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January 24, 2012 ARCHIVE — Subscribe/Unsubscribe Email [email protected] Newt wins nice summary of . With both Dykes’ medieval texts, and Brennan’s ASTROASTRO South Carolina Hellenistic approach, we are asked to learn A to Z a great many techniques but the result is only MED O NOT underestimate the power of a a slight improvement on what we could do MEDFROM C.E.O. CARTER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA Dfull moon with a mission (- twenty years ago. Sag). This is Newt’s last hurrah and he This is in large part because the people Mental Deficiency. The fundamental knows it. Saturday’s win has put a taste of at the forefront of these movements are ei- indication is Saturnian affliction to the victory in the man’s mouth. He will be the ther traditional psychological astrologers 3rd either by his being posited next president or will destroy the Republi- (either directly, or their teachers) or are uni- therein, his being in affliction with its can party if he is denied. There was record versity professors rather than actual astrolo- ruler, his afflicting it by cuspal opposi- turnout on Saturday, so I got that one wrong. gers. So, on the one hand, Chris Brennan has tion, or by Saturn’s sign being on the And the daffodils, which were 2½ inches, a largely aspect-dominated astrology (which cusp. Very often there is an additional are still 2½ inches, only now with ice. seems to date from Charles Carter’s 1930 affliction by one or more of the other Hellenists masterpiece, The Astrological Aspects), on malefics, but it is to be observed that the the other, Benjamin Dykes gives us a strictly Moon and Mercury are by no means al- Medievalists academic approach, which, quite by accident, ways afflicted; in some cases they are ITH the arrival of Ben Dykes’ The is heavily larded with academic politics. strong. The same may be said of the Sun WBook of the Nine Judges, and Chris Properly used, houses, signs, planets, and the ascendant. Venus is very fre- Brennan’s article on Hellenistic astrology in dispositors and rulers produce such an amaz- quently in square to Mars or Saturn, and the new issue of the Mountain Astrologer, ing and powerful amount of detail that I can- the watery triplicity is nearly always I’m starting to wonder if the revivalist move- not understand why I would need to fuss connected with the 3rd house by sign or ment has not peaked. Prof. Dykes has given with either the medieval or the Hellenistic planet. The 22O of mutables, as in In- us a translation of a translation that was not approach. Virtually every serious book pub- sanity, is often involved in affliction. very well done the first time, and Ben re- lished in the last 300 years has the essence Numerous examples are given in Mod- grettably did not take the opportunity to of this system already laid out, but the books ern Astrology, July 1915, from which we improve things. Mr. Brennan has given us a that teach how to use it are few: Patti Tobin may select three: 6:00 pm, October 18, 4 Brittian’s Planetary Powers is brilliant. 1906, Bolton. Jupiter is conjunct Nep- 2012 MAYNARD CALENDARS Hamaker-Zondag’s House Connection is tune on the cusp 3rd opposite Uranus; Time is running out! Click here to order. okay, if dated. Morin’s Book 21 will intro- Mars is in 22O semi-square Moon duce you to his system. I should be lectur- and Mercury. Venus square Saturn ex- ALMANACKing at UAC, but that will not happen, as there act. — An Encyclopaedia of Psycho- for the week (all times GMT) logical Astrology Notes are somethings my full moon cannot do. 24 00:55 ¥ SR 09:23 ¢ Ï ª I OOO 25 08:34 ¡  © Void I 09:12 ¡ œ S T A R O F T H E W E E K 26 13:13 ¡  ¤ OOOOOOOOO 27 04:53 ¡ à ¥ Void GIEDDI alpha Capricorni 3 ç 56 09:20 £ Å § Notes: A multiple star, yellow, ash and lilac, situated on the south horn 18:12 £ › of the Goat. Symbolically called the Slain Kid 18:29 ¡ ‘ Influence: According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of Venus and Mars. It gives benefi- 28 04:42 ¤ Ð ¥ cence, sacrifice and offering. 10:01 ¡ Æ ¢ With Sun: Peculiar events, unexpected losses and gains, sometimes great good fortune. 18:26 £ Æ ¨ With Moon: Peculiar and unexpected events, eccentric, public criticism, new and influen- 29 04:08 £ Å ¦ tial friends, valuable gifts, love of respectable women but difficulties and sometimes pla- 30 06:09 ¡ Æ © Void tonic marriage. 06:29¡ ’ With Mercury: Romantic, psychic, vacillating, bad for gain, many love affairs some of Extracted from AstroAmerica’s Daily which cause notoriety, may elope with married person. Ephemeris, 2000-2020. Get yours! With Venus: Many strange and unexpected events.– . .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 Whole Sign Houses % GEM HERE were a number of requests to Second method: But if you don’t like expand on my notes last week on the first method, Valens has others. His next Twhole sign houses. On Friday the method is to take the Sun’s degree position OF Mountain Astrologer for February/March and add to it the rising time of the sign the arrived and in it I found an article by the in- Sun is in. Rising times are essentially Al- estimable Chris Brennan on Hellenistic As- cabitius houses. The system was invented, THE trology, including notes on the Hellenistic use not by the Arabs, as you might have been of whole sign houses. told, but by Hypsicles (ca 190 BC – ca 120 The primary difference between my ap- BC) who divided the day into 360 equal parts, proach, and that of Chris, is that he has read where each part was equal to four minutes of Ivy M. Goldstein-Jacobson 1893-1990 WEEK and studied and seeks to apply what he has clock time. Why does Valens not use this as learned. Whereas I skim books and invari- a house system? Presumably because he had ably fall asleep in class. To compensate, I not a number system that would let him. The make things up and then try them out to see various Greek number systems were little The TYPE if they work. There are disadvantages to both more than hash marks. Roman numbers were of these systems, as we will quickly learn. already an improvement. But I have di- “Whole sign houses” is a Hellenistic term gressed. of aspect and we will therefore start with the Hellenis- Anyway, my rising time for at tic definition: We take the degree of the as- klima 4 (my latitude of birth, expressed in The square, semisquare & sesquare cendant and apply it to all the other house Ptolemaic notation) is 22:00. (These are four cusps. Isn’t this the same as Equal houses, minute units. The actual rising time is 88 HESE are PHYSICAL aspects in you ask? Not exactly. Equal houses start minutes.) Add 21 for the Sun to get 43. which the native’s reaction in time with the degree on the cusp, and continue to Count off from the Moon in and I get Tof trouble either makes or breaks. the degree of the next cusp. Aquarius rising. Which is to say, a sunrise He goes to extremes of effort, spends too Whole sign houses start with 0O and con- birth. But no exact degree. much time or energy or money of his own tinue to 30O. The degree on the cusp is merely Method no. 3, find the number of days volition, running the danger of causing re- an interesting artifact. The exact degree on from August 30, the Egyptian New Year, to sentment or alienation or exile. There is the ascendant is a sensitive point, but that the day of birth (never mind what that num- always some loss attached according to the seems to be about as much as the Hellenists ber is). Multiply the hour of birth (7, in my houses involved and only a good accompa- mess with cusps per se. case, counting from sunrise, not midnight) nying aspect or a mutual reception can miti- Since the ascendant is going to be impor- by 15 and add this to the number of days. gate the severity and see the native home tant, the first thing we need to do is not grab Count from Virgo, giving 30 to each sign. safe. At such time he should bend every our existing ascending degree and slap it This results in . effort, count the cost, and speak softly. ‘round the chart, but instead use Hellenistic Fourth method, for the “mystical, com- The sextile and semisextile techniques to find out what our proper as- pelling ascendant”: Multiply the hour of birth HESE are MENTAL aspects, each in- cendant should be. And while the Hellenis- by 15 (7 x 15 = 105), add the degree of the Tvolving common-sense recognition of tic ascendant should be the same as the mod- Sun (21) to get (126). Divide this by the ris- a prevailing situation or condition, espe- ern ascendant, I don’t think we should over- ing time of the Sun’s sign at the klima of birth cially as viewed from the standpoint of a look this step. If the two do not match, we (22), count the result from the Sun’s sign to disinterested third person able to accept re- have an obvious problem. get 5.75 signs from Aquarius. Which is late ality. Such an activating planet’s aspect is I am not in possession of a comprehen- rising. Conception will have occurred usually good, bringing a time of available sive survey of Hellenistic methods for deter- in the hour of the sign opposite, which in my opportunities in life; all the better if the ac- mining the ascendant, but I do have my nearly case would be . companying aspects are also good to de- finished version of Valens to hand. From the Fifth method, to get an exact degree: note gain; if bad, expect some difficulty. First Book: Multiply the hour of birth by the motion of You should acknowledge and evaluate the Book 1, Chapter 4, Valens says to take the Moon, and then for a day birth, count from current state of affairs at such a time and the Sun’s degree position, note where its the Sun’s position. On the day of my birth, not go off into the deep end if the ever-so- dodekatemorion falls. The sign in trine to the Moon travelled 11O56’, which is to say rosy opportunity also has drawbacks. the left will be the Ascendant. My Sun is at 12 degrees. Twelve times 7, the hour of my The trine 21ç and I am a day birth. The Dodecatemo- birth, gives 84. 84 + 21ç gives 12 Þ rising. HE trine is a BIRTHRIGHT aspect ria is 3 ä. This is actually quite close to At last, a number! Tgranting ease and success in accom- Valens’ own example, Sun at 22ç. There- Sixth method, for day births, such as plishing what the activating planet signifies. fore a day birth will have , or Taurus mine: Add the remaining degrees in the Sun’s — The Way of Astrology, 1967 or Cancer as the ascendant. There is no men- sign (9) to the Moon’s position (139), then tion of an exact degree ascending. (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 Order toll-free: 1-800-475-2272 masterpiece, A Student’s Text-Book of Astrology. It is now in print. Aquarius Part 76: from Book 8 of Is Matheseos Libri VIII Friends and Ancient Astrology Theory and Practice This by Julius Firmicus Maternus Enemies HOEVER has the ascendant in You? the first degree of Aquarius will Aphorisms 20o–30o Leo rising Wbe a king—great, famous, long- The following are aphorisms dealing with lived, possessing the entire earth, if Jupiter The friendship and enmity:— and Saturn are found in that degree, or if they decanate Friends. 1. Ruler of the ascendant in the 12th aspect the ascendant in trine, and if the Moon Appearance of the third STUDENT’S CORNER causes solitary life. is well located. The greatest powers are in- decanate: 2. Ruler of ascendant in 11th or aspecting its dicated for him over a period of time, but he In the drawing here de- lord gives many friends. will die in water. Whoever has the ascen- picting this decanate we 3. Planets in 11th in good aspect to ascen- dant in the second degree of Aquarius will have an extreme Aries dant, its ruler, Sun or Moon give faithful have a skill which has to do with painting or

HHH type. Note the formation friends. ornamentation; he will die leaving sons. of the brow, nose, back 4. Jupiter, Venus, or north node dignified in Whoever has the ascendant in the third and legs. There are fine 11th gives constant eminent friends, but if degree of Aquarius will be great and power- types of both sexes born debilitated, poor or unfortunate friends. ful and possess much land if Jupiter is in that under this decan, although 5. Sun, Moon, Mercury and the Part of For- degree or in any aspect to the ascendant. But they are usually small and tune in 11th denote many faithful friends, but he will lose his possessions and gain great in- slight. King Charles I of if afflicted few false and treacherous ones. come through his own efforts. He will make England was born with 6. Lord of 11th separating from lord of as- war on his own people and be guilty of every the last degrees of Leo ris- cendant denote few friends and disagree- crime of cruelty, rejoicing in the slaughter of ing, containing Neptune ments with them. many men. He will have sons from a slave close to the cusp of the ascendant; this weak- 7. Cardinal signs on 11th or its lord in a car- woman but will lose them at an early age. ened his will and increased the physical sen- dinal sign denote ambitious friends who may He will never be sad but will be gener- sitiveness to surrounding conditions. It also prove to be treacherous; fixed signs, faithful ally disliked, and will alienate everyone so gave him strong aesthetic tastes. friends; and mutable signs, fickle and incon- that all his friends will avoid him. He will The Aries decanate of Leo is ruled by stant friends. be gluttonous, eat too much, and hold much Mars. This combination gives a strong will

STUDENT’S CORNER 8. Lord of ascendant in any sign in good as- land. In the process of time he will obtain and much drive, there being the latent ability pect to lord of 11th in fixed sign gives faith- high position. But when he has entered the to rule over others. The disposition is frank ful friends. The same occurs when Moon is threshold of old age he will cultivate his land and open, fond of hazardous enterprises in good aspect to lord of 11th; if Moon or with a weakened body. Whoever has the as- abroad. In the advanced types the head may lord of 11th is in a mutable sign, friends do cendant in the fourth degree of Aquarius will enlighten the heart through flashes of intu- HHH not often fail the native, if in cardinal signs be just, a worshipper of the gods, a judge hand- ition, which raise the emotions to a higher they promise more than they perform, but if ing down decision on the opinions of others. plane. — Man & the , by David badly aspected friends are few. But he will die a violent death. Anrias. 9. Lord of 10th separating by retrogradation Whoever has the ascendant in the fifth from lord of ascendant or 11th, friends, if any, degree of Aquarius will hang himself. In January 27: will be poor, and rich people dislike the na- the sixth he will have a wretched life draw- 98–Trajan becomes Emperor tive. —A Student’s Text-Book of Astrol- ing water. He will become a well-known 1756–Mozart born, lives 3 months ogy, 1922 athlete . . . . [The seventh degree of Aquarius 1888–National Geographic founded is missing.] — Ancient Astrology. 1944–Siege of Lenningrad lifted 1967–Apollo 1 spacecraft fire STUDENT’S CORNER H divide by 30. The remainder (remember re- which I think to be the case, then the delin- Rosicrucian, in fact), turn to the pages fea- mainders?) will be the degree rising. Which eation and forecasting methods based on it turing the latitude of birth, and find the line(s) in my case is 28. Presumably of Taurus, since will be whimsical at best. From this and that put the planets in the houses where I that keeps coming up. other study of Valens, I have concluded that wanted them. This always worked. I did Seventh And Final Method: Count Hellenistic astrology was in fact a work in not think anything about it. from July 19 (Epiphi 25) to the day of birth, progress. Not a perfected system. Which, At the time I worked for the New York then add 22. Starting at Cancer (for a day by the way, was the medieval opinion. To Astrology Center and at the time everyone birth), count off by 30. The ascendant will medieval astrologers, the Greeks were an was crazy for Koch houses. Which had been be where the count stops. The remainder will open book. Not a new and exciting discov- invented a dozen years earlier by Dr. Walter be the degree rising. This gives me 18æ ris- ery, which the Greeks are to us. Koch, of Germany. He claimed his system ing. At a later point in Valens (I’ve not yet was the only “true birthplace” system, which Humble reader, I in fact have 14 degrees indexed the book, so cannot quite find it), meant that if you weren’t using Koch, you of Gemini rising. A sign that Valens never he proposes trisecting the arc between MC weren’t getting German precision, and we once produced. and ascendant. Which are Porphyry houses. all know how precise the Germans can be. Caveat: Valens talks of sundials and the Pure and simple they are. So one fine day I had put all the planets gnomon of the sundial. The gnomon is the For his part, Brennan does not mention in the houses where I wanted them to be, had upright part that casts a shadow. One easy the midheaven, presumably because he thinks carefully noted their zodiacal positions, and technique that Valens did not give, perhaps the Hellenists did not use it. In his TMA ar- then, for the first time, turned to a Koch table because there was no need, was, for day ticle he mention Valens by name, so the omis- of houses to find the “real” cusps. births, to note the hour of birth and then read sion of the Valens’ MC is curious. I looked and looked, but to my surprise, off the ascendant directly from a weekly table UT as I say, I’m too lazy to stay there was no entry, there was no line, that of shadows. awake in class, so I have to go about put the planets where I wanted them. It was Yes. A common sundial and a simple Binventing the wheel for my own sake. not there. It was at that moment that I real- table will give the ascending degree for a day Hellenists and Westerners in general have ized that houses were not trivial affairs, that, birth without any calculation whatever. always said the Indian civilization was bor- whatever they were, there was “real stuff” Which means the great Egyptian obelisks rowed from the west. India, for its part, has going on with them. I closed the Koch book, were in fact sundials. As their shadows were always disagreed, admitting that while they I have not been back since. very long, they would have been extremely do indeed compulsively borrow, their civili- Koch cusps in fact are sensitive to com- precise timekeepers and should have easily zation is their own. In the analysis of Helle- mon transits. The intermediate cusps, that given the ascendant to the exact degree. nistic methods of calculation we have testi- is. Koch angles are exactly the same as Placi- Sunny climate, too. This would have been mony to support the Indians. Traditional Hel- dus. Indeed, virtually all quadrant systems invaluable for horary work, but again I di- lenistic calculations, as given by Valens, do (Regiomontanus, Campanus, Topocentric, gress. Open at dawn, close at sunset. not work, whereas, traditional Vedic calcu- Porphyry, Placidus, Koch, etc.) give exactly Despite Valens’ failure to find my cor- lations do. So who copied who? Charts that the same angles. All the fuss is about the rect ascending sign (never mind the degree), lack midheavens are valid in equatorial 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th his method for finding the midheaven was climes, such as that of India, where the MC cusps. much simpler. is rarely more than a few degrees from ex- So the first clue was that Koch could not Add the rising times from the sign on the actly square to the ascendant. But this is not be used for delineation, only transits. As tran- descendant, to the sign on the ascendant, and the case at Alexandria (32ON), where the MC sits to house cusps were trivial, I set Koch divide by two. Since the consensus is that I can wander quite a lot from where it should aside. Placidus cusps had value. have Taurus rising, if I give myself a puta- be. The problem is even worse in the Crimea The next question had to do with planets tive 15Þ rising, then at klima 4 (38 N lati- (Sebastopol: 44ON) where I believe Vettius which were not in the same sign as that on tude), the rising time from the 7th house cusp, Valens actually lived and worked. Which is the cusp itself. Working this out led me to 15 ä to the ascendant at 15Þ is 145:20. Half why he, and northern Europeans in general, whole sign houses (the topic under discus- of this is 72:40. Adding 72:40 to 15 ä (215), found midheavens to be important, and why sion this week), but there are a number of I get 23æ40 as the MC. Using the com- the latter invented so many ways of dividing kinks. puter, I get 28æ. Using this same method the arc between MC and ascendant. First, we have to realize that signs are real with my actual ascendant, 14ß, I get 23ç40. Forgive me, but I will now set modern things. Not wispy, vague or ephemeral. It is My actual MC is 22ç. Which, given the Hellenistic fantasies aside and show you commonly held that a planet 5 degrees out- amount of fudging involved (klima 4 runs some interesting things about houses, as I use side a house is to be considered as actually from 36 to 41O) the Valens method of calcu- them. in the house, but it seemed to me that if the lating the midheaven (he only gives one USE Placidus houses because, well, ev- signs did not match, the planet could not method) is NOT BAD. I was impressed! eryone uses Placidus. Soon after I “jump into” a house of a different sign. It was for this reason I said that Andrea Istarted studying astrology in the mid- Which automatically meant that a planet Gehrz’s translation of the first book of 1980’s, I was stuck with the charts of friends in the same sign as the cusp, but further out- Valens was what you were expecting. Mod- who had no birth time. In frustration I would side than 5O, was probably in that house as ern Hellenists don’t think ancient calcula- try to guess the houses where I thought their well. This problem, of a planet outside a tions are important and so have ignored planets would be. I would spend several house, in a sign that was, or was not, the same them. In fact, they are critical. If the Greeks hours fussing about, this way and that, and as the cusp itself, could only be resolved by could not actually calculate an ascendant, would then go to my tables of houses (the whole sign houses. All planets in the same

Copyright © 2012 by David R. Roell. All rights reserved. sign were in the house with that sign on the mental trick I taught myself in the 8th grade: Cadent houses (3, 6, 9, 12) are different cusp. Sound simple? It isn’t. That I could put questions to myself, wait, from the others. They are larger, for one What about 28 degrees on, say, the 5th and suddenly there would be an answer. thing, as they start several degrees in advance house cusp, with Mercury at 4 degrees of the That, when I was a teenager, I could argue of their cusps, and extent right up to the angle next sign? With our rectification system logic in completely contradictory directions. that follows. we’ve already established the Placidus cusp That, at the age of 18, in frustration, I gave Cadent houses customarily respond to not as being the right one (Koch is never that far up logic and went to stream of conscious- one, but to two different signs. If both signs off, but it clearly does not work), so that ness. Which, today, is all I know. As a result are empty of planets, the sign on the cusp means Mercury is in the 6th? I have long been of the opinion that I can rules, by means of the sign and house of But the actual 6th house cusp, at, say, 25 know anything merely by thinking about it. planet that owns it. If there are planets in the degrees, is a long way away. And in these And finally it came to me: I had a Sun- same sign as the cusp, then traditional dis- cases, the native does not act as if his Mer- Moon polarity, not in 10 and 4, but 9 and 3. positor rules apply. cury is in the 6th. He acts very much as if I looked again at my birth time, 12:32 pm. If there are planets in the “left over” sec- his Mercury really was in the 5th, even if What if there was a transcription error? What tion of the next sign, those planets, by defi- whole sign houses said no. if the doctor wrote “12:52”, but the clerk who nition, are stranded. They are like a “sur- So I made a fudge. I said, look, the house transcribed his notes and filed the birth cer- prise”. I am of the opinion that such planets is like a 100 yard sprint. At the start line (the tificate wrote “12:32” instead? Mistook a 5 act out. Here I am thinking of Michel cusp) there is the blue team and things to do. for a 3? I can’t tell my wife’s 5’s from her Gauquelin’s work. From 30 years ago, he At the finish (the next house cusp) there is 3’s. discovered great planetary strength, not in the the red team. For whatever reason you, a So I advanced the chart by 20 minutes 1st and 10th, which would be expected, but red team member, have found yourself stand- and to my astonishment, I found the Sun, in the 12th and 9, where it was not expected. ing on the blue 10 yard line. Do you run, Moon and Pluto had all nudged back, ever With few exceptions, planets in the Gauque- run, run a long way to that distant cusp, or so slightly, into 9 and 3. lin sectors would be in the same sign as that do you wander over to the blue team? Ever so slightly. Excitedly, I ran progres- of the ascendant. Stranded planets act out, Before you insist on purity, that a house sions and for the first time I got a real result. encouraged, I suspect, by the fact that, al- can be mostly in front of the cusp, rather than I quickly established a birth time of 12:47 though there is no “house” backside, there is behind it, based entirely on the Placidus cusp, pm. a non-specific energy that powers them. consider the angles. What are the numbers? Correcting for a We look for analogies to angles and find As it happens, I was born with Sun op- simple 20 minute transcription error, at 12:52 them in the obelisk. The ascendant is the posite Moon, Moon conjunct Pluto, Pluto pm the MC is 23ç28. Moving backwards 5 moment before shadows begin. The descen- tightly opposed to the Sun. When my chart minutes gives a final rectified MC of 22ç11 dant is the last moment that has shadows. At was first calculated I was delighted to see at 12:47 pm. The Sun is 20ç59. One de- the midheaven, first we have shadows on one that my Sun and Moon were in fact smack gree, 12 minutes shy of exactly conjunct the side, and then in the next instant, we have on the MC/IC axis, a rare thing and obvi- MC. Yet the strongest planet in the chart, at shadows on the other. The transition, from ously Important and Powerful. I felt privi- the second strongest point, do not connect. no light, to light, from light to no light, from leged. Nothing excites me more than puzzling sun on one side, to sun on the other, is in- But I could not make the delineations out something entirely new. I have set my- stantaneous. The angles are times and places work. Sun in 10, I’m supposed to shine, but, self challenges, such as finding the cause of of transformation, of magic itself. actually, I don’t. Well, maybe Sun in Mozart’s death, or how astrology works, and HERE is one further detail: Inter- Aquarius in 10 wants to defer to others and found innovative and novel solutions. This cepted signs. Crudely speaking, in- make them shine. Wouldn’t that make me is THREE and NINE. NINE and THREE. Tterceptions happen to those born an ideal master of ceremonies, introducing Four and ten, I would be at UAC in May, north (or south) of the tropics, when the mid- others and letting them shine? Well, yes, ex- I would promote myself ruthlessly, but as I heaven and ascendant are far from 90 degrees cept that, well, I don’t. Go read the poison- have not a trace of Four and Ten in me, I will apart. When they are 70 or 130, two quad- ous reviews I write. never be there. In fact I will never be asked, rants are huge, two are tiny and in the huge Moon in 4, conjunct Pluto as well, I’m for I am a 9th house ideologue who has ones we will find signs entirely swallowed going to kick my family’s ass and make burned his 10th house britches. Believe me, up in one house or another. something of them. Family is important! if my Sun was in 10, if my Moon were in 4, Going a long ways back in this essay, if a Family is essential! And by the way my old burnt britches could not stop me. In puz- house cusp illuminates and defines the sign man (4th house is daddy) was a Terror! zling out my own chart, I was shocked to which is on that cusp, then a sign that lacks a Except that none of that was true. My learn the full strength of the Sun and Moon. house cusp has no direct way of expressing father and I were never close. I have four I have no reason to think planets just shy itself in the chart. It is stranded, like a ship brothers and four sisters, all of whom are still of the ascendant would not produce the same without a rudder, or without a mast, or with- alive, only one of whom I am in contact with. results. Which makes angles unique. It out an anchor. Such a sign is by definition So far as my own family is concerned, I was makes them walls. excluded from directly expressing any of the 48 before the birth of my first (and only) O our whole sign house theory is twelve cusps. If this sign is empty there is child, and 56 before I finally got married. evolving. Sometimes a whole sign is no harm. Property? My first mortgage came in time Sthe whole house, sometimes it’s not. If the intercepted sign has planets in it, for my first child. That isn’t 4th house. It depends. You have to look at the chart and those planets are essentially trapped. They But then I suddenly remembered the little deduce. will be of the house they are in, but they will express it poorly. The house will be known if that planet is rather close to the next cusp, some 200 years, easily outstrips the Nazis in primarily by the sign on the cusp and the sign and that cusp is not an angle, then that planet terms of sheer horror, as the chart I have in and house of its ruler. Not the planets trapped is in the next house. Not the one you think front of me mutely documents. Unlike the inside it. it’s in. As I’ve been reading charts for as- Nazis, who came and were quickly gone, the With planets in the intercepted sign, there trologers, a number of them have strongly two centuries of unending terror of Ameri- will, at the same time, be an entirely differ- disagreed, but the proof is in the delineation. can slavery is still far from finished. The ent way, or method, of dealing with the af- Which side of the cusp a planet is on is mass rape of females, the mass castration of fairs of the house. The relationship between important. Which is to say that those who males, the forced breeding that was slavery these two methods will be shown by the re- use Placidus houses to rectify not only put in America, was one of the greatest crimes lationship between the two rulers, and if there planets in houses, but also exclude planets ever commited on this Earth. It will take cen- is no relationship, no aspect, one does not from houses. Such excluded planets would turies to heal, as its victims reincarnate with rule the other, then the two methods will ex- presumably be “loners”. nightmarish charts, for which they are not ist independently of each other. The native Planets in a house, in the same sign as responsible, and over which they have little is often completely unaware. the cusp of the house, are therefore comfort- control, for that is the very definition of sla- When there are planets “in the forecourt”, able in that house. Whereas, planets that were very, that you have no free will. Modern which is to say, in the last few degrees of the in the same sign as the cusp, but which fell Americans have a unique opportunity to learn sign on the cusp, those planets, and the ruler outside, were “struggling” to get into the and be humble. of the cusp, dominate the house, the inter- house, or “running to get into” the house, etc. In this case, Saturn-Venus conjunct in cepted sign is ignored. It is also clear that this “running” had to do Virgo, intercepted in the 5th are the sickly When both the forecourt, and the inter- with the planet’s direct motion. A retrograde children she was forced to breed and which cepted sign, both have planets in them, the planet falling outside the cusp of the house it she does not admit to be hers, since Leo on resulting relationships can be complex. In was associated with, would obviously not the 5th house cusp will not “see” them. The my opinion, the planets in forecourt have the want to go there. He would be reluctant. He Moon in Pisces intercepted in the 11th house, initial advantage, but over time the planets would shirk his duty. There are lots of de- she disowns them, but, as Venus is debili- trapped inside the interception will come to tails like this. tated, Venus in the 5th, it wants to run across dominate. This will produce problems. Which is why you should have your chart the chart to Pisces to get the Moon’s read by someone other than yourself, some- (mommy’s) attention. Which, literally, is UCH is a sketch of “whole sign one hopefully who is competent and can ac- what children compulsively do: Search for houses”. While the overall concept tually read a chart. You gain a useful per- their mother. So far as the individual her- S is simple, the details can be quite com- spective on yourself that way. self, who asked for my help but who has not plex. Your guide is not a set of rules to be I tell you frankly, I have seen some re- responded, it took some effort to arrive at a memorized and recited, but your own head. ally sad charts. Next week I may bring you simple solution: She wants to be left alone Increasingly I find astrology to be bru- the chart of a reincarnate female slave. In to do her work. With all my heart, I wish her tally literal. If you have a planet in a house her last life she was forced to breed against peace. but not in the same sign as on the cusp, and her will. Slavery in America, which lasted