START NOTHING: (All times are Pacific Daylight): 6:40 am to 9:49 am Mon., 11:58 am to 12:35 pm Wed., and 10:52 pm Thurs. to 4:52 pm Fri.
The “start nothing” times are really “moon void of course” times. The “void” occurs when the moon is travelling through a sign, and has, say, squared Venus and trined Mars, but after this won’t make any more aspects before it leaves the sign. Astrologers believe that projects and relationships started during a “void” eventually come to nothing — there is no support from the moon.
WEEK AHEAD (Sept. 6-12)
Instead of individual forecasts, I’m just going to lay out general parameters for action. Any times and days referred to are Pacific Daylight.
SUNDAY’S good from dawn to midnight, especially for Cancers and domestic action.
MONDAY is obstructive and mildly alienating until 6:30 pm. After this, things stabilize and improve. Imagination, spirituality and electronics flow very well. Leos are favoured.
TUESDAY, Leos are still the lucky one. This day is filled with opportunity, expansion, and good luck. Charge ahead, no matter what sign you are. Don’t be late — it’s best before noon PDT.
WEDNESDAY: Starts nicely, affectionately, to noon PDT then slowly spirals into mild frustration – bad for computers till 10 or 11 PM.
THURSDAY: Starts with disruption, but ends with a new project or new outlook. Good for action, especially as the day grows old – good for surgery or dental work also. Moon is solidly in Virgo, which favours practicality, sanitation, nutrition… VENUS ENTERS SCORPIO (so more loving), MERCURY ENTERS LIBRA (more love or partnership talk). AQUARIANS will be mildly stalled, indecisive, now to early February.
FRIDAY has no aspects, but a benevolent horizon. Moon enters LIBRA this eve, setting up a relationship-oriented weekend.
SATURDAY has four good aspects and three bad. Avoid fantasy, self deception, deceptive people, and jobs that are too hard. Computers work well in the morning and research can yield some significant knowledge.
The above is probably all I will do every week astrologically.
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Minor Things:
PLEASE BE PATIENT IF YOU HAVE SENT ME AN EMAIL. I AM TRYING TO ANSWER THEM ALL. (MOST, I APOLOGIZE, WITH A “FORM LETTER.”) IF YOU HAVE REQUESTED A PDF OF MY SHORT FICTION COLLECTION, IT IS STILL COMING!
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IF YOU WANT TO SAVE ANY OLD ARTICLES, SAY FROM “PLATFORMS,” YOU MIGHT WANT TO COPY THEM SOON, IN CASE URANUS HAS MORE BLOG-BUSTING EVENTS IN STORE.
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I said it before, and I’ll say it again: Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor , would be a better president than anyone now appearing. I said would be, not will be – being nominated would be a Herculean feat, as many Republicans seem to reject him — not on policy grounds, but on charisma. He’s smart, he gets things done, is balanced, middle-of-the-road, and I will probably get in trouble someday for saying this, but I suspect he’s honest, a rare quality in a politician. That he can run big affairs is obvious: he’s the governor of a thriving state. A Virgo, he pays attention to details also —evident in almost every speech he gives. He appears to be everything that a politician should be – which is perhaps why he could not win a presidential primary. But we’ll see.
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There was something fishy going on at the CBS tour golf championship, Sunday, August 31. Scottie Scheffler on the 14th hole, with the ball on the tee, takes a swing at the ball, and the blue streak that always follows the ball arching through the air to its destination, takes off. The only problem is, the blue streak takes off and establishes its direction – travels what looks like 100 yards into the sky – while the ball is still on the ground. Also – and this is what first alerted me – the “plonk”sound of the ball being hit occurred at least a full second after Scheffler had completed his swing. I urge you to look at it.
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The person who runs a successful business, has often grown that business from the ground up or has worked in it for years. This person therefore has a very good feel for rising and falling markets, economic conditions generally, how to keep accounts or debts or investments from getting out of hand, and has a grasp of every business aspect, from hiring employees to setting goals.
Politicians do not have this experience. Many of them are lawyers who never made contact with a bulldozer or a retail business or anything gritty in their lives. Politicians aren’t interested in getting their hands dirty. They are essentially Leos in nature, they love attention and are good at getting it. As they mature, politicians learn many things, but running a business is not one of them.
That is why communism always fails. A bunch of people with no business experience start telling you how much wheat you can grow, what you can charge for your time, and where you can work and when and in what capacity, how much steel should be produced, the price of bread and food, etc. All rents, all monies, will be paid to the communist peak. China began converting to capitalism a number of years ago, not because they wanted to, but because they witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union, and the economic hollowing out that communism had caused. They introduced and accepted some capitalism to save themselves.
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Just to reiterate: writing and the alphabet will tend to disappear after or by 2229. This is already beginning to occur – think desktop icons, emoticons, etc. But that date, 2229, might attract some skepticism: that’s 200 years away, how can you say it is already starting, or that present trends will cause a change in 200 years? You can’t say something takes 200 plus years to occur.
Well, you can, if you think of it this way: our present mega era began about 3500 years ago. If I go through my files, I could find the exact amount of years. Anyway, our present mega era basically created writing and, ultimately, literature. But our mega era ends in 2229, when a brand new era – and mega era – begins. This chart, which rules or hints at the next 50 centuries or so – again let me dig into my files and find the true time – seems to indicate that writing and the alphabet become historical artifacts. I need to try and find when that happens in that 5000 year mega era. (Although each era lasts a fairly regular 247–250 years, each mega era is different in duration. One might contain 30 eras, and another 50 or 42 or 25.) Someday, I will reveal how to find and mark the mega eras.
But to return: 200 years is a small slice of 3000 or 4000 years. Seen from a distance, those 200 years might appear to be a fringe, a slice, the burnt edge of a fried egg.
Sorry – I’m always digressing.
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I think of people, then they appear. This happens too many times to be coincidence. I think there’s a larger thing going on here: perhaps for all of us, the more we think of others, the more others will come around us. That’s a general rule. But I think it can also be used in a more specific way by focussing your thoughts on specific people.
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Astrology has never been scientifically or “laboratory” studied. I’m sure that’s because the original premise, that these tiny little lights in the sky influence our actions and feelings, is preposterous to most – and especially to those who have a position to maintain: university, profs, lawyers/judges, scientists, mathematicians and engineers. All pride themselves on their strong abilities with logic and their dedication to logic, as if it were a law that one must follow. Such types are not even going to begin to contemplate such a study or project — it would be like wearing no pants to work one day; no one would ever forget it, and all would think you weird for doing it. It would be a form of career suicide. Unfortunately, for astrology, these are the very people who control what is and what isn’t studied or experimented with.
But nothing is perfect, and there is no field without a weed. In this field of anti-astrology “science,” such a weed did sprout, in the form of a French statistician who boldly set out to disprove astrology once and for all in the mid 1900s. His name was Michelle Gauquelin. As a member of the French Academy of Sciences, he wanted his work to be impressive and beyond reproach. So he did many many many more samples than usually required for statistical confirmation. The typical statistical sample would contain one thousand subjects. Gauquelin used up to 20,000 subjects for each vein of inquiry.
Basically, he used the Who’s Who and other sources until he had thousands of birth charts. Then he tested one of astrology’s major assertions: that a planet in the career sector will nudge the person toward a career in the areas ruled by that planet.
He used only the charts of famous people, Nobel laureates/nominees, sports champions, etc. — those who were generally in the top layer of their field.
He found, astoundingly perhaps, that a preponderance of people with Venus in their career sector at birth, worked in fields allied to the arts or love — art galleries, artists, actors, models,, beauty, harmony, etc. I am paraphrasing him here, so please take what I say with a bit of elasticity.
Again, sports champions tended to have mars in the career sector of their birth charts. (Or in there 12th, if I remember.) Scientists — Saturn. Politicians often had Jupiter in the career sector at birth.
Because his sample sizes were so large, their indications were indisputable. At last, astrology was proven beyond any doubt. One of his colleagues in the French Academy of Sciences, disputing his findings, declared that if statistics proved astrology, then he no longer believed in statistics.
Yet Gauquelin’s work has been largely ignored by the astrological community, because he also discovered that the traditional view of houses and house cusps was significantly in error. Rather than get into all that, I’ll just give one example: he found that the effective career house begins halfway in the ninth (intellect) and goes halfway through the 10th or career house. The second half of the career house had almost no influence and contained no famous career achievers. Again, the seventh of opportunity was linked to the sixth of work, and the first of personality really covered half of the 12th of restrictions and mysteries. The fourth of home also resides partially in the third of communications and travel.
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IF I DO continue this blog, it will probably be similar to the above.
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The obliteration of the blog 2 or 3 weeks ago occurred with Uranus in the same degree as my birth Moon. Uranus rules my creative intellect, and the Moon my career and money source(s). Uranus means change — often sudden change. Uranus also rules computers. It shut me down and demanded change. It’s like a tap on the shoulder from fate. It also occurred after I had four patents accepted, and as I was on the verge of selling my townhouse. Also, I want to return to meditating and psychic/spiritual stuff. Anyway, goodbye dear readers, hopefully we’ll meet again.