ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

eading Shakespeare but somehow the Universe is connecting me with him. The best I
can say is that I enjoyed Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet]
Zip: “Now, the fields that would be appropriate for the artistic would be
photography, the graphic arts in general, interest in architecture, and so on [in the
line/form/design fields]. Or music: Neptune and Pisces are very much associated with
music. It’s the Libra influence that brings the graphic arts. And what you have are factors
of Libra in the Pisces house. It’s a blend of the Venus sign and Neptune.
But you also have the sign of Cancer as you know from your Sun sign. That’s the
potential of wanting to do something to take care of the world, to provide security for the
world, whether this is physical security or emotional security. So the possibility of either
one of these would be reasonably good for you. And this doesn’t mean you have to do it
all the time, just that it’s a deep part of your nature.
Now: Part of the search for the ideal is the search for knowledge. And the 9 th
house is also very strong in your chart, the Sagittarius house. This is the search for the
absolute, but the rational absolute, intellectual absolute. You can call it science if you
like or metaphysics or philosophy or religion. But it’s a search for premises about the
nature of the world, the nature of reality, the nature of truth. So that too is strong in your
nature: the search for both the emotional/idealistic absolute (Letter twelve) and the
intellectual absolute (Letter Nine). And often there’s a conflict between them because
these signs are a natural square or 90 degrees apart, a natural conflict. So there may be a
conflict between the head goals and the heart goals. That’s some way of putting it. A
person may be just not sure of what he believes. There may be “try a little of this, a little
of that” but not really being clear about what they trust, what they believe, what they’re
looking for. So they put out exploratory fingers in a lot of different directions.
Sometimes the conflict is between the ideal and what’s possible. That’s an
extremely common form of it. We know what we want, we trust in what we believe in,
but we’re looking for something that isn’t possible now to get. We’re looking for an
absolute that isn’t available, at least here and now. So that’s another possible form of the
conflict.
Of course we have to look at the signs as well as the houses. The signs involved
are Cancer and Libra. They are part of what is called the Cardinal Dilemma. Aries is also
in the chart, and although you do not have the sign of Capricorn, you have Capricorn
cusp in your chart (IC or 4 th house cusp). So in effect you have the whole gambit of the
cardinal dilemma. Now, the basic approach that I take to this is that, as astrology
conceptualizes life, it pictures character as having twelve sides or signs—like twelve
ways of being in the world. All of these are good and none of them are inherently bad or
evil. But some of them conflict with others by their nature. So if you’re going to do this
one, you can’t at the same time do this other one (that is, at its fullest extent).
The Aries side of your nature says, “I am a free soul and no one tells me what to
do. I know what I want and I have the right to get it.”
The Cancer side of your nature says, “Oh, I didn’t mean that at all. I’m a baby
looking for a mother; a mother looking for a baby. I really want to be emotionally
wrapped up in a nest and be close, involved, care for somebody and be cared for.
The Libra side of your nature says, “No, I don’t want either one of those. I don’t
want to be alone like Aries, but I also don’t want to be swallowed up like Cancer. I want
a relationship but I want it to be with an equal. I want a peer relationship, to be able to
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