Astrology as a "Know Yourself" tool

[ulli]

Posted by astrid (here)
Oh and,,,, we have just hit a Mercury Retro phase again too.
From the 2nd to the 26th, if i have my dates right.

I love Mercury retrograde periods...finding them relaxing.
I never understood what people found so upsetting about them...

but as Robert Heinlein wrote- "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."

[Calz]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by astrid (here)
Oh and,,,, we have just hit a Mercury Retro phase again too.
From the 2nd to the 26th, if i have my dates right.

I love Mercury retrograde periods...finding them relaxing.
I never understood what people found so upsetting about them...

but as Robert Heinlein wrote- "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."

That's cuz it cuts down on people asking for readings

[ulli]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by astrid (here)
Oh and,,,, we have just hit a Mercury Retro phase again too.
From the 2nd to the 26th, if i have my dates right.

I love Mercury retrograde periods...finding them relaxing.
I never understood what people found so upsetting about them...

but as Robert Heinlein wrote- "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."

That's cuz it cuts down on people asking for readings

You are too funny, Calz!
They fear they are going to get a crappy one...and rightly so.

[Ernie Nemeth]

For me, the piscean life has been very fulfilling but not very easy in this world. Having known almost all my life that this society is going down the wrong track - and being ostricized for saying so - has left me isolated and alone. But yes, I can party and love it more than anything.

My favorite song changes. Most recently it is Rise Again, by Alterbridge (aka Creed minus lead singer). Of all time? I guess Black Sabbath: War Pigs.

[Calz]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
For me, the piscean life has been very fulfilling but not very easy in this world. Having known almost all my life that this society is going down the wrong track - and being ostricized for saying so - has left me isolated and alone. But yes, I can party and love it more than anything.

My favorite song changes. Most recently it is Rise Again, by Alterbridge (aka Creed minus lead singer). Of all time? I guess Black Sabbath: War Pigs.

Happy you stuck around to hang with the woo woo crowd.

A good bunch actually

Every sign has advantages and lessons (and we have 10 planets + points to spread between them). I do think that most all here at avalon can share in feeling isolated when trying to alert others to what seems obvious but apparently oblivious to many.

You are not alone here ... you are among friends.

I did a little partying back in the day ... in honor of a tune shared by others:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gbxfe7DMxVo

[Carmody]

Believe it or not, I was groovin' to War Pigs when I was..6.5 years old.

My Uncle had one of the first year 'Mach 1' Ford cars. Brand new. I'd sit in it when he visited --and play. Driving the big fast car. Vroom Vroom!

I saw the 8 track tape sticking out of the play deck..and I pushed it in. Lo and behold this sound came out of it.....

[PurpleLama]

*puts in war pigs, takes hair down and proceeds to head-bang until his neck hurts "singing" along*

*ahem*

sorry 'bout that.

[ulli]

Gosh, you are all babies here...I was into Led Zep and to this day I believe Jimmy Page is beyond compare.
May have something to do with the fact that we share the same birthday.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ODidAgdL40Y

[Patrish]

Posted by ulli (here)
Reading for Patrish

You have Ascendant Gemini, unless there was daylight savings time where you were born, which I was unable to verify.
That, combined with your Aries sun in the 11th makes me suspect that you are an active person in your community, a leader, even.

On the whole a well-balanced chart, showing placements of a gentle soul despite the fact that your sun is in a fire sign.
The Libra moon tames your impulses, you are courageous, but also diplomatic.
The issues I see are mainly to do with health and children...maybe you dreamt of having them, but could not,
or at best, they have turned out very spiritual...with Neptune in the 5th, conjunct your moon..in Libra..
Very artistic...I see flowers....arrangements....also writing or drawing.
You use your hands a lot...
Love of nature with that Taurus moon in the 12th, escape to sacred places.
Financially secure, yet with Uranus there as well, there can be sudden upsets, but always quick recovery.
Your Venus is in Pisces, you are self sacrificing and giving, and want to do so in a world changing way. (Venus at the MC)
Saturn in Scorpio can bring health issues, reproduction problems, which is an added factor to Neptune in the 5th.
Currently I see no bad transits, and since you have hardly any hard aspects on the whole a smooth journey.

If I'm off in a big way it's because I am currently hampered by Saturn squaring my natal Jupiter, so please excuse...my vision
no workie well right now.

Many thanks for your reading - I never dreamt of having children and had 5! One of them is a medium. i often say I dont have an artistic body bone in my body - but I love freesias - flowers
i use my hands alot because I roll my own cigs and I love baking .
Glad to know about the smooth journey. many thanks xxx

[Curt]

Hi Ulli,

I sent you my birth information in a private message. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. I've been told I've got a ludicrous amount of Scorpio in my chart. Let's see...

[ulli]

Posted by Patrish (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Reading for Patrish

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Many thanks for your reading - I never dreamt of having children and had 5! One of them is a medium. i often say I dont have an artistic body bone in my body - but I love freesias - flowers
i use my hands alot because I roll my own cigs and I love baking .
Glad to know about the smooth journey. many thanks xxx

So your art was expressed in creating children...this is where it is so tricky to get the Neptune interpretation right.

So many people with Neptune in the 5th never had any....or worse, lost a child, as Neptune is not of this world.

Neptune is also the planet of sacrifice...so that would be one way of seeing this placing correctly.
Moon, (motherhood), next to Neptune, (sacrifice) in the 5th house (children.
I have Venus in the 5th, and people thought I would have a daughter.
But my son is an artist, and Venus rules the arts.

Good example of how tough interpretation is, especially during a retro Mercury.

[modwiz]

Posted by ulli (here)
Gosh, you are all babies here...I was into Led Zep and to this day I believe Jimmy Page is beyond compare.
May have something to do with the fact that we share the same birthday.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ODidAgdL40Y

I agree with you about Jimmy. "grandma".

Thanks for the video, lots of good links after listening.

[ulli]

Modwiz: The thing that makes being a grandma bearable is having actual grandchildren and better still, speculating about their birth charts.
Which for strollogers is as good as it is for those musicians talking about riffs.


Just reminding some of you youngsters here what Jimmy Page was doing in 1957:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j0tAOIQiz-8

[ulli]

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Posted by ulli (here)
Gosh, you are all babies here...I was into Led Zep and to this day I believe Jimmy Page is beyond compare.
May have something to do with the fact that we share the same birthday.

I agree with you about Jimmy. "grandma".

Thanks for the video, lots of good links after listening.

Grandmas like classical music too:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QZXG0fNUUXs

[astrid]

MAN... my mood hit a real dive around sunrise my time yesterday,
I'm trying to work out which transit is the culprit, i'm guessing it's a lunar one.

Also lots of frenetic type energy, but not much of it is useable, feels more
collective actually.

[modwiz]

Posted by ulli (here)
Modwiz: The thing that makes being a grandma bearable is having actual grandchildren and better still, speculating about their birth charts.
Which for strollogers is as good as it is for those musicians talking about riffs.


Just reminding some of you youngsters here what Jimmy Page was doing in 1957:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j0tAOIQiz-8

This video is a gem and even more precious. Thanks again, Ulli.

[Ernie Nemeth]

Ulli,

I thought Saturn was the planet of suffering, well trials and tribulations - that's the key planet in my chart. Neptune is intangibles, other worldly, mystical, incomprehemsible - if I remember right.

Thanks for the tune, Calz. Rock on Purple Lama! (almost said stairway to heaven or funeral for a friend by Elton John)

[ulli]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
Ulli,

I thought Saturn was the planet of suffering, well trials and tribulations - that's the key planet in my chart. Neptune is intangibles, other worldly, mystical, incomprehemsible - if I remember right.

Thanks for the tune, Calz. Rock on Purple Lama! (almost said stairway to heaven or funeral for a friend by Elton John)

Saturn is about restriction and discipline and this causes suffering in a person that wants their own way.

Saturn is also associated with winter, with strict grandfathers (not grandmothers, nudge, nudge...they are moon creatures)

But those limiting conditions, when they come to an inevitable end, are the precurser of fresh energies.

Saturn is the cork on the wine bottle, behind which wine can mature.

When one learns to see things in terms of their wholeness context, then even bad events reveal seeds of goodness.

Everything must pass. When Saturn, Old Father Time, says, now it's time, then he shows his true warmth,

and delights in being fair and just.

Saturn is the grumpy old bloke that no one likes, nor speaks to,

yet find out after he has gone that he was the secret benefactor

that funded the poorest kids education, and no one but a few knew about it.

[ulli]

Posted by astrid (here)
MAN... my mood hit a real dive around sunrise my time yesterday,
I'm trying to work out which transit is the culprit, i'm guessing it's a lunar one.

Also lots of frenetic type energy, but not much of it is useable, feels more
collective actually.

Yesterday Saturn was at 149:58 angle from your natal Saturn...youn can round that one up to 150 degrees exactly.
A 150 angle is called a quincunx, and it gives a short, sharp jab. With Saturn you always feel like you've had a dozen wet blankets thrown on you.

Then there was another biggie: Uranus exactly opposite your sun 180 sharp.
This is no monthly little moon mood, this is heavy load...two very opposite energies, hitting on the same day.
I will send extra energy your way...lots of soothing, calming energy.
Uranus is about shocks, rebellion, resistance...Saturn...well.
I was just talking about Saturn in my previous post.

[astrid]

Wow.... okies, im holding more steady today, yesterday i was really feeling disorientated, thrown off course.
I spend some time in the garden and got some sun which helped a lot to ground me.

I'm feeling more hermit than usual too, i think i need all of my energy for me right now.
Rebellion, yes, i have that whole census issue here to deal with, and i'm standing pretty firm against this.
I was even thinking yesterday that i would go to jail rather than fill out this form,
typical Uranus.

I was listening to a basic astrology course yesterday on mp3, by Robert Hand,
although it was hardly basic, 70% of it went over my head.
He did offer an interesting point though about aspects.
He said that its a good exercise to work out the order of your aspects as they happened, in time.
And that the first ones will be more of an issue, being left over from past lifes, etc..
I thought this an interesting idea, so i took to trying to figure out mine.

So i set to pouring over Ephemeris tables and i have located all of mine down to a few.
Some are proving illusive, i wish there was a search function on these charts

So far my Saturn opp Pluto is the earlier forming aspect i have found.
If that's the oldest then it explains a lot.