Excuse me? How is this trap question? If i had a song to produce, i would have done it myself and I would not be asking. I have full access to recording studio and to all gears. He does not produce nor finish writing someone else's songs at all. He writes songs. I know what I am asking I want to kn...

1) This is not a valid question because you don't know what you're asking. "Should I approach a certain composer with a request to produce my song, will he pick it up or freak out?" Now that's an easy question, isn't it? 2) If the question is "Will he produce my song?", the answe...

I 'countered' Janis' post with Lilly's example because everyone knows it and it has some weight -- as opposed to me saying "nah I disagree" - just like you're saying you disagree with Lilly's conclusion etc. I thought using Lilly's example would be a good idea. I guess it wasn't. Just for ...

From CAII, page 220: "[...] besides, Venus was Applying to a Trifle of Saturn, Lord of the 4th, viz. the houses enquired after, and had no abscission or frustration ere the perfect aspect; a main strong argument I should buy the houses: and indeed both Significators strongly applyed to a Trine ...

But let's look at our Lilly example to see why this is not a completely appropriate comparison. We do not have a swift moving planet applying to the slower one from the detriment/fall of the slower one - which is what Bonatti describes ad nauseum. How about the Sun in Aries in aspect with Saturn? T...

So in some respects we might see this as a cancelling out, but it is absolutely not comparable to the example that Bonatti uses, because in his example we do not have reception, we just have this "anti-reception". "Just as, for example, the Ascendant was Leo, and the question was abo...

L2 and L8, as well as L1 and L7 agree (Jupiter collects their lights, Venus in her sign). Maybe he's not a pope, yet if the Querent and the Tenant/Lodger/whatever and their moneys are in agreement I don't think there's a problem. Maybe he's a prick but as long as he pays and they both get along who ...

His finances are OK, both Venus and Jupiter in the 8th. He is not exactly a choir boy since he is represented by Mars Rx peregrine in the 12th which is the House of enemies and self-undoing (from the Querent's perspective). But his moneys are OK and since Jupiter collects the light from L2 and L8, t...

I presume Bonatti did not intend this to be a strict rule but you cannot say that the answer is NO because of the Sun's Detriment. I think we can all agree that points like this are never to be used as 'strict rules'. They are principles. We cannot say that the answer is 'no' just because of the Su...

I meant "turned out fine" as in -- he bought the houses. So it's my bad but that's not the point. The question was "Shall I be able to buy the houses" and the answer was YES. Whether it was a bad decision or not it is another story. So my point is, planets in the Detriment or Fal...

Here's the chart: "Shall I be able to purchase certain Houses?" http://i44.tinypic.com/2d00rys.jpg As you can see, the Sun is in Venus (L1) Detriment and as Lilly states "in perfect trine" with retrograde, cadent Saturn, L4 (and according Lilly Saturn also represents him because ...