Wheels of Change: Stelliums, Mundane Astrology, and ... In 1499, the German astrologer Johann Stoffler predicted that the world would be destroyed by a catastrophic flood on February 4, 1524, due to an ominous conjunction of planets in Pisces, the zodiacal sign of water.
It wasn’t long before other astrologers followed suit, lending their support to Stoffler’s claim of an impending deluge and spurring many to build boats or relocate to higher ground. Even the philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli chimed in at one point by writing verses urging others to escape to the high hills to avoid the coming cataclysm. As it turned out, 1524 came and went without any catastrophe, and certainly produced no such “flood” — or so it seemed. If we stand back and broaden our historical focus just a bit, we’ll see that quite a lot happened, actually, but it didn’t unfold precisely in 1524, nor was it as straightforward as astrologers of the time predicted. The Events of 9/11 There are countless examples of this from recent history.
But that’s not all. THE FIXED CROSS. The Fixed Cross The Cross of the Crucified Christ Fixed Cross Ponderings This is outstandingly the Cross of the Soul.
The person who is upon the Fixed Cross is becoming increasingly aware of its direction and influences, and does not respond as blindly as others who have not yet mounted this Cross. One does not mount this Cross of Right Direction until they have attained some measure of soul contact and have had some touch of illumination and of spiritual intuition—no matter how fleeting that touch may have been. The veneer of Neptune oppositions. Things You May Not Know about Conjunctions. ©9-26-2013 by Donna Cunningham, MSW Readers, I miss you and really miss blogging, but these days, rather than blogging, I am slogging through the final chapters of The Stellium Handbook.
I’m in the midst of writing not one but two chapters on conjunctions, and thought you might enjoy a short sample. A conjunction is a potent connection (called an aspect) between two planets in which the planets stand close together and blend their energies. It usually only involves one sign and one house of an astrology chart, although the two planets sometimes straddle houses or signs. The orb (number of degrees apart) for a conjunction is officially 8°. With a conjunction, it’s difficult to get a separate perspective on the parts of you that either planet symbolizes. Venus-Saturn Aspects—Good Qualities You Wouldn’t Suspect. Aspects and Orbs in Astrology – Lesson 9. Aspects in astrology are of utmost importance in interpreting any chart.
Aspects indicate how the various planetary and sign energies actually play out. They indicate, among other things, if there will be struggles or ease. AstroPhoebe Astrology. The zodiac circle is a matrix of creation, one of the shapes seminal to the evolution of form.
It can be compared to the pattern of a rainbow that always manifests with the same seven colours in the same order. So the energies radiating from the centre of a circle display a twelve-fold pattern exhibiting the same internal qualitative geometry. Pluto Aspects, The Spiritual Dimension of. Aspect Patterns Configurations - A useful guide to the gestalt of a chart. When interpreting the aspects formed between two planets in a chart we must make sure to take into account not only the individual aspects in terms of their cyclic representation, but also the interrelationship with all other aspects in the chart.
Each aspect has the power to modify another by its mere presence. It would be extremely rare for an aspect to form in a chart in and of itself. Aspect Shapes in the Astrology Birth Chart. You have chart aspect shapes in your chart.
Chart aspect shapes are a powerful guide to our deepest psychological motivations. They identify what parts of our personality work easily together, and which parts are so different that it is hard to reconcile one with the other. In other words, they chart and define our egoic psychology. In particular, chart aspect shapes analysis is excellent for identifying which parts of us are split off: what parts act as ‘unaspected sub-personalities.
The need is to know even the split-off parts of ourselves, so that we will not be driven by unconscious denied parts, so that we will not swing wildly from one persona to another, bewildering ourselves and those around us. This processes of unifying our Self is called ‘individuation’ the principle method used in achieving individuation is called ‘psychosynthesis’. Find out about the chart aspect shapes in your birth chart by having a natal chart reading with me. Like this: Like Loading... Lunar Living Astrology Aspect Patterns Yods and Boomerangs< Non-Conforming Configurations (Part 6) Yod and Boomerang Yod.
Aspect Meanings in Birth Charts - Aspects involving Saturn. Nothing Is Simple! Figures and Composed Aspects. The 15 major and minor figures with composed aspects This article completes the Figures and Planetary Patterns article which gives an overview of natal charts graphic configurations.
Indeed, besides the general figures formed by all the planets of the natal chart, and in addition to the natural aspects explained nearly everywhere (conjunctions, oppositions, trines, sextiles, squares, quincunxes, sesqui-squares, semi-squares, quintiles, semi-quintiles, and bi-quintiles, for the 11 most commonly used aspects, which are reviewed in our Couple's Compatibility Programme), a few groups of isolated planets sometimes form special figures. They are called Composed Aspects. AstroPhoebe Astrology. THE POWER OF THE YOD.