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ter, but most later authors liken it to Mars only. It gives violence, destructiveness, militaryhonour of short duration, with ultimate failure, imprisonment, violent death, success, highand lofty ideals and strength of spirit, and makes its natives magnanimous, grandly liberal,generous, ambitious, fond of power, desirous of command, high spirited & independentIf rising: Great honour and wealth, but violence and trouble, sickness and fevers, acutediseases, benefits seldom last, favour of the great, victory over enemies and scandal.With Sun: Power, authority, great influence over friends, honour and riches, but vio-lence, trouble & ultimate disgrace and ruin, sickness, fevers, benefits seldom last.With Moon: Occult interests, powerful friends, danger from enemies and false friends,gain by speculation, great power, honour, wealth . . .

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Imagination. Imagination proper, in thesense that we use the word when speakingof poetic or artistic imagination, is stron-gest in the fiery and watery signs, especiallythe latter, for the reasons explained on pg.22. Further, Aquarius and Libra indulgelargely in day-dreaming and the creatingof mental fantasies. The mild form of hal-lucination that consists in “imaginingthings” is a Pisces or Neptunian condition,usually with an affliction to Mercury, but itmay at times denote incipient clairvoyance.

In the horoscopes of poets and painterswe see the faculty of artistic imaginationdenoted by the mixture of Lunar, Mercu-rial, and Venusian action, the 5th also be-ing frequently involved.

Tennyson had Mercury in the 3rd inCancer, lord of the 5th, and the Moon inGemini with Venus.

Thomas Hardy had lord 5th in 3rd; theruler of the 3rd had a close trine from theMoon in Cancer; Mercury was conjunctionVenus.

Kipling had Mercury conjoined withVenus and Mars, rulers of the 5th, whilethe Moon was in Gemini.

Lynn Koiner on Weight ControlLynn Koiner on Weight Control

ON Monday Doug in New Zealandemailed to ask if I could help himget the Spring 2004 issue of theNCGR Journal. He had previously triedtwice but had received the wrong issue bothtimes. I didn’t have a direct contact to theperson in New York, but I remembered LynnKoiner. She lives nearby and has had a longassociation with them.

So I gave her a ring and was pleasantlysurprised to learn that she herself had writ-ten the feature article in that Journal, on herpersonal experiences with astrology andweight loss. In the years since she has putthe article on-line, on her website. It is oneof the best astrology articles I have read, andvirtually the very best imaginable in termsof weight control.

As Lynn says, To under go the massivechange required to lose a large amount of

weight and to keep it off for the rest of yourlife requires major transformational transits.Not merely a casual Uranus or Saturn transit.

Lynn says the food addiction signs areCancer and Virgo: These signs seek food asa release from perfectionist demands that theindividual feels that he or she cannot possi-bly fulfill— setting up a boundary of fat forprotection and distancing— and as a releasefrom ever feeling one’s buried emotions.

She identifies Neptune as the culprit, withits well-known boundary issues. Lynn saysNeptune sabotages through ambivalence,denial and excuses, by crippling our abilityto say NO. Lynn’s research says that thinpeople stay thin by acting upon their emo-tions, by DOING THINGS, rather than sup-pressing their feelings via food.

Koiner gives several personality types:The Lunar, i.e., the mother who cannot setboundaries, the Mars/Pluto, who store an-ger and rage; Moon/Mars who bolt theirfood, Moon/Jupiter who do everything toexcess, Moon/Saturn with food allergies,Moon/Uranus, who rebel, Moon/Pluto withfood addiction, and much more. Read it,study it, here. She has lots more on her web-site. Go check it out.

And my thanks to Lynn for her help thispast week.

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EARTH ASTROLOGYEARTH ASTROLOGYPART II

The traditional view is that astrologycomes directly from the sky and influenceseach one of us individually. I havereconceptualized that. The planets influencethe Earth, which combines and blends andsynthesizes the result and then radiates it intoeach of us. Like gravity, quite frankly. Let’sbegin by comparing these two systems, sky-based, vs: Earth-based:

ASPECTS

TAKE two planets in sextile. One-sixth of a circle. It’s a resonance ofone sort or another, it’s one of thePtolemaic aspects: Sextile, square, trine, op-position (the conjunction is not an aspect).There is no reason to think a simple aspectcannot work directly upon us. We do not needto postulate anything else.

Now think of midpoints.If you have a planet at 1OÝ and another

at 1Oß, you have a sextile. The midpoint is1OÞ, and while there isn’t exactly anythingat One Taurus, the idea is clear that the ener-gies of two nearby bodies can blend and cre-ate something. Midpoints were observed byValens in the 2nd century.

But then, how to explain the fact that Ura-nian/Cosmobiology astrologers believe op-positions to midpoints to be equal instrength to the “real” midpoint? Or that theyoften use points in square to midpoints? Evensemi-square (45O). All of which “work”, asanyone who has played with a dial knows.How can empty space do that? Nothing inscience—or common sense—will supportsuch an idea.

Now consider what happens when we addthe Earth itself. Planetary energies enter theearth and resonate inside it. If the angularseparation between the two planets is of acertain number of degrees, the harmonic reso-nance of a sextile is created inside the Earth.And midpoints, all kinds of midpoints, aswell. Call them collateral damage. This isprecisely what we would expect of vibrationsinside a large, complex body, such as theEarth.

If the Earth creates midpoints, then theEarth creates aspects, as the harmonic blend-ing of two independent energies can takeplace only inside some host or other. As-pects cannot actually happen in the sky. AVenus/Jupiter “conjunction” - ? Please.While Venus and Jupiter may appear to beconjunct, they are at least half a billion miles

apart. Suppose Jupiter is Robin Hood, sup-pose Venus is Maid Marion. Marion, notskilled with a bow, stands only a few feetfrom the target, Earth. Robin, a master, isdirectly behind her, but much, much furtheraway. They both shoot at the same time.Robin’s arrow flies over Marion’s shoulder,but her arrow arrives first. Robin’s arrives asplit second later, shattering it. Now: AreRobin and Marion “conjunct” - ? No, theyare not. Their energies are unique and dif-ferent. It is their mutual target that interceptsand fuses their arrows. It is the Earth thattakes planetary energies, puts them together,and radiates the results to us.

PLANETSIn Earth Astrology, planetary energies fall toearth like rain. Mercury, quick and light.Venus, soft and gentle. Mars, storms andthunder. Jupiter, copious. Saturn, cold. Thisisn’t what the planets do to weather (astrom-eteorology is a slightly different subject), itis instead how you should think of the inter-action of the planets and the Earth. Plan-etary energies nourish the Earth, they fertil-ize the Earth, they enable the Earth to bringforth life itself: Animal, vegetable and min-eral — yes, minerals are a form of life. We,humans, harvest the Earth’s abundance,which has been produced with the help ofthe planetary energies which rain down uponus. Notice that the Sun and Moon have beenleft aside. Their energies are not of “water”but of light. Light does not fertilize nor doesit nourish. Light does something altogetherdifferent. Light transforms.RULERSHIPS

TRADITION says the Sun rules Leo,the Moon rules Cancer, Mercuryrules the signs on either side of Leo/Cancer (Gemini/Virgo), Venus rules the signson either side of that (Taurus/Libra), etc. Fewastrologers use rulerships because they don’tunderstand how they could work. If Venusis in Aquarius, how could that have anythingto do with Taurus? There’s nothing in Tau-rus in my chart. See! That constellation isempty!

Now add the Earth. Since I and manyothers can prove that rulerships really dowork, we see immediately that rulerships arehard-wired into the Earth itself. They’reshort-cuts, or short-circuits, if you like. Theyare like rivers that channel specific planets.

The ShapeYou Are In

IF you could take off your skin and sitaround in your bones, the pattern of yourlife’s framing would show up at once,with Saturn the most evident of all your plan-ets because he rules the skeletal frameworkand, by extension, your basic pattern in allthings. To recognize your inherent patternor the shape your life is framed in you mustlook to your natal Saturn therefore, notingwhich ANGULAR house he is already in orfirst enters by transit as he goes through theSigns either direct or retrograde, after yourbirth.

When actually achieved and thus in your1st, 4th, 7th or 10th House—the ones thatgive shape to your wheel of life—then thepattern is considered to be shaped by thenature of that house and he throws twosquares and an opposition to the remainingthree, to modify your pattern accordingly.The angle he is in has the effect of a con-junction and makes matters of that housebasic in your fundamental urges. The twohouses that are square show where obstacleslie, and where too-zealous efforts to estab-lish a pattern may react in loss, undue ex-pense or much disappointment. The anglein opposition shows the non-cooperation orseparative influence to be faced in maintain-ing your pattern. An opposition however islike a Full Moon: you are fully aware of theconditions you face and can see clearly, sinceyou have a light in the darkness. — Hereand There in Astrology, 1961

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Finance, continuedFinance,

Diseases ofSaturn

DISEASES which proceed from Sat-urn are regulated by the motion ofthe Sun. His influence is destruc-tive in the human body, and he tends to af-flict any sign he is in, and to disturb the or-gans or parts ruled by such sign. He espe-cially causes distress by bruises, colds,chronic diseases, by mineral deposits, urea,and uric acid over the system. He causeshindrances, disturbances of function, stop-pages, retentions, suppressions, suspensions,stagnations, lowered vitality, melancholy,etc., and finally death of the physical body.In normal conditions he furnishes the lime,minerals, earthy salts for the body, and in theproper proportions, but as age creeps on, theminerals and wastes of the body are depos-ited more unevenly, retained, not properlyeliminated, until the body becomes acid,hardened, crystallized and unable to furthercarry on its work, and death results. The threescore and ten years are assigned to man, andit is the work of Saturn to see to it that peopledo not live too long on the Earth at one time.When in a fixed sign at birth and by direc-tion, Saturn tends to be a very evil afflictor,and to lead to long, lingering, chronic andtedious diseases. Saturn is depressing, anti-pyretic, and opposed to the action of Marsand the Luminaries over the body. The mostof his diseases are brought on by cold, expo-sure to cold, chill, and he specializes in coldand dry diseases, which are more destruc-tive to the body. His influence over the mindis worrisome, pessimistic, depressing, mel-ancholic, etc., which states of mind tend tolowered vitality, and earlier death. Saturn inthe Signs and Houses at birth shows the weakspots in our map, and what parts of the bodyare more subject to disease . . . — Encyclo-paedia of Medical Astrology, by H.L. Cor-nell.

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decanate:Note the nar-row hips andthe upward tiltto the eyesand eye-brows. Thesubtle physi-cal connec-tion betweenScorpio andAquarius isseen here, forboth have the serpent for their symbol.Aquarius has two serpents, containing alter-native extremes of development. The squareaspect between these two signs is indicativeof the mind endeavouring to comprehend andthen control the emotions, a psychologicalconflict increasingly apparent with both sexesof a sensitive type now that the Libra decan-ate of Aquarius begins to affect the race-un-conscious, as we move backwards from Pi-sces to Aquarius.

The Libra decanate of Aquarius is ruledby Venus. The disposition is melancholy andsubject to moods and fancies. If afflicted,there may be strange visions or hallucina-tions. The mind is inclined towards mysti-cism and the fate is largely affected by mar-riage and love affairs, yet there is little satis-faction, as a rule, to be obtained through ei-ther. The Libra side demands love, yet theSaturnian element of the nature fears to trustfate, whilst at the same time the emotions aresubject to a form of self-analysis, which, inthe end, destroys the thing it beloved. Thisdecan, if afflicted, often causes nervous dis-orders.

General aphorisms concerning finance, con-tinued:—

3. Benefics promising money and not af-flicted by malefics denote lawful gain, butmalefics promising, and afflicted, retrograde,combust or in a bad sign, denote unlawfulgain. A benefic in the house or exaltation ofa malefic, or a malefic in the house or exal-tation of a benefic, denote both lawful andunlawful gain. Retrogradation and combus-tion increase the likelihood of unlawful gainin both cases.

4. If the significators of wealth are inhouses 12, 11 or 10, money will be obtainedin youth; if in 9, 8 or 7, between the ages of25 and 35 or 40; if in 6, 5 or 4, between 40and 50; and if in 3, 2 or 1 late in life. If thesignificators rise before the Sun money willcome earlier but if they rise after the Sun,nearer old age. Retrogradation delays thetime but swiftness of motion hastens it.

Gain. 1. Jupiter strong in Ascendant andMoon well aspected in 2nd gives wealth.

2. Part of Fortune strong, and its disposi-tor in the 8th in good aspect to lord of theAscendant, brings legacies.

3. North node with Moon, Jupiter or Ve-nus, in 2nd denotes durable fortune. Thesame is denoted if Jupiter or Venus are ingood aspect to the cusp of the 2nd.

4. Saturn disposing of the Part of For-tune and in good aspect to Jupiter indicatesinheritances. If the aspect is in angles, orJupiter is in Gemini, Sagittarius or Pisces,and in the 7th in good aspect to the Moonthe native is often an adopted child and in-herits the wealth of its adopted parents.

5. Moon in Taurus in 2nd and separatingfrom square or opposition Jupiter and apply-ing to trine Sun denotes considerable riches.

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Venus energies always go to the Taurus/Li-bra rivers. Mars always ends up at the Ariesand Scorpio rivers, etc.

Because this is true, because the Earth isan automaton, many parts of the Earth, andmany things on the Earth, have, over time,evolved to express specific planetary ener-gies. Go get your medieval herbal and havea look: Cattail, hawkweed, and nightshadehave evolved to express Saturn. It’s whatSaturn grew in the Earth’s garden. Borage,cinquefoil and foxglove express Jupiter.Anemony, red beans and beets express Mars.Physically expressing, each in its own way,the planetary energies which permeate, whichflow over, in and through the earth itself.Gold has evolved to express the Sun’s en-ergy as it courses through the Earth, silverexpresses the Moon’s, tin expresses Jupiter’s,lead Saturn’s. Many of you are doubtlessfamiliar with planetary gemstones. All ofthese evolved because the Earth was alreadysaturated with planetary energies. These arethe Earth’s own responses to them.

But isn’t this just the same theory as be-fore, that planets have this mysterious energythat can’t be sensed in any way?

No, it’s not. When we consider the solarsystem as a whole it is plainly obvious thereis an overall rhythm, an overall harmony toit. While space is a 360 degree sphere, ex-tending in all directions, the planets all lie ina single narrow plane. They all orbit the Sunin the same direction. They all revolve ontheir axis in the same direction, some fasterthan others, though Uranus is knocked on itsside. All the many moons orbit in the samedirection. Planets have regular spacing fromthe Sun outwards, the well-known Titius-Bode law, which, as it revealed the gap be-tween Mars and Jupiter, led to the discoveryof the asteroid belt. In every way that plan-ets can be said to be in harmony, one withanother, we find that they, in fact, are.

How did this come about? I don’t know.Why did it? I don’t know that, either. Thoseare first causes, about which we know noth-ing at all. (And please don’t get me startedon the absurdity of the Big Bang.) But notknowing the source does not stop us fromtracing the effects. Indeed, that is all thatscience has ever done.

SIGNS

BUT you want me to back up. Youcaught me saying the Earth has Ar-ies and Libra and Capricorn alreadyinside it, that these signs are expressly tai-lored to be internal pathways to be used bythe individual planets themselves. Is thatright?

Yes, it is. How are signs formed? Theyare not of the sky. If they were of the sky,there would not be this Tropical/Siderealzodiac nonsense. There would be one zo-diac and we would all be in agreement withit. Instead we have two and they are driftingever further apart. In another four thousandyears they will be in square to each other.We can’t simply fudge things or try to findsolutions with distant constellations in the skywhen there is no possible mechanism to col-lect the energies of the scattered stars, muchless channel them to the Earth.

We are on far firmer ground, we have aconcrete basis, by noting that Spring (AriesTaurus Gemini) has always started when theSun crosses the Earth’s equator headingnorth, that Summer (Cancer Leo Virgo) is theSun’s maximum north declination, that Fall(Libra Scorpio Sagittarius) is when the Sunagain crosses the Earth’s equator going south,and that Winter (Capricorn Aquarius Pisces)is the Sun’s maximum southerly declination.The zodiac is, in its essence, a marker of theEarth/Sun relationship. It may be that theSun applies the signs of the zodiac to theEarth, but it is also true that the zodiac is in-ternal to the Earth. Not of the sky. Not of

the planets, nor of the stars.The zodiac is how the Earth is hard-wired,

and it is hardwired to specific planetary—and numerical—energies. So of course Ju-piter will favor the Sagittarius and Piscesshortcuts, and after that the one in Cancer.Saturn will go to Capricorn and Aquarius,and then Libra. It will abhor Leo and Can-cer and Aries, etc.

HOUSESare a development of signs, and as such theyare nearer to us than signs, more immediate,more practical, and much more transient.Houses are signs that have been conditionedby the Earth’s daily rotation on its axis.Houses lie on the very surface of the Earth,they are strongly conditioned by sect, whichis to say, day and night. Because of this,houses are like lots in a city. They enclosetopographic features (signs), they are occu-pied by planets, managed by landlords (rul-ers of the signs) and impacted, here and there,by aspects (commercial development). Mas-ter the twelve houses, build on their lots, andyou can assemble a city (i.e., read a chart).Fail, and you will have a mere jumble of dis-connected parts, a disorganized outpost in thecosmic wilderness.

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Are houses defective, in that they do notextend all the way to the poles? No. Housesshow how planetary energies actually arriveon the Earth. At the equator the light of thesun and the “rain” of the planets hit theground at right angles. At the poles, they areall parallel with the ground. Houses showthis. We might wish we lived in a solar sys-tem where the Sun, Moon and planets werenot all found in the same plane (the ecliptic),but we do not.

MEDICINESo if, for example, in stumbling about on thisplanet, you have picked up a Saturnine dis-ease, which you can easily determine bychecking your transits and/or making a de-cumbiture, you can cure that disease, eitherwith a skillful application of a Saturnine rem-edy (like cures like), or the application of itsopposite, a solar or lunar one (opposites driveeach other out). Here you have the essenceof medical astrology in a nutshell.

Or you can go the “scientific” route,where you apply patent medicines willy-nillyin the vain hope that a wild guess might fixthe problem. Given enough time, enoughmoney, a strong stomach, and an unwittingbut hopefully skilled modern doctor, andeventually he will chance upon a proper, al-though synthetic, planetary remedy and youwill be cured. When explained in these terms,what fool would want that? Go to a real as-tro-herbal doctor and get the right stuff thefirst time.

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SO, the Earth is made up of zodiacalenergies, which receive and channelexternal planetary energies, thus en-ergizing and qualifying everything on thisplanet. Given that a body at rest will tend tostay at rest, and a body in motion will tend tostay in motion, when left in peace humans,as miniature Earths, will tend to fill their in-dividual spaces with people and objectswhich have compatible astrological energiesto their own. They will tend to select andkeep those objects which are in harmony withtheir own personal energies, and quite with-out any conscious thought. Those things withinharmonious energies will not be selected,or will not be used, or will perhaps break orfall apart (from the strain of incompatibleenergy), or will be lost or abandoned or sto-len or simply ignored or given away. Whichmeans that, over time, people, when left totheir own devices, tend to create homes forthemselves. Homes filled with things thatresonate to their own personal astrologicalvibrations. Did you ever walk into astranger’s home and note how, well, strange

it all was?But when this does not happen, when

people are stressed or displaced or simply notpermitted to settle or get comfortable, plan-etary energies become dysfunctional and actout. There is no choice about this. You can-not dam up a stream and not expect the wa-ters to burst through eventually. Individualplanets act out in individual ways: The Sun,preening arrogance, the Moon, timidity,Mercury lies and deceit, Venus willful indo-lence, etc. On a macro scale, we see crimeand violence, sexual acting out, obesity, anddrug use.

On the other hand, at extremely rare mo-ments a wave of sheer euphoria comes overthe world. Such as the euphoria which builtduring the last year of World War II (espe-cially in Europe) which lasted into 1946, ifnot 1947. And the euphoria which sweptEurope in the fall of 1989. At such times itseems as if miracles can happen, and some-times I think they really do.

WEATHERBecause of the fact that the Earth is a vibrat-ing body, and because of the fact that, at birth,we each become mini-Earths, in other words,mini-vibrating bodies, Earthlings have theunique ability to not only absorb the Earth’sastrological energies, but, when organized,to radiate them back into the Earth itself, thuschanging the Earth’s own astrological natureand response.

We typically see this in times of war andsevere economic distress, by means of theweather. A century ago Sepharial was con-vinced the study of the weather would provethe reality of astrology, because the atmo-sphere is a highly responsive medium to as-trological energies. But that was when wemistakenly thought that astrology was exter-nal to the earth.

Now that we know astrology to be inter-nal and radiating outwards, it is obvious thatthe Earth’s astrology creates its weather.Which is mute testimony to the variety ofthe Earth’s astrological impress, its intensity,and its rapid change. When we are frustratedwith national economic policy, when we lookin vain to our leaders, when we as a nationare enraged, should we not expect violentstorms? If we are angry, do we not make theplanet angry as well? Astrology shows thatwe are all interconnected. Why would theEarth not react to this human stimulus by pro-ducing violent weather? Those of a religiousbent will say this is God’s work, but it is as-trology that reveals the mechanism. We arenot in the Emerald City, there is no manbehind the curtain. Which is not to say there

is no god, only that you must look harder.It is therefore simplistic to say that glo-

bal warming is caused by this factor or that.There are a great many factors, including thechange from the Piscean Age to the Aquar-ian Age, a transition which began a centuryago and which was completed around theyear 1968. Aquarius being airy, it will ofcourse be drier than Pisces, which was wet.Dryness tends to temperature extremes.

SIDEREALThere are of course a great many “energychannels” in the earth that, while they arequalified by one or another planet, are likemetals or gems or living plants, in that theyare not directly linked to any particularplanet’s placement in the sky. Such are theVedic dashas. Chief among them are theVimshottari dashas, a 120 year system, dis-tributed among the Sun, Moon, five planetsand north and south nodes. During a planet’speriod, you have experiences relating to thatplanet, according to its placement (strength,weakness) in your horoscope. Uniquely, tomake this system work, the Sidereal, not theTropical, zodiac is used. Which leads us toan examination of the Sidereal zodiac.

THE Sidereal zodiac is caused by awobble in the Earth’s orbit. By“wobble” is meant the secondaryspin that can be seen in an ordinary top. Spina top and you will see it going around maybe500 times a minute. You will also see a sec-ondary spinning, of perhaps one revolutionevery second. That’s the top’s wobble. TheEarth has the same.

The reason the Earth has a wobble is dueto the tidal forces of the Sun and Moon,which very likely means the fight betweenSun and Moon, meaning that if the Moonwasn’t there, there would be little wobble andhence no Sidereal Zodiac.

It should therefore come as no surprisethat Lunar Mansions, or Nakshatras, areinvariably given in the Sidereal zodiac, sinceit is the Moon that creates the Sidereal zo-diac. It should also be no surprise that vari-ous flavors of Vimshottari Dashas are basedon the Moon’s natal position. (Not the natalpositions of the other planets.) If the Tropi-cal Zodiac is internal to the Earth (or, at worst,the product of the Earth-Sun relationship),then the Sidereal Zodiac is a product of theEarth-Moon relationship and, due to the over-all weakness of the Moon, when comparedto the Earth or Sun, is largely external to theEarth. Now do you begin to see why thesetwo creatures, Tropical and Sidereal, are soconfusing? The Sun defines the TropicalZodiac, the Moon defines the Sidereal Zo-

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diac. They are locked in an eternal battle.On the one hand, the Tropical zodiac is im-mediate, whereas, on the other, the LunarZodiac is very close and a powerful emo-tional draw, as everything lunar always is.

The Sidereal zodiac, aka the Lunar zo-diac, functions as a chronocrator, in otherwords, a time-keeper. It tracks the Great Yearof 25,000 solar years. As such, it also tracksabsolute change, at the rate of 1 degree forevery 72 years. Cyril Fagan, Brigadier Fire-brace, Garth Allen (the Sidereal School) fig-ured this out half a century ago. If we goback for a moment to last week’s orbitalsander and cookie analogy, it was clear that,by itself, the world could produce few sur-prises. If everything is vibrating from a singlesource, then all permutations of that vibra-tion are already known and can be accountedfor in advance. Which is not the reality weexperience. The “Sidereal shift” is the netchange in the system as a whole, over time.Which forms the basis for Vedic astrology,which is largely forecast-oriented, as areFagan’s many precessed solar and lunar re-turns. As is sadly typical, failure to under-stand the larger picture results in Tropical vs:Sidereal arguments. Both zodiacs are valid,each for their own reasons. As we can see,the various components that make up astrol-ogy come from a variety of sources.

CHARLES CARTERdid intensive research on specific degree ar-eas. Which he understood to be quirks inthe sky. Which, as previously mentioned,can find no actual support. Now that weknow the zodiac to be of the Earth, then thedegrees of the zodiac are also of the Earth,and Carter’s degree areas show quirks in thephysical structure of the Earth itself. If thereare places on the Earth where people com-monly suffer from such afflictions, and ifthese places can be mapped, the result wouldbe an Earth map of specific degree influences.Which would update and refine Ptolemy’sdivision of the world into specific zodiacalareas.

MAGICThe theory of Mother Earth as the prime as-trological source greatly empowers magic,and there is really only one kind of magic:Black. All of you who piously light candlesand chant formulas to “help the world”should realize that simple manual labor ismore effective and more safe. There is noth-ing in the world, nothing whatever, that moregreatly spooks people than the fear of magic,and nothing will bring out a murderous mobfaster than the belief they are being secretlymanipulated by unseen forces. Rightly or

wrongly, the world has burned enoughwitches. I do not want to see a return tosuch mindless, cruel barbarities.

IN SUM: The Sun gives life to everything he sees. The planets interact witheach other, achieving a mutual harmony.Of the planets, the Earth is our home. TheEarth responds to the Sun with the signs ofthe zodiac, which the Earth uses to organizeincoming solar, lunar and planetary energiesaccording to the number(s) which are appro-priate to each of the various planets, in waysthat are quite complex. Overlaid on the Earthis a grid of twelve houses, which are fixed.The Earth revolves underneath. Presumablythis sort of system, of signs and houses andaspects and such, is common to all the plan-ets, but this we do not actually know.

The Moon battles the Sun, it alternativelyblocks the Sun’s rays, and reflects them tous emotionally distorted. And the Moonwobbles the Earth as a whole, thereby creat-ing both time, and events.

Such is astrology.

With these principles, that the Earth is,so far as we are concerned, the final sourceand ultimate arbiter of all astrological ener-gies, you may know everything on earth andin the heavens. Indeed, it is impossible toimagine any exceptions, and absurd to try.By revealing the true source of Astrology,by showing its relationship to mankind him-self, Astrology is restored to its rightful, com-manding role in the world. Use these prin-ciples, experiment, expand on them, discovernew details, and you will dethrone IsaacNewton’s ugly, mal-formed materialistic sci-ence, for science without astrology cannotstand. The reappearance of a true and hon-est science is long overdue. I mention inpassing that astrology is badly, badly neededin medicine, as every day thousands of men,women and children suffer needlessly, hun-dreds of lives are cut short and lost, everyday, from simple astrological ignorance.

The world is waiting. Astrology hasmuch to give.

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