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

ASTROLOGY EXAMINATION (Thursday, February 14, 1980)
[In progress]
Zip: “…He had two major bouts with cancer. The first one was 1976. The first one we
picked out and he had a lot of aspects, including Vesta square Saturn, the Moon going
over natal Vesta, and Venus on Mars, Ascendant on Jupiter, Midheaven opposite
Mercury, and Mercury quincunx Neptune. And at that point it developed in the bone of
his leg, and he had a leg amputated. So he immobilized himself, gave himself further
excuses for his dependency—which he really wasn’t aware of and couldn’t face. The
second time in 1979 it came into the lungs. He disappeared with Vesta on the 7 th . He’s
done the alienation thing. He just left and nobody knows if he’s dead or alive.
[Bill: “I didn’t think you’d give me a regular chart!”]
Zip: “I always have to give a crisis chart. You have to face all the devious psychological
dynamics that can occur!”
[Bill: “Yeah! But at the same time, you don’t normally meet those kinds of people.”]
Zip: “Actually you don’t meet them everyday but you do meet them more often than you
might realize, you know, because there’s a lot of cancer in this country. It’s a very
common illness, and there are a lot of people who do a self-blocking number on them and
get sick. Your advice was sound, though, in saying he needs to get out and do something.
It was the self-blocking [mentality] that did [him in]. Saturn was square Ascendant, and
quincunx the Sun. He ended up not doing anything, staying passive and talking about
how spiritual he wanted to be, the spiritual things he wanted to do. And people did love
him. He had a lot of charm and magnetism, but he never got it actualized with the earth.
The problem was the lack of developing the earth. Again the clues to that were the south
node in the 2 nd house, and Saturn with the ruler of the Ascendant square the Ascendant,
and the Sum was semi square Vesta, and Vesta square Venus from the 6 th house. What he
had in earth emphasis was heavily conflicted.
And Venus is quincunx Uranus, and it’s widely square Neptune, and Neptune is
widely opposite Vesta. So the conflict between the ideals and reality over and over
again. He was never able to mobilize the bite-sized goals, the little steps. He never could
bring himself to do it. He had to be the big dramatic power-leader, but he never made it.”
[Bill: “If I had known about his illness, then it would’ve clued me immediately to the
likelihood of total repression.”]
Zip: “Yes, but I don’t believe that we should even talk about illness or predict illness. So
I didn’t particularly want that particularly brought in—but to emphasis the need to get out
and do something because that would’ve been the way to get out of illness.
Ok. We can go ahead now to the sheet of six.” [focus on the “clubfoot that
drowned”]…That one is sort of like by process of elimination for most students, getting
that one last. The only thing you can say is Neptune-Pisces or the 12 th house ought to be
involved. Mars ought to be involved because they have surgery on it, and some kind of
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