johannes susato wrote: This is not quite correct because also in Austria after six months a court's decision is necessary for the contract to endure.
And only an adoptee older than 14 yeers can 'contract' at all.

Johannes

My source was this document http://www.adoptionpolicy.org/pdf/eu-austria.pdf

As this is obviously in error, perhaps you would be good enough to cite another source which gives the law as you state it.

Morpheus wrote:
No author including Lilly has achieved the level where I quote them as a final arbiter

I would like to echo that sentiment. Treating Lilly as 'holy writ' can lead to problems where there are inconsistencies in the text. Look what happened when the Bible was treated as 'holy writ'! My own preference is to seek the consensus view amongst 17th century authors to see how astrology was being practised in that golden age, which was the middle of the 17th century.

But that golden age was now more than a third of a millennium past, and it would be wrong to treat astrology as fossilised and set in stone in that era. The astrologers of that day adapted the rules of astrology for their own times, and we must be wise enough to allow astrology to reflect the cultural landscape in which we now live.

The Houses: Temples of the Sky by Deborah Houlding.

Great book! Everyone should have a copy.

Sorry for the late answer. Somehow I had a problem to load the page.

Maybe I should have said that the child will be from another country. So Jupiter could represent foreign?

Jupiter is also the natural significator of children.

Goran

before I start, I must mention that i am only a beginner so my predictions are not very worthy of being taken as significant. haha
I use whole house system and mostly follow the methods of hermetic astrology.

Anyway,

You are represented by Saturn, whose the ruler of the ascendant, Aquarius. Saturn is in the tenth house, retrograde and peregrine - saturn retro shows you are pondering, thinking over this issue very intensely, and so on. and peregrine, also means that you are feeling quite lost over this issue and not sure what to do.

the adoption represented by jupiter, the ruler of the sign of 11th house(the 5th of 7th
juputer is in 5th house, combusted by the sun, is also in its detriment in gemini. normally planets in its detriment show the situation where the issue or the person represented by the planet is unable to act freely as it wills. also being in combust, its wills are also frustrated by some other power(maybe legal problems, etc.

also there is no aspects between jupiter and saturn in any way, neither is there between the moon and jupiter.

Thus I came to the conclusion that the outcome will not be as prosperous, the adoption will not take place.


Please correct me if I made any misjudgement here