Some of you guys disagreed when I said Moon would subtract 25 years beacuse you think Moon is a natural benefic. It is not the case here. Moon squaring Mars does create serious effects in peoples lives who have it. It makes the person aggresive, complicated with his feelings and they often tend to have nervous mood. It makes subconscious tense. How can we say that it will not effect natives longevity, if Moon is somehow related to it. We only concentrate on formality of rules but we don't question what they bring to life and how they effect us.
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Jupiter 1st, I?m sorry if I was not able to be clear enough in my first post.
The Moon aspects the Sun by sign, since Sagittarius behold Aries, but not by degree. It would be enough the aspect by sign)if we needed desperately an Alchocoden for the Sun, but we didn?t because the Sun in Aries( and the Moon in Taurus) do not need any Alchocoden.
The other fact is that the Moon is afflicted not only because she squares Mars, but much more seriously because she is with the Node. Since Valens a Moon squaring or in conjunctio to a Node is a disaster. And we observe this in our dayly practice and not only because the old masters said.
If you had not any planet to consider the Hyleg of the chart I agree that Mars would be an option. But Mars is out of sect, he has not dignity in the ASC nor in the place of the Moon, or Saturn, or Mercury or Jupiter. He has dignity in the place of the Sun. Then, why not to pick the Sun in this case?
Since the figure is diurnal, so he loses points, because he is nocturnal.
Ptolemy said tho pick as Hyleg in diurnal nativities the Sun if it was in the 10th or 11th. We don?t need to look further. This Sun is in the 10th by whole signs and in the 11th by quadrants.
We have, in my point of view, to depart from premisses to get to the conclusions.
Not the other way around.
It?s okay that Van Gogh lived only 37 years, but, being the Sun the obvious Hyleg what was the kind of thing that cut this powerful Sun?
That should have been our question.
I tried to answer this kind of question with the ways I have in hands in the present stage of my studies;-)
I hope that my post was a little more understandable now.
Cl?lia