The Aftermath - and a change in subject

Ok, I got it right — I have also had a quick look at Kamala Harris’s Lunar Return on Twitter (I’ll never call it X, too old for that), and it seemed like disappointment.

But, as I said before, elections are tricky. In astrology, context is always king, and in this case we rarely, if ever, know the context.

Getting it wrong is no big deal — justifying it, by blaming the stars, fould play, or anything like that, is. The responsibility is always ours — I knew it was tricky, and I tried my hand.

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The claim that horary doesn’t work in elections is frankly asinine.

Of course it does. The problem with most of charts presented online is that they’re not real horary charts cast from real horary questions. A sincere question produces a real chart, and a real chart can of course tell us about the outcome of an election.

Horary can tell you about the weather. If you think people voting (and people scheming) is more complicated, detached from us, or is at a higher level than all the many different things involving into making rain or snow somewhere, you have a problem — and it’s not astrology-related.

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Any way, enough of foreign (or domestic, if you live in the US) politics.

In the next newsletter, I’ll talk about the chart of Father Gabriele Amorth, the famous exorcist, by popular demand.

What do you want me to talk about? I cannot (and frankly will not) talk about everything, but I’d love to read your suggestions.

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In one thing, Alan Leo and all modern astrologers that followed him are right.

Astrology depends and receives most of its symbolism from the Sun.

It’s just that it is not in any way restricted to the symbolism of the signs (which are, stricto sensu, the symbolism of the Sun in each of them).

The signs are 1/12th of its yearly motion.

The houses are 1/12th of its daily motion (or of the motion of the Sky that drags it).

The symbolism of the planets is derived from their relation to each other but, primarily, from their relation to the Primus Inter Pares, the Sun.

It is present, in a way, in everything we do in astrology.

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Well, here we go again.

Mike Tyson fought Jake Paul, and many astrologers predicted a Tyson victory.

It didn’t happen, of course. Father time has been beating Iron Mike for a while now, and, no matter how much we love him — and I do — he’s almost 60.

An astrologer and friend was asking online something like “If you can answer a 50/50 question, what is your worth as an astrologer?”.

It’s a bit harsh… but he’s not totally wrong.

His point was that most of the astrology profiles online lack decent technique. They just repeat what is written in old (sometimes not that old), books — and, more recently, what astrology podcasters and instagrammers say.

And it’s true — there were, are, and will be many such cases.

However, I’ve seen proper technique — in the elections, in this fight, in other times — being used to achieve wrong results.

As I said above, making mistakes is part of the process — we must strive to get things right more often that not, but no one is perfect — but in order to do real astrology, we must try to investigate the situation (both the celestial situation, the chart/charts, and the terrestrial situation, what is actually happening) without letting our desires to make this investigation for us.

It’s not a problem to investigate the American election and have a preferred candidate. It is a big problem to twist the charts so they say your preferred candidate will be elected.

And, of course, whenever we give a judgment — either for a client, or online — we must strive to be objective. We’re allowed — and I do it all the time — to qualify what we say, stating how much we are sure of it or not, but we shouldn’t be allowed to be ambiguous on purpose. Give your answer, and stick with it. If you’re wrong, go back to the charts and study them. Learn from your mistakes.

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By the way, I had investigated the fight. Well, not exactly the fight, but if I’d win any money from betting on Tyson.

This was the chart:

Unfortunately, this was not difficult to judge.

I am the Moon, my money is the Sun. What I want, the money from the betting site, is Saturn, ruler of the eighth.

There is no contact between Saturn and the Sun. There would be a contact between the Moon and Saturn, but it is an antiscial opposition… which will be prohibited by the Moon/Mercury trine.

No, I won’t get any money from betting on Tyson. OK.

But then I thought “Paul won’t be able to knock him out”. So, I put one dollar on “Jake Paul to win by decision or points”, just to be reminded of checking it later.

And, as you have guessed, I won.

Also, as you no doubt have noticed, this was not only astrology. I used common sense, which is something my peers sometimes forget about.

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This is L. Frank Baum’s natal chart (no birth time available).

It’s so funny that there’s a peregrine benefic on the Eastern Equinox, opposed to a detrimented malefic in the Winkie Countr… I mean, around the Western Equinox.

It’s also nice that there are two powerful planets here.

One, Venus, is in the fixed earth sign. Fixed, stable, like a walled city. At the center of the land. Full of Venus-like fixed earthy stuff, such as emeralds.

The other is “Mighty”, Mercury in its own sign, but (with the parcial exception of Saturn, which is about to change anywat) no one is either in its power, or interested in him. Not a bad person, this Mercury is; just a bad wizard.

Also, it’s funny that Saturn would not like to go into Cancer, its detriment, and Mars is not happy in the beginning of Libra; Jupiter is not afflicted, but would love to go back to Pisces. Depending on where the Moon is, it may be entering the Via Combusta, which is a segment of the Zodiac she hates.

That is, three or four planets would love to go back.

I guess there’s no place like home, after all.

I would give an arm — ok, not an arm. A finger — in exchange of his birth time. I really wish I knew where his ninth-house cusp is.

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That’s it for now. Thank you for your attention, and God bless you.