Gist of the Gemini

I have Venus at one degree of Cancer. Cancer is a water sign, so it's emotional . And it's a cardinal sign, so it's a leader . There are four elements and three qualities. Four times three equals twelve and there are twelve astrological signs, so each combination of quality and element appears exactly once. Thus, Cancer is the only emotional leader and it is frequently a strong influence in the astrological charts of military people. The sign is associated with patriotism, which is about a strong feeling about the importance of loyalty to your country, which is a larger cause than yourself. There is some voice quality and people who have more of it are very emotionally persuasive when they speak. Adolf Hitler rated very high for this quality and it has been suggested that this was a factor in his sway over the German people.  He really got the German people riled up when he spoke. Whatever you think of old photos of him, the evidence suggests he was very charismatic in per...

In Aliens 3, there's a scene where Ripley says "Down there, in the basement." She's describing where she will find the alien. I think she's told something like "This is a prison. We don't have a basement." And she replies "It's a metaphor." The twelfth house is the basement of the psyche, the personal and sometimes the collective subconscious.  It describes confinements, like prison or hospital stays.  It's where I've lived my life, where the weight of the world has confined me for decades. I have Saturn at 17 degrees of Pisces in the Twelfth House. Pisces and the twelfth house are both the same kind of energy and they don't typically coincide. The house system is a second set of pie slices imposed over the signs. It is determined by your rising sign and I've seen a Reddit comment saying it's half of the chart because it adds an entire second wheel to the chart. Opposite my Saturn is the collective midpoints of four ...

It is Saturday. We recently had a near total lunar eclipse that started late Thursday evening and ended the wee hours of Friday morning. Astronomical articles said 96 percent of the moon was covered. I don't recall what astrological or other term was used. We also had a total solar eclipse about two weeks prior, which is the norm. Solar eclipses only occur at new moons. Lunar eclipses only occur at full moons. They typically occur in pairs about six months apart, though occasionally we get a set of three in a row. Generally speaking, the applying stage is typically more stressful and turbulent. That's the period of time leading up to the event, whether it's an aspect in your natal chart or a transit (aspect of existing stuff to your chart) or an event like an eclipse, Grand Cross or similar big deal thing. That's usually the three days prior to an eclipse. It continues to be a high pressure, eventful period in the days following but it's usually less stressful and ...

Lady-in-waiting is an actual title of a position of a type of female assistant to a more important woman. That seems to not really be common knowledge or the widespread understanding of the term among modern people. Royalty and nobility is something we tend to think of as in the past. So I think most people think of the expression ladies in waiting as something more like an expression of the role women historically played of waiting for hubby to come home and things like that. That concept that women just wait around for their man to get home while trying to keep dinner warm or something is likely behind the joke in Shrek the Third of "Assume the position.... waiting to be rescued." At one time, astrology was something studied by learned men who then advised kings and cited "The STARS say so..." to cover themselves and deflect attention away from the reality that some commoner was defacto telling the king how to run things. But these days, it's something ordin...

Astrology, which is Greek for the study of the stars , is a misnomer . Astronomy, Greek for the naming of the stars , is really the study of the stars. Historically, planets were called wandering stars . Astrological charts are actually geocentric maps of our solar system.  And they are essentially Gravity Maps with substantial annotations concerning gravitational wake interactions. (AKA aspects and transits.) Space agencies just need to learn how to use that existing wealth of information about our solar system as a navigational tool. Hiring a professional Astrologer (ideally, one familiar with the math -- which is substantial if you calculate charts by hand -- and not just the personality profile lore) and a sailor experienced with sailed vessels can help you figure that out. It's a little like how historically Ben Franklin tracked water temperature every time he crossed the Atlantic Ocean and thereby mapped a warm channel of water. My recollection is that ships that had that i...

Your First House is your House of Style. It rules appearance and its sign, bodies within it and other factors related to your Rising Sign and the First House can help you figure out your best looks. So you want to look at your Rising Sign, any info related to it, where its ruler is found in your chart and any planets with Exact aspects (within one degree of exact) or secondarily fairly strong aspects (within three to five degrees of exact) to your Ascendant. I also recommend you look up colors associated with every sign in which you have a planet or other heavenly body. Your strongest colors will be associated with your Rising Sign, Sun and Moon but secondary colors will be described by other placements. I don't typically wear watery blues, greens and purples as my main color, but I have one planet in every water sign and I do surprisingly well in a wide variety of watery colors as a secondary color. The Rising Sign changes signs every two hours, because twenty-four hours divided b...

Astrology means the study of the stars. Astronomy means the naming of the stars. Astrology is a word linguistically similar to ecology or biology or archeology. Those are all respected sciences and astrology has come to be seen as a kind of carney act. Part of the problem here is that astrology isn't really the study of the stars and it never was. Astrology is the study of how nearby heavenly bodies that share our solar system impact life here on Earth via gravity. Historically, the planets visible to the naked eye were called wandering stars. So people studying the night sky didn't initially have a mental framework for distinguishing planets from stars. They were all just points of light in the nighttime sky. It was only after we invented telescopes that we began making a clear distinction between planets and stars. Astrological charts are gravity maps of important bodies within our solar system. The only star they really study is the one Earth revolves around: Our Sun.