What Happens When These Three Unite Against the Sun

Moon/Jupiter/Uranus Conjunction (April 29, 1983)

artist’s interpretation of the stormy gas giant with the red dot

I was asked to erect a chart for an individual in an extended family situation. I don’t think he wanted his birth chart done, but he may have expressed an interest in understanding how astrology might affect him. Because he hasn’t given me ‘permission’ yet, I cannot say who the person is…

Needless to say, I was hugely surprised by this triple conjunction, all of which are inconjunct to the Sun.

Sun Inconjunct Moon

This aspect suggests that there is a subtle conflict going on inside you that may sometimes create emotional problems. The Sun signifies your conscious personality, the way in which you act and the kinds of activities that you like to get involved in. The Moon suggests the emotional and less conscious side of you. It indicates the habits that take over when you are not acting consciously and feelings that come up from deep inside you. The inconjunct aspect between the Sun and Moon means that the Sun part of your personality is quite different from the Moon part, and it may be hard for you to relate them to each other. It is as if you are divided in two, so that whenever you have to make an important decision, especially one that involves your feelings, the different sides of your personality want to go in opposite directions. You sometimes find it difficult to decide if you like something or if you want to take part in some activity.

But a much more difficult problem arises if you decide that one of these personalities is good and the other bad, so that you try to repress and hold down any behavior from the “bad” side. Unfortunately, that only makes it more difficult to handle that side, so that you have intense urges to do things that you think you should not do. You begin to act in ways that betray the image of yourself that you are trying to build up.

The only solution is to accept both sides of your personality, for they are both you, and it is important to express them both. It is only your attitude of rejection that makes one side good and the other side bad.

Sun Inconjunct Jupiter

This can be an extremely useful aspect, if you learn to have more self-control in what you do. Jupiter is always high-spirited, wanting to do and encounter everything and enjoy life thoroughly. Yet in some combinations, it means that you are unwilling to work for what you want. You may feel that you are such a fine person that you deserve to have everything done for you. Certainly you are worthwhile in your own way, but that doesn’t give you a right to be taken care of without contributing your share. As with all Sun-Jupiter energies, if you learn to support others, to make them feel good and happy in your presence, you will get their support as well. Then there will always be someone to help you when you need it. But if you act arrogant toward others, they may not stay around to support you.

It is also important to discipline your habits and try not to do anything to excess, as you may tend to do. You may gain a great deal of weight, for example, or damage your health in other ways. Laziness and physical softness are very great dangers with this aspect. You tend to be sloppy in the way you dress and take care of yourself.

Nevertheless, this aspect has possibilities for positive and helpful energy. You may be a very optimistic person who helps people in need at the critical moment. If so, others will help you when you need it. If you can control yourself and keep from going overboard, you will find that you can be quite lucky. But don’t assume that luck will always carry you through. Work as hard as you can to get what you want and act fairly and honestly with others; then the luck will be there.

Sun Inconjunct Uranus

There is a side of your personality that is very restless and impatient with rules, even when you know they are for your own good. You want very much to go your own way and do your own thing, even when you aren’t exactly sure that it is the right direction for you. So you rebel in subtle ways by having sudden fits of obstinacy and moods of feeling very contrary, especially with your parents or other authority figures.

Sometimes the energy of this aspect comes out in others ways as well. At times sudden upsets may occur in your life that totally alter your plans, so that you have to change course entirely. When this happens, you must learn to yield to the pressure and flow with the change. It may be difficult for you to realize it, but such an upset occurs because you have blocked much-needed changes in your life, or they have been denied you. However upsetting these changes are at first, they will give you the freedom you need to grow as an individual. Unfortunately, if you always wait for changes to come in this manner, they are likely to be very startling and unsettling. If you learn to assert your individuality more directly, the changes will not seem so upsetting.

As with many other inconjuncts, astrologers have found that if you suppress your need and desire for freedom in your life, this energy may be expressed through illness or accident. While you are young, you may have accidents because you suddenly make unpredictable, rash movements. Later in life this aspect can signify cardiac problems, but only if you suppress your natural need for self-expression.

Conclusion

Is it possible that this individual’s mother wanted his chart done, so that she could understand him better? I think so. But until permission is granted, she will have to wonder alongside her son…

Incidentally, the first Macintosh 128K computer was launched in January 1984 just after the Jupiter Uranus conjunction of 1982-83, so it would have been in development during the alignment.

Jessica Davidson

.

Posted in history, spirituality | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

With a Cast and Crew of Thousands, the Talkies Come to:

Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

The general release of this film was yesterday, so I took the missus to the movies for her birthday (which is actually today). We haven’t been out to see a film in almost two-and-a-half years!

Having been a fan of the show from its streaming appearance on Netflix, I felt the first follow-up film from three years ago was alright, but not really satisfying. This one is totally satisfying, as almost everyone gets what they want and deserve. In other words, they all live happily ever after…

So, like every great fairytale, it has come to an end, finally. And I should hope that you see it to the end, too. The line-up for Violet’s funeral has a cast and crew of literally a thousand people. And so do the closing credits.

Posted in reviews, showbusiness | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Is There a Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac?

Ophiuchus (November 29 – December 17)

This one has been bouncing around the internet for many years now, and was on Kate’s radar many years before that. It would seem to be a hidden zodiacal sign because it’s not exactly on the zodiac belt.

Also the dates shown are actually based on the calendar today rather than the one two thousand years ago when the signs were originally set. One blogger wrote this:

You may or may not remember back in 2011 when news started circulating about a new 13th zodiac sign, Ophiuchus, along with a list of new zodiac signs dates that more accurately reflected how much time the sun spent in front of each constellation on the ecliptic. This information was not new at the time – Snopes even has a page which mentions they’ve had people asking about it since 2002 – and it isn’t new now, with the story going around again just last year. 

The crutch of this argument is based on the precession of the equinoxes and it goes something like this: as the Earth spins on an axis, it “wobbles” like a top, then a bunch of science talk, and the eventual result is that the where the sun rises on the equinoxes separates from the fixed stars in the ecliptic. So, for example, 2000 years ago on the spring equinox the sun was rising in front of the constellation Aries, but today it rises in front of Pisces. Western astrologers, however, will tell you that you are an Aries even though the sun isn’t actually rising in front of that constellation on that day. Also, there are 13 (or even 14, depending on who you ask) constellations that the sun travels through. This new supposed Sign, Ophiuchus, isn’t used by astrologers even though it obviously should be. What a bunch of crazies, right?

Popular skeptics have brought up the 13th zodiac Sign and the precession of the equinoxes for a long time. Among today’s most popular voices are Bill NyeNeil deGrasse TysonRichard Dawkins, and even DNews. These are very high-profile names with a lot of weight behind them (well, at least some of them are) who are, unfortunately, educating people on astrology without knowing anything about it themselves. Which is particularly sad given that these are people who claim that their beliefs are based on reason and sound scientific research. Nobody did the minimal research required to learn the difference between a Sidereal and a Tropical calendar, or to learn that these are two systems for doing astrology with vastly different cultural and historical roots. So here I will tell you what the skeptics never do: Why Ophiuchus is not actually a Sign, and why the traditional Sun Sign dates given to you by astrologers are not actually wrong. 

Ashley Theissen

“[Ptolemy’s] definition, whether by intent or through a misunderstanding of the zodiac as beginning with the sun’s location on the spring equinox, was to cause problems in the future because, by tying the zodiac to the seasons, he cut its ties to the stars, which gradually moved away from the signs. The Babylonian zodiac consisted of 12 equally sized sectors, but it was tied to the stars – it was sidereal. Eudoxus had located the vernal equinox at 8° Aries. In the first century Pliny had recorded that the sun on 21 March was at 8° Aries. However, according to Ptolemy’s calculations the gradual shift of the stars meant that the sun was now at 0° Aries on 21 March and his statement to this effect was taken by subsequent astrologers as an indication that the sun always occupied 0° Aries on the equinox regardless of the star’s movement. This phenomenon, known as the precession of the equinoxes, displaces the Babylonian/Persian sidereal zodiac at a rate of one sign every 2,156 years from the Ptolemaic, ‘tropical’ zodiac. The sidereal zodiac remained in use in India while the tropical zodiac was gradually established as the norm in the West, the consequence being that the two systems have diverged.” — A History of Western Astrology. Vol.I, by Nicholas Campion

So, are you as confused as I was in the late 1980’s? We use Tropical Astrology in the West, so what you see is what you get. Sidereal Astrology (based on Eastern practices) changes every year, which makes it hard to pin down for our purposes. Even though it’s factually ‘wrong’, I’m sticking with what I know.

That’s enough for now.

Posted in history, Science and Mathematics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

When Real Life and the Movies Intersect:

Rescued by Ruby (2022)

This seemed to be another improbable film, until I read that Ruby was euthanized last week. (I must have missed the disclaimer that this film was based on a true story.)

History vs Hollywood

Either way, it’s a great story.

Here’s the ‘real dog’…

Never underestimate the dog/human relationship. It’s a life-long bond.

Rest in Peace, Ruby, you’ve earned it.

Posted in showbusiness, history | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

How to Respect Someone’s Opinion:

Agree to Disagree

We are in the middle of a provincial election here in Ontario, Canada. So, the knives are out, trying to carve up the electorate. And because the Americans are running their mid-term primaries at the same time, there seems to be a lot of arguments going on in the media. It’s just too much, sometimes.

Lorraine Kelly and Piers Morgan

Maybe we should take a lesson from these two…

Truly, we all need a laugh.

Posted in history, showbusiness | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The House had Its Own Spirit of Adventure

Up (2009)

This children’s film showed up on TV last weekend. If memory serves me, the one we saw in the cinema was in 3D. I had totally forgotten how emotive it was, especially when retelling Carl and Ellie’s story.

It was like watching all the seasons of “This Is Us” in ten minutes. (Hmm…)

The situation that Carl found himself in after Ellie’s death (with developers wanting to buy and demolish their house) is probably an echo of the Dido video of her song “Thank You“. The escape using balloons attached to the house was inspired, no doubt, by “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne. So there are a lot of visual references here.

But did you know that there is a real life Up house? Normally, I would provide you with a link, but Google says that the site is “not secure”, so I will give you the wording only, then you can decide whether you want to take the risk or not: therealuphouse.com

After Russell and Carl succeed in freeing Kevin and commandeering the Spirit of Adventure away from the villain of the piece, the house is left to drift, ostensibly to its demise in that South American location. The final shot tells a different story…

Ellie’s vision was confirmed in the end. Their house was where she had pictured it as a child. Up!

Posted in reviews, showbusiness | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

The Sha*ping* of My Family

CDSM Family Tree

Yes, of course I could have tried to import an image from our 7,400+ extended family tree but that would have entailed exposing private details to the world and his uncle. So, what you get is this image instead, which is generic and ’empty’ of personal elements.

My purpose is to acknowledge, here, that we have many, many members who are connected to me by birth, marriage and adoption. And two individuals who might have been members had circumstances been different.

When I first took a DNA test four years ago, I speculated that I might have a child that was conceived one snowy January night in 1967. But, nothing has showed up yet, all this time later, so maybe I had been taken for a mug by the Children’s Aid Society in that year.

Looks like Venus was involved…

The other ‘potential’ child happened to be conceived in March, 1987, only to be aborted by its mother before summer that year. So there will be no DNA link to me. However, karmically we will have a connection, for sure.

My two biological children let me know they were conceived by emitting a *ping* at their moment. I guess, since the other two didn’t do that, it must have been known that they weren’t coming after all.

It’s all relative…

Posted in family, personal | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Maybe This is Exactly What Everyone Wants…

The World Going to Hell in a Handcart

You know what I’m going to write next, don’t you? Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

Putin and Russia want a neutral buffer zone around their borders. So they go to war against people that engendered their race, the Ukrainians. What the heck? By trying to protect themselves, they called attention to their fear of invasion. How’s that for wrong-headed thinking? Now, Finland and Sweden want to join NATO, which is exactly what Putin doesn’t want. The plan has backfired spectacularly.

This video from February 2016 uses an example about Trump (without naming him). Americans didn’t realize that electing Trump as President was going to turn out so badly, but other countries did, and the results are there for all to see. (Trump attempted to undermine NATO, by complaining that only the USA was contributing to the Alliance. This was exactly what Putin wanted. Still, no collusion?)

Now, the American people are having a different kind of ‘buyer’s remorse’: they don’t like how Biden is running the country. But to get Trump out of office, they had to take the only option given them… Oops.

The world has devolved in the last two years. Isn’t it obvious? Someone wants it to fail. I wonder who…

Posted in history, paranoia | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Proof was in the Mincemeat Pudding

Operation Husky (July 10, 1943)

One of my past life memories centres around this episode in World War II. I was an American soldier, fighting in Italy. (And because of all the other lives I was living through, at the same time, this one tends to get put on the back burner by my consciousness.)

Sicily was a natural route to mainland Italy and the European continent going back in history to the Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome. The Allies could count on air cover from Malta for a Sicilian invasion. In an elaborate espionage operation know as Mincemeat, designed to divert German defenses, British intelligence dressed a suicide victim as a Royal Marine, planted false papers on the corpse, and deposited the package off the coast of Spain for the Germans to find and interpret. The ruse proved successful, and German resources were shifted to the islands of Sardinia and Corsica. 

Operation Husky: The Allied Invasion of Sicily

I started work on this chart at about 4 pm, so instead of it being randomized, I just switched the clock to AM from PM. I knew I wouldn’t be surprised by what appeared: two interconnected Yods (Fingers of God), one pointing at the Midheaven @ 0° Pisces, formed from inconjuncts to Jupiter and Neptune, and the other pointing at Neptune, formed by inconjuncts to Mars and the Midheaven. Significant, eh?

Mars Inconjunct Neptune

With this aspect you must learn to stand up for yourself and demand your rights forthrightly and directly. Often you feel that you don’t have enough energy to assert yourself or that any such effort would be futile. Unfortunately, some people with this aspect learn to work behind the scenes or dishonestly. Others simply give up or take a defeatist attitude toward life.

Jupiter Inconjunct Midheaven

The problem with this aspect is to find a balance between, on the one hand, expressing yourself creatively, perhaps artistically, and having a good time and, on the other hand, getting ahead in life, learning the ways of the world and finding an acceptable role in society. You know you will have to make sacrifices in order to accomplish anything of value.

Neptune Inconjunct Midheaven

While you are young, you won’t have a clear idea of what you want to do in life. In fact you may never orient your life around a single idea or purpose. But don’t worry. Your purpose in life may not be one that is readily defined in terms of a career or profession. More important may be your style of living or your experience of life. Simply learn to always be aware and to learn whatever there is to be learned. With your sensitivity and intuition you can understand much more than other people, especially those who have wrapped their lives around their career or profession.

The ‘event’ South Node is @ 17° Aquarius, in the middle of the Sun/Jupiter conjunction in my natal chart. (This is proof that Operation Husky is in my wheelhouse, as they say.) The ‘event’ Moon is conjunct my natal Mars/South Node conjunction. The ‘event’ North Node is conjunct my natal Pluto. The ‘event’ Saturn/Ascendant conjunction is conjunct my Descendant. This is definitely connected to me. But does it matter to anyone else? Well, yes, because there would have been no D-Day without it.

Now I can finally lay the “Unknown Soldier” to rest.

Posted in history, personal | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Last Two Years have Been a Rough Ride

My Draconic and Natal Charts Analysis

In some ways, the coronavirus has been a test of faith, but only now do I realize how tenuous life can be. When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, I immediately began to question why it had taken place: was it a ‘plandemic’ as some conspiracy theorists had dubbed it, or was it a clearing out (harvesting) of souls? I had so many thoughts, with no conclusive answers. It was like taking my high school finals again.

My North Node @ 10° Aries was always going to be a challenge. I’ve known that since 1977 when I got my first astrology printout (in the mail). My journey has been one of constant discovery and confirmation of what I have known intuitively, since forever. Saturn Season‘s analysis of my Draconic chart and its comparison to my natal chart has ‘proven’ to me what I already learned about in this life.

My soul had a plan, and this time around the Sun, I was given a very potent set of planetary aspects with which to carry it out.

This makes me think that draconic Uranus in this lifetime will kind of shock that natal descendant at different times, which could be rather frustrating to natal Uranus in Cancer in the 7th House (such as relationships coming to a more abrupt end than maybe you were ready for or even relationships starting up before you were ready for them to begin…things of that nature – and I’m not only talking about romantic relationships here, either). I also think it’s very possible with Uranus Rx motion in the draconic chart and in your natal chart, and with draconic Uranus conjunct the descendant, that many of the close relationships of all varieties in this lifetime (especially those that come in like a fucking lightning bolt…or leave like a lightning bolt) are probably with people that you have had relationships with before in previous lifetimes.

Uranus, in the reality of my natal chart, is unaspected (since the inconjunct connecting it to, say, Venus is a little wide of the mark). This has made my relationships with others completely ‘unscripted’. No matter what I tried to achieve, something upset the timing of it, just as Ellie has pointed out in the excerpt quoted above. I suspect it was meant to keep me from forming too long an attachment to any one person, since I had so many past-life promises to fulfill. But it made me feel alone, as I wrote in a 1975 poem called “Lonesome”.

But when my usual contacts had to be kept at a distance of two meters (or more) for most of 2020, all of 2021 and the first part of 2022, I began to feel ‘set aside’. Did I do that to myself, or was that intentional for my soul to finally reach out for help from the only astrologer I know and trust now? (Kate died on February 16, 2021.) I have been feeling adrift on a sea of emotion (Uranus in Cancer): I needed an anchor, so desperately.

In the draconic chart, Venus has moved to Capricorn, and it is no longer intercepted. This makes me think that across all lifetimes, the values that you have probably give your soul a sense of mastery (and I think you probably handle your values in responsible ways). I also think you probably love and need to be loved in the same kinds of ways as well. This is all very internal (or turned inward) due to the Rx motion of Venus, so this makes me think self-love in responsible, solid and masterful ways is absolutely paramount across all lifetimes. It also makes me think about your own Venus intercepted in this lifetime with Capricorn on the cusp of the 2nd House, and how there is probably something to be said about finding valuing and loving your own self-worth (and even other things that you value and love) in different and unique ways that are masterful and responsible (kind of being able to blend the Capricorn and Aquarius energy)…and actually finding all of the above as a “resource.”

Ah, Venus. I noted in an analysis of a pop star undergoing a rape trial at the moment that Venus in the early houses of life (1 through 3) can take the form of ‘arrested’ development. (That first finger pointing at him has three fingers pointing back at myself.) I remember as a child thinking that, “When I grow up, I’m going to marry my Mom.” That kind of juvenile thinking never really leaves my thoughts. She is still my rock, even though she now has been gone for 19 years, as of yesterday. All mothers are their young boys’ first love: it’s only natural, after all. But has my adulation of her gotten in the way of seeing the other women in my life objectively? Hmm.

Another thing that I notice about the draconic to natal comparison is that draconic Neptune is conjunct your natal South Node. Neptune Rx wants to break down illusions and delusions (you already have this going on in your natal chart, too), but something about this wanting to smash through illusions and delusions conjunct the natal South Node feels important – like you have the ability to do JUST THAT this time around, specifically in terms of where you “came from” before incarnating into this lifetime (such as in terms of the most recent previous lifetime tied to this one, which is how I read the South Node generally). It’s also conjunct your natal Mars, which is the planetary ruler of your North Node (this makes me think this breaking of illusions is a big deal this time around to your “mission” in this lifetime). It also feels like it would probably infuse your natal Mars with a decent amount of spirituality (and probably to help you get down to the bottom of who you really are at the core of your being with the natal North Node conjunct the IC). Now, natal Neptune is already close to your natal Mars and South Node, which means this is already important for you in this lifetime as it is. It just seems to me that with draconic Neptune blending with natal Mars and the South Node, it really amplifies this breaking of illusions from a deep soul level, from the place between lives. It also seems that it would amplify spirituality and a desire to reconnect with the source – again, while this is already strong from a natal chart lens, it does feel even more amplified as an undercurrent. This will probably come through the most regarding your own understanding and beliefs, specifically about what is worth fighting for and what isn’t (the balance of this) – or that’s how it feels to me, anyway.

That breaking through the illusions makes Neptune act like Morpheus to my Neo. The Matrix is an illusion, which is based on what we’re experiencing in this world, especially right now. I experience Neptune as a grandparent watching over me, trying to keep me safe from the game’s Dungeons and Dragons. To me, Neptune represents the Holy Spirit, as a balance to my Peaceful Warrior, Mars (in Libra, conjunct my natal South Node). I come from a long line of soldiers, spiritually.

Also, interesting (and more of a side note): Your Draconic Sun/Moon Midpoint is at 24-degrees Sagittarius, which is conjunct the GC. This definitely feels like it kind of bends and twists the inner marriage between your draconic Sun and Moon (between the masculine and the feminine across all lifetimes). I know that you have mentioned that you think we usually come through most lifetimes as the sex that we are in this lifetime (maybe just a few lifetimes as the opposite sex). With your draconic Sun/Moon midpoint conjunct the GC, it makes me think that you have maybe had a more equal number of lifetimes as men and women (and probably some different lifetimes that kind of mutated or transformed concepts of identity in general – I could definitely see this being the case).

That’s an interesting thought: perhaps the Mars/South Node conjunction helps me remember only my masculine lives. But there is a touch of feminine in me, too, for sure, giving me a gentler ‘feel’ for history. That’s something I need to ponder on, some more.

Anyway, thank you, Ellie. You are a godsend to me. Bless you for your wisdom and knowledge.

Posted in personal, spirituality | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment