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Autumn 2016 Issue 88In this issue Page Council News 1Following Antares – Gaye Alkan 2 American Presidential Election – Sharon Knight & Steven Birchfield 6Photos from Open Day 13

* * * * * * *Council News:We had a great conference at Wyboston. It was extremely well attended and we had a lot of interest in the work of the APAI. It seems at the very least to have inspired several people to look into studying with a recognised school in order to qualify for membership. Time will tell.

That was followed by our Open Day at Liss with Ben Dykes running a workshop on directing the Ascendant through the Bounds. Although there had been bookings for over 20 attendees, in the 48 hours up to the day, eight people cancelled and interestingly, all cited family reasons. I don’t know what was going on in the Heavens to cause similar issues to so many!

Nonetheless, we had a fabulous day and it meant everyone got to share their experiences of life events when the Bounds changed over. It was fascinating to hear the various stories and see the astrology unfold. I wish to thank Angela Cornish and Ann Martin for stepping in to help in place of Robert and Jennie who normally deal with catering, washing up, financials etc. The day would not have run so smoothly without their help! Thanks also to Paul Summerfield for providing the taxi service to and from the station to the Lodge. In future, we will have to take definite booking deposits to ensure our speakers don’t go hungry!

Please do let Council know of your suggestions for speakers/topics for next Autumn and Spring 2018.

Remember, the AGM for 2017 is to be held on the 8 th April 2017 . at Tiverton in Devon. Barbara Dunn is our afternoon speaker and will be talking on Early Modern Medical Astrology with case studies from the practice of William Lilly and Simon Forman. It promises to be a fascinating glimpse into both the astrology and medicine of the 17 th century.

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Editor: Sharon Knight, Batchelor’s Hall,Kiln Lane, Isfield, East Sussex. TN22 5UE

Tel: 01825 750733. Email: astrologersharon@aol.comAny opinions stated in this newsletter are those of the author, not the APAI, or the Editor.

Do put the date in your diary. We hope to see many of you there.

* * * * * * *FOLLOWING ANTARES – ANTARES, SATURN AND MARS CONTACTS AND TURKEY’S AGENDA.Gaye Alkan

The fixed star Antares, located at 09 degree 46 minutes Sagittarius is of a Mars – Jupiter nature and known as “In the heart of Scorpio”. It is one of the four Royal Stars. The word, “Antares”, comes from Anti – Ares words. Anti – Ares means “The Rival of Mars”. This fixed star is also called “Watcher of the West”.

Being “The Rival of Mars” is not easy. Antares is related to fearlessness, unexpected events, accidents. In the statement, “Watcher of the West”, the word “West” shows us where we can look for the effects of the star. In traditional definitions, Antares shows a wild nature, violent death by law or war. Antares also gives one a great success, fame or power depending on its rules.

In addition to these classical astrology definitions, we know that Antares has an insisting nature. As defined by the Mars – Jupiter nature, it has an active, aggressive spreading motivation. Antares has a power to achieve exactly what it wants, whether in a person’s or a country’s chart. Also, as stated in traditional sources, “worry, obsessing, insisting” turns the success of Antares into a destructive energy. It’s highly concentrated on the success that, it begins to create an opposite power to destroy the success itself. Trying to retain the circumstances for its benefit all the time and arrogance, both ruin the success which is gained by hard work and struggle rule of Antares. As it is admissible with other Royal Stars, Antares has a virtue test and it only gives great success if the person avoids the shadow side of power.

Another, “virtue teacher”, Saturn entered Sagittarius in 23 December 2014. This showed itself with limitations and tests in freedom, educations, academy, publishing and religion subjects. Saturn, within its 29 year circle, by entering one sign after another, shows what the case has become. This new transit of in the next sign, does not mean a total new subject. Saturn brings up the old skeleton of a certain responsibility to a next level, a new version. This new version of the test may seem a totally new event in our lives but in fact, it is still about what we could not solve and also what we solved and gained in previous sign. The skeleton of the real problem is generally in an area that is hard to face with.

Since the start of 2016, Saturn, Mars and Antares triple’s contacts have been awaited by astrologers. Also, according to classical astrology which defines Saturn and Mars as two malefics, if these two find a chance to spread their energy with one of the luminaries, this also touches Antares’ energy and may cause highly powerful and if not managed well, highly destroying energies. The first contact of Saturn and Antares was in 20th of December 2015. While Saturn was in this way, it turned retrograde until the 13th of August 2016. Also Mars is on its way, with direct and retro motions around Antares and is triggering it. Mars’s last stationary position was very near to Antares, around 8 degree of Sagittarius, on the 16th of April, 2016.

Why are these retrogrades important? In the whole “story”, planets such as Saturn which complete their cycle over a long period of time, are while on their tour, they bring their concentrated tests with different topics each time, forcing us to complete the uncompleted issues with their retros. So, it’s better to watch for the triggering points and times in our personal and country charts.

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Antares, Saturn and Mars contacts last occurred as an important event in 15th of July, in 2016, around 21:45. This was an important day in Turkey’s agenda. There was an “Attempted Coup” in Turkey on that night. A group of soldiers stopped the traffic on the bridge, they made announcements that “Army gets the direction of the government and there is a curfew.” This chart shows the issues’ start:

The ascendant of the event chart is 17 degrees 53 minutes Aquarius. The ruler Saturn is on the MC and it is only 1 degree away from Antares. The moon gets the light from Mars, bringing it to Saturn on its way. Moon, will carry the light of Saturn too and bring it to the Capricorn full moon. So it’s possible that in the full moon, the case will be clearer than now.

Saturn symbolizes elder people, authority, elimination, sometimes the hard nature of power and also fear. At the same time, the position of Saturn in the top the chart shows a kind of fall and elimination. When Moon was having the light from Mars, the energy that it was bringing was intense, active and destructive. Antares want to use this energy for its power and success. Saturn with Antares can be defined as a person or group of people or an event that insist to put its own strict rules and use its / their power for it. One of the Saturn’s meanings is rules and system and Antares also symbolizes soldiers.

In the chart below, Saturn, Mars and Antares are shown in the same degree and minutes. There will be different positions for sure until this time. But this certain time can show the process of Antares’s intentions, especially in the chart which Antares highlighted, just as in our country.

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When we look at the actual date of the conjunction on Turkey’s natal chart, we see the actors on the sixth house which is defined as soldiers, services, employees.

Also an interesting point belongs to the Moon, which is the light and information carrier. Let’s take a look at the 9 degrees of Gemini, which Moon makes an opposition to the actors. The charts shown below are Turkey’s natal chart inside and the transit chart of 25th August 2016.

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Our search for moon’s opposition brought us to 25th August, 2016. I want to highlight the point that the moon makes this opposition from the 12th house. Also the axes of the 6th and 12th houses may show issues related to soldiers. This opposition may be explained as an event which makes the secret information is seen. This may also point at 12th house kind of processes about the country.

To conclude this article, we may say that Antares's influence will compel us to aim for “more”, and make things happen in our lives. One can use this energy - but carefully so - for positive success. This “virtue test” will not be easy of course but staying alert about the right use of power will help.

We may experience these energies in our personal lives as well as collectively.BibliographyImsiragic Aleksandar, Pillars of DestinyDöşer Öner, Temel Kavramlar

Thank you Gaye for your contribution. Let’s hope the energies work out well for your lovely country and countrymen.

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American Presidential Election and why we wouldn’t make a Prediction on the outcome using birth times of the Candidates.

It seems a day hasn’t passed since the start of 2016 when there hasn’t been some news coverage regarding either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, other than the time taken up with the Brexit outcome here in the UK.

Things on the Internet are now starting to heat up especially since the first head to head between Trump and Clinton on the 26th September.

Friendships have been lost either personally, or on Facebook over outcomes. Words are hurled over the Internet about others astrological takes on the outcome and, at times, it seems as though the small astrological community is at war with itself. (As we can see in the Libra Ingress chart a microcosm/reflection of the state of the nation)

Much of the animosity and finger wagging centres primarily on that most vexatious issue of unknown, or verified birth times for Hillary Clinton where times range from 8:02 am to 8:02 pm; as well as 10:48 am and yet another birth time of 02.18.

I copy the following from ISAR which is available on FB and other sites:

BREAKING NEWS!!! Hillary Clinton’s birth time has been foundISAR ASTROLOGY·SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2016According to astrologer Marc Penfield, both the Cook County and State of Illinois record divisions last week verified a time of birth as recorded for Hillary Rodham that took place on October 26, 1947. If correct, it is not the commonly used birth times of approximately 8:00 am or 8:00 pm. Marc will be on the closing Presidential Election panel 2016 ISAR Forecasting Symposium on Sunday, October 16, 5 pm (PST). He will reveal the Democratic contender’s time of birth then, and the process he went through to find this KEY missing astrological link for forecasting the 2016 USA Presidential Election. So now, we have even more suspense building up to the most exciting astrological event of 2016! Hope to see you onsite in two and half weeks! #isar2016 #astrology

This led to the following comments on the Politics & Astrology FB page:

Marc Penfield's time he claims to have sourced is 02.18am. This certainly has a ring of déja vu about it. Zayin Cohen was originally reported as giving a time of 02.18am back in 2005 and ADB recorded this. He claimed to have accessed Hillary Clinton's time of birth through a contact in the Chicago Records Office who sourced her birth certificate for him. It was then reported on astrology groups like the Noel Tyl site. However, I corresponded with Zayin Cohen a few weeks ago. Zayin Cohen then claimed the time he had actually found was 02.08am not 02.18am. He said it was incorrectly reported on ADB and elsewhere. However, with the death of Lois Rodden it never got resolved. Like Marc Penfield, Zayin Cohen claimed to have an anonymous source in the Chicago Public Records office. He has long said he cannot give out the certificate or details of the official as this is illegal. But I have been in contact with Patrick Watson today and he showed me evidence of a FB conversation with Zayin Cohen back in August when he was informed by Zayin Cohen that the right time was actually 01.18am not 02.18am. I am trying not to throw out accusations here but Zayin Cohen is clearly giving out conflicting times. So was the time on the birth certificate always really 02.18am which has been corroborated by Marc Penfield? In which case why is Zayin Cohen now altering his time? Did Marc Penfield really source this directly or is he just using the time that was widely attributed to Zayin Cohen earlier which he now himself disputes? Or

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maybe Zayin Cohen is playing games with us and the time was always 02.18am. Presumably, like Zayin Cohen, Marc Penfield will not be able to produce a scan of the birth certificate for legal reasons.

Leaving aside birth times for Hillary Clinton, there is also a modicum of doubt to be raised regarding Donald Trump’s Rising Sign. 23 seconds into the AA rated birth time of 10:54, the Ascendant moves from Leo into Virgo. So there is more Virgo in that minute than Leo. When I mentioned this fact during Hakan Kirkuglus’s talk at the AA Conference, Michael Lutin shouted and said how I could I be so stupid – of course Trump is a Leo, you just have to look at him. Well that is the common perception, but from a Traditional perspective, if Trump did have Virgo rising it would explain the multiple marriages and strong family ties and good relationships with his ex-wives even more than the fixed Leo Ascendant/Aquarius 7 th house. So to my mind there is doubt about both candidates and their Ascendants and therefore their personal house relationships.

There is no definitive “birth time” for the Republican and Democratic parties. So what could be used to call this election?

A traditional mundane method was always to look at the Aries Ingress and if needed, the other Ingresses of the quarters dependent on the Rising sign of the Aries Ingress. If a fixed sign rose, that chart was good for the year. (This is indeed the case with the UK Aries Ingress 2016). If a mutable sign, the chart was cast for both Aries and Libra Ingress’ and if a Cardinal sign rose, then each quarter you cast a new chart.

Taking Washington DC as the Capital for America, the Aries Ingress for 2016 had the mutable sign of Sagittarius on the Ascendant. The lord of the Ascendant, Jupiter, is also in a mutable sign together with the mutable ascendant emphasising the need to look at the Libra Ingress. The Libra Ingress chart has Scorpio rising and is valid for the period covering the election to the actual Inauguration of the Presidential Candidate on the 20 th January 2017.

In the UK with the Brexit vote, Mark Cullen the Moderator on Skyscript, put together a fairly comprehensive list of methods used by various astrologers to make their predictions. Of those 16 in his sample who correctly voted leave, 4 used opening of the Polls along with other techniques.

Maybe this method would shed some light on the potential outcome of this most bitter of elections?

Due to the time changes across America, the first State to open its polls is the New Hampshire state of Dixville Notch at 00.00 on the 8th November 2016.

There are two ways we could look at this chart for Incumbent and Challenger; one way is to take the 1st for the current Ruler and the 7th for the challenger, or the 10th for current King and 4th for challenger or opposition.

We will look at both ways, although the actual significators using whole house signs doesn’t change.

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We will start with the 10th/4th axis. The 11th is for the supporters of the current King and the 5th for the supporters of the challenger.

The 10th is ruled by Mercury, who is under suns beams, his supporters are the Moon (also the common people). The challenger is Jupiter and his supporters are Saturn.

Taking Mercury to represent the incumbent party; Mercury has no rulership in 23° Scorpio and cannot see the 10th sign of Gemini from the 3rd sign, which simply means it is blind and cannot effectively manage the affairs of the house Gemini represents. We find Mercury just on the edge of Sunbeams moving out of the harmful rays. As Mercury leaves the rays of the Sun he applies to his ruler Mars, wanting to give his authority and management of 10 th house affairs to Mars which is in its exaltation. However before Mercury can exit from the rays of the Sun, the application is frustrated as Mars leaves Capricorn into Aquarius. This does not bode well for the incumbent party.

Jupiter representing the Challenger or opposition party has authority as participating triplicity ruler in Libra. Jupiter is applying to Saturn giving his power and authority to Saturn to manage Jupiter’s affairs [this is called the committing of his disposition], which Saturn accepts because Jupiter is in the sign of Saturn’s exaltation [reception]. Also, Saturn has authority in Sagittarius as participating triplicity ruler of Fire. Saturn in the 4 th is angular and has the strength to carry out the business of Jupiter.

Jupiter is operating out of the turned 11 th house from the 4th. This is the house of Good Daemon and Jupiter is said to rejoice in the 11 th. Saturn is also indicator of Jupiter’s Seconds or helpers. Saturn is bang in the middle of Jupiter’s sign, giving his aid and assistance to Jupiter.

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The Moon as indicator of the Incumbents Seconds is tucked away in the 6 th of sickness and labour. She can’t see her house and is in the sign of Saturn. Her next application is to Mercury, indicator of the current ruler. She perfects this aspect with a square, showing some difficulty. If we take the Moon to represent the people, it shows they are in slavery, sick and not very effective. The Moon takes the light of Mercury to Venus by Sextile. Venus in this chart disposes of Jupiter as he disposes of her. So there is some reception between these two planets.

Venus cannot see Mercury to give him her aid. The women are turned away from helping the Incumbent.

Taking the Rising sign of Virgo for the Incumbent and the 7 th for the challenger, we have the same planets as significators. All that has changed is their house positions.

Mercury is now in a cadent sign but can see the Ascendant sign. However, his power to act is weak as he is still blinkered by the Sun who rules the 12 th of enemies. The Sun is blinding him to what is going on? Jupiter on the other hand is in his participating triplicity rulership, oriental and strong. Jupiter can see neither Ascendant nor Descendant, but, through his application to Saturn in an angle, Saturn reflects Jupiter’s light to his house, Pisces (called rendering of light). In this changed situation in assigning different houses, Saturn is the means whereby he Jupiter can manage the affairs of the 7 th. Jupiter can also see his other house, the 10th sign from the Descendant (Sagittarius). The same comments apply to Jupiter’s relationship to Saturn as mentioned in our first scenario (10 th/4th axis).

If you look at this chart using house divisions, so the 10th cusp is Taurus and the 4th Scorpio, Venus is still in aversion to her sign (can’t manage). Mars can see his sign of Scorpio by sextile. The Sun (reputation, honours) is in the 4 th by division. Mars, the ruler of Scorpio, is exalted in Capricorn at the time of this event!

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No matter how you view this chart for the opening of polls, it appears to give the victory to the Opponent.

Turning now to the Libra ingress chart:

Traditionally the first thing to locate was the Lord of the Year of the Ingress chart.

The first consideration is to determine what planet will represent the people of the nation.

“You will also look, for the rustics and their condition, from the Lord of the Year and its place,”(From the “Revolution of the Years of the World” by Māshāʿallāh translated by Benjamin Dykes PhD) The ascendant of the chart always represented the people of the nation as did the Moon. The Lord of the Year was found from one of the lords of the ascendant (ruler, exalted ruler, triplicity ruler, or term ruler) or even the sect luminary. In this chart we have chosen Mars as Lord of Year since he is the lord of the Ascendant Scorpio. We do this in spite of the fact he is cadent from the ascendant in the 2nd house. The reason for this choice is that in fact all the rulers including the sect luminary, the Sun, fall cadent of the ascendant.

This very accurately describes the state of the people in America going into this half of the year.

Chapter 12: When the Lord of the Year is cadentIf the Lord of the Year were cadent from the Ascendant, not aspecting the Ascendant

(in the eighth, sixth, second, or twelfth sign), then he will be in need, and therefore weakness will befall him, because he fell in a place removed from the Ascendant: (From the “Revolution of the Years of the World” by Māshāʿallāh translated by Benjamin Dykes PhD.

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Both Mars and the Moon representing the people are in aversion to the Ascendant. The people feel out of touch and powerless to act. The Martian types are in conflict and also out of touch with their national identity. For both significators there is a sense of helplessness, weakness, division, contention and fear. Note that the Moon’s application to the opposition of Mars further indicates the very obvious division of the nation.

The incumbent Ruling Party is shown by the Sun as ruler of the 10th sign/house. (Note: the Sun would not necessarily always be the significator of the ruling party if another sign were on the MC). Their opponents are indicated by Saturn as ruler of the 4th sign/house.

To discover the successor belonging to the current ruling party, we look to the second triplicity ruler of the Sign on the 10th. This gives us Jupiter as the Nocturnal Sect Ruler of Fire.

Jupiter is under Sunbeams, out of sight in the 12th sign. This suggests a weak successor who cannot be seen. This relates perhaps to Hillary not being so visible on the campaign trail. Obama has been actively campaigning on her behalf. Naturally the Sun being in Libra is in detriment and in the cadent 12th; the King is no longer strong. Hillary’s recent health problems and public collapse could also be indicative of this weak Jupiter.

To assess the condition of the opposition, we will take both the actual sign ruler (Saturn) and the diurnal triplicity ruler of Air – again Saturn. So Saturn indicates the opposing candidate. There is no other planet to consider as they (the opposition party) have put up their challenger.

Neither significator of the people (Moon & Mars) applies to join either candidate, again indicating the disconnectedness and “hatred” by the people for the two candidates. It appears in the history of the American Elections that no two contenders for this crown have been so reviled by their countrymen.

So how to discover the outcome?

We look at the individual strength of both significators and the actions between them.

As noted, Jupiter is combust, in the 12th and applies to Saturn from Saturn’s house of exaltation (Libra) and his house of joy.

As we saw in the other charts we looked at, this handing over of power is a very distinct action between the two because it indicates Jupiter handing the management of everything she is and represents, to Saturn who receives her gift!

Saturn standing alone is stronger than Jupiter, being free of sunbeams, and able to manage the affairs of his house of Aquarius.

The conclusion is that Saturn is the winner. By Sharon Knight and Steven Birchfield 29.09.2016 Please note: this is a “speculative” chart as it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when America actually counts Opening of the Polls, as many people in different states can submit their votes long before actual polling day. This is more an exercise to look at Traditional Mundane methods than finding the winner to make a financial bet!

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Please remember, the Newsletter is both by and for members of the APAI. Please do send me any articles or thoughts for the winter newsletter. – astrologersharon@aol.com

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