Lately, the scientists who dis astrology have really been making me fling my hard boot toes at their knee caps. I keep hearing, "Those planets are so many millions of lightyears away, they can't possibly affect us."
Well, no fucking shit, Sherlock. Of course they can't.
And I tell them, it's not about the planets. It's about whatever the hell it is that has decided to tune itself into both us and the planets at the same time.
These are usually the same scientists who claim they are experimenting with some spiritual path or another, yet they are floundering. Gee, I wonder why their precious spiritual toesies are stuck in the cement? Is there just some wee bit of hypocrisy here? Ya think?
Man, I love atheists. I do! I've got lots of atheist friends and they're all insanely intelligent. They rock my world. They're funny, they're nice. They're not judgmental. They do "the right thing" because, dammit, it's the right thing, not because some patriarchal dickhead in the sky tells them it's right. They're awesome people that choose to be so.
And they might be totally right. Hell, this Thing that connects us to the planetary movements might not be a god at all (I don't think it is, either). It might be something intimately involved in matter that we cannot yet detect or measure. It might have evolved along with us, co-existing since the Big Bang or even before that. But just because it can't be measured and quantified yet doesn't mean it doesn't exist, for chrissakes. Why can't they give it a shot?
The best I can tell is because they -- and I mean anyone who gives me that crap excuse about planetary distances and astrology -- are afraid of losing control of their lives. The idea that there is a way to track the events of their lives freaks them the fuck out because it means they aren't the ones calling the shots.
But even that is a lie. You are totally calling the shots in a lot of cases -- in all cases when it comes to how you react to things. Shit happens. That's true, with or without astrology. Why not have some idea when shit is gonna happen so that you can take that vacation or go to that masseuse before it hits? Be ready. Be prepared. Watch and be amazed at the cycle of life. It's happening whether or not you are watching the transits of the planets.
And instead of questioning the intelligence of smart people who show an interest in astrology, why not admit you know fucking squat about it? Why not say, "Gee, Susie is damned smart. Why does she 'believe' in that?" Maybe Susie has seen repeated, reliable phenomena. Maybe Susie is smart and pays attention...
Maybe Susie knows something you don't.
Anyway, I didn't mean to slip from third person to second person, but obviously I've had to talk to a lot of people about this. I hate closed-mindedness. I hate it in religious people. I hate it in nonreligious people. I just frigging HATE it. I'm not asking people to be so open-minded that their head is a sieve but I do wish people who not be so damned sure of themselves and of the world around them.
It won't kill you (but you might break a toe).
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Put Your Money Where Your Mojo Is
Oh, lordie.
Why is it that, even though we have lots of good astrological data on the presidential hopefuls, no one will just get down and dirty with the data and forecast for The Day? I mean, someone who wins an election is going to have "Woo! I just won an election!" transits. It's really pretty simple. My own experience is that, since I've been studying astrology, I've been able to predict every single winner -- and then some.
The best example of this is the 2000 election. About two or three days before the election, I was at work looking at the charts of Gore and Bush during lunch, and I discovered they had no definitive transits on the day after the election. I also noted that Mercury went retrograde the day of the election. I mentioned this to a mildly interested co-worker. I asked him, "Is there any reason the election results would be delayed?" He couldn't think of any.
Of course, the day after the election, he came to work, slammed down his backpack on his desk, pointed at me and shouted "SPOOKY!" in front of the whole office.
Heh.
Later while everyone was counting hanging chads and the nation was in the balance, I did a simple forecast for the next couple of months, specifically for January 20th -- Inaugural Day. Because it stands to reason that on that day either Gore or Shrub would have "Woo! I'm giving my Inaugural Day speech!" transits. I mean, am I right or am I right?
Astrologers are pussies if they are not doing this publically at least as an exercise. They bitch and moan that "No one would have believed me if I saw 9/11 coming." Well, that's because your pansy Asstrolabe tush is sitting there running "past life" readings based on the South Node of someone's goddamn moon. WHO CARES? Flex that prognostication muscle a bit, won't ya?
This time around, it's mostly only Democratic candidates who have even reasonably reliable astrological data -- probably because not since Nancy Reagan have any of the NeoCons wanted to get their grimy hands in anything akin to this evil child-raping practice known as astrology. Fine. Your candidates are WEAK BEER anyway.
Let's start with Hillary and Obama:
If -- and I mean really IF -- we have correct birth times for both Hillary and Obama, then it appears Obama has only one transit the day after the election -- Jupiter sextile the ASC in the third. It's a positive one, bringing him a great deal more contact with the public, but NOT a "Hey, I just won an election" transit. That makes me suspect that ultimately he's not going to run, or that he's going to play a different role than we currently think.
But Hillary...dear, dear Hillary...all I can say is, it's gonna suck to be her that day.
There are three major transits. If we went with just one of them -- Pluto entering her 7th house -- we might think she'd just entered the public sphere with power. Then again, it could bring a destruction and rebuilding of partnerships, or a new, extremely powerful partnership. It's a very big, awesome, steamroller kind of transit. However, I'm not convinced that 8:00pm sharp is her exact birth time. Whenever I hear an exact hour like that, I suspect someone is estimating or rounding off unless there's a birth certificate I can see. Therefore, I would not even say with certainty this transit is happening for her then, as the 7th house cusp placement, like the ascendant, is highly sensitive to the minute. If she's actually born at 8:06 or 7:55, for example, this transit won't be happening at precisely that time.
Yet she has two other gawd-awful, terrible transits that day. The first and worst is transiting Neptune opposing Saturn. People with this transit typically suffer a horrendous bout of guilt over a failed project or some other tragedy where they blame themselves for what happened. She'll actually get her first taste of this transit in the second half of June. I suspect legal issues, as it's the 3rd and 9th houses, but that would hardly be anything new, would it? The twist is that it's also going to challenge the way she thinks and communicates in general. Maybe she'll even withdraw from the press. Crazy, but it could happen.
The third transit, however, is a doozy -- transiting Pluto square her natal Moon. A power struggle transit of the first order. In order to handle this emotionally challenging transit, she's going to have to retreat into her family and home. (At least to take the edge off the t-square.) Maybe Hillary isn't someone I should feel sorry for, but I do. She's in for some huge emotional confrontations. (And Bill, for what it's worth, has a bizarre sort of spiritual revolution transit at that time, with a relationship surprise. Not bad necessarily, just whacky to be having the day after your wife's major failure. Way to go, Bill!)
Now let's talk about Edwards.
Edwards so far has the strongest transits out of everyone. BUT he has transiting Saturn squaring his natal Sun. This strong "challenge to authority" transit at that time that doesn't necessarily bode well, nor does he have anything that shows him gaining power. (A month or so prior to that, he does have that "steamroller" transit I describe for Hillary. I doubt it's related.)
BUT.
If you run his progressions, you'll find big ol' fat progressed Joop sitting on his natal Gemini SUN. Yes, his SUN. Wow! ("Yes, hello, why I am the King of the World. Why do you ask?")
Thing is, Edwards is behind Hillary and Obama in the polls and on Fark they're calling him a douche bag. He did do very well in Iowa recently, which might mean something. Right now, the stars are not aligning with the outer world. It's going to be interesting to see what happens...
Why is it that, even though we have lots of good astrological data on the presidential hopefuls, no one will just get down and dirty with the data and forecast for The Day? I mean, someone who wins an election is going to have "Woo! I just won an election!" transits. It's really pretty simple. My own experience is that, since I've been studying astrology, I've been able to predict every single winner -- and then some.
The best example of this is the 2000 election. About two or three days before the election, I was at work looking at the charts of Gore and Bush during lunch, and I discovered they had no definitive transits on the day after the election. I also noted that Mercury went retrograde the day of the election. I mentioned this to a mildly interested co-worker. I asked him, "Is there any reason the election results would be delayed?" He couldn't think of any.
Of course, the day after the election, he came to work, slammed down his backpack on his desk, pointed at me and shouted "SPOOKY!" in front of the whole office.
Heh.
Later while everyone was counting hanging chads and the nation was in the balance, I did a simple forecast for the next couple of months, specifically for January 20th -- Inaugural Day. Because it stands to reason that on that day either Gore or Shrub would have "Woo! I'm giving my Inaugural Day speech!" transits. I mean, am I right or am I right?
Astrologers are pussies if they are not doing this publically at least as an exercise. They bitch and moan that "No one would have believed me if I saw 9/11 coming." Well, that's because your pansy Asstrolabe tush is sitting there running "past life" readings based on the South Node of someone's goddamn moon. WHO CARES? Flex that prognostication muscle a bit, won't ya?
This time around, it's mostly only Democratic candidates who have even reasonably reliable astrological data -- probably because not since Nancy Reagan have any of the NeoCons wanted to get their grimy hands in anything akin to this evil child-raping practice known as astrology. Fine. Your candidates are WEAK BEER anyway.
Let's start with Hillary and Obama:
If -- and I mean really IF -- we have correct birth times for both Hillary and Obama, then it appears Obama has only one transit the day after the election -- Jupiter sextile the ASC in the third. It's a positive one, bringing him a great deal more contact with the public, but NOT a "Hey, I just won an election" transit. That makes me suspect that ultimately he's not going to run, or that he's going to play a different role than we currently think.
But Hillary...dear, dear Hillary...all I can say is, it's gonna suck to be her that day.
There are three major transits. If we went with just one of them -- Pluto entering her 7th house -- we might think she'd just entered the public sphere with power. Then again, it could bring a destruction and rebuilding of partnerships, or a new, extremely powerful partnership. It's a very big, awesome, steamroller kind of transit. However, I'm not convinced that 8:00pm sharp is her exact birth time. Whenever I hear an exact hour like that, I suspect someone is estimating or rounding off unless there's a birth certificate I can see. Therefore, I would not even say with certainty this transit is happening for her then, as the 7th house cusp placement, like the ascendant, is highly sensitive to the minute. If she's actually born at 8:06 or 7:55, for example, this transit won't be happening at precisely that time.
Yet she has two other gawd-awful, terrible transits that day. The first and worst is transiting Neptune opposing Saturn. People with this transit typically suffer a horrendous bout of guilt over a failed project or some other tragedy where they blame themselves for what happened. She'll actually get her first taste of this transit in the second half of June. I suspect legal issues, as it's the 3rd and 9th houses, but that would hardly be anything new, would it? The twist is that it's also going to challenge the way she thinks and communicates in general. Maybe she'll even withdraw from the press. Crazy, but it could happen.
The third transit, however, is a doozy -- transiting Pluto square her natal Moon. A power struggle transit of the first order. In order to handle this emotionally challenging transit, she's going to have to retreat into her family and home. (At least to take the edge off the t-square.) Maybe Hillary isn't someone I should feel sorry for, but I do. She's in for some huge emotional confrontations. (And Bill, for what it's worth, has a bizarre sort of spiritual revolution transit at that time, with a relationship surprise. Not bad necessarily, just whacky to be having the day after your wife's major failure. Way to go, Bill!)
Now let's talk about Edwards.
Edwards so far has the strongest transits out of everyone. BUT he has transiting Saturn squaring his natal Sun. This strong "challenge to authority" transit at that time that doesn't necessarily bode well, nor does he have anything that shows him gaining power. (A month or so prior to that, he does have that "steamroller" transit I describe for Hillary. I doubt it's related.)
BUT.
If you run his progressions, you'll find big ol' fat progressed Joop sitting on his natal Gemini SUN. Yes, his SUN. Wow! ("Yes, hello, why I am the King of the World. Why do you ask?")
Thing is, Edwards is behind Hillary and Obama in the polls and on Fark they're calling him a douche bag. He did do very well in Iowa recently, which might mean something. Right now, the stars are not aligning with the outer world. It's going to be interesting to see what happens...
Saturday, January 20, 2007
In the Beginning...
...I never believed in astrology. I still don't. "Belief" to me is the free and total trust in something that one has never experienced as truth. The only thing I "believe" in is experience. Does the sun rise every day? Great! I have reason to believe it will tomorrow. The same happened with astrology. I started extremely skeptical. I made the mistake of thinking newspaper horoscopes were "real" astrology and dismissed it entirely. And anyone who does so on that basis is utterly correct. Newspaper horoscopes are utterly useless tripe for your entertainment only. So, if you think astrology is crap because of things like that, I'm with you 100%.
I've also known people to "test" astrology by printing out random horoscopes or chart interpretations off the net and giving them to their friends to get their reactions to see if what astrology says is "accurate." Sorry, but that's not a test of astrology. That's testing people to see how fucking gullible they are. (And they can be very.) Or at least how willing they are to admit something is like them. (Often, they're not.) Also, if you give someone a chart reading for Ghandi or Marilyn Manson, and tell them it's them, chances are -- if for no reason other than the Lake Wobegon effect -- they'll agree. And the stuff generated from templates on the net is worded so generically that it can apply to anyone.
I tend to be highly skeptical about anything, really, until I experience something directly. I've tried various practices of astrology and tossed out chunks of it as complete bullshit. Like this "Astrotravel" stuff , where you can project what your vacation will be like in various places based on astro-voodoo rituals you perform naked in the basement with a map of Europe and a protractor. Don't pay anyone a wad of money for such pooh. I've had horrible vacations in places where I was supposed to have good ones, and wonderful vacations in places I was supposed to have bad ones.
If something doesn't work, you are not obligated to "believe" in it. But for me, I found certain basic practices of astrology were extremely reliable -- so reliable, in fact, that I'd be an idiot to ignore it. If that wets your pocket protector, sorry.
Still, the reason I'm starting this blog is not because I'm trying to prove anything. I could not care less if someone finds astrology useful or not. In fact, I wish none of you "believed" in astrology so that I could have my own little secret way of making people Oooh and Aaawww. The reason I'm writing is because I'm constantly seeing ridiculously ignorant stuff on the Net written by astrologers who don't know jack about people and psychology -- particularly places like Star IQ and other popular astrological watering holes. Over the last 14 years, I've had the chance to study charts of people in 12 Step groups, therapy offices, S&M clubs, and other dark crevices of human nature. I'll keep my own anonymity, thank you, to talk about the true signatures of addiction, sexual perversity, and violence.
I promise it's gonna be a dark, wet, wild ride with lots of cussin' and moshin' and fist wavin'. Rawk!
I've also known people to "test" astrology by printing out random horoscopes or chart interpretations off the net and giving them to their friends to get their reactions to see if what astrology says is "accurate." Sorry, but that's not a test of astrology. That's testing people to see how fucking gullible they are. (And they can be very.) Or at least how willing they are to admit something is like them. (Often, they're not.) Also, if you give someone a chart reading for Ghandi or Marilyn Manson, and tell them it's them, chances are -- if for no reason other than the Lake Wobegon effect -- they'll agree. And the stuff generated from templates on the net is worded so generically that it can apply to anyone.
I tend to be highly skeptical about anything, really, until I experience something directly. I've tried various practices of astrology and tossed out chunks of it as complete bullshit. Like this "Astrotravel" stuff , where you can project what your vacation will be like in various places based on astro-voodoo rituals you perform naked in the basement with a map of Europe and a protractor. Don't pay anyone a wad of money for such pooh. I've had horrible vacations in places where I was supposed to have good ones, and wonderful vacations in places I was supposed to have bad ones.
If something doesn't work, you are not obligated to "believe" in it. But for me, I found certain basic practices of astrology were extremely reliable -- so reliable, in fact, that I'd be an idiot to ignore it. If that wets your pocket protector, sorry.
Still, the reason I'm starting this blog is not because I'm trying to prove anything. I could not care less if someone finds astrology useful or not. In fact, I wish none of you "believed" in astrology so that I could have my own little secret way of making people Oooh and Aaawww. The reason I'm writing is because I'm constantly seeing ridiculously ignorant stuff on the Net written by astrologers who don't know jack about people and psychology -- particularly places like Star IQ and other popular astrological watering holes. Over the last 14 years, I've had the chance to study charts of people in 12 Step groups, therapy offices, S&M clubs, and other dark crevices of human nature. I'll keep my own anonymity, thank you, to talk about the true signatures of addiction, sexual perversity, and violence.
I promise it's gonna be a dark, wet, wild ride with lots of cussin' and moshin' and fist wavin'. Rawk!
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