank">house division system</a> and so on. So, to avoid map-territory mistakes, keep in mind that an astrological chart may contain a very diverse mix of references to physical objects (stars, planets etc.), basic geometrical projections (ascendant, lunar nodes, midpoints) and cultural/traditional constructs (zodiacs, house systems, even 'imaginary objects'). In my opinion, some items in the last category have limited use as the related techniques only 'work' properly in their own cultural context. This is why Johannes Kepler didn't think of them as "more certain fundamentals of astrology". For example, in my experience asteroid astrology is mostly house-agnostic. Symbolically this makes sense as we should take into account that house-systems were developed long before the first asteroids were discovered. <br /><br /><b>Coordinates</b><br />Astrologers claim that any combination of earthly place-and-time coordinates ~ like Amsterdam Central Station, today at noon ~ is related to a specific spectrum of symbolic potential: the <i>symbolic flavor of the moment</i> or the <i>astrological weather</i>, as signified by a chart which can be likened to a snapshot of the Solar System taken at precisely that place-and-time. If the potential flavors that are indicated by the snapshot are actualized in some physical or mental form, they can be observed and sometimes even quantified. This requires some knowledge of the state of the map, a good grasp of the symbolic concepts and some talent for pattern recognition. Psychological insight is also a big plus.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigqHUWJikZHaFfe1hd_SO-L0YzmJFtItK59Sq7L-0_6ZKBhoucvX9sPegodsPnPMKhmQLH0ijnGUOIul89kOgdgkKaFGvwSjybwEQt9KUffXjDgyxSdRxu1ZWD1QWj8f70-Q7pM_ImdG7o/s16000/amsterdam.jpg" /><br /><br />In the Amsterdam Central Station example, potential symbolic flavors could become actual in a wide range of physical and/or psychological expressions. Anything from a messy train schedule to a perceived threat of a terrorist attack or remarkable details in the performance of a street artist, all depending on the particulars of the moment.<br /><br /><b>The moment of creation: birth charts</b><br />Astrologers will also go a big step further, claiming that the <i>flavor of the moment</i> of 'creative' events, like the birth of a child or the official registration of a new company by the proper authorities, is permanently coupled to the child, the new company and so on. This concept is again formalized using a celestial snapshot: the birth chart. To make matters worse ~ as in more entangled ~ astrologers even claim that a birth chart contains certain details about one's future relations with other people, organizations and so on. In other words: even if astrologers are only half right, life on Earth is highly synchronized, all is connected, and all astrological charts (snapshots) fit together quite seamlessly like small pieces of a giant puzzle. And since the rules of this cosmic meaning-game are written in the sky, embodied by stars, planets, asteroids and so on, the astrological perspective, or perhaps better: <i>astrological order</i> is deeply holistic and also cyclical, in the same sense that our solar system is cyclical.<br /> <br /><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8RVS4AlTAEzWkOpxumW8GHZvGYIyheEuguHovNESqwthPJLBw0dI5onLLrvIip8BF8wRFcWi7QLFX74U2IjkltpuAUEgCKLG5dRNJ1BtZI-9uYU2I_FyD84zkS1ulUY6qVU-ryLOW3rCR/s16000/sky.jpg" /><br /><br />This is a baffling concept. It's extremely difficult for the modern Western mind to imagine ~ let alone comprehend ~ how such an intricate web could be woven together. It seems simply impossible if one assumes that the so-called 'laws' of physics rule the whole of Nature. And at first glance, 2500 years worth of philosophical thought about causality, time and free will don't seem to help much either.<br /><br />Personally, i assume that in some sense <i>astrological order</i> precedes time and billiard balls causality. I think the same is true for <i>numerical order. </i>While numerical order is easily observable in the physical realm, astrological order is both quantitative <i>and</i> qualitative. It's symbolic, it produces meaning and in some sense it communicates. <br /><br />In the next episode we'll explore astrological findings <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/10/a-philosophy-of-astrology-3-coherence.html">pointing to a deep causal anomaly</a>.Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-20224536701542477662020-10-12T14:19:00.554+02:002022-07-02T15:52:55.688+02:00A Philosophy of Astrology #1 ~ The Intro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUcYz308ISwhyphenhyphenPi7ZH8ESQ1_pATJ6_fF9p_pyzvUNh1lOEJw85XYLG3IrMp26ZHDuAPLRlJppnCKUdnSTGSNmdMeAm20NCEKh2vypWXTx-YnaGJFlwU9C6wpIXX6H-7wUQdv6YWJGoWMFR/s16000/astrology.jpg" /></div><b><br /></b>Astrology is a deep, and also a controversial subject. Skeptics claim that it's based on delusions, superstition or 'magical thinking' while believers are hearing the voice of the Gods. Paradigm wars aside, let's take a look at some of the basics of the astrological mindset.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />For neutral observers, one of the most basic astrological ideas would probably be that the movements of the heavens are somehow related to life on Earth in both a <i>physical</i> and a <i>meaningful</i> way. <br /><br /><b>Physical</b><br />If we want to draw a fairly straight line between physics and metaphysics, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model" target="_blank">Standard Model</a> of particle physics is probably a good place to start. It says that all natural phenomena can be reduced to four fundamental forces: the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions and gravity. That's (most of) physics in a nutshell. Example: the Sun produces energy that warms up the Earth. The gravitational influence of the Moon creates tides. <br /><br /><b>Meaning</b><br />Stepping into the realm of meaning, we accept the idea that Nature has other modes of operation up it's sleeve as well. For practical purposes, let's say that when we talk about meaning, this implies: <div><br />a. the production of complex patterns or structures consisting of signs, metaphors and/or symbols; <br />b. recognition, decoding and/or interpretation of these patterns;<br />c. communication.<br /><p>Altho there is such a thing as unintentional or subconscious communication, within the (modern) astrological mindset the act of interpretation should mostly be seen as <i>intentional</i>. And if we were to agree that somehow, some aspect of Nature produces a complex, meaningful stream of astrological signs (the word sign used in a semiotic sense), this proces might also be intentional in some sense.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9IwiIGsqawbPONXOpEqcfzKHohVnqULwSiQ5sqLdHjSVRYfcSUFp4SNWVXsMTKUU8Oxbz9OLi_5c8YoGWhYSGoS-89iKTpsDZJHxazeMhyphenhyphenIkHMB_jB7L54Ch3j4mBzrMYqHZmvF9Y1mm/s16000/sign.jpg" /></p><b>Signs, metaphors and stories</b><br />In astrology we have two sources of signs: the dynamics of the firmament (above) and earthly events (below). Astrologers look for meaningful correspondences between patterns of signs above, and patterns of signs down below. Celestial symbolism can be based on observable physical events, like a conjunction of planets, but the astrological toolbox can also include more abstract 'geometric' signs like planetary nodes, house systems and so on. Earthly signs are specific physical or psychological events or processes that seem to correspond to, match or 'rhyme with' celestial symbolism. These relations can be quite literal or loose, associative and even poetic.<br /><br />So how can an objective physical event like a planetary conjunction or an eclipse of the Sun become a meaningful sign in the mind of human beings? The human tendency to conceptualize, think and communicate in terms of embodied metaphors (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff" target="_blank">George Lakoff and Mark Johnson</a>) seems relevant. In the human brain, physical parameters like size, speed, temperature and direction do not 'live in isolation' so to speak. During our lifetime, we connect these aspects of our experience of physical events in new, creative ways. Metaphorical thought literally creates new neural paths in the brain. </div><div><br /></div><div>A poet might say "you're hotter than a 1000 suns" or "you are the sunshine of my life". When people start talking like that, it's easy to see how a solar eclipse could be interpreted as dangerous: suddenly and unexpectedly, everything goes dark. Light = good,
dark = not good. In the same way, more subtle movements of planets, stars and constellations get entangled in all kinds of ancient stories. Combined with the human need for creation myths, eventually we get a story about the Big Bang, adjusted
for cave dwelling societies. <br /><br /><b>Bingo! A poetic match</b><br />Before we can have a poetic match between events above and events below, we need a fairly stable system of rules for interpretation. In other words: we need some consensus. While poetry may not be as precise as physics, it's not a license for free association, chaos or madness. Metaphors and symbols have their own kind of precision. But how can we find out what some celestial sign actually <i>means</i>? <br /><br />Because of the complex nature of the celestial sign-machine and astrology's dependence on subjective interpretation, within each culture or tradition astrological consensus develops slowly. It takes many generations of specialized observers. And it takes peer review and error correction mechanisms. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCd-nyxpyvljBm9yCocw5h2eVJkMxwleiG_4dFw6UpmEX6zBl-OHnrBcMtlc2g9fSyBPFDQgDI5TRwjSojKW_1qs6yDmI2Lkc8AjxNJ76X2MzJqHe4Ne57shdKxwbZuPdtSyfiz4XugfNl/s16000/redhead.jpg" /></div><p><i>This stupid astrologer has lied to the king, off with his head!</i><br /><br />But if certain poetic matches are observed often enough, and even show
some predictive power, they become part of an astrological canon.
It's a bit like science really. <br /><br />Note that a celestial sign, like for example a planetary conjunction, can simultaneously be related to simple, easily observable physical events, <i>and</i> to more complex psychological processes involving
layered metaphors and symbols.<br /><br /><i>sign:</i> if wood or metal
is shiny and red, it's hot and dangerous;<i><br />metaphor:</i> certain 'redheads' are hot, sexy and even dangerous. <br /><br />In other words: a celestial sign may at the same time be linked to physical events like fires (hot and dangerous) <i>and</i> to vaguely related psychological processes, like a preference for people with red hair. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB5zDgTOf7yy3NRZahp_BNyzMgEAVSgHpdQmudl6UuPPcfY52kvWFyZriVSOpArYPQE3zB2XSu8qLumKBVbF0L1agVq_aT2yqrMpoIcJgGFx_OSRryVLkCtPSrsnGeFVGjUhyMlHIc53mW/s16000/moons.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Philosophy: matter or mind?</b><br />The official academic history of philosophy, as taught in Western schools, started roughly 2600 years ago in Greece. The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers asked basic questions about the essential stuff the universe is made of. Some, like Thales, said that everything is basically watery while others, like Heraclitus maintained that everything is basically fiery (as in red, hot, sexy and dangerous).<br /><br />This simplistic picture of the birth of Western philosophy more or less rhymes with a modern philosophical discussion. Nowadays, philosophers discuss whether basically, everything is matter-like or mind-like. Is everything, including human consciousness, ethics, dreams and so on made of stuff and therefore ruled by physics? Or is matter essentially a by-product of mental, metaphysical activity?<br /><br />If we want to think about the fundamentals of astrology, it seems appropriate to assume that the universe is basically mind-like. Matter-based explanations of astrological synchronization may be possible but what i've seen so far (blame electromagnetism) doesn't look convincing at all. That's why for this series of blogs i will be relying on a modern, rigorous flavor of idealist philosophy. The views of computer scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup are my starting point. Kastrup knows his mathematics, quantum theory and philosophy of mind and he formulates his ideas clearly.<br /> <br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="170px" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.listennotes.com/embedded/e/4628013222254d789b1716afff8010fe/" style="min-width: 100%; width: 1px;" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br />Conveniently, Kastrup also knows his C.G. Jung. The Swiss psychiater's intellectual legacy is also a core element of <a href="https://cosmosandpsyche.com/" target="_blank">Cosmos and Psyche</a>, a critically acclaimed book by another philosopher: Richard Tarnas. Cosmos and Psyche offers fairly solid astrological perspectives on various kinds of historical events. Tarnas' perspective is another source of inspiration for this series of blogs.<br /><br />Since i've mentioned Richard Tarnas, i should say that i'm also very appreciative of the following authors, who have shaped my thoughts about astrology:<br />• Bernadette Brady, for her work on visual astrology and fixed stars;<br />• Benjamin Adamah, for his encyclopedic work on asteroids;<br />• Theodor Landscheidt, for his theories about golden ratio-aspects; <br />• Hans-Jörg Walter and David Hamblin for work on prime harmonics.<br /><br />In the next episode, we'll look at <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/10/a-philosophy-of-astrology-2-web.html">the complex symbolic web of astrology</a>.</p></div>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-48976745471600236272020-09-20T17:15:01.619+02:002020-11-18T18:10:13.789+01:00Predicting the American election with asteroids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju7yH4vGo5c31GkQGTWuJu0OWt49MygoqOb2Mtj9tzogIo4qE91rEudOCtJgAUqXIQDcXWVx6hXBOW6At7GsfXX2e7m9ClvMYDBBH3lL2z_iqyhBKx2EOaohTHEIPM-M2XxSXD5ZLPEGMw/s16000/trump.jpg" /></div><p>Predictive astrology is hard. Richard Tarnas explains it like this: "astrology is archetypally predictive". Meaning you can only predict in a general sense which kinds of qualitative influences are to be expected at a certain moment. You can see which dice will be rolling, but the numbers they're going to land on are anyone's guess.</p><a name='more'></a><p>Having said that, predicting the outcome of an election is always good fun. Even if one of the candidates is Donald Trump. The aim of this post is to come up with a prediction based on the movements of certain asteroids and dwarf planets. Not because this method is the most reliable one, or better than Method X, but simply because asteroids and dwarf planets are a fresh new part of astrology. Curiosity is the only motivation you need to try this at home.<br /><br />On the other hand, it's totally impossible to ignore <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2020/05/the-astrology-of-2020.html">the effect of the Saturn-Pluto cycle and the Jupiter-Pluto cycle</a>. Saturn and Pluto are largely 'responsible' for the 2020 sh%tshow, and Jupiter is tightly conjunct Pluto as well during the election. Dynamite! We also have to keep in mind that this presidential election is already a big mess. A substantial part of US politics has become dangerously nihilistic in recent months. American 'democracy' has always been a shady business, but Mr. Trump is trying to change the rules and fudge the numbers in fairly unprecedented ways. <br /><br /><b>Assumptions</b><br />The current political instability in the US forces us to make a few explicit assumptions about the astrological data that will be presented. We'll simply assume that the 3rd of November 2020 will be presidential election day, and the 20th of January 2021 will be inauguration day. If these assumptions turn out to be wrong, everything that's written below will be a case of projection ;-) <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAkXDkdxHNrP2o8NFuWUTLk31zTm60TGgAe725MabP9_Sgc_QWTZkEYgcxbb_VJpa6oUcPLwtVRkAwGsT3qfnu7Qoznp101t2sWAuS5RriEoy4x7ntZYqpn4em5NZ9kpQstya6oQ7HJzh/s16000/asteroi.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Too many asteroids?</b><br />Some astrologers think of asteroids as frivolous astrological confetti. That's a mistake but hey, people make mistakes. Others don't like the numbers. Yes, there are probably close to a million asteroids and dwarfs dancing around in our solar system. That doesn't mean we have
to work with all of them. Think of the fixed stars. There are many more
fixed stars than there are asteroids in our solar system. And yet it is possible,
according to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2013201.Brady_s_Book_of_Fixed_Stars" target="_blank">name brand astrologer Bernadette Brady</a>, to get practical results using around 60 'important' stars.<br /><br />The point of asteroid analysis is to spot potentially significant synchronicities and somewhat hidden clues, mostly on a relatively small scale. A bunch of small indicators pointing in the same direction can build confidence. Overall, the key to good asteroid astrology is to work <i>systematically</i>. Having asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=sherlock" target="_blank">Sherlock (5049)</a> on a strategic position in your natal chart probably helps as well.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1wQ6Ra8zxnEcKGuC0NyDOXG_0KhIEahqmBQfTblCRhJyAvE-wnUoeoKBvc4EM08k0yhI1V28ZMP9YnhSHwzYzI2aZfWKZi61nqp_5rRy4xXN7ic4Iqm1PO3KNfstvfa2sX7-W_wRXO_9/s16000/adamah.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Benjamin Adamah</b><br />Dutch astrologer Benjamin Adamah has created a comprehensive, systematic and psychologically deep compendium of asteroid delineations. He works with over 1000 asteroids. That's more than enough for most practical purposes. His asteroid work was written in Dutch, but the first English translation of a part of his Dutch tome <a href="https://www.vamzzz.com/asteroidengids.html" target="_blank">Asteroïden Gids</a> is now available: <a href="https://view.publitas.com/vamzzz-publishing/centaurs-damocloids-scattered-disc-objects/page/1" target="_blank">Centaurs, Damocloids & Scattered Disc Objects</a> got a nice <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQbaCgndlUmicNaywXUNeQhNKPZHd-oSNCNj2PSyemyrcSNb8vm1hvkwYuuIIf-V5y6dUsciHNohqMcIBD9Wy5LYCeIG6n0G2zj5-THe1cS2jp6dbyDBUa3IKZvoz2_c77bRGZhywV59M/s2048/mountain+astrologer+review.jpg" target="_blank">review in the Mountain Astrologer</a> recently and more translations are in the pipeline. <br /><br /><b>Some general principles for asteroid astroloy<br /></b>The ideas below are my own. I'm quite sure that Benjamin would use different methods.<br /><br /><i>1. Create a somewhat systematic selection of asteroids to work with.</i> <br />For example, you can select objects according to physical size, or you can select a bunch of asteroids with numbers below 500, which means they were discovered in the early years of asteroid astronomy. If you want to dive deep into the subconscious, include Centaurs, Plutino's, Cubewano's and other more distant objects. The selection of around 1000 asteroids that i use for this post is firmly based on Benjamin Adamah's work, with a few extra's (personal favorites). <br /><br /><i>2. Check for 1 degree conjunctions. <br /></i>If you're looking at a natal chart, you should first find all of 'your' selected asteroids that are within 1 degree conjunct planets. If you're looking at a specific time, check the angles as well. This yields a bunch of relatively 'important' asteroids. Don't use asteroids outside the 1 degree boundary unless they are screaming at you.<br /><br /><i>3. Collect a bunch of relevant significators.</i><br /> In the extended toolbox of asteroid astrology we find all kinds of
interesting 'significator' asteroids like Donn (4689), Donald Duck
(12410), McDonalda (991), Troemper (28130), Mike Penston (46441),
Josephina (303), Josefa (649), Old Joe (10515), Bida (32014), Boyden
(4301), Khama (1357), Harris (2929), Whitehouse (4036), Washingtonia
(886), America (916) and so on. If we watch their movements, for example in charts related to the US elections, we might notice something interesting
about signified people or places. <br /><br />Donn would be the smooth operator, Troemper the dictator, Donald Duck
the trickster and McDonalda the Trump family business. Unfortunately, Joe
Biden's significators are more difficult to describe. Harris seems to work reliable enough, while Mike Pence is virtually invisible. (Credit to <a href="https://alexasteroidastrology.com/category/trump/" target="_blank">Alex's Asteroid Astrology</a> for inspiration. Make sure you check out his work with many of these same asteroids.)<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRDz2yPU9BkOgqVrSKUJPysl4HHVsAcNFwuaaIj_EuN5S06VwrGKDk1admKgiKdz2t0cbxkAZ4YOky5oivkn1FnhccIXQ44y0psginM239gvi8PCyCcRiztSWNOw7_mp1VM24dbKEuka3k/s16000/strainer.jpg" /><br /><br /><i>4. Use sieves.<br /></i>If you're actively using hundreds of asteroids, you can sub-categorize them thematically. Useful themes for sub-categorization might include 'dwarf planets', 'centaurs', 'the Greek pantheon', 'politics', 'war and crime', 'love and sex', 'spirituality', 'creativity' and so on. <br /><br />I like to call these subgroups <i>sieves</i>. That's just a visually correct metaphor. If you're a martial Sagittarius, you may want to think of this technique in terms of a 'scattergun approach'. Personally speaking, that kind of metaphor would seem a bit too aggressive. <br /><br />For this post, a sieve i like to call 'competition' was used. It contains around 100 asteroids that are in some sense related to the theme of winning ~ losing. It can be used to predict the outcome of important soccer games, high profile presidential elections and so on.<br /><br />There are two ways to approach the sieving process. The traditional one would be to look at the harmonic aspects that the sieve-asteroids are making in a certain chart. But here's a bit of special sauce, a homegrown method that has been demonstrated before on this blog, for both <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html">planets</a> and <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2018/03/musicians-and-muses-astrological.html">asteroids</a> (an example based on dwarf planets is in the pipeline). You can use <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html">the 14 Golden Aspects or Φ-angles as defined by the almost forgotten genius Theodor Landscheidt</a> to find even more relevant asteroids for any chart. The procedure is simple: grab a chart, populate it with your sieve and count how many Golden Aspects each asteroid makes. The highest scoring asteroids are the ones you want to pay attention to. For this procedure, an even tighter orb of 0.75 might sometimes be necessary. Especially if your choice of asteroids is all over the place from the nearby Aten and Apollo asteroids to Main Belters, Centaurs, Haumeïds and so on.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLmwi_7-23F2bBHOtk1D0jw_lZ63HQmkYQdGtjnyFObKZZWHjGdwNzVIqJCx1URD4owY1KRlFxRVXbQ0pkBaBegQuz-0I_T205PEOB9uBsz2vlG7op58o7GjISkg6hwuEa-nP6_V1nplGC/s16000/sieve+big.jpg" /><br /><br />To fine-tune a large thematical 'Golden Sieve' (over 50 objects), use it on a
bunch of charts with very distinctive features. Evaluate, try to improve
by adding other asteroids to the mix, repeat. If you're getting at
least 75% accuracy for the 10% highest scoring asteroids in
those distinctive charts, you're ok. This is not exact science, it's
about extra serendipity and it's rewarding in that respect. By the way,
interested software developers you're welcome to <a href="mailto:dubbhism@gmail.com" target="_blank">contact me</a>.<br /><br /><i>5. Recommended harmonic aspects</i><br />Now that you have identified all 'important' asteroids, you can interpret them systematically, using the canonical qualities of the conjunction, 2nd harmonic (opposition), 3rd harmonic
(trine), 4th harmonic (square) and fifth harmonic (quintile) in combination with the proper archetypal meaning of each asteroid involved in the story you're looking at. Naive first impressions (McDonalda is conjunct Victoria!) may seriously compromise the validity of your conclusions. <br /><br /><b>US 2016 presidential election</b><br />In a moment we'll concentrate on the noon chart for the 3rd of November 2020, but to get some understanding of how the significator asteroids work, it's a good idea to first check out what was happening on 8 November 2016, the previous election day, when Donald Trump won and Hillary Clinton lost. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBo4PjvU807L4kkqCDCQe2uQz0K6B61dpqhWyKnfd-fy2P1UbqvEaRdIg4OcA-6ShjpDxYA-NNqLDxyO19U5_N4q-n-rGQSMZ7FWpO38wTYmuMGG__2G3Hgl_DnyOKuIk_lQ5ftWdyU9Mp/s16000/hillary.jpg" /><br /><br />Below are the interactions of the competition-asteroids and relevant significator asteroids, using the Washington D.C. noon chart for 8 November 2016: <br /><br /><i>1st harmonic</i><br />Donald Duck ~ Nike (victory) 0°05'<br />Hillary ~ Kaiser (emperor) 0°21'<br />Hillary ~ Gratia (being thankful) 0°18'<br />(note that Kaiser and Gratia are opposite Pluto)<br />Boyden ~ Phaeton (out of control) 0°42'<br />Harris ~ King 0°04'<br />Harris ~ Winer (whining) 0°09'<br />Harris ~ Phoinix (start again) 0°45'<br /><br /><i>2nd harmonic</i><br />McDonalda ~ Crescentia (growth) 0°39'<br />Khama ~ Pholus (dangerous domino effect) 0°34'<br />Josephina ~ Achilles (vulnerability) 0°40'<br /><br /><i>3rd harmonic</i><br />Hillary ~ Sun (self, life) 0°03'<br />Hillary ~ Lozere (loser) 0°24'<br />Troemper ~ Serendip (lucky shot) 0°32'<br />McDonalda ~ Grieve (grief) 0°24'<br />Bida ~ Atropos (endings) 0°18'<br />Josephina ~ Tyche (getting lucky) 0°27' <br />Josephina ~ NOT (negation) 0°13'<br />Josefa ~ Yes (affirmation) 0°31'<br />Josefa ~ Gluck (happiness) 0°14' <br /><br /><i>4th harmonic</i><br />Donald Duck ~ Justitia (justice) 0°55'<br />McDonalda ~ Whashingtonia 0°53'<br />Bida ~ McDonalda 0°46'<br />Bida ~ Crescentia 0°07'<br />Khama ~ TRIUMF (wanting to win) 0°52'<br />Khama ~ Richthammer (cut the crap) 0°58'<br /><br /><i>5th harmonic</i><br />Donald Duck ~ Damocles (system about to be overthrown) 0°46'<br />Donald Duck ~ Themis (natural sense of order) 0°40'<br />Donald Duck ~ Fruits (what you reap) 0°59'<br />Donn ~ Hybris (overconfident) 0°50'<br />Troemper ~ Lachesis (endings) 0°39'<br />Hillary ~ Attila (fierce, agressive politician) 0°06'<br />Bida ~ Hinderer (obstruction) 0°40'<br />Josephina ~ Hinderer 0°49'<br />Harris ~ Felicia (happiness) 0°28'<br /><br />In hindsight, we may conclude that the significators <i>do</i> tell the story, but a naive interpretation will fail horribly. Most notably, Hillary conjunct Kaiser and Gratia is not about what actually happened, but about what most people <i>expected</i> to happen. On the other hand, Donald Duck conjunct Nike and Hillary trine Lozere point to the actual outcome as it happened in 2016. <br /><br /><b>Conjunction of the candidates </b><br />Let's switch to Nostradamus-mode and look at the same asteroids, but this time for November 3rd 2020, Washington D.C. at noon.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8FlQJcC4Ed48k_VxB4gGWsARg-uwIdIDgMt2M3pf1nqnyiLFpmkvsRFGB19nYSe1qHgdW0pPMiwUjDEP4wGut1YtLASVjrZIHh_iPG-ERJZmS8Ope0O_phOJGpdTtS6itEuzTnWlO8DhZ/s16000/conjuntion.jpg" /><br /><br /><i>1st harmonic</i><br />Donn ~ Khama ~ Bida ~ Boyden (the candidates)<br />McDonalda ~ Victoria (winner) 0°54'<br />Josephina ~ Melete (fear) 0°20'<br />Harris ~ Hilaritas (fun, high spirits) 0°21'<br />America ~ Red Queen (losing one's head) 0°41'<br />America ~ Lozere 0°11'<br />Pholus ~ Red Queen 0°31'<br />Pholus ~ Lozere 0°27'<br />Pholus ~ Icarus (genius, or fall) 0°46'<br />Washingtonia ~ Orcus Vanth (reality check) 0°17' <br /><br /><i>2nd harmonic</i><br />Troemper ~ Morden ('killer' type victory) 0°41'<br /><br /><i>3rd harmonic</i><br />Donn, Khama, Bida, Boyden ~ TRIUMF<br />Troemper ~ Tyche 0°50'<br />Troemper ~ Caesar 0°09'<br />Troemper ~ Grieve 0°47'<br />Old Joe ~ Atropos 0°11'<br />Harris ~ Pluto 0°30'<br />Whitehouse ~ Achilles 0°18'<br /><br /><i>4th harmonic</i><br />Donald Duck ~ Melancholia 0°03'<br />Donald Duck ~ Achilles 0°10'<br />Donald Duck ~ Aphopis (threat) 0°46'<br />McDonalda ~ Caesar (emperor) 0°55'<br />McDonalda ~ Abundantia (abundance) 0°38'<br />McDonalda ~ Felicitas 0°25'<br />Harris ~ Lumen (sudden end of political career) 0°04'<br />Whitehouse ~ Kaiser 0°56'<br />America ~ Populus (the people) 0°05'<br /><br /><i>5th harmonic</i><br />Donn, Khama, Bida, Boyden ~ Nike (victory) 0°05'/0°36'<br />Donn, Khama, Bida, Boyden ~ Achilles 0°12'/0°23'<br />Troemper ~ Achilles 0°54'<br />Donald Duck ~ Klotho 0°04'<br />Old Joe ~ Harris 0°04'<br />Old Joe ~ Crantor (unexpected ending) 0°04'<br />Harris ~ Records (setting a record) 0°29'<br /><br /><b>Interpretation<br /></b>First of all, it's quite clear that on the 3rd of November 2020 everybody wil claim victory (Nike, TRIUMF). Looking at the conjunctions you could naively conclude that Trump wins. Looking at the opposition, you could say that Trump didn't really kill the competition so to speak. Looking at the squares, you'd say that Trump might even loose. In other words: we need more info. <br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSmATvDoQNMfMwz_z8Y2imaSAbLBAlKUcwT0OMOjvlBFznB6KfeCF16vZEUYv08co58Gl32a755ucr1slx2MovNJ5x6I-nq11V5L4pScHRjYCkkFzasryqyMWAt1ZQxSRzWdlqQFi12D4m/s16000/Donald_Trump_swearing_in_ceremony.jpg" /><br /><br /><b>Trump's inauguration in 2017</b><br />Let's take another look at the same asteroids, but this time on the day of Trump's inauguration. For this event we have an exact time: 11:41 a.m. EST. The elephant in the room is Pluto, dead straight on the ascendant, and asteroid King almost in the same degree. <br /><br /><i>1st harmonic</i><br />McDonalda ~ Themis 0°06'<br />McDonalda ~ Hybris 0°30'<br />Troemper ~ Swift 0°06'<br />Hillary ~ Melancholia 0°30'<br />Hillary ~ Kaiser 0°50'<br /><br /><i>2nd harmonic</i><br />Donn ~ Gratia 0°01'<br />Troemper ~ Hazard 0°15'<br />Hillary ~ Nike 0°19'<br />Hillary ~ Phoinix 0°04'<br />Josefa ~ Serendip 0°46'<br />Khama ~ Gold 0°34'<br /><br /><i>3rd harmonic</i><br />Donald Duck ~ Siegena (victory) 0°04'<br />Donald Duck ~ Hinderer 0°21'<br />Donald Duch ~ Orcus Vanth 0°08'<br />Hillary ~ Tyson (punch) 0°02'<br />Hillary ~ Nessus 0°09'<br />Hillary ~ Tyche 0°33'<br />Josephina ~ Felicitas 0°57'<br />Washingtonia ~ Lozere 0°14'<br /><br /><i>4th harmonic</i><br />Donald Duck ~ Swift 0°43'<br />Donald Duck ~ Hazard (sudden end of career) 0°52'<br />Hillary ~ Felicitas 0°31'<br />Josephina ~ Nessus (invasion) 0°18'<br />Josephina ~ Tyson 0°28'<br />Josephina ~ Champion 0°53'<br />Josefa ~ Yes 0°03'<br />Josefa ~ Phaeton 0°33'<br />Harris ~ Gluck 0°07'<br /><br /><i>5th harmonic</i><br />Troemper ~ Aeternitas (everlasting fame) 0°46'<br />Troemper ~ Caesar 0°48'<br />Donald Duck ~ Fortuna (wheel of fortune) 0°59' <br />Old Joe ~ Fortuna 0°33'<br />Bida ~ Felicitas 0°28'<br />Josefa ~ Victoria 0°41'<br />Josefa ~ Ohno 0°13'<br />Josefa ~ Melete 0°20'<br />Harris ~ Lozere 0°46'<br /><br /><b>Inauguration 2021</b><br />Now let's compare this to the noon chart of the inauguration on January 20th 2021, Washington D.C. <br /><br /><i>1st harmonic<br /></i>Boyden ~ Red Queen 0°10'<br />Old Joe ~ Themis (natural sense of order) 0°05' <br />Old Joe ~ Reich (rich) 0°11'<br /><br /><i>2nd harmonic</i><br />Bida ~ Justitia 0°42'<br />Boyden ~ Crescentia 0°45'<br />Old Joe ~ Serendip 0°55'<br />Josefa ~ Hinderer 0°34'<br /><br /><i>3rd harmonic</i><br />Troemper ~ Starr 0°17'<br />Donald Duck ~ Washingtonia 0°01'<br />McDonalda ~ Atropos 0°35'<br />Bida ~ Records 0°54'<br />Bida ~ Martir 0°25'<br />Harris ~ Bienor (earned fame) 0°35'<br />Harris ~ Alauda (optimism) 0°22'<br />Whitehouse ~ Tyson 0°23'<br />America ~ Hilaritas 0°10'<br /><br /><i>4th harmonic</i><br />Troemper ~ Josephina 0°48'<br />McDonalda ~ Bida 0°39'<br />McDonalda ~ Justitia 0°03'<br />Donald Duck ~ Tyche 0°06'<br />Donald Duck ~ Tyson 0°52'<br />Donald Duck ~ Gratia 0°58'<br />Donn ~ Lachesis 0°24'<br />Josefa ~ Melancholia 0°22'<br />Josefa ~ Fortuna 0°57'<br /><br /><i>5th harmonic</i><br />Troemper ~ Nessus 0°19'<br />McDonalda ~ Gold 0°07'<br />Donn ~ Eris 0°33'<br />Donn ~ Nemesis 0°46'<br />Donn ~ Phoinix 0°33'<br />Donn ~ Populus 1°00'<br />Old Joe ~ Machiavelli 0°06'<br />Old Joe ~ Tyche 0°39'<br />Old Joe ~ Eureka 0°26'<br />Josephina ~ Victoria 0°07'<br />Josephina ~ Sparks 0°02'<br />Josephina ~ King 0°31'<br />Bida ~ TRIUMF 0°27'<br />Harris ~ Crescentia 0°37'<br />Khama ~ Ohno 0°08'<br />Whitehouse ~ Melancholia 0°14'<br /><br />This doesn't look bad for Biden and Harris: <br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>the conjunctions point to Biden;</li><li>the oppositions are tough, but could be thought of as what Biden would have to deal with as a president;</li><li>the nastiest trine is for McDonalda, possibly a Tysonian punch for Whitehouse while Harris is looking good;</li><li>the squares are undecided, but can be seen as Trump refusing to give up the fight;</li><li>the quintiles are again looking quite warlike for Trump, and fairly positive for Biden.</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sYS9CgY7A4pxvIbzyAl79MsB3q-uDEWHoGdhy9Wsj35kbb8fCnU9KpUBnein4uxh-o7hB1Gb2niiGX4My3hu9TP7kaoxAXtvmQO0Ebt0H4MYFYsN4Nak6HcmjiiQFu5il4UmJy32wT_i/s16000/too+many+ast.jpg" /></div><b><br />Conclusion</b><br />Looking at the charts of election day and inauguration day (while limiting astrological variables to strictly harmonic aspects of 'competition-related' asteroids and significators), Biden and Harris would seem to have the upper hand. This can <i>not</i> be seen in the election day chart. What we do get from this chart is that both sides will claim victory: the conjunction of the candidates is remarkable. <br /><p>On the 20th of Januari 2021, Trump's significators are still very much in a fighting mood. Quite possibly because of a refusal to accept defeat. All 4th harmonics for Trump's significators could be interpreted this way. Biden is possibly more worried about the mess he will have to manage. The 5th harmonics hint at civil unrest accompanying Trump's fight: Donn the smooth talking fun loving criminal working the Populus against their Nemesis and hoping for a Phoenix while Troemper the dictator behaves like a nasty Nessus. <br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>Coda Red: general astrological weather<br /></b></span>We'll finish this with a look at the general astrological weather during election day and inauguration day.<br /><br />On election day Red Queen is conjunct Pholus (dangerous domino effect) and America, increasing instability as
Red Queen is about losing one's head. Leviathan (fake news,
disinfo) conjunct Sun takes care of disinformation, with
nearby Fox conjunct Hazard (danger). Meanwhile Eris (strife) is conjunct
Phoinix (rebirth) and opposite Nike (victory): the fight for victory
and rebirth has only just begun with Machiavelli (dirty politics)
trining Nemesis (arch rival) and Pales (ritual cleansing) trining
Whitehouse. Typhon will be conjunct the Sun as well, so
expect some heavy weather in every sense of the word. <br /><br />Using a 'Golden Sieve' containing 25 dwarf planets (orb 2,5) we find that the strongest influence in the Washington D.C. noon chart for the 3rd of November 2020 is Pholus, which is ominous. Technically Pholus is not a dwarf planet, but it's included in this sieve with Nessus because of the measurable (violent) impact these two can have.<br /><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFifgFo_pdrzgz-qidnTkNgoMlZYAifujh1SKbG22-s2usF_Rz7SeJbzwxTB9dzXSGggXyZK867a-QIP2ch_xce_43U88lXiWLm5YpOHERBLMLkXMeWI2vF7XTm70ERmZhiBYM3UDf_BJW/s16000/riots.jpg" /><br /><br />On the other hand, using the same sieve, we find that the strongest influence in the Washington D.C. noon chart for the 20th of January 2021 comes from Ceres, Haumea and Makemake. Ceres and Haumea are related to fertility, with Haumea accenting rebirth and ecological values, while Makemake is connected to extreme technology. Donald Trump is not an ecologist, so this is favoring Joe Biden in some sense, altho this mix can point to plans for a 'technogeddon' in eco-disguise.<br /><br />For context, looking back at Trump's inauguration in 2017 we find a strong Lempo (which is actually counter-intuitive, as Lempo is about being of service) accompanied by Eris, Altjira and Rhadamantus: working the collective subconscious using radical ethics and strife.<br /><br />Now let's double check this using a sieve i like to call 'politics and power'. Top scores on Trump's inauguration for Veritas (truth-o-meter), Metis (cunning strategy), Attila (ruthless leader), Ate (looking for trouble), Salpeter (explosive, tipping point). Same sieve, inauguration 2021: Themis (sense of natural order), Veritas (truth-o-meter), Enos (human development, getting rid of parasitic energy). <br /><br />Benjamin Adamah connects Enos to the Haumea-Makemake dichotomy and thinks of Enos as it's synthesis. That makes sense. <br /><br />I'd bet three crates of premium Dutch beer on Old Joe and Khama. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25omJwj6AehXcI9sseSTb3eZVlamTMuVB7goK-ZVUH_c5zC0OVRWRHpHHNY8H8o_TXY0pw9Nbz8hS_n_hFQFpwEWySKfyKI_PTgdY_j_gfwsbLQWrMsPecLGwKmzqOT-XeM_nhXJI6n1s/s16000/enos.jpg" /></div>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-49362133350007754072020-05-01T19:54:00.002+02:002020-09-20T20:00:38.812+02:00The astrology of 2020<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8RTpTo1ZMEc" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Chill out folks. Astrologers <i>knew</i>. And altho it's bad, it's probably not the end of the world. Let Richard Tarnas school you.<br /></p>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-90645045908972870562019-08-24T10:24:00.001+02:002019-10-20T20:43:45.461+02:00Asteroid tales ~ C.G. Jung's Red Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Carl Jung's influence on contemporary astrology is considerable. He introduced new ideas that remain popular, like <i>collective unconscious</i>, <i>archetype</i> and <i>synchronicity</i>. In some sense Jung was also an astrologer, although he didn't do a lot of 'cookbook-astrology'. <br />
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Jung preferred to immerse himself in the symbolism of ancient Sun-worshipping cultures. He traced their influence through history, from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the alchemical tradition of the Renaissance. He investigated things like the basic symbolism of the sun and moon, day and night, and how these concepts are related to the conscious and subconscious mind. <br />
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Leading astrologers like Liz Greene and Richard Tarnas have incorporated many aspects of Jung's psychological theory in their astrological practice. And recently a few academic studies have been published on Jung and astrology. Liz Greene has written two volumes, published by Routledge in 2018: <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Jungs-Studies-in-Astrology-Prophecy-Magic-and-the-Qualities-of-Time/Greene/p/book/9781138289123" target="_blank">Jung’s Studies in Astrology: Prophecy, Magic, and the Qualities of Time</a> and <a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Astrological-World-of-Jungs-Liber-Novus-Daimons-Gods-and-the/Greene/p/book/9781138289178" target="_blank">The Astrological World of Jung's 'Liber Novus': Daimons, Gods, and the Planetary Journey</a>. In 2017 Routledge also published <a href="https://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781138230736?source=igodigital" target="_blank">Jung on Astrology</a><i>, </i>edited by<i> </i>Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice. They're all fine books, but not a single word about asteroids. Why? Whatever... Let's just take a look at C.G. Jung's asteroids. <b><br />
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How to select relevant asteroids</b><br />
There are more than 21.000 named asteroids. How to find the ones that are relevant to Jung's life and work? There are roughly two methods:<br />
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<li>hints from his autobiography and other literature;</li>
<li>asteroids conjunct the planets in Jung's birth chart.</li>
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<i>Method 1</i><br />
First of all, Jung has his own personal asteroid <i>Jung</i> (discovered on 8.4.1991). Jung's autobiography <i>Memories, Dreams, Reflections</i> is a good source for events that can be 'translated' to movements of asteroids. For example, he mentions famous people who have an asteroid named after them, like <i>Freud</i>, <i>Adler, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Plato </i>and<i> Sokrates</i>. In his autobiography, Jung also mentions characters from mythology and from the Bible, like <i>Siegfried</i> (hero-figure in the Red Book), <i>Salome</i> (anima-figure in the Red Book) and <i>Merlin</i>. And he uses keywords like <i>phoenix</i> (related to the coat of arms of the Jung family) and <i>hybris</i> which are also asteroid names.<br />
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<i>Method 2</i><br />
Asteroids that are conjunct planets in a birth chart are considered important. But after we define a certain range as conjunct (for example orb < 1<span class="st">°</span>) we still have to judge subjectively which asteroids in this range seem most important to us. As a rule of thumb, any name that refers to mythology or can somehow be thought of as 'symbolic' is potentially significant, but keep in mind that this is not exact science. Here's a list of some asteroids in Jung's birth chart that seem relevant:<br />
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Sun ~ Flegel ~ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_20uEVOiE" target="_blank">the element of irreducible rascality</a> (German)<br />
Sun ~ Sanguin ~ fairly hot blooded<br />
Sun ~ Weaver ~ (analyzing) the web of life<br />
Sun ~ Occidental ~ essentially a Western thinker <br />
Sun ~ Astrowizard ~ astrologer<br />
Sun ~ Poisson ~ the fish as 'deep' religious symbol (French)<br />
Sun ~ <a href="https://www.leahwhitehorse.com/2013/03/03/asteroid-vesta/" target="_blank">Vesta</a> ~ Vestal Virgins were keepers of the sacred fire<br />
Sun ~ <a href="http://alexasteroidastrology.com/arachne/" target="_blank">Arachne</a> ~ <i>see Sun conjunct Weaver</i><br />
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Moon ~ Prisma ~ analyzing the lunar archetype; the unconscious<br />
Moon ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodias" target="_blank">Herodias</a> ~ mother of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome" target="_blank">Salome</a>, a character in the Red Book<br />
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Mercury ~ Ottilia ~ Catholic patroness saint of good eyesight<br />
Mercury ~ Iye ~ mental eye? (related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus" target="_blank">Horus</a> imagery?)<br />
Mercury ~ Photographica ~ extremely vivid 'visions'<br />
Mercury ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra" target="_blank">Mithra</a> ~ judge of souls at the Bridge of Separation<br />
Mercury ~ Europaeus ~ <i>see Sun conjunct Occidental </i><br />
Mercury ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeman_effect" target="_blank">Zeeman</a> ~ relevant for his friendship with Wolfgang Pauli <br />
Mercury ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrestia" target="_blank">Adrastea</a> ~ Goddess of the balance between good and evil<br />
Mercury ~ <a href="http://markandrewholmes.com/attila.html" target="_blank">Attila</a> ~ militant mind, conquering a world of knowledge <br />
Mercury ~ Silentium ~ hermit<br />
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Venus ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin" target="_blank">Odin</a> ~ Germanic God, usually referred to by Jung as Wotan<br />
Venus ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minos" target="_blank">Minos</a> ~ son of Zeus and Europa, judge of souls <i>(see Mithra)</i><br />
Venus ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrha" target="_blank">Pyrrha</a> ~ daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, creation myth<br />
Venus ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch" target="_blank">Plutarchos</a> ~ Greek historian, philosopher and priest at Delphi<br />
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Mars ~ Actor ~ action speaks louder than words<br />
Mars ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecisteus" target="_blank">Mekistheus</a> ~ ancient Greek warrior-hero<br />
Mars ~ Arthur ~ the legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur" target="_blank">King Artur</a>, archetypal warrior-hero <br />
Mars ~ Hiroshima ~ atomic bombs were possibly Jung's greatest fear<br />
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Jupiter ~ Letterman ~ man of letters<br />
Jupiter ~ Astrocourier ~ astrologer<br />
Jupiter ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunhild" target="_blank">Brunhild</a> ~ valkyrie responsible for the death of Siegfried<br />
Jupiter ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot" target="_blank">Camelot</a> ~ castle and court of King Arthur (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollingen_Tower" target="_blank">Bollingen</a>?)<br />
Jupiter ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva" target="_blank">Minerva</a> ~ Roman Goddess of medicine, wisdom, weaving<br />
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Saturn ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutons" target="_blank">Teutonia</a> ~ possibly referring to the 1st and 2nd World War<br />
Saturn ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis" target="_blank">Charybdis</a> ~ sea monster, dangerous side of the unconscious<br />
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Uranus ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucothea" target="_blank">Leukothea</a> ~ ancient Greek sea-goddess (the unconscious)<br />
Uranus ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva" target="_blank">Godiva</a> ~ legendary lady connected to nudity and voyeurism<br />
Uranus ~ Bourgeois ~ <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9pater_le_bourgeois" target="_blank">épater le bourgeois</a> (provoking the middle class)<br />
Uranus ~ Animoo ~ the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus" target="_blank">Jungian animus/anima</a><br />
Uranus ~ Gold ~ important metaphor in alchemy<br />
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Neptune ~ Fromm ~ piousness, probably about his father (German)<br />
Neptune ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau" target="_blank">Jacques Cousteau</a> ~ undersea discovery (the unconscious)<br />
Neptune ~ Prettyman ~ Jung was good-looking, almost glamorous<br />
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Pluto ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deianira" target="_blank">Dejanira</a> ~ Greek mythological figure who kills her husband<br />
Pluto ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud" target="_blank">Anna Freud</a> ~ Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter <br />
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North Node ~ Universitas ~ extremely broad scope and vision<br />
North Node ~ <a href="https://juliedemboski.com/zeus-or-what-a-man-gotta-do/" target="_blank">Zeus</a> ~ father archetype, also related to infidelity<br />
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South Node ~ <a href="http://straightwoo.com/2016/05/30/asteroids-pain-loss-abuse/" target="_blank">Klio</a> ~ Muse of history, points to 'issues' from the past<br />
South Node ~ <a href="https://www.leahwhitehorse.com/2014/12/02/asteroid-aesculapia/" target="_blank">Aesculapia</a> ~ Greek God of medicine<br />
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<b>Analyzing Carl Jung</b><br />
Let's zoom in on a few remarkable and/or instructive asteroid synchronicities. We'll look at some events related to Jung's famous and fairly trippy "encounter with the unconscious" as described in his Red Book, an elaborate artistic diary. Sources are Jung's autobiography <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories,_Dreams,_Reflections" target="_blank">Memories, Dreams, Reflections</a> and the <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Red-Book/" target="_blank">Reader's Edition of the Red Book</a> (which contains many exact dates). Here's a simple example based on only one asteroid to demonstrate how this stuff might work. <br />
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<b>The death of Siegfried</b><br />
Chapter VII of the Red Book is titled 'Murder of the Hero'. The (symbolic) murder takes place in one of Jung's dreams. The date is December 18, 1913. The victim is <i>Siegfried</i>, a mythical hero, who in the dream represents Jung's ego. The death of <i>Siegfried</i> is a key moment in Jung's personal mythology. If you look at the asteroid transits in Jung's birthchart, you'll notice that around December 18 1913, asteroid <i>Siegfried</i> is crossing Jung's natal Mars, the God of War. <br />
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"On the following night, however, I had a vision. I was with a youth in the high mountains. It was before daybreak, the Eastern sky was already light. Then Siegfried's horn resounded over the mountains with a jubilant sound. We knew that our mortal enemy was coming. We were armed and lurked beside a narrow rocky path to murder him. Then we saw him coming high across the mountains on a chariot made of the bones of the dead. He drove boldly and magnificently over the steep rocks and arrived at the narrow path where we waited in hiding. As he came around the turn ahead of us we fired at the same time and he fell slain. Thereupon I turned to flee, and a terrible rain swept down. But after this I went through a torment unto death and I felt certain that I must kill myself, if I could not solve the riddle of the murder of the hero. Then the spirit of the depths came to me and spoke these words: "The highest truth is one and the same with the absurd."</i><br />
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How very true! If we take this asteroid synchronicity serious, it challenges all popular concepts of time, causality and fate. We'll have to adjust our reality-tunnels to allow for the fact that asteroid 15147 Siegfried was <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi" target="_blank">discovered on 11 March 2000</a> and named after Ray M. Siegfried (born 1943), chairman of the board of the aerospace NORDAM Group. (The name was suggested by T. W. Rettig.) <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2018/07/the-retroactive-effect-of-asteroid-names_5.html" target="_blank">More thoughts on the retroactive effect of asteroid names over here.</a> Philosophers, scientists, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqKotldaZM&t=1107s" target="_blank">lazy skeptics</a> and conspiracy thinkers... go do your thing ;)<br />
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<b>The death of the Mother / Anima / Salome / Toni</b><br />
Here's another example of the death of a mythical character in Jung's dreams, although we have to add that asteroid <i>Salome</i> was discovered in 1905 ~ which makes it a little less weird.<br />
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On January 9, 1923 Jung's mother died. In the night of 23/24 December Jung had a dream about his mother, which he could not interpret successfully until 3 years later, when he wrote: "Only now do i see that the dream of 23/24 December 1923 means the death of the anima." (p.79 Red Book). The anima is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus" target="_blank">another concept developed by Jung</a>; it refers to the unconscious feminine side of the male personality. In Jung's personal mythology, the biblical character <i>Salome</i>, who wished for the decapitation of John the Baptist, refers to his own anima. Looking at Jung's asteroid transits on 23/24 December 1923, it would seem that <i>Salome</i> has a deadly encounter with Pluto, the King of the Underworld. Asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=129078" target="_blank">129078 Animoo</a> was discovered in 2004. <br />
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<i>Some asteroid transits for C.G. Jung, 23/24.12.1923 </i><br />
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Salome conjunct Pluto (0°31')<br />
Animoo sesquare Pluto (0°19')<br />
Animoo sesquare Saturn (0°22')<br />
Animoo quintile Mars (0°32')<br />
Pax biquintile Animoo (0°41')<br />
Jung sesquare Atropos (0°50')<br />
Jung quintile Niobe (1°00')<br />
Jung opposite Jung (0°41')<br />
Klio sesquare Jung (0°46')<br />
Herodias biquintile Jung (1°04')<br />
Herodias trine Animoo (0°07')<br />
Salome sextile Toni (0°37')<br />
Salome sextile Jung (1°28')<br />
Toni sextile Salome (0°35')<br />
Animoo biquintile Herodias (0°31')<br />
Spirit biquintile Herodias (0°34')<br />
Sun sesquare Herodias (0°04')<br />
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<b>First mandala</b><i> </i><br />
There are many more examples of interesting synchronicities in the Red Book and the autobiography. Try adding asteroids like <i>Freud </i>and<i> Wolfgang Pauli</i> for even more fun. For now we'll end with some asteroid transits related to Jung's first mandala drawing. On January 16, 1916, Jung drew a mandala, a sketch of the 'Systema Munditotius' and he wrote on the back of it: "This is the first mandala I constructed in the year 1916, wholly unconscious of what it meant." (p. 42 Red Book) In this context <i>Plato</i> would mean something like <i>archetypal</i>. <b><br />
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Some asteroid transits for C.G. Jung, 16.01.1916 <br />
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</i>Mercury trine Fantasia (0°02')<br />
Mercury trine Moira (0°37')<br />
Mercury trine Hybris (0°43')<br />
Mercury trine Sophia (0°49')<br />
Mercury trine Aesculapia (0°55')<br />
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Uranus trine Hybris (0°31')<br />
Uranus trine Moira (0°37')<br />
Uranus trine Fantasia (1°16')<br />
Uranus 135 Linie (0°15')<br />
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Plato trine Moira (0°03')<br />
Plato trine Hybris (0°09')<br />
Plato trine Fantasia (0°36')<br />
Plato sesquare Linie (0°55')<br />
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Hybris trine Moira (0°14')<br />
Hybris trine Hybris (0°20')<br />
Hybris trine Fantasia (0°25')<br />
Hybris sesquare Linie (1°06')<br />
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Fantasia biquintile Neptune (0°36')<br />
Fantasia biquintile Mercury (0°39')<br />
Fantasia biquintile Photographica (0°07')<br />
Fantasia biquintile Iye (0°32')<br />
Fantasia biquintile Ottilia (0°46')<br />
Fantasia sextile Mentall (0°23')<br />
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Karma biquintile Mercury (0°01')<br />
Karma biquintile Ottilia (0°06')<br />
Karma biquintile Iye (0°09')<br />
Karma biquintile Photographica (0°33')<br />
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Linie sesquare Melete (0°09')<br />
Iye biquintile Linie (0°43')<br />
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Split conjunct Pandora (0°40')<br />
Split biquintile Fantasia (0°17')<br />
Split quintile Spirit (0°38')<br />
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Pandora conjunct Memoria (1°09')<br />
Pandora sesquare Sophia (0°19')<br />
Pandora sesquare Fantasia (1°07')<br />
Moira conjunct Pandora (0°19')<br />
Scheherezade sextile Pandora (0°41')<br />
Nodes square Pandora (0°27')<br />
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Photographica conjunct Split (0°31')<br />
Photographica opposite Moon (0°01')<br />
Photographica opposite Prisma (0°13')<br />
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Ottilia sesquare Ottilia (0°19')<br />
Ottilia sesquare Mercury (0°26')<br />
Ottilia sesquare Iye (0°33')<br />
Ottilia sesquare Photographica (0°58')<br />
Ottilia biquintile Jung (0°50')<br />
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Jung square Prisma (0°51')<br />
Jung square Split (1°09')<br />
Jung semisquare Linie (1°02')<br />
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Prisma trine Scheherezade (0°43')<br />
Prisma sesquare Center of Galaxy (0°29')<br />
Prisma quintile Jung (1°04')Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-3308185438415272102019-06-29T12:59:00.002+02:002019-10-08T19:03:30.352+02:00Astrological tarot spreads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Astrology + Tarot can be a powerful combination. The house-based <a href="http://ultimatetarot.blogspot.com/2012/04/tarot-cards-astrological-tarot-spread.html" target="_blank">'Astrological'</a> or 'Zodiac' spread seems to be the most popular starting point. But if your astrology isn't based on the concept of houses, you might prefer spreads that use planets, asteroids or harmonics. <br />
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<b>Combining astrology and tarot </b><br />
The connections between astrology and the tarot are obvious, just look at the zodiac signs and the element-symbolism in classic Golden Dawn-inspired decks like the Thoth tarot and the Rider Waite Smith tarot. In the <a href="https://www.thequeenssword.com/tutorial-how-to-read-the-minchiate-tarot/" target="_blank">Minchiate tarot</a> there are cards for the elements and for the zodiac signs. The old Italian Sola Busca deck was known as the <a href="https://www.thequeenssword.com/the-game-of-saturn-decoding-the-sola-busca-tarocchi-review/" target="_blank">Game of Saturn</a>, and so on. But watch out: there are crucial differences as well. Most importantly, the symbolism of the Sun and Moon-cards in tarot differs from the astrological symbolism.<br />
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<b>Planets spread</b><br />
If you want to blend the powers of astrology and the tarot, you should try the Planets spread pictured below. <br />
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<i>Step one:</i> analyze a birth chart or mundane chart. <br />
<i>Step two:</i> use the Planets spread to get an overall idea of the expression of each planet for that chart. Each card reflects the cumulative effects on 'its' planet of relevant astrological variables, such as stars, asteroids, aspects to other planets and so on, as they modulate and shape the symbolic potential of that planet. The resulting synthetic overview of the qualities of all planets gives deep insight in no time at all. When you're comfortable with the initial results you can ask the cards not only for a general reflection of the original chart, but also for a status-update for a given moment in time, incorporating the cumulative effect of all transits and other astro-dynamics modulating the chart at that particular moment.<br />
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In the layout below the 'malefics' are in position 5, 7 and 10, paired with the 'benific' counterparts 4, 6 and 9. Mercury and Uranus have a solitary position. Chiron and the Galactic Center are extra's. (Of course you can modify the spread to your own taste.) Example: if this spread is used for a birth chart, the Chiron-card will reflect how the person responds to the theme of suffering, as it is connected to life on Earth (the pain of being so to speak) while the Galactic Center shows this person's general idea of what 'The Divine' is all about. <br />
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1 = Sun<br />
2 = Moon<br />
3 = Mercury<br />
4 = Venus<br />
5 = Mars<br />
6 = Jupiter<br />
7 = Saturn<br />
8 = Uranus<br />
9 = Neptune<br />
10 = Pluto<i><br />
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<i>11 = Chiron (optional)<br />
12 = Galactic Center (optional)</i><br />
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As you play around with this spread, it may also fine-tune your understanding of each planet's symbolism, and the way each planet interacts with the whole of the chart. <br />
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Here's an example of the Planets spread clarifying a mundane chart for the <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/01/star-wars-1-hannibal-vs-rome.html" target="_blank">Battle of Cannae</a> (2 august 216 BC, Cannae). Note that the Moon-card was drawn for the Sun-position, but since asteroid Pholus is conjunct the 'astronomical Sun' and very important for this chart, an extra card is drawn for Pholus; the King of Swords on the left. If you are familiar with this event from a military point of view the result doesn't need interpretation. If you are not, note how Chiron points to the amount of suffering. The Devil's influence is strengthened by Jupiter. Two of Pentacles on Mars describes the nature of the battle. The hand of fate is present in the Wheel of Fortune on Venus. Pluto and Pholus are teaming up as Queen and King of Swords, which is interesting because astronomically they are also in the same team. Five of Wands from the Rider Waite Smith deck is often thought of as a playful fight, but not in combination with Saturn. The Nine of Cups points to the success of the winning side. All other cards point to fear, loss, trauma and death in battle.<br />
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<b> Harmonic spreads</b><br />
Pretty much every astrological variable can be used in tarot spreads. Anything from sensitive points to thematically related asteroids, stars or black holes. The use of 'regular' aspects may seem less straightforward, until you think of them in terms of harmonics.<br />
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A great way to use harmonics is to draw a four-part spread for one question:<br />
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1. One card representing the whole: conjunction;<br />
2. Two cards for the most important opposition-relation;<br />
3. Three cards for the most important trine-relations;<br />
4. Four cards for the most important square-relations.<br />
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If you're familiar with the higher harmonics in harmonic astrology, you can take this idea a step further by adding fiveness (quintiles), sixness (sextiles), sevenness (septiles) and so on. You can choose whether you want to represent certain harmonics using one card (for 13-ness for example) or a number of cards, as in the example above.<br />
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<b>Regular playing cards for harmonic spreads</b><br />
Another fun way to use harmonics is to simply grab a regular deck of playing cards, and assign the numbers to the harmonics like this: <br />
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Ace = oneness (conjunction)<br />
2 = twoness (opposition)<br />
3 = threeness (trine)<br />
4 = fourness (square)<br />
5 = fiveness (quintile)<br />
6 = sixness (sextile)<br />
7 = sevenness (septile)<br />
8 = eightness (semi-square)<br />
9 = nineness (novile)<br />
10 = tenness (decile)<br />
Jack = elevenness<br />
Queen = twelveness<br />
King = thirteenness<br />
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It also makes sense to assign the suits to the classic elements. Example: in a question about health, 4 of spades (swords) means mental stress, 4 of hearts (cups) means someone is not doing well emotionally, and 4 of diamonds (coins) points to physical problems. <br />
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Yes, that's right folks. The number 4 doesn't <i>have</i> to be about stability. You don't <i>have</i> to follow the Pythagorean tradition if you don't want to. With cards it's all in your mind, and that's why you are free to make your own choices. You'll get clear answers, as long as you don't mess things up. The nice thing about the harmonic scheme is that it reflects the actual symbolic <i>Language of Nature</i> as codified in the design of our Solar System, the Milky Way and so on. <br />
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If you're not familiar with the meanings of higher harmonics, here are some keywords you can use to give this method a try:<br />
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1. Wholeness, union, blend, singlemindedness, focus <br />
2. Separation, duality, duel, opposites, yin~yang, pair<br />
3. Flux, smooth co-operation, natural talent, pleasure, comfort<br />
4. 2x2, motivation, challenge, urgency, struggle, tension, stress <br />
5. Structuring, forming, arranging, creative activity<br />
6. 2x3, enjoying the battle, requiring some effort, expressive<br />
7. Inspiration, serendipity, creative growth at a price<br />
8. 2x4, motivating resistance, subtle tension<br />
9. 3x3, joy, peace, the fruit of the tree, soul mate (Jyotish)<br />
10. 2x5, creative ability, untapped talent<br />
11. Resilience, persistence, impatience, instability (Uranian)<br />
12. 4x3, requiring effort, co-operating at a distance <br />
13. Rootlessness, restlessness, breaking away, risk-taking<br />
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The Bicycles like the harmonics: if you lack inspiration, creating a new system will sharpen your interpretative skills. <br />
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The <a href="http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/maddonni/" target="_blank">Maddonni tarot</a> (minus the trumps and 1 court card) is perfect for this: using harmonics gives you serendipitous thoughts, it focuses the intuition and produces fresh emotional responses. Wow! <br />
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So why are playing cards and pip decks overall less popular? The Rider Waite Smith deck answers proudly: many people get stuck when they try to read playing cards or pip decks, RWS has an extra emotional layer to connect with. This is how I beat the competition, you see? <br />
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<b>Higher prime harmonics</b><br />
If you want to know more about harmonics, <i>and</i> you can read German, you're in luck. One of the best sources for harmonic research is <a href="https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/de/Harmonisches_Horoskop" target="_blank">Hans-Jörg Walter's Divina Commedia Astrologica</a>. In English try <a href="http://davidhamblin.net/astrology.html" target="_blank">David Hamblin</a> and <a href="http://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf" target="_blank">David Cochrane</a>. Walter and Hamblin discuss the higher harmonics with a very strong emphasis on prime numbers. Here's a last quick tip: if you have a Minchiate deck you can easily assign higher primes to these trumps:<br />
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11. XI Time/Hermit<br />
13. XIII Death<br />
17. XVII Prudence<br />
19. XVIIII Charity<br />
23. XXIII Air<br />
29. XXVIIII Sagittarius<br />
31. XXXI PiscesTony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-29280921004694382152019-01-28T10:20:00.003+01:002019-01-29T21:46:18.998+01:00Greta Thunberg ~ Wounded healer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4-KCmTggk_TD9zMzpqMvxtLh4nT87LgGm-3qB2-aZ1NyMdZ70WZPX7H30S7lUpLpdsU4pv_P2WI2KxrI2x-vLwMavaVb5mQ0BJkxLIAKLlrP_V0j-v7640rsE2zUh7hNxksVtqWkHIpl/s1600/train.jpg" /></div><br />
In Greta Thunberg's horoscope the Sun is conjunct Chiron, the Wounded Healer. That's saying a lot. Also a quirky Venus square Uranus and an empowering Jupiter trine Pluto. Planetary Golden Aspects are strong for Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto. Asteroid themes include singleminded leader and hunter. Neither modest nor meek.<br />
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Heliacal rising star: Facies ~ A philosophy that life is hard or unforgiving.<br />
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Heliacal setting star: El Nath ~ A confronting attitude, a desire to deal with real life, real issues.<br />
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Sun conjunct Child: speaking as a child on behalf of children<br />
Sun conjunct Epimetheus: not planning ahead, right here right now<br />
Sun conjunct Pax: desiring peace<br />
Sun conjunct Caesar: great leader<br />
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Mercury conjunct Niobe: pride or arrogance <br />
Mercury conjunct Aphrodite: attractive voice/speech<br />
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Venus conjuct Mnemosyne: good memory <br />
Venus conjuct Amnestia: forgiving<br />
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Mars conjunct Pholus: powerful iconoclast<br />
Mars conjunct Universitas: singleminded, focused energy<br />
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Jupiter conjunct Hadrianus: drawing the line (a big one)<br />
Jupiter conjunct Laetitia: lighthearted (compensates for stern)<br />
Jupiter conjunct Incidentia: to make an issue of something<br />
Jupiter conjunct Stern: simply stern<br />
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Uranus conjunct Melanchton: grasping one's own power<br />
Uranus conjunct Pinocchio: taking control of one's life (or lying ~ but only if you're a climate skeptic of course)<br />
Uranus conjunct Hesperia: to bring to an end<br />
Uranus conjunct Pallas: wisdom, war and peace<br />
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Neptune conjunct Chant: repeating a message/slogan<br />
Neptune conjunct Troja: Trojan horse<br />
Neptune conjunct Mr. Spock: thinks logical<br />
Neptune conjunct Huntress: see Artemis (next)<br />
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Pluto conjunct Artemis: skilled hunter<br />
Pluto conjunct Mathesis: studies obsessively <br />
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<b>Davos speech </b>(January 25th 2019)<br />
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Sun trine Moon: good for bridging the generation gap<br />
Mars trine Jupiter: great energy, triumph, educational skill<br />
Saturn sextile Neptune: making ideals real<br />
Uranus trine Galactic Center: 'cosmic' support for change <br />
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<b>COP24/Katowice speech </b>(December 15th 2018)<br />
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Venus sextile Saturn: love of truth, protective, security-minded<br />
Mars sextile Pluto: intensity of emotions and purpose, speaking for a cause or a generation, fearless in action, not afraid to use power<br />
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<i>"When I was 11 I became ill. I fell into depression. I stopped talking and I stopped eating. In two months, I lost about 10 kilo's of weight. Later on I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, Obsessive Compulsion Disorder and selective mutism."</i><br />
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(When Greta was 11, Pluto was transiting her natal Sun.)<br />
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<i>"I think that in many ways, autistics are the normal ones. [...] Especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis."<br />
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"There are no grey areas when it comes to survival."<br />
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"No one is acting as if we were in crisis. Even most climate scientists or green politicians keep on flying around the world, eating meat and dairy."<br />
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"When you think about 'the future' today, you don't think beyond the year 2050. By then I will, in the best case, not even have lived half my life."<br />
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"What is the point of learning facts in the school system, when the most important facts given by the finest science of that same school system clearly mean nothing to our politicians and our society."<br />
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"We can't save the world by playing by the rules. The rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change and it has to start today."</i><br />
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<i>"You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children."<br />
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"We can not solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis." <br />
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"We have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. You have run out of excuses and we are running out of time. We have come here to let you know that change is coming. Whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people."</i><br />
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Hard scientists love to project concepts like elegance and beauty on simple equations like E = mc². A revealing choice perhaps, but also quite absurd. Economic use of symbols is really about compressing a body of theory and data to its absolute limit. But if <i>beauty = max compression</i>, the most beautiful painting would be 100% abstract. Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-21179925833773220232018-07-05T17:37:00.011+02:002020-10-22T09:00:44.468+02:00The retroactive effect of asteroid names<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBf5Y1aCEqM9AQib5V7atgh65cZtNN3PPAHO6FAf3OGsonyxfR3eaadIlDILrPxItkU3YN7o9tvKpnH36cpFg-9ZRzQPHIOuVDF8JCAtgMmpViLQULSs2hTlgMpCYr2a_F2KUZaeVnsxSr/s1600/eros.jpg" /></div><br />
The movements of the stars, the planets and even the asteroids are of great interest to astrologers. To most stargazers, a piece of space-rock becomes more useful when it has been named. The name connects the physical object to the realm of meaning; an important starting point for astrological interpretation. But that's not the whole story. Many names of astronomical objects are in fact deeply weird.<br />
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Before we get into the crazy part, you could check out what the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has to say about the <a href="https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/" target="_blank">naming of astronomical objects</a> if you are unfamiliar with this subject.<br />
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<b>What's so special about asteroid names?</b><br />
Asteroids are probably the most interesting group of astronomical objects when it comes to the naming process. One reason is that there are lots of asteroids. And because of the security risks associated with asteroids, we want to know every last one of them. <br />
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As of 2018, the <a href="https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/" target="_blank">Minor Planet Center</a> has documented some 750.000 minor planets, of which over 500.000 have orbits known well enough to be assigned permanent official numbers. Of these, more than 21.000 have been named officially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_naming_conventions#Minor_planets" target="_blank">according to IAU rules</a>. This means that right now, everybody who is born on Earth has over 21.000 named asteroids in their birth chart. The number keeps growing; adding more astrological detail so to speak. <br />
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This flood of new astrological variables is perhaps a bit of a mixed blessing. Many astrologers are overwhelmed by it, because it seems difficult to filter out the noise and keep the relevant bits of meaning. But there's also good news: many asteroids have relatively unambiguous names. You don't have to dive too deep into the complex art of astrological<i> interpretation</i> if you're searching for ~ say ~ synchronistic events related to asteroids <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=128036+Rafaelnadal" target="_blank">128036 Rafael Nadal</a> and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=230975" target="_blank">230975 Roger Federer</a>. You just look at their tennis matches, et voila. <br />
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The planets are all named after mythological figures, but lots of asteroids are named after cities, countries, rivers, mountains, scientists, musicians and so on. These more objective names can point to simple synchronicities ~ when compared to more complex events associated with the movements of planets ~ and sometimes they can point to specific events and situations with more precision than the planets could. For example, we might want to check out <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/03/the-astrology-of-legendary-jazz-records.html" target="_blank">the exact location of asteroid 173032 Mingus on the 20th of January 1963.</a> Because on that day jazz giant Charles Mingus recorded his masterpiece The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady: a creative peak and a candidate for astrological synchronicity. <br />
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<b>Synchronicity</b><br />
Most astrologers would agree that the exact moment when an astronomical object is <i>discovered</i> carries meaning. The discovery and subsequent naming of an object are thought to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity" target="_blank">synchronistic processes</a>. Astrologers assume that careful analysis of the moment of discovery can provide useful details for correct interpretation of events related to the new object. The same thing is also true for the outer planets. Uranus, Neptune and (dwarf planet) Pluto were discovered relatively recently, at a moment in time that seems to reflect bits and pieces of their complex astrological meaning. <br />
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Synchronicity as a concept was coined by Carl Jung, and he made a mess of it. For a better understanding of various subtle forms of causality in relation to synchronicity, the talk by Richard Tarnas below is highly recommended. Tarnas describes 'proper' synchronicity as having a quality of "the whole communicating with the part". Another key aspect of synchronicity is that the amount and/or intensity of synchronistic events increases in times of <i>crisis and transformation</i>, both on the individual and the collective level. By the way: Pluto is also linked to crisis and transformation. The 'influence' of the little dwarf planet is said to be relatively strong. <br />
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Since synchronistic events seem to occur more often in crisis-like situations, designing a statistical model that does justice to this dynamic is not straightforward. It's easier to analyze extreme cases; obvious moments of crisis and transformation. Birth and rebirth are good examples. Personal breakthroughs, creative peaks, political crises, wars and so on are potentially highly synchronistic. <br />
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<b>Activation of asteroids</b><br />
The Sun and Moon and the planets, from Mercury to Pluto, provide relevant information in <i>every </i>birth chart, although <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html" target="_blank">they're not necessarily equally important</a>. This doesn't seem true for asteroids. Only some of them seem to be 'activated' in a certain chart. So how to find those active ones? Asteroids are thought to be activated most strongly by conjunctions with the Sun, the Moon, and perhaps a bit less by conjunctions with the planets. Aspects like opposition, trine, square etc. and contacts with other small bodies can also be valid. Aspects must have an accuracy of 1° or less. <br />
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Having said that, <i>every chart</i> has lots of asteroids conjunct natal Sun, Moon and planets that would seem unimportant or irrelevant. For some reason they don't seem to be activated, or perhaps not active enough to get noticed. That's why spotting an active asteroid may require a bit of a poetic eye. <br />
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<a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=6735" target="_blank">6735 Mad Hatter</a>, a fictional character from Lewis Carroll's story Alice in Wonderland, has a prominent place in the birth chart of style icon miss Grace Jones, conjunct her natal Sun (0°04). <br />
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<b>Asteroid names from the future</b><br />
For strictly rational people synchronistic events can seem spooky. But it gets worse. Asteroids have a unique way of messing with our ideas of time and causality: the naming process seems to have a retroactive aspect. Let's say an asteroid is discovered and named in the 21st century. That doesn't mean you can't find remarkable synchronicities that happened 200 or even 2000 years before the asteroid was named, created <i>in the future</i> <i>by the IAU</i> so to speak. <br />
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Below some examples are given to demonstrate the retroactive effect of asteroid names. So how can we make sense of this? Perhaps a simple solution is to think about time as both simultaneous and sequential. If you don't like that, you're invited to check the motto of this blog (top of the page) and meditate on it for a little while. <br />
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<b>Historic synchronicities involving asteroids</b><br />
For astrological research the exact time and place of an event are required. The further we go back in time, the harder it becomes to find exact dates and places. But even in the period before Christ, there are a number of well-preserved events that seem to resonate conspicuously with certain asteroids. Take the <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/01/star-wars-1-hannibal-vs-rome.html" target="_blank">Second Punic War</a>. A time of crisis and transformation for the Roman Republic and Carthage. Asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2152;old=0;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery" target="_blank">2152 Hannibal</a> is a candidate for synchronicities, discovered on 19 November 1978. <br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Trebia" target="_blank">Battle of the Trebia</a> is the first major confrontation between Rome and Hannibal's army in the 2nd Punic War. On the day of the battle Uranus is conjunct asteroid Hannibal (0°07). The basic meaning of Uranus is sudden change. The Roman army loses 30.000 men: the largest defeat since the war against the Gauls 125 years earlier. The Romans don't know what hit them. <br />
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The Battle of Cannae was the bloodiest battle in the 2nd Punic War. It’s even one of the bloodiest battles in all the history of war. Some 70.000 Roman soldiers died in a matter of hours. A classic argument against astrology comes from Cicero (<a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=9446" target="_blank">9446 Cicero</a>), the Roman philosopher and politician who lived in the time of Julius Caesar. In <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cicero/de_Divinatione/home.html" target="_blank">De Divinatione</a> he wrote "Did all the Romans who fell at Cannae have the same horoscope? Yet all had one and the same end." <br />
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Since Cicero's argument is a classic, let's mention a synchronicity involving <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005145#content" target="_blank">Pholus.</a> This asteroid gets its name from Greek mythology. The thing to remember about the Pholus from the myth is that <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/KentaurosPholos.html" target="_blank">he causes a mass murder</a>. At high noon on August 2nd 216 BC, when the slaughter at Cannae begins, the Sun is <i>exactly</i> conjunct asteroid Pholus (0°01) which was discovered on the 9th of January 1992.<br />
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<b>Death of emperor Claudius</b><br />
Moving ahead in time but staying in Rome, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" target="_blank">emperor Claudius</a> is also a candidate for asteroid weirdness. His personal asteroid is <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=7117" target="_blank">7117 Claudius</a>. It is known that Claudius died on the 13th of October 54 AD of poisoning. What was the sky saying during his last hours?<br />
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Karma sesquiquadrate Claudius ~ <i>fateful time or event</i> (0°22)<br />
Damocles biquintile Claudius ~ <i>doom hanging overhead</i> (0°24) <br />
Tantalus biquintile Claudius ~ <i>some form of torture</i> (0°38)<br />
Pluto biquintile Claudius ~ <i>death, transformation</i> (0°47) <br />
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Asteroid 7117 Claudius was discovered on 14 February 1988. <br />
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<b>The Vatican</b><br />
After the Roman empire collapsed it was more or less replaced by the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe. <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=416" target="_blank">Asteroid 416 Vaticana</a>, discovered on 4 May 1896, is one of the asteroids linked to this church. Only a few persons connected to the Catholic church have personal asteroids. For example the mystics Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart and Mechthild of Magdeburg, Saint Augustine and Saint Ignatius of Loyola; the reformer Martin Luther and Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Alois Ratzinger). <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8661+Ratzinger" target="_blank">8661 Ratzinger</a> is interesting, and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=hildegard" target="_blank">898 Hildegard</a> is a candidate for synchronicities, since Ratzinger promoted this fine lady from ordinary saint to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_the_Church" target="_blank">Doctor of the Church</a>. Furthermore, Ratzinger got his asteroid name for the role he played in supervising the opening of Vatican archives to researchers investigating judicial errors against Galileo and other medieval scientists. This draws attention to <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=galilea" target="_blank">asteroid 697 Galilea</a>. <br />
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First of all Ratzinger has his own asteroid 8661 Ratzinger conjunct Mercury (1°02) in his chart, creating a strange 'feedback loop' in his head. Here are some more aspects from his natal chart:<br />
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Galilea trine North Node (0°22)<br />
Galilea sextile South Node (0°22)<br />
Ratzinger sesquiquadrate Martin Luther (0°17)<br />
Vaticana biquintile Hildegard (0°5)<br />
Vaticana opposite Dejanira (0°29)<br />
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Asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Dejanira" target="_blank">157 Dejanira</a> can be an indicator of sexual abuse of children. Ratzinger is known for his efforts to fight sexual abuse in the church. <br />
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<b>Musical synchronicity</b><br />
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is an album/composition by Charles Mingus. The liner notes were <a href="http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/The_Black_Saint.html" target="_blank">written by the composer and his shrink</a>. The album is considered a masterpiece. It was recorded in New York on the 20th of January, 1963. On this day the Sun was conjunct Mercury; at noon the conjunction was <i>exact</i>. Furthermore asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=173032" target="_blank">173032 Mingus</a> was conjunct Sun and Mercury (0°98). Sun conjunct Mercury is an aspect linked to mental illness (a fried mind) but when it's exact it can bestow genius and brilliance. Asteroid Mingus was discovered on August 25th 2006.<br />
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<b>Proverbial crossings</b><br />
Asteroids can be related in various ways. Take <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=caesar" target="_blank">18458 Caesar</a>, discovered 5th of March 1995, and <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=rubicon" target="_blank">11302 Rubicon</a>, discovered January 27th 1993. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Civil_War#Crossing_the_Rubicon" target="_blank">On 10 January 49 BC Julius Caesar, the first Roman emperor, crossed the Rubicon</a> while dropping the famous slogan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_iacta_est" target="_blank">"alea iacta est"</a>. Symbolically, crossing a river is like a conjunction. So what happens when asteroid Caesar crosses asteroid Rubicon in the sky? We notice quite a few changes of leadership, the beginning or ends of conflicts, and news related to exiles and the crossing of waters. Probably the most remarkable events coinciding with Caesar crossing the Rubicon in the 20th century are the end of World War II and the end of the Vietnam War. To get an idea, here's a selection of news in recent periods when asteroid Caesar crossed asteroid Rubicon:<br />
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8.09.1945 - 13.09.1945</i><br />
<ul><li>Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China and Indochina surrender to the Allies. The surrender of Imperial Japan was formally signed on September 2, ending the hostilities of World War II.</li>
</ul><i>18.06.1959 - 25.06.1959</i><br />
<ul><li>Dominican exiles, aided by Fidel Castro, invade the Dominican Republic on three fronts, with the objective of overthrowing dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. Most rebels row in from ships stationed offshore. </li>
<li>François Tombalbaye becomes Prime Minister of Chad, which is scheduled to become independent of French Equatorial Africa. On August 10 1960, Tombalbaye becomes the new Republic of Chad's first President. </li>
<li>Seán Lemass takes office as Taoiseach of Ireland following elections to replace Éamon de Valera and begins a course of pursuing peaceful cooperation, rather than unification, with Northern Ireland.</li>
<li>Voters in Hawaii go to the polls on the question of whether to become the 50th state of the United States.</li>
</ul><i>8.04.1972 - 3.05.1972 </i><br />
<ul><li>After more than 20 years of self-imposed exile, Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the Academy Awards. </li>
<li>The Paris Peace Talks are suspended indefinitely after the United States and South Vietnam pull out because of "lack of progress". The Operation Linebacker bombing and mining campaign against North Vietnam begins.<i> </i></li>
<li>An uprising in Burundi by the Hutu people against the Tutsi dominated government begins with machete attacks that kill more than 3,000 Tutsi civilians and soldiers. The Hutu rebels set up their own short-lived "People's Republic of Martyazo" at the Bururi Province. The Tutsi-dominated Burundian Army ends the secession movement within two weeks, before beginning the slaughter of thousands of Hutus.</li>
</ul><i>26.11.1972 - 31.01.1973</i><br />
<ul><li>In Vietnam, Operation Linebacker II, described more generally as the Christmas Bombing begins.</li>
<li>U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated for his second term. </li>
<li>U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.</li>
<li>In elections in Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) wins 67 of the 125 seats in the House of Representatives, to take control of the government from the coalition of the Liberal Party (headed by Prime Minister William McMahon) and the Country Party. </li>
<li>Following a referendum in the Philippines, the Constitution proposed by the Constitutional Convention of 1971 is ratified: Marcos becomes president for life.</li>
<li>Ramón Ernesto Cruz, who had been elected President of Honduras in 1971, is overthrown in a coup led by the Army. General Oswaldo López Arellano, who had handed power over to Cruz following the election, returns to office as President. </li>
<li>A boatload with 65 Haitian refugees, mostly black, lands in Florida, the first "boat people" to flee from Haiti to the United States. </li>
<li>George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship.</li>
</ul>This stuff doesn't <i>prove</i> anything, but if this arrangement of events isn't mere coincidence, certain asteroids can interact in a proverbial way, adding an extra layer of meaning. Since there are over 21.000 named asteroids, there should be many more combinations. But only some of them will be about crisis and transformation ~ as in the case of Caesar crossing the Rubicon. <br />
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<b>Fact, fiction or confusion?</b> <br />
Decapitation scores high in terms of personal crisis and transformation because it's always fatal. Perhaps that's the reason why asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=17518" target="_blank">17518 Red Queen</a> (discovered on 18 December 1992) can be spotted relatively easy in birth charts of people who lose their head. But wait. The Red Queen is a fictional character from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_(Through_the_Looking-Glass)" target="_blank">Alice in Wonderland, or was it Through the Looking Glass</a>? The Red Queen is often confused, or 'mixed' with the Queen of Hearts. At least by Hollywood. But there is no asteroid named Queen of Hearts. There's only 17518 Red Queen. It points to 'losing one's head' as in decapitation, or irrational behavior/loss of self-control. <br />
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You probably don't remember who Marinus van der Lubbe was. He died on the guillotine on the 10th of january 1934 after having been sentenced to death in a Nazi show trial. On the 27st of february 1933, Van der Lubbe had set <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire" target="_blank">the German Reichstag on fire</a>, causing unprecedented political turmoil and 'establishing' Nazi Germany. <br />
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<i><a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Lubbe,_Marinus_van_der" target="_blank">Marinus van de Lubbe, born on 13 January 1909 at 05:30 in Leiden, Netherlands (52n10, 4e30) rating AA</a></i><br />
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Generally speaking, important asteroids in Van der Lubbe's chart are Karma, Moira (fate), Bratfest (young rebel), Pandora (political after-effects of the fire), Hybris (challenging the Gods), Socrates and Justitia (show trial), Red Queen (off with his head), Atropos (death/the end) and Aeternitas (eternal fame). Here are some Red Queen aspects in Van der Lubbe's birth chart:<br />
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Red Queen biquintile Pluto (0°35) <br />
Red Queen trine Justitia (0°36)<br />
Red Queen biquintile North Node (0°40)<br />
Red Queen sesquiquadrate Saturn (0°42)<br />
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And some Red Queen transits on the day of his execution:<br />
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Leviathan sextile Red Queen (0°17) <br />
Sun sextile Red Queen (0°19) <br />
Nodes square Red Queen (0°27)<br />
Red Queen quintile Neptune (0°13)<br />
Red Queen semisquare Hybris (0°14)<br />
Red Queen biquintile Chiron (0°36)<br />
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<b>The French Revolution</b><br />
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<i><a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Marie_Antoinette,_Queen_Consort" target="_blank">Marie Antoinette, born on 2 November 1755 at 19:30 in Vienna, Austria (48n13, 16e20) rating A</a></i><br />
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The most important aspect in Queen Consort Marie Antoinette's birth chart is her Sun-Venus conjunction and Red Queen is in the middle of it, next to <a href="http://www.boulder.swri.edu/merline/bratfest/7887.bratfest10.JPL.html" target="_blank">7887 Bratfest</a>. Her husband's case is only a little less obvious. <br />
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</i> <i><a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Louis_XVI,_King_of_France" target="_blank">Louis XVI, born on 23 August 1754 at 06:26 in Versailles, France (48n48, 2e08) rating A</a></i><br />
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Red Queen transits on the day of his execution (with Chiron conjunct Red Queen in the sky, 0°17)<br />
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Damocles opposite Red Queen ~ <i>waiting for execution</i> (0°16)<br />
Pax sextile Red Queen ~ <i>execution brings peace of mind </i>(0°17)<br />
Red Queen quintile North Node ~ <i>fateful event, destiny</i> (0°53)<br />
Red Queen sesquiquadrate Pluto ~ <i>death by decapitation</i> (0°9)<br />
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<b>Jihadi John</b><br />
Jihadi John (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihadi_John" target="_blank">Mohammed Emwazi</a>) can be seen in videos (2014, 2015) by Islamic extremist group ISIL showing the beheading of captives.<b> </b>Jihadi John was born on 17 August 1988 in Kuwait. Red Queen is almost exactly conjunct his Venus: he was into decapitation. His victims also have notable Red Queens in their charts. <br />
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<a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Nietzsche,_Friedrich" target="_blank"><i>Friedrich Nietzsche, born 15 October 1844 at 10:00 in Röcken, Germany (51n14, 12e07) rating B</i></a><b><a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Nietzsche,_Friedrich" target="_blank"><br />
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Losing one's marbles</b><br />
On January 3rd 1889, while staying with a friend in Turin, poor old Friedrich Nietzsche suffered an epic mental collapse. Seven years before he lost his head he famously wrote:<br />
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The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried; “I will tell you. We have killed him - you and I.</i><i>”</i> <br />
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In Nietzsche's birth chart Red Queen is conjunct Mercury (0°08), the planet of communication, thought and other mental functions. <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Nietzsche" target="_blank">Asteroid 7014 Nietzsche</a> is trining asteroids Sisiphus (endless task, persistence, refusal to admit or accept defeat, 0°31) and Aeternitas (eternal fame, 0°38), squaring Atropos (death, transformation 0°52) and semi-squaring Hybris (challenging the Gods 0°70). Asteroid 7014 Nietzsche was discovered on April 4, 1989. Here are some of Friedrich Nietzsche's natal transits on January 3rd 1889:<br />
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Red Queen trine Mars (0°39)<br />
Red Queen semisquare Pax (0°56)<br />
Saturn semisquare Red Queen (0°24) <br />
Pluto trine Red Queen (0°34)<br />
Nietzsche sextile Saturn (0°47)<br />
Nietzsche trine Karma (0°56)<br />
Nietzsche square Icarus (0°57)<br />
North Node trine Nietzsche (0°39)<br />
South Node sextile Nietzsche (0°39)<br />
Atropos square Nietzsche (0°47)<br />
Pandora trine Nietzsche (0°57)<br />
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Now go ahead and try it yourself: <br />
<i><a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots" target="_blank">Mary, Queen of Scots, born on 18 December 1542 at 13:12 in Linlithgow, Scotland (55n59, 3w37) rating C</a></i><br />
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<b>Close enough</b><br />
Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the famous Jamaican producer, musician and self-proclaimed madman was born on the 20th of March 1936 in Kendal, Jamaica. He has asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=18124" target="_blank">18124 Lee Perry</a> conjunct Mercury in his birth chart (0°8) creating a funny loop in his brain, the same situation as with the Pope (fun fact: Lee Perry actually dressed up like a Pope). The asteroid was discovered on 3 July 2000, long after The Upsetter was born. But wait. This is too easy. Could it be that somebody has been cheating? Perhaps a Lee Perry fan or a crazy IAU employee? <br />
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We can't be sure but somehow it seems unlikely. Asteroid 18124 Lee Perry wasn't named after Pipecock Jackson. It was named after young <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names:_18001%E2%80%9319000" target="_blank">Lee Taylor Perry, official ISEF awardee in 2003</a>. Furthermore, it doesn't seem appropriate for the IAU to promote 'belief' in astrology using fraudulent methods. Only hardcore conspiracy theory addicts would fall for that. Synchronicity seems to be the culprit again. <br />
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It's another fine mess the Universe has got us into. It seems as if names of asteroids shouldn't always be taken literally. Sometimes there is a bit of poetic license. First of all, the spelling doesn't have to be correct. Take for example <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3778" target="_blank">asteroid 3778 Regge</a>. It was named after the Italian theoretical physicist Tullio Regge. Try to guess what style of music it can point to in the astrological realm. Of course, reggae music is quite unrelated to theoretical physics. In other words: the original meaning of the name doesn't always matter either. This is interesting, because there are quite a few scientists with unscientific souding last names who had an asteroid named after them, like Beer, Bragg, Lie and Swindle.<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Trump,_Donald" target="_blank">Donald Trump, born 14 June 1946 at 10:54 in New York (40n42, 73w4859) rating AA</a></i><br />
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<b>Born to swindle</b><br />
Asteroid <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8690" target="_blank">6890 Swindle</a> has a prominent place in the birth chart of Donald Trump, the famous casino owner, real estate developer, reality show host and highly profitable asset of the Russian mafia. Here are some of his birth chart aspects:<br />
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Swindle quintile Mercury ~ <i>swindle on the brain</i> (0°22) <br />
Swindle trine Fama ~ <i>famous swindler</i> (0°26)<br />
Swindle square Nodes ~ <i>born to swindle</i> (0°6)<br />
Winer semisquare Icarus ~ <i>whining may cause a downfall</i> (0°18)<br />
Winer semisquare Justitia ~ <i>very unfair!</i> (0°18)<br />
Bragg square Ohno ~ <i>oh no, he's bragging again </i>(0°12)<br />
Bragg square Neptune ~ <i>brag to confuse, confused bragging</i> (0°30)<br />
Bragg square Sphinx ~ <i>brag about secrets, to hide something </i>(0°41)<br />
Bragg semisquare Icarus ~ <i>bragging may cause a downfall</i> (0°52)<br />
Bragg trine Myrrha ~ <i>brag about sexual relationships that go against ‘natural law’</i> (0°58)<br />
Bragg sesquiquadrate Fama ~ <i>famous bragger</i> (0°8)<br />
Sphinx opposite Neptune ~ <i>trying to keep certain things secret</i> (0°11)<br />
Sphinx semisquare Fama ~ <i>both famous and mysterious </i>(0°33) <br />
Icarus square Fama ~<i> fame</i> <i>may cause a downfall</i> (0°52)<br />
Veritas sesquiquadrate Nemesis ~ <i>truth may cause a downfall</i> (0°13)<br />
Veritas trine Pax ~ <i>truth brings peace of mind</i> (0°13)<br />
Justitia trine Uranus ~ <i>sudden unexpected justice</i> (0°46)<br />
Mexico conjunct Mercury ~ <i>Mexico on the brain</i> (0°03)<br />
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<b>Musical intermezzo</b><br />
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<i>Big wheel keeps on turning, <br />
Proud Mary keeps on burning, <br />
Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river,<br />
Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river</i>.<br />
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<b>Reflection</b><br />
In recent years, the whole of the night sky has once again revealed itself to astrologers as an open Book of Nature and a point of entry into the Divine Mind. Just like it was in ancient times, but this time with more precision and detail, powered by space tech and AI. 21st century astrology is all about expansion into new territories like asteroids, black holes and big data. There is no bigger data than the Cosmos, and AI is probably <a href="https://www.ayurastro.com/bibliography.html" target="_blank">one of the most important techniques</a> for future astrological research. <br />
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Meanwhile, we have to remain cautious when interpreting names given to new objects. For example, Richard Tarnas has pointed out in the case of Uranus that we can't follow name-synchronicity blindly. <br />
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<b>Astrological time</b><br />
Jungian synchronicity is a baffling concept in the (post)modern era. In textbook cases like the one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity" target="_blank">golden scarab beetle</a> it is as if the 'holy' borderline between skull and outside world is violated. The whole of nature seems to know a lot more about the person confronted with the synchronicity than we would expect. Nature can speak directly to us ~ as in a living dream. If we take this stuff serious it challenges most philosophical positions that are currently popular. Jung knew this. Like ESP, synchronicity will not be accepted by the scientific community until there's a paradigmatic shift towards idealism. The retroactive effect of asteroid names is just as baffling. It's a violation of common sense ideas of cause and effect. And it's quite possible that a Universe that does these kinds of things is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology" target="_blank">teleological</a> Universe ~ another unpopular notion.<br />
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<b>The astrologer as art critic</b><br />
Perhaps we should look at it the way an art critic looks at a 'difficult' piece of art. Keeping in mind <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Interpretation" target="_blank">Susan Sontag's wonderful dismissal of art critics</a> here's how this might work.<br />
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Imagine hearing on the news that 70.000 people have died in one afternoon. You might think Donald Trump has started a nuclear war. <br />
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Going back to the battlefield, or actually <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae" target="_blank">the slaughterhouse of Cannae</a> where Hannibal's army killed 70.000 Romans in one hot summer afternoon in August 216 BC, there is nothing about this event that reminds us of beauty or art. But the conjunction of the Sun and Pholus <i>does give meaning to it in a way that only astrology can</i>. If Cicero had been right and the battle had been meaningless from an astrological viewpoint that wouldn't really make things easier. <br />
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Let's approach this the same way a (good) art critic approaches the famously horrible <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disasters_of_War" target="_blank">Disasters of War</a> scenes by Goya: by not looking away. The darkest moments of history are often accompanied by an eerie kind of celestial harmony. Elaborating on the Cannae-conjunction or Friedrich Nietzsche's Mercury-Red Queen conjunction is not about celestial disaster tourism. It's about encountering the dark side of Creation and shaking Pluto's hand without looking away. Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-30347941407616029652018-04-27T17:38:00.001+02:002019-10-20T20:45:11.146+02:00Avicii vs. Pluto ~ some astrological resonances<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two years ago, we <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2016/08/astrology-and-music-how-planets-and.html">checked the birth charts of hundreds of musicians</a> to learn more about a new astrological technique. Back then, Avicii's chart stood out because of an intense Pluto. The name Avicii actually means 'Lowest level of Buddhist Hell' and Pluto is of course the King of the Underworld. Here's a closer look at Tim Bergling's birth chart.<br />
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A week ago, on april 20, Avicii died. One of the most remarkable things he left behind besides his music is a documentary about his not so happy life as a dj called <a href="https://aviciitruestories.com/" target="_blank">True Stories</a>. Knowing that Avicii didn't survive his musical career, this documentary now feels as if Werner Herzog directed some post-modern Scandinavian reality drama.<br />
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Tim Bergling was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 8 september 1989. Altho we don't have a birthtime, we can still try to paint an astrological picture, but certain elements will be missing. We'll check the fixed stars, the golden aspects of the planets and the Muse-asteroids <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html">(a homegrown technique)</a>, the regular aspects between the planets and asteroids and the constellation-based zodiac, and we'll look at Saturn's return and the sky on the 20th of april. <br />
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<b>Fixed stars</b><br />
The heliacal rising and setting stars are the most important fixed stars. Avicii's rising star is Alphard, the Heart of the Snake in the constellation Hydra. Sualocin is the setting star. For Alphard, <a href="http://www.zyntara.com/" target="_blank">Bernadette Brady</a> gives this: "To lead a life close to the edge, or to seek intense emotional encounters". Alphard is also related to poisoning, death by poisoning and drug abuse. On the positive side, it gives wisdom and musical, artistic appreciation. For the setting star <a href="http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Sualocin.html" target="_blank">Sualocin</a> Brady gives "A tendency to rely on your natural talents".<br />
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<b>Golden Aspects (or Phi-angles)</b><br />
The Golden aspects are a kind of <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html">measure of the relative strength of each planet</a> (or asteroid) in a chart. Geocentrically (from the perspective of the Earth), they point to the strength of the planets in your day to day life, what's happening on the outside so to speak. Heliocentrically (the Sun) they say something about your inside: the deep essential layers of your mind and soul and your destiny. <br />
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<i>Geocentric (orb = 3, noon chart)</i><br />
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9 PL<br />
6 MO<br />
5 SO, ME, JU, SA, NE<br />
4 MA, CH<br />
3 UR<br />
2 VE<br />
1 GC<br />
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8 PL<br />
5 UR<br />
4 ME<br />
3 JU, CH<br />
2 SO, SA, GC<br />
1 VE, MA, NE<br />
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Both geocentrically and heliocentrically, Avicii's planetary chart is dominated by Pluto. This points (again) to intense emotions, obsession, and potentially death. Our own research has shown that in the chart of a musician, a strong Pluto can also be related to the invention of a new musical style that completely takes over on a global level. Examples would be <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2016/08/astrology-and-music-how-planets-and.html">Elvis Presley (rock & roll), Charlie Parker (bebop) and King Tubby (dub)</a>. To be honest, we don't think Avicii's historical influence will be strong enough for him to be compared to Elvis or King Tubby, but of course we could be wrong. Also note that both Elvis Presley and Charlie Parker died because of too much music biznis and substance abuse. And King Tubby was shot by a petty robber. Let's just say that a strong Pluto can be quite dangerous and unfortunately, Avicii's Pluto was <i>very</i> strong. It even shows up in his artist name! Here's what that deepest level of Buddhist hell might look like... <br />
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And here's Pluto's underworld. Which is basically the same place...<br />
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It doesn't even matter that <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/pope-francis-there-no-hell" target="_blank">the Pope recently declared that hell does not really exist</a>. There still is such a thing as a psychological hell, which can't be denied, not even by the Vatican. <br />
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<b>Muses</b><br />
The Golden Aspects technique can also be used to measure the relative strength of asteroids. If we look at the asteroids for <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2018/03/musicians-and-muses-astrological.html">the traditional Greek Muses</a> (and throw in a few related asteroids) there's again a geocentric perspective and a heliocentric perspective. <br />
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Geocentrically, Avicii's main Muse is Erato, the Muse that made it easy for him to come up with great romantic songs and gave him his talent for creating melodies. Sappho and Klio are also quite strong. Perhaps Sappho points to the tunes he made for his exceptionally pretty and sexy girlfriends. Klio on the other hand is about carrying a history of problems around and not being able to let go (Lady Gaga and David Bowie are other examples of artists with a strong Klio).<br />
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Heliocentrically, his main Muse is Melpomene a.k.a. the Blues Muse. This points to a deeply felt sadness or even depression. According to the Muses, Avicii was a romantic and relatively happy musician on the outside but his inside and his destiny were a few shades darker.<br />
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<b>Classic aspects</b><br />
<i>Saturn square Mercury</i> points to Avicii's style of communication: a bit insecure and blocked, coming across as introverted and colored by anxieties. Alcohol consumption solved these issues and made him feel more relaxed.<br />
<i>Saturn opposite Jupiter</i> creates a kind of oscillation between the extremes of the succesfull Jupiterian party animal and the insecurities of a hard working Saturnian who probably feels obliged to always say yes to his manager.<br />
<i>Mercury square Jupiter</i> is another aspect that clouded his judgement when it came to dealing with the music business. People with this aspect tend to promise more than they can actually deliver.<br />
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Saturn conjunct Neptune</i> is also quite important. This relatively rare aspect can definitely point to artistic talent, giving concrete form (Saturn) to artistic imagination (Neptune). This was actually very much Avicii's style of making records: imagining or even hearing a complete musical concept or a song in his mind (Neptune) and then getting it all on tape in the studio by directing a bunch of musicians as good as he possibly could (Saturn). But this conjunction can also be a sign of a confusing (Neptune) relationship with the music industry (Saturn) or an unhealthy mix of hard work (Saturn) and abuse of alcohol and dangerously addictive prescription drugs (Neptune). <br />
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<b>Asteroids</b><br />
<i>Erato conjunct Sun:</i> there's that important Muse again, very strong.<br />
<i>Icarus conjunct Venus:</i> the classic story of flying too high and falling down because of the love of money (the music industry). <br />
<i>Eros conjunct Pluto:</i> Irresistibly sexy. <br />
<i>Virtus conjunct the North Node:</i> trying to be a good guy.<br />
<i>Fanatica conjunct the South Node:</i> working too hard.<br />
<i>Veritas conjunct the South Node:</i> naive about hidden agendas.<br />
<i>Sun trine Chaos:</i> potentially an upsetting aspect.<br />
<i>Neptune trine Lie:</i> potentially a confusing aspect.<br />
<i>Icarus trine North Node:</i> falling down after flying too high.<br />
<i>Industria square North and South Node:</i> working too hard.<br />
<i>Neptune sextile Philagoria:</i> he could handle any stadium after a few drinks with his Las Vegas-inspired next level show.<br />
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<b>Constellation-based zodiac</b><br />
<i>Sun in Leo</i> is feeling fine, a royal position for a famous pop star.<br />
<i>Moon is probably in Scorpio</i>, repeating once again the theme of intense emotion and obsession, this can be a difficult place.<br />
<i>Mercury in Virgo</i> is well placed: good with words, eye for detail, controlled, a good organizer, appreciates orderliness, diy, possibly taking too much responsibility.<br />
<i>Venus in Virgo</i>: quiet, sensitive, loner.<br />
<i>Mars in Leo/Virgo:</i> probably a bit of both.<br />
<i>Jupiter in Gemini:</i> using intelligence to get ahead, and to improve musical skills.<br />
<i>Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in Sagittarius:</i> philosophical, imaginative, intuitive, idealistic.<br />
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<b>Complications and conclusions</b><br />
When musicians die around their 27th or 28th birthday, the 27 Club syndrome, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_return" target="_blank">Saturn's return</a> naturally pops up. Since Avicii was taking a well deserved break during his Saturn return, he actually managed to outlive other tragic heroes of the music industry like Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse by a couple of months, but the Saturn return thing is most definitely an important factor here. <br />
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Having said that... <br />
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Since Pluto is actually a lot stronger than Saturn in Avicii's birth chart (see the Golden Aspects) it would not be surprising if the direct cause of his death was related to Pluto. As it happens, there was a Mars-Pluto conjunction forming in the sky when he died, suggesting violent action, possibly suicide (this suspicion hasn't been confirmed yet). The Mars-Pluto conjuction is notorious and it's related to an increase in violent crime and deaths. It's 'influence' can actually be measured statistically using big data related to violence and crime.Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-8718197580749629152018-03-21T13:26:00.001+01:002019-10-20T20:45:46.075+02:00Renay Oshop ~ Scientific astrologer par excellence <iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uz3H4PEYb4o" width="400"></iframe><br />
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Contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as rigorous scientific astrology. Vedic astrologer Renay Oshop is <a href="https://www.ayurastro.com/bibliography.html" target="_blank">(one of) the best</a>. She uses modern techniques like AI to trace correlations between the rhythms of the planets and the rhythms of life. She also <a href="https://www.ayurastro.com/bending-spoons-guide.html" target="_blank">bends spoons</a>. We had a nice chat recently <a href="https://www.ayurastro.com/podcasts.html" target="_blank">about the universe, music and astrology</a>. Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-61516786156918245942018-03-05T11:02:00.001+01:002018-03-05T11:02:32.040+01:0080s West Coast electro funk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAwP8q_2arh57bIXId8IpNaHRg0VlQ4lRqm24yEQ__OrOv7mIfa-ft7JuG0K7S2ZlusdznXPeA8MQEC38m3flxkOI67PsOdqH4QL4mwNoewFKtf5bmDb-2LygquQcQfh4soDSUZY_UTJf/s1600/wc.png" /></div><br />
TLR <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTXqM53SpC7hjzaEFLENrbTLUhkLGek-5" target="_blank">cleans out his closet</a>Tony Dubshothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550880834078326260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956473538207861699.post-30937703120758992902018-03-03T10:45:00.001+01:002020-10-24T12:41:29.024+02:00Musicians and Muses ~ astrological perspectives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This post is aimed at music lovers and at astrology enthusiasts. The music lover can find out how the nine Muses, a wonderful bunch of ladies from Greek mythology, influence musicians astrologically. Astrologers can learn more about <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html">the use of Phi-angles in the natal chart</a> using thematically related asteroids.<br />
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<b>Meet the muses</b><br />
The Muses are nine inspirational goddesses who give a helping hand to poets, musicians, writers and even astrologers. There's a lot of information available online about the Muses, so if you want to know more about their history just google around a bit. Right now we'll just present the nine Greek ladies and the arts they 'rule'.<br />
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<i>Euterpe:</i> music and lyrical poetry <br />
<i>Erato:</i> love poetry <br />
<i>Kalliope:</i> epic poetry <br />
<i>Polyhymnia:</i> sacred music<br />
<i>Terpsichore:</i> dance<br />
<i>Thalia:</i> comedy <br />
<i>Melpomene:</i> tragedy<br />
<i>Urania:</i> astrology<br />
<i>Klio:</i> history<br />
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All Muses have an actual asteroid named after them. This means that we can try to trace their inspiration or 'influence' on musicians using astrological techniques. The technique that's used here is explained in some detail at the end of the post. It involves <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html">Phi-angles; a concept developed by Theodor Landscheidt.</a> Basically, this is an easy method for comparing the quantitative 'influence' of celestial bodies in a chart. By counting the number of Phi-angles per Muse/asteroid we find which Muses are dominating a chart. <br />
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<b>Thematically related asteroids</b><br />
To get a more detailed picture of the musical element in a chart a few more asteroids were added to the nine Muse-asteroids. They are all related to the Muses and/or music: <br />
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<i>Apollo:</i> leader of the Muses and famous Greek god<br />
<i>Harmonia:</i> Greek goddess of concord and harmony <br />
<i>Sappho:</i> the famous poet from Lesbos a.k.a. the 'Tenth Muse'<br />
<i>Echo:</i> Nymph who fell for Narcissus, lost everything but her voice<br />
<i>Orpheus:</i> musician who could even charm a stone with his music<br />
<i>Parthenope:</i> the Siren who tried to entice Odysseus with her voice<br />
<i>Loreley:</i> Teutonic Siren who haunts the river Rhine (see below)<br />
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There are even more related asteroids like <a href="http://www.truthinaspectastrology.com/asteroid-musa.html" target="_blank">Musa</a>, named after a mountain in Turkey, or Sirene, but you've got to draw the line somewhere. For this project the focus is on musical qualities. <br />
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So how do the sixteen selected asteroids, or mythological characters, influence musicians? To find out we looked at the natal charts of lots of musicians. It turns out that the modern astrological meanings we find are quite close to what you'd expect, with one exception: Klio. The Muse of history is not really an influence on a creative strength or on a preferred style or format. Instead, she points at musicians who carry a personal history around with them like perhaps traumas from early youth. All other asteroids can point at musical qualities although in the case of Urania the connection isn't always clear. The influence of Polyhymnia seems relatively weak. This might be a result of the selection of charts or maybe it's a (long term) cultural thing. The 'blues muse' Melpomene on the other hand is very common.<br />
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The influence of each Muse and mythological character is now demonstrated by musicians who receive their inspiration in relatively large quantities so to speak. <br />
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<b>Euterpe ~ Songwriters</b><br />
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Bruce Springsteen ~ Great songbook<br />
Tom Petty ~ Great songbook<br />
Tori Amos ~ Great songbook<br />
Bonnie Raitt ~ Great songbook<br />
Prince ~ Penned quite a few hits<br />
Mick Jagger ~ Penned quite a few hits<br />
Snoop Dogg ~ Roaring lion<br />
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<b>Erato ~ Supreme lyricists </b><br />
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Sly Stone ~ That's lovin' you<br />
George Clinton ~ I wanna testify<br />
David Bowie ~ Modern love<br />
Miles Davis ~ My funny Valentine<br />
Thelonious Monk ~ Brilliant Corners<br />
Maurice Ravel ~ Daphnis et Chloé <br />
Robert Schumann ~ The poet speaks<br />
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<b>Kalliope ~ Epic scale</b><br />
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Ornette Coleman ~ Monster jams<br />
James Brown ~ Get up (pts. 1, 2, 3 & 4) <br />
Juan Atkins ~ Party all night long<br />
Roy Orbison ~ Complex song structures<br />
Liza Minelli ~ Cabaret<br />
Karlheinz Stockhausen ~ Mr. Epic<br />
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<b>Polyhymnia ~ Praise the Lord</b><br />
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Duke Ellington ~ Sacred concerts<br />
John Coltrane ~ A love supreme<br />
George Michael ~ Faith <br />
Sting ~ Synchronicity<br />
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<b>Terpsichore ~ Improvisation and musical trance</b><br />
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Ravi Shankar ~ Mad fingers<br />
Bob Marley ~ We're jammin<br />
Lee 'Scratch' Perry ~ Dub improviser<br />
Tina Turner ~ Great live performer<br />
Frank Sinatra ~ Great live performer <br />
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<b>Thalia ~ Lighthearted folks</b><br />
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Iggy Pop ~ I wanna be your dog<br />
Elvis Presley ~ A little less conversation<br />
John Lennon ~ British humor<br />
Bono ~ Joker<br />
Le Monte Young ~ Fluxus <br />
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<b>Melpomene ~ Singing the Blues</b> <br />
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Nick Cave ~ Not exactly cheerful<br />
Patti Smith ~ Not exactly cheerful<br />
Rihanna ~ Disturbia<br />
Joni Mitchell ~ Blue<br />
Janis Joplin ~ Take another little piece of my heart<br />
Jim Morrison ~ I've been down so goddamn long <br />
Johnny Cash ~ I walk the line<br />
Bob Dylan ~ A hard rain's a gonna fall<br />
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<b>Urania ~ Esoteric</b><br />
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Richard Wagner ~ Der Ring des Nibelungen<br />
Jimi Hendrix ~ Voodoo Chile/Astro Man<br />
John Cale ~ Fear is a man's best friend<br />
Brian Jones ~ Musical weaver<br />
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<b>Klio ~ Issues from the past</b><br />
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Charlie Parker ~ Relaxin' on ward 11<br />
David Bowie ~ A bit strange<br />
Lady Gaga ~ A bit strange<br />
Claude Debussy ~ Not your average Illuminatus<br />
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<b>Apollo ~ The deified musician</b><br />
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Chaka Khan ~ I'm every woman<br />
Maurice White ~ Shining star<br />
Freddy Mercury ~ In the lap of the Gods<br />
Derrick May ~ Techno God<br />
David Guetta ~ God is a DJ<br />
Justin Timberlake ~ Boutique in heaven<br />
W.A. Mozart ~ Amadeus<br />
Dmitri Shostakovich ~ Saint<br />
Serge Gainsbourg ~ Saint and sinner<br />
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<b>Harmonia ~ Remarkable harmonies</b><br />
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Grace Jones ~ Strange beauty<br />
Evelyn Glennie ~ Look ma no hearing aid<br />
John Cage ~ Stretching the concept of harmony<br />
Olivier Messiaen ~ Modes of limited transposition<br />
Ennio Morricone ~ Special harmonic fx<br />
David Byrne ~ Mixing up new wave and Fela Kuti<br />
Ray Charles ~ Mixing up gospel and r&b<br />
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<b>Sappho ~ The sensual touch</b><br />
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Bob Marley ~ Stir it up<br />
Otis Redding ~ I've been loving you too long<br />
Eartha Kitt ~ Catwoman<br />
Donna Summer ~ Love to love you<br />
Cher ~ Do you believe in life after love?<br />
Tom Jobim ~ Garota de Ipanema<br />
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<b>Echo ~ Working in the background</b><br />
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Quincy Jones ~ Kingmaker<br />
George Harrison ~ Supporting Lennon & McCartney<br />
Sid Vicious ~ Never mind Johnny Rotten<br />
Larry Levan ~ Great sound based on other people's records<br />
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<b>Orpheus ~ Enticing sound</b><br />
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Brian Eno ~ Sonic guru<br />
Donald Fagen ~ Sonic guru<br />
Adele ~ Top class sound <br />
Charles Mingus ~ Sounded as good as the Duke<br />
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<b>Parthenope ~ Killer voice or enticing sound</b><br />
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Joe Cocker ~ Sheffield steel<br />
Courtney Love ~ Ruff siren<br />
Scott Walker ~ Deep siren<br />
Freddy Mercury ~ Big sound<br />
Bruno Mars ~ Big sound<br />
Stevie Wonder ~ Wonderful voice and music<br />
Igor Strawinsky ~ Wild voicings<br />
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<b>Loreley ~ Killer voice or virtuoso player</b><br />
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George Michael ~ Big voice<br />
Michael Jackson ~ Big voice<br />
Madonna ~ Big voice<br />
Shakira ~ Classic siren<br />
Nico ~ Mrs. Loreley<br />
Jim Morrison ~ Mr. Loreley <br />
Herbie Hancock ~ Mr. Hands<br />
Niccolò Paganini ~ Mr. Phenomenon<br />
Woody Guthrie ~ Dust Bowl troubadour<br />
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<b>Other kinds of astrological muses</b><br />
There are lots of asteroids named after musicians. Mostly after classical composers, but quite a few 'popular' musicians also have a lump of rock named after them. These asteroids can also be Muses for musicians. And then there's the weird stuff. For example, Lee Perry a.k.a. the Upsetter <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2018/01/mysteries-of-dubb-intergalactic.html" target="_blank">has asteroid 18124 Lee Perry (named after Lee Taylor Perry, ISEF awardee in 2003) conjunct his natal Mercury</a> creating a <i>very strange loop</i>. And in the natal chart of the Jamaican diva Grace Jones, asteroid Lee Perry is on Venus, while asteroid Regge (named after theoretical physicist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio_Regge" target="_blank">Tullio Regge</a> but pointing to reggae) is close to her Sun. Regge is also prominently placed in Lee Perry's chart. And so on. <br />
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<b>Geo/Heliocentric</b><br />
The method that was used for this project is in fact the same method used in an earlier post about the interpretation of Phi-angles. If you want to replicate the results presented here, and you haven't read that post <a href="http://www.dubbhism.org/2017/12/in-sky-how-to-interpret-golden-aspects.html" target="_blank">please start here</a>. The method used for this project is the same, but there are three differences:<br />
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<li>thematically related asteroids instead of planets;</li>
<li>the orb was tightened to 2,5° instead of 3°;</li>
<li>heliocentric scores are not included.</li>
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The reason for leaving out the heliocentric scores in this post is merely to keep things as simple as possible for non-astrologers. Having said that, the heliocentric perspective is<i> just as important</i> as the geocentric perspective. It can fill in a lot of information that may seem to be missing if you only look at the geocentric distribution. A good example would be the chart of George Harrison. The geocentric perspective shows a strong Melpomene and Echo (with a slightly less strong Thalia and Loreley) but the heliocentric view shifts to Thalia and Polyhymnia. Or take Bono: his geocentric perspective is dominated by Thalia, but heliocentrically Polyhymnia and Apollo stand out. Quite important!<br />
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<b>Integrated view</b><br />
If you want to get deeper into the Phi-angles technique you can combine the planetary results with asteroid-based results. For example, if we look at the planetary Phi-angles of Chaka Khan she has a strong geocentric Galactic Center and a strong heliocentric Jupiter. These would seem to point in the same direction as her geocentric Apollo-score in this project. In other words: the plot is thickening, Chaka Khan really seems to be a divine singer in some sense! The next step would be to look for conjunctions of planets and asteroids and the placement of the Muse-asteroids in the chart, and to combine these results with information that's available using other techniques. For example, Orpheus conjunct Sun might point to a 'born musician'. Harmonia conjunct Uranus might point to a highly individual or eccentric use of harmony. Terpsichore conjunct Saturn might point to someone with a talent for leading jam sessions. <br />
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