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Jan 13, 2025, 12:19:32 UT, near Miyazaki, Japan @ 31N48'22'', 131E33'55''

Originally reported as 6.9. Tsunami warning issued then withdrawn. No reported serious damage in the press so far (one injury, some water pipe and road damage).

Saturn and Venus were setting square Jupiter on MC when it ...

Yikes! Gulf hurricanes for sure this year. - Notice Sa-Ne square Neptune lines skirt the east coast of Mexico, while Sa-Ne on MC hits Gulf Shores and near the Florida panhandle.

SteveS wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 5:38 am Good, as long as there are no economic short term repercussions.

Nothing significant. I mean... we're spending a few extra days on the road before going back into town tonight, and that always costs a bit, but that's all. (Not bad for Mars crossing my Jupiter-Uranus yesterday.)

Probably nothing at all EXCEPT living with the smoke for a while. That is potentially health-damaging, but we've minimized it by being out of town for the worst. Since I'll spend most of each day in climate controlled buildings, that will reduce it. But the smoke is still a problem until the fires ...

Yes, the Capsolar Quotidian and Cansolar Quotidian were both remarkably precise and fitting for this. (See details above.)

I got a few minutes of signal and looked at this in TM. Starting from birthplace, one wonders if Uranus could be moved to EP-a and Jupiter moved to Ascendant. (I haven't reread your post, but this is probably what you saw.) Astromaps only work well on my home desktop (complicated technical reason ...

Hi, Flo. Thanks for checking: We were in New Orleans for the lead-in and start of thr fires, landed in LA just after midnight Wednesday night, and got up at dawn to load ourselves, Kali, and a few things into the minivan to head out of town. Spending four days in north Santa Barbara County and San ...

The streets and highways reminded us of Covid's start... emptier than I've usually seen them. A lot of people (not from the area) kept warning that we maybe couldn't get out of town, but the roads were all open and relatively empty.

Wanting to "get the hell out of here" is very natal Pluto. Maybe ...

Caplunar LA Fires
12/31/24
Mars 1st house angular opp. Pluto 7th house angular
With the Moon on the 7th cusp. Moon gives energy and emotion to the Mars opp. Pluto aspect.Explosive mayhem and destruction fits Mars/Pluto symbolism.

Agreed. The Mars-Pluto is right on target (after a perfect ...

Oh right, you said lunar and I somehow registered solar. (I'm back on the road and away from my main computer again for a few more days. We're getting out of the ash-air.)

I forgot... where did your solar return occur?

We're going to Los Olivos for a few days. Here's the chart for there (though I think the NOLA chart will mostly persist):

t Neptune Dsc -7°52'
t Mercury IC -7°39'
t Moon Dsc -3°10' [r Moon Dsc -4°15']
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t Saturn WP-a +0°12'
t Jupiter MC +5°20'

t Mercury-Neptune sq ...

Began January 7, 2025, 10:30 AM PST, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA

News source were calling last night Los Angeles' "night of terror" with hurricane-like winds of at least 99 mph driving the eruption and spread of multiple fire, especially in the Pacific Palisades and Pasadena areas. I'll ...

I know you think those houses are important to you. I tend to agree. That wasn't my point.

I was asking something more fundamental: In terms of describing your character - who you are and how you live in the world - which set of planet-to-planet contacts is more descriptive?

With the Navamsa you ...

No need to wait. They're optional (and default to off), so go for it.

I think it's an error to include houses in any consideration of this - If you strip out all house consideration and only look at close hard aspects, how do the comparisons go?

I'll have to redo Biden's SLR when I get back. He won't be in DC for that happy SLR. Monday through Wednesday he's in LA, staying in Century City across the street from my office. I'm sure it will be a very different chart.

Trump will be sentenced January 10 for his hush-money convictions.

SIDEREAL DEMI-LUNAR RETURN (Jan 11)
Effective Jan 10-25. ...Trumps enters one of the darker two-week periods of his life. If he is still in Florida when this sets up, it is already difficult with transiting Saturn 2° off ...

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Various methods exist for calculating the novien chart. Ultimately, the astrologer should not need to be too concerned with the technicalities: software should handle it for us.

The manual approach demonstrates what is required: Express a planet’s longitude as the number of degrees, minutes, and ...

[To be added later.]

Perhaps the most important questions about use of the novienic chart are: Do we need it? If so, when do we need it? How do we integrate it into our assessment of the ordinary natal horoscope?

I believe that the novien is not essential to the effective practice of astrology. I do not consult the ...

In the second chapter in Astrological Origins devoted to the novien, Cyril Fagan called the novienic equivalent a Sexascope. He outlined his primary recommended method of using it thus:

In the Sexascope, the Moon is the sole significator of the native’s sexual appetite, which is conditioned by its ...

With the specific goals of testing whether these sub-zodiac positions are objective points and, if so, whether the navamsa or novien performed better, years ago I began watching day-by-day transits to my navamsa and novien Moon. Eventually, I also added novien Sun.

The first clear conclusion was ...

Indian astrologers regard the navamsa as especially important for picking a marriage partner. This suggested that either the navamsa or Fagan’s novien variant might be useful in synastry, a word that roughly translates as “their stars are together.” In synastry, aspects are identified between ...

If the novien were merely a type of aspectarian disclosing 10°-multiple aspects, this thread would be much simpler. However, as mentioned earlier, novien longitudes are objective – “real” in the same sense that ordinary zodiacal longitudes are functionally objective. Theoretical justification of ...

1: Do we take the Novien SMA planets and compare them to SMA Cap/Can solars planets looking for 0 90 180 aspects, and what orbs would you allow? What orb would you allow for 0 90 180 Novien aspects?
Other than the Moon (and perhaps Capsolar planets already angular), this is highly questionable ...

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I would be neither surprised nor disappointed if it turns out that novien signs have no merit. I suspect, though, that they are meaningful in a different way than we are used to thinking of the twelve zodiacal constellations.

Over the decades, as I returned periodically to renew my attention to the ...

Cyril Fagan was enthused about Moon’s novien sign placements. In fact – consistent with the seeming fractal nature of the novien framework – he proposed that there were zodiacs within zodiacs within zodiacs.

Specifically, he thought that not only was Moon’s novien sign placement important, but ...

Fagan thought novien signs (especially Moon’s sign) to be important: This seems to be what first excited him most when he explored the system.

I regard novien signs as controversial. They may not exist. (I do not think people really have a second Moon sign.) Or they may operate differently because ...

Using the novien as a harmonic chart to identify obscure micro-aspects is one thing; but novien planets also appear to make valid aspects with planets in the radix.

This was initially disconcerting. It is hard to explain theoretically and seems to require that novien longitudes are objective in the ...

I consider only conjunctions, oppositions, and squares in the novien. These may be natural sub-harmonics of a 40° or 20° series of aspects. Many of these will be very close conjunctions, oppositions, and squares of the root horoscope. Some of the conjunctions and oppositions will derive from very ...

Aspects are where the novien shines! The novien chart shows new aspects usually not visible in the natal horoscope, or newly combined with other aspects to give a different impression, sometimes startling in its clarity. As Fagan wrote in the Primer of Sidereal Astrology :

It must not be supposed ...

As mentioned earlier, the novien is regarded as primarily a lunar chart. This is evident in several ways, although it also seems that we do not entirely understand the ways that this is true. Fagan summarized his views thus:

…the novien is a more intimate and personal chart, depicting the true ...

Why did Fagan write that the novien unearthed “the long-lost kernel of true lunar interpretation”? It was because the novien chart was quickly discovered to be primarily Moon-based. One common approach to using the navamsa in modern Indian astrology anchors the chart’s “Ascendant” – its symbolic 1st ...

K.M. Kharegat was a highly respected Indian astrologer, a frequent contributor to Spica, and a good friend of Cyril Fagan.

Sri Kharegat had tried unsuccessfully to persuade Fagan to examine the navamsa chart that Indian astrologers esteem so highly. Though Fagan had looked at the navamsa in ...

Cyril Fagan chose the name novien from the Latin noviens, meaning “nine times.”

The novien framework postulates that the zodiac is replicated nine times within itself. That is, within the 360° from 0° Taurus to 30° Aries, the same Taurus-to-Aries structure repeats every 40° (one-ninth of the ...

Cyril Fagan’s last major exploration and innovation, occupying much of his writing for the last years of his life, was the novien chart, also called the novienic equivalent. In the immediate aftermath of his passing (especially after the posthumous release of his final book, Astrological Origins ...

Is it possible that a beginning or the first sign is associated with the astrological age and would therefore change according to the current age?
Thats a very tropical idea :) - For the most part, I don't think it matters much which is the first sign EXCEPT for things like the novien (and ...

Jan 4, 2025, 10:08:11 PM PST, New Orleans, LA (29N57'22" 90W04'03")
SUN = 11
Dignity = 11 , Indignity = 0
Spotlight = 11
Malefic = 1, Benefic = 0, Change = 0

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Impressions: Marion and I are scheduled to spend a few days in New Orleans. The Los Angeles chart is much ...

This month, the two lunar half-months were quite clear. The SLR was strongly evident for two weeks - Sun-Jupiter for good luck on things that could have gone wrong plus prosperity and feeling flush. This hasn't necessarily left, but it's not the main feature of the second half of the month - since ...

Marion and I really overdid the NYE celebration and paid for it this morning. She wanted to have a particular kind of indulgent evening: We had a bottle of wine with dinner, an eggnog with Puerto Rican rum as 'desert,' and a bottle of sparkling wine with an exotic cheese plate as midnight approached ...

Jan 1, 2025, 3:15 AM CST, New Orleans @ 29N57'22" 90W04'04"

A few days before Marion and I fly to New Orleans, the city is in a somber mood after a terrorist attack in the French Quarter, beginning at Canal and Bourbon during a New Year celebration, has killed 15 people and injured at least 35 ...

Starting.

[STILL WORKING ON THIS]

Additionally: I think I previously implemented the calculations for Asc and Vx declination correctly, based on this thread: https://solunars.com/viewtopic.php?t=8499
From earlier checking, I'm pretty sure Solar Fire has this correct. For my relocated natal, SF gives Asc ...

Cool :) Something to test this morning. I've updated the link at the top and installed the software. Let's get to testing. (PS - Sorry to hear you're still sick. :( )

Moon aspects now shown in dormant ingresses
Confirmed: Current Cansolar for DC is still marked dormant and has Moon opposite Mars ...

Jupiter is on Eastpoint (0°12') for Washington, signifying a year of prosperity, good fortune, and victory. From the time the COVID-19 pandemic landed in 2020, we predicted that the economy would not fully stabilize until 2024, when people would feel we were fully restored to a climbing economic ...

An example of quotidians not working the way we were taught they should work, i.e., showing by angularity when strong, building forces come to their peak: This is the month of my progressed Moon conjunct natal Neptune (1°20' Libra). The aspect was exact Sunday though the aspect didn't rotate to SNQ ...

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