Planetary Enemies (was Aquarian Astro Twins)

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At 01:40 PM 8/23/09 -0700, liberator_9 wrote:

 

>I see, yes, Mercury doesn't do well in Cancer, ruled by the Moon, but the

Moon has no problem in Gemini or Virgo, both signs ruled by Mercury.

 

Hi Stephen,

 

Actually there are two things going on here. Each planet has friends,

enemies and neutrals. Then secondly each ascendant sign has benefic and

malefic planets. These aren't the same thing.

 

The Moon can be in any sign and if aspecting Mercury, it's said to be bad

for Mercury. But how Mercury in Cancer acts depends on its house position

and aspects. It's true that Mercury is a malefic for Cancer rising, but

that's because Gemini is on the 12th cusp, so Mercury rules the 12th (and

3rd). Jyotish alwasys distinguishes between planetary aspects and planets

in signs.

 

The same principle applies to Jupiter and Mercury. In Jyotish the only

really bad sign for a planet is the sign of its fall (thus, Capricorn for

Jupiter and Pisces for Mercury) where it gets zero points (in the degree of

its fall) while gaining the maxium points in the degree of its exaltation.

However, there are other ways a planet can be well placed, so the sign

postion may not be so important. This is especially true for the slow

moving planets.

 

Western astrology, however considers a planet in detriment (opposite to its

own sign) to be poorly placed.

 

I **still** keep tables of these positions on my desk when studying

horoscopes. Many years ago I was at one of James Braha's lectures, and he

was also using a " cheat sheet " for all those different sign and ascendant

positions.

 

Therese