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

the 10 th sign. What it looks to me like is you are much more interested in freedom than in
having stuff. [Bill: “To that extent, yes. When I work for the Post Office I do it for a
living. I enjoy the work but my avocations are in other areas such as film music research
and, to some extent, astrology. And I don’t make money out of those avocations!”]
The freedom to do what you want to do is more important than making money.
That’s characteristic of people who have Mars and Uranus connected with moneymaking
issues. Mars by itself actually would aggressively pursue money. Your Mars is in
detriment. [Bill: “In the Greek system, is there like a luck element where it shows you
may win money?”] Yeah, basically it’s the Lot of Fortune. I don’t know how or where
but I wouldn’t totally eliminate the possibility of you inheriting something because of the
symbolism of your Lot of Fortune in the 8 th house. As long as you don’t have to sacrifice
your time and independence to do what you really what to do, as long as you don’t have
to do those things to bring money in, money will come in. In other words, you won’t
work to make extra money. You will work to give yourself the time and freedom to do
what you want to do. [Bill: “I’m just basically subsidizing my avocations after
expenses!”] Yeah. What that means of course is that there’s a fairly strong dysjunction
between what you do for work and what you do for a life.
We have the Sun in the whole sign 10 th trine Jupiter in the 6 th which means good
fortune thru what it is you do for work. And we have the ruler of the 10 th in Cancer—the
Moon—in the 5 th which is performing. So there you have the dysjunction. The form of
the career is performance; the substance of it is work which you do on a day-to-day basis
(Jupiter is in the 6 th ruling the 3 rd house Sagittarius). The chart supports [the creative
activity] but although not as a money-making activity. Astrology falls in the same
category, by the way. It’s not something you will ever be likely to make a lot of money
at. There’s no connection between the Lot of Fortune or the House of Acquisition and
Mercury. Mercury is in the 2 nd house from the Lot of Fortune which does not mean
making money—the Lot of Fortune itself means that. And the House of Acquistion is
ruled and occupied by Jupiter which has no special relationship to the Mercury. Mercury
is the general significator of astrology and divination. You’ll notice Uranus has not
delivered. Uranus has not worked for you as a ruler of astrology. The Mercury is what
indicates divination such as astrology. I am convinced in this area that modern astrology
is simply wrong. The reason why Uranus is connected to astrology is because astrologers
are considered to be socially deviant. But the essence of astrology is mercurial. It’s
divination. By modern criteria on my chart, you have a hell of a time justifying my being
an astrologer. By ancient criteria, it’s fairly obvious. My Uranus isn’t particularly strong.
So Mercury seems to be a much more reliable indicator of divination.
[Bill makes a comment on the south node or Ketu conjunct his Mars]
The Western tradition is fairly mute on the subject of the nodes. In ancient
tradition, it’s supposed to convert malefics into benefics, so if we follow that criteria,
your Mars has been rendered much more benefic than it otherwise would’ve been. What I
get the impression it really does is it de-intensifies anything it encounters, whereas the
north node intensifies.
Your chart actually has a fairly high degree of integratedness which is interesting.
The Sun-Uranus conjunction squares Mars which is in a grand trine with Venus and the
Moon, and the Sun-Uranus is also trine Jupiter. So almost all of the classical planets are
connected together with each other. Saturn seems to be the nearest thing to an odd-man-
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