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Jupiter, Cancer, House Prices

I HEARD scuttlebutt that, despite allappearances, with Jupiter now in Can-cer, house prices would rise. If house

prices rise, then the economy is recoveringand the long economic nightmare is draw-ing to a close. And when you think about it,it’s only logical. Cancer rules homes, Jupi-ter is expansionary and when in Cancer, ex-alted. So what’s not to like?

But what I am reading, from those whopay no attention to astrology, is that houseprices, which seem to have gone higher inJune, when Jupiter moved from a debilitatedGemini into Cancer, are now set to fall. InSeptember, to be precise about it. So wewill shortly know.

Well, then, what happened the last timeJupiter was in Cancer? Surely it was goodtimes?

Well, no. Jupiter was at 11 Cancer onSeptember 11, 2001. October and Novem-

ber that year were two of the hardest monthsI ever had to struggle through, as a business.I have heard, by the way, that some of theyounger people who were killed on that dayhave already come back and remember whothey were. May God have mercy on the soulsof those who planned this horrible crime (itwas not Osama), as these newly reincarnatevictims will not stop until justice is done. Theycame back expressly for that. Vengeance.

Which made me think of the previoustime that Jupiter was in Cancer. It was justin time for the fall of the Berlin Wall, No-vember 9, 1989. Jupiter was at 10 Cancer.

Does this mean that when Jupiter is inCancer that we have a year with a thrillingevent? I confess I was not paying attentionin 1978, nor in 1966, and so cannot say.1968, as many will agree, was a more inter-esting year. Jupiter was in Leo/Virgo.

PEOPLE who read mundane chartsfor a living (I confess that I do not, Iam too scattered), say we must sol-

dier on for another three years, until 2016,when economic relief will arrive. Short ofminor health issues, most of us will live to seethat day, but I wonder what condition we willbe in, and exactly what will have changed inthe meanwhile. We must look forward to thefuture, we have no choice about it.

The Fixed Stars in Natal AstrologyThe influence of the fixed stars differs from that of the planets in being

much more dramatic, sudden and violent. As a rule planetary effects aregradual and operate comparatively slowly, one might almost say softly,whereas the stars appear to exercise most of their influence in sudden, hard, vehement bursts,producing tremendous effects for short periods, and, after raising the natives to a greatheight, dropping them suddenly and bringing a series of dramatic and unexpected disasters.In other words the fixed stars may elevate from poverty to the extreme height of fortune orvice versa, whereas the planets do not do so. It may be taken as a fairly well-established rulethat the stars do not operate alone, except perhaps in those cases where they are situated onangles, and that their chief effect is transmitted by the planets.

Treachery. The liability to suffer fromthis, and the possession of a treacherousdisposition oneself, are both usually de-noted by the prominence of Neptune, Pi-sces, and the 12th house on the one hand,and by Scorpio on the other. It is prob-ably correct to say that deliberate acts oftreachery usually come under Scorpio,while the other influences tend to a gen-erally unstable, chaotic, confused, and inextreme cases treacherous, condition. Itis probable that the Saturnian and Capri-corn elements are often prominent in themaps of treacherous persons. It is not al-ways easy to distinguish a treacheroushoroscope from that of one who will suf-fer from such a disposition in others. Ac-tually it often happens that the two phasesare united: the habitually treacherous per-son surrounds himself with like-mindedtypes, who, in the long run, turn on himand victimize him. The same person isdeceiver and deceived. The astrologicalsymptoms are much the same as thosegiven under Deception and Dishonesty.

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Albert Einstein

I INITIALLY did Einstein’s chart inthe October 30, 2012 newsletter, partof a survey of scientists. I had a hard

time making him out to be anything other thana village idiot. I had to strain to find somekind of intelligence, as there was not much.

Looking at the discussion at the Astro-Dienst Forum, I find I am not the only onewho had problems with Einstein’s chart. Asa result, his nativity has become a target forall manner of guesswork. Pallas conjunctMercury-Saturn, Chiron conjunct Uranusand Neptune in Taurus in the 11th(“Einstein’s Wounds. . . are deeply connectedwith his spiritual longings and leanings”),the sidereal zodiac, Uranus at 1O of Virgo,Einstein being Lilly’s ship at sea, Einstein’sperfect 10 point star, his quintiles and semi-quintiles, etc.

When you stand a little ways back fromthis and have a second look, this sort ofguesswork is embarrassing, and here I in-clude my previous work as well.

THE solution to the Einstein puzzleis the same solution to a great manyastrological puzzles. Which is, GET

THE DATA RIGHT. Einstein was born on March14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, at “11:30.”

So what is “11:30” – ? Well, obviously,eleven hours and thirty minutes from the startof the day.

So when did the day start?If you think it started at midnight, then

how did people know when midnight ar-rived?

They had watches, you say? How didthey know when to set those watches? Mid-night looks pretty dark to me. To set a watch,you must have some external factor withwhich to set it. Midnight is not such an event.

Whatever we use to set our watch is go-ing to be the start of the day, by definition.

Since there is no way to tell when mid-night arrived in the year 1879, we are notgoing to be using it to set our watches.

We could use sunrise, presuming we canagree on the exact moment, which is eitherat the first glimmer of the sun, or when theentire disk is standing. We could use sunsetin the same way, but as the days are longeror shorter according to the season, we wouldhave to recalibrate every day.

Which, as I have mentioned before,leaves noon as the only obvious choice.

Time is set relative to noon. And had been,for many centuries. So if a time is given as“11:30”, it means eleven hours, thirty min-utes after noon. Which is 11:30 pm to us.

So let’s add 12 hours to Einstein’s chart.Watch how it falls into place. The followingis not magic. It’s plain Morin-inspired nutsand bolts astrology. The sort we should allbe doing:

At 11:30 pm, 24O of Scorpio rises. Thechart ruler is Mars, which we find, exalted inCapricorn, smack on the 3rd house cusp.Which are smarts, by definition.

It’s also ceaselessly moving here andthere. Einstein was restless, even as a kid.From Ulm to Munich to Italy to Switzerland,and he was only 16 by that time.

And then Prague and Berlin, with travelsto New York, London, Palestine, Singapore,Ceylon and Japan. And then Belgium andEngland before finally emigrating to the USand settling in Princeton, New Jersey.

Reading his Wiki bio, we find he was nota lazy student, as we might have heard bymistake, but a combative one. Well, of course.Mars in the 3rd will make you argumentative.

Mars in 3 is the same house position aswith Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (Au-gust 7, 1966, 11:30 pm, Huntsville, Alabama),except that Wales has Mars in Cancer, whereit is debilitated. Wales, unlike Einstein, is aninsecure intellectual who wants to approveand disapprove, hence his promotion of As-trology as a pseudoscience. It is not alwaysthe case that a simple change of sign, from astrong one (Einstein) to a weak one (Wales)is this clear. Einstein was noble. Wales ispetty. They may both have had similar opin-ions about astrology, but in Einstein’s case,he had better things to think about.

In Wales’s chart, debilitated Mars is con-junct exalted Jupiter, as well as Venus, givinghim a great many resources for his encyclo-pedic bullying. Cancer planets are disposedby the Moon in Taurus in the 12th, whichhides his motives, which is emphasized by themutual reception of Wales’s Moon and Ve-nus, 12 to 3. Jimmy Wales conceals.

In Einstein’s case, having his correct timeof birth and finding the dispositor of Mars,his chart ruler, opens Einstein to us, as Marsin Capricorn was ruled by Saturn in Aries inthe 5th. Mind and intellect being 3rd houseleads us to the 5th, and gives us a creative

ALL told, there are 20 first-magni-tude fixed stars whose conjunctionin either of two ways to planets or

angles in your natal, progressed or age-di-rected positions will always emphasize them& make them more prominent in your life.From that standpoint they are very impor-tant in the all-over evaluation.

They bestow on your planet some oftheir own great magnitude & brilliance en-abling you to accomplish your aims withthe surety of their fixity of nature & pur-pose applied to your natural-born aptitudes.

When conjunct a natal planet at birthyou are able to operate easily & gainfullyeach time a transit activates it by either aconjunction or opposition, the later havingthe force of a double conjunction as recog-nized by its symbol. If your planet reachesthe fixed star by progression, age arc direc-tion or pre-natal position within 90 daysbefore birth, you profit for the duration ofthe aspect. The orb to allow is 1O applyingor separating for registering.

If applying, you are building into yourconsciousness an additional power of self-expression related to the nature of the plan-ets that describe them, as listed on the nextpage herein. If separating, you have latelydone so & are now using their influence.

The two ways a fixed star registers isby position. First by Constellation & sec-ond by Sign which are interchangeable sinceeach astrological Sign has an astronomicalposition in the Constellation...

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Therefore if once the development of theperson is known we can interpret all influencesin terms of that development, and if it is un-known the best we can do is to interpret in termsof the present day average development.

The following general hints on judgmentwill be found to be of great service & impor-tance:—

1. When judging any particular matterconsider to which house it belongs, such aswealth to the 2nd, sickness to the 6th, and soon, and note if there be any planets in thathouse and the sign in which they are situ-ated. Blend the influence of the planet withthat of the house and sign, remembering thateach sign corresponds to one of the houses,as for example Leo, being the fifth sign, cor-responds to the 5th house & has the samemeanings. Thus Mars in the 2nd would meana tendency to extravagance since Mars is out-going & expansive in its nature. If it were inthe sign Leo expenditure would be lavish,with a tendency to display, since this is thenature of the sign, and would be concernedwith amusements, pleasures or speculationfor the same reason.

Note the aspects to the planet. A maleficwell aspected will produce beneficial results,whilst a benefic will be weak or adverse ifill-aspected. The planets throwing good as-pects promise benefit through the mattersruled by them and by the house and signscontaining them and the houses which theyrule, and the afflicting planets denote thesources and nature of the loss or evil.

, continued SATURN, when located by day on theascendant, will bring the native to birthwith a great cry. The one born will be

the eldest of all children or, if any is bornbefore him, that one will be separated fromthe parents. That god always, by day, on anyof the angles, will make the native the first-born or the first to be reared, or he destroysthose born before. But he makes the nativesthemselves boastful & full of pride.

If Saturn is on the ascendant by day &Mars is on another angle or the anafora (signbefore) of an angle, this indicates manyevils—immense danger & loss of inheritance.But often, if there is no benefic planet in afavorable location in aspect to them, or ifMars receives the influence of the waxingMoon, this will make for a violent death.

But if Saturn is located by night on thedegree of the ascendant, the native will behindered by the greatest weariness and willalways be oppressed by hard labor. Somewill be allotted occupations around water, butof such a kind that they will always be wornout by hard work.

When Saturn occupies the second housefrom the ascendant, he indicates serious ill-nesses & great reverses of fortune. The nativebecomes the murderer of his wife & children,a frequent agitator of great public disturbances,and he wastes his maternal and paternal inher-itances. He is slow in all his activities & suf-fers from constant bodily afflictions.

If Mars is on any of the angles or is inopposition or square aspect to the Sun or thewaxing Moon, this will make wretched pau-pers, their bodies burdened with daily toil.

Saturn in the second house by day willslowly and gradually provide an increase inincome. The natives themselves he makeswithdrawn, recluses, poor in mind, alwaysdenying that they own anything.

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Marriageor Celibacy

IN order to judge whether marriage willtake place it is necessary to study thesign and house positions of the marriage

significators and the nature of the seventhand certain other houses. The whole matterturns upon the strength and amount of af-fliction received by these.

It is best to start by examining the Moonand Venus, and noting the signs and housesthey occupy. They are most favorably dis-posed to marriage when in the fruitful signs,and least favorably in the barren ones. Inregard to house position the angular housesare the strongest, and the succedent onescome next, but from a point of view of mar-riage the more elevated the position occu-pied by Venus and the Moon the better. Per-haps the best houses for them are the tenth,eleventh, and first. The fourth, fifth, andseventh are also good positions, but in thecase of the last two much depends upon thefruitfulness of the sign and the nature of theaspects received. These houses being pri-marily concerned with love and marriage areparticularly sensitive, and barren signs andafflictions are worse here than elsewhere.

The most unfavorable houses for theMoon and Venus are the twelfth, sixth andeighth, all of which tend to hinder marriage.

The aspects to the Moon and Venus arethe next factors to be considered. The worstpossible afflictions are bad aspects fromSaturn and Uranus, particularly if barrensigns are involved. Afflictions from Marsare not by any means so serious. They maystir up the passionate side of the nature fartoo much, and create matrimonial quarrels,but they alone will not prevent marriage.— Astrology and Sex, by Vivian Robson.Buy. Apologies to put so much Robson inthe newsletter, but he is fundamental in somany ways.

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mind, one that will delight in finding creative(new) ways and creative (new) ideas.

But this did not come easily for Einstein,because Saturn in Aries is defensive and in-secure. When Saturn is in Aries and in the5th house, it is never certain that it is reallybeing creative. Since Capricorn and Saturnare both structural, the result is an emphasison mathematics as structure in order to jus-tify the new ideas. Just as we saw a momentago with Wales, now we see with Albert, thata debilitated planet forced a greater response.In this case, to Albert’s credit.

Mercury in Aries made it literate, whileVenus, debilitated, made him insecure, thatno one would notice, that no one would lovehis result. Once Einstein had a great idea,Mercury would put it into words and the in-secure Venus would see to it that the worldknew about it. People are a product of theircharts. Einstein was a product of his.

But there is more to Einstein’s 5th house.The cusp itself is Pisces, not Aries, and hashis Piscean Sun hard on it. When there is alate degree on the cusp, when most of thenext sign is in the house, when there are plan-ets in both signs, there are two stories to thehouse. There are always two stories to housessuch as this, but those stories only arise to one’sconsciousness if there are planets both signsto bring them forward. As is the case here.

Einstein’s 3rd house Capricorn, leadingto a 5th house Aries, is the scientific Einstein,while the Piscean cusp of the 5th is the musi-cal Einstein. Jupiter, the Sun’s ruler, we findin Aquarius, in the 4th houses of home.Where did Einstein play his violin and pi-ano? At home. Never in public.

Einstein had a child who simply disap-peared. Pisces on 5 is fertile, while the ruler,Jupiter, in the 4th, says the child was hiddenaway in the bottom of Einstein’s life and sonever found.

The man was deliciously quotable. Wasthat from his Mercury?

No, as his Mercury was conjunct Saturn,which was defensive. Saturn-Mercury werethe tightly worked out theorems and formu-las that he first proved to himself, and thenproved to the rest of us. Austere, sober.

Einstein’s whimsey was from his Moonin Sagittarius. Are all Sagittarian Moonswhimsical? Well, no. Mostly they’re enthu-siastic and vapid — and absent-minded. Ein-stein was the classic absent-minded profes-sor. Moon in Sagittarius also accounts for ageneral sloppy appearance, as Sagittarians sooften overlook details.

The 2nd house concerns itself with val-ues. Money. It is the natural home for the

fixed and materialistic Taurus.Sagittarius on the second could care less

about money and possessions. Sagittarius onthe 2nd says we never get to keep anythingof our own anyway, and that, one way or an-other, we will always be provided for. Thereis an ease and comfort about Sagittarian con-fidence in this regard. You may scoff andsay this is not a realistic way of dealing withthe world, but it worked for Einstein, as itseems he was never in need.

Moon in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter inAquarius in the 4th house, there would al-ways be lots (Jupiter) of people (Aquarius)to take care of one’s basic needs (4th house,the fundamentals).

I used to take rulerships further, to theirlimits. Moon in Sag is ruled by Jupiter inAquarius which is ruled by Saturn in Arieswhich is ruled by Mars in Capricorn, which,as they are in mutual reception, are the finaldispositors and would be the end of the road,but as Saturn is debilitated while Mars is ex-alted, Mars is the overall winner, as well asthe ruler of the ascendant.

So by this convoluted means, Einstein’sSagittarian values become linked to his class-room antics and boyish behavior. You cango the long route or the short one, whereEinstein’s many witticisms are mere boyishSagittarian enthusiasm. It is the same result.Einstein’s 2nd house Moon in Sag mocks ourdeadly serious worries about money.

Here are some quotes. As some appear

to have been translated poorly from German,I have touched up a few:

Imagination is more important than knowl-edge.

Gravity is not responsible for people fall-ing in love.

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest aredetails.

The hardest thing in the world to under-stand is income tax.

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persis-tent one.

The only really valuable thing is intuition.A person starts to live when he can live

outside himself.I am convinced that He (God) does not play

dice.God is subtle but he is not malicious.Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of

character.I never think of the future. It comes soon

enough.The eternal mystery of the world is its com-

prehensibility.Sometimes one must pay for things he gets

for nothing.Science without religion is lame. Religion

without science is blind.Anyone who has never made a mistake has

never tried anything new.

IN my previous remarks, based on achart twelve hours earlier, I found sup-port for Einstein’s wife being an essen-I

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tial part of his work. For a chart based at11:30 pm, that influence has largely disap-peared. Pluto on the cusp of the 7th, Ein-stein would be profoundly changed by hisvarious partners, including his wives.

Looking at the ruler of Taurus, we findVenus to be debilitated in Aries. Combinewith the influence of Pluto and we have de-manding wives. Of his second wife, Wikidryly says,

Elsa spent most of her marriagewith Albert acting as gatekeeper,protecting him from unwelcome visi-tors and charlatans.

Note that Venus comes more than a dozendegrees after Saturn, is only 7 degrees awayfrom the 6th, of health and service, and rulesEinstein’s 12th, of his secrets. So far as,where does the 5th house end and the 6thbegin, then so far as Elsa Einstein, his sec-ond wife is concerned, the dividing line be-tween the two houses is somewhere betweenSaturn, at 4 Aries, and Venus, ruler of the7th, at 17. While each had children fromprevious marriages, the two notably had nochildren of their own.

Leo on the 10th house cusp, his publicpersona, he would be unique. Ruled by theSun, inconjunct in Pisces, he would alwayslook surprised. Inconjuncts, to me, are as-pects of invisibility, hence, surprise.

Albert Einstein was, for the most part, asimple, straightforward man, one with a pow-erfully creative mind.

Jimmy WalesAugust 7, 196611:30 pmHuntsville, ALPlacidus housesMean Node

AS I am indebted to AstroDataBankfor basic chart data, and as I am in-creasingly critical of the Rodden

Ratings they give to their birth times, Ithought of posting a note on the AstroDienstForum. I had signed up for it in July, butdiscovered they had a “cooling off” period,as many forums do, and so left the matter forlater.

When I came back on Saturday, I foundno trace of my registration. So I re-regis-tered and found the same limitation. Whichreads:

To be allowed write in the forum,a new member must have been an ac-tive user of www.astro.com for a cer-tain period of time. Being an ‘activeuser’ means that this user has storeda certain number of natal data on thewebsite, that he or she has used acertain number of charts or other ser-vices and that a certain amount oftime has passed since the first visitunder the same identity atwww.astro.com.I asked them waive this, but was in-

formed they would not. It would appear theirforum is open to AstroDienst customers.Tying the AstroDataBank to a commercialwebsite in this fashion I believe to be a mis-take. There needs to be a free discussion ofchart data, or they should perhaps send theDataBank elsewhere. It has been elsewherebefore.

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