Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Mike V

By the way, thank you (all, but especially Jim) for being patient with this last suite of bugs. I have been very busy in my personal life, and also super burnt out on dev work, so all of my focus has been going towards keeping the lights on at work so to speak. I always recover from running out of ...

Mike V

Here's a link to a chart graphic for your natal chart.

https://imgur.com/a/DcVvYIs

Your Sun is in Pisces, and Moon and Mars in Aquarius. Your Sun is exactly angular on Eastpoint, with Uranus, Mercury, and Neptune also angular (in order of descending strength). Your Moon is exactly background.

You ...

Mike V

Let's take your current Demi-SLR November 12. Sticking with Class 2 and stronger angularities, we get:. (I used Inglewood. Is that right?)

r Mars WP-a -0°35'
t Jupiter Asc -2°09'
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t Venus Dsc +5°26'

Looks to me like a really happy, probably social time with a little hard ...

Mike V

So now that I’m at the airport and this trip is nearly over, I can say the relocated Demi-SLR was an accurate chart, but the importance was much lower than I would’ve thought. It did NOT primarily describe the experience, which was celebratory and full of new and renewed friendships.

I think it ...

Mike V

Yeah, we just found out there’s a burn ban out here, so that tracks. Thanks for the heads up.

So far, it’s been an arduous day (just a lot of travel and prep for so many people), but nothing resembling “hellish.”

Mike V

I have another interesting case coming up.

My new Demi-SLR for Southern California is very straightforward - just t. Jupiter, r. Mars, t. Mercury, and a hint of t. Uranus, with no foreground aspects.

However, I'm traveling to Pocono Summit, PA tomorrow and flying back on Sunday. I'm going to be ...

Mike V

Because of the anger forms, I'm inclined to take the Mars aspects more seriously, too.

This always stands out to me when natal Mars is heavily involved in SLRs. It is a very reliable manifestation for me. It not being foreground but involved in foreground aspects also seems to be activating it ...

Mike V

I tend to have a hard time discerning new natal aspects in return charts. With that said, I definitely have had a lot of anger these past 2 weeks - so the fact that natal Mars is acutely background but involved in PVP aspects makes me think that these PVP aspects are valid here. (Transiting Mars is ...

Mike V

Well, that relief didn't last very long!

The Mercury-Saturn and double Neptune were quite evident - I couldn't get myself to focus on anything productive basically all month, and depression, psychological tension, pessimism, and powerful emotional reactions have all been evident.

I've had a lot of ...

Mike V

r. Mars sq r. Saturn 0°24' p
r. Mars sq r. Neptune 0°25' p
r. Mercury sq r. Mars 1°49' p
r. Mars sq r. Jupiter 2°05' p

It's my Moon-Saturn-Neptune on angles, plus the Mercury-Saturn-Eris ecliptical cluster. I'm gonna ignore Eris in this thread.

...

My natal Mars is on Vertex, with close squares ...

Mike V

What I take from all of this is that, primarily, SLRs must be so overwhelmingly powerful that they can bury what seems like an insurmountable pile of contradictory factors... at least while they're active.

Mike V

For someone without an established long term presence in DC, she almost took it. We probably getting closer to having a female president.

Unfortunately, I have to disagree. She got absolutely demolished, far worse than Hillary did. The last time Republicans won the popular vote in my lifetime ...

Mike V

He has promised a great deal of stuff which never happened. I don’t expect this to happen either.

Mike V

I do indeed have that, thank you for the tl;dr. Synastry is one of my weakest areas. I was just curious, looking up synastry between myself and a new friend, and it occurred to me that I was winging it much more than I was comfortable with, despite the closest aspects being very obvious (Moon-Moon ...

Mike V

I apologize if I'm missing this from elsewhere on the forum, but what kinds of aspects and orbs are preferred here? Are octiles admitted?

Mike V

I think the issue is that posting images directly to the forum takes up limited disk space, so hosting them elsewhere is important to keep costs down. You could probably use something like imgur for the same purpose.

Mike V

The Pittsburgh chart is still a very positive chart, but not quite as positive. The main differences between that and Grand Rapids seem to be:

Generally less angular benefics (though they're still closely angular)
No nice, close PVP aspects from t. Sun (if those are valid anyway) - the PVP ...

Mike V

I appreciate all of your opinions on this (and the help to narrow down the exact location, Jim).

I think I'm going to plan for Milwaukee, but give my lunar returns a look across the year just to see if maybe I can justify having a little bit wilder of a year. (I did browse all of my major transits ...

Mike V

I started making plans for this upcoming SSR last year. In fact, I made tentative plans for the next 4ish years last year (none of the LA charts are acceptable, unfortunately, so I'm gonna travel for all of them). Since this year's is coming up in a little less than 2 months, I need to settle on a ...

Mike V

My immediate reaction to this SLR turning on is relief. That is not what I would have expected, and it could be attributed to unrelated factors (I recently had a Saturn octile to solar Pluto leave orb for the last time, but that was a few days ago).

Mike V

My silliness factor is, in general, quite healthy

However, you're right in that now is the right time to use silliness and break the Saturnian seriousness. Thank you for the thoughts

Mike V

This is an SLR for which I'm tracking the PVP aspects in another thread. I'll copy and paste my thoughts on it, minus the PVP stuff.

r. Eris Z -0°09'
r. Saturn Ds +1°34'
r. Mercury Ds -1°48'
r. Neptune Ds +3°49'
t. Neptune MC +4°29'
r. Moon IC -8°25'
r. Sun WP-a 2°11'
r. Jupiter As +8°44 ...

Mike V

Here's an interesting one, and I get to post it in my Eris thread too:

r. Eris Z -0°09'
r. Saturn Ds +1°34'
r. Mercury Ds -1°48'
r. Neptune Ds +3°49'
t. Neptune MC +4°29'
r. Moon IC -8°25'
r. Sun WP-a 2°11'
r. Jupiter As +8°44'

r. Moon sq r. Neptune 0°08'
t. Neptune sq r. Neptune 0°40' M
r ...

Mike V

Natal Jupiter-Pluto seems reasonable. No obvious outward events, but the aspect seems decent at describing my mental state for the past 2 weeks.
Natal Uranus-Pluto is reasonable for the same reasons.

I have had some pretty useful spiritual experiences during this time, and Jupiter-Uranus is ...

Mike V

That seems acceptable to me. Granted, the DC angularities appear strictly better (the wide-ish transiting Venus and natal Mars could only help, from what I can see), but it's still a good chart.

Going east to west makes sense from a timezone perspective too - otherwise, she'd be losing hours to ...

Mike V

That is insane to me. His campaign and his supporters are constantly appearing terribly in the press, and Harris is constantly hitting it out of the park. I can't imagine what reality they're betting on.

Mike V

It does seem like his campaign is trying to keep him hidden. I don't think he's doing so hot.

Mike V

So that's my answer: My original either-or question (stated in the extreme as, "Will this mean financial breakthrough or ruin?") has a clear answer: BOTH ARE TRUE: great benefit, luck, and even a flood of income from the closely angular Jupiters AND financial difficulty, struggle, loss, and ...

Mike V

Mike, for the return? Don't returns always present in UT?

They present that way, but I think it's calculating it with the wrong timezone... basically, I think Solar Fire is correct for using BST, which is UTC -1 (or +1, depending on which definition of offset you use), and Solar Fire gives a ...

Mike V

In London, your natal Saturn-Neptune square comes to chart angles (more Neptune than Saturn), which is rather unpleasant. (So does Venus, but much more widely.) It seems like a hazy, “nothing is certain,” kind of pessimistic place to be long-term.

Assuming you were in London for your last birthday ...

Mike V

I'm imagining a separate menu accessible from Program Options (via an Experimental Features button in the Program Options menu) that has toggles for whatever works-in-progress there currently are.
I'm trying to visualize how this will work. I understand that, to enable these, one would go into ...

Mike V

I have a proposal to add a menu (with options) for "experimental features" around or after the point of the 1.0 release. This will allow us to semi-roll out and test things early, without relying on globally unstable alpha or beta releases for them.

As an example, there's currently a global DEV ...

Mike V

I don't think this is high priority, especially if you have to get creative with it. (I thought it would be simple: Near the top of the install process, delete the file.)

It's unlikely to get too large for the hard drive or for Notepad to manage, especially after 1.0 is stable. My suggestion was ...

Mike V

Added a button on the main page to show the error file...
Nice! (Like real software <g>.) -- I'm curious, when does this clear? (Perhaps at each new version install it's deleted? I doubt it times out.)

I realize I never answered this question. Currently, there's no code to automatically clear ...

Mike V

Here's a small patch, 0.6.0a8. https://mega.nz/file/gXskUCQI#qjgCfwionyeE0EhjQTQQ3JNVl-yXC2vndwQb4gFOsPs

This fixes:
Planets on Av are no longer mistakenly listed as being on Vx.
Entering "LAT" in the timezone field now correctly calculates LMT.
PVP aspects are now turned on by default for ...

Mike V

Revisiting New Orleans (just because I really do love that city), it would center Mercury-Jupiter more than Venus and Saturn, correct?

That's what I see, yes. Transiting Mercury is by far the strongest individual planet, and Mercury doesn't have any aspect with Saturn, so that's very good to ...

Mike V

This upcoming return will also have notable PVP aspects in it.

t. Venus EP-a 0°13'
r. Pluto As +4°47'
t. Uranus WP-a 2°09'

t. Venus op r. Uranus 2°09'

Other partile:
r. Moon sq r. Saturn 15' M
t. Sun op t. Eris 39' M

PVP:
r. Jupiter sq r. Pluto 0°46' p
r. Uranus sq r. Pluto 0°53' p
r. Jupiter op ...

Mike V

Thanks for the kind words, Veronica :) I'm glad you find these sorts of posts useful.

This SLR is a few days away from expiring. I already went into the (very busy) first half of this chart, so taking a look at the second half of the lunar month...

Things were slightly less busy, but still, much ...

Mike V

This is coming to a close in the next few days.

My fortnight was certainly full of surprises, with those being the primary theme. The other planets were decently descriptive - a lot of busyness and expending resources to keep on top of everything, a good amount of being social, wanting to just get ...

Mike V

I've lost track... this one isn't fixed yet, right? (Just recreated it on my U.S.A. chart, also in LAT.) Just making sure it's not a "thought fixed, still there" bug. - It just doesn't like "LAT" in that field. I can spell out "Local Apparent Time" and it's fine with it. (Mistaking a string for a ...

Mike V

Thats exactly what it says Jim. I must be missing a step?
OK, if you have the right version then PVP aspects should work if they're turned on ("Enabled"). The easiest way to check is: As you calculate one, click Temporary, then click PVP Aspects, and see if Enabled is checked.

I think you ...

Mike V

I see what the problem is. Here's 0.6.0a7, which fixes just this bug. (The issue came up if there were no class 1-3 aspects, and we checked for "other partile," but I didn't set that up to work correctly in this case.)

I ran a bunch of Ingresses and they seem sensible to me. The Moon-only 2025 ...

Mike V

0.6.0

If you can get to the main menu, can you click Show Errors, and copy and paste what it says there?

If you can't get to the main menu, are you getting "NoneType object is not callable," or "unable to open default_natal.opt?" Those were the 2 errors you mentioned previously. I believe both ...

Mike V

Just wanted to let someone know, I installed TMSA on a new machine and got the same error message.
Which error message?

And which version did you install?

Hey, Jim. The newest version. And the last message I got last time.

Hey, Venus. Can you clarify if by “the newest version” you mean ...

Mike V

Okay, we tried everything else. What about transiting Jupiter-Saturn? (I couldn’t find just Jupiter on some minor angle without Saturn included.)

Indianapolis, IN
T. Jupiter IC +1°47’ (99%)
T. Saturn EP -1°19’ (96%)
R. Mars Z +1°11’ (95%)
T. Venus Asc +5°46’ (92%)
T. Mercury MC +8°34’ (82%)

(t ...

Mike V

So with all of that said, here’s what I’m thinking, if you want to stay within the continental US.

1. Try to get transiting Jupiter-Saturn, but without Neptune.
2. Try for transiting Venus, and just accept the other less pleasant parts (which vary).
3. Try to get transiting Pluto and natal Venus ...

Mike V

Hey. I’m very sorry to hear about your divorce, and hope you’re okay.

Let’s take a look…

Your base SSR for NJ is pretty bad, as you say, with Moon plus Saturn-Neptune closely on angles. Traveling to pick a different trajectory for the year is a great idea.

I’ll put down the Raleigh info here so ...

Mike V

I'm looking at a friend's charts for an event, and in their progressed planets to natal, I see:

p. Neptune co r. Neptune 00'
p. Uranus co r. Uranus 11'
p. Pluto co r. Pluto 46' (for context; the other planets must have moved further away and then returned)

Are these kinds of returns anything to ...

Mike V

I would love a sanity check here. My best friend is considering (with my advisement) travel for her 2025 SSR, and the best location I could find was near Lubbock, Texas.

Birth: Apr 12 1995 1:39pm
Mount Holly, NJ

2025 SSR
Apr 12, 2025 5:25am

Long Lat Speed RA Dec Azi Alt ML PVL Ang
Transiting ...

Mike V

Yeah, "jd" is "julian day." You must be triggering some old code path that I never updated, and it's looking for data under the wrong names. I'll get a fix out for that when I get the chance.

See, this is why I spent so much time on error formatting... it's so nice for you to be able to just post a ...

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