Trop-Sid signs (reply to Antonio)

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At 12:08 PM 11/21/03 -0000, Antonio wrote:

>> >I have a degree in electrical/electronics engineering, but what I do

>> >mostly is software.

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As a software engineer I do many things, including the odd bit of

>work as a hardware engineer, but the main thing I do is software

>development. Yes, I do use a keyboard, a mouse and a monitor at work,

>just like you do to write posts to this forum, but this is not manual

>work.

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I didn't mean to imply that Venus in the 3rd represented manual work. That

would be Mars/Saturn. Venus in the 3rd would be 'gentlemanly' activity such

as typing or one of the art forms. But all are done with the hands. An

exalted Venus in the 3rd combined with Mercury near the ascendant would

combine mental skills with whatever was done with the hands--work that

would generally require a specialized education such as you have.

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>Software is a structured idea, and therefore has no physical

>existence. A program can be stored in a computer file, or the program

>source code can be shown on screen, but that is just a manifestation

>of the idea, not the idea itself, which is only in the brain.

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This is a good description of an angular Mercury, especially near he

ascendant where according to Hellenistic astrology and Jyotish, Mercury has

special gifted status. Mercury = the mind. Also (according to the sidereal

triads in the articles you have, your Moon and Jupiter-Saturn are in mental

signs.) Venus itself is in the middle ground (according to the

siderealists) so has nowhere near the importance of Mercury and the Sun.

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>Software development is a creative activity, tough mostly it is the

>rational faculties of the brain that are exercised, and not, for

>example, the artistic faculties, or emotions.

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This is Mercury again. If you had Venus conjunct the ascendent (angular)

you might have been an artist. I appreciate having all this information on

software design. Thanks! So we'd expect to see powerful Mercuries in the

charts of software engineers. One for reserach.

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>Thanks for the explanation. I did my nakshatra chart with Canopus,

>and I got Sun, Mercury, and South Node on mansion 24, ascendant on

>23, moon on 3. Could you please do a quick interpretation for me of

>these placings? Is there an esoteric theme in my chart?

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This isn't so simple. First we have to consider the traditional

interpretations as a foundation--only one book there that I recommend:

LIGHT ON LIFE by Hart DeFouw and Robert Svobada, from

astroamerical.com--then we have to look at many charts. Soon it becomes

apparent that the traditional nakshatra meanings are far from perfect and

helpful. Then we observe horoscopes. Each chart tells us something about

the nakshatras. I have a lot of stuff in my head on the nakshataras--from

observation, but it's not written down.

 

This has to all go to another post sometime, Antonio. I'd first have to

pull up many charts of Sun-Mercury in mansion 24, for example. All I can

say now is that I've observed that certain planets in mansion 24, which is

associated with Rahu, often have to do with astrologers. I'd expect it to

be a scientific mansion also, but I have to look more into that.

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>I agree with you, moreover I think Astrology is in a dire need of a

>genius right now, either someone that will make new discoveries, as

>Newton or Einstein did in Physics, or else someone like Ptolomy, that

>could systematise all the astrological knowledge gathered to the

>present day, and that would be capable of sorting out the mess, and

>separate wheat from chaff.

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Well, Antonio, go to it! Your life work is all set out for you. However,

you might need a team of assistants. We live in an age where the lone

scientist can't do much by himself.

 

All the great current discoveries in medicine, for example--how many

laboratories, scientists, chemists, biologists and assistants all

contributed to even one discovery? Astrology now has to become specialized.

Even each category has to be sub-divided such as various illnesses and

diseases under medical astrology or occupations or character traits. It is

all mind-boggling. Yet even one laboratory can produce a few discoveries of

note. But astrologers tend to be erratic. They don't want to get down to

the nitty gritty of work and research. It's a whole lot more fun (they

think) to argue theory.

 

Therese