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

So that goes with you being a Letter Carrier, but it also shows that you are a deeply
spiritually oriented person with the Neptune and Ketu there as well. One of the things that
I see as the letter carrying is that it frees you. The most famous Gemini type was Albert
Swietzer. He had a Gemini Ascendant with mercury there, I believe. He was asked by a
reporter how he got so much done in his life. He worked 18 hours a day, won the Nobel
prize, was a great healer and humanitarian, and few people realized that he was also a
world-famous organist before he became a doctor. When he was asked that question, he
just replied that it was because he never did one thing beyond the point that he was bored
with it. He said he would play his organ for an hour, then he would tend to his patients
for an hour, and then he would dig a ditch in the compound for an hour, and then he
would do some book work. He kept himself busy with his vocation, his avocation, his
busy work and all kinds of other activities, and that’s typical of Gemini types. They
usually don’t like to do just one thing. So that’s why I was looking at your chart as
freeing you because Mercury in Gemini in the 10 th house loves to dabble in a lot of
different things. It can be hobbies. It can be reading. It can be any variety of pursuits that
they’re into. They’re usually clever and jacks of all trades with the finger in several
different pots. Moon in the 5 th house and also in the 5 th house from the Moon is Venus in
its own sign of Taurus in the 9 th house both usually give a liking for that 5 th house thing,
whatever it is. It can be related to children, to writing, to reading, to creative-artistic
pursuits. [Bill: “Well, I am very much into music—research it, compose, etc.”]
Absolutely. Also adding to this is Mercury in Gemini—talent in art and music, good with
the hands. Anyway, it mainly falls into the category of enjoying 5 th house pursuits which
means it is an aspect of your inner energy which is joyful. It expresses joy. It expresses
creativity. And that’s the part of you, if you focus on it, where you can enjoy children in a
free way. One of the things that I’m looking in your chart in relation to this is Ketu in the
1 st house which usually says ‘I’m renouncing the traditional. I don’t want the
responsibilities, the pressures, the structures that society has programmed us into. I don’t
want that. I want something different. I want alternatives.” So part of the rejecting of the
whole children thing I think has to do with that, with wanting to look for some higher
ideal or expression in your life. And that’s why you may see having children as part of
that program that binds us in all kinds of long-term responsibilities which you don’t need.
[Bill: “I just never identified with my own children as being an extension of me, so to
speak. They would be separate entities who came in thru the vehicle of the parents. I was
never really ‘attached’ to family situations”] Right. That goes exactly with Ketu in the 1 st
house. Ketu is the planet of detachment, the planet of Moska, Liberation, spirituality. It is
Buddhist by nature, and lives a life of detachment. I have many clients with Ketu in the
1 st house and they are all like that: “I’m a separate soul. You’re a separate soul. I have
responsibility for me, and you have responsibility for you.” They don’t get attached. Mars
conjunct Ketu in the 1 st house says that that detachment will also extend to ambitious
pursuits. It’s like “Okay. Give me a job to do. Let me get it done so that I can get on with
the things that I’m really interested in” rather than “I’m attached to this career that
consumes my every amount of energy, and I devote 70 hours a week to this job!” That
Ketu conjunct Mars gives you that detachment from the ambitious attachment. And it
also gives you that detachment from personal attachments—family, children. It gives a
more detached approach to life in general.
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