A Day at the Races, Synastry, and other bits

I lost one LILLYCOIN (please read the previous e-mail to see what I’m talking about).

Havana Hurricane “showed” (arrived in the first three place: most races have the option of betting on win, on place — arriving in first or second —, or on show — arriving in first, second, or third). But a deal’s a deal, I bet on it winning, and it didn’t.

I cannot think of anything related to either Puerto Rico or Coppul that could make them being signified by the Sun conjunct Mercury. I don’t know if there is any signification for “Coppull”, and “Cop pull” doesn’t sound neither Solar nor Mercurial to me. Ok, I can see a connection between cops and authority (the sun rules the tenth), but… It’s vague.

Maybe there’s another weird aspect that I missed. Maybe there’s another asteroid named “Cop”, or “Rico” or “Puerto Rico” that I don’t know of. Maybe these new aspects are just smoke screen and I should have taken the opposition with Mars (which is more cop-like). I don’t know.

Anyway, 1 down, 49 to go.

I’m using the same racecourse, at the same time, just because I have just finished two classes, I’m tired, and I don’t want to wait too much to sleep, or to go through a lot of races.

Here’s the 9:20 AM race at GoodWood for tomorrow, August the 2nd, 2025.

No normal aspects, but at least the weird one is easy to spot, no calculation involved: The fifth cusp will do an almost immediate quincunx (in 16 minutes of arc) with Mercury.

Mercury rules the eighth, the eleventh, is in Leo, conjunct with (combust by) the Sun, and opposes the Moon by antiscion. Let’s see if any of the horses fit the bill, and if more than one, which one fits it best.

Yes, sometimes life is like that.

Al-aasy, as far as I know, means “the rebel, the disobedient, the sinner”, or Axius (an old name for two rivers). Mercury could be disobedient, and opposes the ruler of the ninth, the Moon. And, combust might fit the bill, but… in a fixed sign dominated by the Sun and combust it? Not sure if that could mean disobedient.

Or maybe I don’t want it because it’s the favorite and pays less :).

Arabian Crown is even worse. OK, the Sun rules the tenth, and it’s the ruler of the tenth, but the aspect is not to him, but to Mercury.

Candleford… ok, “candle” is related to light, and MErcury is connected to both the lights, but the “ford” part escapes me. If “ford” was taken as a verb, and it was BETWEEN the lights, he could be “fording”, but it’s not.

“Meydann”. I found a perfume with this name, and meydan is a persian term for “square”, “public part”. Not related.

Ambiente Friendly… just no.

Raja Raja… Rajah is king, “king king” doesn’t make sense for Mercury.

It’s not a good one. I would say Candleford and Al-aasy are the two that come closer, and Al-aasy is the closest.

OK, so: 1 LILLYCOING in Al-aasy.

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I have just finished the first module (delineation) of my natal astrology course.

Module 2 — comparison between charts (synastry) starts next week.

I’ll show how to compare the patterns we’ve learned how to assess in module one in order to describe all kinds of relationships — love relationships, boss-employee, teacher-student, sibling-sibling, parent-child, etc, including and emphasizing the crucial and unavoidable step that so many astrolgers do avoid: comparing your assessment of each chart before jumping into conjunctions and oppositions and anything else.

If you are a student of the first module, please confirm me you are going to do the second module as soon as possible.

If you are not, but is interested in joining, talk to me as soon as you can.

Classes start next Friday.

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Some older Quora answers, because not everyone likes horses.

If the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have opposite seasons, then doesn’t the Eastern and Western Hemispheres have the two remaining seasons?

“Hemisphere” means “half of a sphere”. There are only two halves. If you divide the Earth into Northern and Southern, there are no other hemispheres.

What is the best transit for a consulting astrologer?

The best transit for a consulting astrologer is when the consultation fee transits into my pocket :).

There is no such thing. Astrology is a symbolic art, any transit can be good, or bad, depending on the context.

Why do people believe in astrology, numerology and fortune telling?

"People" are not the same. Each of us believe — or doesn’t — in anything for different reasons.

I don’t believe in fortune telling, mostly because I have no idea of what it is. I don’t understand anything about numerology, either.

And to say I "believe" in astrology is innacurate: I see it working every day.

What are the best resources and courses to learn KP and horary astrology?

The best way to learn a craft is by finding a teacher. However, if you must use books, for Western horary astrology, the best one around is "The Horary Texbook”, by John Frawley.

Is there any proof for astrology? I think no and that it doesn't make sense at all, but I'd love to hear some evidence.

You mean "scientific evidence”, right?

Well, a French guy named Michel Gauquelin analyzed data from many births and found that there was a statistically meaningful connexion between some planets in key positions in the birth chart and the person’s profession.

A lady named Lily Kollisko studied the motion and interaction of certain metallic ions (each of them associated with a planet — there’s an association between seven metals and seven planets) and found that the patterns changed when the associated planets made certain aspects or conjunctions.

What is the true node in astrology?

A Node is the intersection of the monthly course of the Moon and the annual course of the Sun.

The true node is the actual position of them (there are two nodes, one opposed the other). It’s called “true” because, before computers were invented, their calculation was difficult, so some astrologers used the “mean” node (they used knonw positions of the nodes and their mean speed to calculate their mean positions).

What is the true node in Sagittarius?

The same thing as in any other sign, only in Sagittarius.

A Node (there are two of them, North and South, one opposed the other) is an intersection of the Moon’s apparent path in the sky with the Sun’s annual apparent course, the Ecliptic.

Whenever the Sun and the Moon are either conjunct or opposed on the nodes, we have an Eclipse (when they’re conjunct or opposed far from the nodes, we have a new/full Moon).

Nowadays we are able to know the exact position of the nodes at any point in time: the true nodes.

This was not always easy, so astrologers used to calculate the mean node (using a known true position and their mean speed).

Astrologically, they work by conjunction, only. The North Node means elevation, expansion, or highlight; the South, decreasing, contraction, or obscurity.

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That’s it for now. See you soon, either almost 2 LILLYCOINs richer, or one poorer.