Close but no cigar

[Guest guest]

I am just getting into Sidereal and am finding many interesting little

things. like the man I live with who is born Aug 4 and yet before I knew him

I kept thinking he was a Cancer, or at least a Cancer Moon or Rising. Even

though he is a big man with a long mane of hair who is happy to be in the

spot light and hams it up, superficial Leo qualities, granted...he always

feels most comfortable in occupations that focus on food and feeding people,

nurturing and caring for them, and he is very watery and emotional, with a

profound connection to the ocean and the water in general. When I did his

chart initially (Tropical) I did find some Cancer in there, and I just

figured on the 'esoteric' interpretation of the sun sign having issues with

the energy and natives of the preceding sign, etc.

 

I really think it is interesting to look at his chart Sidereally and think

about the very heavy relationship stuff with his mother that he has, and

note his tendancy to be very moody and emotional. He is a real Cancer in his

heart, and the few Leo qualities he exhibits might actually be the esoteric

type associations with the next sign up.

 

And then there is the Cancer I know who is so uncomfortable with the

designation of Cancer that he refuses to use that birthdate anymore. He

reselected Oct 31 just for fun, but claims to be so much more Virgoan than

anything else. Of course, he is a Sidereal Geminii, and his profession of

Computer Programmer and his being an occultist and Magician and archivist

and very much a writer all fit the Geminii profile. Also you cannot pin him

down on plans until the last minute, and his relationships have all been

sort of on and off - he is near 40 and never married, and somewhat lonely.

He has also never done well living with a lover. Not very Cancer, hmm?

 

Anyway, my being a Sag who hates atheletics used to be a conundrum, until I

figured out that Sidereally I am a Scorpio. With my stellium in the 12th in

Sag/Scorpio including Sun, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus and Neptune along

with three asteroids, I was not too surprised. I still have an ascendant of

Sag, but the focus of my chart is Scorpio. And this fits, in many ways. What

is weird to me is that I have always looked at this 'signs display the

qualities of the prior sign' phenomena as some kind of esoteric thing, not

knowing about the Sidereal effect. I had a whole philosophy about it and I

thought I sort of understood the paradoxes of it.

 

To be honest I am now really going thorugh a sort of mild sense of confusion

or even numbness about the vast amount of misinformation which we have most

of us been operating under all this time. It is profoundly disconcerting to

realize how wrong one has been for awhile, and how one has nevertheless

found numerous rationalizations for these errors and flaws of logic. I feel

like I am now having to reground myself totally as if I had been trying to

navigate San Francisco using a map of San Jose. close but no cigar.

 

Jewel

[Guest guest]

Dear Jewel,

 

I recently came across a wonderful Vedic method for comparing couples' charts

called the novien or _navamsa_ chart, also called the " ninth harmonic " chart.

 

To construct a ninth harmonic chart,

 

a) Convert all longitudes to 360* format. (Example: a planet at 15 Sco 15

becomes 225.25, since 00 Sco 00 is 210* from 00 Ari 00, and 15/60 = 0.25).

 

b) Divide the new longitude by forty (360/9 = 40).

 

c) Subtract the integer section from the result. (Example: 225.25/40 =

5.63125; 5.63125 - 5 = 0.63125)

 

d) Multiply the decimal remainder by 360. (Example: 0.63125 x 360 = 227.25)

 

e) Reconvert to regular Zodiacal format (227.25 = 17 Sco 15).

 

Do this for both partners, and then compare the interchanges as you would a

regular chart comparison.

 

The results can be astounding. I did this for a friend of mine who's getting

divorced from a woman who was supposedly VERY compatible with him --

according to their 9th harmonic charts, they were " doomed " to being " just

good friends " at best. Then there's the case of my ex-fiancee. We were also

supposedly very compatable, but, according to our 9th harmonic charts, it's a

miracle we didn't kill each other!

 

Later,

Kevin/Baraka