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The Spring Equinox Chart ASTROASTROA to Z N interesting discussion a few days of these are aspects of power, and in earth MED ago on Facebook about the Spring signs, can move mountains, but grand trines MEDFROM C.E.O. CARTER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA Equinox, which was at 1:15 am are notoriously lazy and rarely amount to A Oratorical Ability. Mercury is nearly EDT, March 20, 2012. Set the chart in Wash- very much. Moon-Neptune are widely sex- always, in the horoscopes of distin- ington (pg. 4) tile to Venus. Nothing unhappy there. guished speakers, in the 1st, 7th or 10th It started with the question that as Venus The Equinox chart has on the houses, and in one of the corresponding is the most dignified planet in the chart, , the ruler is Jupiter, Jupiter is in signs, with strong aspects. Bad aspects would that mean a successful slave revolt? where it is conjunct Venus, so in this do not necessarily destroy the oratorical There’s several problems with this al- chart we do, in fact, get very quickly to Ve- powers, but cause trouble in developing ready. First, computing relative dignities nus in Taurus and the 6th, but they’re not or using them; e.g. there may be rash isn’t where you begin with a chart. Compu- slaves. In mundane astrology, the 6th is also statements and actions at law as a result. tations are useful when the rest of the chart the military and the police. This chart shows Certain zodiacal areas are conspicu- is checkmated, when all your other clues them to be fat (Jupiter inflates) and happy ously common in orators’ maps: have resulted in dead heat. It’s not just that (Venus) and not interested in doing much: 16O Taurus- and those degrees we haven’t examined the chart and so don’t Taurus is lazy if not prodded, and there’s in aspect. These seem chiefly concerned know if that’s true, so much as a deadlocked nothing here to prod. Are the police and with tone and voice-control. chart is a fairly rare outcome and when it military “slaves”? Doesn’t make much dif- 17O -, which may have to does appear, it’s most often the result of in- ference. In 2012, they’re all fat and happy. do with fluency of expression. complete or erroneous analysis. Then it was observed that Mars was ten 7O and 7O . Next, the slave revolt. Venus is in dig- signs from the ascendant, Sagittarius to Every planet, according to its nature, nity in Taurus and does rule the 6th , , and it is. But in D.C., that doesn’t influences the style of oratory, and each which has Taurus on the cusp and the 6th make Mars angular and you can’t simply sign likewise. gives power to house is slaves, so all of that checks. The smear Mars over the MC and pretend. sway the masses; Scorpio can excite problem is that Venus in Taurus is happy with Angles have meaning. Mars is cadent, in a powerful emotions; Aries can call forth its condition. If there are slaves in the 6th, mutable sign, and retrograde. The retrograde anger and incite to martial action. We they’re happy slaves. Jupiter widely con- makes him dysfunctional, Virgo makes him may mention Cicero, Gladstone, Dr. junct Venus, also in Taurus, there’s a lot of fussy and hesitant. The 9th house has him Besant, Erasmus, W.J. Bryan, Gambetta, them. How about aspects? Venus is part of chasing after spooks, one way or another. Rosebery and Melanchthon. — Ency- a Grand Trine, with Pluto and Mars. Both He can work through the houses with Aries clopaedia of (continued, pg. 5) ALMANACK for the week (all times GMT) I OOO 28 07:14 ¢ Æ ª I 27 04:36 ¡ Æ £ Void S T A R O F T H E W E E K 10:44 ¡ “ OOOOOOOOO 28 02:39 ¡ Æ ¢ ALGENIB gamma Pegasi 9 Ý 19 29 17:43 £ Æ ¤ Notes: A white star situated at the tip of the wing of Pegasus. From Al 18:06 ¡ Ä § Void Janah, the Wing, or Al Janb, the Side. 19:54 ¢ Å ª Influence: Of the nature of Mars and Mercury. It gives notoriety, dishonour, violence, 23:08 ¡ ” misfortune, and denotes the naked and poor professional beggar. 9 30 19:41 10”30 First Quarter With Sun: Mental disturbances, fevers and ill-health, some danger of accidents. 31 23:57 £ Ð ¨ With Moon: Dishonour, loss by scandal, exiled or forced to flee, ill health, trouble through 01 04:21 ¡ Æ ¤ Void writings. 08:37 ¡ • With Mercury: Quick temper, mental disturbances, success in legal and other disputes. 02 08:13 ¡ Ä ¢ With Venus: Generous, proud, quick temper, bad morals, drink or evil habits, favourable for Extracted from AstroAmerica’s Daily financial affairs. Ephemeris, 2000-2020. Get yours! With Mars: Quick mind and body, lying or theft. – from Fixed Stars, by Vivian Robson Astrology Home Newsletter Archive New Astrology Books New Vedic Books New Tarot Decks Top Ten Books Copyright © 2012 by David R. Roell. All rights reserved. Buy the book! Meet the author! Headlines, graphics, book titles & authors are all clickable. So click already! Go places! IVY’S Hellenistic Astrologers can %GEM SAVE THE WORLD

ELLENISTIC astrologers can save on the unwary. Numbers, like religion, are OF the world. No, not me. I’m not a mystical arts and exist outside of science and HHellenist. I’m a medievalist and a always will. gadfly to boot. I came of age in Rhenish- Lacking any other standard, I propose we THE Anglo-Saxon monasteries a thousand years go back to the Greeks. To Plato and Aristo- ago. Places where never a Greek was seen. tle, to Ptolemy and Anaximander, Thales and Enlightenment Science of the last four Pliny the Elder and all the others. Together,

Ivy M. Goldstein-Jacobson 1893-1990 WEEK centuries just doesn’t work. Never really did, they created a coherent philosophy into which but for a long time we had money and engi- all knowledge could be placed. The igno- neering which made it seem as if it was work- rance of the Enlightened was perhaps due to The Distance, by Mileage ing. the wholesale loss of savants and learning in Modern, Enlightened science is no dif- the 30 Years War that preceded it. Which if For a Missing ferent now from what it originally was, which so, would not be surprising. Wars always was whatever a bunch of earnest, well-mean- devastate the educated. Which means the ing people said it was. Modern science is War left a vacuum, which was filled by En- Possession based on consensus, which is to say that if it lightened know-nothings. looks like it’s true and if it appears to make NEVER TRUST SELF-STYLED AUTHORITIES. sense, it’s therefore true and scientific. O find the distance between the I do my best every week to annoy you, just But this produces nothing more than con- querent and his lost possession that so you will not make me an authority. In sensual fads and reminds one of the well- is shown to be away from home, we these newsletters I am merely trying to dem- T worn saying, that science advances one fu- onstrate the dynamics of thinking. Here is take the rulers of the 1st and 2nd and note neral at a time. Real science is based on real the difference in their degree, whether in the standard. It is very hard to live up to. principles, and it is shockingly true that just aspect or not, for the BASIC distance. If From the Secret Doctrine, as quoted by as forgot its ancient prin- the Moon is in a Cardinal Sign, take twice AAB: ciples, so has modern science. that difference; in a Common Sign, take half The Lord Buddha has said that we must Chaos Theory, for example, where an the distance; in a Fixed Sign, take one- not believe in a thing merely because it is Amazonian butterfly’s wings allegedly pro- fourth of that difference: this gives the real said; nor traditions because they have been duce tornadoes in Texas, is flatly contradicted distance and in miles. handed down from antiquity; nor rumors, as by McCormack’s and Zane’s and Riske’s On pg. 160, the ruler of the 1st is Mer- such; nor writings by sages because sages and Pearce’s Astrometeorology which can cury in 2 degrees and the ruler of the 2nd [scientists] wrote them; nor fancies that we predict tornadoes 100 generations in advance happens to be the Moon in 16 degrees, the may suppose to have been inspired in us by a of any insect’s life span. Chaos is a long, difference being 14 for their basic distance. Deva (that is, in presumed spiritual inspira- convoluted theory that has been offered in The Moon is Cardinal, denoting twice 14 tion); nor from inferences drawn from some place of the much simpler, much more pow- for the real distance, or 28 miles away, to haphazard assumption we may have made erful astrology. There are an increasing num- find the car. [e.g., Chaos Theory]; nor because of what ber of scientific theories that are just as bad. If Cancer appears on both the 1st and seems an analogical necessity; nor on the They are not theories, but fads. 2nd cusps, the Moon is considered co-ruler mere authority of our teachers or masters. Science needs an independent standard of the 1st and we find the difference be- But we are to believe when the writing, doc- against which it can be judged. It needs an tween her degree and the degree on the 2nd trine, or saying is corroborated by our own independent referee. Merely saying science for the basic dis- reason and consciousness. “For this,” says is “scientific” is as circular as saying astrol- tance, multiplying he in concluding, “I taught you not to be- ogy is “astrological”. Claiming science to it by 2, ½ or ¼ as lieve merely because you have heard, but be “true” merely begs the question of who before, according when you believe of your consciousness, then decides what “true” is. When science is its to whether the to act accordingly and abundantly.” own judge and jury we get fads and nonsense. Moon is in a Cardi- Over the last few decades western astrol- Some scientists say that science is true nal Sign, a Com- ogy has rediscovered our roots in Hellenis- because it has numbers, but this test fails for mon Sign or a tic, Arabic, Persian and medieval astrologies. two reasons. One, only engineering and its Fixed Sign. — Increasingly it appears this discovery is per- permutations have numbers at all. (Biology Simplified Horary manent, that there are enough books that have has none, for example.) The other is that, as Astrology, 1960 been translated and published. Hellenistic Happy Spring! every mathematician knows, numbers are astrologers themselves still leave a lot to be Marilyn funny things and can play all manner of tricks (continued, page 4)

Copyright © 2012 by David R. Roell. All rights reserved. HSTUDENT’S CORNERH Like what you read? These are excerpts. Get the complete books from: H www.AstroAmerica.com This is a serialization of Vivian Robson’s Time and Order toll-free: 1-800-475-2272 masterpiece, A Student’s Text-Book of Astrology. It is now in print. Distance Is Part 87: from , Love & Marriage by Derek Appleby This HE Moon is the principle agent in Effects of the signs and of planets contained timing. The length of time that will You? therein, continued:— pass before a thing demanded will TAURUS. Extreme love nature; lustful; often T o o occur is calculated according to the quality 0 –10 Scorpio rising marries money; often two marriages, the first of the house and sign occupied by the Moon, The Scorpio decanate early and hasty, and the second happy. Saturn, and the number of degrees distant she is from love troubles, death of partner or financial an aspect with the significator of the ques- Appearance of the trouble. Jupiter, chaste and mystical partner, first decanate:

STUDENT’S CORNER ited. Each degree of lunar motion equates happy marriage. Mars, early love affairs, tragic with a day, week, month or year, according Scorpio people can be both or unfortunate marriage, ruled by partner, harm to the following table which is known as — thick-set and short, or tall, to or from women. Venus, strong feelings, ‘The generally Accepted Measure of Time’. lithe and attenuated. Like voluptuous, physical attractions. Mercury, The Moon in a cardinal sign and angu- other fixed signs (Taurus, trouble through women. Moon, intrigues. and ), they are HHH lar house: Days. In a succeedent house: . Fickle; nonmoral; sex complications Weeks. In a cadent house: Months. rather long in the body. The and dual love affairs; fairly late marriage. Sat- The Moon in a common sign and an- features of this decan are urn, marriage to a foreigner or abroad. Jupi- gular house: Weeks. In a succeedent house: often aquiline, the brows are ter, marries relative. Mars, several love affairs Months. In a cadent house: Years. prominent and the eyes in- often at once, partner religious or a relative. The Moon in a fixed sign and angular tense in their gaze, the Venus, dual love affairs or marriage, peculiar, house: Months. In a succeedent house: Years. mouth close-set, the chin intrigues necessitated by home life. Moon, In a cadent house: Indeterminable period. full and determined. Joan peculiar marital relations. Thus, if the Moon is in the seventh house Crawford, the film star, has all the grace of CANCER. Very sentimental; rather fickle, but (angular) and Taurus (fixed) each degree of the finer Scorpio type, while Mussolini com- exact faithfulness from others; rarely happy her motion is equal to one month. If she is bines the facial characteristics of the first de- in marriage. Saturn, grief through love, part- in the eighth house (succeedent) and Scorpio canate with the thicker body formation of the ner rises by industry. Jupiter, social success (fixed), each degree of her motion is equal to Pisces decanate, being ten degrees Scorpio by marriage. Mars, scandal by marriage, dis- one year. If the Moon is in the 9th house (ca- rising (a Solar number). contented partner. Venus, fickle, secret love dent) and Leo (fixed), it is not possible to cal- The first decanate is ruled by Mars. The affairs, marriage abroad or to a foreigner, or culate the length of time involved. character is daring, strong-willed, energetic STUDENT’S CORNER union while travelling, danger of separation When will I get a council flat? The quer- and forceful, capable of considerable endur- or divorce. Sun, unfavourable for marriage ent occupied private rental accommodations ance and sustained effort. This applies to if a woman. in north-west London; it was expensive and advanced types. The unadvanced are deceit- LEO. Intense love nature; very rarely happy conditions were very bad. She was on the ful and treacherous, having no control over marriage; often marry for children. Saturn, their desires. The body thus suffers through

HHH waiting list for a council flat but had no im- disregards pleasure, marries friend, some- mediate hope of getting one. In a fit of des- excess. There is considerable ability for self- times two marriages. Jupiter, marries influ- peration she posed the above question. ~~ dramatization and many born under this sign ential or rich friend. Mars, secret alliances, The Moon is fixed and succeedent, which love to create an air of mystery around them- ardent affections returned by partner. Sun, equals one degree per year, so 21 minutes of selves. The mind is both brusque and critical often unhappy marriage. Venus, ardent, jeal- arc = 4.2 months, and so I judged. In the first and disinclined to flatter others. ous, marries friend, sometimes believes in part of November the same year the querent — Man & the Zodiac, by David Anrias. free love. —A Student’s Text-Book of As- was offered and accepted a newly built coun- March 31: trology, 1922 cil flat, about 4.5 months — pretty good tim- 1889–Eiffel Tower inaugurated ing! — Horary Astrology, by Derek Appleby. 1918–Daylight time starts in US STUDENT’S CORNER H desired. Many of them are using Hellenistic detail to support their underlying astro-psy- Spring Equinox 2012 chology viewpoints, but if the medieval/Hel- March 20, 2012 lenistic revival continues into the next gen- 1:15 am EDT eration, astropsychobabble will fade of its Washington, DC own accord. Placidus houses With the addition of a reasonably coher- Mean node ent theory underneath it, astrology is now strong enough to regain its place as the domi- nant discipline in the world. My theory of an Earth-based resonant crystal, combined with George McCormack’s Long Range Weather Forecasting, will connect tightly to Chinese Feng Shui. It will also connect to sacred geometry in general. We have in our hands a most startling and powerful syn- thesis. Old and new. Earth and sky. So we, well, I suppose, I, have created a new world. Presuming I can give it a proper birth, it must eventually come to dominate the world as a whole. But this leaves west- ern science adrift as a loose cannon. They are smug and self-confident and completely unaware and have become a danger and a nuisance, not only to astrologers, but to the world as a whole. Modern medicine, for example, maims, cripples and kills many thousands every year. Not only is it deadly, This is where Hellenistic Astrologers can T the moment, both Mercury and it’s also expensive. It’s bankrupting the coun- help. Modern Hellenists are rapidly reviv- Mars are retrograde. Are retro- try and it is only a matter of time before it ing, restoring and, most importantly, compre- Agrades a good time to introduce this? bankrupts all others. hending the essential concepts that underlie Yes, they are. In my past life work over the It is not enough to ignore science and Greek thought. Ever since Greek philoso- years, my best results are always when Mer- hope it goes away. There needs to be some phy was abandoned four centuries ago, mod- cury is retrograde. Mercury retrograde looks way to bring it under control, like it or not. ern Greek and classical studies have been backwards naturally. It finds old errors and To reform it. Medicine especially must be meaningless because astrology, its essential fixes them. Mercury retrograde is when we reformed. component, has been lacking. Bringing as- can go back to the past. I’ve come to look Expanding on my notes from last week, trology back will vivify Greek thought as a forwards to the backwards. how modern “science” is a one-sided city whole. Astrology is the missing link. view of the world at the expense of the coun- This past week, J. Lee Lehman’s new AST week Comcast bounced 180 of tryside, not only did the ages of Enlighten- book, Traditional ar- you, for which, my apologies. If you ment and Reason favor one group of people rived. As a medical astrology text, I did not Ldid not see last week’s newsletter, it’s over another, the newly Enlightened scien- much care for it. Lehman is rambling, de- here. I thought it was something to do with tists also cut themselves off from their own lightfully biased towards modern material- Comcast’s spamcop, but, tracking them down roots. This was from pride, from ego, it was ism, revels in unneeded Hellenistic detail, and and asking, they say it wasn’t them. Which foolish, it was a sin in the strict definition of writes in astro-psychobabble. presumably means it was something in the the term, in that it was willful and deliberate But what caught my eye was Lehman’s email itself. Is Comcast reading your email? and clearly wrong. very real understanding of Greek philosophy. Why did Enlightened scientists cut them- Greek thought, Greek cosmology, is real and selves off in this way? The Greek and Ro- alive to Lehman, who understands it in a way man foundations had served it well for nearly that Wiki’s encyclopedists simply do not. two thousand years. Could it be that the 30 As Lehman knows, medicine is a good Years War was a replay of the end of the place to start. The Greek concept of astrol- Roman Empire, where the Greco-Roman oral ogy and medicine, the humours, the tempera- tradition was lost? If so, then while transla- ments, the elements, decumbitures, carried tions of old books are a good start, it’s time through into the late medieval period, using to, once again, bring back the oral tradition. Blagrave’s planetary hour herb harvesting In preparation for writing these notes I techniques, results in medicine that is clearly consulted Wikipedia on the ancient Greeks superior to what you will find at your local and their science. What I read was a crude hospital. parody of Greek thought. Be bold! Reclaim the power. Copyright © 2012 by David R. Roell. All rights reserved. and Scorpio on the cusps, which are the 5th and 12th. Since these houses are not angular and as Mars is not angular and as Virgo is not cardinal, the best Mars can do is be sub- ordinate to the angular rulers, which are Ju- piter and Mercury. Mars is square to the nodes, which is not significant as there is no eclipse in sight. Mars is widely square to the Ascendant/Descendant, which, given Mars’ relatively weak state, is not significant. With mutable signs on the angles, with the chart ruler obscurely placed and self-sat- isfied, with the other angular ruler retrograde, this is a feckless chart, with one exception: Set the chart in New York and the MC/IC axis becomes 3O Libra/Aries. It shifts the chart rulers from Jupiter and Mercury, to Ju- piter Venus/Mars, with Jupiter and Venus conjunct and Mars in trine to both. New York will have a very different year. A more orga- nized one. In sum, Sun and Mercury are conjunct in Aries, which is brash, hard speech. Mercury retrograde, talk is backwards, speech circu- lar. Sun in the 4th favors landed interests and the Republicans to some extent. cCormack says when Sun and Mercury are conjunct in the Mspring equinox, and Mercury is retrograde, the weather will be “rain and strong winds. Retrograde Mercury, wind and gales.” Note also the Neptune-Mars opposi- tion, from 3rd to 9th. This is a marker for tornadoes. Storms with tornadoes will form about as far west as Amarillo, TX and then move east. Wanna know if you’re going to get hit? Set charts for the lunar quarters for your locale and then check what planets are on the 4th and 10th house cusps. A planet on the 4th sends weather to the north. A planet on the 10th sends weather south. If you get planets in either one, that’s your weather for the week, good or bad. So far as April 2012 is concerned, you don’t want to find Pisces or Virgo on the MC or IC. For May weather, set the chart for the Sun’s ingress into Taurus, etc. Politically, the Equinox Moon and Nep- tune are one degree apart in Pisces. This is fogs and dreams and illusions and lies and deceits all mixed together in a general swirl, interrupted every now and then by thunder- ous religious sermons — Mars opposed from the 9th. 2012 is an election year. This chart says that nothing will be resolved, that the gen- eral muddle will continue unchanged. My guess is that protests will fail to attract a fol- lowing.