Sufficient Unto the Day (and the Rest)

July 23, 2024

Unfortunately, Google Translate doesn’t do Latin. And according to some critics of the text, this looks fake. Admittedly, my Latin is a little rusty, but I couldn’t make head nor tail of these words. My title says what I think was intended.

What follows are the analyses of the aspect for the day in question. I am only writing them here and now to allow myself a forum for review once the day has passed. This is not required reading for others.

Analysis from my Kepler 7.0 program

Christopher David’s Sun in Aquarius and North Node return’s Sun in Leo

Christopher David is drawn to North Node return’s warm and vitality, and North Node return is drawn to Christopher David’s uniqueness, intelligence, and savvy. There are significant differences between you though. Christopher David’s colleagues, associates, and large social circle of friends and acquaintances is a very important part of Christopher David’s life, while Christopher David’s need for close, personal relationships is not as great as North Node return’s. Christopher David may seem cool and aloof to North Node return. From Christopher David’s perspective, North Node return takes life too personally and seems to dramatize events, idolize individuals, and, in general, be too self-absorbed. You are truly opposites in many ways and can certainly benefit from one another’s attitudes and insights.

Christopher David’s Moon in Scorpio and North Node return’s Moon in Pisces

You are both very intuitive and psychically receptive, and you sense what is going on inside others even when they try to hide it. You have a very sympathetic rapport with one another, and you may get so enmeshed with each other that it is hard for you to tell whether you are feeling your own emotions and responses, or those of your friend.

Both of you are very, very sensitive, but the difference between you is this: Christopher David will hold onto hurt feelings and may harbor unexpressed resentments, jealousies, secret fears, and guilt for a long, long time. North Node return, on the other hand, is much more forgiving, tolerant, and ready to make excuses for the offender. Christopher David is more of a fighter and wants to retaliate when injured; North Node return is basically a peace-loving pacifist who would rather not create more conflict.

Though you both feel very deeply, you may not be very articulate about your feelings and inner experiences. You share an affinity for music. Living near water would be beneficial for both of you.

Analysis from Planets in Transit by Robert Hand

Sun Opposition Venus

This transit brings all relationships into focus. Usually it is a rather easy and pleasant time, but it can release the hidden tensions in your relationships and force them into the open where you will have to deal with them.

This transit signifies that you will encounter yourself through your different relationships. The good ones will remain good, but the bad ones will become unstable and difficult. If you study your reactions and your handling of these situations, you should learn a great deal about yourself.

In particular you may notice that you don’t want to be alone and that you cannot operate without a close relationship with a lover, a friend or even someone whom you consult about a problem. Today is a good day to talk to another person, perhaps a counselor, about anything that is on your mind. You should not try to go it alone today; instead you should try, through everyone you meet, to learn more about how you operate with people. This transit is about consciousness, the awareness of relationship.

Its effects can range from relatively insignificant to highly significant, depending on a lot of background conditions that cannot be taken into consideration here, such conditions as are symbolized by outer-planet transits.

In your personal relationships, this transit should make you very aware of how much you need your loved ones. Usually this is a good transit in that you feel much love and tenderness toward those close to you. If is difficult only if there are problems that you haven’t handled very well.

Venus Square Moon

Not a difficult square, this transit usually creates an amorous mood, making you want to relate to the opposite sex. But there are some problems with this transit. If you are jealous and possessive of your partner, it may produce feelings of love that are suffocating to him or her. Recognize that even the closest relationship needs room to breathe, and avoid being overprotective and smothering. Your partner needs a lover, not a mother! However, you will encounter this problem only if you already tend to be possessive in love.

Discordant transits accompanying this one can indicate conflicts with women, regardless of your own sex. Your mother may present a problem because of the possessive smothering emotion that is characteristic of this transit.

This type of emotion has a positive side also, for it can be transformed into a very warm, protective kind of love that nourishes and supports a lover. In itself the emotion is neither good nor bad; it just has to find an appropriate outlet. However, the one who feels protective seems to think that this is always good, leading to misunderstandings and hurt feelings in a relationship. You should certainly be aware of any tendency at this time to confuse loving with “parenting.”

Any kind of glandular disturbance will probably be adversely affected by this transit, and women may experience menstrual irregularities.

Moon Trine Uranus

At this time you are likely to crave emotional excitement, something that departs from the routine of your daily life. You are likely to seek out people who are different from those you usually meet. You might spend the day or evening in very different surroundings. And while you may feel a bit impulsive, these impulses make you feel more alive rather than inclined to act rashly or stupidly.

On a more quiet level. you may use this energy to make needed changes in your immediate personal life or your domestic environment. While others may seem startled by your apparently sudden moves, these changes should be constructive, and the people in your life will accept them.

If you have to deal with groups of people or with the general public, you will advocate change and new policies. You may have to assume a leadership role in order to bring this about, so be sure you have the energy and inclination to follow through with this on the long haul. This transit by itself does not supply enough stamina for a continuing effort, because its effects are short-lived.

Sometimes this transit coincides with an unexpected surprise, usually not pleasant, that will changes your plans for the next period of time. Don’t count on having your expectations fulfilled today, although you will have the chance to make whatever happens work out favorably for you.

Uranus Trine Mercury

This transit often produces excitement and interest in everyday life, without pushing the tempo to the point that you can no longer enjoy it. Your everyday activities bring new and interesting encounters that open up aspects of life that you may not have encountered before.

This transit particularly stimulates mental activity. Your mind is sharpened, and your interest in the world about you is increased. You feel ready for anything. as long as it is exciting and different. Your conversations with other people, even those whom you meet every day, become more interesting. When new topics are discussed, you are ready for the new ideas that you are exposed to. This is an excellent time to encounter people and ideas that help you elevate your mental habits and build up better patterns of thinking.

This is also an excellent time for learning new skills, particularly of a scientific or technological nature, and new techniques for expanding your mind and experience. It is also favorable for studying astrology, yoga and other occult techniques. Because of Mercury’s association with travel, this is also a good transit fro traveling, but not if your objective is to “get away from it all” on a lazy relaxing trip. This transit will make travel exciting and interesting in a positive way.

If you have been faced with problems in research or a situation in which you have to come up with a new and creative solution, this transit will help. At other times your mood often gets into a rut in which it runs through the same solutions over and over. This transit allows you to escape from the rut and to think along different lines.

This is a favorable time for introducing new elements into your life. Communications from others may bring an unexpected surprise. Or you may say something that surprises others. This is a favorable time to announce anything new or innovative to the world. For example, this is a good time for a manufacturer to announce a new product or to begin a new and innovative advertising or administration policy within a company.

Pluto Conjunct Venus

This transit is likely to have a great effect upon your relationships and your sex life. If you have no current sexual relationship, this transit could bring you one that is quite intense but not necessarily smooth. You may become quite obsessed by someone of the opposite sex. This transit combination could be described as love’s power, with the emphasis on “power.” Any relationship that begins under this influence is not going to be lukewarm. You will either be entirely involved or not at all.

Under this influence you see love not as part of everyday life, but as an experience that can transcend that reality and transform your life completely. Obviously this is a very tall order to fill, but you may very well succeed now. However, the drives that bring about a relationship under this transit are compulsive and not very rational. Unconscious patterns may play a much larger role in who you choose than your sense of what you need in a partner. If you are not careful you may fall for someone who is extremely difficult to get along with, which is precisely why you are attracted to that person. You almost seem to need the experience of a struggle in a relationship at this time. But you may end up in a situation in which you can’t live with your partner and can’t live without him or her. Fascination with someone who is not very good for you is a great danger with this transit.

However, this effect is not inevitable by any means. A perfectly decent relationship is possible under this transit. The problem is that mainly you are looking for an intense experience, not necessarily a good one. If it happens to be good, it will also be intense, so this transit can signify a very important relationship in your life.

Existing relationships will also be intensified by this transit because your needs are heightened, and you require gratification more urgently. An existing relationship that cannot satisfy your needs may not survive. Certainly the basis of your relationships will change considerably during this time.

If there is no sexual relationship in your life now and this transit does not bring one, this can be a very frustrating time indeed. Your sex drive is very high and needs an outlet. Perhaps it can be sublimated in some kind of creative endeavor, which would be a positive use of the energy. But if you have no outlet at all, you should examine yourself and your entire position on love relationships. You may discover some very severe problems in this area, which you must work on, and now is the time.

Venus Opposition Jupiter

Of all the transits, this one is the most inclined to promote excessive indulgence, but it also indicates great pleasure, joy and satisfaction, if you have the sense not to overdo.

You are certainly not going to feel driven by ambition and the desire to conquer the world. You will want to sit around and take it easy or go out and buy some expensive, luxurious toy. This is certainly not the day to go shopping if saving money is your object, because you will want to buy every nice, pretty or luxurious thing that you see. And probably you will buy them, even against your practical common sense.

Perhaps your worst trouble will result from overeating. Venus and Jupiter together signify heavy, rich, sweet foods. A bad day for diets! You also may drink to excess, leaving tomorrow for recovery. This much must be said: you will enjoy doing it, and that is not all bad.

On the plus side, this transit can bring a very pleasant relationship, if other testimonies coincide. However, you must beware of being influenced solely by beauty, money or qualities that are ultimately short-lived.

If you can handle the energies of this transit with reasonable discipline, you will find it quite enjoyable and good for you.

Mars Trine Venus

This transit is favorable for sexual relationships and for all kinds of creative activity. The trine between Venus and Mars symbolizes the perfect balance between your need to be yourself and your need to relate to another. Thus you will be able to express yourself very well in a relationship, deriving complete gratification and allowing your partner to do the same.

But like all Mars-Venus combinations, this transit is strongly physical rather than psychological in its effects. A purely romantic relationship with no physical sex would not be very satisfactory, but such a relationship is not likely to occur under this influence.

If you are not currently involved in a sexual relationship, this transit by itself is not quite strong enough to bring one. This would require the assistance of other similar transits. However, your erotic fantasies will certainly be stimulated, and persons of the opposite sex who you would not normally look at twice seem much more attractive now. In fact you need to have a certain amount of discretion, lest you get involved in an totally inappropriate relationship. But again this transit is not usually that compulsive.

Artists and creative people will find this transit extremely stimulating, although it does not provide creative inspiration. That must come from other sources. But it does provide the energy to actually do the creative work, which will be unusually expressive of who and what you are.

Jupiter Trine Mars

Unlike the harder Mars-Jupiter transits — the conjunctions, squares and oppositions — this one does not create the irrepressible energy that can be hard to control. It does create an easy flow of energy that enables you to act much more effectively than usual and to take initiatives that demand foresight, careful planning and considerable self-confidence. Almost any initiative that you take now will work out as you want it to. It is a good time to start any enterprise.

Your actions are governed by a strong sense of integrity. You may be ambitious with this transit, but you feel that it is very important to achieve your goals correctly and in accordance with ethical standards. Others will recognize your integrity, which will increase their confidence in you.

Under this transit you have a strong desire to make something of yourself in the broadest sense of the term. For example, there is the drive to succeed, particularly in some project that you have started yourself. There is also a strong need to create, even extending to the biological realm, where this transit can signify a desire to have children. Often this transit coincides with an particularly easy childbirth.

As usual with Jupiter, this transit signifies actions aimed at enlarging your scope of action, giving you more freedom of movement and creating opportunities for new experience.

This is a good time to approach a person with whom you do not usually get along with or someone you have had a temporary dispute with and make an effort to settle it. You will find it easy to convince the other person of the integrity of your motives because it is true, and they will respect that. If you are involved in a legal controversy, this transit is a good time to settle that dispute on terms favorable to yourself.

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North Node in Aries Returns for Me on July 23, 2024

Is This My Return Date to Spirit?

My astrology friend, Ellie Adams, has done it again. She posted a YouTube video highlighting what North Node in Aries can actually mean for everyone. In reality, she has alerted me to something upcoming in my own life.

Oh-oh. Neptune and Pluto are back in a sextile relationship and, with inconjuncts to Mercury, are forming a Yod (Finger of God) on the day. I suspect this may be an enlightening day for me, next year.

What makes this interesting (for me) is the interactive Yod from my natal Neptune sextile Pluto to the transiting Saturn. Am I going to have a vision, or spiritual encounter, with my father? We shall see.

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Star: Manifesting Divine Consciousness?

Manifest (Season 4, Part 1)

We’re halfway through the first part of season four of Manifest. A shift in emphasis has everyone on the show discussing Divine Consciousness. Hmm. It was then that Olive remembered (again) that she had the Star card from the obscure (and fictitious) Al-Zuras Tarot deck. For a clearer understanding of the connections this card represents in the TV series, read this page from Crystalinks.com.

I shall return to this series after we’ve binge-watched the rest.

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Yesterday in History XXI

The Rosetta Stone is Unearthed (July 15, 1799)

Until the Rosetta Stone was deciphered over 20 years after its discovery, Egyptian hieroglyphs were unfathomable, a veritable mystery to be solved. I wondered if a randomized event chart would show that to be true. I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was!

Neptune conjunct South Node both conjunct the Ascendant, all at 12° Scorpio. Could the image be any clearer? I think not. The resulting Yod (Finger of God) also is not mostly timing-related, so we can perhaps trust it to be true. Do wonders ever cease?

Moon Inconjunct Mercury

You will have to learn to make your feelings and your reason work together. The problem is not so much that they come into conflict with each other, but that your reason and feelings represent two very different sides of your personality. When you are calm and collected and able to reflect carefully, you make decisions in one way. But when you are emotionally involved in a situation, you are likely to make up your mind very differently, which could cause you to seem inconsistent to others and make it difficult for them to understand you.

(This seems especially true for the Rosetta Stone, itself.)

Mercury Inconjunct Pluto

You have a rather complicated and sometimes tricky mind. You usually prefer to do things in roundabout and involved ways instead of being simple and direct.

On the positive side, this means that you enjoy solving puzzles, tracking down mysteries and finding out about hidden matters.

(Well, isn’t that telling?)

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Protestants Called Him “Father of the Canon”

Athanasius of Alexandria (died: May 2, 373 AD)

It probably matters to no one in the present time who this man was. But he seems to have been the one to list the 27 books of the New Testament that we use today. His name came up in a YouTube video about the Nag Hammadi Codex VI, as the timing of the codex was during his role of Bishop of Alexandria, signifying that his actions may have caused this codex to be hidden, so that the documents wouldn’t be destroyed. Hmm.

There is some disagreement as to exactly when Athanasius was born. But his death date is a Roman Catholic Saint Day, May 2nd. I have randomized the timing, this time, to see what came up: I shouldn’t have been surprised. There are three inconjuncts, two of which form a Yod (Finger of God) pointing at Uranus. But, because two of these inconjuncts are time dependent, I won’t delineate their aspects.

Saturn Inconjunct Uranus

This aspect indicates a serious tension in your life between freedom and restriction. Many people have this conflict, but in your case the tensions may be so severe that you express them physically as muscle tension and possibly nervousness. You feel that somehow you must keep everything in your life under tight control, that if you let go, the whole structure will fall apart. In a very real and direct sense, you must learn to relax.

(Now, this begs the question: if this aspect appears on his death day, does that mean he carried it forward into his next life? After all, we are writing about karmic astrology here.)

Post Script: I have an inkling as to whom this man reincarnated as in the present time frame…

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Alzheimer’s: Research is Trying to Find a Cure, but…

Type III Diabetes?

At the end of the latest season of “Grey’s Anatomy”, Meredith Grey was trying to make a breakthrough on her research for a cure to Alzheimer’s, and she had to go up against the establishment. It was an uphill battle. And I thought no more about it until yesterday, when I read a post on MSN about a link (or links) between Alzheimer’s and diabetes.

The symptoms of the proposed type 3 diabetes condition may include symptoms of dementia, such as those seen in early Alzheimer’s disease.

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, these symptoms can include:

  • memory loss that affects daily living and social interactions
  • difficulty completing familiar tasks
  • misplacing things often
  • decreased ability to make judgments based on information
  • sudden changes in personality or demeanor
Healthline

Now, this can be prevented, the article says, if you do these things:

If you have T2D, managing your condition with medication and lifestyle measures may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and other complications.

Some of the proven methods for managing T2D and minimizing organ damage include:

  • exercising four times per week for 30 minutes per day
  • eating foods low in saturated fat, rich in protein, and high in fiber
  • monitoring your blood sugar according to a healthcare professional’s recommendations
  • taking prescribed medications regularly and on schedule
  • monitoring your cholesterol levels
  • maintaining a moderate weight
Ibid

So far, so good, except for one thing: mental deterioration is ‘normal’ over time.

Another Theory…

Tinnitus. This one will seem strange, but the idea that your brain is constantly recording what you see and hear could somehow explain that the overlay of “white noise” may be wiping out your memory banks with ‘nothing’. In other words, using the analogy of a computer, some of the memories of the day may be erased before they’ve been put to bed for the night while you’re sleeping.

Or as my wife likes to say, “You need to get your ears tested…”

Yes, I’m going deaf, too, little by little. But I have had my hearing tested and there is damage in my right ear (probably from loud music in my youth). But I hate having ear plugs, so I’m resistant to getting hearing aids.

What’s a body to do?

Then there’s the idea that ‘someone’ is trying to erase our memories, via the Mandela Effect.

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Young Love: Romeo and Juliet were a Legal Couple

The Age of Consent

This is a very contentious subject matter. And yet, over time the lines of legality have shifted from younger to older.

The first recorded age-of-consent law dates from 1275 in England; as part of its provisions on rape, the Statute of Westminster 1275 made it a misdemeanor to “ravish” a “maiden within age,” whether with or without her consent. The phrase “within age” was later interpreted by jurist Sir Edward Coke (England, 17th century) as meaning the age of marriage, which at the time was twelve years of age.

Wikipedia

Our morality has drifted in the last couple of centuries, from a more lenient (supposedly enlightened stance) to a more repressed one, ‘for the sake of the children’. The underlying social impulse was the idea that young people don’t have the slightest clue as to the effects of their choices, so they must be protected from unscrupulous individuals who would seek to exploit them. (Sound familiar?) But biologically this is a nonsense, because when the body matures enough to become a sexual being, the natural impulse is to procreate. (As of November 2022, the population of humans on this planet reached 8 billion.)

And yet, Republicans voters in the United States want to make it more and more difficult to have legal abortions. So, we have conflicting and counterintuitive impulses occurring at the same time.

What’s a body to do?

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What’s Behind His Rivalry with Elon Musk?

Mark Zuckerberg (May 14, 1984)

Obviously, something’s going on behind the scenes. Reincarnation may be the reason.

This chart is (perhaps) correct. But, as proof of reincarnation, it needs a link to the birth and death charts of someone in the past. As I had originally tried to see if Elon Musk was the one Nikola Tesla reincarnated as, I found that Edison was the better match for Musk. So, could it actually be possible that Zuckerberg was Tesla’s real reincarnation?

Well, there may have been an interim life between these two individuals, but there are a couple of direct links, so I’m willing to say, “yes”. What do you think?

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Once a Fantasy Writer, Always a Fantasy Writer?

Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898) and C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)

This is probably too close to call: Lewis Carroll died on January 14, 1898 and C.S. Lewis was born on November 29, 1898; but technically it is possible. The Lewis name was the connecting link, to me.

What do you think? Is it possible that Lewis Carroll returned as C.S. Lewis? They have a similar look and their bachelor lifestyles seemed to echo each other’s lives. I’m going to say yes, based on how each man’s natal North Node is conjunct the other man’s Mars (natal for Lewis and ‘fatal’ for Carroll). Anyway, their fantasy stories were (and are) beloved by generations to follow.

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Do You Think He Spent Some Time in “Wonderland”?

Lewis Carroll (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898)

We’ve all read (or seen) “Alice in Wonderland” (under its various titles). The story comes from the imagination of Lewis Carroll, a man little understood by the world.

This time is considered correct, as it is from a biography of Carroll. I wonder about the Moon conjunct Ascendant @ 3° Sagittarius.

Moon in Sagittarius

You are an idealist who wants the world to be grand and good and beautiful. You want people to be good and noble and are very disappointed when they are not. Unless you learn to take people as they come, you will always be disappointed.

You are so concerned with the important things in life that sometimes you forget about little matters that really have to be done. On the other hand, you may get interested in many far-reaching subjects as you try to learn more about the world. You are very curious and want to know the answer to every question.

As you get older, you may become more concerned with religion, and even while young, you may ask deep questions about God and other such matters. When you are an adult, you will be interested in any subject that teaches you more about the universe and your place in it.

Moon Conjunct Ascendant

You make an impression on others largely through your emotions. People always know how you feel about something, because you make no effort to hide it. Some may accuse you of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but most people will like you for it. You have the kind of honesty that others appreciate. This aspect means that you understand how people feel, and you can make them see your point of view. You sympathize with others, and in turn they are sympathetic to you. When you are older, you will be able to appeal to the feelings of the public at large, who will feel that you are one of them. politicians, salespeople and others who appear before the public often have this aspect in their charts.

Regardless of your own sex, you will get along quite well with women, who may bring you great benefits at times. But you must learn to be responsible in the way you use this ability to attract women, or people will consider you false and deceitful.

Your childhood years will be important to you all your life, even more than for most people. It is important that you grow up in a peaceful and serene environment.

There is one inconjunct.

Saturn Inconjunct Uranus

This aspect indicates a serious conflict in your life between freedom and restriction. Many people have this conflict, but in your case the tensions may be so severe that you express them physically as muscle tension and possibly nervousness. You feel that somehow you must keep everything in your life under tight control, that if you let go, the whole structure will fall apart. In a very real and direct sense, even while you are young, you must learn to relax.

On the positive side, if you can learn to live with this tension a bit and express your feelings and emotions before they reach the breaking point, you can be extremely patient and persistent. You will be able to accomplish many tasks that others would give up on, if you do not hold in all your feelings and desires for freedom.

I believe that when you and I come to lie down for the last time, if only we can keep firm hold of the great truths Christ taught us—our own utter worthlessness and His infinite worth; and that He has brought us back to our one Father, and made us His brethren, and so brethren to one another—we shall have all we need to guide us through the shadows. Most assuredly I accept to the full the doctrines you refer to—that Christ died to save us, that we have no other way of salvation open to us but through His death, and that it is by faith in Him, and through no merit of ours, that we are reconciled to God; and most assuredly I can cordially say, “I owe all to Him who loved me, and died on the Cross of Calvary.”

— Carroll (1897)

Wikipedia
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