So what would be the significance of the Mars glyph changing (being changed) from an inverted Venus glyph to its present one? One narrative suggests the new symbol is intentionally phallic. The subtext I infer is that this is to conceal by revealing. That is to say, promoting one attribute - or bett...

OTOH you may prefer a modern view. In natal charts I advise much more will be learned from casting a draconic chart, and examining the placement of the planets and their aspect to the tropical chart. In this mode of use, the lunar nodes are not terribly more significant than the vertex. And they are...

What price academic respectability when so much of the contemporary product is intellectually constrained by those who pay the pipers? Whether one looks at specifically at science, which sorely lacks the diversity of explanatory narratives advocated by Feyerabend, or at the humanities, whose product...

Dear Lord, just when I thought I could enjoy some of his poetry in peace... I guess one of the really nice things about the poetry is the identification of "what is out there" with "what is in here in the mind", to put it in pedestrian terms. It implies subversion of the ancient ...

[ironic] You mean that if he felt offended, it was really his genes taking offence? [/ironic] I think it's time Dawkins was asked if 150 years has been enough to come up with the paleontological evidence for his theories - or whether he maintains as a matter of faith that some day someone will actua...

haku and zuli - first principles please. Cancer and capricorn oppose. Cancer and scorpio trine. I have been reflecting on the attributes of opposing signs, and have concluded (for now ;)) that the worst personality traits of a sign are magnified within the opposing sign. So Geminis may talk endlessl...

Sheesh yuzuru - I have never seen such a back-to-front argument anywhere else. Hey, boxing gloves not allowed here - we believe only in good old-fashioned bare-knuckle fighting. FWIW, I would read it strong(er than a straight sextile). But Uranus is square to Moon, so where is Jupiter in relation to...

Deb wrote: astrology itself is a loose, symbolic language A symbolic language uses notation. Astrology uses notation. Therefore astrology is a symbolic language??? That is not (aristotelean) inference; nor any other recognized valid form of inference. It is a type of conclusion-making that has been...

Christina: So I won't expect an example of the alleged noun "conjunct" from philosophy ;). But I am a bit surprised tho' that when Deb wrote "astrology itself is a loose, symbolic language." you didn't react with "Ouch - oxymoron". Regarding your point whether "se...

Let's make this thread even longer. "Unwashed" Christina wrote: word ?conjunct? is also a noun. It is used as such in several areas of academic study, including linguistics, mathematics, philosophy and logic Is someone doing some wool-pulling? I have read tens of thousands of pages of acad...

Monk wrote: There is no doubt when G.W.Bush was born being 6th July 1946 at 07:26, that Sirius was conjunct the Sun, by projected, thus when the Sun rose in New Haven, Connecticut, it was conjunct the Asc. , Sirius, Sun. At this time Pluto has an altitude of 2 minutes of arc (rising), and while the...

My position is that's like the weather. Wherever you are, it's there. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes you get wet - especially without waterproof clothes - or worse (floods). Sometimes you get burnt - especially without sunscreen - or worse (fires). It's useful to prepare for it - but you d...