It was a surprise when we were told on Tuesday that the Liberals and the New Democratic Party had signed an agreement to work together for the next three years. Some would say it was a sellout.
Jagmeet Singh is an ambitious man. One day he wants to become Prime Minister of Canada. But first he has to find a way to dominate Canadian politics. The Liberal-NDP pact allows him to do that.
I have rectified the timing of his birth chart, based on the age (39) when he married his wife (Venus).
Now it starts to make sense. Moreever, there are two inconjuncts, and they may explain a lot.
Moon Inconjunct Jupiter (definite)
This aspect indicates that you have a positive, optimistic outlook on life, and you enjoy socializing with good friends. However, there are some dangers with this aspect. First, it can be a sign that you are self-indulgent and possibly even selfish, although this is not likely to happen if you have a good, strong relationship with your mother. You have a great need to be cared for and supported, to be accepted for what you are with no strings attached. If this need is fulfilled, the positive side of this aspect will flourish. But if your mother does not support your needs fully, you will feel insecure and will look elsewhere for support and fulfillment. In this case your concern will be totally for yourself with little thought for other people’s needs.
On the other hand, if you feel emotionally secure and accepted, then you will be able to give others the support that you would otherwise have been seeking for yourself. You will help others in their times of need, share what you have with those who have less, and find great satisfaction in taking care of people and animals.
Venus Inconjunct Ascendant (perhaps)
You should realize that others will respect you if you stand up for yourself and ask for a reasonable return in a relationship. If you constantly seem to be apologizing for who and what you are, people begin to wonder if they have overlooked something that is wrong with you, and they begin to lose confidence in you. Thus you may bring about the criticism that you are afraid of. You are as good and as worthy of being loved as anyone. Be yourself with others, and many people will love you.
What Effect Does the Merger Have on His Relationship with Trudeau?
Contentious as this may sound, these two men were made for each other, and the Liberal-NDP Merger shows how their ‘marriage’ will benefit both of them. Surprising (?) the merger most benefits Singh, but Trudeau also gets to stay Prime Minister for the next three years. A ‘win-win’ situation if ever I saw one.
Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement. [Robin] Dunbar has actually developed an equation, which works for most primates, in which he plugs in what he calls the neocortex ratio of a particular species — the size of the neocortex relative to the size of the brain — and the equation spits out the expected maximum group size of the animal. If you plug in the neocortex ratio for Homo sapiens, you get a group estimate of 147.8 — or roughly 150. “The figure of 150 seems to represent the maximum number of individual with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how they relate to us. Putting it another way, it’s the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar.”
The Power of Context (Part Two) (page 179)
In reality, that would be far too many for me, however it does back up an interesting echo from the Bible: the 144,000 (12 x 12 x 1000) Elect.
[Robin] Dunbar has combed through the anthropological literature and found that the number 150 pops up again and again. For example, he looks at 21 different hunter-gatherer societies for which we have solid historical evidence, from the Walbiri of Australia to the Tauade of New Guinea to the Ammassalik of Greenland to the Ona of Tierra del Guego and found that the average number of people in their villages was 148.4.
Ibid (pages 179-180)
So, not 150, after all: 148.
The number 148 represents the weights on the scales. They can lean to either side: for example, towards development or decline.
I suppose it had to happen someday. There have been discussions over the decades about a formal agreement between the Liberals and the New Democrats for bringing the two parties into alignment.
What makes this harder to swallow is the fact that it was done in secret, effectively undermining the will of the people. And, yes, the Liberal and NDP agendas are very similar, but the differences are enough to keep these two parties separate and viable. They say that this pact will last only until the end of the current parliament in 2025. That may be the intention, but the Liberals will have to walk a very fine line for the agreement to survive the next three years. But then what?
In the UK, the Liberals and the Social Democrats joined their parties together on March 3, 1988. They are known as the Lib-Dems. They did that so that both parties would be able to survive in a Labour-Conservative political tug-of-war. It was a desperate measure, but it worked, since they have been able to shore up the other parties’ minority governments, both federally and regionally, and effectively be the balance of power, with all the benefits that brings. But they run a distant third to the other two parties.
The news media reported yesterday’s ‘merger’ as a Canadian first. And perhaps it is, but what will come from it? The Conservatives had hoped to bring Trudeau’s minority government down, before 2025. Now they’re stymied. Perhaps, the end will come for Trudeau after the next election.
Under the chapter called the Power of Context, Malcolm Gladwell discusses this experiment in his book “The Tipping Point”. I had previously studied the results of this setup in my Psychology AS class in the UK in the 1990s. It doesn’t make pleasant reading, and it certainly doesn’t make pleasant viewing (viewer warning: some scenes are graphic and violent in nature).
Zimbardo’s primary reason for conducting the experiment was to focus on the power of roles, rules, symbols, group identity and situational validation of behavior that generally would repulse ordinary individuals. “I had been conducting research for some years on deindividuation, vandalism and dehumanization that illustrated the ease with which ordinary people could be led to engage in anti-social acts by putting them in situations where they felt anonymous, or they could perceive of others in ways that made them less than human, as enemies or objects,” Zimbardo told the Toronto symposium in the summer of 1996.
Wikipedia
This chart is randomized, and yet, there’s Pluto on the event horizon (conjunct Virgo Rising @ 28°). Now, doesn’t that just say it all?! There is a double inconjunct involving Jupiter/Uranus conjunct and the Midheaven.
Jupiter Inconjunct Midheaven
This aspect can mean that you have mixed feelings toward adults and persons in authority over you. Although you know that they have your best interests at heart and that they want you to succeed at your objectives, it often seems as if their demands are keeping you from doing what you want. When you want to go off and have fun, for example, you are told to finish your work first. At times you want to break free of this restricting influence and go off by yourself.
Uranus Inconjunct Midheaven
You need to express your thoughts and feelings, but you often upset the people around you with your words. You seem to enjoy creating a stir every time you say something, but this can get you into quite a bit of trouble with parents, teachers and other authority figures. The underlying principle of this aspect is the need to balance your individual self-expression and manner of communicating with your need to learn and grow under the guidance of older people.
Jupiter Conjunct Uranus
You have a great need to be free, and you hate to be restricted in any way. This can create problems in school if you don’t want to go by the required program. At the same time, you have an advantage in that your mind is quick and eager for new knowledge and a greater range of experience. However, you don’t adapt easily to the more tedious and repetitive drill work that school subjects so often require.
As you get older, you will become interested in problems of social reform, and you may even get involved in politics somehow, but certainly not on the side of the establishment.
From the Book
Zimbardo’s conclusion was that there are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions. The key word here is situation. Zimbardo isn’t talking about environment, about the major external influences on all of our lives. He’s not denying that how we are raised by our parents affects who we are, or that the kinds of schools we went to, the friends we have, or the neighborhoods we live in affect our behavior. All of these things are undoubtedly important. Nor is he denying that our genes play a role in determining who we are, Most psychologists believe that nature — genetics — accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point is simply that there are certain times and places and conditions when much of that can be swept away, that there are instances where we can take normal people from good schools and happy families and good neighborhoods and powerfully affect their behavior merely by changing the immediate details of their situation.
The Power of Context (Part One) (pages 114-5)
Conclusion
If we look at the Russia/Ukraine situation as it now stands after 24 days, we can perhaps understand why the Russian soldiers are willing to indiscriminately bomb and kill Ukraine civilians. It’s not ‘right’ that they should do so, but their leaders have made everyone their ‘enemies’ so they feel justified in their actions. Such is the nature of war: ordinary people do extraordinary (and heroic) things. The only way to judge them is to walk a mile in their moccasins…
So, now that I’m reading the next section of Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point” I’m finding the examples he uses remind me of this film, starring Michael Douglas. It was filmed during the Los Angeles riots of the summer of 1992. How’s that for context?
Falling Down was being shot on locations in Lynwood, California, when the 1992 Los Angeles riots began. By April 30, the riots were sufficiently disruptive to force filming to stop early that day. Film crews produced more footage inside of Warner Bros. Studio, in Burbank, as the riots continued. By May 4, when the crew intended to resume in Pasadena, initial requests to do so were denied, causing delays. Filming wrapped in late June 1992. Production designer Barbara Ling said, “We mapped this so that you really were going across [Los Angeles] from Silver Lake down to mid-city to Koreatown.”
Gladwell relates the story of Bernie Goetz and his shooting rampage on a New York subway on December 22, 1984. By the 1990s, New York changed some very fundamental things about their transit system, removing graffiti and arresting fare-dodgers. The result was an almost miraculous reduction of street and subway crime. Falling Down came out around this same time period. Hmm.
Number 2 subway train
If you think of what happened on the number two train this way, the shooting begins to feel inevitable. Four hoodlums confront a man with apparent psychological problems.That the shooting took place on the subway seems incidental. Goetz would have shot those four kids if he had been sitting in a Burger King. Most of the formal explanations we use for criminal behavior follow along the same logic. Psychiatrists talk about criminals as people with stunted psychological development, people who have had pathological relationships with their parents, who lack adequate role models. There is a relatively new literature that talks about genes that may or may not dispose certain individuals to crime. On the popular side, there are endless numbers of books by conservatives talking about crime as a consequence of moral failure — of communities and schools and parents who no longer raise children with a respect for right and wrong. All of those theories are essentially ways of saying that the criminal is a personality type — a personality type distinguished by an insensitivity to the norms of normal society. People with stunted psychological development don’t understand how to conduct healthy relationships. People with genetic predispositions to violence fly off the handle when normal people keep their cool. People who aren’t taught right from wrong are oblivious to what is and what is not appropriate behavior. People who grow up poor, fatherless, and buffeted by racism don’t have the same commitment to social norms as those from healthy middle-class homes. Bernie Goetz and those four thugs on the subway were, in this sense, prisoners of their own, dysfunctional, world.
But what do Broken Windows and the Power of Context suggest? Exactly the opposite. They say that the criminal — far from being someone who acts for fundamental, intrinsic reasons and who lives in his own world — is actually someone acutely sensitive to his environment, who is alert to all kinds of cues, and who is prompted to commit crimes based on his perception of the world around him. This is an incredibly radical — and in some sense unbelievable — idea. There is an even more radical dimension here. The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context. But it is a very strange kind of environmentalism. In the 1960s, liberals made a similar kind of argument, but when they talked about the importance of environment they were talking about the importance of fundamental social factors: crime, they said, was the result of social injustice, of structural economic inequities, of unemployment, of racism, of decades of institutional and social neglect, so that if you wanted to stop crime you had to undertake some fairly heroic steps. But the Power of Context says that what really matters is the little things. The Power of Context says that the showdown on the subway between Bernie Goetz and those four youths had very little to do, in the end, with the tangled psychological pathology of Goetz, and very little as well to do with the background and poverty of the four youths who accosted him, and everything to do with the message sent by the graffiti on the walls and the disorder at the turnstiles. The Power of Context says you don’t have to solve the big problems to solve crime. You can prevent crimes just by scrubbing off graffiti and arresting fare-beaters: crime epidemics have Tipping Points every bit as simple and straightforward as syphilis in Baltimore or a fashion trend like Hush Puppies. This is what I meant when I called the Power of Context a radical theory. Giuliani and Bratton — far from being conservatives, as they are commonly identified — actually represent on the question of crime the most extreme liberal position imaginable, a position so extreme that it is almost impossible to accept. How can it be that what was going on in Bernie Goetz’s head doesn’t matter? And if it is really true that it doesn’t matter, why is that fact so hard to believe?
We watched this film last night. It seemed appropriate, somehow, after writing about Crossing Over with John Edward. The misadventures of Sam, Molly and Oda Mae were a revelation to us 40-somethings when it came out. Love really is the connection to those on the other side.
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the Earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of Carl’s betrayal, Sam must seek the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right and protect Molly from Carl and his goons.
Storyline
Even re-watching this trailer sends shivers up my spine.
My title today is the echo of significance that comes when one address is repeated several times in the film. We need a different perspective if our prospects are to improve in this place. But all we have is the 4th Dimension, Time.
Some Random Quotes
When Sam is wounded and dying, and he sees the ‘heavenly host’ coming for him, Molly says, “Sam, don’t leave me.” He turns around to look at his death scene and the host disappears.
Oda Mae, saying goodbye to Sam and Molly, for the first time, says to Sam, “Have a good life,” and to Molly, “Have a good death.” (Most people presume the opposite…)
Sam, following Carl out of 303 Prospect Place, says, “How dare you? I had a life.”
The Whole Point of the Film in One Final Scene
It’s amazing, Molly — the love inside — you take it with you… See you…
I’ve been a fan of John Edward from 2000 (and, yes, we got to watch this TV program in England). The delivery is rapid-fire, with seemingly impossible hits, and some delayed misses, and plenty of awkward pauses when the information doesn’t seem to apply to anyone in the audience, until some timid soul puts up their hand and say, “It’s me…” It was riveting ‘reality’ television, but was it real?
Unitel Studios, New York City, June 14, 2000
I’m standing in shadows, waiting to walk out in front of a hundred people and explain that I’m about to connect some of them with their departed relatives. To your side means husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, above you parents, grandparents…appreciate the messages…just answer yes or no… I’ve given this litany a thousand times before, in living rooms and offices and Holiday Inns in states I can’t even locate on a map. But this is different. This is like nothing I’ve ever done before. It’s not something I’ve ever aspired to. But here I am.
Across the dimly lit set, I see Doug Fogel watching me. He’s the stage manager, a Martin Shortish man with a twinkle in his eyes who’s done Cats and The Lion King, Radio City and the Metropolitan Opera. Now he’s working on a TV show about a guy who talks to dead people. He’s in control of what’s happening, unlike the person he’s looking at, the person whose name is in the title of the show. I’m told that this studio was the original home of Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch. They shot Sesame Street right where I’m standing. And right beside me, Chris Rock did his HBO show here. So I guess I fit right in. I like to think that this show is going to be educational. I won’t break the news to the network just yet. I’m sure they think it’s entertainment.
Doug hears the cue from the control room over his headset and begins counting me down with one hand. Five, four, three two… He points to the irregularly shaped white screen that plays the opening montage of the show. He looks at the audience, extends his hands, and begins clapping with a purpose, turning himself into a human APPLAUSE sign. Then he points to me. It’s showtime. Time for me to walk out from side-stage, make a quick left as I reach the middle of the screen, and bound onto the illuminated disk that will be my new home.
Something tells me we’re not in the Holiday Inn anymore, Toto.
I scan the audience — the gallery, as it’s being called — and try to smile the way I think a TV host is supposed to smile. Regis? Jerry? Oprah? I’m not comfortable. I am extremely uncomfortable. I’m not wearing clothes, I’m wearing wardrobe. I have makeup on. There’s all this stuff around me. Up there, a constellation of lights. Over here, a contraption that looks vaguely like a camera. Back over there, a rolling screen that feeds me little bits of monologue to wrap around the taped segments.
And there’s, like an entire industry of people laboring over a cosmic version of something I’ve been doing for years by myself. Up until now, I’ve been pretty much okay with just God’s help. Now I’m relying on Doug. Everywhere I look there are people in headsets staring at fifty-two TV screens with my face on more of them than really seems necessary. It’s called the control room, and that makes me nervous. I’m a control freak — ask anybody. And I don’t like surrendering so much control that they need an entire room to hold it.
Will I be able to do what I do under these conditions? Will I get swallowed up like that mad-as-hell-and-not-gonna-take-it-anymore guy in that movie that came out when I was in, like second grade? Was this really such a good idea?
How the hell did I get here?
Prologue (pages xix-xx)
Meet John Edward
This is considered the correct timing for John Edward’s birth. Notice the Neptune/Ascendant conjunction in Scorpio (again). There must have been something in the water in New York in the late 60s.
This time there is one double inconjunct involving Saturn (Dad), and there is one single inconjunct involving the Moon (Mom). The South Node in Virgo is (widely) conjunct the Midheaven, while the North Node in Pisces is (widely) conjunct his Part of Fortune. Hmm.
Moon Inconjunct Midheaven
You need to feel that your family, especially your parents, give you consistent and reliable emotional guidance and support. Without it, you may easily feel that you are being pulled in two directions, which can only result in going nowhere.
Work very hard to develop an objective awareness of what you are doing and where you are going. You will need this understanding to guide your emotions, which might otherwise lead you astray and make it difficult for you to focus on your goals. Even though you won’t have to choose a career or a purpose in life for many years, you can learn now to have good perception, which will make it easier to choose later on. Learn to see others’ points of view, even if you cannot accept them. Learn to make logical decision, and do not let passing moods color your attitudes about yourself and you life too much.
Mercury Inconjunct Saturn
This aspect can have several different meanings. First of all, you may have hidden fears that are difficult to express, but they cause you to do things that others can’t understand. These may include fear of the dark or of certain places or people. Or this aspect can mean that you often feel depressed and sad for no apparent reason. You tend to see the serious side of life, and it weighs on you more than on most people.
On the plus side, this aspect can make you a very careful thinker. You may not attempt anything beyond your abilities as you see them, but whatever you do attempt will be done very well. You are a neat and careful worker.
Saturn Inconjunct Uranus
Your parents should understand that sometimes you have to let go and act in an undisciplined manner. Otherwise you will go through periods of great turmoil when you become extremely nervous and tense, so that you have to suddenly release all the built-up emotional tension. This can be quite a difficult experience. And if this pattern of sudden disruptive emotional release continues into adulthood, it could be very disruptive in your career as well as in your personal life. If you have a problem, try to express it and talk to others about it instead of being stoical and keeping it to yourself. You can do this very well, but there are times when you need other people. Learning to handle people and the tensions that arise in relationships is important.
(Is this where the ‘control freak’ energy comes from?)
Conclusion
I’d decided many years ago, now, that John Edward was the real deal. However, he has priced himself out of the range of my financial abilities to get a reading: US$750 per session. That’s a shame. Mom would have liked his energy. I wonder what Mrs Green is doing these days?
This is the story of a girl from Hicksville who makes good in the reality TV world of American mediums. Like Dolly Parton, Theresa Caputo is no dumb blonde. It’s an instantly recognizable look.
Although very popular on her TLC TV program, Caputo has her (unfair) share of critics:
A newspaper review of Caputo’s performances at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury in late 2017 concluded, “For me, this unbelievable experience was simply that: not to be believed. In my humble opinion, Caputo is a damn good performer, and she’s got undeniably likable sass and charisma. I just don’t think she speaks with the dead. Or she didn’t the night that I saw her. But my father probably could have told you that.”
Could it be true that she’s just a good performer?
Before you decide, consider her birth chart…
One of the symbols for an actor or actress is the Neptune/Ascendant conjunction. Here it is in Scorpio. That combination muddies the water as far as I am concerned. It could be the sign of a true medium.
Her Part of Fortune is @ 19° Sagittarius 41′, almost perfectly opposed to her Sun @ 19° Gemini 19′. Hmm.
There is one double inconjunct involving the Sun and the Neptune/Ascendant conjunction.
Sun Inconjunct Neptune
You are very sensitive to your environment and to the people around you. On one level of your being, you feel what is going on very acutely. Unfortunately your understanding often comes in terms that are very difficult to communicate to others, because their meaning is not clear in your own mind. Your greatest danger is in being exposed to negative people who are full of anger or depression or who act very harshly toward you and undermine your self-confidence. Your self-confidence has to be boosted at every conceivable opportunity, and it would be very destructive for you to be criticized sharply, unless the person has made it very clear that he or she loves you.
On the other hand, you can develop into a compassionate and understanding person who instinctively knows what others need and how to serve them. True selfless service to others, giving of yourself voluntarily rather than because you feel there is no choice, will make you feel good, just as the negative behavior described above will make you and everyone else feel bad.
Sun Inconjunct Ascendant
Your relationships with other people can be very intense. While you are young, they may be quite difficult, because you feel that others will accept you only if you deny yourself in some way. Or you may constantly feel you should put off doing what you want in order to do what you have to do. Usually your ideas about what you have to do come from the people around you. Also, contacts with other people will frequently force you to make serious, major psychological changes. Difficulties in your relationships with friends and family are signs of profound internal changes.
You may find that no matter how hard you try to show others who you really are, they misunderstand you somehow. This is because the angular relationship between your rising sign and Sun sign indicates that your internal energies are quite different from the energies that you show to the world, You are not intentionally dishonest with the world, you simply present a confusing complex of energies. As you get older, you will learn more about your effect on people, which will enable you to put the two sides of your personality together so that they work smoothly. Be patient and do not hurry. Look at each relationship as an opportunity to learn more about yourself through your effects upon others. You will know you have learned this when you no longer attract people who are psychologically difficult to deal with.
Sesame Street is an American educational children’s television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children’s Television Workshop [CTW] until June 2000) and was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. It is known for its images communicated through the use of Jim Henson’s Muppets, and includes short films, with humor and cultural references. It premiered on November 10, 1969 to positive reviews, some controversy, and high viewership. It has aired on the US’s national public television provider PBS since its debut, with its first run moving to premium channel HBO on January 16, 2016, then its sister streaming service HBO Max in 2020.
The show’s format consists of a combination of commercial television production elements and techniques which have evolved to reflect changes in American culture and audiences’ viewing habits. It was the first children’s TV show to use educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content, and the first show whose educational effects were formally studied. Its format and content have undergone significant changes to reflect changes to its curriculum.
Because Malcolm Gladwell references Sesame Street in his chapter on ‘The Stickiness Factor’ in his book “The Tipping Point”, I thought it might be interesting to look at the children’s TV show phenomenon from a different perspective, astrology.
Interesting. That Scorpio setup, starting with Mercury on the 11th House cusp (of groups and associations) seems to demonstrate clearly that this television program had a built-in secret agenda. The Ascendant @ 27° Sagittarius 17′ hints at the star Acumen which is just 18′ later.
Definition of acumen
: keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Ah, so. They say that watching too much television may cause blindness, which is the direct contradiction of the intent of the creators of Sesame Street. Maybe, knowing that children will watch just about anything on TV, they thought that teaching them at the same time would benefit the country.
The enduring cast of Muppet characters
There is one inconjunct:
Saturn Inconjunct Uranus
If either of these planets is near conjunction or opposition with the Ascendant or Midheaven, 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, 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.
So, the question is: was this aspect about the producers of the TV show or their audience of children?
Sesame Street is best known for the creative geniuses it attracted, people like Jim Henson and Joe Raposo and Frank Oz, who intuitively grasped what it takes to get through to children. They were television’s answer to Beatrix Potter or L. Frank Baum or Dr. Seuss. But it is a mistake to think of Sesame Street as a project conceived in a flash of insight. What made the show unusual, in fact, was the extent to which it was the opposite of that — the extent to which the final product was deliberately and painstakingly engineered. Sesame Street was built about a single, breakthrough insight: that if you can hold the attention of children, you can educate them.
Have you ever wanted to be read by a medium clairvoyant? It’s not as hard as you think: just sign up here, and Tyler Henry will (eventually) come to your place (of choosing) and read you. Would you do it, though? As his latest show on Netflix demonstrates again and again, it’s a very emotional process.
Whether you are a true believer or not, life does continue after death, so the controversy that rages on social media as to whether Tyler Henry is a fake (or not) rests with the results of his readings. Most are shocked that he picks up references to things that no one else supposedly knows. In this series, he is never told beforehand whom he is going to read so that he cannot look them up on the internet. But it doesn’t stop his psychic ability from picking up clues before he even gets to his destination, while in the car. Some are associated with famous people, most are just ordinary folk, trying to make sense of the passing of someone they love. The nastiest comment for Tyler and his work is that he is a ‘grief vampire’. Now, in my opinion, that’s not fair, but with our fear of the transition to the afterlife we call ‘death’, we label stuff associated with it, negatively, just to keep death at arm’s length.
This timing is genuine. Tyler quoted it on his Twitter account. After watching most of his sixth episode, last night, I was prompted to do my usual research and then erect his birth chart. I’ve mentioned before that I trust the randomization of the timing, but I got ‘proof’ of its correctness when I went to plug in his birth details: the timing was exactly 8:27:54 pm. His birth time is quoted as 8:28 pm. How’s that for ‘close enough for jazz’?
He claims that his first ‘event’ of being psychic was when he was ten years old. That would be represented in his birth chart as the conjunction between the Sun and Neptune in Capricorn. Normally, the Sun in Capricorn is far more ‘down-to-earth’ but Neptune may have been a prompt from a grandparent (and not the killer adoptive mother who raised his mom, but the real ancestor). In his teens he considered ending his life (Mercury/Mars conjunct) but somehow the moment passed. Later he fell in love with his present boyfriend (Venus). So I think the chart is accurate. Notice how everything seems to pivot around his mom, Theresa (Moon). There are three inconjuncts.
Mercury Inconjunct Ascendant
You are likely to have some problems, but not serious ones, in communicating with others. The problem is that people’s first impression of you may not fit in with what you say or your manner of thinking and speaking. People tend to hear what they expect to hear, and they may not listen to you as carefully as they should. So you will have to be as clear as possible and insist that others listen to what you are really saying. If others do not understand you, it is up to you to set them straight.
This pattern also works in reverse in that what you say may make people respond in ways that you can’t accept. For example, you may be outspoken and frank but dislike it when others are, preferring to be treated gently and sensitively.
Mars Inconjunct Ascendant
This aspect can mean that you have mixed feelings about all authority figures, including your parents. You may feel that you have to violate the rules laid down by your parents in order to get your way. This is a significant problems, because if it continues into adulthood, you will have great difficulties with employers. Therefore it is very important that your parents teach you how to express your self-assertive drives without going against their teachings. Unfortunately it is impossible to state how that should be done, because the conflict between self-will, on one hand, and self-denial and work, on the other, is different for each person.
Another was to solve this kind of conflict is to learn that you can say what needs to be said and not be forced to remain quiet. You can’t expect your elders to always go along with your ideas, but you should be able to feel confident of your right to say it. The exception to this, of course, is that you do not have any right to say anything just to hurt others.
Mercury Conjunct Mars
You don’t follow anyone else in your opinions, being quite happy to be the only one to hold a particular belief, You have no wish to control what others think, but you will not be controlled by anyone else, either. While you are young, adults may resent you for being so independent and for seeming to disobey them. But they can reason with you, for you are not a very impulsive person. If you know you will feel defeated if you agree with someone, you won’t budge. You have to be free to choose the better alternative and know that your choice will be respected. You cannot bear not to be taken seriously in this regard.
Jupiter Inconjunct Midheaven
This aspect can mean that you have mixed feelings toward adults and persons in authority over you. Although you know that they have your best interests at heart and that they want you to succeed at your own objectives, it often seems as if their demands are keeping you from doing what you want. When you want to go off and have fun, for example, you are told to finish your work first. At times you want to break free of this restricting influence and go off by yourself. 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.
(I guess we could call him a ‘rebel with a cause’.)
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