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

Zip: “Is that really typical of Taurus and Gemini? What’s the essence of Taurus &
Gemini? You see Taurus rising and Venus ruling it conjunct the Ascendant, and all the
Gemini in the 1 st , and Mars and Sun in the Taurus house. What’s the primary
identification of a Taurus person?”
[Bill: “Eh, enjoyment?”]
Zip: “Right. ‘I know what I enjoy & I’m going to enjoy it!’ The essence of
Aries/Taurus/Gemini/Cancer, remember, are the child signs: ‘I want what I want I have
the right to have what I want. I have the right to enjoy the world and be protected and
doing what I want.’ There’s definite conflict/blocking potential in the chart, but with that
focus on ‘I want to enjoy the world; it ought to come easy; the world ought to let me
enjoy it,’ that seems to me to be the basic keynote of the character. A lot of air, a lot of
water. Almost the only earth is the Taurus other than the 6 th house where we have all the
conflicts—Saturn quincunx the Ascendant, Moon opposite Venus.
[Bill: “Well, that scratches that one off! Two down, four to go!”]
Zip: “What would be a more reasonable guess among our six charts of what looks like a
potentially hedonistic, child-like person?
[Bill: “Well, probably someone saying ‘I’m going to enjoy what I’m doing right now, no
matter if the consequences are destructive to me.’ So maybe the Drugs & Alcohol &
Confinement chart.”]
Zip: “Ok. To have confinement, we’ve got to have some major key of the 1 st house in the
12 th house. Is that the case here? Sure, Venus ruling Taurus rising in the 12 th . And Aries
is in the 12 th . And Saturn which is the Law is conjunct Neptune which is confinement
potential quincunx the Ascendant. Notice the conflict between the Ascendant and the
work house. Just the fact that you have a lot of planets in the 6 th house does not mean
you’re doing it if there are conflict aspects. The Ascendant is quincunx Saturn and
Neptune, and it’s opposite the Moon there, and it’s square Pluto which rules the 6 th . He
doesn’t want to work. He wants to play and take it easy and have life take care of him.
And the Taurus emphasis including Sun and Mars in the 2 nd house: ‘I want what I want. I
want it now!’ Also the easy way, Cancer in the Taurus house.”
[Bill: “Can I do the other charts instead? The other sheet? I knew that was going to be
easier! (Bill smiles)]
Zip: “It isn’t necessarily easier/ But I want you to get the keynote of the character. You
know, that’s the difference between the real competence is that the student can work it
out & see the themes repeated, the basic keynote, and all the different ways that the
aspects form to a specific house to see how they’re dealing with that house. Ok. Let’s go
ahead with another one.”
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