Alphee's Stories

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At 09:17 AM 3/13/06 -0800, Steve wrote:

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>...I must say it was a weird experience. I just visited his website

and checked out the same product--it apparently still doesn't include

any sidereal format--unless I'm missing something...

 

Wow...talk about blind spots. ADB is also not really set up for

sidereal research, though the software does have the ayanamsa option,

and users can set their own aspect orbs and use the nakshatras. The

problem with ADB is that the AstroSignature regulations are still too

rigid for the way astrologers work, but it's a useful program in other

ways.

 

I doubt that any computer research program can be really helpful to

astrology at this time. Any astrologer knows that there are numerous

subtleties that the computer can't catch, but the intuitive brain can

see.

 

I've never met Alphee.

 

Therese

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This is what Art Blackwell called wrecked by Wrongification!

Bert

 

therese92003 <eastwest wrote: Hi All,

 

There's been a discussion on the NCGR list about rectification and

the importance of math. I'm passing on some of Alphee Lavoie's

stories that he just posted. I'm probably not supposed to do this,

but his stories are amusing and pinpoint some of the problems

astrology faces today. I guess if we want to live without standards,

it's our choice.

 

Remember I'm not suggesting that we all think alike. I'm suggesting

that all practicing astrologers need to know the basics, and these do

need to be standardized in some way.

 

Therese

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From Alphee Lavoie via the NCGR Forum, March 12, 2006:

 

....A few years ago on the Festival e-mail group there was one man

there who was considered to be the guru of the group. He knew

everything according to the group.

 

One day a question came up: " I want to rectify my brother's chart

who is a priest. I need help. This guru says " well, just put Saturn

into the eighth house. A priest does not have sex. "

 

One woman on the group was so impressed with this wisdom and thanked

this man profusely for showing her how easy it was to rectify a chart

while she had had the hardest time to do so herself.

 

A few days later another woman ask him for help to rectify a friends

chart.

She said the man was around 6'4 tall. This know-it-all said just put

the South node on the ascendant because all tall people have the

south node on the ascendant. Again the group was extending their

thanks to him for making strological chart rectification so

incredibly easy and fast. They were aying we need more people like

you in astrology.

 

My feeling is that we have too many of those people in astrology.

 

Another example was when I was at a conference demonstrating my

software. An older man walks in with a beautiful young lady on his

me. He says to me, " draw a chart for August 26, 1954 at 4:15 p.m. " I

was curious because my oldest was born that day. The girl says. " No,

I was born at 11:09 am. That is what is on my birth certificate. " I

ask the man. " Where did you get 4:15? " He told me that he himself

had just rectified her chart while they were eating lunch. On the

day of her divorce Uranus was involved.

 

I proceeded to calculate his chart for 11:0 9 a.m.. That chart had

2� Scorpio on the ascendant. I asked her if she gotten her divorce

around February 2, 1984. She said, " Yes it was on the third of

February of 1984. " I assured her that her chart was correct because

Pluto made an exact station on her ascendant on that day.

 

The man jumped out of his chair screaming that I didn't know any

astrology because only Uranus can cause divorce. He claimed that he

has been a professional astrologer for 25 years and he had rectified

hundreds of charts. Later on I found out from his friends that

this man was working at Stop & Shop. HELLO! Professional

astrologer? Does that sound familiar!

 

I've been around astrology and astrologers for over 45 years. I've

attended nearly all the national conferences and many international

conference. I have lectured around the world. I have thousands of

stories like this. I will write a book on it some day. Does this

kind of rationality help astrology?

 

Every day when I hear this kind of baloney I thank God that I spent

the first seven years after getting my university degrees as an

engineer. When you work as an engineer if you make one mistake, you

get a warning slip. Get three warning slips and YOU ARE OUT OF A

JOB. It's that simple.

 

You learn really quickly that you can't use the astrologers famous

saying " If It Works for you then use It " . YOU WOULD BE OUT OF A JOB...

 

Alphee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" How can Pluto be in Sagittarius when it's so close to Antares? " -----

 

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