Gist of the Gemini

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.

The name of this site is from an album  I was gifted as a teenager entirely because I was born under the Sun Sign Gemini.  I had not previously heard of the artist, Gino Vannelli, and it wasn't a genre of music I was into or anything like that. I did end up liking the album.  At least in theory I'm a Gemini. My understanding is the constellations are no longer in line with our astrological Sun sign "calendars," so that may be inaccurate and perhaps should be investigated and updated, much like other calendars were inaccurate historically and had to be updated. When you actually do the math and hand cast charts like I did in my youth, you calculate sidereal or star time for the time and place in question. This includes accounting for latitude and longitude of the place of birth.  So a brief history of man's relationship to time: Historically, it was noon when the Sun was directly overhead. If you had a local clock tower in your town -- because clockworks were huge...

I did a post recently elsewhere about a female comedian and her very intentionally quirky clothing style. I'm guessing she likely has Jupiter or Uranus or related influences on her Rising Sign or first house. She dresses like a Kibbe Flamboyant Gamine and sometimes has crazy outfits that actually work anyway, but I think she could have a more flattering haircut. Flamboyant Gamine does better with an asymmetrical haircut. I have Uranus strongly aspecting my Rising Sign and I do better with an asymmetrical haircut (I'm a Soft Dramatic, not a Flamboyant Gamine). I have wavy hair except for one straighter patch somewhere and an asymmetrical haircut helps cover that quirk. My face isn't perfectly symmetrical. One eyebrow is a little more arched and pointy than the other and I typically part my hair over that eyebrow if I'm parting it. Uranus is associated with asymmetrical stuff and with eccentricity or the unusual. See also: Aquarius and Uranus Understanding the Planets   ...

From a high cliff, Papillon observes a cove where he realizes the waves are powerful enough to carry a man out to sea and to the nearby mainland. That's from the Wikipedia article for  Papillon , a 1973 film based on a true story. Papillon is French for butterfly and it's the nickname of the main character who has a large butterfly tattoo.  He's a safe cracker wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in a harsh prison system in French Guiana. At some point, he's transferred to a facility on an island.  Others have built rafts to try to escape and have all been washed back to the base of the cliffs by strong waves, breaking up their rafts and probably killing them. Papillon spends substantial time observing the waves and concludes there's a pattern. My recollection is he says there is a pattern of seven waves which repeats.  He believes if he leaves at the right time, he can get out. He does successfully escape. A reasonable use of astrology ...