Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Stef

The northeast is in a drought warning and there's a large wildfire burning in northwest Jersey and across the New York southern border, so "hellish" is definitely how I would describe the environment right now. Stay safe!

Stef

I think New Orleans it is. Thank you, both!

Stef

Actually, some divination work recently might mean I should emphasize Mercury next year (as long as it's not in aspect to Saturn - which usually manifests as migraines for me).

Stef

I am leaning towards somewhere in the south. I'm torn by the passion and excitement Venus-Mars can offer compared with the probably more sobering Jupiter-Saturn. Revisiting New Orleans (just because I really do love that city), it would center Mercury-Jupiter more than Venus and Saturn, correct ...

Stef

What do we think about Austin or Corpus Christi, Texas? Austin is double Mars and Venus. Corpus Christi area gives me Mercury-Venus-Uranus and natal Mars, removing the transiting Mars. I tend to like natal Mars, transiting Mars could be too much. Double Mars can be tiring.

Stef

Thank you, Jim and Mike. I will meditate on these options.

Stef

To speak to Mike's points:

"Congratulations" is also an appropriate sentiment. We both believe this is for the better, as much as it sucks emotionally right now.

I want to add that I haven't experienced Saturn-Neptune this year as too much depression, more like disappointing outcomes of things ...

Stef

I am considering relocating my 2024 SSR (December 23, 2024) to Raleigh, North Carolina again. As I understand the Time Matters chart, my SSR in New Jersey has transiting Saturn/Neptune on Ascendant, with a wider transiting Moon on Descendant and a close Moon square natal Neptune aspect. Moving this ...

Stef

Bumping this up per Jim's request

Stef

I am requesting some vocational direction as I look forward to the next step in my life and career.

Here is some background:

My teens and early twenties were spent mostly alternating between depression and panic attacks. As a result, I transferred colleges twice, changed my major three times, and ...

Stef

Yesterday, trading was halted at Silicon Valley Bank and the FDIC announced it would take over. This marks the largest bank collapse since 2008. SVB served nearly half of all venture-backed U.S. companies and held $209 billion in total assets at the end of last year. This will surely have ...

Stef

This is so helpful, Jim! Thank you! So much information here to dig through. I think your overall assessment is very accurate. Thank you for also commenting on the fairly minor weight of the Neptune aspects. I was primarily looking for any warning signs about him as a character, but from what you've ...

Stef

Hello forum folks,

I need assistance deciphering the character of a natal chart with no foreground planets. I've never seen this before. Additionally, the native has sun in Cancer and very close, hard aspects that all happen to be background in the chart. The native and I have strong sexual ...

Stef

I have this aspect with my husband (his Mars, my Pluto) and while I agree with most of your assessment, I think it's appropriate to emphasize the Plutonian element of transformation as well as withdrawing (or, perhaps, withdrawing to allow transformation to occur within the psyche). This does not ...

Stef

Thank you very much, Jim! This is a lot for me to look over and it's late, but I wanted to drop a thank you. This is very interesting, especially the part about my husband's Saturn aspecting his Sun. We hope to build a close relationship with our nephew, so this is encouraging to see.

Stef

Hello everyone,

My nephew was born on July 15, 2021 at 9:01 AM in Falls Church, Virginia.

I cast his natal chart in SolarFire and am in the process of writing an analysis for my sister-in-law. I'm still new to this, so I'd love to hear any feedback you have, if I should change anything, or if ...

Stef

Hello :)

My husband has Moon angular, 8* from IC, but his only angular planet. I struggle to interpret this influence separate from his Moon in Cancer and Sun in Pisces, but I will try here.

He is an artist and has a very imaginative, fluid, distracted nature that seems lunar (can be perceived as ...

Stef

I'm glad to see my little post has contributed to a fascinating theoretical discussion

Stef

Thank you, as always, for your thorough analysis, Jim. You hit on all the points I suspected. I was wondering if there was some indication that my Mercury was "weak" in some way, since it's in its detriment of Sagittarius, but I don't know if Siderealists put much weight on detriments.

Stef

In early January of 2020, I became partially deaf in my right ear and developed severe tinnitus. I was sick with a “cold” at the time that I now expect may have been COVID-19. This coincided with transiting Saturn conjunct my natal Mercury.

Regardless of the mundane cause, this experience of ...

Stef

Yes, Trump is expected to be at his golf course in Bedminister, NJ on June 6:

https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/06/trump-expected-to-visit-his-nj-golf-club-this-weekend-beginning-his-summer-ritual.html

He will likely fly in on Friday night. I live right near the airport (unfortunately) and they ...

Stef

I think I fixed the original post per your instructions. I added a link to a shared image of the chart. Please let me know if I need to make any additional updates.

Stef

Well that was a big fat error on my part. I updated the original post.

Stef

It seems like Twitter shows local time zone - which would make the birth time 5pm PST. That removes the foreground planets mentioned and leaves only foreground Moon - a very different picture. If I can confirm, I'll re-do the post.

Stef

Of course, immediately after I posted this, I wonder if I have the time wrong. Not sure what time Twitter shows me - Eastern or Pacific. I'll confirm.

Stef

Grimes is my favorite musician and she recently had a boy with SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk. I think they are a fascinating couple and I'm very curious to see who their son becomes. Best birth data I can find below. I haven't been able to confirm the exact time, but based on Elon's tweets ...

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Interestingly, March 12 is when I first saw a headline that research scientists had isolated the COVID-19 virus, the first step in working on a vaccine: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/coronavirus-covid-19-virus-isolate-canada-scientists-mutations-strains-a9399226.html

The Mars line ...

Stef

Well I think I figured out what all this was about. Of course, my anxiety got the better of me originally. The outcome turned out to be not what I expected, but actually an overall positive thing, if you can call it that I suppose.

I connected the dots when looking at my husband's Pluto transit to ...

Stef

So after some review, I'm embarrassed to admit I had the wrong birth date in the original post. It is April 3, 1990. Everything else is the same.

Stef

I agree with you completely.

My closest aspect is Sun semisquare Pluto 0°01. I also have Moon conjunct Pluto, though much wider at 4°35'. Since discovering this, I've spent a lot of time contemplating what it means. It definitely can manifest in social awkwardness and probably seeming distant to ...

Stef

You have the opportunity to leave NJ in winter and go to PR for a wedding? That sounds Absolutely Fabulous.

Thanks, Veronica. I do hope it ends up being a good trip. There have been some frustrating travel changes that cost us money we didn't expect to spend, it will be pretty exhausting, and ...

Stef

Well firstly, I realized I meant DEMI lunar, not SLR. And I'm running this on Mike's experimental astrological software that's still in beta mode, but we did some testing a few weeks ago comparing it to Solar Fire and everything looked correct...

So perhaps there is something wrong with the ...

Stef

I've spent some time trying to interpret my husband's SLR for 2/20/2020 and decided I'd post it to the forum to see what the consensus is.

His birth data:
April 4, 1990 8:23am (I'm not 100% sure on the time)
Livingston, NJ

SLR:
February 20, 2020
Morristown, NJ

t. Pluto 0* on MC
r. Saturn 2 ...

Stef

Hey Jupiter Sets At Dawn and Steve - thank you both for you replies! I've heard of migraines being connected with heart murmurs, will definitely keep that in mind in the future (luckily my BP is good), and acupuncture is something I've been meaning to try!

I've been thinking a lot about the ...

Stef

Stef, with secondary progressed Neptune partile conjunct your Direct Mercury-Uranus midpoint, along with your recent Saturn Return, on a scale of 1-10, with the higher number indicating recent increased problematic 'inhibitions' with your migraines, what is the number? I am curious for my own ...

Stef

Since this was the first year I really paid attention to astrology in my life, I thought I’d post a retrospective here with how the solar return and transits manifested for me and I hope others may find it helpful in adding to interpretations. I still consider myself a beginner, so feel free to ...

Stef

Have you had them all your life? Did they begin at a particular point? Is the point (age or life situation) typical of this type of migraine or simply when you started getting them?

Sorry, just seeing the edits now - I've had migraine with aura since I was a child, started probably around ...

Stef

Thanks for your fast response Jim! I thought this would be interesting to research.

September 1, 2018, around 8pm
t Saturn ssq. r Venus, t Jupiter sq. r Mercury
t Mars sqq. r Neptune, t Mercury sqq. r Saturn
Moon in Sagittarius

This first instance was a result of a bad inhale on a vape, couldn ...

Stef

Hi there!

I'm a new member, but a longtime lurker. My friend Mike finally convinced me to make an account so I can participate in discussion. I'm fairly new to the study of astrology but I have found sidereal to be much more accurate for me than tropical. I don't have any fancy astrology software ...

Stef

Hi Stef =p

Hi Mike =p

Digging further into the descriptions: I am definitely ambitious and highly driven and generally have an "I can do anything" attitude, but I am also highly sensitive - in a personal, inner way rather than an outwardly expressed way. I don't get easily offended but I ...

Stef

Hello! New member here. After lurking on here for quite some time, Mike finally convinced me to sign up for an actual account.

I also have Mars in Scorpio and I'd say your concise summary, Jim, is spot-on.

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