Guess what happened in 1958

This is the chart of a Iranian woman (high society) and the transits and progressions of a day in her life. The question is: what sort of an event were mirrored by those transits and progressions? The answer can be found easily. But if you google 'Wikipedia April 6, 1958' it will be too easy if you want to study charts to learn astrology.

First ask yourself: what does it mean that Venus is inconjunct her MC and that Neptune is square MC? What does Venus-Neptune mean, generally spoken?  Don't forget to include the house positions!

Here is the chart:

It certainly won't be easy to guess WHAT exactly happened and why, but I am sure that you won't fail to the nature of the event! That is because of the exact aspect with Saturn (as if an astrologer planned it). But as always: it is easier when you know it:)!

LINK

Inconjunctions and their meaning: http://astromarkt.net/inconjunct-or-quincunx.html

Inconjunctions and Saturn: http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2011/08/hunger-strike-with-p-sun-inconjunct.html

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Saturn conjunct Saturn: sorry, it's memento mori

Saturn returns remind you of your age and responsibilities. Everybody 'ages' at about age 30 and at about age 60 and 90 when Transit Saturn hits your natal Saturn. But what happens when your Progressed Saturn is retrograding and gets back to the natal starting point (a progressed Saturn return)? Progressed Saturn returns are rare and are rarely discussed. I wrote about it a few months ago, when I approached my progressed Saturn return (see that post: http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2011/01/progressed-saturn-return-p-saturn.html ). It is Saturn time for me now! And I know it. In my situation it is obvious: it is about the responsibility of organizing care and taking care of my mother.

In the building where she lives is an institution for the elderly, too. Yesterday I was in the elevator with an old shrieking lady who apparently didn't make it to the toilet and who didn't know where she was or went until I asked her: 'Where do you live' and she said: 'The third floor'.  It is depressing (and I really wonder how the people who work there are able to deal with the astonishing picture of what might happen to all of us one day). I hope that I die before I get THAT old or that it will get that bad for my mother. One generation...There is so little time left. That is the pressure (or say: the kick in the ass) that is being reflected by transits of Saturn. It litteraly makes me feel sick.

Saturn conjunct Saturn is a memento mori, reminding you not to waste time. 

Saturn is for depressing things and the Moon is for the mood. Saturn is for parents or parenthood and the Moon is for care.

I am happy to see Venus on my IC today (that is when I'll have my hair done and I intend to buy a new perfume - maybe Sun, Moon and Stars:), starting a few days off. But I won't be off for long. Saturn on Saturn is double duties! Or at least: it feels that way. Now I wonder: am I wasting time?

LINKS
All about getting old and aging on this blog http://astropost.blogspot.nl/search/label/old
Progressed Saturn is exactly conjunct my natal Saturn today, while progressed Moon is square my natal Moon. You know about my Moon trine Saturn (feelings of responsibility and duty) and my family's Moon-Saturn (see the Moon-Saturn post)? Perhaps that is why these progressions join to hit me harder than other persons' progressed Saturns do?

BTW When transit Saturn is back to square my Mars, transit Saturn will be on my mother's Midheaven (after begin square her Sun, again). That makes me think that there is more to come... and more to be done.

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Mars-Saturn and overcoming difficulties

What is Mars-Saturn about? Quoting myself:

 inevitable, obligatory action or inactivity based upon duty, age, fear or caution. Sometimes Mars-Saturn refers to a healt problem.

Heroes have Mars-Saturn aspects. Soldiers have it. I wrote about Mars and Saturn before (see the label or go to Astromarkt to read it). But what does Mars-Saturn do in the charts of musicians? I have two examples.

In this blog I wonder if Mars-Saturn conflicts mirror a  flirtation with death or 'walking on the edges'.   I wonder if Peter Doherty*) is an example of that. And I worry a bit about the Mars-Saturn aspects in the chart of David Bowie.

PETER DOHERTY
Peter Doherty is an example of a conflict between an important Mars and an important Saturn. (Saturn is the apex of a Yod with Venus and Mercury; Mars rises before his Sun). Mars is also opposition Saturn. That means that the theme of Mars-Saturn (the end of all energy or the discipline of how to use it)  is the main issue in his life. I found another famous example of an important Mars-Saturn aspect: David Bowie with Mars quatronovile (160d) Saturn. Both artists have Mars rising before the sun. They are do-ers.

DAVID BOWIE

Now watch the chart of David Bowie. He sings that we could be heroes, just for one day. I remember 'Merry  Christmas, mr. Lawrence' where he acted as a hero. For many of his fans, he IS a hero. And yes,  there is a minor aspect between an important Mars and an important Saturn in his chart, too.  It is a quatronovile, for cheerfully coping with difficulties and setbacks.


There is also a Mars-Saturn activity in progressions and transits now. There have been rumors about his health on the internet and on twitter. His wife says that he is OK. His chart says that Transit Saturn is sesquisquare his progressed Mars and inconjunct Progressed Sun right now. Progressed Mars and Progressed Saturn are getting closer to an inconjunct in the next years. The issue of discipline gets stronger as he gets older.

All that doesn't mean that there has to be clear and present danger right now. I have experienced a few transits of Saturn square my Mars and I didn't feel OK, but I didn't die, either. This transit ' only ' blocked my energy and activity and I felt that. In the chart of Bowie Mars-Saturn (discipline, restricted energy) is a theme, so the present transit and progression might be of importance. If only because his fans worry about him. But, there are also rumors that David Bowie will be singing at the Olympics! And that the biographies about him will be good for selling songs. Maybe he is just gathering some discipline to be able to perform? We'll hope that he overcomes the Mars-Saturn limitations and hopefully see the act!

PS
I searched the internet to find news about Bowie and found Mick Jagger, again (he has a conflict with transit Pholus and his sex life is being highlighted all the time). They appear to have had a long lasting love affair when they were young (see: http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bookworm/mick-jagger-and-david-bowie-s-love-affair-revealed-in-new-tell-all-book_2407.htm )
Transit Uranus is now square Bowie's Ascendant/MC midpoint. He is news!

*) Peter Doherty spent time in prison, and the latest news reports imply that it didn't help much to stop the addictions. He spent a few weeks in a clinic in Thailand in vain. With Mars-Saturn discipline and dealing with limitations and barriers is a big deal. However, he managed to work in those years, to produce albums and to write. That requires at least some discipline.
BTW Isn't it interesting that his first real job was digging graves? And that his father was an army officer? It is very Mars-Saturn (the army and work related to endings).

LINKS
On my site Astromarkt, all about Mars-Saturn...

David Bowie's pattern of artistic talents (he has more than one) on Art&Astrology

I wrote about Doherty before, here on Astropost.

http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2010/04/mars-saturn-and-slapping.html In this blog I show examples of the issue of slapping and Mars-Saturn

http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2010/04/bobby-brown-lives.html
Bobby Brown has Mars inconjunct Saturn. He is addicted to drugs, too and was the husband of Whitney Houston. She left him because of violence.

http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2010/02/synastry-brown-blair-mars-inconjunct.html
Mr. Brown and Mr. Blair didn't like each other much. Is the Mars-inconjunct- Saturn- synastry to blame?

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Mars-Uranus-Pluto + Neptune!

When I studied the charts of the moment of the deathly shooting incident in Aurora, Denver and the positions of the day of birth of the shooter (December 13, 1987). I noticed that in both charts there is a narrow aspect combination of Mars-Uranus-Pluto. Also, in both charts Neptune is 'calling'*)! This coincidental correspondence happens to reflect what happened.

1. There is a tight Mars-Uranus-Pluto aspect combination in both charts

On July 20 2012 Mars in Libra was square Pluto and opposition Uranus, highly.

On December 13 1987 Mars was conjunct Pluto and both were semi square Uranus.

The combination of Mars, Uranus and Pluto is the combination of terror. Anders Breivik (the Norwegian terrorist, see the post) also has a Mars, Uranus, Pluto aspect combination in the natal chart.
There are several examples on this blog (see labels). In 1940 Reinhold Ebertin (click for his chart) wrote about this stellar combination. I quote 'The combination of stellar influences":
"Fanatism, act of violence, mania of destruction".
He was right.

The Mars-Uranus-Pluto combination doesn't mean that such an incident has to happen. Astrology doesn't work vice versa!

2. There is a 'calling' Neptune in both charts.
The incident took place in the cinema (Neptune), where people were being dressed up or were wearing masks (Neptune).

The prominence of Neptune refers to the prominence of all things related to Neptune (fantasy, fiction, wearing masks, being dressed up as if..., the movies, and the influence of violent computer games - just like with Anders Breivik -). Next came: television teams following the parents, interviews with the neighbors...the media is all around.

In this sad story we have television, video games and movies. And possibly also drugs (drugs are part of Neptune's vocabulary, too).

The transits of the day of the incident have a pattern corresponding with the pattern on the day of birth of the shooter. I don't know if that is just coincidence. As it happens, the Mars-Uranus-Pluto combination is 'astrological' for the danger of shooting incidents. Explosions and terrorism happen every day.  Mars-Uranus-Pluto combinations are frequent, too. For example: on September 24, November 4 and especially in the weekend of November 24 there is a Mars-Uranus-Pluto combination, again. Sometimes nothing happens. Sometimes it mirrors a tragedy.

*) When a planet doesn't make Ptolemaic aspects in sign or orb 5 degrees, I name that a 'calling' planet. The influence of that planet will be evident, somehow, anyhow, at any possible level and is often related to the profession.

LINKS
The charts of some shooting incidents had Mars elevated or related to Midheaven (see the post). If my calculation was correct, that is not so this time.

Wiki Astro about Ebertin

Astropost about Mars-Uranus , Mars-Pluto and the history of Uranus-Pluto

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Neptune and media

A medium is a communication channel. There are all kinds of media. Psychics, data carriers, and news media. I made the promise to explain why Neptune is about (for example) fiction AND about (news) media.

ARGUMENTS
Fiction
It is not surprising that Neptune is connected with news media, when you know that Neptune is the symbol of all that is unreal, like photographs (we see a picture, not the real persons), like on television (we can't touch these people), on Facebook (is that profile real?). Neptune is there where fantasy, imagination, empathy, vision or belief is required. Or a good 'nose' (like with perfume or gasses).

When pictures and music compose a drama around a fact, Neptune is around. Today's media are full of Neptune. And we consume it and add are own ideology, emotions or beliefs to what we see.

Neptune is also there, when there is gossip. There is a fact (10 people died) and there is the gossip. (Neighbours say that the driver was an alcoholic, but his family says that he certainly was not). You remember the alcohol. (You won't be surprised to see Mercury in conflict with Neptune in the charts of those who mix facts with 'stories' ).

Associated Press and Neptune in Pisces
Neptune recently moved to Pisces and is strong now in own sign, just like in 1848 when Associated Press started. Now we use more and more mass media. We are being absorbed by a sea of colors and by pictures and music, working together to produce a fantasy or a message that you can believe in. They sort of shape our picture of the world outside. Some people try to look like the illusionary persons that they watch on television, but they will fail to be as good looking as they are, because these persons are fake (a composition of the best parts of a variety of persons).

Negative press (or creating idols) and Neptune
When there is negative press about a celebrity, and we study the chart, we often see the transits or progressions with Neptune. The other side is the creation of an idol (sometimes with the purpose to make us fans or followers). An idol is a bit 'unreal', too. Gossip and worship have the same basic unreality and tend to end in bitter disappointment and disaster. The potential of Neptune to shape a world of fantasy and make us dream that we are part of it, can also be abused to destroy a person's reputation or to create a fake superman or superwoman.

For examples of the effect of Neptune in an individual's chart, see the links below, for example  to Astromarkt about Sun-Neptune aspect and the question: Am I who they say that I am?).

LINKS
Examples of scandal and bad press with transits of Neptune: http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2011/02/confusing-transits-of-neptune.html

About Neptune in Pisces in history: http://astromarkt.net/neptune-in-pisces.html

Scandal in the Vatican and Uranus-Neptune http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2010/04/uranus-neptune-scandalous-transits.html

Two artists and Neptune - gossip - in between: http://astropost.blogspot.nl/2008/04/neptune-and-how-it-works.html

Uranus-Pluto

SECOND and MORE OPINIONS:)
http://www.cafeastrology.com/articles/neptuneinhouses.html

http://suite101.com/article/advertising-influence-and-the-energy-of-neptune-in-astrology-a259868


http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/2011/02/pluto-uranus-neptune/

http://www.librarising.com/astrology/misc/neptunepower.html


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