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

married. [Note: even adjusted to the local descendant of Pisces, we have 20 degrees of
arc or 20 years based on 34 N of Los Angeles plus the 12 years given for Jupiter ruling
Pisces, then it still adds up to age 32!] I was think, well, okay, that works sometimes and
it doesn’t work in others. Why does it work in your chart? Well, number one, Mars is
trine Venus and the Moon, so that has very strong connections with relationships. What
that actually activates is the trine of the 1 st house lord [Venus ruling Libra] with the 7 th
house lord [Mars ruling Aries], Venus being the domicile ruler of the 1 st if not the
almuten. Now, that brings us to an interesting case because as you may know, in a
daytime chart Saturn has more rulership over Libra than Venus does, and yet in your
case, the Venus appears to be working more effectively. And I submit this is the reason:
the Saturn is in Virgo which is in aversion to Libra (though not totally), and Virgo-Libra
are not strongly connected by aspect. So Saturn is basically in the 12 th sign from the 1 st
house Libra. Venus, on the other hand, is in the 9 th sign from the 1 st (a trine), so the
Venus has a strong relationship to the 1 st as well as being the ruler.
[Bill: “Of course the almuten of my chart is Saturn”]
By which method?
[Bill: “Basically you would have the rulers of the Sun/Moon/Ascendant/Part of
Fortune/New or Full Moon, and then you would add up those points and the houses—“]
Okay, that’s the Izra method. That however would not make it the ruler of the 1 st ,
which is the issue here because we’re talking about marriage here rather than the chart as
a whole. Your Saturn doesn’t have any dignity but it doesn’t have any debility either. It’s
main problem is being in the 12 th sign. This can be a source of difficulty. The good news
is that Saturn is in sect by the chart and also by location, and that makes Saturn more
benefic than it normally would be, and also there’s the Sun-Saturn sextile [wide orb of
just over 5 degrees] so that makes the 12 th house placement of the Saturn a lot better. It
does, however, suggest that there must be something 12 th house about a lot of what you
do.
[Bill: “Film music research basically”]
Okay. So it’s a benign 12 th house. That means you do very well working by
yourself doing research and staying out of the public eye.
[Bill: “Well, half of my life. The other half I’m very much in the public eye being
a mailman and socializing and so forth.”]
That’s not what I mean by public eye. That’s more social than public.
By the way, having Mars in detriment [Mars in Libra] is considerably improved
by having that trine to Venus because that’s a reception, and Venus is not in trouble in the
sign of Gemini. Basically what this means is that you use Venus to clear up some of the
ill effects of the Mars.
[Bill: “Good point.”]
That’s how I’ve been telling people how to deal with receptions in general: the
receiving planet can be used to heal or cure or mitigate any negative effects that would
come from using the Mars by itself—which you shouldn’t do anyway because it’s in a
grand trine. You should always use those three together. So it’s sort of like the
sensitive/feeling/emotional/feminine aspect of you can be used to heal the negative
consequences of having Mars in detriment. Its basic problem is that it’s not as decisive,
sure, and certain as a Mars when it’s in dignity. Mars is also out of sect. In fact, according
to the Greek criterion, it’s all the way out of sect because the Greeks liked Mars to be in a
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