Trop-Sid signs (reply to Antonio)

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Hi Therese,

 

Thanks for the feedback. With respect to meanings, I think I will

leave my answer to next week or so. I would like to read your

articles and reflect a bit more. I think I am now in a state of

symbolic confusion. For the time being I will just talk about a few

things below.

 

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

do

> >mostly is software.

>

> Is this programming using a keyboard? My understanding was that

working

> with software meant many hours a day entering code into a computer.

Am I

> wrong?

 

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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.

 

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.

 

Obviously there are good and bad ideas, therefore a good developer

can create a good program using just one finger and typing slowly,

while a bad developer can create a bad program using ten fingers and

typing fast and well. As you see, it has nothing to do with the

hands.

 

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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> >I don't understand this. Sun and Mercury are conjunct to the

> >South Node, not the North Node, as you say. And what do you mean

by

> >esoteric mansion? Is there some house related to esotericism?

>

> By Rahu's mansion I meant the Jyotish nakshatra (lunar mansion) of

Rahu. It

> runs from 6 40 to 20 degrees of Aquarius. These mansions tend to

combine

> with sign meanings to give each section of signs individual

meanings. Each

> Jyotish mansion is 13 degrees 20 minutes in length. This Rahu

mansion is

> often related to astrology, meaning that some astrologers will have

planets

> there. Astrology is only one manifestation of this Rahu mansion.

There's a

> lot more reserach that needs to be done on the mansions.

 

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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 is all very true! I completely agree. I've believed for a long

time

> that astrology is still in its infancy as far as our understanding

of it

> goes. And it may be that only a person with a very high level of

> consciousness (as is said of the Indian masters) will ever fully

comprehend

> astrology.

 

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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.

 

António