OFF-TOPIC BONUS : ASTROLOGY # 2 - Film Score Rundowns

According to my calculations, it’s around 2018. That whole cycle can be the golden
period of your life besides being the “golden years” of retirement, so to speak! It’s like a
real prominent time for you. It’s not like you can’t do it before then because there are
sub-cycles of Mercury that come before. For example, you come into your Saturn-
Mercury period in November 2002 that can be like a sneak preview of this later cycle you
go into—this Mercury dasa. Mercury is in a yoga where it is exalted or in its own sign
and then it is angular from the Ascendant, and also the Sun. So Mercury gets real
pronounced and it gives these gifts in teaching, writing, consulting, advising,
computers—any kind of mercurial activity.
Just in general, it can be good for you to wear gemstones to strengthen
Mercury—but not that you really need to because you have a strong Mercury. The color
green is a healing color for you, or a gemstone like emerald or green tourmaline. If I had
this chart, I wouldn’t be so concerned about it because your Mercury is so pronounced.
My feeling would be that it’s better to strengthen planets that tend to be a little bit weaker
in the chart.
You’re leaving the Jupiter cycle. You’ve been in the Jupiter dasa for almost 15
years now, and you’re just at the tail end of a whole period of your life (this Jupiter
cycle). Jupiter in your chart is in Aquarius which is considered a good sign for Jupiter.
It’s a philosophical sign, and brings things in a new way. I feel that Jupiter in Aquarius is
the philosopher. In the 6 th house it is also very detailed-oriented, really wanting to do
some detailed research, detailed study. As this cycle is winding down, sometimes I find,
Bill, when you’re coming to the end of a cycle, things start to speed up a little bit!
Whatever you set into motion over these last 14 years is really trying to want to be
completed as you come into the Saturn cycle.
Do you have children? [Bill: “I’ll be zipper-lipped about that for now! What do
you think—do I have children or not?”] Well, during the Jupiter cycle, generally it’s a
better cycle for having children. Of course your wife’s chart is more important than your
chart in the matter of having children! But generally, with Virgo rising and Moon in the
5 th , it would generally indicate having a child. Still, Saturn does rule the 5 th house of
children in your chart and it’s in the 12 th house. If this hasn’t occurred I don’t mean to
create worry or fear for you, but it can indicate the loss of a child like a miscarriage or
something like that. So your chart is not real user-friendly for having kids. It’s not real
strong. John Lennon had Virgo rising and Moon in the 5 th . Generally Moon in the 5 th
indicates having at least one kid. The sign of Capricorn lessens the number usually. The
problem in your chart is that the ruler is also in the 12 th house so that can sometimes
indicate some difficulty in having children or a loss of a child. Furthermore, Jupiter is the
planet that signifies children, but it’s in the 6 th house which is not a strong position for
children. So it’s not a real “fertile” chart in that sense, but even if a man does not have a
strong chart for children but the woman’s chart is really great for it, then it supercedes his
chart!
The other thing that jumps out at me in this chart is the fact that you are going into
the Saturn cycle. Your Saturn is in Leo in the 12 th house. You go into the Saturn-Saturn-
Saturn [dasha-bhukti-antardasha] November 1999. This indicates to me the desire to be a
little bit more outside the urban areas [Note: Not true in my case], to have more seclusion
in your life, to be in the world but not of it. That 12 th house deals with the need for
seclusion, for more inward time, alone time. It can mean wanting your home environment
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