Intro and request for sources

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At 06:12 PM 7/14/04 +0200, Jori wrote:

>Hi everyone,

>

>I joined this list a few days ago and am enjoying the discussions immensely.

>Thanks for letting me eavesdrop.

 

Hi Jori,

 

First a sincere apology for the delay in your post appearing on the list.

I've had a house guest and have been forgetting to check for posts for new

members, who are always on moderated status. You've been changed to regular

status, and there should be no more delays in seeing your messages on the

list. Welcome to Sidereal Astrology!

 

>>I'm very new to astrology but have been giving myself an intensive cram

>course (just for the fun of it) by analyzing my own chart and scrutinizing

>everyone else's every spare minute of the day and reading everything I can

>get my hands on. I even did a chart for my developing weaving business,

>which will have its official birthday next spring and has now become a

>separate entity in gestation with its own personality!

 

Jori, it would be intersting to do a solar return chart for your business,

if you have the time of day the business was started.

 

>My question has to do with good sources for the discussion concerning

>tropical and sidereal astrology. I did my chart first off (with Io) in

>tropical mode. I spent weeks looking and considering and learning, and then

>I did it in sidereal mode and I was blown away. The tropical chart showed me

>many aspects of myself that I'm familiar with, and it's certainly the

>interpretation I got twenty years ago when I first went to an astrologer.

 

>But the sidereal chart shows me the me *I* know. Someone on this list had

>commented (I'm paraphrasing) that a tropical chart was a good picture of the

>personality, but that the sidereal chart went deeper. I was wondering what

>that could mean. Then I did this chart, and I FEEL it. I still can't say

>exactly what shifted, but it was more than the houses and signs. It feels

>deeper, more appropriate somehow.

 

Jori, this is a BIG order, especially since sidereal astrologers disagree

on some zodiac and house basics. But this is astrology in the 21st century!

For starters, check the archives and past messages on this list. If you

'expand' each message page, you can skim through all the articles on the

page. This saves lots of time, by page downing through the messages. (First

click on 'messages' on the left hand side of the screen, expand the

messages, then keep going to the 'previous' page until you get tired of

reading.)

 

The newest and latest discussions on sidereal astrology are on this list.

You'll find everything from the highly technical and mathematical to a

down-to-earth basics discussion of zodiac signs. The bottom

line--everything is up for grabs on this list except the sidereal zodiac!

 

Please ask away, and we'll do the best to answer your questions. One or two

on this list are also happy to interpret your natal chart if you post our

birth detals. Bettina, especially is good at this. We're happy to see

another lady on the list!

 

Blessings,

Therese

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> First a sincere apology for the delay in your post appearing on the list.

 

Hi Theresa,

 

Thanks for the welcome, and don't worry about the delay. I've had a bit of a

delay over here myself, as we almost lost our house to a wildfire last

Thursday. I live in Corsica, in the Balagne, which is a prime target for

summer fires. At least 2,000 acres of dry maquis (including ancient olive

and oak trees) were burned around our village and our house was on the

frontline. The fire came within 20 feet of the house---the whole village was

out with garden hoses fending off the flames until the fire planes and fire

department arrived. It was a frightening experience, but I kept trying to

focus on fire as a purifier and prayed to use the transformative energy of

the experience on a personal level, however it turned out. We're still

recovering (I have a little post-traumatic stress today, to say the least),

but after seeing all the people in the US who've lost their homes in the

last few days, I'm the last one to complain. We're all alive and well and,

miraculously, no people or homes were lost during the whole 10-hour fire

that consumed the fields and mountains.

 

> Jori, it would be intersting to do a solar return chart for your business,

> if you have the time of day the business was started.

 

Well, this business idea has been growing over the last two years, so it's

difficult to say when it actually was born. I chose to do the chart for the

day next spring that I'll be opening the doors to the public and counting it

as the atelier's official birthday. Let me know if you have a better idea!

 

> Please ask away, and we'll do the best to answer your questions. One or two

> on this list are also happy to interpret your natal chart if you post our

> birth detals. Bettina, especially is good at this. We're happy to see

> another lady on the list!

 

I'll take your suggestion to read through the archives---once I have my feet

on the ground again, that is---but it seems to me that asking someone to

interpret my chart would be a huge imposition. I know how much work that

entails. I'll tell you one thing, when I created my Sidereal chart (I'm

using Io), I went from having a 2° Capricorn Sun with a Sagittarius rising

to being a full-fledged Sagittarius and Sag rising---and this suits me down

to the ground. This new emphasis on Jupiter in my life (which means letting

go of the overbearing Saturn I've been carrying around with me for decades)

is reflected in so many positive attitude changes and growth I'm anyway

experiencing these days. I've decided to burn my Tropical chart as a

symbolic goodbye to all the heavy weight I just don't need any more. Hello

to a little more trust in the Universe!

 

Just in case someone wants some practice, here are my birth details---but I

certainly don't expect a free lunch:

25 December 1951, 6:50 a.m., New York, NY

 

Thanks so much for your help,

Jori