Getting back on track

Ok, I haven’t written in so long I don’t even remember when the last post was, and “sorry for the absence” is not enough.

But there’s no much else I can do. I started teaching two courses at the same time, got a bunch of new clients with a few difficult cases, and then had (minor) family issues, and then my internet started acting weird…

And, to be honest, while I love writing, it does consume a good chunk of time. And I don’t always have something nice to write about: I may recycle old posts on Facebook or Instagram, and it’s easy to come up with a few words on Twitter, so people (and clients) don’t forget about me, but… really writing, even when it’s a collection of short notes, is harder.

So: sorry for the absence.

But I found a way to get back on track, literally: horse races.

A long time ago, I studied and tried to apply John Addey’s method of predicting horse races. At best, I was able to do a bit better than breaking even, which is infuriating, because it shows there is something good in the method.

Why? Because it’s not a football match, in which I have 1/3 of getting it right by luck. There are several horses (sometimes seven or more) in each race, I never knew anything about them, or the track, or any of those things gamblers try to get.

I should have lost all my money everytime.

However, partly because I was not profitting, and I had to see clients and students to pay my bills, and partly because one chart is fun, 5/10 a day is a nightmare, I abandoned it. Yes, I sometimes did one or two charts for old times’s sake, but never more than that.

I wanted to get back to it, but there is another problem.

If I just look at charts, I can’t be bothered to find the results. Betting, on a real betting site, has the advantage of showing me, without a doubt, whether I got it right or not.

But due to a lot of boring stuff involving Brazilian government, betting sites changed a lot of stuff, and I just can’t get back to the one (Betfair) that had horse races in it. I’m not able to deposit money on it, but I can see the races and the odds.

So, I decided to do an experiment.

I’m going to give myself 50 LILLYCOIN (you can’t buy it unless you know a certain Dr. Forman in London; it’s the hottest fake crypto around).

I’ll find a horse race (2/3 a week; if I can, one a day) and try to judge it. I’ll fake bet one LILLYCOIN the first time, and, as long as I keep winning, I’ll bet all my profit on the next one.

I’ll post the charts and the bet in advance (here).

Whenever I lose (and I do expect to lose a lot; if I got all races right all the time, I’d be rich), I’ll spend another LILLYCOIN, until I’m fake rich or I lose all my fake crypto.

If the horse (I’ll have to post in advance) is pulled out from the race, as it would happen in a real betting site, my money will get back to my wallet. But if the race begins late, my loss (and in the event that I win on luck, my win).

I’ll post the results — not to make too many posts, the result for the previous race will be sent together with the next bet.

Of course, I’ll try to write something else in the e-mails, not just the result and the next chart. But, like this, I’ll not abandon this newsletter.

As this is the first on the subject:

The Method

→ NOTE: I could never obtain a copy of John Addey’s original work. So, this is his method as explained by John Frawley in Sports Astrology.

I might have given this explanation before, but here it goes anyway:

1) Cast the chart for the time and place the race starts, in Campanus. Have no idea why, but Addey loved it, and it works like that (from my very limited experience experimenting with them, Regiomontanus and Placidus don’t).

2) Imagine everything is still. Move the degree of the fifth house. The first thing it bumps into, by aspect (see item 4) or conjunction, including antiscia, signifies the winner.

3) The planet signifies the winner by any kind of symbolic association, including but not limited to the planet itself, the sign it’s in, any close (very close) aspect to other planets, the house it rules, etc. It’s Mars? Might be the Red Devil; or, if it rules the tenth, Captain America; or, if it’s in Cancer and in the fourth, Down Under. Yes, this is tricky — and can lead to situations like “Hum… Lady Lake, Mother Diana, and Queen of Silver! All three are Lunar names”. But that’s the beauty and the horror of it.

4) John Addey considered any aspect, including every new invention. He also allowed for asteroids to be counted (although I think these he only used by conjunction, but I’m not sure).

Yes, this is weird. But they said Addey was forbidden to bet in several betting houses of his time, and they only do that if you’re winning more than you should.

From my experience, if a weird aspect happens and a real aspect happens more or less a the same time, the real one gets it. I used to only judge charts that had a close real aspect or antiscia, because I’m lazy and I don’t want to check every new strange combination of degrees. And I’ll probably keep doing it (unless my LILLICOINS start disappearing too fast).

But if a race has horses with “human” names, I might check asteroids, who knows.

So, let’s go to the first one. I probably will not do it again until Saturday, but then again, who knows? This is funny (at the beginning).

This will happen tomorrow (Goodwood Racecourse, 13:55 local time, 9:55 am here).

This is the chart (6f Grp 2 • 9 Runners • Class 1)

To start off this thing, of course the chart had to be the weirdest possible. By “normal” aspect, the only thing the fifth house will do — if we imagine it moving onwards — will be an opposition to Mars, and then, to the antiscion of Saturn.

But this is too long, it is forever. These aspects should be more immediate. I thought of just skipping this one, but… I’m rich in LILLYCOINs. So, let’s wander into the bizarre world of made-up “aspects”.

The cusp will make 144 degrees (a bi-quintile) to the Sun in less than one degree.

These are the horses:

There are, at least to me, only two horses that fit the bill: Maximize (Sun rules the tenth, is in Leo, strong), and Havana Hurricane (because Mercury’s conjunct it).

I was thinking that Maximize makes more sense, but… I decided to get even weirder. I checked all the more obvious names there for asteroids, and, believe it or not, there’s an asteroid called “Havana”. If I didn’t screw it up (I don’t know how to work with them), it’s in… 8 Leo, conjunct the Sun.

So, Havana Hurricane it is. Odds are 5.5. Let’s see if I make 5.5 LILLYCOIN or not.

(In real betting, one could bet on it arriving in the three first positions, but, as I said, money’s not the problem. Let’s do it).

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That’s it for now. I’m sending this at a weird time, but I don’t want to post it after the race.

See you soon, God bless you.