Flattery or simply stated.

As i have said many times before in this blog i am not blogging for the gifts it brings me personally nor for any other reason than i just want to share my work with any readers who come across this blog.

And in 2020 do we take any words or comments we see at face value or just see them as part of an agenda to get you to look and believe in ‘elsewhere’ when you should and do know better than that.

Some comments i receive on this blog are so obviously ‘fake’ all i can do is smile and instantly delete them, but most of all it is because i don’t like where they are leading either me or my blog to, so they have to go, be deleted that is.

Occasionally I have to accept that some people do like my work and accept their comments at face value, but even then I have to decide if there is a hidden agenda behind it, its fair to say the comment i received recently which i am about to show you made me think is this genuine? And yes, i believe it might be, but we all have to be careful that we don’t fall into the trap of listing a comment just because it flatters our ego to do so. Also, you must be careful not to alienate the commentator as usually I don’t know them personally and i certainly don’t know what their true intention was; so with that in mind I am not going to say this ‘one’ was ‘fake’ because that would be silly, because the person’s intention was probably one of honesty. My point here is two-fold: When a person can’t take a simple comment at face value because he [me] doesn’t believe it is warranted or even any where near what he believes is or could be true, and doesn’t even allow himself to believe that good intention exists because he is so aware of people taking the mickey or having an alternate intention, like bringing my blog in connection to theirs in some way, well what is he or I to do?

Trust is a very hard thing to manage, and is perhaps why we often see on many social media sites friends posting lots of warm wishes to each other on the understanding that they know they are on relatively safe ground by doing so. But in a blog like mine where anyone can comment and you don’t know them from Adam, you have to be a bit more circumspect.

Now, as we know or have seen ‘spammers’ have ‘set’ texts they send to all manner of sites, and it is sometimes harder to spot who is being genuine and who is not, although certain clues usually give the game away, in this case if you are the person who sent me this comment and you are reading this, read it as a general ‘go’ or ‘attack’ on the nature or the way ‘comments’ have to be looked at by any blogger and not in any other or personal way, the above words should make this clear to you, if it doesn’t then you are probably going to be reading more into this then I intend, as its not a personal attack. I am just using your comment to show my readers what goes through my mind when reading any comment.

Your comment as I am sure you could agree can be seen in the light of either honest intent or something else, but not knowing any body’s real intentions in commenting the dilemma is always ‘how’ do I take this or any comment? And like I said earlier it is for every blogger to make his or her own mind-up about something. But before I reveal what the comment said and it’s a fairly innocent comment from what I can see, i asked myself would i be fooling myself to take it at face value, or indeed does the comment even say anything of importance to me, should I simply smile, ignore and delete as I do with so many comments i have seen or have been sent my way, the real question I always ask myself is should i take this [or any] comment seriously and what might happen if I do and more so even show it on the blog itself.

So, with that all said, you are about to say what is or has all the big ‘fuss’ been about? as this person has actually payed-you a nice comment. But, remember it’s the process of what a blogger has to go through with their comments they receive that has been the main thrust so far and not the actual comment itself which i’ve been getting at.

They said: to quote; You need to take part in a contest for one of the best blogs on the net. I most certainly will highly recommend this web site!

Now, as you might say, what is wrong with that??? Nothing much, you are right, someone just gave you a nice comment, and indeed they did. But any blogger knows that they have to decide what to do with such comments as i said earlier, and here is my problem and it is a simple enough one, do I agree or even accept what has been said here? Well in all honesty what does it matter?

I have been ‘flattered’ but so what? Its up to me whether i can take ‘flattery’ if indeed it even is flattery, it might just be a simple expression of what someone thought about my blog and fair enough it probably is more like this at its core, but do I take their advice and enter a competition for one of the best blogs on the net? No, because that has little or no appeal to me, again fair enough its my choice, and i wouldn’t know how to go about doing this anyway, and don’t even want to find-out about doing so. Simply i must accept someone thought my blog was good enough to get or be in this position, so I thank them for saying this about my blog. Truth is I don’t even think there is a contest for best blog on the net, but what do I know? I ain’t going to google it to find-out either, as I don’t want to go down that path.

Therefore, i can only walk-away from this comment feeling pretty good that someone would highly recommend this web site!

You may say i have either overplayed a simple an innocent enough comment and turned it into a treatise on the perils of looking at comments or even over-egged or explained something in great detail for which it probably wasn’t deserving and yes you would be right. But what else was I to do? I felt my mental process i was going through was worth sharing over anything the comment actually said.

You may say, well there is just no-way I am going to comment on any thing in this blog if this is the way he takes things, he [me] is a bit over sensitive don’t you think, but remember this is just a rather long-winded way of showing ‘my’ mental processing, and although this is what I go through it doesn’t mean much more than that, or should mean that much to any one who wishes to comment on my work here, as in all honesty the rigorous mental gymnastics that i go through will always occur to some level in any thing I do in this blog whatever you have to say or think, it is my ‘problem’ [if I can call it that, but i don’t] and not yours and the likelihood of me going into this much detail for you all to read in the future yet again is slight at best, so just comment and leave me to make ‘whatever’ of what you might say to me, as its unlikely i will ever go into this much explanation ever again.

My conclusion has to be that yes, i don’t take such comments very well, and why is this? Do i feel undeserving of them? Perhaps!! But probably more because what am I to do with hearing such things as was said? Just accept that someone likes my blog and say thank you and move-on as any normal person would, yes i can and will do that, but this could’ve turned-out much worse in that i could’ve actually replied to the comment directly and made a mountain out of a mole hill which wasn’t there in the first place, but I guess even this post will show where or what i truly think about the whole thing, of course it does.

Commenting is a mine-field and usually its far from necessary to take things to the degree i have when the intention is quite clear in what the commentator is saying to you, so forgive my pugnaciousness as its only meant in the way i sometimes deal with things, and yes I am having a laugh now as I write this next bit: You may well rightly be saying to yourself ‘if this is how he takes a good comment then how the heck does he take a really bad or negative comment’? The answer as strange as it might seem is probably ‘better’ because usually there is often more to be seen and noted and indeed learnt from such things.

Anyway, i am starting to wonder ‘if’ I should post this? but as I didn’t have a direct ‘go’ at the commentator and actually in the end saw their comment as a good thing but needed to use their comment as a reference point to say what else i did, i think its fair enough and who knows they themselves may enjoy how I have used their comment in a post of mine, after all they said my blog was one of the best on the net, i just hope they feel the same way about it after reading this post, if not frankly too bad. Peace.

Philip Schofield, a look at

Now usually I wouldn’t bother looking at a persons chart who I have little or no interest in as a person, simply because he means little to me, but on an Astrological level and what can be seen from his latest personal testimony i think it shows Astrological testimony working-out in a lot of ways.

Now, as it’s the World wide web and not every reader of mine is situated in the UK i must give a little background knowledge, and I haven’t been following his entire life story [or even wanted to] but i do recognise him as a British television presenter, but no matter its his Astrology i am following here.

I have what seems to be an accurately timed chart for him but who knows [as ever] how accurate it is, still its all i have to go-on.

Yesterday on National television he came-out as saying he couldn’t deny to himself anymore that he was ‘gay’ and although he was married with children he wanted to be seen as a gay man from now on and the World knows this now, and what he does from now on is frankly of little concern to me, he is gay, so what!! I could always see that within him anyway, but that doesn’t make me Einstein.

Note: The Astrology i am about to use, or the technique i am using is not ‘new’ or specialised to me or my use, its something that John Frawley has brought to my awareness and I am simply using it as I see it does say something about ‘why’ now he has done what he [Phil] has done in his life at this time, and because I know some but by no means all about this technique there will be gaps in what i am saying, but I feel i perhaps know enough to proceed, so here goes.

The technique is basically this: Look at a person’s life events through where their planets have got to at any significant moment of note and look at a planet which is about to move from one sign to another and most importantly here ‘note’ the changes of dignity and especially look to see if a planet goes from being in either exaltation to a place where it isn’t or goes in or out of detriment or fall and of course in and out of the sign it rules-over too.

In Philip’s case we indeed see something like this; now this isn’t going to be a full long-winded examination of Philip’s Natal chart, no, just those relevant points in 2020 that I chose to look at.

Nataly his Moon is the secondary ruler of his 7th house of relationship stuff, with Mercury on the 7th cusp, which could be looked at as Mercury probably ruled-over the situation of the Wife and children as the more default situation or the main-one he made and lived with but the Moon probably showed the secondary side of his relationship stuff, but even that may not be exactly the way to look at it. Think of this in terms of human life where many humans have major secondary ‘stuff’ or ‘issues’ with certain facets of their lives and personally i see a secondary sign in a house as meaning or can mean two ways of playing-out something to a particular Astrological ‘house’; now I know that’s not how every Astrologer see it as happening, but many do.

But let us see what the Astrology says; note on the very day Philip chose to come out as gay the Sun, perhaps the most typical Masculine archetype in Astrology was exactly conjunct his Moon, so here we read this not so much for the simple transit it was nor neither was it so much because it was the Sun but because it was conjunct his Moon that gave it its relevance, perhaps all we can say is Philip somehow choose the right ‘day’ of the year, or his year to say what he said, but more so because as I said the Sun was on or conjunct the Moon the secondary ruler of his relationship stuff.

But really that testimony is almost incidental and I know at the moment i am starting at the end of the story not the beginning, so let’s get back to where we should be beginning at.

But before that I should say i am not really even going to try and work-out from his nativity why he is ‘gay’ in the first place, and i don’t even know if you can see this in a Nativity anyway, tendencies to love certain things or people are indeed shown in a Natal chart but whether a person chooses to live them out in a way that is recognised as being themselves is entirely up to the person involved and indeed the with issue of being gay as many gay people know and indeed is shown time and again it is possible to marry and have children and still be gay and indeed perhaps indulge in both situations but generally we tend to opt for being known as gay or straight at some point, if indeed we are lucky or brave enough to be able to do so. Beyond this the whole issue of personal sexuality gets far too complicated and complex for me to get into here, so I duck-out of further discourse. Anyway, the issue or thing of saying I am gay is perhaps one of identification as a person more than anything else especially when you tell the nation, that you want to be seen as this ‘gay man’ from now on.

But back to the Astrology. I am going to be looking at Phil’s Mars and I know perhaps i should be spending more time on other things too, but never mind as Mars shows the technique i am discussing better [or as it should be doing] more than anything else.

Now, I know I should perhaps be getting into many of the changes in dignity Mars has made in the near 58 years of his life, as that would perhaps show why he was gay [and presumably it’s a long-life characteristic of his, as I believe for most if not all gay people they are born gay than become gay] anyway whatever the reasoning is it has to be left there.

Note: I have noted when looking at Astrology that when planets progress into the major dignities of the Sun men do find they ‘can be’ and i say ‘can be’ if they have a natural proclivity towards other men taking that situation-on if they either haven’t done anything about it already or just feel any latent urges have to be taken-up, so in a gay person especially a man, this comes-into play as a life issue that perhaps it wasn’t so much before, but of course this is more relevant to a man with homosexual tendencies who doesn’t or hasn’t done anything much about it beforehand. But again, it’s only what i’ve noticed, so read no more into this. I can’t make a statement that because Philip’s Mars went from Pisces to Aries that it was around this time because Mars now exalted the Sun that he found Men were for him, and wouldn’t dream of saying so, but if he has always felt ‘gay’ his entire life then perhaps and just perhaps around this time he may have felt a change of emphasis about where things lay in his life and where his psyche was, as Astrology can show a switch of emphasis by a progressed planets change of dignity when moving from one sign to another.

Which brings us to 2020. Again, Mars is moving from Aries to Taurus. It might be a little too simplistic to imply that whilst in Aries his Mars exalted the Sun but was in the sign of Mars so he essentially did Mars’s things or ways but knew the Sun or men was what he really wanted or indeed may have had relationships with, but we’ll leave that with him and probably the tabloid press, as i am only interested in the Astrology, and now his Mars is entering Taurus his Mars emphasis has changed, and i can only surmise that whilst in Aries his Mars exalted Men as a Sun principle but now coming into Taurus it exalts his Moon and that is perhaps why [because of his natal 7th house connection] he has come-out as gay as a way of saying that is where my relationship stuff really lies and how i want to proceed and all that it means or is going to mean for him. Beyond that the changes in his Mars dignities are harder to get to the truth of in a very small look at this moment in his life.

So, we have got to the initial stage of seeing what Mars’s changes indicate and what the or his Moon shows. Beyond that it is a case of why ‘now’ in 2020 did this come-out, well we already have part of the answer, but can we see more?

Moving down the scale from Progressions we move onto his 2019- 2020 Solar return chart, as February the 7th 2020 fell within this year. His 2019 s/r chart does indeed re-affirm or continue this story or event and rather unsurprisingly it is seen with his Mars too.

Mars at 0 23 Gemini has just left Taurus the sign of its detriment so this can be read as his Mars saying i am finally free of that dreadful place or position in my life, and coming-out as gay and finally saying; look this is the real me or my real sexuality must be seen as one way of expressing this, especially as Mars is Lord 7 in the s/r chart, and i dare say that if i were bothered enough to look further i would find other examples in this chart and his Radix of finding more to back-up this one testimony, but I am not going to look as I want to concentrate on this singular-point of testimony which in itself probably tells us enough that we need to see and know. Note: Mars in Gemini could indicate as Mercury is the main Lord 7 he has finally come to the time in his life when he can say this is where my truest [to him] relationship stuff lies at, but that is only a surmise.

Note: But we have to look at Mars as now in the sign of Jupiter’s detriment, and relate it to the Natal chart and the s/r chart, so in the Natal chart we look at it as Mars being brought-down by being in Gemini [the sign of Jupiter’s detriment] and seeing as Jupiter is Phil’s Lord 1 it is ‘he’ or the ‘me’ that is brought-down by seeing this happening. And as you might expect to see Mars is lord 7 in the s/r chart, so fitting testimonies, but you may say surely this doesn’t fit as Phil must have felt anything but brought-down by Mars’s movements as the usual reaction to coming-out and being who you are is a delightful experience usually, but look at the ‘losses’ incurred by him through him coming-out, simply in terms of 7th house relationship stuff first, he now has a different way of dealing with his relationships and think of it as a planet in its own sign usually means things are going-along as normal or expected whereas because a planet in the sign of its detriment is or can be seen as working in the opposite way or fashion, and what is ‘more’ of a stark contrast in someone’s life than to say i love women or being known to love them to what is the only real opposite option [in a general sense] to say no, i like or love men; and then we can only see the same happening to Lord 1 of the Radix [In Jupiter’s detriment] as showing its now his identity or him saying it is ‘me’. Remember; Mars in Gemini in the s/r gives Mercury the main influence so although Jupiter does its thing Mercury as Lord 7 in the Radix is the real beneficiary here.

And perhaps if we factor-in Mercury in his s/r chart conjunct Neptune [the Earth shaker] we can point to why this was such a seismic event for him this year, he was simply ‘shook-up’ in his sphere of relationship stuff.

We could at this point ask why it is Mars and not something else showing this event so clearly in his life, i don’t really have an answer to that except to say his Mars could just be a general significator of male sexuality and of course it has to be the way it is tied-in with other factors i just haven’t looked at in his chart, but in a way it matters little as it simply is being shown by Mars as an event in the main, and if indeed there is or are more relevant testimonies shown elsewhere, i am sorry but you’ll have to find these for yourself, I am just looking at Mars in this case, although of course in other cases a more detailed look at more things is always needed.

His lunar return for the date the 7th of February 2020 falls in has no planets that change or are changing dignity in any significant way [as you might’ve expected to see] but I think enough has been shown already so no matter, but the Moon in this chart is closely conjunct Mercury which is Philip’s Natal Lord 7 and so as the Moon is the secondary or intercepted ruler of his Natal 7th it just has to imply some significance, its almost in light of him coming-out as ‘gay’ this particular l/r was saying well its time you explain or expose yourself [and in his very public position] to his viewing public, because that was what he chose to do, which part of his relationships he was going to be known as having and being, and that is exactly what he did, no longer did he internally think I will either have it one way or the other but plumped for saying look, I am gay. That is my main way i want my relationship status to be known or handled as from now on.

And as you have just seen his Astrology in 2020 shows that and all from mainly ‘one’ simple technique. It is fairly amazing that these kind of things can be seen I am sure you would agree. And beyond this as I see it his personal life is his own. And as I said earlier i have little or no interest in it.

P.S. Perhaps of further interest might be that his Mars passed his Natal Venus 26 Aries, perhaps indicating he has been struggling with the general love principle in his life over the past few years and obviously coming to the thought of [for him] it was male over female he loved. Plus, i had to check if Mars might go retrograde soon by progression but it does not because if it did then perhaps we might’ve heard Philip saying in a few years-time that he tried being ‘gay’ but it didn’t work-out for him; but his Mars isn’t showing this. But for him and indeed many people nowadays a switch-back to a life previously known hasn’t been unknown, but i am not saying this will happen to him and i am certainly not going anywhere near trying to see his future or predicting it.