Give up TV?

More and more people are giving up television. Does this sound nuts?

This is creating something interesting - more socializing!

One group of friends avoided TV withdrawal by doing occasional pot lucks with a friend who wouldn’t give up TV. They watch NCIS, CSI, So You Think You Can Dance, X Factor, American Idol, movies, comedies, politics, news, and/or documentaries and many other shows. After dinner, the visitors clean up. At the beginning of a show, they vote for the winner, or the perp. Whoever guesses correctly doesn’t have to assist in the cleanup.

People have been getting together to watch sports for years. Why limit this to sports?

In the early 1950's color televisions were rare. Even black and white televisions were rare. Families often visited other people to watch TV.

I was visiting Ireland in the early 70's. When I went down to the lobby of the hotel, the entire village was sitting in the lobby watching television while drinking and eating. The waiter told me they most of the people didn't have televisions. (I had 3 color sets in my home.) He also told me it was the big event in town.

Would you go into withdrawal without a TV in your home, or would it open up a new and wonderful way of living?

Young children and teens don't watch much TV. They are more interested in the internet, video games, and texting, so they wouldn't miss TV that much. For parents, TV is a form of babysitting or getting the kids out of their hair. Isn't there a better way?

The internet is replacing TV. The internet brings current news from around the world faster than the TV. If I want to know the current weather instantly, I go to the internet not a weather channel on TV.

Our relationship with TV must evolve. We are manipulated by television, especially advertising, politics, and the nightly news.

What would you do with that extra $50 or $100 a month, or $1200 per year?

There is "life after television".

What does this have to do with Astrology? 2012 completes the Transit of Venus. This event occurs every 250. Every time Venus crosses the Sun we have made major advances in communication and discovery.

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Steve Jobs a biography by Walter Issacson

I have had many crisis calls from people in the past two weeks, especially those in the financial world. Many events are creating chaos for business people, but we are all being affected by events going on. Understanding is the key to working with these events.

One event which has created a profound effect is the death of Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple Computers, iTunes, iPod, and iPad.

Steve Jobs death triggered an unexpected outpouring of emotion around the world. Many people were stunned and saddened. Many were comforted when his sister, Mona Simpson, revealed his last words. As he was dying, he looked past his sister into the distance and said, "Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow". This shook many people up about the meaning of death, as well as giving hope.

At the end of October, his biography was released. In the first week, this book sold 379,000 copies. By now, I would suspect that more than half a million people have read, or are reading it, and more than 90% are business people. This means that a strong thought form is being created in the business world.

Even if you didn't know, didn't like, or didn't care about Steve Jobs, you will be affected in some way. The creative thought form that he expressed is a part of our world and will continue to attract new inventions.

He pushed the tech world to bring us devices that served everyone, not just business people. His focus was simplicity and quality. He wanted to bring us things that we could carry in the palm of our hand, or the pocket of or jeans.

His vision helped revolutionize the digital world. Have you ever wished you would be able to keep those old magazines but not take up space or create more stuff to collect dust? Now we can save them on the on our computers with dazzling graphics.

Thanks to him and his pushiness the tech world will make our lives simpler on the material level, but more complicated in other ways. The challenge will be dealing with the complications.

Because of the iPod, I can now download audio books or music to play as I drive my car, clean my house, exercise, or take walks in the woods. I no longer have books cluttering up my home, but I take less time to be in the silence.

The tech world has been a part of our lives for several years now. This is part of the "Aquarian Age" and few of us know how to deal with it. We are afraid to let go of our material world. Confusion is rampant now as changes are taking place faster than we can accommodate.

Click the image to read about a brilliant, creative, confused, irrational, emotional, artistic, visionary, driven man.

What is Running the Economy?

Highly paid, well-trained economists and stock analysts have many computer models to make financial and economic predictions and analysis. Unfortunately, these comments usually scare everyone and drive down the market and the economy.

Astrologers often do a much better job, but so does the average person.

I know of a woman who predicts the ups and downs of the economy and has a better forecast rate than the experts. I finally learned one of her secrets. It is based on the number of coins left on the street, when she finds many coins, especially quarters; she knows the economy is fine. Small coins increased this spring (2010) and there were a few quarters, but she said we are not out of the woods yet.

Economists are saying we are dipping back into a recession and this fear is sparked in part by the lack of sales activities.

Did you want to shop this summer in the heat, or during fire, floods, drought, or extreme cold? Who has the energy to think about buying anything unless it is a necessity? This extreme weather is not limited to the US; it is all over the world. Carbon monoxide from the fires near Moscow is keeping everyone indoors and fearful.

I have also heard that areas below the equator are experiencing extreme cold weather.

As one person said, "I am so tired when I come home from work, I don't want to run out into the heat and shop." Another person said, "I don't want to shop and then come back to a car sitting in the mall parking lot in the hot sun."

Do you think weather has affected sales? Do you think our everyday observations are better than the opinions of all the high paid analysts? What do you think is driving the economy? What are your observations? Please leave any thoughts in the comment section.

Hibernation

I have not published in quite awhile; this blog is currently in a hibernation stage and it will continue to hibernate. I do intend to finish up the previous posting of aspects (thanks for being patient). But now is not the time.

As you may have noticed, many bloggers and free newsletters have stopped. It takes time to do this work, and it has been done out of compassion and care, not only by me but most of my friends in the blogging world. They also feel the change and have moved on to the next phases of their lives.

I know I have been taken off the list of many other bloggers. We live in a world of marketing and growth. I have noticed that the sites that have kept me on are successful and keep growing.

The archives will continue to be accessible to anyone who wanders to this site.

There is so much information since the inception of the internet, and at times it is overwhelming, but there are many good sites that will give you the needed guidance. Learn to hone your instincts.

I wish you all the best

Blogging will resume in the next month

I have finally rebuilt my computer and my blogging should begin in the next month. I hope to have everything back to normal by mid April

I noticed that even with the delay in blogging I am still getting new subscribers.

I want to thank everyone for coming to this site.

Posting Delayed

I have been infected with a virus - Antivirus 360, which is a newer version of Antivirus 2008 and 2009. It looks very similar to Norton's. I believe I picked it up visiting an alternative healing web site.

I am normally very careful, but with Mercury rx, I hit the wrong button when trying to log off. A friend of mine who used to work at McAfee gave me this advice. Don't even bother trying to close a window when you come across a suspiscous file or message. Turn off your computer immediately by pulling the plug.

Posting will be delayed until sometime in February.

Over the past three years, I've had challenging aspects from Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Now with Mercury rx I have more delays. My office was recently flooded due to a burst pipe from all the cold weather. In the past two years, I've had to totally rebuild my home, my office and now my computer.

I hope to be back soon.

Aspect Series Chart 1 - Correction

I put up the wrong chart with my post on aspects. The correct chart for Chart #1 - 10/05/09 has been posted.

click here for Aspects Series Part 2 with the corrected chart

Aspects - Part Two

This is part two of a series on aspects. In this section, I will review the square with a sample chart.

Click here for part one, the introduction and the general explanation of aspects, classical and modern aspects, benefic or malefic aspects, conjunctions, personal, social, and transpersonal planets, the order of the planets, application and separation, and orbs.

When analyzing aspects, there are several important criteria. In addition to what was discussed in part one; we must look at applications, angularity, and dignity or debility.

Application is determined by the speed of the planets, (see part 1). Applying aspects are moving toward each other, and depending on the planet’s speed, they often come to exactness early in life by progression.

Separating aspects are winding down. The release of energy was either in
utero, or at some point prior to birth. The native now “owns” the aspect, but even though it is separating, he will still work on it, but he should have more innate knowledge than with applying aspects.

Angularity has to do with the angular houses, 1, 4, 7, and 10. Planets in these houses are more active and initiating. Any aspect to planets in the angular houses has more power.

Dignity or debility has to do with the sign in which the planet is posited, which gives strength or weakness. Dignity gives strength, and debility gives weakness. We must understand what is meant by weakness, a planet cannot express its positive traits when it is weak. For instance, Mars in Cancer is in fall, and although it is weak, it can still be explosive. but not necessarily in a good way. Mars cannot easily express proper strength, courage, patriotism, or enthusiasm. An example of dignity is the Sun in Leo. This is called rulership, and the Sun is strong. The Moon in Taurus is exalted and thus dignified, while the Moon in the opposite sign Scorpio is in fall and weak by being debilitated.

Click here for more on dignity and debility and a chart


The power of a planet is also determined by its status in the chart. If a planet is the ruler of the ascendant, or elevated, (the highest planet in the chart, closest to the midheaven) it is given more power.

To work with what we have learned so fart, let’s look at our first sample chart, chart #1.






When we analyze aspects in a chart, we are looking for clues as to the character of the native (the person whose chart we are looking at), as well as events manifested by transiting and progressed aspects.



The Moon in this chart has a lot going for it by angularity and dignity, and thus is able to more easily function or bring about events, whether it forms an aspect by progression, or is triggered by a transiting planet. However, the Moon is challenged to express its positive and dynamic nature by natal squares.

When using transits of the Moon we must remember that the day-to-day movements of the Moon are fast, and that aspects last only a few hours, so the Moon does not usually cause much effect, unless it is a progression, an eclipse, or a new or full Moon.

The Moon is in Virgo in the first house. The Moon is about function, feelings, habits, and the stomach. The first house is about anything to do with the self, the physical body, the way we see the world, and the way others see us at first glance. The sign Virgo notices every little speck, every little detail, and can be very critical of self and others; it also relates to the intestines. One of the things that a Virgo Moon is learning in this life is how to assimilate experience on an emotional level, as well as to learn respect for self and others and make it an ingrained habit. This respect can be developed through service to others. (Virgo).


The Moon is in square to the Gemini Midheaven, (the cusp of the 10th house). The 10th house is profession, how a person makes his mark in the world, reputation, and the authoritative parent. This is the parent who is strongly related to our role in the world. Modern astrology calls this the house of the father; ancient astrology calls this the house of the mother.

This is the closest aspect in the chart, and thus was the first major progressed aspect at about 2 ½ years of age. This square set up the way the child would relate to the world. For a young child this probably had to do with bodily functions, especially the digestive system.

In some way, the parent was not able to give a proper foundation to the child, possibly due to an illness, or absence, physical, mental, or emotional. Anyway, some event carved out a role for the child in regards to his ability to participate effortlessly in making his mark in the world. On another level, this aspect is saying there is something about the world that the native cannot stomach (Moon), or assimilate, (Virgo). The challenge is to find a way to redirect this energy through analysis, or service, (Virgo) or communication, (Gemini), and it will eventually involve the profession (10th house).

The ascendant and the Moon are in the sign of Virgo, and the Midheaven (MC) is in the sign of Gemini. Both are ruled by Mercury, the planet that affects the nervous system, as well as the mind. This means that thought and communications must be balanced and not stressful or there will be a “case of the nerves”.

The next square is between the Moon and Neptune in Sagittarius on the cusp of the 4th house thus affecting the 3rd and the 4th. Neptune is a related to that which is unseen, and can bring fraud, flights of fantasy, misdirection, and delusion. Thus Neptune in hard aspect creates confusion, vagueness, or escapism. Here we have a separating aspect. In this case, it will always be a separating aspect, for the Moon never goes retrograde. The energy has already been released and taken hold, so the native is not totally clueless about this situation. Neptune is cadent house, which makes this aspect weaker. This also affects the 4th house of the family and since it is in opposition to the MC, it will affect the career as well.

Since Neptune is near the 3rd house of the siblings and early education, there is either a problem with thinking, communication, early education, or siblings. If this does not show up in the native, it will show up in those around him. This sensitivity is heightened by the fact that Neptune and the Moon are both water planets. Anesthesia, drugs, alcohol, chemicals, or pharmaceuticals may interupt the developemnt of the mind. Noise or water may be a problem.(Moon –water, Neptune -Ocean). Any of the issues, I have mentioned here will always come and go due to the mutability of the signs involved. Mutable signs are like the wind, they blow this way and that way. Mutable signs lack focus. This mutablilty also is shown in mental patterns, the native must learn not to be scattered, or try to do too much at once. This is the age of multitasking and the native neeeds to keep this balanced and not go overboard.

Sagittarius has to do with expansion, enlargement, and the thighs. Physically this may manifest as allergies (Neptune), asthma (Mercury) or an injury to hips or thighs(Sagittarius. Also with the involvement of the Moon, we have to consider the stomach and the digestive tract; there may be a food allergy.

How do we solve all these dilemmas? There are several paths. One is to develop the positive characteristics of the planets in the hard aspect. Another way is to look for a planet in the natal chart that is in good aspect, sextile or trine, to the planets involved in the hard aspect. Using the empty spaces opposite the planets are another possibility, or even midpoints. Using a positive transit to the planet to bring awareness and build a new form is a very powerful way to change.

There are so many ways that aspects can be interpreted. Each planet, sign, and house has many more keywords and ideas than have been discussed here. Get some good keywords, put together sentences, and come up with your own interpretations. We are often our own best counselors.


In Part 2A, I will also finish talking about the squares go on to the oppositions, using chart #1 and chart #2 for the Dali Lama.

If you have any comments or feedback or typo corrections, please leave them in the comment section. I will respond to questions that are relevant ASAP.

Things have slowed down and the storms have abated so I should be able to post Part 2A mid month.