ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

So the horoscope is just a model of life but it’s a useful one that shows twelve
basic drives or desires or twelve ways of being in the world. These twelve ways are
described in many ways. The twelve signs say them, the twelve houses say them in
another way, the planets say them in another way. So we get the same meaning with the
sign of Aries, the planet mars, and the 1 st house. Much of the way astrology is taught is
just totally confusing to people because they talk as if these were all completely different.
All you need to learn is twelve basic principles and then astrology is absolutely logical. It
doesn’t mean that the horoscope is going to spell out the details of the life because each
of the principles can be satisfied (to express that desire) in a lot of different details. Like
Letter One (Mars/Aries/1 st house) are just “I want to do what I want to do, and I want to
do it right now. And now that I’ve done it, what else can I do? I want to do something
different!” Now what a person wants to do can be anything in the world! So trying to
guess if they’re going to do this detail or that detail is totally futile. It’s just a big
guessing game when astrologers try to predict the details. But if you stick with the
psychological principles, you’re going to be right pretty much of the time, and hopefully,
it’ll be helpful. People can realize, “Ok. This is what I really want but there’s a better way
to go after it than what I’ve been doing.” We can try to satisfy those desires in many
different way—some of them positive, and some of them painful. Nothing in astrology is
automatically good or bad. The outcome depends on what we do with those drives in our
nature. And anything important in the nature is said over and over again in the chart. It’s
very repetitive and shows the themes in the chart.
Now the only general ways I know to work out the comfortable handling of these
twelve sides of life is either thru taking turns with them and making a place for each of
the major parts of your nature, or to compromise and find a middle ground where you can
do a little bit of both. There are some real potential conflicts between some of these
desires, so we can’t do them all at once to their fullest extent. It’s just not possible to be
totally free and do your own thing, and at the same time be totally dependent, or to be
totally in control, or to be totally equalitarian. We have to learn to either take turns with
them, do them alternately, or we can stay in the middle and do a little bit of several (but
not to their fullest extent). What doesn’t work very well--the dangers—are repressing or
blocking that side of your nature, burying it into the subconscious, denying it, and then it
will make problems. Very frequently repression is connected to illness. The subconscious
runs the body, and if it gets too clogged up with negative emotions, pretty soon it
produces body symptoms that are like a message saying, “I’m not happy. Do something!”
And if we can uncover whatever it is we buried, and deal with it, then that helps the body
get well. So we have to get in touch with those deep emotions, keep them conscious, and
work with them, and then we don’t have to get sick or feeling unhappy a lot of the time.
Another danger is projection. That’s when we find someone else who will do part
of us for us because we’re not comfortable with that side of ourselves. And the more we
don’t do it, the more they overdo it until it finally becomes uncomfortable. Like a
seesaw, we keep going down and they keep going up. For example, in the
freedom/closeness dilemma, the more you identify with being free, the more the other
person wants to be emotionally involved. They clutch and you run! Or you may identify
consciously with the need for closeness but unconsciously attract free soul types who
never seem to want to get really involved and committed.
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