Mercury/Moon

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At 05:13 PM 9/16/04 -0000, Andrew wrote:

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>I have a highly retentive and

>impressionable memory as well as strong visualization abilities and

>have been told that this is due to the lunar aspect to Mercury. But as

>with almost everything else in astrology it is always up for further

>discussion!

 

Retention and memory come under the Moon. I don't know if you use the

navamsa chart, but your Moon is right on the navamsa Aquarius ascendant

exactly conjunct your natal part of fortune and in Jupiter's natal sign

(same as PF). I'd say your Moon is very strong due to this and the sextile

from Mercury and Sun in Virgo.

 

Mercury isn't related to memory in my opinion. I have no memory and I mean

**NO** memory. When I was in school I'd cram for an exam, ace the test and

promptly forget most of the information. Past is past for me. Dead and

gone. I don't even recognize myself in old photos (can't remember being

that strange person).

 

Even with astrology I have to look everything up in books to refresh my

memory. (Well, not the basics, but I generally forget what I've written in

the past.) My Moon is totaled (balsamic and conjunct a fallen Sun), but my

Mercury is strong above the horizon. I gather, record, organize and file

information constantly, and have no patience with the imaginative (lunar)

interpretation of facts which astrologers excell at.

 

Therese

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, Therese Hamilton

<eastwest@s...> wrote:

 

> Retention and memory come under the Moon. I don't know if you use the

> navamsa chart, but your Moon is right on the navamsa Aquarius ascendant

> exactly conjunct your natal part of fortune and in Jupiter's natal sign

> (same as PF). I'd say your Moon is very strong due to this and the

sextile

> from Mercury and Sun in Virgo.

 

I have some software that calculates the navamsa -- Jagannatha and

Junior Jyotish (SATVA!) -- but have never examined it because I have

never seriously pursued Vedic astrology. (But after having read the

posts by Cynthia that may change.) Is the navamsa somehow related to

the ninth harmonic chart? Are they calculated in the same way...?

 

> Mercury isn't related to memory in my opinion. I have no memory and

I mean

> **NO** memory. When I was in school I'd cram for an exam, ace the

test and

> promptly forget most of the information. Past is past for me. Dead and

> gone. I don't even recognize myself in old photos (can't remember being

> that strange person).

 

I cannot remember the past unless I consciously choose to recall it. I

mean that I have little sense of time -- just the silent emptiness of

conditioned existence. Information is stored in my mind like so many

data files which I have to pull. I have no problem accessing the most

obscure trivial memories but I have to have something in the present

environment to spark the search for recollected memories or 'stored'

information. Maybe this is related also to Uranus? Dennis Elwell has

suggested that Uranus rules memory along with the Moon and Mercury...

 

> Mercury is strong above the horizon. I gather, record, organize and file

> information constantly, and have no patience with the imaginative

(lunar)

> interpretation of facts which astrologers excell at.

 

I like 'the imaginative interpretation of facts' but I like to have

all my facts in place first before I feel comfortable forgetting them.

<gr>

 

Andrew

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At 08:55 PM 9/16/04 -0000, Andrew wrote:

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>I have some software that calculates the navamsa -- Jagannatha and

>Junior Jyotish (SATVA!) -- but have never examined it because I have

>never seriously pursued Vedic astrology. (But after having read the

>posts by Cynthia that may change.) Is the navamsa somehow related to

>the ninth harmonic chart? Are they calculated in the same way...?

 

They're the same chart. The only difference is that Jyotish counts each

navamsa sign as a house while the western programs make the chart equal

house counted from the navamsa ascendant degree.

 

>I cannot remember the past unless I consciously choose to recall it. I

>mean that I have little sense of time -- just the silent emptiness of

>conditioned existence.

 

This sounds like my experience--so little sense of time. I wonder if this

is Uranus? Or the times in which we live, which have a very haunting quality.

 

Therese