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On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, Due to a confluence of multiple serious medical conditions and other worldly obstacles, I am formally suspending weekly transmission of JOHN DELANEY’S ASTROSCOPE backdated to Labor Day, September 2, 2024. I will continue to write and to transmit astrology copy, but not to the extensive degree that I have for the past 29 years. When I began to write JOHN DELANEY’S ASTROSCOPE on January 1, 1995, one local newspaper, The Manhattan Mirror, published me. Some three or four months later, another local African-American newspaper, The Brooklyn Advocate, later called The New York World, began to publish me. Publication in the AAN (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies) followed in 1997. Since 2006, publication of JOHN DELANEY’S ASTROSCOPE has been sparse. I continued to pursue newspaper publication and will continue to do so going forward. However, as time progressed, the mission of JOHN DELANEY’S ASTROSCOPE evolved. Simultaneous with my foray into astrological research of recently named and unnamed planets, I began to investigate, to pitch newspapers concerning, to write and on occasion to publish astrological analyses of cities, states, provinces, elections and historical events. However, neither my business model nor my purpose in writing JOHN DELANEY’S ASTROSCOPE has evolved with such expansion. This step is overdue. I am still available for consultations. I hope you have enjoyed JOHN DELANEY’S ASTROSCOPE over the years and appreciate your support. Feel free to contact me with any and all inquiries.
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On Thu, 21 June 2025, As I recover physically, I'm finishing outstanding outlines from 2024. I don't post everything to the Centaur Board. I will be posting backdated Astroscopes that have significance regarding the continuity of my research and analyses of Centaurs/Plutinos. In many but not all cases, I will write these Astroscopes after the transit is completely ended, and based upon what just happened, both in current events and with me. I'll note these specifically as backdated. I have done this on occasion in the past, but there will be several in a row over the next few weeks. These will include Hylonome, Echeclus and Thereus, to name some. When I'm done, I'll form new outlines for upcoming columns. Thanks. .
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ARTICLE #1 Thereus@, which exits Libra to enter Virgo on April 25, 2025, continues to transit Virgo in Retrograde Motion* until June 3, 2025. Really, only your boss needs to know. It does not matter whether any of your colleagues in the workplace know what you do or know what you can do. You were not hired to be their colleague in the workplace; you were hired to do a job based upon what your employer knows that you can do. Your colleagues don’t like you? Tell them to go scratch. Instruct them, “Get out of my face,” in a language they understand – and of which your bosses will approve. That’s why they call it “work.” ARIES – Concentrate upon the task at hand. Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo will fill the workplace with people who value, “It’s what you know about who you know.” Inform these losers that they nothing at all about you. Steamroll the low-minded & lazy. Play the game the way it is supposed to be played. TAURUS – Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo confirms that the best form of office politics is to have fabulous weekends. Monday morning eventually arrives, like death & taxes, and colleagues trade stories about their weekends in sound bites. Live your live outside the office in epic terms that require five words or less. Exude vitality & vibrancy. GEMINI – Romantic partners, potential or actual, are interested or they are not. Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo concedes that you have no control over this. Groom your face, your body & yourself in a way that makes you feel good. Do your laundry. Clean your apartment. Feel comfortable in your own skin. CANCER – Merchants, vendors & employees already know what to do. In almost all cases, they will do it. For the rare occasion where somebody does not do what they know they should & must do, Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo implore you to correct them as acutely as necessary. LEO – Bosses, managers, supervisors: You don’t need to get along with everybody in the workplace – you simply must ensure that those in the workplace do their job. If not, Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo advises you to hire somebody else. Easy! VIRGO – You know what you know & you know how to do what you need to do. Therefore, Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo confirms that there is no reason to seek anybody’s approval. Let those who need you, come to you. Eschew worthless ephemeral popularity. LIBRA – A stray detail or disgruntled contact may come back to bite you under the current influence of Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo. Stay loose. Stay alert. Be aware that the other shoe may drop. SCORPIO – You weren’t the only one who noticed how cowardly undeclared enemies mercilessly ambushed you recently. Well, all that Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo has to say is, “He who makes enemies makes friends.” For that matter, old friends who haven’t seen you for awhile have heard reports through the grapevine & will check in to find out who you are – if only to make sure that cowards do not strike twice. SAGITTARIUS – Bosses who resent your recent politicking hope to extract a pound of flesh from you before you execute your exit strategy. To that end, Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo demands that you deliver the goods – and provide such bosses with no further ammunition. CAPRICORN – Yes, certain bosses hate you, and have it in for you, as you will learn over the next two years. However, an unexpected victory in a legal matter dating from the recent past will definitely cheer you up under the current influence of Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo. Perhaps you won’t be dealing with these certain bosses in the future at all? AQUARIUS – While you recently became very excited at the possibility of legal & professional liberation, Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo warns the Waterbearer severely that no liberation will occur unless you unerringly & conspicuously obey all laws – and this especially includes all laws related to cars, vehicles, cell phones & computers. Keep your nose clean. PISCES – Divorcees in proceedings for custody of their children, married couples in the process of separating: Retrograde Thereus in late Virgo provides you with the last opportunity to deal directly with your partner in the absence of attorneys. You can offer every excuse in the world – but if you decide to succumb to mutual legal representation, you forfeit the opportunity to determine your own fate. The choice is yours. @ Thereus, a centaur planet that traverses the orbit of Saturn, was discovered in August 2001 & named in June 2003. Thereus was a centaur who hunted bears which, upon capture, he carried home alive. For information on how to interpret Thereus, formerly 2001-PT13, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.
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Research on the above footnotes * Planets either move forward, in which case they orbit in Direct Motion, or move backward, in which case they orbit in Retrograde Motion. Planets in Direct Motion seek to make progress, while Planets in Retrograde Motion seek to redress past imbalances. ARTICLE #2 Elatus* transits Scorpio from September 30, 2023 to November 29, 2028. Many Americans & Canadians view Sixties’ musicians such as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jefferson Airplane and Bob Dylan as not just commenting upon, but in fact, driving political change in North America. Simultaneously in Brazil, however, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso, active proponents of Tropicalismo, the Brazilian art movement of the late Sixties, recorded separate albums in 1972, Gil’s Expresso 2222 and Veloso’s Transa, which served as important historical documents of their generation. Both Gil & Veloso endured censorship, imprisonment & eventual exile in London from late 1969 to early 1972 under Artur da Costa e Silva & Emílio Garrastazu Médici, the second & third of five Brazilian Presidents servicing the military dictatorship known euphemistically as the Fifth Republic of Brazil, allegedly for mocking the Brazilian National Anthem at the Sucata Club in Rio de Janeiro in October 1968. Rolling Stone Magazine lists both albums as amongst the 100 Greatest Albums in the history of Brazil. Gil named Expresso 2222, which appears as No. 26 on Rolling Stone’s Brazilian album list, after the train that Gil took from his rural hometown Ituaçuto to Salvador, Bahia. More provocative than Gil’s sentimental tribute is the subtext for which Veloso names his album which appears as No. 10 on that same list, Transa. After Brazilian President Médici’s regime granted Veloso relief from exile in January 1971 so that Veloso may attend his parents’ 40th wedding anniversary, representatives of the military junta asked Veloso to compose a song praising the contemporaneous construction of the Transamazônica highway. Veloso did not respond to this request directly either way. Instead, Veloso released Transa upon his return to Brazil. Transa, which contains the songs “It’s a Long Way,” with overt references to the Beatles, “It's a long road – It's a long and winding road,” and “Neolithic Man,” with the cryptic conundrum, “I'm the silence that's suddenly heard after the passing of a car – Spaces grow wide about me,” perhaps praised the construction of Transamazônica highway, but, also, perhaps, insulted it, by deploying the word transa, accepted (and rejected) as a vulgar colloquialism for “fornication.” Use your own judgment. ARIES – Read Libra. Before the high-tech era, the mysterious blue-collar guy at your corporate offices with six separate keychains with twenty to thirty keys apiece attached to the one master keychain? That individual exuded importance like nobody’s business – this individual had access. This individual also had massive responsibility & liability – so don’t cross that player at all costs. Of course, this has changed. The Information Technology Department at your company now owns all those keys – and also employs, as Elatus in Scorpio informs you, a powerful behind-the-scene player that you see every day. You wonder, “What does that individual really do?” The question is wrong. The question, which is the answer, “What does that individual know about what happens here? What do they control? How do they monitor what is under their control?” TAURUS – The Information Technology Department & certain employees in accounting at your company don’t say hi to you because they await the day that you sit on the hot seat through no fault of your own. But don’t take this professional snub as a personal snub – Elatus in Scorpio denotes that they treat everybody outside of their department the same way. Truth be told, anybody & everybody will one day sit on the hot seat through no fault of their own. The impersonal cruelty that they impart is not intended to dispense any charity, any benefit of any doubt. Therefore, in the meantime, in their own terms, they “leave you alone. They keep their poison ready within its syringe. GEMINI – Medicinal codes, litigation codes, bankruptcy codes, IP addresses, confirmation numbers, cancellation numbers – they all boil down to a level of accountability for individuals you have never met & will never meet. Elatus in Scorpio surmises that the Twin knows more about these codes than many other people – they are numbers, after all. Even so, because you realize that the significance of these codes far beyond just random numbers, you should realize that there is no reason to enlighten anybody about them so that the powers that be retain their ability to keep certain information . . . secure. CANCER – On December 2, 2008, the Toronto Police Service arrested American attorney Marc Dreier, sole equity partner of New York City law firm Dreier LLP, for acting as an imposter of Michael Padfield, in-house lawyer with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, to a man whom he had just met in an elevator, by handing that man in the elevator the business card which Padfield had just handed Dreier. As brazen as Dreier’s crime was, it was much more inept & desperate than brazen, as Dreier LLP, at the time, actually carried at debt of at least $38.5 million, all which he needed, immediately. Which serves as an example, as Elatus in Scorpio moralizes, that, when one commits fraud or forgery, it is infrequently to gain an advantage, but, rather, a desperate attempt to survive a profound disadvantage. LEO – Signing one’s own will & testament, or signing a lease as a guarantor for a family member, family members or worst of all, a family member and their “friends,” makes on the target of all sorts of surreptitious investigators, interrogators & outright extremely intrusive questions & conduct – but only because you say nothing about the items of such business to anybody involved, of which Elatus in Scorpio approves. Eventually, alas, you will probably need to tell a lawyer, as your family member, or hopefully, one of their “friends,” screws up royally. That’s okay – you expect that. Just tell everybody that Santa Claus went on a diet. VIRGO – Dining with “friends”? “Separate checks.” A credit card for you and your spouse? One credit card – in the possession of the breadwinner or the one who pays all the bills. Neither a borrower nor a lender be? Investing in private placements with strangers? “Really, I don’t know you.” Any other questions? “Really,” Elatus in Scorpio clarifies, “it is your name on the credit report. What else do you need to know?” LIBRA – Read Aries. Employees working in the Information Technology Department (IT) at your employer know not only your last six passwords, but the last six passwords of everybody at the firm. And, of course, much, much more. Elatus in Scorpio declares that, like the Libran, IT employees not how other people handle proprietary information. When individuals outside your firm hack your firm’s servers, they look not only for some individual’s last six passwords, but for credit card information & all concomitant personal identifying information. Why? You guessed it – in the end, to steal cold, hard cash. These IT professionals notice more than you realize. You know how some people take Librans for granted? IT people know how this feels. SCORPIO – “I’ve been a reporter for eleven years in this city. And I’ve traveled with bikers and I’ve traveled with whores and I’ve traveled with gamblers. And I’ve traveled with people from the east end of town to the west end of town. And I’ve been in all kinds of trouble with the police.” So spoke the legendary & inimitable Ralph Klein, longtime Mayor of Calgary and long-time Premiere of Alberta, while still a City Hall Reporter on CFCN-TV in Calgary, as he ran for mayor at the launch of his political career. A high school dropout, Ralph said nothing about being honest or honorable or smart or devoted – nope. What you see is what you get. Elatus in Scorpio notes that Ralph Klein never lost an election. The people knew what they were getting because Ralph Klein delivered upon his truth in advertising, come Hell or high water. Ralph Klein walked his talk – which they published in Pravda! SAGITTARIUS – It was not a surveillance but a cell phone video, but that cell phone video which revealed that Mayor Rob Ford smoked crack turned the City of Toronto upside-down for weeks. Did Mayor Rob, kid brother to future Ontario Premiere Doug, know that he was being videotaped? At this point in (time) (history), the point is moot. However, as for Sagittarius the Archer: Elatus in Scorpio promises you no guarantee, whatever you may be doing, that there will be nobody watching you, videotaping you, or both. CAPRICORN – A lot of people do some preliminary, armchair spying on past frenemies from school or past workgroups by searching them in Google. Which information one mines can prove dubious at best. Police, however, if it is warranted, have a much more superior system as they check the criminal database for “priors.” Putting such “searches” in this context, Elatus in Scorpio wants to know, “Why are you looking for this information or for such disinformation?” In a civil court of law for libel, “I read it on the Internet,” sounds less than persuasive. But it need not go that far. You & everybody knows the format of a click-through, of a porn club’s signage, of a white nationalist clubhouse or bar or an urban gang hangout by its formatting, by its design, by its colors. Are you indulging prurient interest? Are you looking for a specific type of trouble? AQUARIUS – Read Pisces. When you see an extended biography of a new Mexican drug lord in the Sunday edition of your local paper, do you think that that new Mexican drug lord consented to an interview in the tradition of Sean Penn & Kate del Castillo? How exactly did the American or Canadian newspaper find out about such a new Mexican drug lord – from a press release in its corporate communications? When that new Mexican drug lord’s name appears in the newspaper or on TV, it means only one thing: The police are hunting him or her. In fact, if such a newspaper reports any symbols, gang signs or gang colors, Elatus in Scorpio state that the newspaper is not accepting ad money to promulgate that gang’s influence to the suburbs: It means that the reportage is obsolete. But will the gang be far enough ahead of the reporting to continue to do business? This is the real danger to the kids in the suburbs. PISCES – Read Aquarius. Cops, detectives: You already know that suburban kids looking for vice in the big bad city do their homework to know where to go to get what they want. Gang symbols & code words, per se, constitute marketing. As a result, Elatus in Scorpio declares that it is not your job to disseminate this information for these groups. You are looking to shut those gangs down, not bring them more customers. Know how to handle this data with discretion. * Elatus, a centaur planet that traverses the orbits of Saturn & Uranus, was discovered in October 1999 & named in June 2003. Elatus, along with Chiron, was injured by the same poisoned arrow of Hercules when an entire tribe of centaurs attacked Hercules for drinking the communal wine of the tribe while the centaur Pholus cooked & served Hercules dinner. For information on how to interpret Elatus, formerly 1999-UG5, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.
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Pholus* transits Capricorn Charley Anderson, a rather curious character in The U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos, thwarts preconceived notions. Introduced at the end of the trilogy’s first novel, The 42nd Parallel, Anderson hovers around New York City’s Union Square Park, replete with communists, socialists & federal undercover police agents, not exactly sure of where he is or what he should do next. Then, Anderson, who, for whatever reason, simply couldn’t get arrested, does not reappear until the beginning of the trilogy’s third novel, The Big Money, wherein Anderson, after earning high honors & a legendary reputation as an Air Force fighter pilot, sets out to make his fortune investing money in Wall Street stocks, while ceaselessly indulging an alcoholic’s interminably protracted daily & nightly drunkenness for the entire Roaring Twenties. Finally, in a profoundly desperate act of machismo & with a young lady named Eileen in the passenger seat late at night after drinking heavily in a bar in Miami (Jackson Pollock, anyone? Jackson Pollock?), Anderson, driving north-south, tries to outrace a speeding locomotive, driving east-west, loses, and collides head-one into the train. (Dr. Ridgely Snyder, attending to Anderson in the hospital after his combination car-train wreck, commented, “Funny, I’ve never known an airline pilot yet who could drive a car.”) The moral of the story – some skills are simply non-transferable – rings true. Consider a historical example. Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman, an alumnus of West Point who graduated amongst the top ten students in his class, as “Civilian Sherman,” did not lead a particularly accomplished life previous to the American Civil War. Sherman, who resigned his military commission after his promotion to captain based upon his work in an administrative capacity in California during the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s, encountered difficulties in the private sector. Sherman first took a job as manager of the St. Louis-based bank Lucas, Turner & Co. in San Francisco – a job at which Sherman did not excel & which Sherman did not like, "I can handle a hundred thousand men in battle, and take the City of the Sun, but am afraid to manage a lot in the swamp of San Francisco." Later, Sherman became president of the St. Louis Railroad, a streetcar company –another job that left him cold. In 1859, Sherman was offered, then finally accepted, a job in line with both his temperament & credentials: First Superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy, which would later become Louisiana State University (LSU). As fate would have it, Sherman resigned from the Louisiana State Seminary in January 1861, anticipating Louisiana’s secession from the Union later that month. Throughout his early military career, Sherman had spent considerable time in the American South, fighting in the Seminole War in Florida & enjoying the status of his foster father in high society in Charleston, South Carolina. Sherman understood & liked the South. Nevertheless, as a military officer, Sherman appraised the chances of pro-Secessionist forces coldly & objectively: You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth—right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. Invariably, however, Sherman, having achieved nothing spectacular amongst a well-educated, well-bred social class, had another opinion as valid or as invalid, but ultimately as speculative, as any other opinion amongst his peers. Sherman simply bided his time until the core purpose of the nation state in which he lived & for which he served either rose, or fell, to meet the future Union General William Tecumseh Sherman where he stood . . . exactly at his level. ARIES – Your boss, whoever your boss is at the moment, has zero interest in your personal total aptitude & potential. Your boss is solely interested in satisfying the demands presented by an amalgamative, disjunctive, sometimes chaotic infrastructure. In this context & your boss’s universe, Pholus in Capricorn proclaims that you are merely furniture which does or does not facilitate the infrastructure’s environment. If you can or do enhance that infrastructure’s environment, your boss will put you in a place which enhances that environment the most. Your boss may even like you & remember your name – but don’t be fooled. (So how do you move up in an environment where you are “furniture?” You don’t. Either you or the infrastructure disappear, allowing you to populate some environment . . . where your boss will hopefully find a better place for you.) TAURUS – The law of the land is based on the lay of the land, and what is or is not allowed may depend entirely upon where you stand. In most cases, such issues are speculative parlor games. However, sometimes, as Pholus in Capricorn warns, what you have done your entire life in your own hometown would shock a police officer who watched you do it in public somewhere else. It may be an open container of alcohol – it may be jaywalking. Whatever it is, is irrelevant. Tone down your presumptuous attitudes in unfamiliar surroundings. GEMINI – Pholus in Capricorn illustrates that the jockeying for position to become the dominant marijuana stock in the capital markets articulately expresses how a change in social values augurs an inevitable & inexorable shift in real-time capitalist market values. The only reason why climate change activism does not spell doom for fossil fuel industries lies in pure resistance of those companies & people vested in that industry sector to change. Prepare yourself for the day when an idea’s time has come. CANCER – Recently deceased Republican Senator from Arizona John McCain reportedly became just as traumatized by his divorce from his first wife Carol Shepp after he entered national politics because he realized that he was not the same man as he was when he married her as he had been as an active Navy Aviator during the Vietnam War . Pholus in Capricorn contemplates that if the trajectory of history can transform or debase an individual, it can transform or debase or destroy a couple. Those not part of the couple can, and will, but not always, pass judgment. Know when it is possible to exert changes over your own life & relationships – and when you must follow the changes demanded by forces much larger than you & those whom you love. LEO – Methodologies in the workplace originate at the end – what goods or services do you wish to provide at what price point? In this context, Pholus in Capricorn declares that a radical shift in the price point will transform or debase the methodologies – and will change all the faces at the workplace at the same time. What will change the price point? The same thing that it always does in classic economics – surplus or shortage. (Be prepared for those improvements which make things worse: Price supports from the government.) VIRGO – The forcefield of glamour, fame, money & power that shields professional athletes from criminal prosecution is nowhere near as strong as it had been previous to the arrest of football all-star, film actor, advertising spokesman & color television sports commentator O.J. Simpson in June 1994, but it certainly does still exist – and not just at the professional level. Indeed, athletic programs on the university, collegiate & even high school levels can pay for academic programs for all students at the school as a result of extremely generous alumni contributions. Even so, Pholus in Capricorn nevertheless does not fail to recognize how many athletes get away with extremely bad behavior because the system protects them – but only while they contribute to the system as athletes. After their careers are over, many such athletes cannot possibly understand why law enforcement authorities no longer continue to allow them absolutely unfettered liberties – despite the fact that this reality is clear to everybody else in the world, “I’m the coach of this team now, son. You have the right to remain silent – ” LIBRA – Local law enforcement & civic groups would love to be able to penetrate the haze of corruption that surrounds certain duly elected civic officials, including the mayor, the city council or the county executive. However, Pholus in Capricorn outright guarantees that whoever tries to penetrate that veil from the bottom of the org chart will only succeed by acquiring the same stain of corruption that they try to investigate. SCORPIO – Don’t you hate it when a waiter or waitress takes your order without writing it down – then returns with the wrong food? As aggravating as this can be personally, Pholus in Capricorn signifies that a similar situation in a more advanced & lucrative work environments can lend itself to lawsuits, criminal investigations, arrests & the failure of entire companies if a professional representative miscommunicates hard numbers which cost your clients & your company money. Furthermore, when a colleague at your firm quotes numbers to you on which you must base further transactions, follow up to confirm the veracity of those numbers yourself . . . no matter where such fact-checking will lead you. SAGITTARIUS – You have a large fortune? Live large & do whatever you want. You have a small fortune but want to live large? Pholus in Capricorn shrugs. Toronto, New York & San Francisco are expensive – Veracruz & Acapulco are cheap. Loonie Dollar Peso! CAPRICORN – A wide range of outer planets & centaur planets transiting through Capricorn, sometimes more than once, from the early Eighties through 2021, have empowered you to learn about, realize & manifest more aspects of your basic personality than all other signs of the zodiac. Pholus in Capricorn suggests that you can have much more control over how you wish to deploy your basic personality. Find a purpose for who you are. AQUARIUS – Pholus in Capricorn declares that you will be blind to how personnel changes behind the scenes affect where you work. You may love or hate what occurs as a result of such changes, but you cannot see the relationship between those personnel changes & how they manifest where you are. If things are great, carry on. If things are awful, leave. Don’t try to learn what you will never discover. PISCES – Professional peers interact with you to find out how they are doing. If you cease to be their peer, whether through upward or downward mobility, most former professional peers will cease to communicate with you because you no longer present to them that “mirror” that they need. All that being said, Pholus in Capricorn declares that you will not understand the truth of this analysis until you experience a profoundly radical change in circumstances, at which point you will ask, “Who am I, anyway?” (A more academic analysis along different cultural plateaus: Emile Durkheim analyzes which member of which religious group is most inclined to kill themselves in his sociological treatise Suicide.) * Pholus, named after the centaur who accidentally died because mighty Hercules was thirsty, was discovered in 1992 & named in 1996. Pholus bridges the gap in consciousness between Saturn & Neptune, forcing us mere mortals to realize that even our most severe discipline is worthless when God wishes to teach us a lesson.
A great source online for how to interpret Pholus
and many
other centaurs, asteroids & minor planets, in an individual's chart & in
transit, is
Read seminal astrological analysis on
Pholus and other
named & unnamed minor planets, asteroids, centaurs, transneptunians,
plutinos and damacloids on
The only source online for how to interpret many unnamed centaurs and transneptunians, as well as an excellent
source for how to interpret Pholus and all named centaurs, is
A great resource for ephemeris data on
Pholus and over 3000
minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
An
indispensable resource for mythologies from all five continents, including but
not limited to African, Native American, Inuit, Mayan, Aztec, Incan, Voodoo, Asian,
Norse, Celtic, Oceanic, Greek & Roman mythologies is
Research
on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by ARTICLE #4 HHylonome*, which turns to Direct Motion@ on October 9, 2025, completes its transit of Capricorn on January 10, 2026. Hylonome, throughout the rest of its transit in Capricorn, the sign of accumulated, illiquid wealth, in powerful aspect not only to both Saturn & Neptune in late Pisces, the sign that rules endings, and to Uranus, planet of radical change, in Taurus, ruler of money, signifies that both long-established brick-and-mortar companies & multi-generational old money bloodlines may not survive their adjustment to the now long-established high technology neo-Keynesian (new money consumes old money) reality. Such long-established brick-and-mortar companies & multi-generational old money bloodlines absolutely need to receive a huge infusion of cash or to execute an unprecedented cutting of expenses in order to survive the transition to the new order which will come as Saturn, Neptune & Uranus enter new signs for long-term transits starting 2026. The clock is ticking. ARIES – You promised you would never shed a tear at the demise of a boss, power broker or satanic multi-national corporation. That is your prerogative. On that note, Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn introduces, as a blast from the past, a witty aside from former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, “But as I leave you, I want you to know—just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Thank you, Tricky Dick – and don’t scoff: He may have a point. The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t. TAURUS – You can ask a cop which is worse: When President Barack Obama blamed the cops for discrimination & excessive use of force during the multiple urban riots of his second term or when President Donald J. Trump sent in the FBI and the National Guard to supersede local law enforcement? Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn guarantees that the cop will not answer the question but will simply reply succinctly & in non-partisan manner, “It is always the cop’s fault!” Nobody loves the cops. Therefore, if a cop helps you – by giving you directions because you can’t read Google Maps – show the cop some simple respect, “Thank you.” The little things mean a lot. GEMINI – You may be in the best financial shape of your life but your employer still may declare bankruptcy. Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn states that you now know what it was like I 2008 to be a former employee of Lehman Brothers, “158 years in business – easy come, easy go.” So, are you still going to be one of those people saying, “I’ve got mine?” Care about something else except your genitals & your wallet. CANCER – “Burt Reynolds didn't just live like a movie star,” states “The Absolutely Insane 1996 Bankruptcy Of Burt Reynolds” by Celebrity Net Worth’s Brian Warner. “He lived like five of them.” Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn now confirms that one cannot spend more than one has – whoever that one may be. And that one may be your spouse or business partner. Balance that cosmic checking account ASAP. LEO – A long-time work colleague has had, for many years, suffered difficulties adjusting to the high-tech workplace. Now that the workplace is segueing into AI, Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn notes that this colleague is looking at the future with disgust & trepidation. Calm their fears, “The fastest lemmings jump off the cliff first.” Reassure them, “Do what you do no matter how long it takes you to do it.” Better right than stupid. VIRGO – Star professional wide receiver Tyreek Hill has received both the benefit & the disadvantage of the doubt, professionally & legally, with various college & professional football teams because of his personal conduct. At some point, Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn warns that the reputation which precedes one becomes a permanent liability no matter how skilled, talented & accomplished one may be. Personal conduct matters. Don’t presume you can get away with being the bad boy forever. LIBRA – Do local municipal government & elected officials commute to work into your city from the suburbs? If so, then Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn asks, “Are they doing a good job taking care of the city in which you & your other fellow citizens live & work?” Demand, “Why should I pay money for the services of those who do not give a damn about my, and our, fair city?” This is not a rhetorical question. SCORPIO – Whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, Scorpio is inclined to see both the very good & the very bad in other people, and in society in general. Therefore, Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn will now make you very impatient with other peoples’ gratuitous dystopian, misanthropic sarcasm. As far as you are concerned, cynicism is for adolescents. Rephrase in your own Scorpionic, penetrating words, “If you have nothing nice to say, shut your damn mouth.” SAGITTARIUS – Stop spending money. Concentrate upon purchasing only basics. Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn signifies that the path to happiness lies in spending money only upon what you can afford. However, such happiness will only manifest in the long term – certainly not in the moment. CAPRICORN – Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn demands that you commence a moral inventory to determine how many of your own overwhelming problems are of your own making, and how many of them you can attribute to cruel, unremitting fate. Furthermore, acknowledge that when you create overwhelming problems for yourself, fate will indeed pile on. You will need help. Make no excuses to yourself for yourself – because the people who can help you will offer you no resources and no help to enable your self-destruction. AQUARIUS – You may appear to be a shining light because the institution from which you now emerge is enduring restructuring, decline or outright destruction. However, be warned: Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn denotes that your ability to distance yourself from some other entity’s larger, more impersonal defeat is rapidly diminishing. If you benefit some this institution’s demise, many will wonder, are you in fact responsible for it? Don’t be coy. PISCES – Read Cancer & Capricorn. You don’t like to see friends suffer – but if they suffer because it is their own fault, what exactly are you supposed to do? Well, Direct Motion Hylonome in late Capricorn has an answer: If your friends admit that it is their own fault that they are suffering, then maybe – just maybe – they are worthy of your help. Does this mean that such friend will not relapse? Of course not! Be caring & be generous – but be realistic. Set intelligent, helpful & protective boundaries. . * Hylonome, named after the wife of centaur Cyllarus, with whom she died during the Centaurs' battle with the Lapiths, was discovered in February 1995 & named during the year 2000. Hylonome bridges the gap in consciousness between Uranus & Neptune, forcing us to draw unexpected links between "accident" & "devotion" much more rapidly than is either wise or comfortable.
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Amycus* transits Aquarius What’s more beautiful than a boy & his dog? A man & his dog. Two animals who understand each other. Over time, they communicate, and, over time, the communication changes. The boy throws the ball, the dog fetches. The man throws the stick, the dog fetches. The man holds the stick; the man teaches the dog to fight for the stick. The man teaches the dog to bite the stick & to pull the stick from the man’s hands. The man trains the dog to become smart, strong & tough – and to fight! Many who train that man, to teach that man who loves the dog that he trains, do not love that man. John Houseman as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. tells Timothy Bottoms as law student James T. Hart, in front of over 100 of his law student peers in the film The Paper Chase, “Mr. Hart, here is a dime. I want you to call your mother & to tell her it is unlikely you will graduate from law school.” To which Hart replies, after brief consideration, “You, Kingsfield, are a son of a bitch.” Saturn ate his children. No love is lost. But the man who trains that dog because he loves that dog knows also that some men who train that man, or compete with that man, love that man, want that man to be smart, strong & tough – and to fight! Of course, politicians play, “I’m the smartest guy in the room.” So do musicians, bankers, artists, accountants, cops. “I’m smarter than you! I’m tougher than you! I don’t think you can beat me at anything!” There are some things that one cannot accomplish by one’s self! Who out there will help? Like you – how are you going to make friends? How will you meet your posse, who will gather together to solve insurmountable problems, to conjure ambitions that no one individual can accomplish alone? How will you find the one who will help you transport one ton of sand from the driveway to the fourth floor of the fraternity to prepare for the Acapulco Annual during a damning blizzard in mid-January? How will you find the one partner who will help you set up & break down your six-person blues & rock band in your road trip southward along the Mississippi in Duluth, Minneapolis, Iowa City, St. Louis, Memphis, Jackson and New Orleans? How will you find the one true professional willing to act as your chief of staff & to contact the campaign manager of the incumbent governor to request a televised debate during your upcoming campaign for political office? By challenging your biggest rival, your best friend. Because, face it: Your worst enemy will not piss on you if, and when, you are on fire. ARIES – It is almost impossible to believe that there will ever be another Republican politician like Republican Arizona Senator John McCain, who died just before the Congressional midterm elections during the Presidential Administration of Donald J. Trump. Can you imagine any other Republican politician walking down the Senate Chamber to the floor, walking directly to confront Senate Majority Leader, Republican Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, to vote against President Trump’s core political agenda, the repeal of Obamacare, by dramatically emphasizing his thumb downward with his right hand while saying, “No?” But, one way or another, Amycus in Aquarius augurs transformations & debasements between & amongst the partisans, and opportunities to shine & to fall in many different ways amongst those who populate both sides of their respective causes. The same roles which politicians have fulfilled over time – the rebel against the power; the power that is who toes the line – still exist. Moreover, there are conspicuous rewards & publishments for those who fulfill those roles, for & against type, for & against the odds. As situations arise, situational ethics arise. Elected officials adopt postures. The truth be told, you may not expect who did it – but how can you possibly be surprised? The producer & the director of the drama needed a body & a voice to play the same classic roles. TAURUS – A requirement to become a television news anchor demanded that the man or woman behind the microphone at the desk be absolutely non-partisan – which is still officially true for the television news anchor on network news. As for the television news anchor on cable TV news networks like MSNBC, CNN & Fox News, a “non-partisan television news anchor” is an oxymoronic economic liability – who the Hell would want that? Well, every man is entitled to that man’s opinion – and Amycus in Aquarius states that that is what you can expect when you watch television, listen to the radio, sign up for a podcast or read a news magazine on the Internet: Somebody else’s opinion that they want to hammer again & again into your head to make that opinion yours. Where exactly are you doing to get the information you need, actual “facts” that used to exist in all news stories, to underwrite the opinion that you will create, yourself, and will express, when you so choose? As stated, there is network TV news & the legacy media newspapers, but, whoever they are: There is no reason to tell any of these marching zombies where you get the facts for your arguments, lest they go to the sources of such genuine truthful information & heave up some truly toxic, glowing, radioactive puke. Keep your own counsel – and keep a baseball bat near your front door. GEMINI – Could be the ongoing dispute as to whether or not Pluto is a planet in the Solar System. Could be the dispute, dating from the early 20th century, between evolution & creationism. Now, as explicated by Politico’s Juan Perez Jr. and Andrew Atterbury in “AP Psychology ‘Effectively Banned’ In Florida Over Sexuality Lessons, College Board Says,” a unified standard amongst college curricula becomes effectively fractured nationally, while this fractured standard opens up a “market” for new textbooks to appeal to alternative standards of science. Amycus in Aquarius shakes its head. There is no dialogue with the incorrigible. Belief does not drive knowledge. The disciplined search for, the championship & refinement of, quantifiable measurements of, and prioritizing of, objective fact, is what drives knowledge. Confronting disinformation & those who champion it with objective fact, knowledge & accusations of their ignorance & deceit will lead to only one conclusion: Violence. Therefore, until there is a regulatory body whose function is to objectify what is knowledge & what is ignorance, teach what you know – and eschew unnecessary conflict & violence. CANCER – An American individual born in the Sixties is taught by their oftentimes haughty big brother, big sister, Baby Boomer mentors, “Never trust anybody over thirty” – even though most of those Baby Boomers were pushing fifty when we first heard it. Now, in “Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do,” the New York Times’ Opinion Editor Anna Marks is confirming what American individuals born in the Sixties are now coming to believe, “Never trust anybody born after 2000.” Amycus in Aquarius, cites this section of the New York Times’ Marks’ article, “In the world of Taylor Swift, the start of a new ‘era’ means the release of new art (an album and the paratexts — music videos, promotional ephemera, narratives — that supplement it) and a wholesale remaking of the aesthetics that will accompany its promotion, release and memorializing. In recent years, Ms. Swift has dominated pop culture to such a degree that these transformations often end up altering American culture in the process,” and cannot disregard that the New York Times’ Marks is trying to reduce the genius of Marshall McLuhan’s media analyses to pander to her generation’s lack of intellectual scope in the service of an agenda: To transform American culture so that the L.G.B.T.Q. mindset wields hegemony over the practice of heterosexual marriage. But that insult to the intelligence has little to do with the L.G.B.T.Q. community. The hyperbole of her prose & her choice of citation of Swift’s song “Daylight” would suggest that the Beatles’ “She Loves You,” is akin to T.S. Eliot’s “East Coker” from Four Quartets. (To hardcore Swifties, that is “Thomas Stearns,” not “Taylor Swift.”) Furthermore, Swift has dominated pop culture to such a degree because the economics of the music industry has been gutted by high tech. (Speaking of which, why are there no conspiracy theories about the 2008 Universal Studio fire?) But, all of this analysis aside, what deeply offended the inner posse of Swifties the most about what the New York Times’ Marks said is that it is a propagandistic smear of their immortal heroine for cheesy political purposes. Well, if what the New York Times’ Marks is trying to assert in this article is her championship of the hegemony of the L.G.B.T.Q. community over heterosexual marriage, she should say it, and leave Taylor Swift alone. And as for Cancer the Crab: Believe whatever you like – but know, and state why you can & do, believe it. LEO – While the intellectual superiority of some of your business partners & rivals of the next fifteen years will be accelerated & pronounced, Amycus in Aquarius denotes that, while many of them you will respect deeply as you cooperate with them, others you will despise. As far as you are concerned, intellect alone does not constitute personal character. That being said, resolve from the beginning to refuse to engage in personal power struggles with adversaries & enemies. When working with allies, fight long, loud & hard – after all, you are allies! You are fighting for the cause. But, as for adversaries & enemies: Withdraw. Protect your personal dignity, impeccable character & expansive spiritual magnanimity. VIRGO – Whatever your field of endeavor, Amycus in Aquarius announces that you will be working with geniuses over the next decade or so, individuals with not only superior skill in that field but who also approach what all of you do from a deeply informed, much loftier perspective. Envy is not only futile & superfluous but deeply negates the singular profundity of this opportunity. Don’t be ashamed to become the devotee of a genuinely singular intellect. LIBRA – Read Sagittarius. New politicians: You enjoy the contrary spirit of debate with an adversary. As you indulge this activity, you see yourself competing in a sport in order to gain a victory with lucrative yet somewhat intangible spoils. Moreover, because of the personal animus you feel toward your adversary or enemy in such debates, one might even say that you enjoy participating in a “blood sport.” If famous British occultist Aleister Crowley is indeed correct when he asserts, “Do as thou will shall be the whole of the law – love under will,” well then, carry on, and may the superior combatant, if not necessarily the best man, win. Nevertheless, Amycus in Aquarius frowns: More noble minds & personages, pillars of the community who view themselves as your benefactor, disapprove. Newfound liberty to say what you like no matter how others feel may exact a very high cost or penalty. Consider the consequences before committing yourself to a path potentially fraught with political & moral treachery. SCORPIO – A dispute arises. This dispute involves significant resources – significant resources which you not only accumulated with your own efforts over a period of time, but also resources under your exclusive control. A power broker who covets those resources views themselves as your authority figure. Because you will not relinquish, or, more euphemistically, donate, such resources, this power broker questions your loyalty. Conversely, you question this power broker’s status as an authority figure. After all, you only earned such resources with significant effort & should earn something for them in return. And, yes, Amycus in Aquarius agrees, a much clearer, more barbaric subtext underwrites this dispute: Your adversary fears your power; you doubt your adversary’s word. So as to avoid a win-lose situation in a zero-sum game, do not negotiate directly with such an adversary first. Find a diplomatic intermediary to negotiate this & other disputes. In the very end, much further down the line after numerous such disputes, it won’t work out as a win-win situation at all – but you would be wise to accumulate more resources over time to forestall the inevitable. SAGITTARIUS – Read Libra. Standup comedians, writers, politicians: Your wicked sense of humor can make your audience howl with hilarity & outrage. Unfortunately, your devil-may-care recklessness may induce you to go too far & to transgress social boundaries that more conservative power brokers will not only fail to support but who will absolutely & aggressively punish. Amycus in Aquarius urges Sag the Archer to recall how the City of Miami mercilessly punished the Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison for his performance at Dinner Key in Coconut Grove in March 1969. The overall situation was not in the Doors’ control when Morrison did or did not expose his genitals – but Morrison was not given the benefit of the doubt. Power brokers, especially local civic power brokers, demand that those seeking the public spotlight behave in a way far beyond moral or legal reproach. Such local civic power brokers insist that such individuals seeking the public spotlight conduct themselves with nobility. Take heed. CAPRICORN – Former President Donald J. Trump can say whatever he wants & can flout both the law & the direct instructions & orders of justices of the court because he has an untold amount of money. This is why Amycus in Aquarius is emphasizing why these civil lawsuits against the former President are and can become much more damaging than criminal trials to which former President Trump may soon be subject – because those civil trials can take away all the money that allows former President Trump to say whatever he wants, to flout both the law & the direct instructions & orders of justices of the court. At that point, of course, those criminal trials can do an enormous amount of damage to former President Trump. One who can no longer pay the piper will therefore refrain from calling the tune – the piper will make sure of that. The piper gets paid. AQUARIUS – In no way is the Waterbearer afraid to speak truth to power when power acts & speaks unjustly. In no way is the Waterbearer afraid to confront those who damage the Waterbearer’s interests, reputation & name by slandering the Waterbearer’s message of truth & honor. Amycus in Aquarius notes that what the Waterbearer does not want at all is a reputation of one with a chip on their shoulder. One fights when one needs to fight; one should not always need to fight. The Waterbearer promises all of his or her adversaries, “If you are willing to live in peace, then I am more than happy to follow your noble example.” PISCES – The Big Fish stands up from his position on the flat bench at the local gym, finds the remote control to all the TV sets, which play only political pundits on MSNBC, CNN & Fox News, and turns all of the volume down. Amycus in Aquarius then quotes the Big Fish to all those who want to know about the Big Fish’s new policy at the gym, “I don’t like to hear the noise of a lot of people arguing when I am lifting weights, because, if I lose my concentration, then I am going to hurt myself.” After a brief pause, and a set of ten warm-up reps of four 45-pound flats plus 45-pound bar at 225, the Big Fish continues, “All these nobodies are creating a lot of noise arguing about Jack Nothing, while the good people at the gym are trying to improve their lives.” Thus does the Big Fish lay back down on the flat bench to commence the acceleration of his set. ! Amycus, a centaur planet which crosses across the orbits of Uranus & Neptune between the orbit of Saturn & the more remote portion of the orbit of Pluto, was discovered in April 2002 and named in December 2005. 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Chariklo* transits Aquarius One might expect the crossover of mainstream viewers of Julie Andrews as Maria Kutschera in her first, three-minute rendition of “My Favorite Things” in the film The Sound of Music, to listeners of the John Coltrane quartet in their first fifteen-minute studio rendition of “My Favorite Things” on Coltrane’s classic album My Favorite Things, to be rather small. After all, Julie, leading the Van Trapp children in her first, three-minute rendition, where all seven children & Maria confront Christopher Plummer as their father Captain Georg Van Trapp in their pajamas, self-evidently appeals to a different crowd with a different mood than listeners of Coltrane on soprano saxophone, leading the precursor of the classic Coltrane quartet in the rather conservative fifteen-minute recorded studio rendition. Yet it surprises one at how miniscule the crossover is from listeners of the traditional Coltrane quartet’s conservative fifteen-minute recorded studio rendition, plus his numerous famous sixteen-minute, seventeen-minute and twenty-one minute live renditions, of “My Favorite Things,” to his final band’s fifty-seven minute live 1966 rendition of “My Favorite Things” in Tokyo, Japan. Why did this happen? The song’s original form completely dissolved. The audience could not pick up the thread of what the band was about to do. Looking back & listening to many of the early live renditions of “My Favorite Things,” including the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival rendition (where Roy Haynes, who asserted, “Playing with John Coltrane was like a beautiful nightmare,” played drums), the 1965 Newport Jazz Festival rendition & the 1965 appearance in Comblain-La-Tour, Belgium, the classic Coltrane quartet – John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones – followed a clear protocol. Coltrane opens the song with the quartet and plays the line from the first quatrain – which, musically, is the same line as it is in the second & third quatrains. What differs between the first, second & third quatrain in the original Rogers & Hammerstein song are the lyrics – but, in John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things,” there are no lyrics. Coltrane walks off stage. The quartet continues. Tyner sustains melody with right hand & percussion with left, marching incessantly into the void. Coltrane returns around the thirteenth minute, piquing the quartet to entropic ecstasy. By contrast, in Coltrane’s final band’s 1966 Japanese rendition, Coltrane first appears at the fifteenth minute. Garrison, who alone amongst the classic quartet stayed with Coltrane, opens with an unaccompanied fifteen-minute stand-up bass solo. Only four minutes later, after the entire band began to play at the fifteenth minute, did Coltrane commence the opening quatrain of “My Favorite Things.” The final band sustains the intensity & energy of “My Favorite Things” for exhausting if exhilarating thirty-eight minutes. Neither McCoy Tyner nor Elvin Jones participated in the final band. Tyner claims that he couldn’t hear himself play the piano over the rest of the band. Yet, given the otherworldly transcendent obsession with which both Tyner & Jones, as well as Garrison, played “My Favorite Things,” in Belgium in 1965, Tyner did not need to hear himself play – his soul had left his corporeal body in magnificent, sublime, supernatural ecstasy. Tyner more likely objected to the obfuscation, to the submersion, to the outright loss of the song’s place of origin – in this case, the origin of “My Favorite Things.” Even in Ascension, Coltrane’s watershed foray into free jazz with an eleven-man, two bass guitarist ensemble, alto saxophonist Marion Brown recalls Coltrane’s instructions, “He played this line and he said that everybody would play that line in the ensembles. Then he said he wanted crescendi and decrescendi after every solo.” Because the musicians knew the structure the musicians would play, and communicate, the structure to those listening. One could follow as the music progressed & digressed then return when the music returned to the ensemble. In analogous fashion, the same concept empowered Steve Kerr’s Golden State Warriors to win three NBA championships. Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant & Klay Thompson can manufacture three-point shots, much to the delight of the contemporary NBA audience, but the strategic magic of Golden State’s mastery of the three-point shot lay in forcing opposing defenses out to the perimeter. Everybody expects Steph to continue to shoot & to hit threes from the top of the perimeter, but there is no guarantee for those defending or double-teaming Durant or Thompson that they just won’t blow right by you to drive for an easy deuce to the basket. Even so, should Steph, Durant or Thompson miss, no defense will be piling up the paint, allowing Draymond Green (usually during the regular season but always during the playoffs), Durant or Thompson to grab the rebound, then hit the easy two – or dump it back to Steph just waiting at the perimeter or his three-point, Larry Bird layup. Truly, as any astrologer will tell you, the real significance of any scattered-disc object lies in how deeply it penetrates the Solar System in which we all live. The simple concept not only simplifies but directs the complexity – and leads the audience into the magic. In The Sound of Music, “My Favorite Things” is a song which forms part of the story. The song ends so that The Sound of Music may return to the story. The song “My Favorite Things” itself, a tool of beatific astral transcendence for the musician who would be a saint, John Coltrane, is a song which begins with one melody & ends with another. That song starts at the beginning – so that song must return to the beginning. Only when the musician returns the song to the beginning can that song go to the bridge. ARIES – Broad-based democracy, like Rep by Pop in early Canadian Confederation or “the greatest good for the greatest number” by John Stuart Mill, relies upon an abstract statistical matrix rather than live testimonials from individuals. As a result, the broader-based that democracy becomes, the less an individual’s self-interest matters. Chariklo in Aquarius accordingly states that, as self-interest dissolves, somebody will have to reinvent it – ideally, an Aries like you. One-size-fits-all national government still costs each individual a fixed amount – and that individual has no menu from which to order. That means that you have no say in what is assigned to you – which is not really democracy, not even representational democracy. Invert the model – produce, rather than endure, the effect. TAURUS – Why do you own a cell phone? Most likely, so that somebody else, who does not know where they are, can locate you, who knows where you are. Forty years ago, two people could agree to meet on the southwest corner of two streets at two in the afternoon, where one would arrive five minutes early & the other five minutes late. The net effect of the cell phone is that it encourages & rewards those who don’t know where they are – whereupon such individuals buy a GPS. Of course, Chariklo in Aquarius realizes that you will reward no such people whatsoever. You will not make plans to contact with other people to make plans while in transit. You will reward individuals who consider the inflexibility of the clock & the map before either of you chooses to move. GEMINI – Many in the public think that astrology is just another version of the card game, “Tegwar,” as played by the New York City Mammoths professional baseball team in hotel lobbies on road trips in the film Bang the Drum Slowly – an acronym which means, “that exciting game without any rules.” While astrology does have rules, Chariklo in Aquarius states that, frequently, astrologers will not state them, and, at other times, the rules by which the astrologer operates are not transparent. Whether you are an astrologer or not, you do not seek to promulgate the Forer Effect. This means that or this does not mean that. It is or it isn’t. CANCER – How do you define “sexual deviancy?” Ultimately, your definition depends strictly upon what you consider normal. Strict social conservatives remain celibate until marriage then remain monogamous; some people do not limit the number or gender of their partners but are nevertheless serial monogamists; espionage agent Glenn Selvy, protagonist of Don DeLillo’s Running Dog, only slept with married women until he, tragically, broke his own “moral code.” Whatever other people think of what you consider normal or deviant is irrelevant. Chariklo in Aquarius states that all that matters is that you come to terms with defining what is normal to you – and how & how long it takes you to return to normal after you have transgressed . . . yourself. LEO – Cooperate with Capricorn. Not only Saturn now, and Pluto soon, but several other centaur planets, including 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77, 2001-BL41, Amycus and, eventually, Hylonome, transiting through Aquarius, in addition to the current influence of Chariklo in Aquarius, will present you with partners that represent a range of political opinions & strategic choices. Take note now of who is the most conservative & who is the most radical. Note which ones cheat. Note which ones follow the herd. Canvas the opinion of each one as change begins to foment so that you may determine not only the spectrum of possibility, but also when, for whatever reason, all of them fall on the same page. As for yourself: Keep your own counsel. VIRGO – Bosses with overwhelming demands on inappropriately short deadlines do not merit perfection – an individual who demands perfection from others would not burden qualified professionals with absurdly short deadlines. Even so, Chariklo in Aquarius declares that one thing you must absolutely provide to such bosses is respect – not because they merit that, either, because they don’t. However, the truth is, unless you show such bosses respect, they are likely to give you a very hard time. Don’t give them the impression that your crude, quick & dirty response is any less brilliant than the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. LIBRA – Politicians discuss ideas & agendas. Scientists postulate breakthroughs. Artists, writers, film producers thrash through concepts. All these types of people, Chariklo in Aquarius assigns to those type of rats in the Olds-Milner experiments which tap the first of two bars, which sends electric shocks to the pleasure center of their brains. And, indeed, some of these rats who thought that they could live on pleasure starved to death. The rats in the second group would tap the second bar, which would . . . provide food. SCORPIO – The real estate developers change the design of the city – sometimes, but not always, irrevocably – then the first wave of buyers & renters shows up with the attitude that they are going to make changes & make their mark! Will such individuals make changes & make their mark as planned? Such individuals do not appear to be architects, so then what exactly do these transplants plan to do? Hard to say – but Chariklo in Aquarius orders, “Don’t get in their way!” These transplants are moving & shaking! SAGITTARIUS – Comedians: During the completed transit of Jupiter in Aquarius in early 2021, as Saturn struggled through the first third of the Waterbearer’s thirty degrees, you & the general public learned, in this new era commencing late 2020, the borderline, the boundaries, of the acceptable joke & the unacceptable joke. Chariklo in Aquarius compels you to expand these boundaries. You want to go further than is allowed to make what is disallowed socially acceptable. You remain fixed in your opposition to all & everything that the censor represents. Do you have a good lawyer? Do you have a patron willing to (support) (tolerate) your (art) (antics) who will pay for both you & your lawyer? More importantly – what is your endgame? What do you ultimately want to achieve? CAPRICORN – Read Leo. You know, with the insight of an agent booking public speakers, that an entire range of individuals representing a range of politics exists who can speak well & make a positive, or a provocative, response, from specific types of audiences. And, indeed, like that agent, Chariklo in Aquarius states that the fact that you know who will say what to whom in order that whoever will (object) (organize) (run for office) (protest) is your bread & butter. Put yourself in a position so that you can send him or her here or there & make it all work for you – and put money in your pocket. AQUARIUS – Before Arizona Republican Senator John McCain chose Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin, who has Chariklo conjunct the Sun in Aquarius, as his Vice-Presidential running mate, he had an idea in mind – but Alaska Republican Governor Palin did not have enough of an agenda to push that idea through. And, indeed, Chariklo in Aquarius states that certain flamboyant unofficial political roles, like the Republican maverick which Arizona Republican Senator McCain represented as he often championed liberal Democrats or West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, the Democratic maverick who often champions conservative Republicans, are even more rigid & demanding than any official roles. Indeed, both Arizona Republican Senator McCain & West Virginia Democratic Senator Manchin are official “white blackbirds” – they cannot change without causing a stir. Therefore, if somebody offers you this role, don’t succumb to kneejerk opportunism – determine if it is really for you. PISCES – Marathons? No – the Big Fish is not interested. A sudden burst of speed? Chariklo in Aquarius intuits that this appeals to you. You won’t have to do it every day – but if you can do it every day, don’t let anybody know about it. (Ditto for marathons.) Recall the sociological tract on pool hustling, Ned Polsky’s Hustlers, Beats and Others, a central tenet of which: Never show your true speed. * Chariklo, named after the wife of the centaur Chiron who enjoyed a close friendship with Pallas Athena, was discovered in February 1997 & named in September 1999. Chariklo helps Chiron to bridge the gap in consciousness between Saturn & Uranus, reminding us that we have to employ vision, perception & imagination when we find no leeway & no loopholes in the entrenched status quo.
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Crantor* transits Pisces “Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?” David Byrne sings Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime” off Fear of Music. But Talking Heads did not write this song during wartime! The Vietnam War had ended. Late teenagers started attending college in unprecedented numbers. Going to Ivies? Going to State U? Going blue-blood Division Three? No more soldiers to foreign wars – it’s all about the football team, the Greek system, the least turbulent path to an MBA or law school. And indie rock! Talking Heads in Providence, Television & Patti Smith at CBGB’s, the B-52s in Athens, GA. Nothing stays the same. According to “Colorado Gold Rush” in The Colorado Encyclopedia, “Denver lost two-thirds of its people,” by early May 1859, six months after its founding. “The region had gone through an entire cycle of boom and bust in half a year.” Denver adjusted. Denver came back. But what about Detroit? What about Buffalo? What about St. Louis, MO? These cities never adjusted. These cities never came back. (Do not believe, “The Detroit Renaissance.” Do not believe it.) Hey! Done Coachella? Did Lollapalooza? What about South by Southwest? (Hold it! South by Southwest? Do they still play music at Austin’s South by Southwest? Isn’t that an – AHEM! – hip technology conference? Like Burning Man in the Nevada desert – with Google, Facebook, Theranos & Tesla? Well! As Trey Anastasio sings “Cities” off Phish’s Slip Stitch and Pass, “I will, find a city, find myself a city to live in.” (“I thought ‘Cities’ came from Talking Heads’ Fear of Music,” one objects. “I thought Phish was a ‘jam band.’”) ARIES – There is an anecdote that, while he was Canadian Prime Minister, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended a hockey game between the Calgary Flames, where he had been elected MLA in Parliament, and the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he was born & raised. As the anecdote continues, the Maple Leafs scored against the Flames, and Canadian Prime Minister Harper stood up & cheered – before Canadian Prime Minister Harper realized the consequences of what he was doing. Of course, Canadian Prime Minister Harper, as a politician, was not a man who elicited sympathy from either allies or enemies – but, in this case, Crantor in Pisces says, “How can you blame him?” Especially as, growing up in Etobicoke, the Toronto Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup in 1967, when young Stephen was eight years old. Sure, after that, still as a teenager, working for Imperial Oil in the mailroom after dropping out of the University of Toronto, he must have heard “Dogs” off Pink Floyd’s Animals, “You have to be trusted by the people that you lied to, because, when they turn their backs on you, you get the chance to put the knife in!” So mean, so cold – the world can be a heartless place. But then, when the Maple Leafs scored against the Flames, Canadian Prime Minister Harper . . . was just a little boy. TAURUS – Taurus the Bull disagrees only with true friends. Taurus the Bull & true friends respect independence, an individual worldview, a relish for discussing & debating differences. Crantor in Pisces now reminds Taurus the Bull that a major Achilles’ Heel lies in believing that certain new acquaintances or strangers are friends because they agree with your opinion. Truth be told, the acceptance of such strangers may be entirely conditional – they may treat you differently if they discover that you do not agree with them about other issues, particularly concerning politics. Therefore, strategically, expressing opinions proactively is profoundly treacherous in places where there are only strangers – and given that you will be in many different places in many different cities over the next ten years, you really can’t be sure who believes what, who is loyal to whom, and how the state of play in the arena. . . . changes. GEMINI – What do you mean, you are not a journalist? The Twin is a natural journalist. Just because The New York Times does not pay you does not disqualify you from being a journalist. That being said, whether The New York Times pays you or not, Crantor in Pisces signifies that it is your role, now, but especially over the next ten years, to ask the question so as to solicit the opinions of those stubborn locals, where you are not necessarily a local . . . the score of the game. CANCER – The 911 Memorial in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The Great Slave Auction (“The Weeping Time”) at Ten Broeck Race Course, near Savannah, Georgia. The Tlatelolco Massacre at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlatelolco, la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City. Fort George atop Citadel Hill, overlooking Halifax Harbor & the scene of the Halifax Explosion. The Alamo of San Antonio, Texas. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Many, many people in the world learn nothing about humanity or life on Earth by learning about, or visiting such, places – Crantor in Pisces emphasizes, “Not Cancer the Crab.” (What is the shortest sentence in the Bible? “Jesus wept.”) LEO – While it is a historical fact that Venustiano Carranza transported the treasure of the nation of Mexico from Mexico City to the port of Heroic Veracruz, an American inquiring of a Mexican may want to know, “Why did he do that?” Crantor in Pisces will then notice how impressed the American is when the Mexican who responds is so circumspect, “I’m not sure. But, because Carranza died before the Revolution’s end, they asked Adolfo Ruiz Cortines of Heroic Veracruz to return the treasury to the Capitol. As a result, because all Mexicans had trusted Ruiz Cortines, and because Ruiz Cortines then fulfilled that trust by returning that treasure to la Ciudad, Ruiz Cortines became President of Mexico, following his Veracruzan counterpart, Miguel Aleman Valdez.” VIRGO – Virgoans do not trust & do not like complexity that refuses to untangle & to simplify itself. Under the current influence of Crantor in Pisces, this proclivity is a mistake – especially in regard to regional more than local politics. Boston New York Philadelphia. Cleveland Buffalo Pittsburgh. Detroit Windsor. Montreal Ottawa Toronto. Portland Seattle Vancouver. San Diego Tijuana. Everybody is just waiting for you to step on their toes – then watch out! Learn sooner rather than later. LIBRA – Certain “snapshots” of urban life form not only your cache of anecdotes but also your worldview. You may complain about the outsourcing of American companies to India or the Philippines. You may complain of unemployed minorities smoking weed before noon on a weekday or running a convoy of fifty to seventy to ninety motorcycles along the city’s main thoroughfare. But Crantor in Pisces want to ask fair-minded Librans, “Have you ever stopped to consider that the outsourcing, the weed & the convoys all represent the same interrelated problem?” Don’t jump to conclusions – the flow chart may not migrate the way that you presume. SCORPIO – Former Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis, unmarried, has six children with four different women – and, even though, as per one of the women, Tatania McCall, “He still doesn't always get it right,” by all accounts, Lewis, a devout Christian convert, is a loving, generous & noble father, and, uncontestably, a major role model for the City of Baltimore. Travis Henry, former running back for the Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans & Denver Broncos has, by current count, eleven children with ten different women, and, historically, not only had problems paying ongoing child support, but also is a convicted felon for his role in financing a cocaine trafficking enterprise. For that matter, the modern artist Pablo Picasso had four children by three different women, only one son by a woman whom he married – and, by all accounts, including Surviving Picasso, a film about his relationship with Dora Maar, a loving, generous & noble father, if, as a lover, a womanizing scoundrel. An interesting circumstance upon which to comment – but Crantor in Pisces qualifies, “A difficult life with many grave responsibilities.” Get it? SAGITTARIUS – Every city is different. In many ways, your hometown slowed you down. Other cities give you more flow – but you get in trouble in those cities more. But, no doubt, Sagittarius the Archer knows how to get around. Even so, Crantor in Pisces admonishes that you should not choose to live in, to visit or to champion a city just because it gives you what you want. A place to live should help you become the best person you can be – it should be good for you. Hoboken has more bars per capital of any city in the United States while its neighbor, Jersey City, was founded by the leader of the Temperance Society. You can have fun or get arrested in any city – but where should you raise your children, (Daddy) (Mommy)? CAPRICORN – Talking to that old timer again? Red Sox playing the Yankees? Should be interesting. Cardinals playing the Cubs? Ditto. Nothing seems to slow the Boston Bruins down. And the San Diego Chargers? The Los Angeles Chargers? The Las Vegas Chargers? Are they the same as the Oakland Los Angeles Las Vegas Raiders? Crantor in Pisces loves how the generations laugh. But then the old-timer turns serious, “The new Senator from Kentucky is now filibustering?” What the old-time says at first seems vague – but listen between the line, “I hate to say it, but it really seems to me that, no matter what happens . . . some things never change.” AQUARIUS – Crantor in Pisces asks the oftentimes too serious Waterbearer, “So! What do you do for fun?” Play in a rock band? Touring the regional night clubs. Compete in an ice hockey or rugby league? Touring regional circuits. Bar crawl? Such local migrations are well codified by merchants, marketers, participants & authority figures. Gamble in private high-stakes poker games? All those people know each other wherever you go. Visit another city’s strip clubs? Well, at some point you will realize that that is all one big circuit. Whatever you do, realize that, if you want to stay safe: What is the correct answer to the following question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” There is only one correct answer, and that correct answer is, and is only, “Yes.” PISCES – You may go places to get out of the house, or to get away from your wife or husband & family. But, in the end, you return to your house, and report back to your wife or husband & family. Therefore, very clearly, when you go places to get out of the house, Crantor in Pisces strongly advises that you do nothing that your wife, husband or family, let alone any city’s municipal law enforcement, would condemn . . . and punish. * Crantor, a centaur planet which crosses across the orbit of Uranus between the orbits of Saturn & Neptune, was discovered in April 2002 and named in December 2005. Demoleon the centaur killed Crantor the Lapith with a tree trunk that Demoleon had thrown at Theseus, who ducked out of the way, as per the advice of Pallas Athena, at the very last minute. For information on how to interpret Crantor, formerly 2002-GO9, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.
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on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by ARTICLE #8 Nessus* transits Pisces from February 7, 2015 to January 12, 2034. Judith Hearne, North Irish native, Canadian transplant Brian Moore’s first novel about a lovelorn, middle-aged Belfast spinster, disturbs acutely. Released in 1955 between the publication of French existentialist Albert Camus’s classic novel The Stranger (to which, in many ways, it stands diametrically opposed) in 1942 and the commencement of Concilium Oecumenicum Vaticanum Secundum, or Vatican II, in 1962, Moore’s namesake protagonist is an unhappy middle-aged devout Catholic woman who, her whole life, simply tried to do the right thing. Indeed, whereas the first words of Camus’s The Stranger, spoken by narrator protagonist Mersault – “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”– succinctly codifies the pathological detachment of the modern “civilized” urban dweller, the first sentence of Moore’s Judith Hearne, “The first thing Miss Judith Hearne unpacked in her new lodgings was the silver-framed photograph of her aunt,” cogently introduces the reader to Ms. Hearne’s personal character & worldly circumstance, a guilt-ridden, emotionally impoverished & psychologically manipulated martyr who sacrificed untold years of her life & youth caring for a dying aunt who refused to live in a nursing home. Further, while Camus’s Mersault engages in unscrupulous and callous albeit casual sexual intrigue before committing murder, going to trial & receiving a death sentence immediately following his mother’s funeral, Moore’s Ms. Hearne risks all of her emotional security & public reputation to win over a suitor, the landlady’s middle-aged brother James Madden, a retired doorman in a Times Square hotel recently returned to Belfast after receiving a legal judgment from a car accident, romantically – and, after Ms. Hearne’s risks fail, Ms. Hearne takes refuge in horrifying, pitiable, self-destructive episodes of raucous, secluded alcoholism. What truly enervates within Judith Hearne, however, is what enervates within The Stranger: The relationship of the protagonist towards the Catholic Church at each respective novel’s end. Camus’s depiction of convicted murderer Mersault’s hostile & violent rejection of the prison chaplain the day before his execution, cited by the rock band the Cure in “Killing an Arab” as well as by Tony Soprano, Jr. in The Sopranos, and, more significantly, rewritten, augmented & rebutted by Don DeLillo at the end of his modern classic novel White Noise, defines a modern condition, “He seemed so cocksure, you see. And yet none of his certainties were worth one strand of a woman’s hair. Living as he did, like a corpse, he couldn’t even be sure of being alive.” But, then again, Camus’s Mersault rebels because Mersault does not believe – in the end, nobody is surprised. What truly horrifies anybody with a heartbeat within Judith Hearne, however, even before Ms. Hearne, drunk out of her mind, a true believer staring into the black void of doubt which would mean her eternal damnation, enters the church during its off hours to try to rip open the small door enclosing the chamber which holds the Eucharist with her bare hands (“But the door rejected her. Blood ran from her nails. The altar cloth slid sideways along the marble of the altar table. Candlesticks crashed on the steps.”), is the malign indifference, not only of the pastor (or, more like it, Chief Operating Officer) of Saint Finbar’s Church, Father Francis Xavier Quigley, but in fact, of the burdensome, cumbersome, dehumanizing, alienating infrastructure & hierarchy of the entire Catholic religion. ARIES – If you do not trust any one individual amongst a group eating at a table or gathering together, then Nessus in Pisces confirms your natural instinct: Disassociate from the entire group . . . and eat alone. Repel all psychic vampirism with an unabashedly militant solitude. TAURUS – Maurice Duplessis, long-time Premiere of Quebec as de facto leader of Quebec’s conservative Union Nationale party predominantly during, but not throughout, La Grande Noirceur from 1936 to 1959, ruled Quebec unconditionally when he did serve as Premiere as le Chef because Quebec Premiere Duplessis deployed his integral, rock-solid alliance with the Roman Catholic Church to dominate the vote & in fact the entire consciousness of the people of rural Quebec, “Le ciel est bleu; l’enfer est rouge.” (Heaven is blue (Union Nationale); Hell is red (Liberal).) Bearing this in mind, because Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper greatly concentrated his electioneering within Quebec away from the urban centers of Montreal & Quebec City and within these same Catholic rural strongholds which Premiere and le Chef Duplessis dominated previous to the ascension of Liberal Quebec Premiere Jean Lesage & La Révolution Tranquille in 1960, Nessus in Pisces now reminds you that even history, should you discuss it, also frequently constitutes contemporary politics & religion – and, because you should never discuss politics & history in polite company, it is incumbent upon you to determine whether or not it is indeed “polite” for you – or for anybody else, for whatever reason – to discuss, or to refer to, history. GEMINI – Bosses who compete amongst themselves for power, influence & bragging rights can & often do cause massive fallout throughout not only their entire workplace but, at times, depending upon the power of those bosses, throughout entire industry sectors, across cities, states, provinces & countries. Bearing this in mind, Nessus in Pisces warns that many bosses, wielding different levels of power, will now project their polemic political & bitter professional loyalties onto their employees, including you, very directly & personally – and, in particularly hostile instances, in the presence of other bosses. Should you cut off their nose to spite your own face? Be very careful – consider the material consequences, as well as personal pride, before taking irrevocable actions. CANCER – Julien Sorel, anti-hero protagonist of Stendhal’s psychologically realistic mid-nineteenth century novel The Red and the Black, ponders, “When Bonaparte made a name for himself, France was in danger of being invaded; military ability was necessary and fashionable. Today there are forty-year old priests drawing stipends of a hundred thousand francs, which is three times as much as Napolean's famous lieutenant generals were paid.” As it becomes increasingly clear throughout Stendhal’s precocious novel that Sorel is craven, unscrupulous scoundrel, Nessus in Pisces concludes that it is absolutely no surprise that Sorel thereupon decided, “I must become a priest.” As you reflect upon not only your own professional & spiritual courses of action but upon the status, credential & integrity of prominent public figures & local community leaders, realize, before making final assessments, that the ambitious pursuit of market & professional opportunities does not necessarily signify or connote commitment to duty . . . or devotion to God. LEO – Playing both sides against the middle in negotiations, business deals & politically within your own professional workplace will force that culprit to betray loyalties on an interminably ongoing basis until the truth of that culprit’s bad faith is permanently revealed for all to smell. While the most pleasant thing for all concerned is to let this odious culprit simply go away, Nessus in Pisces surmises that this will simply not be the case. Make certain that your own actions are thoroughly honorable as you & all your colleagues cooperate with this open bag of garbage . . . as per direct orders from legitimate professional superiors. VIRGO – Nessus in Pisces denotes that certain rivals & business partners will not agree to any fact or terms at all because they stubbornly, hostilely & in some cases illegally refuse to get on the same page with you to commence & to finish negotiations to move forward. All that you can, and should, do, is fulfill every professional, personal & legal commitment to ask these rivals & business partners to cooperate. Allow nobody to recoil in balsamically vinegarish malice to the degree that you fail to approach them personally & directly when duty demands that you do so. LIBRA – The disturbing implications & polluted astral body of a work colleague or employee who committed brazen & extensive criminal acts casts a nauseous pall upon everybody with whom you work. Nessus in Pisces therefore insists that you communicate, and inculcate, the message that never has it been more important, not only to do the right thing, but to assert that you state that you are doing the right thing, as you do that right thing, because unless you state that you are committed to doing that right thing as you do it . . . you are not communicating, enlisting, enforcing & rewarding trust. SCORPIO – If you are married, don’t cheat on your spouse – because, then, why be married? That being said, Nessus in Pisces warns that different people sexy beyond your imagination or control will now cross your path. Go slow – go very slow: You have met your match. SAGITTARIUS – A dead ancestor may infect the peace of your nocturnal slumber so acutely that your hands will not stop shaking until you take a sip of your first cup of coffee the next morning. Nessus in Pisces informs you that this ancestor did not rise from their grave to scare you half to death because the afterlife bores them. Whether the message that this ancestor now delivers brings happy or unhappy news, this news it brings real changes not only to your life but to the individual lives of each member of your nuclear & extended families. Sit up & take all due notice. CAPRICORN – Your ability to cast aspersions during either casual conversation or in professional negotiations under the current influence of Nessus in Pisces can penetrate other peoples’ skin. Be careful how you employ this wickedly adversarial weapon. AQUARIUS – As you review your own status as the perpetual loner, it is only natural to consider your potential affiliation with, or inclusion within, various social groups, trade organizations, political parties, sports teams, creative ensembles & rock bands. As you do so, Nessus in Pisces will induce you to ask yourself, “Am I cold stone paranoid to believe that I may actually join a group at the very moment that they all get arrested for fraud, mass murder, trafficking of steroids, recreational drugs or child porn, or insider trading?” The answer, frankly, is “Maybe – but, on the other hand, many criminal enterprises require a patsy.” Protect yourself first & foremost. PISCES – If you don’t know what you want, or if you want something that is relatively easy to get, then Nessus in Pisces cautions that you will repel potential & actual friends or acquaintances with acute, impatient intensity. If, however, you pursue, worthy, well-defined & impossible goals, you will win not only friends, but, in fact, outright devotees, as you demonstrate that nothing is impossible for those who know exactly what they want. * Nessus, named after the centaur whose bloodied & semen-stained shirt eventually killed Hercules, was discovered during the siege at Waco in April 1993 & named in 1997. Nessus bridges the gap in consciousness between Saturn & Pluto, forcing us to discard naivete about jealousy, anger, irrationality & evil in ourselves & in others so that we may cultivate the will & the stomach to evolve as a species.
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Okyrhoe* transits Aries At the beginning of Don DeLillo’s Endzone, Gary Harkness, running back of the Logos College Screaming Eagles of West Texas, joins a small but formal meeting of the college’s power brokers to memorialize the gravity of the upcoming football season’s agenda. Accompanied by Logos College President, “Mrs. Tom” Wade, wife of Logos’s deceased founder, Tom Wade, Harkness pow-wows with the immediate future: First, Taft Robinson, a phenomenally gifted running back with record-breaking speed, whom, second, Head Coach Emmett Creed recruited to help catapult the Screaming Eagles into the Division One national spotlight. Then, after jovially harassing teammates outside of this inner circle with transparent & stupid disinformation, Harkness reveals himself by invoking the real Division One colleges where he played football – Syracuse, Penn State, University of Miami, his father’s alma mater, Michigan State – before returning to his hometown upstate New York backwater, where he encountered the omnipresent, aggressive, uppercase graffiti, MILITARIZE. The Logos College Screaming Eagles go undefeated before a midseason loss to key division rival West Centrex Biotechnical Institute. Subsequently, in a private meeting, newly appointed public relations director Wally Pippich, formerly of Wally Pippich Creative Promotion Associates of Reno, Nevada, reminds Harkness of the Screaming Eagles’ primary agenda: The Division One national spotlight. To cheer him up, girlfriend Myna Corbett recounts the climax of Tudev Nemkhu’s science fiction trilogy: How the environmental alienation & transformation of one member of a remote unknown planet’s single species led to the absolute elimination of consciousness throughout the universe, “MONADAMON – The thing that is everything.” Then, memories of the graffiti MILITARIZE haunts Harkness. The graffiti MILITARIZE proliferated throughout his hometown following his season with the Michigan State Spartans, whom he abandoned after he & two teammates accidentally killed, with a collectively fierce tackle, an Indiana Hoosier safety who had intercepted a Spartan pass. “It represented some kind of apotheosis,” Harkness told Myna. “An apotheosis of some kind. The air was thick with it.” ARIES – You, and those within your elite group at work, are not being trained in advanced techniques & management protocol as a privilege, but as a capital investment. Truth be told, you won’t be able to utilize what you learn for at least six to nine months as you watch those who train & mentor you implement it. Okyrhoe in Aries clarifies that what upper-level management wants from you is a slow & careful evolution in the mastery of your skills as your company & industry sector anticipate the next decade of change. In the end, management is paying for you now for how you will innovate & expand the company from 2030 to 2050. None of this says that you are special; all of it anticipates that you will shoulder major responsibilities. Don’t be naïve. TAURUS – Taurus the Bull, as always considering the future of their city before their own 401K, takes a look at an abandoned building in their city’s downtown core & mutters with despair, “That building is a future five-alarm fire.” A friend who overhears you replies, “Well, they will build something else.” To which you reply, “Why would anybody want to build something new there?” Okyrhoe in Aries states that the point is well taken. How many mayors are like Jersey City’s Steven Fulop, who planned what he wanted the city to become twenty-five years after he even took office? There must be a purpose throughout the city for several months, just beginning to go into high gear, for that building to manifest. Do you really think that Rocket Mortgage’s Dan Gilbert is pulling off a full-scale, all-in, everybody-is-invited, Renaissance of downtown Detroit all by himself? Have you driven or taken a bus along Detroit’s Michigan Avenue from Corktown to Dearborn in the past thirty years? Continue to inquire until you encounter & engage a like – and an informed – mind. GEMINI – Read Leo. New younger professional associates whom bosses assign you to train are indeed brilliant. Unfortunately, Okyrhoe in Aries states that such new younger professional associates know they are brilliant – they’ve been told that they are brilliant for their entire short lives. It is a serious problem. They are short-sighted. They are selfish. They are immature. The feel themselves to be paragons of discipline because they aced an easy test. They seek no input from you. You cannot enlist these younger professional associates in something larger than themselves because there is nothing larger than themselves – not the future of your company, the economy of the region, the fragile geopolitics amongst China, India & the United States which underwrite their jobs. Why? Because they are entitled. This is the first thing you must remove from their consciousness. Nobody owes them jack. They must commit to the greater good. CANCER – A new younger boss does not respect you because of your lack of privilege – or, much more likely, merely because you preceded their employment at the firm. But Okyrhoe in Aries signifies that they need you desperately. Keep it that way for as long as you can – if you do, overtime at year end will skyrocket & your bank account will fatten. Of course, supervisors & mentors of your younger bosses will know what you are doing, but, if anybody transgresses you to cater to inexperienced & entitled younger bosses unfairly, you may take your skills & experience elsewhere. To that end, cooperate with that younger boss’s supervisors & mentors in the secret mission: Helping Lord Fauntleroy to mature into an adult. LEO – Read Gemini. Worldwide corporate bootcamp coordinator! Management: You hear that recent rookie college graduates are feeling their oats. Okyrhoe in Aries empowers the Lion, the best candidate for the job, to announce, “Unless you have a Super Bowl ring, you’re just another slob here like everybody else!” After the laughter has died down & all the rookies have left the room, coordinate a regularly scheduled meeting with all those in charge of monitoring these elite rookies to forestall all problems. VIRGO – Fathers & mothers with children in high school: Unless your child is picked up by a school bus, drive around the local area to determine how safe it is for your child to walk to & from school – even & especially if you plan on dropping them off & picking them up every day. Chances are, Okyrhoe in Aries will show you neighborhoods, thugs, gangs, drug deals & urban blight that you will not want to see. You must determine as early as possible if any of this is unacceptable – because none of it will change as your child is attending school. LIBRA – Women of all ages observing your men: You see young men for who they are: Arrogant, entitled, privileged, insecure and, ultimately, wondering who is in charge. Somehow, Okyrhoe in Aries makes you think of this lyric from “Positively Fourth Street” by Bob Dylan, “the one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with” – but without the meanness. Society does young men a disservice – and does itself a disservice as well. What these young men need to learn is who they are without being corrupted by what other powerful people want from them. Don’t try to help the blind see. Dispense wisdom at those odd moments when the deaf can hear. SCORPIO – Athletes: Don’t overtrain. Let your body rest so that bones & muscle can form & heal. Office workers: A strategic break from sustained effort clears the mind & resets the fingers, hands & feet. The lesson the Scorpio must learn under the current influence of Okyrhoe in Aries is simple to understand yet maddeningly difficult to master: Not everything can be done at once. Set yourself a schedule of goals that you can show to your professional supervisor who may want to run your body & your brain into the ground, into dust. Make your plan. Work your plan. Assert your plan. SAGITTARIUS – Writers, authors, musicians: Okyrhoe in Aries favors small projects. Start, work through, complete, let go. You’ve got big ideas like a ping pong ball with a number buzzing around the brain of your lottery machine. Slow down the mind over time. Execute complete yet brief works within concentrated attention spans. CAPRICORN – Parents of recent male college graduates or high school students, particularly fathers: Your son does not want to listen to his father or his parents. However, if he sees something in it for him, your son will listen to & obey other authority figures. Okyrhoe in Aries advises you to learn who the power brokers of the local industries, as well as the faculty & sports coaches at your son’s school, are. Steer the impressionable away from losers. Steer the eager towards role models who care. AQUARIUS – Future public speakers, lead singers of bands: Okyrhoe in Aries states that the force of your personality is not yet strong enough to carry & to project the power of your message. Know when to speak or to sing within the scale of smaller rooms. Know when to let the crowd or your band to support or to supplement your voice. Do not try to overwhelm anybody when your voice cannot fill a large yet empty space. PISCES – Okyrhoe in Aries declares that you can get the money you need if you work one forty-hour-per-week day job while also earning money at home in some type of computer consultancy where you can help people remotely, at a distance, while people come to you. Of course, as people come to you, you may be tempted to order Seamless or Uber food delivery – but no! That is a luxury. If you really need the money, why are you working seventy hours a week, then ordering expensive takeout food delivered by some wage slave risking their life in automobile traffic on a bicycle? Be thoroughly practical. * Okyrhoe, a centaur planet that traverses between the orbits of Jupiter & Saturn, was discovered in September 1998 & named in June 2003. Okyrhoe (meaning “rapid flow”), the daughter of Chiron & Chariklo, had offended the Fates by using her gift of prophesy. Okyrhoe transformed into a mare and was given the new name Hippe. For information on how to interpret Okyrhoe, formerly 1998-SG35, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.
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Chiron* transits Aries In Part One of Acting Out, contemporary French philosopher Bernard Stiegler describes his calling to the vocation – hence, “How I Became a Philosopher.” Only briefly mentioning his later work on technics inducing his core belief, “Man is a prosthetic being,” Stiegler interprets Aristotle’s assertion that man is a political animal according to how his fellow French philosopher Gilbert Simondon describes “individuation,” a binary process by which one accepts or rejects the values of a friend, the norms of a group, the platforms of a political party, the policy mandate of a nation. The existence of the friend, group, party or nation serves as fodder for one to accept or to reject, to affirm or to deny. Stiegler emphasizes that, in 99% of the cases, this process never ends – most people continue Simonden’s process of individuation until death. Stiegler offers two significant exceptions: 1) When Socrates drank the hemlock as a sentence for the two criminal acts of impiety & corruption of the youth, who, in so doing, transformed Simonden’s act of individuation into the invention of the practice of philosophy; and 2) When Stiegler himself, both in the Freudian context of rejecting psychotherapy, and reflecting the eponymous title of this book, “acts out,” transcending the diachronic identification process of individuation & embracing the Marxist mandate to transform being into becoming, by moving from the question of philosophy in potential to passer à l’acte, “the passage to the act” of philosophy . . . by committing armed robbery & spending five years in prison. ARIES – The mathematical discipline of calculus teaches that if you consistently approach the door in a wall by walking halfway to it, you will never cross the door’s threshold – meaning, of course, that you must, at some point, walk more than halfway. Well, Chiron in Aries quotes Aleister Crowley, “Do as thou will shall be the whole of the law.” Furthermore, as you ponder what Crowley says – and, for that matter, Crowley – you should also ponder the ending of “The Hollow Men,” by T.S. Eliot, “Between the desire and the spasm, Between the potency and the existence, Between the essence and the descent . . . falls the shadow.” TAURUS – Don’t know if you trust somebody? Stare into somebody’s eyes, as hard as you can, for as long as you can, until you feel, and you know, that you are “going back through the ages.” Chiron in Aries nods its head, “Now you know.” GEMINI – Many serial killers, such as Anders Breivik & “the Unabomber,” Theodore John Kaczynski, wrote extensively about the philosophical reasons why they eventually committed murder. Such works rationalize the act of murder as underwritten by intelligence – a rationalization which Chiron in Aries encourages you to reject. The heart teaches the brain to love or to hate. If your heart is teaching your brain to hate, heal your heart – do not let your heart manipulate your brain into debasing you into a weapon. CANCER – You may be a boss, you may be a leader, but you are always & forever a flesh & blood person who would never impersonalize yourself within your position of leadership – an attribute which makes employees & citizens absolutely love you. Paradoxically, Chiron in Aries declares that this puts you at a simultaneous advantage over, and a disadvantage to, rivals who never reveal their personalities as they execute their policies & decisions before followers & citizens who decidedly do not love them. Even so, you should be able to work with that. Know when your weakness is your strength. Do not allow adversaries to use your strength against you. LEO – Regarding legal issues, applications to live and to do business in other countries and forays into higher education. Chiron in Aries insists that you cannot succeed alone. If you don’t have people working in your behalf, it means that you are outnumbered & must retreat – it’s that simple. If you don’t have any allies, get some! VIRGO – Those who declare war must prepare themselves to fight unto death – because war involves killing. Whether you live in a suburb or city undergoing a building boom which routinely declares eminent domain, or in a ghetto divided into gangs, war, nevertheless, exists. Chiron in Aries warns you of two things: 1) Make no threats that you will not back up with explicit violence – which means make no threats at all. 2) Expect that all threats of violence, explicit or implicit, against you are & must be real – then be guided accordingly. Also: Take note of which of your neighbors are most likely packing a weapon – and why. LIBRA – Unlike the recent transit of Uranus in Aries, as you dealt with egoistic sociopathic genius partners, you now must alternatively baby-sit & coach an extremely soulful bi-polar genius partner. Chiron in Aries quotes from the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra, “Being an 18-karat manic-depressive, and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant – when I sing, I believe, I'm honest.” Therefore, when your partner all of a sudden goes into a Miles Davis Kind of Blue mood, snap them out of it, “That’s life! Do it your way.” SCORPIO – New employees, unlike recently departed self-appointed geniuses, will not be recalcitrant at all. Indeed, Chiron in Aries denotes that these new employees will be taking their cues very directly from you. If you send mixed messages, you will get terrible work product & service. Communicate clearly what you want & need – new employees will provide exactly what you will demand. Binary but polite! SAGITTARIUS – As treacherous as a whirling dervish, you are now a devastating centrifugal fulcrum of pure creativity! Whether you are a writer, actor, filmmaker, artist or musician, Chiron in Aries demands that you create as many brand-new forms of your craft so that the free flow of energy can transmit unimpeded to a dazzled electrified audience. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention play “Nine Types of Industrial Pollution” on Uncle Meat! CAPRICORN – Harsh criticism of your spouse, family, fellow citizens, employees or self under the current influence of Chiron in Aries will ultimately manifest as a toxically replete reservoir of pure self-loathing. Don’t bang your head against the wall until you bleed. Forgive others. Forgive yourself. AQUARIUS – You don’t condone confrontation & aggression – instead, Chiron in Aries posits that you heartily champion those who bravely blaze trails to reverse the negativity of adversaries & opponents without inciting conflict with them. These adversaries & opponents want conflict with you because, should you engage in conflict, it would negate your message. Do not fall into this trap – all you need is love. PISCES – You cannot afford anybody else’s dreams, whether political ally or professional associate – you cannot even afford your own dreams! Of course, you should cultivate your dreams – but Chiron in Aries emphasizes that, as a practical matter, you must simply save your money. Don’t spend your money on things that you cannot afford – and if you have to risk money on a longshot to see if it will successfully fulfill your dreams, realize that you cannot afford to gamble on unfulfilled dreams. Let gofundme.com go fund them! Know exactly what your dream costs – then you count the dollars in your hand. Dream with – not without – cash. * Chiron, named after the wounded centaur who sacrificed his immortality in return for the liberation of Prometheus (he who stole fire from the gods!) was the first centaur planet discovered back in 1977. Chiron, described as "the wounded healer" by Zane Stein & Barbara Hand Clow, bridges the gap between Saturn & Uranus, exhorting us to teach that which we most need to learn.
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on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by ARTICLE #11 Asbolus! transits Cancer from May 26, 2024 to May 24, 2043. From the time a young boy leaves his mother’s womb until sometime in his teenage high school years, the boy’s mother worries about & concentrates upon everything the boy does – and much later on, says. In the beginning, when the boy can do nothing without his mother, every babble, tear, sob, drink, mouthful, teethe, slobber, cough, sneeze, snort & laugh obsesses the poor mother with fear, worry, hope & joy. How will he survive? Will he be okay? He will be fine. He will be President! But then, as a teenager, the boy does not need his mother as he once did for all the basic functions of living – which compounds her worry. Will he get along with his fellow classmates? Will he behave in class? He must get up on time every day to get the bus. Make sure to tell him to avoid all the bad boys in the gang near the park! Then, one day, the mother of the teenage boy dreams about him, walking along the bottom of the ocean. The young boy sidesteps the crab who fails to see him pass. The young boy ducks below the whale sucking in millions of plankton. The young boy remains calm & emits no fear so that the shark sees, yet ignores, him. Then, looking at his watch, at a predetermined moment, the boy leans heavily into a squat, and then, thrusting with his legs & back to the surface, shoots straight up, through hundreds of feet of ocean water. A row boat attached by a rope to a mid-ocean cruiser sees him & transfers him to the row boat and then the cruiser. The young boy had executed all instructions meticulously. ARIES – The term “gaslighting” refers to when those associates known to you alter the environment & their behavior to you to such an extreme degree that you begin either to doubt your reality or your sanity. Such associates can expertly disorient you if they know beforehand that you are currently deeply, emotionally insecure; then, they will be able to alter even familiar surroundings so that they become horrifyingly foreign & intimidating to you. Asbolus in Cancer denotes that your mother will not be present at such attempts to gaslight you. The instinctive bond to what is known & familiar lies within your mother. Keeping your mother & family in the center of your heart, like a sacred talismanic object embedded into an altar, will help reveal to you the true quality of those soundwaves constructed during such gaslighting so that you will know the truth of what is happening despite others’ decidedly impure intentions. TAURUS – Some environments are so entrenched in a particular mindset, whether driven by hierarchical relationships, specialized commerce, controlled substances or a fixed personage who never, ever leaves, that they strike an outsider as a native of a foreign, intergalactic or fictional realm which operates according to rules & laws of their own. As long as you are not completely foreign to that environment yourself, you won’t need to come up for air prematurely. However, you will wonder if individuals within that entrenched environment who all know you outside of it will be able to recognize you as a distinct individual rather than some random adversary or interloper. Asbolus in Cancer encourages the Bull, “Have hope” – you may be the stimulus which reminds such individuals that this fixed personage, you, this environment & the outside world coexist with vastly different conceptual meanings. If such an environment is annoying to you, such individuals may thank you years later as they become able to disassociate themselves from where they were & everything that they saw & did in order to reacquaint themselves with themselves, the world & their own limitless potential. GEMINI – Getting paid by an employer? Cash under the table with no taxes withheld? Employee with benefits & taxes withheld? Employee paid by stock options which fluctuate in value? Bitcoin? Asbolus in Cancer confirms that money comes in all forms. For most people, and employees with benefits: What they did last year, they will do this year. Why? Because they know how to do it – and the IRS doesn’t bother them. The real question, however, is “To what advantage is the labyrinthine & complex process you undergo when you receive your paycheck?” Such as, for examples, when employers pay employees in stock options. Is this a Plutocrat’s attempt to assert class consciousness into young high-tech executives who could lose their shirt fiddling with complex fiscal instruments designed & implemented by much smarter economists? Plus, more conservative employees didn’t lose an untoward amount of money – like one cashing in their stock options. Make sure that you know what you are doing when you sign up for your weekly paycheck to come in the form of unfamiliar financial instruments. And then, if you do know what you are doing, maximize the value of the financial instrument’s innovation when the time becomes ripe. CANCER – Your spouse & business partner froze you out emotionally for the better part of two decades as you wondered throughout the entire transit of Pluto through Capricorn from 2008 through 2024, “What is going on with this individual and all their professional & personal associates?” Well, after Pluto exits Capricorn for good in November 2024, your spouse or business partner will not be able to freeze you out – but you won’t care in the slightest. They had their chance. Asbolus in Cancer denotes that you intend to devote your energy to the young man & the little boys of the future. Truly, your intuition is overwhelmed by the inundation of psychology emitting from so many young men & little boys without any significant direction whatsoever. All this is noble & fine, and it is nature’s duty to fill voids of responsibility abandoned by those who feel they have better things to do – but please give these boys & men enough space to live their own life & grow. “Mother” by the Police off Synchronicity, “Oh, mother dear, please listen – and don’t devour me.” LEO – Some peoples’ mouths & emotions run amok. These people are awaiting the manifestation of doom emerging out of their self-evident negative energy. However, some people with all the grace, charm & propriety in the world, every once in a while, endures an undeniable instinct or intuition. Asbolus in Cancer declares that such people are disinclined to disregard logic – but, if the stimulus is strong enough, they will abandon it outright & head for the hills. The lesson: Know with whom you are dealing, and, if those whom you respect behave in an unusual manner, take close heed. VIRGO – Asbolus in Cancer emphasizes mothers as political forces or media spokespersons, and the influence of politics on mothers. Will this be a mutually profitable alignment? Potentially, and under very specific, auspicious conditions, particularly later in this transit – but, overall, not at all. Ruby Franke, the Utah mother with a wildly popular YouTube channel promoting parenting advice who was recently convicted of felony child abuse, seems to be a negative role model for such a transit. High self-esteem, demonstrated ambition making the private role of caretaker, custodian & teacher of young children very, very public. Making matters worse, children, especially young boys & young men, face accelerated crises in their own lives, especially involving gangs & street crime, of which some of their mothers are blithely unaware. While all sorts of people assert, “Somebody should have seen this coming,” how can anybody if those pursuing those ambitions are accountable to nobody?” Then again, potentially, if such a messianic figure is moneyed by somebody who can & will hold them accountable and will direct them to envision & to shape an even greater, greater good – who knows what such a woman might achieve? LIBRA – Professional women: Treating employees like prepubescent children with no experience, no education & no individuality while providing a mystically confused male spouse with neither praise nor direction, like a real man: Asbolus in Cancer posits a duality that not even a demonic & deceitful Libran can engineer. Indeed, such is the recipe for “fatal equilibrium” – letting those who don’t know, and who cannot defend themselves, walk around in circles, as the boss & wife commands supreme confidence. A lot of this description reads like the selling of a science fiction novel or movie where all meet their demise except for the tragic anti-heroine who is opposes by an entire planet of violent male enemies whose testosterone identifies & seeks to obliterate her cortisol. And why? Because the anti-heroine, rather than nurturing the disenfranchised to reclaim their power, instead vampirizes those who succumb to their fearful, spiritually lost weakness. Reject such indifferent cruelty. SCORPIO – The tragedy of Kit Moresby in Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky lies in the fact that she remains within her microcosm – really, nucleus – of Western civilization with her husband Port & their friend George Tunner amongst an uncontrollable & hostile foreign civilization in North Africa’s Sahara Desert without the slightest clue that it may be dangerous to her until several days after she is removed from Port’s corpse & George’s presence. Travelers: Asbolus in Cancer puts Bowles’ classic novel on your reading list as it assigns you the task of concentrating upon Kit’s character, a woman who overestimates her own sophistication, intelligence, savvy & safety as she underestimates the barbarism of an anti-Social Darwinist cacotopia. SAGITTARIUS – A female porn star or night club stripper would never get the opportunity to mentor a young teenage boy wallowing in the corruption of alcohol & sex – why would a teenager be drinking in a strip club in the first place? On top of that, anybody posing as a boy having sex with a female porn star must be a porn star himself. But an actual unmarried female high school teacher in her early Twenties in a classroom of hormone-sated teenagers, including virgin sports jocks with no girlfriends & no sexual experience – Asbolus in Cancer declares that, by the law of numbers, a certain number of teachers & students will eat the forbidden fruit. And, until somebody has a genuine clue about how to change this system, more & more teachers as well as more & more students will believe that they have found a solution to a long-standing problem. CAPRICORN – Husbands: You will receive either reward or revenge from your spouse, depending upon how you treated them during the transit of Pluto in Capricorn from 2008 through 2024 under the current influence of Asbolus in Cancer. If it is revenge, they will not freeze you out, as you would do to them – not by a long shot. Instead, their hysterical histrionics will put you in a space from which you will be unable to escape. But, then again, such hysterical histrionics may not be directed towards you at all, so you may not be in a space where you can stop them anyway – but woe to your poor son, for whose soul your spurned wife will do ongoing, protracted, concentrated medieval battle! AQUARIUS – Owning, managing, working at, supplying or eating regularly at a seafood restaurant can lead you to unexplored heights of ecstasy, unfathomable depths of despair or ongoing mundane outbursts of frustration & desperation. Asbolus in Cancer claims that seafood can exalt the tastebuds, kill through toxins or bully through allergies. Then there are days you don’t know what you will get or why. Catching an edible shark is heaven for two dinners then Hell for four months, “I am so sick of shark meat!” As for other inhuman hazards of the business of running even a very popular restaurant, no novel is more informative or entertaining than Montreal author Yves Beauchemin’s The Alley Cat. Exasperating! PISCES – Parents of accomplished athletes & entertainers: Some athletes & entertainers, such as Derek Jeter & Taylor Swift, respectively, for example, are well-behaved & fabulously successful. Other athletes & performers, such as Tyreek Hill & Kanye West, respectively, rebel, insult, sometimes outright injure, and are also fabulously successful. Asbolus in Cancer does not recognize anybody’s fabulous success. What it recognizes, as per both these cases, is whether such accomplished athletes & entertainers still obey & respect the teaching & the discipline instilled in them by their parents or whose egos are way too big for them to obey & respect the teaching & the discipline instilled in them by their parents. No influence is bigger or more important than the influence of your father & mother. Your father & mother are the two who created you & brought you onto the earth. ! Asbolus, named after the psychic centaur whose wisdom was completely ignored while his foolishness was universally emulated, was discovered in April 1995 & named in September 1999. Asbolus, which embodies the higher mind in the lower self, bridges the gap in consciousness between Jupiter & Neptune, warning us not to take our “leaders” at face value.
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Woman with Bicycle, like all of deKooning’s famous women, is a full frontal, head to toe, surrealistic caricature of a tall, buxom, voluptuous female – with, unusual even for deKooning, two sets of teeth. deKooning’s phase of gestural urban landscapes ended as a result of his relocation from his apartment & studio near New York City’s Cooper Square to East Hampton in Suffolk County in Long Island – which he did not engineer, but, instead, which happened to him as a result of the collective will of his wife Elaine, a prominent painter in her own right with whom he did not live, and his various prominent & familial associates, worried that the police might find him dead in the gutter after a night of relentless drinking. Once on Long Island, images of deKooning’s women would try to reemerge, the vague outlines of female form surfacing in abstract depictions of deep ocean water, as deKooning recalled not only the many lovers in his storied promiscuous life, but also his mother, a tavern keeper in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who, by necessity, also served as the tavern’s bouncer. ARIES – Logically, most men would think that they need to come to terms with their fear of the big bad world in order to have a happy life. Truth be told, the big bad world adds to a man’s happiness, inculcates his freedom as a happy-go-lucky Viking. What really scares men, according to Bienor in Cancer, is the chaotic psychology of their nuclear family – especially, no matter the age of the man, the unfathomable, unpredictable feelings & actions of that man’s mother. Rejoice in the logistic impossibilities of a badly designed, decrepit & corrupt world! Beware the mild yet urgent request of your sincere yet clearly insane mother. TAURUS – Bienor in Cancer denotes that the fervent & hostile complaints of a friend, sibling, client or customer serve as a barometer for a more pervasive malady. Unless, of course, those complaints originate from one individual – then, that barometer very accurately diagnoses a real pain in the neck (To put it politely). However, when the second individual complains harshly about the same thing, it doesn’t matter if the first person complains about everything – the complaint is now valid. Fix it. GEMINI – Inflation? A reality in an economy undergoing fundamental disruptions. But Bienor in Cancer warns that increasing prices are not only occurring as a result of disruptions of the supply chain or shortages of key crops. Check your credit card & bank statements vigilantly to identify in real time untoward & unauthorized expenditures. And, like C. Wright Mills’ “higher immorality,” be alert as to how plutocrats like Elon Musk manipulate their stock prices in the capital markets for unenlightened & selfish financial benefits. CANCER – A spouse or business partner deals with untold responsibilities professionally. That spouse or partner may wish not to discuss this at all for months, then suddenly reveal everything in a convoluted manner – or while sleeping & dreaming. Bienor in Cancer chastises you proactively not to bother that spouse or partner, whether they do not want to talk or whether they will not shut up. As for yourself, professionally, younger bosses who do not know what they are doing do not want to hear it. Talk to business associates & peers about such problems. Wait for the infrastructure to find a worthwhile solution. Most of all, cut back on alcohol – a drink allows your most bitter negativity to rise to the surface. LEO – You & your work colleagues are sick to death of professional complainers. Only bosses deal with these internal troublemakers directly, but they still cast a pall upon working relations with the entire workplace. Even so, Bienor in Cancer recommends that you say & do nothing about these annoyances – unless & until these complainers execute an injustice against new rookie employees in the workplace. Tolerate no bullying. VIRGO – Politically active mothers & female schoolteachers have every right to complain about the damage that gang warfare does to the local youth – but Bienor in Cancer whispers that they notice when you say, “What are you going to do to solve this problem?” Of course, not even the governor or the mayor can solve this problem as an individual – but, from the perspective of the complainer, this problem is not anybody else’s problem except the complainer. Challenge these “activists” with the subtle didactic admonition, “What are you doing to make our neighborhood & region safe from this self-evident scourge?” LIBRA – Like other air signs, particularly & spectacularly Gemini, Librans have two faces: A happy, approving face & a ferocious, castigating condemning countenance. Usually, much more than the overtly spectacular Twin, Librans moderate their disapproval to save that ferocious, castigating condemning countenance for those who truly deserve it. Now, Bienor in Cancer advises the generally mild-mannered Libran to change the ratio of mild to harsh – say, from 80% happy & 20% hostile to 95% happy & 5% . . . evil. Some people need encouragement – encourage them. Other people require damnation – deliver it. SCORPIO – Whether you are the boss, a professional with clients, a merchant with customers, a teacher or a coach, other people may raise their voices to you, but, under no circumstances, Bienor in Cancer insists, should you ever raise yours. Nor may you curse, issue overt or covert threats, or tell “inside jokes.” You’re heard the phrase, “The customer is always right.” Now, you are guilty until proven innocent – if anybody bothers to try to absolve you of any sin or crime at all. SAGITTARIUS – Contrary to their spoken words, the bartender, the cannabis retail clerk, the drug dealer, the strip club owner & the madame do not consider you a lameass dweeb. Bienor in Cancer qualifies that each of these individuals appraises you as a potentially deep-pocketed customer with a weak moral fiber – which makes it within their interests to try to manipulate you. Don’t allow your frustration creatively or romantically to spill over into a lack of self-confidence. Recall that you took up such a difficult adventure not because you sought the primrose path but because you sought a challenge. Steal your resolve. Bite the bullet. CAPRICORN – Whether current professional work duties are purely nominal or extremely arduous,, Bienor in Cancer insists that you make yourself available to spouse & family – despite your professional responsibilities. Fathers: Sons need protection from overzealous & emotional mothers. Do not disappear. Remain firmly within the family “picture.” AQUARIUS – While at your workplace, Bienor in Cancer strongly advises the Waterbearer to express their opinions & to speak their minds exclusively when in the company of your clique of choice & tight friends. The firm has recently hired the mouth from Hell, and you are frankly not mean enough to survive too many confrontations with them. Retreat from conflict. Sequester. PISCES – Parents, especially fathers: You hate to act like an adult with your children. However, Bienor in Cancer declares that the current untoward and, at times, outright bad behavior of your children unconditionally demands it. However, relentless discipline complete with relentless punishment is simply not the answer. Paying money for specialists greatly exceeds your budget. Pow wow with other parents & teachers to help identify, to ferret out & to rectify underlying maladies. @ Bienor, a centaur planet that traverses from just outside the orbit of Saturn just across the orbit of Uranus, was discovered in August 2000 & named in January 2004. Theseus, fighting for the Lapiths against the Centaurs to avenge the honor of Peirithous's bride Hippodamia, killed Bienor by jumping on his back, pulling his hair, and smashing his mouth while it spouted violent threats. For information on how to interpret Bienor, formerly 2000-QC243, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.
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Trump, did a great job – whom they proceeded to shoot, to pluck & to roast for an Absolute Ingratitude Pot Luck Buffet, as opposed to a Thanksgiving Day Dinner for a true American Democracy, before Kamela Harris, appropriately, lost the Presidency for the Democrats on Election Day. The lesson is simple: Whatever game you may be playing, whether anybody likes your strategy or not, when you arrive on the field, you must be ready to play. ARIES – You won’t be able to pursue any creative ambitions until you get your house in order. Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer exhorts you to get rid of all the clutter of the past. Shred bills dating from the last decade until today. Throw out all the crap in the cupboard that you don’t need. Donate old clothes to the Salvation Army. Eliminate the death of the past to prepare for the life of the future. TAURUS – Transaction attorneys of all stripes often include in their contracts a paragraph at the end of the contract entitled, “Entire Agreement,” which states, “This agreement covers every term, provision & potential dispute of this specific transaction, and any dispute or controversy arising out of this transaction can only be resolved within the terms of this agreement.” Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer acknowledges that this is much easier to do in writing than verbally. However, amongst all your friends & colleagues, it is necessary to review all that you have said & done before you, or they, say or do anything else. Organize & streamline who said & who did what. Prepare for closure so as to move onto the next phase. GEMINI – Your finances are now a mess not because you are disorganized, but because of all the chaos which descended upon you recently. While you will not be able to sort through all the effluvium & nonsense anytime soon, Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer recommends that you simply put all the truthful, erroneous, dishonest, stupid & irrelevant bills in one stack on your desk so that you can tackle them one at a time. CANCER – You endured an endless revisionist history of your own personal self-esteem on an almost weekly, if not daily, basis, as Pluto transited Capricorn from 2008 through 2024. Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer now recommends that you take stock of all those misconceptions through which the vicissitudes of fate tortured you so that you may compress them in a computer file entitled, “Experience.pdf.” None of that stuff has anything to do with you. Look at yourself in the mirror with pride. LEO – You’ve been hearing, “Maybe,” “Not yet,” and “Give it some time,” from undeclared professional & political enemies for years now. Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer encourage you to review all these objections & excuses, then filter those objections & excuses which are substantive from those which are just delaying tactics intended to stall. You will see a pattern emerge upon which you will be able to act. VIRGO – The politics of local women, especially mothers, has evolved over the past five to seven years. Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer advises you strongly not to take such females’ intellectual & political development for granted. Assemble a timeline from beginning to now so that you may project where this trajectory travels next. LIBRA – Bosses, managers, supervisors: Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer demands that you review the statistics of workplace performance since 2019. COVID-19 brought with it a new age of workplace permissiveness. If you & your company wants to compete in the world of ambitious adults, your employees must graduate from Romper Room. Assemble the proof – then apply that proof to those who absolutely refuse to believe it. SCORPIO – A close friend who knows you well smirks as they ask you, “Where you been?” Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer signifies that the question is less casual than it appears. You may not be constantly traveling – or you may be! – but, when you respond from top of mind, the response will most likely not be chronological, but based upon the influence a certain place had upon you. Don’t wait for that close friend to smirk again. Come to terms with your own psychological growth so that you may enjoy the payoff of true epiphany. SAGITTARIUS – You got drunk so you got stoned. You got drunk & stoned so you went to the strip club. At the strip club, you were offered heroin, but you were too drunk & too stoned so you decided to drive home. Luckily, a friend of yours said, “You’re too drunk & too stoned and why in Hell did you go to that nasty strip club? I’m calling a cab.” Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer wants to know, “What’s going on here? What are trying to do? Why is this guy your friend if they know & are with you as you are too drunk & too stoned at a strip club? Where does this begin & end?” CAPRICORN – Why are you surprised & insulted that your spouse or business partner remembered every slight & insult that you issued to them since 2008 as they now throw it back in your face? Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer will uncharitably remind you that your spouse or business partner endured protracted injustice that impeded, and almost killed, their self-esteem for over a decade. This spouse or business partner is only just beginning the process of feeling their oats. Demonstrate remorse – or expect more severe & protracted pushback. AQUARIUS – You developed a number of unfinished brilliant ideas over the past decade which you abandoned as a result of somebody else’s perpetually urgent professional priorities. Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer promises that bosses’ & colleagues’ ineptitude no longer impedes you. Organize what is scattered before you commit to tackling any one specific project. PISCES – Children & lovers have buried their emotions for far too long. What you witness now under the current influence of Retrograde Echeclus in late Cancer is but the tip of the iceberg. Be prepared for a flood of melting, cold water. * Echeclus, a centaur planet that traverses from the orbit of Jupiter to the orbit of Uranus, was discovered in March 2000 & named in February 2006. Echeclus, in the battle fought between the Centaurs & the Lapiths, died as the Lapith Ampyx threw his spear without a tip directly into Echeclus's face as Echeclus was attacking Ampyx at full gallop. .
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Cyllarus@, transits Leo In “When Adding New States Helped the Republicans,” the Atlantic’s Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College & author of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Struggle for the Soul of America, clearly explicates the Real Politik, “New states were supposed to join the union when they reached a certain population, but in the late 19th century, population mattered a great deal less than partisanship.” In this context, Boston College history professor Richardson asserted, “Republicans did not hide their intentions.” What intentions were those? Again, Boston College history professor Richardson spells it out clearly, “One supporter in the popular Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper argued that the Republican Party must stay in power to protect Big Business. If that meant shutting more populous territories out of statehood and admitting a few underpopulated western states to enable a minority to exercise political control over the majority of Americans, so be it.” So, without further ado, “In 1889 and 1890, Congress added North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming – the largest admission of states since the original thirteen.” In the process, Congress skipped over New Mexico, who had accumulated sufficient population to become a state as far back as 1870, six years before Congress admitted Colorado into the Union. Boston College history professor Richardson observed, “The strategy paid dividends deep into the future; indeed, the admission of so many rural states back then helps to explain GOP control of the Senate today, 130 years later.” Not all six states are Republican strongholds – Washington State, as dominated by high-tech Seattle, champions East Coast liberalism as much as the cities of Boston & New York. However, as illustrated by The Guardian’s Oliver Bullough analysis of “dynasty trust” investors in “The Great American Tax Haven: Why the Super-Rich Love South Dakota,” some such dividends appear genuinely eternal. Read “When Adding New States Helped the Republicans,” in the Atlantic for the full scoop. By contrast, as in all things, the admission of both Saskatchewan & Alberta into Canadian Federation stuck closely to the maddeningly frustrating, puritanically proper, doctrinaire, nose-to-the-grindstone, straight & narrow path for which certain Americans emulate Canadians. Although the North-West Territories Act of 1875, under which Canada governed the Northwest Territories which contained both Saskatchewan & Alberta, allowed for the evolution of responsible government over its vast land mass, a fully elected legislated assembly responsible to the people who voted for it only came into being some twenty years later in 1897. During that time, population grew as the Minister of the Interior under Canadian Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier, Clifford Sifton, engineered & directed the mass immigration of hordes of Germans, Poles & Ukrainians onto the vast prairie. A major speed bump to the path towards provincial status involved the massive ambition of Northwest Territory Premiere Sir Frederick W. A. G. Haultain. Northwest Territory Premiere Haultain aggressively lobbied Ottawa to admit the entire Northwest Territories as one provincial landmass named “Buffalo.” Canadian Prime Minister Laurier demurred, fearing that Buffalo would eventually accumulate too much power, putting itself in a position to take control over Canada – or, probably more realistically & secretly in Canadian Prime Minister Laurier’s worldview, giving Buffalo the ability & position to challenge the primacy of the equally gigantic land masses of either or both Quebec & Ontario. Northwest Territory Premiere Haultain challenged Canadian Prime Minister Laurier by championing the Conservative Party under the leadership of Nova Scotia MP & Haligonian lawyer Robert Borden in the 1904 Canadian Federal Election – an election which the Liberal Party and incumbent Canadian Prime Minister Laurier won handily, both throughout the Federation & within the Northwest Territories. During the summer of the following year, Canadian Prime Minister Laurier signed into law both the Saskatchewan Act and the Alberta Act during July, decreeing Saskatchewan & Alberta into existence into the Canadian Federation as independent provinces on September 1, 1905. One major sticking point in both provinces lay in the fact that Ottawa claimed control of the mineral rights & natural resources of each respective province, rights for which lawyers in both provinces fought for many years before receiving them in 1930. Such mineral rights & natural resources seemed like a whole lot of nothing at the time. Now, however, in “Separated at Birth, How Two Provinces Have Now Reunited in Alienation,” CBC News’s Kathleen Petty, who observes, “Oil and gas, potash, uranium and gold finally helped Saskatchewan graduate out of ‘have not’ status,” focuses more attention upon recent yet former Saskatchewan Premiere Brad Wall than current Saskatchewan Premiere Scott Moe – given how former Saskatchewan Premiere Wall waxes nostalgically poetic about Northwest Territory Premiere Haultain’s vision concerning Buffalo, "I think there have been occasions throughout our history where I'll call it the spirit of Buffalo, that place that was supposed to be both provinces together, was manifest in governments that didn't agree on everything ideologically, but understood their interests were aligned." As for Alberta: Until a fireball of flames, recalling a nuclear bomb, burst hundreds of feet into the air during the Oil Strike at Leduc on February 13, 1947, Alberta had no idea of how rich it really was. ARIES – Sports fans sometimes fail to understand why star athletes require protection from the public, thinking, “D don’t know why such so-called superstars are like that – they are just human beings like you & me!” Well, yes & no. Truth be told, to the contrary, such superstar athletes – or, for that matter, actors, actresses, singers, musicians, inventors or anybody supremely skilled – are very expensive commodities upon which industries employing hundreds or thousands rely. Why do you think that J-Lo, Jenny from the Block, Jennifer Lopez insured her body for $1 billion? To that end, Cyllarus in Leo reminds you that, when dealing with such self-evident celebrities, that you respect their bodyguards & to treat them with the deference of heads of states. If, however, you are such a celebrity, or are simply extremely gifted in any area of endeavor, demand that others treat you with respect. In all instances, exude nobility & magnanimity. Shun the vulgar & criminal rabble. TAURUS – Whoever it is that brings fame, fortune & glory to your family, city, state, province or country merits royal treatment. Of course, those who exist to take potshots at such figures, such as the son of retired NBA small forward Dennis Scott, the brat on ESPN who actually sucker-punched Shaquille O’Neal in the head with a left hook – but that says more about that brat than about Shaq. Because such enemies & detractors try to sully those who accomplish so much, Cyllarus in Leo agrees that you should expect these local royals to take important political positions when the situation demands, like when retired Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis called or peace during Baltimore’s Freddie Gray riots, or like when Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan, who released a statement after riots followed the police shooting of African-American Charlottean Keith Scott. The charisma of the plutocratic superstar is a gift – it must be deployed for the public good. GEMINI – When a college professor lectures, that professor must take care to enunciate what he or she says so that students may transcribe notes or identify the words, concepts or terms on prepublished downloaded lesson plans, taking care to explicate objectively, maintaining consistency in a clear, concise, rhythmic, yet articulate, tone of voice. What often results, a monotone, dulls the senses of the audience, s the sound waves emanating from the college professor’s mouth fail to impress themselves on the listener – which is why such professors may defer to audio visual material midway through a lecture to disrupt the monotony. Cyllarus in Leo emphasizes that a speech is not a lecture. A speech should rouse emotion. In “Yes You Can: New Emotion Dubbed 'Elevation',” the Toronto Star’s Diana Zlomislic wrote about newly elected U.S. President Barack Obama, “Quoting the Greek philosopher Longinus, ‘The effect of elevated language upon an audience is not persuasion but transport.’" The accuracy of the content does not matter as much as the emotional impact. Does this mean that you should emulate the broad exhortations of former President Obama, or, for that matter, the mangled facts of John Belushi as Bluto Blutarsky in Animal House? Well, that depends: Who is your real audience? CANCER – You earned your personal wealth as a result of your own hard work & good luck. You held onto your personal wealth as a result of your personal discipline, financial acumen & wise, timely investments. Cyllarus in Leo reminds you of the power of your fiscal self-reliance because people, and, much more likely, institutions & political parties, need your money & input, but will seek to communicate to you that you are beholden to them rather than the other way around. Is this a brazen scam? Do certain representatives actually believe this? Well, yes & yes – but, really, that is their problem. You have plans of your own. Forthwith! LEO – Professional experts, noted scientists, high-level executives & elected political officials worthy of your time are allowed to see you according to your schedule. As such, those professional experts, noted scientists, high-level executives & elected political officials presume that you will tolerate & accommodate their idiosyncrasies, but not necessarily their excesses, as the personages are worthy of your time, and such personages carry with them such idiosyncrasies. That being said, and all parties have openly agreed . . . Cyllarus in Leo says, “Then there is you.” How exactly did you come to be second? Don’t be ridiculous! You aren’t second at all. Indeed, you are so important & powerful, as well as so central to every aspect of everything that only certain elites are entitled to see you. Are such elites presumptuous? Very, very rarely – for the most part, most of these types are eccentric, and do their best to curb their eccentricities so as not to waste your time. However, be reassured that, at some point, one of those weirdos will demonstrate egregious presumptions, for which they will earn . . . your concomitant opprobrium. The Lion roars! VIRGO – You will have many open rivals who will try to bait your temper by stepping on your ego, especially beginning with the long-term transit of Neptune in Aries from 2026 to 2039. However, Cyllarus in Leo strongly warns Virgo that your real enemies are behind-the-scenes manipulators who will conduct an overt type of covert surveillance deliberately intended to insult your honor. Shield your physical appearance more conspicuously, with hat, sunglasses, scarves, et al, so that your personal demeanor does not announce itself to scoundrels amongst security personnel expertly working a remote zoom lens. LIBRA – Politicians & aspiring politicians: A self-evidently, genuinely wealthy & probably blue-blooded individual approaches you after one of your more powerful, expansive & compassionate public speeches to congratulate your performance, “(Sir) (Ma’am), I absolutely deeply believe every word that comes out of your mouth, yes, (sir) (ma’am)!” You smile sincerely, but you are deeply uneasy. “Thank you very much,” you thank them, “but who are you?” Cyllarus in Leo strongly advises you to maintain that smile when you hear that individual’s reply, “Why, I am your constituency!” Indeed, that individual does not lie. When that individual holds out their hand, don’t just stand there – shake it, “Pleased to meet you.” SCORPIO – In “Elon Musk Makes a Serious Accusation Against a Top Tesla Regulator,” thestreet.com’s Luc Olinga reports that Musk accused the Security & Exchange Commission of leaking confidential information about Tesla & Musk as he recounts, “His lawyer, Alex Spiro, accused the SEC of targeting both him and the clean-energy carmaker in an ‘unrelenting’ investigation aimed at limiting his right to free speech,” regarding the SEC’s enforcement of a 2018 settlement agreement between the SEC & Musk regarding how Musk’s Twitter usage can unduly serve to manipulate share prices. Cyllarus in Leo shakes its head soulfully in heartfelt commiseration, “My heart goes out to you, Mr. Musk. By the way – may I call you Elon, sir? – By the way, Elon: Do you have any idea what the SEC can really do to you?” SAGITTARIUS – Quarterback Tom Brady, New England Patriot or Tampa Bay Buccaneer, hard-working role model or inveterate, brazen cheater, never asked anybody for $50 million a year. Aaron Rodgers, who outright demanded $50 million a year from the Green Bay Packers, after he didn’t lead the Green Bay Packers to Super Bowl LVI, after cheating on his COVID-19 test, has only one Super Bowl ring – and Tom Brady has seven. Cyllarus in Leo recalls the Catholic ethos, “To one to whom much is given, much is expected.” Aaron Rodgers does not appear to respect this ethos at all. If you want & get the money, then you absolutely must lead your people to the promised land. CAPRICORN – Remember WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers? Ebbers dug his own grave persuading investors & the wider world that he & his company had more money than he & it actually did – and spent all sorts of money that he never had. Cyllarus in Leo distinguishes from Bernie Madoff, the former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange, who, similarly, convinced investors & the wider world that he & his company had more money than he & it actually did, by asserting that one of the people that Ebbers ultimately fooled as he cascaded into the abyss of his downfall was himself. Indeed, Madoff knew that he was a scoundrel & took half of Hollywood down with him, whereas Ebbers succumbed to the self-deception of his own greed. And this can happen to you, too! Pay with cash – if you have the money, buy Jaguars, Lamborghinis, condominiums, houses, with cash. Cash is king. AQUARIUS – Extremely wealthy or professional accomplished business partners or political rivals tend towards egoism – but Cyllarus in Leo insists that they genuinely respect you. Indeed, those extremely wealthy or professional accomplished business partners or political rivals do not respect just anybody. As Colonel Geoffrey Wain corrects his sister-in-law Maria in Hugh MacLennan's Barometer Rising, “It’s been my experience that few people know anything about anything.” Keep dialogue elevated by discussing only the most ambitious projects, the broadest & most influential public policy & the loftiest ideals. PISCES – Professional colleagues rely upon their speed. Frankly, you can’t keep up. Therefore, Cyllarus in Leo demands that you rely upon unusually profound physical strength & extreme micromanaged organization. One handtruck & two machine-gun arms carry one load which would normally require twelve people. One seven-word email sent to one list of twenty-five names in an email address book instructs managers of twenty people apiece in fifteen cities the following week’s work. Once you send it, go to the gym & sculpt your forearms. Stamina, endurance & compartmentalization! * Cyllarus, a centaur planet that traverses between Uranus & Pluto, was discovered in October 1998 & named in June 2003. Cyllarus, the noble husband of Hylonome, was killed by a random spear from an unknown hand in the battle between the Centaurs & the Lapiths. Upon witnessing the death of Cyllarus, Hylonome committed suicide by jumping on the spear that killed her husband in order to die with him. For further information on how to interpret Cyllarus, formerly 1998-TF35, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.
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Aphidas* transits Virgo Rosie the Riveter, the illustration of a lower-middle class, blue collar female factory worker flexing the muscle of her right upper arm with a scowl on her face, represents one of the enduring images of the feminist movement as a demonstration of women’s equality to men. However, the promulgation of this illustration, created by Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller, did not originate with any suffragettes, women’s liberation or feminist movement at all, but with the U.S. government (actually, specifically, the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee) who had deployed every available man overseas to Europe or overseas to Japan in a two-front World War, making every woman available for deployment at American munitions factories executing semi-skilled labor along Henry Ford-style production line conveyor belts. This truly full employment scenario differs qualitatively from Father’s relationship with Mother in E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime, a historical novel published during the height of the woman’s liberation movement in 1975, but written about the year 1902. In Ragtime, Father, the owner of a factory manufacturing American flags & American patriotic memorabilia, leaves the operations of his business to Mother for an entire year, as he joins thousands of men to accompany Robert Peary as he discovered the North Pole – during which, dishonorably, Father cheats on Mother with some unnamed Eskimo woman. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Westchester County, Mother, unaware that that Father is inserting his semi-erect blubber into some lucky toothless aboriginal, becomes aware of something that she never suspected: To do Father’s job well required very little skill & very little effort – but an awful lot of self-serving bluster. Today, all of these historical circumstances about a woman’s ability to compete amongst the workforce are obsolete – despite women’s protestations that they aren’t getting enough pay or far enough fast enough compared to men – as both genders have created a glut of available workers in a workforce so saturated with unemployment that the U.S. government dismisses the majority of it as “structural” to disregard it, subsequently & summarily as part of its statistical matrix. Indeed, with the specter of robotics about to enter into the workplace to a degree where robots displace a large swatch of unskilled, semi-skilled & even skilled workers, women as well as men will soon be complaining, attempting to assert their right to employment at a job that should be filled by a human with both a gender & a salary, whether “M,” “F” or “T” (whichever bathroom he or she, or he-or-she, prefers) rather than a robot with neither gender nor salary, “Neuter!” ARIES – Whether you are the owner of a business, a manager who hires & fires or the working stiff towards or at the bottom of the totem pole, the specter of outsourcing will once again raise the reality of the differential. Does the differential exist in the general difference in the training & skill of the respective labor pools, in the respective wage scales or in the currency exchange per se? No matter what you answer to this question, Aphidas in Virgo challenges you with the inferred ultimatum, “What is preventing you from pegging your price point at a premium?” The ultimatum inferred begs a simple question, “What do you do better or different than your competition?” You only know that you will have answered the question correctly when you have no competition at that skill which you & you alone do best, for which clients pay you big, and which attracts so many charlatans that do not know what they are doing that you can actually say so! TAURUS – The first great wave of the Abstract Expressionists in the late Forties, which highlighted Jackson Pollock, Willem deKooning, Mark Rothko & Arshille Gorky, represented distinctly male painters (Lee Krasner & Elaine deKooning notwithstanding) who worked obsessively on their art work & their art theory interpreting Cubism & Surrealism within the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the Thirties & early Forties as hard-drinking, quasi-Marxist, alcoholic, antisocial, isolated, blue collar artists with a distinctly jagged edge of class-based hostility. In this context, Aphidas in Virgo asks, “What was the basis of the hostility of the First Generation Abstract Expressionists towards the rise of the Second Generation, including Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell & Grace Hartigan?” Was it strictly gender? Was it socio-economic, as both Frankenthaler & Mitchell, unlike Pollock, deKooning, Rothko & Gorky, were upper-class American debutantes (Hartigan, who hailed from Newark, actually exhibited as “George Hartigan” at the beginning of her career in order to draw attention to “her” work), unlike the displaced Marxist Jungian cowboy & three immigrants? Did the level of skill of the women threaten the level of the skill of the men? Most importantly, and art history aside, how do the challenges which the Abstract Expressionist men & women faced mirror the political, ethical, economic & moral obstacles that you now face pursuing not only your own creativity & creative careers, but also your romantic life? GEMINI – Robert Fripp, the pedantic English guitarist & composer who some say would have become England’s greatest economist if he never pursued a career in music, gets zero credit for his prescient & prophetic one page of economic lifestyle statements on the back of his solo album Let the Power Fall, which states that the average individual in the future will forsake the acquisition of limitless commodities in order to acquire devices & tools which will allow him to live in a small amount of space with a much more pronounced emphasis on widespread personal mobility. Aphidas in Virgo cites Fripp’s 1981 model now because you possess enough of the equipment necessary to fulfill a deeply personal quest that will require several years of focused & solitary work. Know what you need & why you need it. Know who opposes you, why they oppose you & the best vantage wherein you may assume strategic & striking distance to them. CANCER – A knave will buy an expensive piece of high tech equipment because that knave cannot afford time & effort to acquire actual skill. Even so, Aphidas in Virgo states that to insult those with premium gadgets who don’t have a remote clue is superfluous – and mean-spirited. A masterful demonstration of how to do, what to do, is the most painful reproach that such a fool can tolerate. Conversely, if that individual is not a fool, but, in fact, an adult, that individual will gain a meaningful lesson in the manifest demonstration of genuine expertise. Engage to endeavor to edify. LEO – Most people know you only as Leo, Monarch, whether King or Queen, of the Jungle – but more astute observers notice, over time, that you have, at your ready disposal, all sorts of skilled specialists, technicians & experts whom you can hire at a moment’s notice. However, as experience has not only taught but has also made you forget, Aphidas in Virgo counsels you not to demonstrate your big-hearted generosity too quickly. After all, you actually know well that all talented people have egos – and any talented ego believes that they deserve. Well, as Leo the Lion, with both talent & an ego, you try to rein in your own myopic, egoistic excesses, and you correctly see no reason why you should tolerate the myopic, egoistic excesses of those whom you employ. Which brings the subject to how you control such bad behavior: The power of the purse. You could afford to hire this skilled, talented professional – and you can afford to hire a different one as well. VIRGO – The long-term transit of 1998-BU48 in Virgo from August 2005 through October 2021 makes you feel not only capable, but very proud of how capable you are. Aphidas in Virgo turns this pride in your own capability into a weapon: You do not respect people who are not capable – and you will say so. But be careful: This weapon can also harm you badly. Eschew hubris – do not think, “I am better than those who are not capable.” In fact, use this weapon extremely sparingly. When to use this weapon? If somebody in authority who should know better, who does know better, flaunts their power tyrannically . . . and dishonorably, “Who taught you how to wipe your butthole, you obnoxious, loud, ignorant thug?” LIBRA – Read Virgo. Certain professionals demonstrate so much extreme haughty pride in their accelerated skills that they believe that they are better than everybody else. Aphidas in Virgo declares that many people, including yourself on a team of like minds, must remind this niche player that the technician has no tolerance with a tool more arrogant not only than that technician who wields it, but also than that technician’s boss! SCORPIO – Aphidas in Virgo denotes that you need a savvy political ally with an extremely sharp tongue who will not be afraid to put anybody & everybody in their place! That way, you can concentrate upon making alliances & power moves, rather than insults in defense of your self-evident genius, that would both scare & impress President Donald Trump himself! SAGITTARIUS – Whoever the boss is – and the boss may be or may become you! – the boss takes the boss’s job and, more importantly, the boss’s status, personally. Aphidas in Virgo emphasizes that, however the boss got to be the boss – whether with a PhD in nuclear physics, walking the beat in the South Bronx, the South Side, East L.A., Roxbury or Liberty City, or by making more Subway sandwiches at the Subway franchise near the train that they bought in cash with the money that they saved – in order to get what you want, you must go directly through that boss, who will or will not say, “Yes.” (“You seem to be in a bit of a hurry, don’t you?”) CAPRICORN – Legal matters involving the government of the United States left firmly on the side, the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton represented a clear personal insult. Aphidas in Virgo declares that many will, in the next several years, use the courts as a tool & an auditorium for vengeful personal mockery. Restrain your peccadilloes – whatever peccadilloes a Capricorn the Goat might indulge – and command your allies, “Stop behaving like a drunken horny high school sophomore before a fiercely sober & proper judge in a binding court of law!” AQUARIUS – In the film, Changing Lanes, Ben Affleck & Samuel L. Jackson use automobiles as weapons to visit revenge upon the other. Quite an exciting, action-filled movie – but Aphidas in Virgo demands that you keep all that action on the screen, eh? Don’t emulate criminal hot shots who use their wheels in games of brinkmanship for the non-existent stakes of willfully absurd bragging rights. PISCES – Aphidas in Virgo guarantees that insulting your spouse, partner or rival will generate an escalating & opposite insulting response until both of you consciously decide to stop this downward spiral & grow up! You might ask, “What if my spouse, partner or rival insults me first?” Do you think that downward spiral will then start to turn sideways? Get it straight – if it is not getting better, it is getting worse. Stop the insults. Restore civility to uncivil dialogues. * Aphidas, a centaur planet which crosses across the orbits of Saturn & Neptune, was discovered in December 1999 and named in October 2017. The centaur Phorbas, disgusted because his fellow centaur had passed out, drunk, rather than fighting the Lapiths during the wedding feast of Pirithous, killed Aphidas with a javelin, with black blood pouring from Aphidas’s throat into his wine cup. For information on how to interpret Aphidas, formerly 1999-XX143, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below. A great source online for how to interpret Aphidas and many other centaurs, asteroids & minor planets, in an individual's chart & in transit, is Zane Stein's website "Chiron and Friends" at http://www.zanestein.com/chiron_a.htm.
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