That being said, there are close connections between the air we breathe and the higher mind (identified with the being), so that might be the reason why, in the end (if this wasn't taken for granted since a long time ago), someone saw "the first breath" the Infant takes as the birth astrol...

" Influx " is the word we still use in French, alongside " influence ", to talk about the influence or whatever you want to call it of the celestials. (Though the first should, strictly speaking, signify its flowing/radiation and the second its effects, they're synonyms in astrol...

I was certain I would find a reference to "first breath" in the Tetrabiblos My thought, exactly. But neither the Persian Nativities , the Introductions to Traditional Astrology (Abu Mashar and Al Qabisi), Porphyry the Philosopher , Maternus and Dariot gave any hint about it. At least in t...

@ Tom: I've seen twice (on some forum which I've forgotten--sorry for the vagueness) that an astrologer didn't delineate from two distinct birth charts but took the birth of the first born and turned the chart for the twin from the IIIrd house and then all the way round to read his life. I wanted to...

What about looking at things from a different point of view? What we consider when a child is born is an event: the time when we cut the cord and the baby breathes for the first time (from which point we analyze vitality). So, if a child is stillborn, this expected event never happens. Then the firs...

Do you have a favorite Dave anecdote or insight? I enjoyed reading the story of his edition of Christian Astrology . He attributed the ozone headache he got from mass-photocopying the pages from the facsimile to Lilly's somewhere alleged cursing of the book. The story is told is in a thread in the ...

Wednesday 13th 2015, Algol Longitude: 25?59? Taurus; declination: 40?54? (Placidus7). Longitude: 26?23? Taurus; declination: 41?01? (Morinus). Longitude: 26?24? Taurus (56?24?); declination: 40?57? (university of Strasbourg [ http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fid ] with Zet 9 converter). So, ye...

Well we did You're right. I was conforted in what I learned by my Taylor of Old Bond Street aftershave displaying proudly its weight in fluid ounces?actually I just discovered that all of my cosmetics offer both measures; be they French or English. The traditional (?) system is loaded with (?) sign...

The French always resented the idea of International time being derived from Greenwich The deal at the time was that the French adopted Greenwich as the meridian of reference and in return the English would adopt the metric system, never to keep their promise; or so are we told at school in the Fre...

Thank you for your detailed answer, Tom. I just wanted to get some feedback from people who didn't know anything about the individual. I saw (mostly through receptions) some of what you said in germ in the chart but not at all to that extent! So this mode-focused chart is indeed interesting. Well, M...

Hello Tom. I didn?t. Do I sound like him? By repression I rather meant a control, keeping a socially acceptable persona. As she seems to me someone driven?with ?a lot of action and energy? as James put it?I thought the two would not inhabit peacefully, hence an impending outbreak. To focus back on t...

I see a dichotomy between an urge to express in one hand and a very controlled-repressed person on the other hand (cardinal-autumn compound and the web of contrary dispositions driving the planets). Is she filling a big cistern of emotions because she?s controlling them with an iron fist, not allowi...