Astrology: The City of Norwich; part 3

I live in a city with the Sun conjunct Jupiter and we are an expansive city, even in 2010 the city is growing, especially in the outlying areas, mainly because of Britains growing population, and of course people just want to live in this part of England, with all its attractions. Our actual tagline is [Welcome to Norwich 'a fine city'].

The conjunction is in the fixed earth sign of Taurus, so it isn’t as obvious as it would be in say Leo or Libra, where ‘look at us’ or ‘renoun’ might be our attractor. Here are some facts and a bit of history, there is a ’saying’ about the city; Norwich had a [Public house] ‘drinking bar’ for everyday of the year [365], and a church for every week [52]. Although it isn’t quite the case nowadays, i think in part it can be seen through the conjunction. Why?, because Sun is fun and Jupiter is religion, and mixed together you get ‘a lot’ of it. You may think that after drinking, church is necessary, but i don’t think they are related in that way, both growing-up independently, but just like America’s deep-south; the deep-east may of needed them too, as a form of repentance.

Norwich is also the recognised regional economic hot-spot with shopping opportunities galore. It had a 2nd city status many hundreds of years ago and that was because of  its ‘wealth’. As said, we have steady growth and expansion including the surrounding areas of the city in land terms. [You are pretty safe in many ways, in this city].

And we must mention colour associations given by the planets, yellow for the Sun and green for Jupiter, which our football team plays in. They play in half yellow and half green when ‘playing at home’, [great synchronicity that], they are also called ‘the canaries’, i think it might be a Mercurial bird, [not sure], also placed in Taurus. Come back for part 4.

Astrology: an explanation of the what, how, and why

What we have is a Sun/Mars opposition aspect in the skies. The ‘how’ is really how we apply astrological reasoning to it, and the why, is always to help another man to think for himself in astrological terms.

The TV, but especially the Radio and those in the Media really help to pinpoint a ’story’ on any given day, and it becomes a god-send when you can match it up with something in the skies.

The story here is the British government is ‘paying monies’ for those enemies who would join ‘the british’ side in Afghanistan. Now looking at it from a purely astrological viewpoint, it is like this…

Governments in countries charts are 10th house and their monies the 11th and any enemy is the 7th; and any favours and getting on-side can be read through ‘receptions’.

That means that what are ‘opposing forces’, by aspect alone, turns-out to be something slightly differently if there are receptions in there too.

Mars in Leo and Sun in Aquarius means basically this aspect favours the Sun as it is received into its own sign. So with the UK 1801 chart we see the Sun ruled, pot of government money [the 11th] is ‘offered’ here to Mars and its people or matters, and here Mars is the 7th ruler; so a way-out is given, here it would favour the Sun more; strangely Mars also rules the 2nd house, so this offer probably helps our countries finances too.

You can also read into it further, by associating the Sun with ‘authorities’ and Mars with ‘war’, as this should show you more of the ‘why’ behind the meaning of this aspects playing-out.

I hope this has got you thinking in some way.

Astrology: The City of Norwich; part 2

Now, to develop matters, first a standalone point; Norwich comes under the sign of Virgo, as it is associated with this sign as a ‘region of the earth’ according to astrological sources.

I have little to say about this, except i do see something of a Virgo hue above the city. We have an openness which is Virgoen, and a hippyish way of freedom. The city is free-flowing with people looking-out for themselves and others in a way not seen since the 60’s.

I would also say you are never alone in the city, as there is always an eye and some mind contact coupled with a good ‘knowing’ greeting, [it is the Norwich way].

Alternative culture and movement is just below the surface too, it is a very cultural city if you know where to look. News and stories are spread slowly and steadily in a quiet ‘whispering way’.

Next we will turn to the planets of its birth. I want to get into them, in as much depth as i can, as it is there that we will see that the main connection/aspect of the chart is the Sun Jupiter conjunction, which i believe can tell you a lot about my city. That will come in part 3.

The Astrological World: A look at the earthquake

Today real-life is very much to the fore; astrology is an intellectual pursuit and can keep you apart from what is really happening whilst of course feeding on events, so with this in mind.

No one in the astrological world would disagree with the association of the third house with neighbouring [issues], and so it is with the recent Haitian earthquake. Looking at the astrology involved i went to the chart for the Dominican Republic which shows its 3rd house ruler Venus being hit by the Solar eclipse by just 23′, [it is placed at 24 38 Capricorn]. Even nearby Jamaica’s third house ruler the Moon gets a near exact sextile from a Rx Mars in Leo, all these factors are just by-products of the event but they show that we must look further than just the Haiti chart for information, in this case.

Astrology will always throw-up factors, but i can’t help thinking that a complete knowledge of astrology would somehow render prediction only a matter-of-course, [maybe one day in the future our understanding will be sufficient to make it so, alas not yet]; still this isn’t a bad goal though.

On closer inspection we have the modern view, and pluto’s near conjunction to Lord of the Asc, [Mars] in the Haiti chart will strengthen that. I still favour the traditional approach, and to me the Solar eclipse seems the ‘key’ to why it happened, along with [perhaps] Mars Rx and Saturn and Mercury turning Rx, but those Rx’s are just surmising. Sadly i don’t know enough about the old methods to say more.

The Eclipse chart set for Haiti +5hrs EST [i think that is right] gives mighty Jupiter rocking the foundations [land] by being on the 4th cusp and the eclipse it’s self sits on the 3rd cusp conjunct 12th house ruler Venus.

Footnote: Astrology if it is ‘one thing’, that is, ‘in all its greatness’ it can only help shed light on these matters; it cannot however stop them. Now all we can do is help those that are suffering.

On a personal note now; i have been getting some lovely and supportive comments lately, thank you; its just annoying that they come through [spam] and as WordPress ‘and its blocking system’ may be keeping me from reading and accessing others, i do apologize if you have ever sent anything and got no reply; i really don’t know anymore.

Astrology: Prolonged weather conditions

As i sit here in my cold room typing this i realise i know little about astrological weather forecasting. I also realise that i have noticed one thing about the weather from my observation, and that is… during Mercury retrograde periods especially in the earth signs we can have the most extreme and steady [states] of a particular type of weather. Here in England during this Mercury in Capricorn stay we’ve had a ‘cold snap’ unseen for many years now. When Mercury is Rx in Virgo we have what we call an ‘indian summer’ or [prolonged] Summer; likewise in Taurus it would give us a longer unfolding Springtime. I have a book on weather patterns by astrology but have been too lazy to read it, what am i doing? as with such knowledge available i pass it by. Just one more thing about this Rx period, i’ve noticed people consciously doing ‘the other things’ which we usually only contemplate like deciding to walk on the road instead of the pavement and to divert their course when walking, and i thought only the Crab walked sideways.

Astrology: Retrograde speeds

Mars is Rx now, January 2010 and this retrograde period sees Mars reaching a speed of 24′ [minutes] before slowing down to its station, it will be at 24′ for 9 days between Jan 24th and Feb 2nd, i’m going to keep a weather eye on events, as this kind of research is what can, [if you can spot anything], help boost your astrological understanding. I am also interested in dates of the Moon’s change from South to North declination, [on the 12th] but what exactly that may represent in astrological terms i don’t know, so i’ll probably not find anything, not really knowing what it is i am looking for, duh !! give that one a miss i think, as it happens so often and i’ve never seen it written about, comment if you know any different.

Astrology: Sex, Weather and Mothers maiden name

Something came into my astrological world that made me laugh but also made me think too. For those who practice astrology after a while it is like second-nature; but is astrology really that much of a mystery to the general public? i think it doesn’t have to be. I know the example i’m about to give is absurd and extreme, but is it really? When reading a multiple choice quiz book they asked this; ‘what three things does an astrologer need to calculate a birthchart’? well of course we astrologer’s know the answer to this, but ask yourself this, if you didn’t know anything about astrology would you have answered gender, the weather or your mother’s maiden name to calculate and enter into a life’s patterns and events? It may seem silly but you could be forgiven for thinking in these terms.

Astrology: The City of Norwich; part 1

Today i am going to start an astrological exploration of my home city, Norwich, Norfolk, England.

As Norwich is a borough chart it can be read as having a midnight birth-time.

Today i am going to list the planets postitons on May 5th 1194.

I will explore them in later parts.

I only really want to explore the traditional planets, but if i do find a use for the ‘outers’ in my look at the city i will use them.

This is now an ‘astrological portrait’.

Sun: 20 36 Taurus
Moon: 27 51 Libra
Mercury: 5 51 Taurus Rx
Venus: 20 30 Aries
Mars: 9 17 Libra Rx
Jupiter: 26 04 Taurus
Saturn: 6 01 Capricorn Rx
Uranus: 23 06 Gemini
Neptune: 5 24 Pisces
Pluto: 19 48 Cancer
N Node:16 54 Scorpio
Asc: 13 49 Capricorn
M.C: 20 36 Scorpio

As i write this the city will have the Sun transiting over its Asc tomorrow morning, i suppose this could be seen as exposure for the city, its day in the Sun no less.

Astrology: What will 2010 bring astrologically?

If you think i am going to predict anything, stop reading now. What’s the point in that? I don’t know people’s personal lives so how could i say this is going to affect your life without knowing you individually, yet this is how astrology is given-over to the masses on a daily level and that seems to be the best we ‘astrologer’s’ can achieve at present with our current sun-sign system. Fair enough as i am not offering anything better. I do have a better idea on what is a more ‘now’ way of doing popular astrology but that will take away the emphasis on an individuals sun-sign month and place it on more of ‘what is happening in the skies right now’. This isn’t a revolutionary new way of astrology; we see it being used now, i.e. when astrologer’s predict using the Moon’s entry for two and a half days into a sign, something which i feel is a more honest appraisal of what is happening to us all now on earth at any one time, and with some notice being taken of the Moon’s aspects in a sign we have a ‘living time piece’ that if adhered to is equal to none. In the meantime, as an example, Saturn is in Libra, so for a sun-sign Libran if you wish to interpret its influence on yourself or others, go-ahead, because you’ll not be that far-wrong, as you make your own assessments, just keep looking and learning as the planets change signs and have their retrograde periods and let the ‘music of the spheres’ sing loud to you.

Astrology: The funny-side; 12 gifts for Christmas

After writing a post recently i thought my blog[s] are far too serious-minded but as that is what i essentially want, i can only relieve this state of being with some ‘faff’ now and again. As usual i like to get my point across with some humour so with ‘tongue very firmly in cheek’ here is… no, not a daily horoscope or even a weekly one, forget a year, no, here is your LIFE-LONG Horoscope.

This was made originally for my blog http://theastrologicalworld.wordpress.com

but just in case you haven’t read that blog i’ve repeated it here for you too.

Aries:

Everybody knows to go to you for the best advice but no-one will ever give you credit for it, and they certainly won’t ever tell you to your face, that ‘that’ is the case, poor old you.

Taurus:

People can easily believe you have supernatural powers; you only really have your ear to the ground. We should ask you about Taureans, go on, you tell me, as you know it all.

Gemini:

Only Gemini’s will know this, Why is it that you can have the most brilliant thoughts flash across your mind at one moment only to find that they are gone forever the next?

Cancer:

What do Cancer’s think? They will ‘convince’ themselves and say that everyone knows their ’secrets’, more especially what they are thinking. If only they quieten down, they are alone.

Leo:

Q. Can i do it?, then the more important thought of… can others see me doing it? then the realisation of… no, usually other people don’t notice just what it is that i am doing.

Virgo:

Now the strangest sign of the zodiac, who cobbled this one together? go live in Woodstock forever, because it is the closest you will ever get to a spiritual home here on the earth.

Libra:

Am i as dull as i believe i may be? What is my purpose in life? Is this all that i am? These are questions a Libran should avoid asking, firstly about themselves, never of others.

Scorpio:

What is that? “Sensitivity”; is that all you are? Believe me you feel in ways that no-one but a Scorpio could understand, and that means even the Crab, especially if you’re married to one.

Sagittarius:

Shut up and listen, and ask this… is any of ‘this’ real? You know what your greatest fear is? what if i come ‘down’ within my mind and find there is ‘nothing’, go-on, try it and see.

Capricorn:

WAKE-UP This is happening to ‘you’ now, it is not going away. Everything comes as a slightly different experience and by now it should be clear, life changes, but not by that much.

Aquarius:

Why is it that everybody else cannot see [what i see]?; you are perceptive, but do you really want others knowing this? think about it…wouldn’t it take something away from you.

Pisces:

Oh Pisces, my dear old fish, alone again, what went wrong this time? nothing actually !! [they say to themselves] and laughs. isn’t that all, ‘just such a shame’ and then comes the knowing SMILE.

If you want to reproduce this work elsewhere, i’d like to say ‘feel free’ but that gives-out the wrong message, seriously though, i have little objection to having them widely shown, just don’t pass them off as your own work, if you do post them an email telling me where they are being used would be nice, just be responsible that is all i ask. r.nunn1@ntlworld.com

Probably never to be repeated, keep it in the ‘astrological spirit’…

Merry Christmas EVERYONE.

Astrology: Norwich, UK, a city of no recorded time

Over the past few days i’ve tried [too hard] to find a recognised time from which to set a natal chart for the city i live in. There is no such official record kept. In my case there is a day, [that being] May 5th 1194, but a talk with the city’s record office historian revealed only four lines of text in a book, and through further discussion we agreed it just couldn’t be known [for sure] and so i walked away in acceptance. But that isn’t the full-story i did find-out some other interesting things.

The self-governance charter from the English king, Richard the 1st had links to Portsmouth and had to be brought up to Norwich which probably took one and a half to two days. It was also primarily done for Norwich’s merchants and whether the common folk of Norwich heard it read-out, or if the charter was in any way proclaimed, is not known.

I was reminded that the city had walls back then [some of which remain today], so if any time is to be chosen for its beginning then perhaps it is when the gates opened on the 5 th, but that is all rather silly when you realise that the city itself couldn’t have seen itself as a city until two days later.

So when was my city a city? i’d plump for the minute when Richard signed the charter but that isn’t recorded to my knowledge.

So what am i left with? Just the use of the seven planets Sun to Saturn, and to know my city in any other way is quite frankly ‘at best’ guess-work; as is to try and ‘house’ the planets. So i will work with what i have got.

Sadly even this cut-back to the planets leaves me with a Moon which changed signs during the day so now some ‘detective’ work is needed to figure-out whether Norwich has a Libra or Scorpio Moon.

Although one of the delights of Astrology is matching what you see around you to the stars, in truth i’d rather of had it proclaimed and had something to work on. My abilities as an astrologer are really as nothing, when you never truly know for sure. Beginnings are so important, especially in this line of work.

You may think why have i agonised over this matter? and you are right; but this chart represents more than one individual life, many thousands in fact; and if astrology is worth it for one then it is also worth it for all.

I may be lucky enough to bring you more on Norwich in the future, but as with timing itself, there is no guarantee it is ever going to be recorded at all.

P.S. The city will still carry its astrological signature whether i fathom it or not, and that is ok by me.

Astrological World: Effects of Saturn changing sign

Here’s a confession [from the astrological coal-face], but it’s not the kind you gossip about, no it is a simple fact that since Saturn has changed signs it has had a subsequent effect on me. Whilst Saturn was in Virgo which is of course Mercury’s sign it was easier for the ‘astrological thoughts’ to formulate and deposit here on the page but since Saturn has moved into Venus’s sign they don’t come so easily. Perhaps you’ve noticed something like this, be it ‘astrological thoughts’ like me, or some area of your life which now shows a ‘marked’ change, let me know by the comments and if you think it is a good piece of astrology send it to me and it may end up as a post in itself, my email is r.nunn1@ntlworld.com I suggest that ‘Mercury’ as the old authors believed ruled over astrology, after all if you think about it Uranus wasn’t about back-then but Astrology was, and so they had to assign a planet to rule over it, as with any earthly matter. Think of it as having no Uranus back-then so it had to be Mercury, and for me at least Uranus hasn’t succeeded [taken-over] from Mercury [it is an outer planet for heaven's sake]. Co-ruler or no-ruler the choice is yours, but you will not convince me it is the sole ruler.

As you may have noticed this blog carries no business or promotional work ‘for the foreseeable future’, so it was a pleasant surprise to see it at number 13 on the google rankings for web page searches for ‘astrological world’ out of nearly 5 million, and that it was in amongst the bigger names who sell predictions and links to other astrologers.

A new life: Happy birthday Oscar

Early this morning my niece had a baby boy and i’m really pleased for her and Adam. It’s good to have a family life and also this astrological life. Now i don’t think it is too early to say something about his natal chart to help express a point. ‘Directions’ are said to be important, and as a 44-year-old my Jupiter has reached my 7th cusp this year, Oscar’s Jupiter will take 55 years to progress into Pisces and his Mars will remain forever in Leo but even now the uses of progressions is a bit of a mystery to me, i really need to read and learn more about their uses in traditional natal astrology.

Update:

I have his birth time now and Oscar has Venus rising, he also has the Moon in conjunction to Jupiter in an air sign, [like i do], but his is in a different sign ‘Aquarius’.

Astrology: More than just the mapping of ‘time’?

Why do we love astrology? I love astrology for many reasons and here is one of them. At any moment the skies have registered a change and life and the astrology which reflects those times are unique, well i believe they are, but not having lived forever i can’t say with my hand on heart that previous astrological configurations haven’t happened in exactly the same way before. I obviously mean “grand cycles” not the Sun going through the 12 signs every year. But do the largest cycles we live under even repeat in exactly the same way again? i really have no idea. Back on earth now, from my head in the clouds, the pattern i try to relate to is that of the planets ruling a day of the week and up-to-now my mind has only ever been able to think of being naturally active on Mars’s day and busy writing on Mercury’s day and relaxing or enjoying myself on the Sun’s day, any further quantum leap in thinking has so far eluded me but that isn’t to bad, as i believe it is using astrology as its meant to be used, as a guide.

Astrology: Looking at personal and general astrology

Astrology is here and now and seeps into everything in life, in fact is the biblical ‘tree of life’ which yields twelve crops of fruits, one for each month of the year and the leaves of the trees which serve for the healing of nations just a representation of Astrology in action? I say this because i truly believe Astrology is the greatest bequest given to man. DeVore wrote… “Astrology treats the influence upon the human character of cosmic forces emanating from celestial bodies”. I have no problem with this, personally i just extend my thinking out a little from the days when i sit under a blazing Sun and how that makes me feel and say to myself that the planet’s influences are just a little more distant by degree, and i am also thankful, because in respect of Saturn’s influence i wouldn’t want that as close to me as the Sun’s. Although strangely in daily life the influence of the planets does feel somewhat equal to me. Now this introduction, to which will come other parts only starts to look at personalization to the human being from those emanating forces. It will not be a tour de force but just an open account of somethings in astrology which can be taken as general and then how that mixes with a more personal account to us human beings. I have body parts in mind.

Astrology and the Astrological World: A new image

I’ve just spent two hours of my life making a new header image for this blog in Photoshop, i hope my readers like it, please comment if you want.

Astrology: How involved in it are you?

Astrology as an art is many and varied, and although we see the same old being trotted-out daily i cannot say this repititon is a bad thing if it is done well. In today’s world of ever seeking-out the new and sensational just looking closely at what is happening in the skies can bring us Astrologer’s similar results. We aren’t immune to what this publishing is all about, whether you seek self-fulfillment or self-publicizing or simple truths. All i want to do is tell my readers how i do my astrology and let my thinking be known through my astrological blogs. I am involved in it up to the point where i spot in my ephemeris that the Moon makes no aspects according to Raphael’s ephemeris between 18:05 Tuesday November 3rd until it enters Gemini on Wednesday 4th November 2009 at 04:53 GMT. Now that’s interesting for two reasons, firstly that’s quite a few hours without aspects and also it leaves a big ‘void’ time up to the end of the sign. What does it all mean and what may happen? here i admit i cannot add anything as i only have a small knowledge of void of course moon’s [and it is probably the same as yours], so all we can really do is use observation like the Astrologer’s of old and note anything we find, and you cannot get more real than that. Do you trust yourself to do justice to your findings, i do. Remember also that there are of course more minor aspects than those shown in the ephemeris, but how minor do you want to go?

Astrology: Last day of Saturn in Virgo

Today is the last day of Saturn in Virgo. For the last two and a half years Saturn has been in Mercury’s sign and has also exalted Mercury too, and we must note the other major dignity, which is ‘triplicity’. It has been in Venus’s triplicity by day and the Moon’s by night. This is about to change as he enters Libra, now he will sit in Venus’s sign and exalt himself and then sit in his own triplicity by day and Mercury’s by night; as you can see Saturn has a lot of sway at times in Libra, almost overpowering Venus’s influence, [you'll probably never look at a Libran in the same way after reading this]. Now if you are lucky enough to have an accurately timed birth chart you can look to the house[s] Saturn rules and think about what he did ‘go after’ which is Mercury in the main [here is a personal example Saturn rules my 2nd house so my values and possessions, now it was in Mercury’s sign and exaltation, Mercury rules my 9th cusp so i valued 9th house matters, now my attention is re-focused in my case to the 2nd house itself and Venus ruled houses; this is the astrological mental jump we must make to understand Astrology better. That is all for today and i just want to say goodbye Saturn in Virgo, it was nice knowing you, hopefully i’ll see you again in roughly 27 years time.

Astrology: Timing of publishing posts

Astrology isn’t the made-up nonsense some claim it to be, unless it has been made to be, if you catch my drift. What i mean is; there are well-known factors like the planets placements in certain signs which can help certain matters when other placements will not. Electing to use astrology appropriately for the purpose at hand is what its all about yet so much of what we do falls on stony ground for not checking. Now i don’t profess to know or use all the techniques out-there to help things along but just knowing they exist helps. Here are some things i consider before going ahead, in this case with publishing. If the Moon makes no applying aspects at the time i publish then it will carry and reach with less of a impact because it has less inheritant in it. If i publish and the Moon is in hard aspect to the malefics then it’ll have a tough or bad reception and the opposite applies here too. I could and should consult an astroclock to look for the most applicable choice of time for the matter in question, here the ninth house is key. I’ll end by saying what you put in helps what you get out of any matter so make your own choices. You can help yourself by reading such books as Ramesay’s Astrology Restored and in this case looking carefully at his words on elections. As i publish this Lord 1 is in good reception to Lord 9. Saturn is Lord 9 so i expect this post to remain ‘fast’.

Astrological World: Saturn; master of reality

It has been a tough year with many loses. Saturn is right on my Ascendant in this year’s solar return and is taking back from my life that which it doesn’t want me to have or deserve as is its way. Mars is lord of my 3rd house and has been recently hit by conjunction of Saturn and it has coincided with the life of someone in my close neighbourhood being taken. Another malefic force was in play to, that of the south node of the Moon which had conjunct my place of Venus; and i see this node as flushing-out much from the life around everyone who belongs in this greater whole. The Indian Astrologer’s place much emphasis on these nodes i know.