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Ok, first, the answer of the quiz:
If you don’t remember what it was, here’s the chart.
The question was about my cat, and Mingau (yes) appeared at 00:06 of the next day. This chart was cast at 22:17 (full data: December the 30th, 2023, Barra Velha/SC, Brazil).
First, the easy bit. There is no affliction to the sixth cusp (look closely, Pluto lovers, it’s on the wrong sign; but there is a treat for you below). Saturn is ok, and made no previous contact with the eighth ruler (radical or turned). So, the cat’s alive and well.
Besides, it is opposed to the Ascendant. It’s a weird contact, but it’s a contact. And the context restricts our options — if it’s alive, and there is no sign of it being trapped somewhere, it will come back.
Moreover, the Moon can mean the cat, as it can signify lost animals, and it will change sign and conjunct the Ascendant.
The hard part is: when?
The return was shown by Saturn receiving an aspect from Venus. It is almost exactly right, the aspect will perfect in 1 degree and 51 seconds, and it appeared one hour and 49 minutes later.
The timing of the Moon is off.
The thing is: Venus, at first sight, makes no sense. OK, it is the next thing Saturn does, and the only thing it would do, in the context, is to come back. But Venus doesn’t mean me, my house, my wife, etc.
I don’t have a good answer, but I have two not-so-bad ones. One of them caught my eye before it came back — it was enough for me to think it would show the timing.
And it was, yes (happy now?), Pluto. exactly conjunct Venus by antiscion.
What does it mean? For one, it might — “might” as in “it’s the only Plutonian symbolism that may fit” — the cave, the home. Secondly, it highlights Venus.
But, after the event (that’s why I chose the chart, in fact), I decided to check which houses Venus rules: the second and the ninth. The ninth rules the turned fourth, which I admit it’s a bit of a stretch; no matter how hard Mingau would disagree, this is my house, it just lives here.
But it also rules the kitchen. Which was, of course, where Mingau appeared. I know, I was there, having a beer and talking to one of the kids when it jumped through the window.
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Now, for refined cultural instances of unintended astrology.
Whenever things are presented in four, they tend to embody the four elements, sometimes in a subtle way.
A heart, her home, a brain, the nerve: here, the most obvious clue is what they long for, love, a farm, more inteligence, more courage.
As the story unfolds, they reveal that they long for what they already have. The tender tinman wouldn’t hurt the feelings of a bug; Dorothy could go back anytime she wanted, using those things she touches the ground with (but she couldn’t fly on the baloon); the scarecrow is the smart one, and the Cowardly Lion is not coward at all. Water, earth, air, and fire.
And sometimes, it’s… less subtle
I really think Stan Lee was thinking about the four elements, though, while L. Frank Baum probably wasn’t.
What about this one?
Kowabunga?
From Wikipedia:
“Leonardo, the leader, is the most disciplined and skilled turtle; an expert swordsman, he wields two katana and wears a blue bandana”. Hum… the leader is probably hot. Blue, skilled, and uses a long, curved sword. So far, I’d say it’s air (mostly because fire is taken, see below).
“Raphael, the strongest and most hot-headed turtle, wears a red bandana and uses a pair of sai” - This is the easy one: fire. Sai are shorter than katana, they’re trident-like knives, and are used to stab.
“Donatello uses his intellect to invent gadgets and vehicles. He wears a purple bandana and uses a bo staff”. Intellect could be air, but he’s the infrastruture guy: Mercurial, and Mercury is cold and dry. And uses a heavy staff. I’d go with earth.
“Michelangelo is the least disciplined and most fun-loving turtle, and is usually portrayed as the fastest and most agile. He wears an orange bandana and uses nunchucks”. The fun-loving and disciplined has to be moist, and air is already taken. Water. Nunchuks are, after all, the less threatening of the four weapons.
I’m not totally satisfied with the air/earth pair, though. But I’m not watching any cartoon or movie just to confirm this.
Other numbers also appear to astrologize culture. Seven, for example.
This group is obviously composed by the seven planets:
As this one is:
Although the correspondence between the two groups does not match the planets perfectly.
And I have no idea if this one does, but they might very well do:
But I don’t want to talk about them.
It’s this group I’m interested in:
Justice League, the TV Series, aired from 2001 until 2004 (Then it became Justice League Unlimited, which is not important — it had 48 billion members).
They are seven, and each of them embodied a planet perfectly.
Let’s start with the easy ones.
Superman is obviously solar. To his right, we have a Princess of the Amazons (Moon) and, to his left a guy who dresses as a bat (Saturn).
Flash has to be Mercurial.
It’s not hard to accept that, although a lady, the short person dressing as a bird of prey — the only one holding a spiky iron weapon — is Mars.
So, we’re left with the two benefics and the two green ones.
One of them reads minds and changes his shape at will, and the other has a piece of jewelry that makes whatever he wants — Jupiter and Venus, respectively.
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